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...rare instances of an Oxford fiction publication, "Coronation Summer," soon justifies itself as a valuable document in either fiction or non-fiction lists. It is, in short, a mirror of the early Victorian era. In the character of Frances Harcourt the reader is led through the highways and byways of that period when the tiny, buxom, fairy-Queen Victoria was about to ascend the throne of England. Fanny, a native of Norfolk, prepares her pilgrimage to London to see the coronation which was to occur sometime that summer; no one seemed to know exactly when...
...this year, not last, and that the contest had been limited to 1936 pictures. Apologizing handsomely, Editor & Publisher moved J. P. Morgan Listens up into first place and named two others for second and third. These were: second, an International News Photo re-enacted shot, by the New York Mirror's William Stahl, of a policeman blowing into a smothered infant's mouth third, a corpse being lowered from a burning building, taken by Dan Lane of the Atlanta Georgian-American...
...bench outside the castle to take a nap. The Captain of the Guard hauls him out and is giving him a thrashing when Prince Edward comes out of the palace to call his dog. Prince invites pauper indoors to play. They change clothes for a joke, laugh when the mirror shows how much they look alike. Then the Prince runs out again to find his dog. The Captain of the Guard, thinking it is the pauper, resumes his interrupted thrashing, tosses Prince Edward out into the street...
Finely photographed with plenty of local color and not too many of those beautiful Hollywood backdrops, one exciting moment follows another, the whole building up to an outdoor trial scene that is as nice a job of holding up the mirror as the screen has presented in some time...
What Time means, what Space is, what the Sea mirrors is more than Virginia Woolf can say: but that they are, that they mean and mirror some Reality measureless to man is the whole import of her writing...