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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
MEDIEVAL ROMANCE
Silver Cross" Tells of Monastic
Feud in Early Tudor Times

Out Of the picturesqueness of me-
dieval times with their covering of re-
ligious fanaticism Mary Johnston has
drawn her latest novel. "Sllvcr Cross
Gittle. Brown & co.. Although il lacks
tho engrossing, swanking romance of
ITO Have and to Hold,'I "Si!vei
Cross by It's interesting novelty Of
plot. its background of mysticism and
its ease of style, deserves to be given
n place away from the ordinary run Of
prcsent-day stories.
Silver Cross is an English mon
astery in the time Of Henry VII, day
when abbot and prior ruled With as
strong material grasp as did tht
strongest feudal lord. Discovery of the
bones Of n long dead saint and subse
quent miracles have brought fame and
prosperity to rival monastery and
about the feud the story swings.
To offset the glory Of tho Other
monks the Abbot of Silver Cross de
cides to resort to subtcrfnge and at
tempts to make snint' Of one 9;
his monks by suggestion. When The
young religious fails to react to austcrt
penances and continued meditation tl'
superior goes farther and 'arrarge'
visions" for him--using light Of love
of the town to pose as The Virgin or
account of her resemblance to tht
model of the Mother in the church. Th,
Young monk discovers the deception anC
barely escapes with his life. In hr
wanderings Of course he meets tn,
pseudo "vision." also fleeing to safety
\ spiritual romance results and theJ
are allowed to seek their material auC
spiritual peace together.
"Silver Cross" is unusual. It is vel
told. It Is engrosSiny. Little more
could be asked of any author.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
A PAGE FROM LIFE
Stacy Aumonier's Heartbeat
Is Mechanically Real to
Life Without Retouching

A page from human life-stark, un-
embellished and melodramatic in its
truthfulness--is Stacy Aumonier's s
Heartbeat (Boni & Liveright), a
novel whose only flaw is It's title.
Mr.. Aumonier, young English
writer, whose work deserves nm even
wider acquaintance this side of the pond
than has been accorded "The Querrils.
"One After Another" and Just Out
side," believes that life itself is suf-
ficiently realistic not to need any ar
tistic retouching to make for dramatic
intensity.
Heartbeat" is the life story Of the
love child of a British statesman and
dance-hall singer. The girl learns
Of the bar sinister only on the death
Of her father. She goes on the stage,
marries her manager despite lack of
love and then finds happiness and trag-
edy With a younger man. There is a
touch of the earnestness Of Eugene
Walters Easiest Way" in the final
scene that finds the girl darning socks
for the man whose mistress she Is.
Prudes probably will demur at the
ending that fails to bring out the glamour
of wedding bells and reformation. but
Mr.. Aumonier sketches his steps in the
girls life so humanity and logically that
the reader will put the book down with
sigh and admit sorrowfully that "such
things are rs they are There Is not
bit of mawkish sentimentality In
the book except the title. Nor is there
an effort to shock. Every scene and
every character create naturalness.
Regardless of the lessons conclusion
Heartbeat is worthy of attention.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
THE MOVIE FANS LETTERBOX
BY HENRY NJ. NEELY

plain-you didn't exactly criticize him
you merely said something about his
late pictures not being SC fantastic.
That man is an artist' No other CO.
median can touch him. There are
so many little original happenings in
his comedies. I wish that some of his
old pictures would be revived. /. O..
The Floorwaker. Tho Skating Rink.
etc. You'll have to admit that you We
never seen anything funnier than those.
To me he is the most talented actor on
the screen, omitting John Barrymore
Now you probably will say that the two
cannot be compared because they ap-
pear in two decidedly different types
of pictures. l say they can. How any
one can sit through play with Lila
Lees, Swansons. Valentines (some call
him The Sheik Of Bigamy. but that's
not nice), and a great many others con =
stantly before their eyes is more than
I can see.
The second is Lillian GIsh. ]
shan't stand up for Dorothy. but. oh
Henry. where are your eyes? think
Lillian il the most talented actress or
the screen. Her facial expressions are
wonderful. She makes you forget abou,
everything else while you are watchinc
her. In True Heart Susie Way
- AnHt anu oTpHhnS Oh tDe storm
she could wiring tears from stone
Besides being a wonderful actress. shc
is beautiful to look at. In fact, rs
think. the most beautiful on the screen
Hers is an ethical beauty. wish
that she and Chaplin would make q
great many more pictures than they do
Really, you cant imagine how raging
! was when you said you didn't care
TOR H. Gish. but now I'm relieved after
expressing my opinion. even though this
might not be printed.
My sister thinks your answers are
all quite clever. | don't think they
are clever, but | can tell from reading
them that you must have wonderful
persona ltty and I should like nothing
better than to meet you. Pardon the
length of this letter, but I had to say
it all"
-, tAgain ! say positively believe
Chaphn Is an artist-playing trashy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
POETRY CONSIDERED
FROM A NEW ANGLE

It would seem that in view of the
vast volume of works written regarding
the art, meaning and technique Of po-
etry from at least the days Of Horace >
"Ars Poetica" to Amy Lowell's latest
volume on imag!sm and other verse
n,odernitics. the subject had been pretty
thoroughly threshcd out by the fails of
criticism. But F. G. Prescott, pro-
fessor of English at Cornell Universlt, 4.
has found a new angle Of the crltica.
lens through which to view poetry.
THE Poetic Mind" (Macmillan Com
pany) uses the resources Of Frcudian
| research in this original and stimulating
analysis of the inspiration and metho-
dology Of poetry. DR.. Prescott considers
both spirit and substance from stand
points that have become available.
though whether tenabe or not there
| will be some discussion. with the ad-
| vances Of modern psychology.
1t is pointed out that the book clear
| ly defines poetry as product Of asso-
ciational thinking rs opposed to ra-
tional thinking.
Poetry. in one view, like genius, is
| has been donated and disputed as well
as maintained, and it is still moot
matter whether the poet Is genuinely a
sound, sane person or mental kins-
man of the drenmer and the madman.
Of course. the Old view is that poetry is
the result of inspiration. like unto the
mystic revelations of religion. Profess
sor Prescott endeavOrs. with much
novel material. and out of wide and
wise reading, carefully compactcd int,
his argument. to define In positive
terms the relation of literary COM
| position to dreams, reveries and sub =
| conscious states. lie doe. not mind
counterng on orthodoxy, but as he in
| dicates many Of the principles on whit II
he founds his thesis and defends it are
old. lie has tried to return to and
| develop classical views Of poetry which
are now somewhat out of vogue. In the
| main. old principles at most receive new
interpretations and relations" Many
of his chapters are devoted to various
| phases of imagination in poetry. X"
! also discusses symbols and figures, the
| impulse and contrOl Of poetry. poetic
| madness and CatharsiS. desires and emo- =
tions in poetry and the universally and
Uses of poetry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
HAIR-RAISING HAZARDS
MARK "PATHLESS TRAIL

The dark forests of Peru. still
little known about part Of South Amer
lea, furnishes a wonderfully weird en-
vironmcnt for the pulse stirring and
breath h-taking hazards and adventures
contained in Arthur o. Friols The
Pathless Trail (Harpor & Bros.).
Mr.. Frie Is new novelist, but has
n number of successful short stories In
the prominent adventure yarn maga- :
zines to his credit. A rowing and ad-
venturous spirit by Inheritance. inclin-
alton and opportunity. he exchanged
after graduating from Yale and teach =
ing high school for n while, n routine
newspaper job for pioneering in strange
places and tictionoering about what he
saw and heard. At present he is again
in the almost unknown Javary Jungle
along the Peruvian Brazilian border.
His first story deals with nm Amer
lean who fed civilization brruu,n Of
fancied murder guilt and party Of
explorers who seek him ont to make
known to him his heritage of big for.
tune. 1t is written vividly and Is thick
with exciting incidCnts-and why NOT in
q Wild land where there are still cam
nibals to escape and beasts of the jungle
TO overcome?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
NEW BOOKS INTENDED TO PLEASE ALL SORTS OF FOLK

