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...good hard look at Thomas Sigismund Stribling's latest novel, Sound Wagon. Before reading it, few would have admitted that Author Stribling might be capable of urbanity, let alone sustained satire. After reading it, many might have allowed that here at last was a U. S. satirical mirror with a sufficiently high polish to be called urbane...
Whipsaw (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) embodies the ultimate variations in what can be done with a G-man (Spencer Tracy) keeping tabs on a girl (Myrna Loy) with whom he falls in love. She has the Koronoff pearls in the handle of the mirror of her dressing-case set, but does not know it. They have been planted there by one of two gangs of thieves competing for them. Including scenes in London, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and New Orleans the double-headed chase goes rollicking along in steamboats, planes and hired automobiles...
...handsome a man as Dartmouth even offered to the movies, Bob Allen seemed destined to mirror the obscurity of another Dartmouth son in Holywood, Charles Starrett. Allen knocked about in bit parts for several years and could convince no one that his football and college stage training meant anything...
Aiken's central character is a decidedly different creation. He looks at himself in the mirror, admiring his lean, dark face, his masterful eyes. He sneaks into his friends' dwellings when they are not there and furtively reads diaries and personal mail. He leans out of the window of his apartment on Plympton Street and wants to kill an editor of the Crimson who is unobtrusively sunning himself on the roof. He artfully spins webs of deception around his acquaintances, lets them in part-way on his secret, laughs at their wholly average protestations...
...Knowest thou the mystery of the moon? Darest thus sleep even in its stolen rays? Take care, Vagabond, take care!" There is nothing so uncanny as when a man accidentally sees his pale face by moonlight in a mirror; and at the same time hears wired whispering voices murdering the silence of the night with ambiguous warnings. But so it happened...