Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS
Another Volume the Life of Grover Novels
by iona Gale, Nalbor BARLEY and Max Brand.
Story of Screen Actor.

even acceptable. registration for US.
one can rave and maunder and 60
mad--but why? Let's have more
Miss Lulu Bett" instead.
HER MOTHERS DAUGHTER. BY
Nalbor BARLEY, author OF Judd
and judd" etc. New York: George
H. Doran 60.
IN substance this novel is a com
parative study in temperament
Carried out In the spirit OF the inves
tigator, the story bears none OF the
heaViness Of formal research. Instead
II moves smoothly and interestingly
along the current of American social
life. using this as It's chief means Of
development. The theme is that OF
mother and daughter. as alike as two
peas at heart. but as specifically diff
ferent as hard work on the one hand
and complete indulgence on the other
can serve to make them. 1t Is a com
mon situation. Indeed. America Is
Uttered with spoiled children whose
parents. themselves having succeeded
under the most prolonged and strenu-
GUS striving, devote their means and
their time to the ruination OF their
offspring. In this case the mother.
come to this country from Switzer-
land. shows an aptitude for money
making and power that. In time.
brings wealth and position and inf1u-
ence. The daughter becomes the OBJ.
feet OF lavish care, as these daughters
do. But these caretAking mothers do
not live forever and the real point Of
the story arrives when the girl finds
herself just a woman In the world and
not a fairy princess. A true back
ground Is here portrayed with feeling
and skill. Against 1t flesh and blood
people are projected in a finely sym
pathetic imagination. The whole is
modern In fact and Implication, por-
traying in good drama a real and
life.
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THE SACRED GIRAFFE. Being the
Second Volume OF the Posthumous
Works OF Julio Arceval. Edited by
Salvador de Madariaga, author of
THE Genius of SPAIN" etc. New
York: Harper & Brothers.
A BOOK Of clever fooleries, based
upon the gravely conclusive find
ings of modern science and Its derived
learning. A running jump of 5000
years into the future provides the
perspective through which he looks
upon our present in tolerant and pa
tient mood. Within this long stretch
of time history has been at its old
business of repeating itself. for the
white race has completely disap-
peared to make way for the blacks.
Europe has followed the trail of the
ancient Atlantis to the bottom of the
ocean. All that remains of Us is found
in traces of buried cities, over whose
strange ruins savants spend their
lives in uncOnvincing interpretations
and contentious. This is the record
of the Ebonites. people and civiliZa-
ton manifestly much in advance of the
present one. Women have reached
the point IN this day where. as con-
SENATORS of the race. they very logic
ally have taken over the management
OF all vital matters. Man has settled
to the subordinate status of being
merely the instrument of perpetual
ton. A very witty and diverting
comedy of man. the sacred giraffe
reaching for the moon-but a poor
and Inadequate thing. all said and
done. Keenly intelligent and filled
with laughter is this drama of modern
strivings and pretensions and assump
lions, and a truly comic braid of mod
ern self-exaltatiOn.
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VALENTINO AS KNEW HIM.
BY George ). Ullman. 1ntroduc-
ton by o. o. Mcintyre. New
York: Macy Masius, Publishers.
THERE is no serious question now
- in anybody's mind about the COM
potency Of Valentino as an actor, nor
any question now either as to the
seriousness of his stand toward the
film art. He was a popular and be-
loved artist, quite apart from any
other form Of popularity. He has
contributed appreciably toward the
worlds enjoyment in its hours Of
ease. He did this with great serious
ness. Then he died like a man. 1t
seems to me that Mr.. Ullman has
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