BOOKS
WHAT THE WORLD READS.
SPHINX.
Narrated in a most refreshing! manner and of intensely absorbing interest is the novel 'Sphinx' by
David Lindsay.
Thore can be little doubt that the book of the rolling senson in Sweden will 12 Fru Karin Suair now's biography of her mother, Siri von Essen, what was the first Nicholas Cabot a well-to-do wife of Strindberg According to gentleman discovers a means of reproducing dreams by the use of Zunn, which is the Seodid. Ladies
House Journal. With
some ingenious chemical device. Out in the lovely country-side modifications, the book will be enabounding in beautiful girls and titled "Strialberg's First Wile." „gay company, he puts to practice
works havoc on himself.
[Sphinx-David Lindsay John Long 7/6.1
FROM THE NEW BOOKS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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THE SILENT LOVER
THE STUDIÓ.
"The Studio" issue of May 15th contains an interesting variety of reproductions. Of special interest at the moment one notices four
"At the time when Mrs. Lang. SHAW'S "BEANO”
try was at the zanith of her fame and beauty. Oscar Wilde, just out. "At the Garrick Club one day, of Dublin University, came to Lon Barric, going to speak to Bernarddon, poor but proud. He fell in Shaw at a table in the coffee-room love with the Jersey Lily, as all men did, bought one exquisite near the window, looked for a blossom every evening at Covent drawings depicting the British moment at the curious mess upon which the Master was browsing,
Garden Market, marched across Empire Exhibition at Wembley, and said, in his rolling Scotch, London, holding it in front of him with an article on the Architecture Oh, tell me, Shaw. Have yeeaten with the amazing absence of self of the Exhibition by Frank Bran- that, or are ye going to? consciousness that he afterwards gwyn RA. There are also ex- Umúritten History, by Cosmo'
parodied so well, waited on amples, of Frank Brangwyn's own the curbstone outside the theatre works. A contribution on the art Hamilton. (Hutchinson.) 18s.net.
to open the door of her carriage, of Mr. A. J. Munnings, A.R.A by adoration in silent ecstasy. illustrations of hunters and race and then handed his "ribute of G. H. Mair C.M.G., together with Unseritten History, by Cosmo Hamilton. (Hutchinson.) 185. net.
THE "OUTSIDER," "In Bond Street, I am an out sider, and I know it. Bond Street makes me shy and humble. My watch may be the most honourable thing in my pocket, an honest watch with a friendly face, but it is
not a twentieth cousin toany watch
in a Bond Street shop window. You can imagine a queen cotering such a shop, asking to see a few crowns and sceptres, but adding that they must not be too expen- sive. I have forgotten what I pay for the shirts that I buy so unwill ingly when the old shirts decay at the cuffs; but I dare say it is some" | vile sum ending in elevenpence. They are not in the least like those white garments, those starched ephods which are sold in Bond the ignominy of a ticket. Day The Evening News, (Cassell.) 35: and Day Out, by The Londoner of
horses is worth noting. Illustra tions appear showing a collection of decorative figures in coloured' and glazed pottery by the Spanish
ALFRED NOYES AND METER. craftsman Sr. D. Antonio Peyro,
as well as etchings and aquatints by Laura Knight, A.R.W.S. Among oner works of which examples are given, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hiswell Miller's, Gerald Kelly's, Jenny Montigny's, Ian Macnab's, Jessic M. Riding's, and Archibald Kay's should be mentioned:
"Howbeit. from being landed fly Noves is no more represented, be a group of poet critics, whose judgments are too often sound in the wrong seis than any other peet of our day. Whether anything less respectable then restricted portical "outlook can becoming for this misrepresenting tion i sill not attempt to guess,
-J.W
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1924
QUARRELS WITH WOMEN,
FEMININISTIC EXTRACTS FROM A NEW BOOK.
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"In view of the coming Lawn Tennis Championship at Wimble- don, Commander Hillyard'a volunte of reminiscences, which is about! No woman, is more beautiful to be published by Messrs. Wi- than her neck.
hams & Norgate, under the title of "Forty Years Of First Class. Lawn Tennis," should meet with a [ready welcome. Commander Ilill- yard's work is not only very read- able, dealing as it does with over is full of helpful suggestions to 40 years of first class players, but those who are anxious to improve their game."
