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...Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In searching for a story which would suitably exhibit the stoic fascinations of Greta Garbo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stumbled upon an extraordinary novel. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise is the work of David Graham Phillips who wrote best-sellers 25 years ago, when best-sellers were even more likely to be trash than they are now. But Susan Lenox, though it contains cliches which make Theodore Dreiser seem epigrammatic, is no trash. Its story of hardships, financial and amorous, in the career of a woman who becomes a celebrated actress...
...governess. They go away to school, for the first time the boys & girls separate. But now you begin to recognize them as individuals. Bernard is happy-go-lucky, lovable; Louis is cold, snobbish, ashamed of his Australian accent; Neville is shyly passionate. Jinny is an attractive little animal; Susan fierce, proud; Rhoda is ungainly, helpless, doomed to hopelessness. After school Bernard and Neville go to the University; Louis's fortunes need him in business. Jinny takes to London society like a duck to water; Rhoda hates it; Susan goes home to be a country girl. As the sun climbs...
...STORY OF JULIAN-Susan Ertz- Appleton ($2.50).* If Susan Ertz were not more interested in people than in the situations they get themselves into, she might have adorned this tale with several morals. As it is, she leaves you to draw your own conclusions...
...Susan was religious. She had a visionary imagination, a lively sense of an egocentric cosmos. Once she was called on to testify at a Sabbath meeting of the Colgate Brethren. She succeeded so well she became a frequent preacher. As her fame spread, her ambition grew. Then she fell in love, married a good workman, but kept on preaching. When her husband was killed in an accident, she even preached at the funeral. Susan and her religion both came a cropper when she met young Clarabut, a penniless wastrel who admired her but would not take her Message seriously. Clarabut...
...Susan Spray is one of the two September choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club. The other: S. S. San Pedro (TIME...