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...music gets them. He climbs casually all over the nightclub furniture, sings on his feet, on the back of a chair, on a table, on a customer's lap. His eyes are Scandinavian blue, his smile broad and boyish, his manner unfailingly virile. In London in the '20s he got the romantic lead opposite diaphanous Evelyn Laye in The Merry Widow. A string of stage and cinema hits followed; there were Carl Brisson fan clubs, chocolates, cigarets, bathing suits. Lord Beaverbrook ran Brisson's life story in ten installments in the Sunday Express. Hollywood discovered...
...Capone gang-was being muscled out. Black-market traffic in liquor* and even in cheese was involved; so was the overlordship of gambling, bawdyhouses and numerous other rackets. Then, to top it off, to give the stories the real burnt-powder smell of the turbulent '20s, the name of another Capone flashed into the news. He was Al's younger brother Matt, the pampered one of the family, the one Al had sent to Villanova College to get culture, the one who liked to listen to Puccini's music in Mr. Insull's opera house...
...Literary Fallacy consists of five lectures given by DeVoto. Purportedly a re-examination of the literary '20s, most of it is given over to a vehement tirade, strident as a soapbox oration, against Van Wyck Brooks and his The Flowering of New England. What may have puzzled Indiana students, and is likely to puzzle readers who pay $2.50 to share their experience, is Mr. DeVoto's belligerence. With a chip on his shoulder the size of a two-by-four, with many a dubious assertion insisted on with the finality of the village atheist, and with sideswipes...
Says DeVoto: the '20s is "one of the great periods of American literature, and probably the most colorful, vigorous, and exciting period. . . . There were more competent writers in America than there had ever been before. ... In the average they were the liveliest, the most vigorous, the most entertaining writers the United States has ever had. No one who lived and read his way through the Twenties will forget the verve, the excitement of that literature, the sheer animal spirits with which it treated even its most lugubrious themes...
...danced in Moscow in the '20s, The Poppy was about a little cabaret dancer named Tai Hoa (symbolizing China) whose love for a Russian sea captain was frustrated by the machinations of an imperialistic British treaty-port commander named Sir Hips. The ballet ended with the murder of Tai Hoa by a jealous Chinese who is a tool of Sir Hips, and the rise of the Chinese proletariat to the strains of the Internationale...