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...LIGHT BEYOND? E. Phillips Oppenheim?Little, Brown ($2). All of Author Oppenheim's 100 previous novels have possessed that first and most important element of good or even of great novels, plots which, if not airtight, will at least hold the swift and perishable liquid of a reader's excitement. His technique has not yet vanished. The Light Beyond is about three of the most important countries in the world, represented each by one or two enormously, incredibly potent individuals. By the time that a London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance...
...widely-heralded war picture, "Wings", which opened Monday evening at the Tremont Theatre, lives up to its reputation. There are plenty of thrills, and there is plenty of "realism" and an element of tragedy, all of which help to make the picture successful in being what is purports to be. But even though war in the air is a subject that has not been worn out, there is much to the picture that recalls the "Big Parade" and "What Price Glory" too strongly to be effective. And unfortunately "Wings" outdoes either of the other two in the amount of slush...
...that women can be fooled as well as men. Suffrage was opposed by the moneyed interests because they thought women would favor humanitarian legislation. That was before the time people realized the power of concerted propaganda. . . . Now we are victims, with men, of the insidious influences of the capitalistic element."? Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone but no Lucy Stone Leaguer (to preserve maiden-names...
...CALAMITY JANE AND THE LADY WILDCATS-Duncan Aikman-Henry Holt ($3). Ladies a la carte make up this racy repast served on a cloth flamboyantly patterned with genuine early day Westernism. Calamity Jane forms the pièce de resistance-"comfortable, jovial, uncomplaining, baudily at ease in her blowsy element," Calam' reels through 51 years of life with husky frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling...
...Significance. Author Bennett has written what he calls a fantasia; mainly for his own amusement, one suspects, though the element of finance may have some place in the picture What he has achieved is a novel which belongs distinctly in the featherweight class, employing a preposterous plot and progressing to an unimportant little climax. Occasional flashes of humor are obscured by the ponderous attempt to make the whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley...