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BOOKS and READERS

PROBLEM OF THE

FIVE WORKS FOR THE

FAR EASTERNER.

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QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"LET US BE' GAY."

piano in "Let Us Be Gay,"

Norm Shearer again, plays the

hor' new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star- ring vehicle which is now at the Queen's Theatre.

Sir Philip Gibbs, for instance, introduces inte: "The Winding; Lano a tall, willowy, thin-should Indeed, "I have just about s ered creature who drooped like much respect for the author as a a tired lil" and was a good stylist as I would have for a man soul, although litary critic." who chose the mize at Hampton

Court as a normal phos For Slaying Best-Sellers.

walk. Although," indeed. . 1)

"Itty hynton is mi amost put the offending words into perfect example of the story found italics at my own expen. 1o rin

ed on real life. It combines the heinausness, piasise their full

dul duties of fact with the dignify There are, men, I would reminding discipling of fiction, It con

And it vinces.

forinates. I of sixteen to twenty come up' be. the author, serving life sentences on Devil's Island for less: And, foro the magistrates for the first

spent a willing two hours rending CRIMINAL ANALYSED.

tive, not my possibilities, antas a matter of fact, she wasn't a

a story that I had rend before in the most delicate proboms, arise

good soul at all. She mid of the

Famous Trings Series "CRIME AS DESTINY. By J.

Not, as I say that Mrs. Belloe Lange, Transated by Charaals, and ought to be put where

Some of them are "born" crimi hero's novel that every word is

jewel and every thought a flow-Lowndes keeps savishly to history:

which was killy; and she ange lotte Haldane, Alen & Unwin, they can do no harm.

+F Others are

She. altor and improves. The "BOYS IS TROUBLE." By Mrs. La hero by, sheer accident," by had kissed hire in a taxicab, which story of the real woman in the ing at a party and now in her

upbringing. by excess of

was and so she "low "best arl-

cus is definitely not such good No questions before society Lopirits, by faulty environment, by lers' as a lady in Surrey will reading as the story of Letty promptu quarter.

pluck weeds from herbinowens thousand eventible

too much to expect life in its bisix heap," which was simply rush to be the equni of art in its stupid. In fact, I utterly disown

tranquility. her.

Es.

Mesurier. Murray, ds,

A

high

causes:

day are uro important than and almost all of these may, by order and cant them on the rub. Lynton. But, perhaps, it is rather

these: What crime ossentially, ir and what to do with the actual or potential criminal.

No thinking person holds that the criminal is solely responsible for his crime and no thinking person holds that the sole duty of Lociety is to deal with crime after it has been committend. To some extent, beyond question, society is itself to blame for criminal deeds, and to soms extent' we can certain. ly prevent crime and reform the criminal. The differences of oping on are as to the range of that little word sume."

were

to

i

right treatment, he made useful members of society. A mistake of the magistrate may make n the difference. It is therefore neces say that the magistrate should know the fact: and it has been proved again and again that wo men are far better adapted, than men for finding out those facts.

Prize Fiction.

In

In "The Last of Mrs, Cheyney" Miss Shearer was seen and heard playing at society recital

Their Own Druire she played the pino for Robert Montgomery. "The Divorcee" showed her play- new film she plays for not it.

Robert Z. Leonard dirated the picturization of the Rachel Crothers py with Rod La Rocque appearing opposite the star, In- cluded in the supporting eist are And I disown heroes who are novelista. It must be some months) 1 picked up "The Other Land" Marie, Drezy Hodda Hopper, now siner I threatened annihin. with every kind of misgiving. For Salty Eilsr. Raymond Hackett, tion to the next one. I met. Yet the jacket informed me that un- Gilbert Emy and Tyrrell Davis. "Let us be gog" is undoubtedly here one comes again, as petledder the title of "Emigranti," in and precocious and precious as its origina Italian, it had been one of the fint talkies ever heard ever, When, for instance, a rather awarded the Mondadori Prize. I in Hong Kong. The neting through skittish little minx naked Fraucis have long since disenyered that pit, specially that of Norma Mrs. Lo Mesurier has a little Brandon, the Supres high-brow, fereign prize committees and I Sheurer au Marie Dressler, is band of women under her who,

if he did not feel thal missing pas. are not always one in matters of superh with a patient and energy beyond sion he missed all he www nt

literary taste. But I am glad - to Ra tail praise, spend their days in dis-least a match for the mins. appinud in public the cholen of Perri's solemn and dignified works. covering all that can be known replied:

And this is an amazing thing.

