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...fact that Nick Van Alstyne's son-in-law tries to ruin him after having been handed a profitable business by old Nick and that said son-in-law gets into difficulties with another lady furnishes the background for the plot of the play. The action and the humor of the play are centered around "Henrietta," of whom there turn out to be three. On the whole, though the play is not uproarious from start to finish. It is amusing and there is plenty of action and much laughter to be had, especially in the third...
CUPS, WANDS AND SWORDS?Helen Simpson?Knopf ($2.50). The plot of this novel bears so exact a resemblance to the plot of Red Sky at Morning, most recent work of Author Margaret Kennedy, that, had the two books not been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot about plagiarism. These are the likenesses: both books are about mixed twins of dangerous heredity, who keep company with fashionable, questionable artists, who feel for each other a more than normally intense devotion; in both books the girl twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case...
Anyone who has not seen "Old Ironsides", now playing at popular prices at the Metropolitan, has a treat in store which even the propinquity of a dreaded examination cannot, mitigate. Besides the great patriotic strain which runs throughout the plot, the vivid historical background, the nautical realism, there are five individual dramatic performances which transcend almost any recent histrionic portrayals of the cinema. Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston perform beautifully together; Wallace Beery and George Bancroft make the screen's best comic pair; and Johnny Walker as Decatur is a gallant and heroic figure. Of course, the "Constitution...
...novel, Mr. Lincoln's most recent book is rather a disappointment. It is well enough done, but almost to the extent of being overdone, for the story has a tendency to lag. The atmosphere of the plot is so pronounced that the reader from the beginning gains a fairly accurate impression of the ultimate outcome of it, while at the same time the characters are portrayed so sharply that they become almost automatons, and lose the charm of their individuality. The net result is that the reader, in addition to knowing what the story is going to be, knows also...
...know the ships that he has truthfully portrayed. Not only in the descriptions, but also in the feeling of loneliness and remorse felt by many sailors does Mr. Ervine show the real spirit of the sea. "The Wayward Man," is a salty novel and because of its strong plot and many colorful pictures, is a very fine story...