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...plot smells of melodrama; the honest devotee of the public had gone too far and tread on the wrong person's toes. Machination followed recrimination and Mr. Kresel has been found wanting. Of course he may be guilty. Somehow, the courageous actions and brief plea for public confidence of a man who is held for circumstances over which he seemingly had no control make a continuous pattern with his actions in the past. And the past, as someone naively remarked--it was not Mr. Kresel--is the judge of the present...
Private Lives is written with a basic honesty that is apparent even beneath its not extraordinary plot and glib lines, almost every one of which is pure gold. Sample: "Some women should be struck regularly, like a gong...
...scene is laid in Oklahoma Territory at the turn of the century. The plot: Curly (Franchot Tone of Hotel Universe and Pagan Lady), a happy broncobuster, woos and wins Laurey (June Walker), who mortally fears & hates a psychopathic farm hand (Richard Hale) in her employ. During the wedding party Mr. Hale ignites a hayrick, falls on his own knife in a scuffle with Mr. Tone. Mr. Tone is held for questioning but escapes to his new wife. There the play ends, with the cowboys singing "Green Grow the Lilacs" offstage...
...Life as his class of person finds it today, a scrutiny that is very telling, sure of itself, well-expressed. The book is less a novel than a collection of notes and lectures on love, life, death, marriage, divorce, and as such has much to commend it. The plot and characters do not stand up under the pressure of expressing so much weighty thought...
...took Ared White three hundred pages to develop the intricacies of the plot so it can not possibly be done here, and anyway it would spoil the fun of the thing. Roughly the story deals with a brave young American who unravels the devious threads of a great Boche plan to sterm Paris. The sex interest is supplied by a Spanish vixen and a handsome, undecipherable German girl. The former has sold herself to the Vaterland. Her chief job is to lure innocent American spys into the tolls of the German intelligence office through her unlimited supply of passion...