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Striving for calm, deliberate portraiture, the skill of Mr. Robinson has drown in "Roman Bartholow" a narrative prose-poem, versified in sober lines of meditative characterization. Sophistication echoes through its pages, weary effete, and unenlivening: and yet the characters and plot are such as fit most aptly to his purposes: a modern novel spared. Philosophies and passions are expounded in dialogue that wisely never tries to sound like human talk. He has discovered a way of simplifying subleties that makes them stark and stubbornly incisive; and even his intensest episodes embody wan denial of emotion...
...world-wide cataclysm. The author has written this book from the traditional standpoint of a French nationalist. There is no screen to impartiality. The object is to prove first of all the ex-Kaiser's guilt and then the incrimination of high personages in Germany in the dishonorable plot to force war on the world. M. Viviani not only accomplishes what he sets out to do, but actually damns the Germans from out of their own mouths. It has been fashionable to excuse the ex-Kaiser?as he excused himself in his Memoirs?for being the tool in the hands...
DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle...
...plot revolves about the activities of a group marooned in the seaweed waste of the Sargasso Sea. The story is luridly unimportant. The acting, by Anna Q. Nilsson and Milton Sills, is capable. The salt, seafaring atmosphere created by particularly excellent photography places the picture easily in the first ten of the year's releases. The Girl I Loved. Charles Ray has returned. His current medium is a play adapted (freely, after the manner of moviewrights) from a poem of James Whitcomb Riley...
...Copley Theatre on Monday night, for the first time in America, was presented Charles McEvoy's "The Likes of 'Er". The play is on the whole a simple and quite unaffected story arising from post-war conditions, a comedy that mixes pathos with humor. The plot concerns itself with Sally Winch waiting for the return of George Miles her sweetheart. Sally has other wooers, and these attempt to tell stories against Miles. But she refuses to believe them, even the one told by Miles' friend Cope, who is an artist in falsification, and who described Miles' condition because George...