God is just. He las rearved most of the prettiest legs for home. ly women.
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Womer, as a general rule, love from the inen who love then.. men us those men are dillerent
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It is a sign of man's incontro- vortible idiocy that he will like any woman who shows signs of liking him.
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"A novel of considerable inter- est is about to be published by Messrs. Williams & Norgate. It is by the Spanish Author Hugo- Wast, entitled "The House of the What a man seeks in a woman Ravens," (a" powerful story of however idiotie his.aets is peace, quiet and agreement, "Mexican Life"). The Author's or asser-popularity in Spain and Latizi tions. Show him such a woman. America is almost equal to that of his better known countryman Blasco Ibanez, the celebrated The doctring that woman is Author of "The Four Horsemen of generally the pursuer of man
the Apocalypse." Although in the true, bus it is also true that in the Spanish speaking countr his readers number many thousands, runs backward.
English speaking peoples have had ofreading this virile writer of fiction, in their own tongue."
and he is hers..
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Strindberg treated___his first wife bis invention, which unhappily Street without ever having known but, noticing it, I have sometinn epts the rhssical tradition in course, of the pursuit man generally this is the first opportunity the
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A WIDOW'S WOOING. Contrary to the desire and scheme and her mother-in-law, Miriam, a widow, marries an artist and shuns the love of the rich man of the town; such is the main theme of a brightly written novel by James Blyth.
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with great injustice when he wrote "The Confusions of a Fool," Frui Strindberg was advised "by" "her y riends to Joine Ton her "own ị Bofeure. Sia comed the iden. Fra Sinine, the daughter, ay herself a dram ist of considerable repute, was 11 years of age wit Strindberg to his family. She has a quite vivid memory of hire, ind an even more vivid memory of her myBen, whom, she Jaisi memorializ4, according to finne, in noble Eliot. After Surind berg left the family, the other with three cládárễn settled in
Steeped in mystery from the Helsingfors word made beginning this bewitching romance iving as a tran dator, and a teacher deals with the adventures of a man at the iron that." One senteure and woman interned on the little the bank nd: "Mofler was Isle of Sarm, one of the Channel uch a good comrade to us islands, for lung considered as the hildren; and slie was always home of witches and the devil, asppy and tot of fun."
Here under cruel and bare condi- tions their characters are subject to the greatest trials and temptations, but honour, trust and faith leads them on in glory to their eventual union and happiness.
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THE PERILOUS LOVERS."
A simple plot, casy to follow and with few characters, but with situations perhaps a little beyond reality.
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OBVIOUS.
Travers was the proprietor of apriceless stuter. I once heard Larry Jerome protest: Really, Bill, you stammer much more here in New York than at home "in Baltimore. "Surely, said the other, New York is a much larger town." Melton Mowbray and other | Memories, by Moreton Frewen.
CHESTERTON'S CRIME.
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been reminded of lines he puts in the month of Marlowe, in his "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern
1 tell the fits the dwarfs that
find no world
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the wide heaven With all its coded solitary
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Unprofessional lovers of poetry red Noyes hot because it is the "I once had to kick my heels for proper, high-brow thing to do, but three hours of the night in a wait solely feinse they enjoy-reading ing-room, in which there was him. It is an excellent reason: nothing but a fireplace and a time-and-for the sine renson Tennyson table on the wall. And I may say, and Browning me fanous: so, in with not a little vanity, that I left that these times, are Masefieht and cheerless shelter having thought Davies: De ha Mure and William out all the details of a crime that could only be committed in Watson. Noyes differs from most such a waiting-room. I shall not
of his contemperaries in being at inform the reader what the crime once, like Chancer: a horn story. was; partly because one never folle ant, like Swinburne, an knows when one might not want amazing buster
of meter and to commit it oneself, and partly rhyme." He is not alone in being because it is rather more likely able more readily and adequately to that it will follow the fate of many of my crimes and be put off with express himself in meter and rhyue thair in prose, and it is ridiculous a visionary realisation in a vulgar to assume that this ability indicatis detective story. But, anyhow, the moral is that it is really possible any shallowness of thought it in to pass purple hours at Clapham dicutes, rather, that he is really Junction.-G. K. Chesterton in a efficient in an art he has taken Foreword to Purple Hours, by pains to acquire. Philip Macer-Wright. (Gay and Hancock.) 55.
