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SANTA ANNA-Frank C. Hanighen- Coward-McCann ($3.50). Full-length biography of the "butcher of the Alamo...
Finally, I sould like to enter into a full-length discussion of that ancient bugbear, the national income, which for generations has been used by liberal economists to scare light-headed social reformers. The main point seems to be that from the point of view of social well-being the national income is so uncertain a quantity and the conditions under which it is earned of such great contributing importance that the liberal economist's confident assertion that such and such a bit, or even program, of "meddling" will diminish the national income need not frighten us very much...
...full-length portrait, done with all the emphasis on unity of time and place that is currently in fashion, Counsellor at Law shows its subject against a single background, the glittering onyx and aluminum offices of Simon & Tedesco (Onslow Stevens). Playwright Elmer Rice, who adapted his own successful play, surrounded his study of Lawyer Simon with sketches of his associates and friends. Old Mrs. Simon wobbles into her son's office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships...
...Wodehouse has been quite as well known in Collier's, Satevepost, Liberty and American Magazine as in the London Globe and Strand Magazine. He used to tear off hundreds of short stories a year, but now confines himself to seven or eight, with one or two full-length ones on the side. He "taps" (typewrites) methodically from 10 a. m. until one, rewriting everything at least three times to concentrate and sharpen the effervescent prolixity of his style. Like most humorists he folds inward in public but is seldom without a rejoinder when pressed. An infirmity kept...
...from the stand-point of Manhattan paganism. An interesting review of a recent novel about pre-Harkness Harvard by George A. Weller '29, describes the book as the "swan song of the old houseless Harvard already strange to this succeeding college generation." Strange indeed it does seem already! A full-length article on the houses by one of the house head-tutors takes the house plan for granted and devotes itself mainly to recommending its extension to the Graduate School...