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A GILBERT MYERS. | first effect. An inconsequential effect [is that I like Theodore Goodrich, a: FRANKLIN WINSLOW K =+ Anne Douglas uthor of “The Little French Girl | #. Bostan: Hopghton Mifflin O quite as it is in life. e in a blue moon does one in either come upon man or| woman who stops in the mem-| ory for even an overnight. Then| upon some rare redletter day there | Steps out, perhaps from fiction, per- | haps in actual fact, a person of qual ity—one adequate to his hour of life, ‘ composed in the face of its uncer.| tajnties, steady in outlook, compe- | tent in action. In its grip on the emotions of admiration and friend ship there is no other adventure com- | parable to that of encountering this | man, or woman, of quality. Such a| inklin Winslow Kane. A man withou a single peal to the common con the central figure, | By | | know the rest of the allusions to | are offered | growing curiosity absent - hero who Neither self-effacin nor, like the good a whetted S of a spec Just a busy. man preoccupied with quietly ab. of substance. to take, this ¢ the purpeses ure so out of the lmvul conve n A chance much like the one taken by hitect who to serve a very purpose designs a bullding in defiance of rule and practice. Each has added inspiration to training, thereby securing not only the per- fect medium but projecting as well & striking work of art whose proof is the emotions that rise to meet it out of the stirred heart of the reader, or the onlooker. Among the writers rent fiction here is one who conspicuous for good work hip—for the exact fitting of 1S to ends in an adroit handling that accepts no makeshifts of mate rial, no loose joinings, no instabilities of effect. anklin Winslow Kane" is no act of daring bent to the win- ning o pproval in the face of su preme handicap. From the first page of the ry Anne Dot s Sedgwick moves s nely forward in the com pany of a most unherofc little man perfectly certain that she is going to make not only a good story but that she is, in the making of it, go ing to give to readers the clear joy of a new friendship. And that is just what she does do. For Kane teps out of the story and walks oft h the reader in a companionship of which this reader is tremendously prond and to which he holds as he has not clung to friendship with man many a blue moon. A background of sophistication— English gentle folks and Bostonese culture—worked out in every detail as artfully as is the central figure itself, serves, indirectly, to explain the power of Kane. Here is a man who has real things to do and is doing them, set off against a group whao have nothing to do and who with many a polite and charming gesture are doing just that nothing. Kane's kindly and helpful philosophy comes in the main from work The lack of fiber in all the others, save one, comes from idle minds and the empty outlook. Yes, ench Girl® oundwork and its pbjective. oddly friendsnips, or woman in even better than “The Little in_the substance of its the clear point of By Rupert Hughes. au- thor of “The Golden Ladder,” etc. New York: Harper and Brothers. WEVE wondered about it, too— about how a man’s job down here, looks to the engels. Not to the saved souls but to the heavenly host that has had no experience with earth. It ooks easy to them, no doubt—as evervthing looks to the eye of inex- perience. More than likely we seem to them to be making a terrible mess of things—as we indubitably are. And it is quite possible that some sprightly zel thinks he, or it, could do a deal etter at the job. ant wonder- ing that obviou come to Rupert Hugheé, too. Everything is grist that comes to the mill of the writer, so this. one seizes the matter just at point when God had given His con- sent that a couple of angels should try themselves out on the lives of two earth-dwel So, at an opportune moment one of them slips into the body of beautiful Niobe Fenn and the other lvn\h into the s bby carcass | women. I'll warrant, many a reader will. Like him or not, there is a good many of him, and likely to be more under ex- isting conditions. THE PAINTED VEIL. erset Maugham, author of *“Of Human Bondage,” etc. New York: George H. Doran Company ‘HE pathway toward adultery trall that offers the novelist mate- rial for road-building of an exciting nature. And many writers make use of this material. Almost none of these, however, takes for theme the stony path leading down again from this arp summit of transgression. Som- erset Maugham is in “The Painted Veil' one of these exceptions. The >ry opens in a climax of detected and discovered gullt. There after it plain vecord of fa The husband ofters freedom, provided the partner in sin shall provide for the wife's fu- ture. Confident, the girl accepts chapter—the as: shment of her paramour, his upt denial of either desire or'in tention in such direction. All the other chapters go into the making over of this. woman into the pattern that the world seis its good A clear anticlimax closes this story of the mis-mated man and woman whose initial mistake was that of marrying each other, the one with. out love and the other conscious of this lack. India