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...signing his place Dr. Eliot gave a chance not to the next generation but to a 26-year-old in the generation after that, whom he called "an alert, able and beloved young minister, endowed with exceptional gifts of mind and heart and with the best possible background and training." This exceptional young man: Rev. Dana McLean Greeley...
...Winsor McCay looks much less like the Nemo for which he was a model than like his late father, who died last summer at 62. Also like his father, he always wears his hat at work. Although his pen lacks the elder McCay's magic for intricate background and breath-taking perspective, Son Winsor has faithfully copied the characters of Impie, Flip, the Princess, has made Nemo much sturdier, much more competent looking...
...TIME IS RIPE-Walter Greenwood -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The social climb of a small English shopkeeper, set against the Hogarthian background of unemployed slumdwellers; a dreary theme handled in masterly fashion...
Unlike most productions, the story of the book, as set forth by Dickens, is adhered to with a welcome faithfulness, so much so, in fact, that the action exceeds the length of an average movie. Tremendous care, moreover, has been taken to build up an atmosphere and a background which are in keeping with the times portrayed...
...reason it seems easier to make the human part of Hollywood's performers behave in more convincing fashion than the allegedly lower species. The stars of "Sequoia" are a deer and a puma; Miss Jean Parker is also much in evidence, but she seems to blend gracefully into the background and doesn't interfere seriously with the goings on. She should have been a W. H. Hudson girl-of-the-wilds with hair in the breeze and so forth, but she hasn't quite thrown off her ingenue manners. The deer and the puma are united in early childhood...