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superior persons, do, because he postry. He has hot accepted itam- intelligently or slavishly; if you look through his books you will note how cunningly he makes old meters new again, and that he has invented enough new meters or variations in accepted metrical forms to give him a plucc even with those. who can to be rebels against authority.
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Above everything else, natural amiability is the quality most essential to a woman's attractive- css. If she isn't by mature plea subtly agreeable, ali ber beauty position sex appeal. Wealth mid wit can avail her nothing in her tête-à-tête with man.
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A man will tolerate any criticism of himself from a wornan, and pay small attention to it. What he will not stand is criticism of his friends." More couples have split upon this point than any other.
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"A Scotch novel written by a Scot is impregnated with national atmosphere. Mr. Norman Mac Owan, already 2 successful dramatist, in his forthcoming novel The Infinite Shoeblack" I Noyes has any theories of.
about to be published by Messrs. poetry, I gather they are that the
Williams & Norgate, deals with endowed
the problems of a Scotch student poel is essentially une with the gift of song; that all the
in love with a wealthy girl. Her great posts, from fomer down.
voluntary surrender of a luxurious. ward, have been great singers and
life in order to seek happiness, and that when he utters himself in
the stirring adventures which be- nieter and rhyme he is but putting himself in line with the infinite.
fall the couple should furnish a order of the universe with the onion is inimical to romano is disable discussion."
Pierumus notion that the jaubject likely to cause consider- rhythm of the tides, of the scusous, covered, upon investigation and the recurring chime of day and reflection, to be baseless. night, the harronious movement of countries in which ronuncemostate idiot, but he is still national the stars in their orbits. He owe-flourishes are without exception the "ly young, and young in the spirit confessed to me that he was so far onion-eating of garlic-cating of romance and adventure, from fearing the possibilities of countries. metrical favention were exhausted that he was convinced we are still at the beginning of them; they were exhausted, according to the first disciples of Whitnal, sixty
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The enduring love" b the love · woman unattractive to men, con- who can laugh at their love, who' Of all things that may make a that laughs. The man and wom tentionsness is perhaps the first. A can kiss with smiles and embrace woman, however beautiful, be with chuckles. will outlast in comes instantmucously unalturing if (inutual affection all the throat- invented. SD many new meters that her mod is argumentative and humpy, cow-eyed couples of their he was considered more revoly-combative. tionary in his eru timu Whitman's |
Phe World. it False- lator disciples are in oprs-A, St.
man whose eyes are for face, by George Jean Nathan. John Adcock; "Gods of Modern youth in wonen. is still eager for Bohn Lane, The Badley Head, 7.
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It is quisar til fore should be mandy quentout books in Dhunish n Spain and things Spanish, works such
years ago, but Swinburne arose and there of J. Heiberg' Culderon. Niels Höller or fervantes. Valdaquar Vedel on d Barons Age, att j
-N.H.F.P. Jarl Bratti-
variety is wide-
"The Perilous Lovers" by John bats, incbelle'a Panish-Spanish | Oxenhanı,
T. Fisher Unwin, ictionary.
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It is equally ridiculous to dub bin old-fashioned, as some of mur1 Grub Streat."
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Warner Bros.
CLASSIC OF THE SCREEN
MAIN STREET
IN 9 PARTS
WITH FLORENCE VIDOR
AND MONTE BLUE
and a stellar cast of screen favourites.
Scene from
"MAIN STREET"
AWarner Bros.Production
In MAIN STREET" you will find all the typical characters of this great American Novel faithfully brought: tơ" life (and; woven into a screen masterpiece that will thrill, entertain and surprise you.
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LURE OF THE MOVIES.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A DIRECTOR?
Main Street" Moral.
"Study Jinan nature and the movies if you want to beconie, a movie director," says Harry Beau
who at the age of thirty-two already injoys i niche in the diree torial temple of sucresses.
He claims an intimate knowledge of these two-mian cature and
the movies are the principal essentials, With them, you should have no difficulty in getting a chance to direct a picture, and up reason, furifier, why you should
antat e NuNCESS.
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But the movies are a mine of wealth; he cur study lighting, spring, perspective, casting, fact- ing.
Take Main Street' an- example: it student cau, estuct mel valible study from it..
