In Dispraise Of Stalin A New Career For George Arliss
Eugene Lyons -- Philadelphia: ing the interview which he ob-10 years in the "movietones." he cut. And we three men tot- covered by the gentlemen sitting
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WHAT'S this? Another career the freshness of a-young man who sandwiches 'In the nick of timë. Stalin: Czar of All the Russias, by with the Soviet dictator in describ-years or more on the stage, then
for George Arliss? After 30 had just had a shave and a hair- His guilty secret having been dis-
Lippincott. $2,50.-
on either side of him, he shared -tained with Stalin in 1930. Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in
now bursts forth as the Charles tered out with stiff eyes and with them probably the only sand- - Socialism, by Max Eastman. The author starts on the right two simply crackles with the fun with the outside world.”
Lamb of his profession. Chapter necks and a feeling of strangeness wiches that were in the Abbey New York: Norton, '$2.50.
that day. note when he entitles his first that Mr. Arliss can provide when As if it were not enough to chapter "Asiatic Despot." Stalin he lets himself go.
So Mr. Arliss's book is in itself have penned something that will a sort of sandwich. Between the IN 1917, in the early days of the is fundamentally an Asiatic in race
surely be in future collections of covers of these two literary tid-· Russian Revolution, the New and, what is still more important, He is describing the dusty office "Selected Readings From the Best bits he stows away pleasant and York Call, Socialist daily, had a in background and temperament. of his London solicitor, Mr. Mote. Twentieth-Century Writers," Mr. instructive reminiscences of, his good deal of editorial fun with a Whether he imparted to the So-Mr. Mote, however, no doubt Arliss cuts loose again near the screen work in America and Eng→ dispatch from Petrograd which re- viet state its pronouncedly Asiatic emerged at the end of the day close of the book and describes land. ported that 10,000 returned Rus- character, or whether the course of from his nest of clutter with no his adventures in Westminster sians from the East. Side of New the Revolution inevitably brought suspicion of smudge on elbow or Abbey at the Coronation of King culty of his career has been to Mr. Arliss says the great diffi→ York had spread an unfavourable to leadership a man with an nose, He had a mind-so orderly George and Queen impression of America among Asiatic rather than a European that there was no need of keeping Thoughtfully, Mrs.
Elizabeth. And the right story: He. thinks Arliss their countrymen. Supposing this background, is a matter of opinion. his papers neatly stacked.
had that Hollywood spends a great is true, chortled, the Call. Isn't it The most important known epi- Arliss pictures him withstanding ordeal with a generous bundle of value" in films that the public Mr. fortified him against the all-day deal of money for "production suggestive that all the 10,000 sodes in Stalin's life are vividly the wiles of a lawyer and busi- sandwiches, should have left America with an told
which she neatly cares for not at all as a substitute and the author makes a ness agent from New York, writ- made fast within the hood of his for a good story. He enjoys' filin unfavourable impression? Doesn't sound point when he. observes ing his own 25-page version of a cloak by means of a large safety acting because there is it show that all, is not for the best that Stalin's systematic destruction film contract instead in the American capitalist world? of the more capable and indepen-wearing them to helpless acquie during one of those periods when he admits, it is from the reactions of theirs. pin. All went swimmingly until, dience to make him uneasy; yet, There was probably some cause dent personalities in the Com-scence by reading every word of the audience stood, those precious of the audience that the stage for American self-questioning and munist Party has created an im- that contract to them while lun- sandwiches (bread and cheese, or player learns his business. He has self-criticism in the Call's chal- mense, perhaps an unprecedented, [cheon time went by unnoticed, bread, and eggs liberally envelop- the warmest praise for the Holly- lenge. And I think there is also vacuum, with a consequent pros and then, to their distress, teatime, ed in mayonnaise?) slipped from wood executives, with their vari- food for reflection in the extreme- pect of leaderless chaos in the Finally they signed when faced their waxed paper fastness ly high percentage of radical and event of a collapse of Stalin's per- with the threat of an ignored din- landed full upon the seat tempor-writers and technicians..
and ed talents, and for the studio liberal sympathisers with Russian sonal rule. There is no better po- nertime. Through it all Mr. Mote arily unoccupied by a very large his appreciation of the ability of Keen is bolshevism who, after intimate pular story of Stalin's life in the waxed in strength and flavor and gentleman two-rows below. Hero- the players who have worked contact with Soviet realities, have English language.
