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...Copies of which will be sent free, as published, to each & every TIME-reader requesting any issue. Address 1, Van Meter, editorial secretary of TIME, 135 East 42nd St., New York City...
Thirteen years ago If Winter Comes (by Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson- not to be confused with Ray Coryton Hutchinson-made many a reader weep. The Unforgotten Prisoner should do likewise, but the tears will be of a better quality. Author Hutchinson has turned the difficult trick of writing a realistic modern romance, a contemporary story of strong but unmawkish sentiment, a poignantly sympathetic study of English and German victims of a war that did not make democracy safe...
...manner the report discusses the provincialism and the competitive individualism of the colleges, the political side of education, the relative cultural advances of students in the various fields, the difference between true education and formal academic instruction and other problems of varying importance. Constructive suggestion is negligible and the reader is left with a fatalistic attitude toward the future of the American college...
FALLING STAR-Vicki Baum-Double-day, Doran ($2). This translation of Hollywood into terms of romance should please many a reader, including even Hollywoodland sprites. German Authoress Baum has enough gusto to invest even tinselly happenings with glamour, though her sugary Teutonic melodrama should be taken with a heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak...
...POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE- James M. Cain-Knopf ($2). Like the Ancient Mariner, who held his unwilling listener by the power of his glittering eye, the awful compulsion of his tale, Author Cain's high-powered shocker will keep many a reader spellbound. The Postman Always Rings Twice, though it gives the impression of a stark naked love-&-murder story, is actually narrative stripped to its underwear. Author Cain's hero is as hard as any cinema villain but he obeys cinema rules, goes sappy...