cidents revealing an insight into human
motives. The story which gives the
title to THE Garden Party" (Alfred
with the effect Of the death Of laborer
on a young girl whose mother is Civ
ing a garden party when the man
was killed. The social pleasures Of the
rich are brought into sharp contrast
with the tragedy of the poor who live
at the very gate Of their country es.
tate. "The Stranger" and The Bank
Holiday are similar sketches of other
phases Of life, sketches slight, 1t ID
true, but written with an insight into
the heart of things that is uncommon.
II this author could carry her method
successfully through a full length novel
she would produce something very much
worth while. But this Is not to imply
that her short stories are negligible.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
A TRAGEDY IN BLACK
'Birthright." by T. S. Striblins,
Takes Up Problem of Edu-
Gated Negro

T. g. Stribling has endeavored to
outline, II not solve, vexatious prob
lem--that Of the relation of the edu-
Gated Negro to his less fortunate breth-
rem. "Birthright" Century Company
makes little or no attempt to present
maudlin plea for the dark skinned
striver for better things. 1t sets forth
his faults, his frailtics. the handicaps
he must attempt to surmount. And al
though the climax would seem to be a
futile gesture Of whats the use?' the
story paves a way for the thinking
reader to supply many possible potential
| answers.
For his central character Mr.. Strib-
ling has taken young Negro. Har-
| ward groduate. who goes back to his
Mississippi River town intent on carry
ing practical message of cheer to
others of his race. The vivid. incisivee
pictures of his return to "Niggertown,
of his reception in spirit Of awe by for
mer chums and companions and Of toll
Grant, sneering dubiousness by the
whites make UP most Of the striking
parts Of the book.
The young Harvard man soon finds
himself enmcshed in problems far be-
! yond his strength. The natural lassi.
tude of the Negro race, the spirit OF
petty thievery and worse. the persistent
refusal of the whites to give aid. all
these combine to grind his dream plans
into dust. So. finally unable to make
his fellows know the message he has for
them or to impress upon the southern
whites the need of such mcssage--one
Of work and advance for the betterment
Of bOth--he gives up in disgust and
seeks other and possibly more productive
fields for him personally.
The character drawing of the various
Negro types is done with n fertility that
Is marked. The good natured tolerance
of conditions by race too inert to help
itself is stressed in deeply touching
| lines.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
Archibald Marshalps Plans

Archibald Marshall has changed his
plans for his new fall novel, and In =
stead of publishing "Thc Rcctory Fam
ily.' as already announced, he has dc
cided to complete a story which he had
started and temporarily put aside. The
new uook will probably bear the in~r-
esting title, "Pippin, and we under
stand 1t is a story of the English coun :
tryside, somewhat in the vein of "The
Broad Highway" and "The Beloved
Vagabond,' Dodd. Mead expect to
publish the book In October.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
CATHERINE MANSFlELDS
FINE LITERARY SKETCHES

mia stories of Katherine Mansfield
in .,o same relation to literature that
pea' ..o,cbes Of a great artist bear to
.le M o. ron,pleted picture. Tho artist
DIS = Soure or a face, or a tree, or
oram .,;,d,np. or a hill as a study In
. aD..otion for a painting. His line
prep "us his perception Of character is
is .0,s uu and his tone values are correct.
a., au, ~. ore men who collect these pre-
un,,rory au. sketches and value them
higas,ib Mansfeld's short stories
nddesliehtful studies of episodes or in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
Locke Likes ssptlmus

In answering the question, (Which is
your favorite among all the characters
IN your books?" put to him recently by
the London Bookman, Mr.. Locke made
n Enthusiastically "Lockean" reply,
Perhaps Septimus, who has always
struck me as being rather dear ass"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08

