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...brothers. The father is murdered, the oldest son accused. Innocent, he accepts the punishment of Siberian exile, in order to repent the many excesses of his tempestuous nature, thus enters Salvation. The youngest brother finds light and peace in the holy sacrifice of priesthood. The second, whose fate is stark tragedy, has evolved a philosophy of cold rationality, wherein there is neither God nor morality, but only masterful determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised of his father's approaching assassination, he assumes a "hands off" attitude, profits by another's crime...
...thing under the tarpaulin was still alive. Clamdiggers found it there, on the lonely California beach, a malodorous bundle of bone and gristle, patched with scant hair, hollowed, salt-whitened, stark, ragged...
Playhouse 48th E. Broadway--Daisy Mayme. In this play, George Kelly has caught what Stark Young calls "the shino of life". It is the most real of the plays by the author of the "Show-Off" and "Craig's Wife...
...show there in no time when anyone dares to remember that he paid so and so for his ticket. Perhaps Mr. Leo Bulgakov of the Moscow Art Theatre is doing better justice to Gozzi at the Provincetown than could ever be done on the shores of Brattle, but Stark Young would have to admit that this is an improvement over "Brown of Harvard"-with all due justice to the mauve menagerie...
...idle youngster throws a stone, a young man is blinded for life. Almost Russian in its intensity, this novel by a very young man possesses a depth of thought and a stark revelation of the human soul seldom found in English or American writers...