HOOT GIBSON,
"Ride For Your Life."
Hoot Gilgon's newest Universsi especially if he has been fortuite | wedern tenture, "Hide for Your enough to read the hook. Hejan Life, which comes to-morrow to take the thing to pieces, study the the World Theatre, marks au im
sets. the characters, and then
ask himself how he would lave portant event in the lives of at directed it in my place. To fix least two persons, of Gibson him-2 way he develops a keen eye for the self and that of his eight months' thousand and one details of ptold daughter, Lois Charlotte. ting a picture together from the skeleton story,
Young Miss Gibson nade her first- "The next step is to do dad in his studio "war paint" for, visit to Universal city and saw her? practical work; get group f people interested in acting for the the first time during the making imovies; get a story and set to work of his picture. Her nurse held fì? directing them. This is an excel lent practice and will prove of valu pair of dark glasses over her eyes hater."
to prevent the terrible light of the sets from blinding her and she registered her delight with all the baby talk she could command.
Gibson says that he will make a star out of her so that when be
A few yours ago Mr. Beaumon ***There are many" things to learn, established himself as one of the of course," says the director whose most individual comedy directors by last pieture, Main Street," was bringing out Bryant Washburn al adapted from Sinclair Lewis' novel star in the series of "Skinner's .of.the.small_town.—QAud I-am-Dress Suit,origin-stories--he|- assuming that the ambitious per- wrote for the screen himself. Then gets old, he can play golf instead. son who wants to rise to the ranks he directed 'Going Some with an of working in pictures. "She" can of directors in acquire them with all-star cast; shortly after he put be the family "bread winner," he time. Nothing is impossible under on the series of Tom Moore pie said winking slyly. But if the the st.
tures, including "Lord and Lady orice of real estate continued to "The movie with directing Algy" he also brought out Toni aspirations should know a good Mooro us star in "Brown of Hardvance in value in the beautiful story when he seen one, that is a vard" and introduced Henry Walt. strict where Hoot has his hone story with general hunas appeal ball as star in “Truant Bouls."* ad many extra holdings, his daughter will probably accept a Hlace instead of a motion picture
pntruct.
His first work in the photoplay field was as lending man with Mary Fuller and other stars in 1911, with the Edison company,
to a wide audience such as is ro presented by motion pictures. He should know bunas pature in and (out, how man of a certain type
Laura In Plante, the pretty| nets under certain circumstances,. Main Street," his latest pic.ttle screen actress who received us. and how the sap circumstance ture; a Warner classic of the diploms to her "graduation" affects a man of a different typo screen, featuring Florence Vidorna three years course in By keeping his mind awake and and Monte Blue, is shown at Universal's practical training his aye alert he can study the the World Theatre for the last seool, a starring contract, plays people of his own town till he time to-day, as the feature attrac- the romantic lead opposite Hoot knows them. He has a wide field tion. The supporting cast consists Gilson. She has completed her for activity no matter where he of Harry Myers, Noah Beery, are starring vehicle for Univer lives, whether it be a village or a Louise Fazenda, Robert Gordon, land during a lull in her own mitropolis.Why, even his own Josephine Crowell, Gordon Gnath, City he was cust for the lemne
home is wide-enough school for Otis Harlan and Alan Hale. lead with Gibson, with whom she ☀. him; it is always rich in types and situations.
The knowledge of the screen world he can get through the movies, unless ho is more fortunate and can have cocourse to a studio.
Mr. Beaumont was selected to screce Main, Street" for the ranson that he interprets with such ease and realism the many little things which go to make a picture true to life..
has played in many pictures, such asut of Luck," "The Ramblin' Kid and others. She makes her bow is a star in her own right in Extenment, a farce.comedy of thrill and exciting adventurea.
Commencing SUNDAY, 6th.
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HOOT
GIBSON
IN
RIDE
FOR
YOUR LIFE"
Hoot Gibson the king of all outdoor stara rides through this spectacular melodrama at a faster clip than aver before. The early days in the west when it was wild and woolly!" It's full of hard riding, fast shooting, tense, drama- tic action and a pulsing heart story. A great supporting cast including beau- tiful Laura LaPlante, Robert McKim, Harry Todd, Howard Truesdell, Olark Cɩmstook and others.
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