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...What did Thomas Beer "conclusively prove" about Oscar Wilde...
...sparkle in the thick welter of advertisements-blatant and humble, proud and straining, prosaic and hysterico-lyrical-that fill the public prints. Lately, the Mailbag found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years ago, but likewise in the hoarse, stentorian phrases of an 1890 barker...
Divorced. General Erich ("Beer-Brawler") von Ludendorff, onetime Quartermaster General of the German Imperial Army; by Frau Margarethe (Bolle), daughter of a big dairyman. She charged abusiveness; he said she smoked too many cigarets...
Orators caught up the phrase. From the World's Fair, the stage, current literature, the mouths of suffragettes, Author Beer sweeps together damaging evidence of the rise of the U. S. "Titaness," who now "drifts toward middle age without valour, charm or honor," after inventing "cheap cruelty and low social pressures...
...MAUVE DECADE-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($3). *THE DREADFUL DECADE-Don C. Seitz- Bobbs-Merrill...