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Married. Walter Baldwin Lawrence, headmaster of Lawrence School, Easton, Pa. (high grade day school); to Julia Johnetta Fisher of State College, Pa.; in Philadelphia...
...perfect woman, a small divorcee with every quiet grace and no questions. When the posthumous production of the late John Garth's first play is a huge success; when Mrs. Garth, penitent, lies gravely ill; when Matthew Knowle sees the grown son that John Garth sired, the divorcee, Julia, acts "sportingly." Wrench though it is for her, she starts John Garth back to life by leaving Matthew Knowle. . . . Admirers of the British literary male will call Julia "a brick" and the book a triumph. Others may say that Author Owen, a polished writer withal, has merely sublimated a personal desire...
BLACK APRIL-Julia Peterkin- Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). A small book of sketches called Green Thursday, published three years ago, revealed Mrs. Peterkin as an interpreter of Negro peasants whose equal had not been seen since Joel Chandler Harris. Now Mrs. Peterkin has fulfilled the implication of her sketch book with a tremendous painting, a mural in sharp tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty...
RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader...
Engaged. James Russell Lowell, great-grandson of Poet James Russell Lowell; to Julia E. Brokaw, of Manhattan...