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...When I was twelve years old my own mother was taken away. She was a sweet and gentle influence. I always recall her having my sister and me brought to her bedside to receive her blessing in her very last hours. She had been an invalid for as long as I could remember. I can see now that she was a woman of taste and discretion. . . . She loved poetry...
Diplomacy (Blanche Sweet, Matt Moore). Scenarios are never so stupid as when they fret with secret service intrigue. In this one, the British U. S., Russian diplomats fight it out for the balance of power. The dastardly Bolshevik spies perpetrate villainous deeds. Especially reprehensible is the smooth lady-spy who opens the door every time state secrets are being discussed. Fortunately for civilization, Matt Moore, U. S. Secret Service agent, marches capably before the camera whenever conditions become too crucial...
...Some of the writers who earned no college degree wish they had. Mr. Howells, most sweet-natured and modest of men, wrote me, not long before his death: 'I would fain have been schooled, for I think it would have saved me time, and I have always thought the average of my ignorance would have been less.' Mr. Howells, working in a printing office, mastered Latin, Greek, French, and Spanish before he was twenty-one. He would hardly have been allowed to take as many languages as that in college...
...itself, Mr. Cabell's small book is but a melodious recapitulation of a poet's life of malaise. The tale is of Madoc, a singer in the Kingdom of Netan, whose music pleased all but himself, he having heard the sweet, elusive skirling...
...most adequately compensated for the loss of a heartily passionate youth whom fate had originally cast for her, but whom Beatrice Ellison, a magnificent young U. S. grandmother, usurped. Mr. Locke, however, preserves a vein of worldliness beneath his whimsy. He brings his four characters together again, suddenly, one sweet night in the Bois de Boulogne, with a result more than ever demonstrative of his power to finish a story off soundly. Mr. Locke is 63 now. With his novels listing more than 30, his plays half a dozen, he is perennial proof that in writing...