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...Devil's Lottery (Fox). Simultaneously last week were released Elissa Landi's third novel and her fifth cinema. She had reason to be pleased with both. The book, House for Sale (Doubleday, Doran ?$2.00) is a competent study of a female musician who gave up her career in favor of matrimony and three children. No brilliant achievement for a professional novelist, it is probably the best fiction ever perpetrated by a cinemactress. The picture, Devil's Lottery, less sensational than The Yellow Ticket in which she last performed, is a glib and interesting melodrama in which Miss Landi performs...
...plot of Devil's Lottery is really the invention of one of its characters, Lord Litchfield (Halliwell Hobbs) who, when his horse King Midas wins the Derby, invites all the people who have held winning lottery tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills...
...Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss. Violets, daisies and goldenrod are all right...
...Sham respectability, a survival of the mediaeval idea that instincts were from the devil, ideals from God, accounts for intense unrest in America. A psychologist is the only one who completly understands human nature...
...Blossom, of Worcester Academy, will be the toastmaster. The speakers for the dinner are: Mr. E. W. Weeks, of the Atlantic Monthly Company; Dr. Henry W. Longfellow Dana '03, of Cambridge; Professor R. S. Hillyer '17, associate Professor of English; Miss Phyllis Bottome, British novelist, author of "Devil's Due" and other stories. The charge for the dinner will be $1.75 to members of either the Harvard Teachers Association or the New England Association of Teachers of English and $2.00 to non-members...