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GREEN LIGHT. By Lloyd C. Douglas. calm of Mrs. Lawrence Dexter, about
Houghton Mifflin. $2.50. to undergo a serious operation by
Rv DR. THEODORE HORNBERGER Paige's superior, Dr. Endicott. Mrs.
in expressing the overwhelming trag- (Of The English Department)
edy such a deportation would involve, Lloyd C. Douglas's latest story,
not alone to Israel, but to all of hu- which first appeared serially in a pop-
manity. The thing is too colossal, too I ular magazine, is in my opinion a bad
othei to be novel whose badness is curiously in-
gto himagnation consequential. What is important in
in Mr. Nathan's vein. Of course he the book, and what will interest even
has given us a beautifully written and those readers who prefer artistically
poignant tale and has drawn for us successful fiction, is an attempt to
certain pictures that will long remain present an attitude towards living, a
in cur memory: the comradeship of means of attaining what is described
the two old ladies, Mrs. Blumenthal spersonal adequacy or personal sta-
thetwooldladesMrs Blmenhalbility. The elements which compose
and Mrr. Ninian - the romance of this attitude are by no means unfa-
the Parisian loyalist lad Raoul and miliar although the heroine discon-.
Leah, daughter of the Kovnitz rabbi certingly says that "this thing that
- the devotion of the poet David to cI'm thinking about isn't rel ion
the New Enaland Amanda, the Chris- heaps bigger and more importarthan
tian wife who has so tragically isolat- etha Religion or not, a liberal,
ed herself by coming along with her science-conscious Christianity is here
doctor hsband-the lonely little ure with strikin freshness and
Dexter tells him she has achieved
Iher faith through Dean Harcourt, of
Trinity Cathedral. On the operating
table, Mrs. Dexter dies through the
:reoccupation of Dr. Endicott, who
has just heard by telephone of heavy
losses in the stock market. Mr. Dexter,
cleaned out in the market, shoots
himself; one of the Dexter daughters
enters a nunnery; Phyllis, the other,
travelling in Europe, carries on in the
belief that Paige's negligence has
killed her mother, for Paige, to protect
his superior, runs away. He turns up
again in a Kentucky village, where
he befriends Elise Brock, a romantic
and talented contralto. Through Elise
he comes at last to the city, apparent-
ly Chicago, where are Dean Harcourt,
Trinity Cathedral, and Phyllis Dexter.
The rest of the story is the inevitable
march to the altar over numerous dif-
ficulties; with Dean Harcourt, philos-
opher, amateur psychiatrist, and
friend, arranging the route.
In contrast to this skeleton are the
ideas of Dean Harcourt, which dom-
inate and transform the action. He
seeks to lead people to personal ade-
quacy through his concept of "The
Long Parade," his confidence that
humanity is slowly and at times pain- ERNES
fully moving onward and upward, Walte
growing. Those who accept his con-
cept feel that the universe is with Thorn
them, that the red stop light is only book, m
a momentary phase, that if they see be a Th(
the thing through the light will ed one
change to green. Those who sense else of;
their place in the tightly integrated fates ha
procession forget the restlessness, the which w.
inadequacy which characterize the TheyI
present age, turn from introspectionI to fillh
to thinking of their fellow-marchers, to
from selfishness to service. o
of Smitl
Condensed thus, the attitude which to be ho
Dean Harcourt preaches to all social effortt
levels and to many different types of double-e,
individuals may seem more common- down m
place than itis. By repetition and by Curiou
skillful variation, Mr. Douglas suc- first no
ceeds in presenting it with consider- a numb
able power. Even the skeptical read- children
er, who may find difficulty in follow- Yorker
ing Dean Harcourt's theories of or- more or
ganic evolution to their conclusion, world fo
will admire the restraint and the tor has1
dignity with which they are developed. lustrate
TINE TAKES OVER. By car and drive her to the party at the
r Brooks. Morrow. Smiths. Mr. Thompson is rather a
By JOHN-SEELEY dud on a party; he likes better the
ne Smith has written his last crazy fun he and his wife used to
ore's the pity. There had to have before she became so confound-
orne Smith; the country need- ly social. But he gets the car and
almost more than anything takes his wife to the party.
a literary complexion. The There he sits down alone. He be-
ave taken care of the order,' gins wishing for a girl to talk to.
as a large one. "somebody like that girl he and Ethel
have sent one Walter Brooks had seen in 'Rain Before Seven' the
his place. "Ernestine Takes other night." Without a break he be-
till more than take the place gins wishing for a girl to talk to,
-h's last, "The Glorious Pool," i beside him, and has arrived so incon-
nest. Mr. Brooks makes less spicuously that he hardly realizes it.
The Place Of Thorne Smith
to chart and diagram his
edged remarks, and they go
uch more easily.
isly enough, this is Brooks'
vel, although he has written
ber of successful books for
, has worked on the New
and Outlook, and has been
less of New York's literary
or some years. His collabora-
been Herbert Roese, who il-
1 the Smith book. But the
ions do little to point the text.