A. J. 1.-The actor who appears as
Torchy in the comedy series of that
name, and in some feature film, Is John
Hines.
"Liliom Gish" writes: "You have
often heard that wise old saying, Likes
rope, opposites attract If that s
true the attraction between us would
be something like magnet and n
needle or Rodolph and the flappers.
Because. believe me. kind SIP, agree
with you in very few things. One Of
the things Is Mae Murray. ] think
her pictures are entertaining while one
is looking ar them, but it's not Mae
who makes them so. It's her casts
containing such people as Monte Blue
and Edmund Lowe. To begin to dis
agree, liked Foolish Wives'-enjoyed
it. | think any person with an ordi-
nary amount Of intelligence could go
to see it without having immoral
thoughts tucked away in his brain af-
terward. Also, / like Griffith pictures
and what you call "Gishitis. Think
Lillian Gish is the greatest actress on
the screen. and that a number OF the
really successful stars Of today owe
their advancement to beginning wltii
! Griffith.
! Il think, as a movie column. your
section is frazzle. l would recon-
mend it highly as a literary column
and give as examples some Of the es
saws and treatises you publish on the
moving pictures as an art, etc. W men
this thing first started you had some
funny. snappy letters that had some
thing to do with the stars. actorincs'
etc, OF course, | mink 1t would be
sorry thing to do nothing but an
swcr questions about the age, eyes
! hair, etc, of the actors. But II s
| lust as bad to do nothing but puolish
| letters of people who, the majority
Of them. write merely 10 see rev
sentences of their ConCoction lsoundS
! like home brew in your column. !
think there arc many fans who would
agree with me. also many who would
disagree.
Il road Tesse MaIlct's letter in your
column, and would like Tess to know
( that / envy Amos his friendship with
her. Sho is there with the fun-but
we don't agree very much on one
Ono more thing: l don t like
Alice Terry. She makes no impres-
| sion on me whatever except OF dls-
liliel c
"Favorites- Female, Lillian Gish
! Dot Dalton. Pauline Frederick.
"NInrp-Richard Barthelmess, Joseph
Schildkraut, Lionel Barrymore; 'Likt
th. =. X. r., they are SUBJECT To
/ change without notice }
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
A1aln In Print

Several important titles that have
for time been out Of print have
been reissued by the Macmillan Com.
pany. One of these Is Henry James
collection Of short stories called 1.-The
Real Thing" Others are "Disenchant-
ed" Pierre Lofts romance Of the ORR
ent. and Il. V. Lucas "Wanderer In
Paris"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08

The following theatres obtain their pictures tbrovgh
the STANLEY Company of America, which guarantees
theatre in your locality obtaining pictures throuh 10
Stanley Company of America. Ne" viz
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
CAN right-and then whatD

Mrs. +. c. Davis have made it a a
Of religious beliefs of the stars put
"ncsti.n YOU ask, | will repeat that
tbo o"trc,s YOU mention is not. to the
best Of my knowledge, Of JewisA de-
scent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08
t,,troyaska writes: "Of course Mi

best of my knowledge, oil Jewise oe-
sCrnt.
I,troyaska writes: "Of course Mi
gnon' has n great sense or huihor or sne
9nuIIn'r keep up with the fake French
nl, wc all know It Is faxed, but,
honnstly. VI. Henri. she is boring me to
Grnth and goodness knows how many
othcrs. \ little of that sort of thing
zoe, 4 great way, is it not so? At first
I did laugh at her, but now tire Of II.
7 think II is wrong for her to take UP
the valuable space in your column that
miuht we'll hr used for such interesting
letters AS are written by "Old Timer
and numerous others whose names do
ii, too. am surprised that no one
speaks Of Robert w. Frazer. I like
him very we'll and would like to know
when | can expect to zee him again.
lis nor Claire Windsor one of your
favoritcs; | hope she is, because !
have quite a smash on her. That don I
sound quite ri sht TO me, but l guess it
is right; you know what ] mean, any
way.
'Monsieur, do believe you have
printed a picture Of all the stars ex =
cent our beloved Alice Terry. Do hurry
and print her picture. Please Aren I
YOU coaNablcf Also, may ! request that
You print one of NJ. Frazer for me as
soon as you can get oneE'
(AIthouGh you lamhaste "Mignon. "
II seems to me YOU re trying TO acquire
or use foreign accent yourself-that
is as much of "A one as n typewriter
will permit. Frazer has "A part in My
Fr!end the Devil, which will be here
this fall. haven't Il smash" on
Claire Windsor, but think she shows
promise. She seems TO be quite fa.
vorite of Connie Palmer -
Airline writes: ccaSionally I read
your column (when there aren't too
many long episodes to wade through
and have always approved Of your an
swors---decidedy. until about week
ago. You criticized an actor and an
actress both OF whom arc tsvorites Of
mine,
The first was Charlie Chaplin. Now
don't get 20 het up. Allow me u sx.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08