at the end "rose from his seat with ically, Mr. Arliss rescued those with him, particularly Bette Davis,
become bitter and uncompromis- Max Eastman, as he tells us, ing critics of Stalinite communism, came away from a visit to Russia The authors of both the present in 1924 already doubtful as to the books belong.in this category. Eu- validity of Marxist theory, but gène Lyons, on the basis of six convinced that Lenin had done. a years of journalistic experience in magnificent piece of "revolution- Moscow, went through a process. ary engineering." Now he in- of disillusionment which he de- cludes the Leninist method with scribed very eloquently in his the Maxist theory in his "Assignment in Utopia.' Max demnation and, regarding Staling Eastman was an outstanding Com- ism as one of the most monstrous munist intellectual in the first forms of tyranny ever created, he years of the Russian Revolution. also takes issue with Trotzky's
Of the two books now under alleged revolutionary criticism of consideration, that of Mr. Lyons Stalin. is more vivid, that of Mr. East- man more thoughtful. Stalin is not The author carries on a spirited an easy subject for a biographer, polemic with the totalitarian Since his rise to power he has liberals" who excuse or condone been the object of a vast amount in Russia: everything. that they of adulation. But a despot-and condemn in fascist countries. this is what Stalin is--can never In his last chapter, "What To be in his own country the subject Do," he treads more cautiously. of a balanced and critical study. He is sure that Stalinism is wrong; Authentic biographical material is he is not so positive as to what scarce. Stalin has been most reti- line Socialists should follow. He cent in giving the world any is very insistant on the necessity glimpse of his inner personality. of preserving what we possess in He has never written a statement the way of civil liberties and of personal philosophy comparable, democratic forms of procedure; with "Mein Kampf." nor has he personally I think close contact talked and written with the with Russia is the best way to fluency and frequency of Musso- stimulate enthusiasm for every lini.
affirmation of the Bill of Rights Confronted with these difficul- and the Constitution of the United ties, Mr. Lyons has succeeded States. The central problem of quite well with his objective of modern society, as Mr. Eastman "presenting one of the most signi- sees it, "is to find some method by ficant and influential figures of which society can induce, with a our time in a simple, unacademic continuous rhythm and on a basis! treatment." He is able to draw on of increased production, that. ad- the personal impressions, the re- justment between production and membered anecdotes of his jour- purchasing power which the New nalistic career in Moscow, and he Deal has tried to induce in -de- is able to give his readers one of sultory spasms, and with a re- the rare bits of first-hand contact stricted production?"
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The stranger laughed harshly. "I feel rather a beast for being "You wish to put it off? What so tremendously happy when is the use? Even were I surround-, think of poor Percy Foster," sigh. ed by your police I should send ed Felicity with her head on her you before me. No, my friend, I fiance's shoulder. "I shouldn't
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will be merciful and put you out have you now if it hadn't been for of your agony. This pistol is him.""
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all is not well with you; I shall worm be half way towards one of the "Very few people would have had exits. Are you ready for your the inspiration to realise that medicine? I shall count three and brother Bill was holding me up then pull the trigger. One!" with a pistol. Fewer still would
Tom set his teeth. If this was have had the sense to catch his the end he would hot flinch.
wrist.". "Two!"
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A patter of footsteps. Someone when he dashed off from walking quickly. Ah! the waiter table," laughed Felicity. returning with the cocktails. Tom awfully bucked about it all now, felt an impulse to laugh. Wouldn't though. He'll talk about the Secret the waiter get a shock when he Service for years." offered a cocktail to a dead man.
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"What did he say about us?" asked Tom. "You weren't to see saw his enemy's face me again after to-day, you know." harden. Simultaneously a hand "That was only because he seized his wrist from behind. A thought you hadn't a job. Every- muffled plop!
thing's all right again now. You're Tom hurled himself across the the cat's whiskers." table with a yell, Reaction from the strain of the last few minutes "If it was only the fact of me increased his strength. He toolt having a job which made him his enemy by the throat. They alter his mind, I'm afraid he'll be went down with a crash.
disappointed again. You see, dar-
Tom laughed.
Inspector Maynard and two of ling, I was only of use to the his men came running. Tom rose Secret Service so long as my iden- panting from the motionless figure tity was undiscovered. My em- on the ground. He turned to a ployment in that quarter is finish- thin man in spectacles who was ed." looking rather bewildered.
"Well played, Foster; you were in the nick of time."
Felicity raised her lips to his. "Then you'd better marry me at once and I'll give you the big-
Tom drove Felicity home in his gest job of your life."
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