provides an interest- ing background for this domestic tragedy, since it gives to a wholly hopeless situation, the superficial d traction of a setting th Mr. Maugham himself likes and to which he gives an intelligent and artistic conslderation. The spiritually mind ed will dispute the allegation of anti climatic closing here, since out of the avail of sin and disappointment stands one who sees the pattern of life as'a rich highway of charity and y underneath the glitter of its ce lures and snares. SEDUCERS IN ECUADOR. By V. Sackville- author of “Grey Wether: New York: George H. Doran Co. T was the glasses that did it, the ones Lomax put on to soften the desert glare for a better view of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Such a soothing light these glasses shed. Such a long perspective did they cast, oddly suppressing the usual clutter of useless detail. Such straightfor- ward and simplifying. glasses were they that Lomax determined not to take them off any more, And back on the yacht, homeward bound, they proved on the one hand to be a happy insulating medium and on the other a clarifying agent of high intensity. For instance, of the company there was Miss Whitaker, deep in sorrow over some man in Ecuador. A touching figure—through the glasses. So, sternly keeping them on, Lomax asked the girl to marry him, convinced all the time that there was no “'seducer n Ecuador” nor anywhere else, unless he legally constituted himself the star in that role. This he did. ‘“Might as the glasses told him. ‘‘Poor thing—all that trouble to get you, or somebody, or anybody And there was Bellamy, too, host and owner of the-yacht. Bellamy who, sentenced to death by a dragging disease, implored Lomax to hurry him out of the horror of this labored exit. “Help the poor devil,” sald the glasses. “You may want a lift over yourself some day Life i8 just something to get along with.” And Lomax gave Bellamy a lift to the other side. So the story goes on. It was the glasses that Lomax wore, you see, the particular glasses that we all wear, that were By W. Som- TIVE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, AUGUST | why the writer of this cL\se of fiction doesn’t see to it that he secaires a good story while he is trying @o hard to make a good mystery. In ‘ that case he'd have something left to sfall back upon, even though the myst.A"y itself should lack convincing subst:wice. It Is this sort of foresight that ' makes “The House Without a Key” Yloubly worth while. It a good stoy’- It is acceptable mystery. As a st(\'V it links up cultured puritan Boston \With the natives and the settlers of \the Hawalian Islands. The islands 1\ vide the background, one to which t\"e author gives ardent and at the san\® time discriminating attention. Th immediate result of this {s that you follow events in a keen enjoyment of the place in which they transpire. The contras set up between the New Englander and the island dwellers are delightfully turned in a blend of truth and humor. And the spell of the islands upon all of the malnlanders is pictured with feeling and skill. John Quincy Winterslip of Boston is a good deal of a triumph to whom his Aunt Minerva from the same place is a close second. Both are under the hypnetic spell of Honelulu. When it comes to the cause of Dan Winter- slip’s death, both of these are prime movers in ‘finding the murderer of their relative, long-time prominent resident of Hawall. Among the of- ficfal agents of crime detection the Chfmaman, Charlie Chan, like Abou Ben Adhem, leads all the rest. A love story ternate ups and downs to the whole ssitous matter, which is a matter of sheer entertainiment througbout. Oregon low Has State Flag. Oregon’s first State flag has been ac yes, two of them—Ilends its al- | ¢ cepted by Gov. Walter M. Pierce. The flag was authorized by the 1925 Legis- lature. Its mamufacture was rushed and the flag sent to the Battle of Lex- ington anniversary celebration. The flag shows the State's coat of arms on one Hld.. with the words “State of Oregon™ in goid letters above, with a cluster of 43 stars. On the reverss side is a beaver in gold, the beaver being a distinctive emblem of the State. Eggs Hatched at Sea in Suit. Part of a cargo of 3,000 eggs being fmported from China were stored so close to the engines on a Pacific liner that by the time they arwived in Amer. ica there were quite a few chickens in the cargo. Federal officers, construing regulations literally, demanded a mani festo for the live chicks, and so much time was wasted in straightaning out the difficulty that the chicks died and the shippers filed a suit for $25,000 damages against the steamshid com pany. A Leading ‘‘Best Seller”’ Throughout the Country SOUNDINGS ByA. HAMILTONGIBBS & The Record of Printings 10,000 copies Nov. 12, 1924 5,000 copies Feb. 10, 1925 responsible for his queer visions and strange acts, that are responsible for our outlook and behaviors, too. Miss Sackville-West here introduces the characters of her little story, to repudiate any suggestion on the pop- ular mystery motive—"It was in Egypt that Arthur Lomax contracted the habit which, after a pleasantly brought him finally to the gallows,” “As to the companfons of Lomax, perhaps Miss Whitaker de- serves precedence, since it was she, after all, who married Lomax.” *And perhaps, Bellamy should come next, since It was he, after all, for whose murder Lomax was hanged.” An hour’s reading that is calculated to jolt you out of your smooth rut. THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY. By Earl Derr Biggers, author of even Keys to Baldpate,” etc. In dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. ANY a mystery tale falls down upon itself from a top-heaviness of device that its foundation is not able to support. 