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Young John cut his literary milk teeth on Marryat, got from Masterman Ready such an inviting whiff of the sea he once considered going to Annapolis. He remembers being carted around a good deal by his travel-loving parents-to Mexico, Belgium, England, to Washington, and tidewater Virginia. In England he had a year at a private school, afterwards prepared for Harvard at the Choate School. At Harvard, where he was in the same class (1916) with Authors Robert Nathan and Robert Littell, he wrote for the literary magazines but was distinctly not one of "Copey's" (Professor Charles...
...NAMELESS CRIME-Walter S. Masterman-Button ($2). Scotland Yard spots, but does not punish, the murderer...
...Reach, H. M. Tomlinson. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible, Joseph Gollomb. 2 L. O., Walter S. Masterman. The Shot on the Downs, Victor L. Whitechurch. Tracks in the Snow, Lord Charnwood. The Old Dark House, J. B. Priestly. The Greene Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine...
...philosophical content (since it is strongly put forward) : Efficiency, the fiend created by Inventor to resemble Mary (symbol of heart-love) thus to win the soul of man for capitalist Masterman, leads Humanity toward destruction. Humanity discovers its error, burns Efficiency at the stake, thus releases itself from industrial slavery. Understanding, sympathy, apparently, are needed to lessen the labors of man, not mechanical exactitude. Once the human impulses are unchecked by Efficiency, the milk of human kindness overflows everywhere, class distinctions are washed away in the flood, the toiler's working day is shortened. A Harold Bell Wright mentality...
...dramatic substance is even shoddier. Villain Inventor chases Mary up a roof, intent upon dashing her to earth, in the manner of spiteful evildoers since Desperate Desmond. The hero pursues. During the struggle, Capitalist Masterman swears if the hero (his son) be spared, he will henceforth treat all workingmen like brothers, never again allow a monster like Efficiency to be created. The villain topples off the roof. With Efficiency and Invention thus disposed of, happiness comes to man, the hero finds the heroine's lips, Labor and Capital strike hands, the city destroyed by evil counsel of Efficiency...