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AMERICA FAILS--AND SCORES

... America iaiis--and Scores By JLione I Collier THERE seems to be quite a common misconception amongst producers that a book that reads well is necessarily good material for a picture. This is obviously a fallacy, since fine writing is an end in itself ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 927 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

Scotland, Ireland and America

... Scotland 5 Ireland and America By A. G. Macdonell MICHAEL MURRAY is the pseudonym of a well-known young Scottish author and journalist, and he has written a first novel called The Noblest Prospect (Duckworth; 7s 6d.). The title is taken from the famous ...

Published: Tuesday 01 May 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1269 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A SEARCHLIGHT ON AMERICA

... A SEARCHLIGHT ON AMERICA. A SEARCHLIGHT ON AMERICA. By James Truslow Adams (Routledge: 12s. 6d.) (Routledge 12s. 6d.) A serious book which makes very good reading. Are the Americans mere money- grubbers What does their civilisation really stand for Are ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 62 | Tags: Review 

MICHAEL ARLEN IN AMERICA

... Michael Allen in America By Junius HUNDREDS of people have been thrilled by Mr. Michael Arlen's present ment of a Mayfair which doesn't exist, graphically and realistic ally described in I don't remem ber how many stories, long and short. But has Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 April 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1493 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

England, America and Some Novels

... love and marriage are two different things, and that not only America's millions but America's marriage is in the melting-pot. But, despite the gloomy picture that he draws of the America of to-day, from his own personal experience Mr. Des mond has belief ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1222 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

AMERICA SUBDUES EAST LYNNE

... AMERICA SUBDUES EAST lyNNE BY LIONEL COLLIER EAST LYNNE, which has re cently been shown to the Press and will probably have a West End run soon, was as inevit able as fate. It was made three or four times as a silent picture. The stern, unbending ...

Published: Wednesday 08 April 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1094 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

Films of the Day: Africa, Europe and America

... Films of the Day Africa, Europe and America By George Campbell WHEN Marie Louise (de la) RameƩ-- she liked the de la, but was apparently not entitled to it-- wrote Under Two Flags in 1867, it was regarded as the last word in exotic adven ture and daring ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 932 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Moving Around: The Provincial Lady in America; Suburban Columbus

... ^Moving aA round The Provincial Lady in America by E. M. Delafield (Macmillan, 7s. 6d.) Suburban Columbus by John Gibbons (Newnes, 7s. 6d.) THE Provincial Lady has made so many new friends for Miss Delafield and has so very evidently come to stay that ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1934
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 370 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

Books: America through French Eyes: The Secret of Vicki Baum

... at being French. Really, I find something a little shameless about the way in which M. Duhamel's abuse of America is shrieked straight at America's should one say ear, or pocket It will strike Englishmen especially as cynical, because in his haste to let ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 594 | Page: 63 | Tags: Review 

America--Can it be true? slips back: The New World into Barbarism

... Stripes (Hutchin son, 1 os. 6d.), in which Mr. Shaw Desmond gives a dramatic but possibly unexaggerated picture of contemporary America an appalling glimpse, yet not worse than that given by Mr. Dos Passos. Civilisation seems to have had a short innings in the ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1932
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1288 | Page: 77 | Tags: Review 

RACING FOR THE AMERICA'S CUP: The Great Romance of Yachting History- A New Book on Association Football

... RACING FOR THE AMERICA'S CUP The Great Romance of Yachting History A New Book on Association Football IN reading Lt. -Commander P. K. Kemp's Racing for the America's Cup, one is struck by the vast amount of research which the author has evidently undertaken ...