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...vogue has been quieter here, her system of functional exercises is being used at eminently respectable schools like Finch (Manhattan J, Greenwich Academy, Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill (Greenfield. Mass.), Laurel (Cleveland), Ogontz (Ogontz, Pa.) and at Yale. Her main U. S. school is a large, sunny room filled with full-length mirrors, at No. 36 West 59th St.; Manhattan, where last week five important businessmen and 25 young women who hope to become Mensendieck instructors were watchfully wriggling their muscles in accordance with a finely printed new illustrated manual of the Mensendieck System of Functional Exercises...
...woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...
...their Union. He is in fact the first to make even a quick inspection tour of an important section of Red Industry. Typical of 99% of the Moscow diplomatic corps are the British who carry on with a dimly-lit Embassy front hall in which concealed lamps floodlight full-length oil paintings of King George V & Queen Mary in the most elaborate of royal robes. Nobody in the British Embassy sees any more than he can help of the "bloody Bolshies" and their walks are mostly taken in the Embassy's high-walled garden. This week Ambassador & Mrs. Davies...
Last week Edmund Pearson, who specializes in writing up famed U. S. murder cases, published a full-length dissection of the Lizzie Borden mystery, complete with photographs of the victims, plans of the house, rescript of the trial and inquest testimony. Author Pearson was careful not to bring in a verdict, or at least not to say it out loud; but he obviously thought Lizzie Borden was lucky, not innocent...
Traveling on business last summer, Publisher Walter J. Black was struck by the number of people he saw reading small monthly magazines of the Reader's Digest type. Mulling over this trend, Mr. Black conceived the notion of a "digest" monthly to give readers boiled-down versions of full-length books. This week the U. S. saw the result-a 25? Book Digest, of which 75,000 copies were distributed to the stands of American News Co. First issue of Book Digest had condensations of ten recent books, fast-sellers like John Gunther's Inside Europe, Herbert Asbury...