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...Review of Reviews craves subscribers. Like nearly all non-fiction magazines, it lures them with rich promises of premium,?i. e., some- thing presumably more attractive than the magazine itself. Through the mails citizens are receiving the latest lure...
...FICTION...
...Belle Bennett (whose reward for a fine performance in Stella Dallas has been a succession of mediocre roles) and Eve Southern (who wore dark hair and a fixed expression in The Gaucho) are competent to effect a more than satisfactory transposition of Martha Ostenso's bestselling, prize-winning fiction...
...post-war" theory, derived less from life than from fiction which showed the undergraduate wallowing drunkenly in the backwash of the late conflict, finds in him no protagonist. Neither is he of a mind with octogenarians who state in birthday interviews that the present generation ushers in the dawn of a new and marvelous day. He says merely that "intellectually and socially, we have not yet caught up with our own inventions and discoveries;" and belives that, all things considered, the "matter-of-fact acceptance" of the new world by the undergraduate promises well...
...croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...