One of the most wistfully de for the book is not only intensely national hat intensely local. Itlightful heroines to come to the is Miss Helen deals with a people inhabiting a talking screen region of lenia, of which neither Chandler in her role of Marna 1. nor the nine-and-ninety others iteynolds in "Rough Rominee," a out of every hundred, have ever

Fox Movietono drama of the grent beard. Yet they became ren? and

open spaces coming shortly to the But, renty, I have very little important to us as only the aristo. Queen's Theatre.

common with Sir Philip's cracy of imaginary characters do. critica. I do not droop like a tired And their sorrow-which is lily. Neither do. I lay bent-siderable-is ours.

Saved From Butt.

Oh, there are lots of things. Combradeship. Interest in ideas Peauty. Tres Birds Sympathy. Knowledge-which leads me to think that Sir Philip Giblia des pises novelists, as a class,, nearly as much as he, despites reviewers no elass.

In the reign of Henry VIII.about these boys as individuals: 72,000 people were hanged. It can

what he is, where he lives, what not be doubted that among the his parents are like, what temp- thousands upon thousands tations particularly inov, hin, On who would, with proper care, have the information they thus painful made exolent and useful citizens. ly eellect, the magistrate can net We now are that it is our duty with some degree of confidence. to give diese persons the right This boy will be treated in one education and environment

way, that in another, this other. make them citizens of this kind: in a third How many boys, havein and to a considerable degree

been saved from ruin through the have succeded. But there is labours of Mt. Le Mesurier and residue which is very hard to doa! her coadjutors cannot be calent- with and which forms one of the|ed-though shỏ has so far not been bust pressing social problems of

ten years at her work. What will the time.

Le the effect of similar toil carried OU for a century we may dimly guess.

WU

ten-

Two Kinds of Twins, Now Professor Lange defines crime fate. His little hooks is abli and his method is highly ingeniow I urime is hereditary--in the Glood-then twins, if of criminal kind, should show criminal dencies of like character, It must

however, be remembered,

that twins are of two quite different sorts: and we have all seen them. There are pairs almost exactly alike-called scientifically "monozy- gutio"--and pairs no more nike than ordinary brothers--"dizygo tie: the pre-natal history of the two kinds being quite diflorent.

Dr. Lange hus studied 13 crimin- a monozygotic casca. In 10 out of the 13 cach member of the pair was a criminal and their records were astonishingly similer In two cases one was a criminal and the other not, but the differences were vasily explained. One of one pair had had an accident which injured his head one of the other pair had had disease which notorious. ly affects the brain,

Heredity in Crime.

A GROUP OF NOVELS.

"THE WINDING LANE" By Philip Gibbs, Hutchinson. 7s. ed. "THE BLACK Box" By M. P. Shiel.

Richards Press. 78, 8d. "LETTY LYNTON,"

By Mrs. Belloe Lowndes, Heinemann. 78. 6d. TBE OTHER LAND." By Franecaro

· Perri, Translated by J. Lewis May, Bles, 76, 0d. THE Doos." By Ivan Nazhivin,

Allen & Unwin. 78. Od. More than once lately I have suspected a subversive movement on the part of the, novelis; a tendency to, say things likely to cause

sedition

sellers."

'Or, rather, not always. Indeed. I have no wish to lay anyone at the moment least of all Sir Philip.

Actually, I admire him. He is so agreeably English substantial and streaked with the fine full veins of sentiment.

So, far from wishing to slay him, I would gladly mike him 1. "best-seller." If I could-and if he needed it.

You

Con-

Do not confuse this novel with any, hazy halcyon ideas of Tonin Signor Perri may have. shows life at its most terrible. And, somehow, his elevates in in showing it.

The

"A Dog's-Eye View. "The Dogs" has complete origin. aity of subject and a slight stam mer in the translation. The book is a kind of dog's-eye view of Russia going to the dogs. author avoids the gush of sonti- ment that usually overpours in stories in which the chief charac ters are animal and not human. His sporting dogs move as minor, but oliservant, actors, across a great historical drama.