She always arrives when he imag-
ines she is with him. Obviously such
a "setup" can be made humorous;
Mr§. Thompson is not going to ac-
cept a readily transportable friend
for her husband without a struggle.
Mr. Brooks does make it humorous,
without straining and without the
long dull spots fantastic books are
likely to have.
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If the reader is one of those to ten about -Beethoven told the ques- Great Underlying
whom the names Beethoven, Mozart, tioner to read The Tempest. Moreover,
and Schubert mean music that is too if a listener, after hearing this sonata
. . Monday night, should read the play, Tuth
intricate, too complex, then the pro- he will realize that perhaps Beethoven AS.
gram Artur Schnabel will play Mon- had looked no farther than the title. AS MUCH AS TWICE. By Dane
day night in Hill Auditorium will be The last number which Schnabel will York. Minton, Balch.
a complete surprise and great joy to play is the sonata in C minor, writ- Anyone who has lived in a New
him. For it is impossible that any per- ten by the same composer. This was England village, even for a few years,,
the last sonata that Beethoven com- cannot deny the truth that underlies
son could listen to Schnabel play theI posed, and together with the Appas- Dane Yorke's "As uch As Twice."
music of these composers and at the sionato is considered by many to be
end of the concert still feel that the the heighth of all sonatas written. On the surface, the novel is the
music was too intricate and complex. While the Appasionato is regular in story of Madge Field's existence as
Not that one must expect to fully form, the C minor sonata has only the wife of flabby, stupid Ben Field,
comprehend, but one need not fear two movements. But within these two p esident of the Brick bank in North-
that the music is beyond him; for to A.tbvements Beethoven embodies all port, Maine, and as the daughter-in-
some degree, at least, the depth of the emotional and intellectual depth law of old Dan Field, boss of the entire
Beethoven, the artistry of Mozart, and 'of his profound nature. town.
the spontaneity of Schubert are with- The Mozart sonata in F mnajor, It is also the story of Madge's years
in the comprehension of any one who K: 337, which will be played between of shutting her eyes to the villiany
listens. the two Beethoven sonatas, was writ- of the old man, hard at his money
The six moment musicales, written ten in Salzburg in 1756. Schnabel has getting, and of the old man's at-
by Schubert in Vienna, begin the said of Mozart, "I would still love Mo- tempt to make Ben behave as a man
program Monday night. Schubert, # zart even if all the world were against toward his work, and more particular-
born in Vienna in 1797, is known as l me as one man and called him tinkling ly toward his wife.
the most spontaneous of composers. and effectual." You may expect to I And it likewise is the story of+
He writes with amazing rapidity, rare- hear Mozart played with all the Madge's gradual awakening to the
ly rewriting his music. His Hark, beauty and charm that is possible to truth about her husband and crooked,
Hark! The Lark, and the Unfinished it. old father-in-law, her slowly fed and
Symphony, the latter"he never heard, About Schnabel him;clf there is sometimes strongly denied love of Joel
are well known to every one. much one could say - that he is the Carter.
Schubert made his greatest contri- greatest living pianist, that he never The story of the Field-Carter tangle
bution to music through his songs plays music in public that is not bet- is one of theireads; the story of
for solo voice, many of which artists ter than it could be played, that he Northport and its politics, social
have sung during the Choral Union.' plays the rnusic of the 17th and 18th graces and disgraces is another. These
Concerts this season. Though Schu- .century composers because he loves two are seen against the background
mann said of Schubert that if another them best, and feels that no matter of the banking collapse.and Roose-
text offered itself, Schubert would how long he may live it cannot be long velt's accession; for some reason, the
have set a hand bill to music, one enough for him to get through Bach, vet's accessoforsoreanthe
cannot deny the beauty and charm of Beethoven, and Mozart. But he him-iticaie thinrifesntherebi-
these songs. The moment musicales self has written a little book called tics gain greatly in richness thereby,
are exactly what their titles suggest "Reflection on Music," a book so The author knows how small town
- moments of music. They need no complete, so finished, that further people talk and what they talk about.
further explanation. comments on Schnabel seem now no The book omits all the fake ruralia
Following the Schubert, Schnabel I longer necessary. One has only to which might impress Broadway; Old
will play Beethoven sonata.,.in p, I-read this book (albeit five times) to Dan is the meanest toad in a rather
minor, Opus 57. This sonata, best understand why it is impossible to small puddle, but he does not wear
known as the Appassionato, possesses believe that the music of Beethoven, tattered straw hats, nor does he pick
the greatest beauty. When asked what Schubert, and Mozart, which the his teeth with a broomstraw. And,
the sonata meant - what it was writ- 'pianist will play Monday night, is I lastly, the story moves at a just pace.
- - - -- --- music to which anyone can listen and It is not slowed up too much by pages
from which anyone can receive much. of "color," and it is not shot past the
Lending Li bra ries,Etc.-B.B. reader so fast it blurs.
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