ITur 1 R 1)Fr'tTry 'A iv r A 7tT RZITNMAV MA'Pl'(U 'I 1012K IN THE-WORLD O OK I, LV11:12 , AlAtcl 11 6, Vf6!) mommoommund 5 T~n i jr-*-,T Q . Badness Of Latest Is' - r- iz-.;1Walter Brooks Is Assuming r-.04, .,,_/ N,../ ...~ A-J- , iK../ 0 1rI Cdr I 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. illustrat MUSIC YORK ii ;; : Ii i, . Ili --- - 'As Much As Twice' Has 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. The Most Complete in Ann Arbor This Week's Feature is: Robert Nathan's "ROAD OF AGS" Reviewed in today's Book Section WITHAMS Corner S. Univ. and Forest Phone 2-1005 i i i I I .a ,, On the first page of "Ernestine I Takes Over," we meet Mr. Thompson, Mr. Fred Thompson, being urged by Mrs. Ethel Thompson to go get the MORE STEIN LECTURES Gertrude Stein will deliver a series of lectures at the University of Chi-, cago soon and will then go to San Fi ancisco to be the guest of Ger- trude Atherton for several days. Miss Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, plan to return to France in the spring. 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