"ROUGH ROMANCE,"

In "Rough Romance," Miss Chandler portrays a lovely child of the north woods who lives with her father in an isolated triding post and longs for life, love and laughter.

All three of them come to her with the advent of Grarge O'Brien, who plays a deshing young lúmber jack."

'WILA

Others featured in the east of

which "Rough Ramnnee," directed by A. F. Erickson, are Antonio Moreno and Neel Francis.

CENTRAL THEATRE,

KING OF JAZZ"

Larid and Alluring. Mr. M. P. Shiel's reputation is somewhat under n purple cloud. And the publication of “The Black' Box" will leave it exactly where it was. The story again has t lurid and alluring fascination of Nevertheless, I suspect that M. Nazhirin begins towards the end its own. But a barbed wire en-

of the tale to regret the singular tanglement could not keep a reader more effectively from it than the limitations he had impsed, upon himself by such a choios, for he astanglement of phrases that the

noticeably grows leas canine and formly disaffection author puts up. For example: ur among book reviewers. Too many She stopped, as in, slim-built, more canny But it in a good story, of the new novels contain this sort stepped Miss Foy O'Connor, pre-reinforced by unusual vividness of of thing for it to be other thin tending to be a prince, but vory vision. Mr. NORMAN R. COLLINS in

frunke really exhibiting between the Yewy Chronicle. organised and defiant muting.

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Here at once we find a vast een fusion of opinion. Many people think that by altering his eur roundings, and by general right treatinent he may lie cured. Others, o [To like. Mr. Justice Stephen, hald that, being

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benst. There are eugenists who would say that he ought not to be allowed to be born at all, more than we ought to allow con- genital idiots or cretins to be horn.

At present, however, the science of eugenics in in its infancy; it is more than doubtful whether we yet know enough to justify such an interference with human liberty zá this. It is hard, for instance, tɔ conceive a much more dangerous murderer than Palmer of Rugeley, and Palmer's family history was ertainly bad. Yet one of his brothers was an excellent clergy- Inan. Had you prevented the birth of the poisoner, you would also have prevented, the birth of the minister,

It seems that we must wait, and keep an open mind. It, may well in that ougenies will advance until it becomes an exact science; but not till then will it be legitimate to exercise such control over birth -beneficial as it would undoubted.

be to prevent the entrance into the body politic of fereign and deleterious substance." At any rate, Dr. Lunge's work is a very valu able contribution to a most im portant study.

Bad Boys by Accident. Mrs. Lee Mesurier's book has ultimately the same end Bs Dr. Lange's, and is not less valuable; but its whole tore and method are

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A praise, then those features must the truly marvellous music re- production, the conception and direction of the spectre mimbora, notably the "Melting Pot:" the gorgeous dancing by the Bussoll Markort dinors throughout the picture, and the featured numbers of Johir Bolus and Jeanette Loff.

Boles' splendid voice has already made him one of the most popu ar singing stars on the screen, but the combination of his beauti fui baritone. and. Whitenin's music in such songs as "It Hap." pened In Monterey" and "The Song of the Down” is superb,

Jeanetto Loff. is so beautiful and so talented that aven in "King of Jazz" her presence in outstanding, Sho obviously is destined to be come cng of the reigning stars, of the sound screen,

There are in all, eli mitateni. spectacle numbers whose grandeur aweep everything before them, Be tween these are the specialities and comedy black-outs, in which gift ter a galaxy of names long famous on the screen, on the stage, izc vaudeville lights and in the most celebrated night clubs..

"WHY BRING THAT UP?"

Churles Mick, of the famous teain of Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows, analyzed their hum our and its success as follows:

"Folks who get a kick out of quick-fire comedy appreciate our slow brand, becojas, ¡ye give. them,.to.,.think.. Wo get right away from spead and hand them slow-raction fun. They're mostly used to express speed stuff "nown. days. Thoy, laugh. But wo time every word; we have to. If take a sentence only two seconds Inte no laugh.

Those popular radio and record, artista have made their first __me- tion picture, "Why Bring That Up in which they introduce parts of their past. saccesses (and a host of Mornayedotez Rnd. Mackisms equally as hilarious as Anything they have produced in the past.

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