PHOTOPLtYS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-08

PHOTOPLASS
New Ulm review., 1922-01-04
Denounces Farmer Legislation.

| Denounces Farmer legislation.
He denounced the legislation passed
in behalf of the farmers and put the
blame for the depressed condition of
agriculture upon the farmer himself
HE (the farmer) should have foreseen
the evitable collapse Of values," de-
clared Secretary Weeks He criticized
farmer legislation generally, attribut-
ing it to the combination of Democrats
and progressive Republicans, and
specifically he criticized the law in
creasing the rate on farm loan bank
bonds to five and one-half per cent
and leaving the rate to the farm
borrower the same as it had been; the
so-called pure-wool bill he called 'surl-
wise;" the proposed law to regulate
cold-storage and the good roads laws
were also included. ~ IN n
Criticises Sec. Weeks. Il
Secretary Weeks was taken to task
by Representative Tincher (Rep.,
Kans.) for his criticism of farmer
legislation, especially the increasing Of
the interest rate on Farm Loan Bank
bonds. Among other things he said:
I desire to call the attention of the
country to the fact that the President
of the United States has signed all Of
the legislation that has been passed
by this Congress, so that Mr.. Weeks
criticism applies to the Executive as
well as to the.legislative branch Of the
Government
Representative Tincher attributed
Secretary w eeks' remarks to the fact
that Congress had reduced the army
to 100000 and said he was informed
and believed that the secretary of war
was the cause Of President Harding.
writing the letter to Congress saying
that the bill was unworka BILE. Con-
tinuing Mr.. Tincher said:
Suppose the President had followed
the advice of the secretary ofswar and
vetoed that bill, then we would never
have known how unsound the position
Of the secretary was on this question.
Now I'VE all know that the amy vase
reduced way before the time contem-
plated by the legislation"
New Ulm review., 1922-01-04

While the shirker is always a
crouch, the crouch is always a
shirker. Many a hard worker is all
but forced by circumstances into
grouchiness and pessimism. But
what a combination this is! Pessi-
mism and grouchiness good COM
bination for all progressiveness to
avoid.
New Ulm review., 1922-01-04

Old Man Crouch turned over a
new leaf, all right, but the bots
on the old page soaked through.
New Ulm review., 1922-01-04
STATEMENTS SHOW UP
a..~ HARDING REGIME

Continued from page ~
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-10-11

with open corridors or Lanais. The
Royal Palace is a beautiful building,
in large grounds, with an enormous
Banyan tree. 1t is the capitol Of the
territory. They have kept the throne
room just as it was and 1t is lovely
room. The judiciary building and Ii
brary buildings are also in the Civic
Center.
There are many lovely drives, the
best is to the Pali-meening Cliff. 1t
was over this cliff that King Kane
hametra drove the savages, fall Of
1900 feet and united the Hiwaian
Islands into one group. The view
from the Pail is notwithstanding
the valley for many miles with the
great sugar and pineapple plantations
and the many colored waters of the
Pacific. Honolulu is called the Para
disc OF the Pacific" and is all of that
and then some more.
was in the surf at tho famous Wal
kiki beach with its wonderful surf
riders and out-rigger canoes. have
never seen such divers and swimmers.
After twenty-five days on shore
am again at sea. Last night, which
was Monday night. We crossed the
1SOth Meridian, and today is Wednes-
day. so have lost day. 1t is at this
point, although, we are going the same
direction, the compass is changed and
instead OF sailing west, We are sailing
east as we have passed the halfway
/ house.
We expect to land at Yokohama,
Japan, Sunday, September 18th.
Your truly. Il, L. HOEFLlCH.