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Homes, however, noteworthy feature of the while in older sections of Coral Gables a far greater are not the only building program in the Riviera, for it is here that many great institutional projects included in the $100,000,000 devel- At night after the evening meal isthe"Wrighthour”. Thenreadaloud to the family Harold Bell anhr 's atestand Hi A tomarnce of love opment budget are to rise. Great hotels, the proposed University of Mahi Shrine Temple and sports center, 2 huge sanitarium, and miles of winding waterways will all play their part in supporting Riviera investments. of Joel son and heir eudist general 7 rom_this point of ducted manageme: dramatic tensic qugh the interlocking of these two s at cert points—that of the spolled and wilful rich girl and that of the wild country lout. Neither of them knows what it is all about, any more than the angels inside them know, any more than the rest of us know. They know they're on their we do, and that's all after a good sequence of interesting action_ the es to an end, the end set the ‘beginning of the adventure, as y competent story must end. But tise angels Fipd, modem fireproot hotels ‘tian Casino and Pool “}.ummnon Builaf Coral'\Gables Country Club tin the finest suburb of Miami, Florida, makes an irresistible appeal. It satis- fies every condition, meets every re- quirement. It goes farther, for it of- fers a climate that cannot be duplicated anywhere else in the world—this sun- kissed city of the American Tropics, carM by cooling trade winds, where the purple bougainvillea and the scar- let “hibiscus bloom the whole year ’round. of high ! and_unfolds Miami, milAs paved streets other femous Dovels, the sale of which has averaged 1,300,000 copies ench. 7.041 newspapers ard the leading magasines will carry sdwertisements of ‘A Scn of His Father.” Get your copy now at 3ay bookstate. $2.00. D. APRLETON & COMPANY, Publishers. Servat New Yotk Under Cunstruction meo Notel, 450 rooms Biltmore \ ountry Club u for Youl & Women Gables Hi\" School T rotten of erways Two new goif epurses Announced" no U:nur:l%”m Shrine Templ luunl Biltmore Casino Coral Gabl Those who invest now in the Rivierg at pre - development prices, therefore, are buying at the most favorable time on a rising market. For- full information v— and 2also to learn how you may visit Miami And Coral Ggbles free of 3fl trans ts to see those two slinking back into heaven, demned as no better actors himself, if half so good h maKer'd better stick to his last” vou mutter in farewell t6 them and then ou turn vourself toward Rupert Hughes in praise of thé fresh story motive that he has used, and in equal praise for the sustained high' pitch of the drama that does not, however, exaggerate the drama of actual life M. A sort of a brawny man of ers, thig, one maintains. A GOOD MAN. By George F. mel, ithor of ‘“‘Subsoil New York: Boni and Liveright. THE story of a husband, a father and a citizen In the t of these K. Goodrich stands at As a father he is well a husband—but the conditi are so different there, that | it i not p to measure perform ance in figy As a matter of fact, George Hummel is turning a man in- side here to show, one assumes, at in an allround estimate bere is a “good man” while at the same time, in one basic essential, he is a rotter No, Hummel that. One cannot lay on 'a single line of personal opinion rom the author that is derog- Theodore Goodrich. That fon or effect simply leaks out of the d: nable fidelity of the picture of Goodrich that Hummel dr: Now one likes Theodore Goodrich. One knows him intimately He Is a good fellow and an amazingly attractive man. He helps everybody in a com plete joyousness of activity. To be e he is a suc sful go-getter, bull is no g gainst him. Men like’ him. Women like him—and he likes women, oh, distressingly well. And his wife is such a good woman, and she loves him so devastatingly— that, maybe this is the trouble with Thebdore Goodrich. One wonders 1f, bly, George Hummell is raigning the family as a male or against individual happines: Or, has he planned simply to take certain type of successful and prom nent man up out of the community and put him in a book, his-short- comings all ‘upon him, to see the effect pon us. Well, the effect upon me is thut he bas done 2 masterly job—tihe 380 Rivi Those who build here build for beauty LT Mot 30 roms and permanence. The sketch shown is of the new home being built by Mr. George E. Mer- rick in the new Riviera section. 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