Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

Soldiers" says of the book "It Is q plain un.
vanished account of things without any liter
airy frills-it ought to be a good antidote for
all the romantic gush about war;" Going on.
Passos says, 1T has q sort of hat-footed
straightness about 1t that gets down the torture
OF the front line about as accurately az one
can ever get 1t, think"
MARGARET YORKE. BY Kathleen Norris.
author of Red Silence" etc. New York:
Doubleday, Doran &c Co.
THERE are not more than two or three pat
terms to weave concerning that which is
called the romance Of life. And of these the
Cinderella design, in one or another Of its vari-
ants, Is that most commonly summoned to the
service of the love story. Mrs. Norris makes
use OF 1t here. To Be sure it is of such mod
ern dress as to have greatly changed its old
familiar appearance. Nevertheless, here is the
unfortunate, or the lowly, or the oppressed.
Drought, finally, out into the sunshine of love
and easy circumstance and happy marriage
In this case the Cinderella Is a competent
young woman, come from the East out into the
West, where, as governess, she takes care of
the adopted son of q rich and friendly woman,
No mystery attends her coming, nor her Serv-
ice. The situation might have gone on in
definitely, to the ruination of any story plan,
had not the nephew of the friendly woman put
In an appearance. To complicate this simple
young woman comes back to this, her home
quarter, bent upon divorce from her uncon-
genial spouse in the East While upon this
business bent. she renews her friendship for
the young man in the vicinity. weaves her old
spell over him, brings him to the brink of mat
rtmony-then, out Of q clear sky a mystery
opens up to unite these two young women in
curious bond. No, I'm not going to tell YOU
about it. for 1t Is really adroit turn of most
significant implications. What I want to say
Is a afic DC
1t the common run? don't know. But here
he Is, sure one minute that he loves that capa-
bic and attractive Margaret Yorke who is in
service to his sunt, and the next minute equally
sure that he is In love with the other girl the
one who Is hunting q divorce. Do you know
what think about It? think that Kathleen
Norris, successful novelist, practiced workman
has. this time, made an even deeper study of
the case than she has hitherto done Wrong2
Well maybe. Strong in Characterization as she
always Is Artful with that California setting
as she ever Is. Adroit with situation as usual
Then, this weak-mnded man, then the familiar
compromise that no one wants to See but COM
monty does see-and then, only then Margaret
Yorke, modern Cinderella with husband and
baby, has chance to be happy ever after
To be sure, Kathleen Norris has been re-study-
ing the familiar reactions of one of her repre-
sentative characters. fascinating novel, but
plaguing.
ANTHONY IN THE NUDE BY Myron BRING.
author Of "Singermann," etc. New York:
Farrar & Rinehart. Inc.
T is merely his mind that Anthony undresses
here, for him who runs to read And not
a particularly creditabe exposure but a COM
pietely frank and open one. Anthony,s mind
was most pulling complex to Anthony him.
SELL One minute Of heroic resolves the next
mud, elusive, vagrant. Now. Anthony is a poet
tssenlg sunsets. country lanes. lamplight in
the window. Talking with an intelligent girl
whose father Is poet. Again those Siam silk
ties. those four-dollar shaves with that excIu-
slve barber-and Anthony is lost. OF course
tns Is laughable TODD. It is intended to be
Just that and the author knows how to make
intention and fruition meet So we 90 laugh
ing along over the trials of Anthony only a
little conscious Of the pathetic figure that the
Fellow is making. That, between you and me-
we are all making. When Anthony meets that
older woman, the one with the studio and
friends and money and everything-save youth
ana charm-and when she makes him SO easy
m MS mind, so comfortable in his body Well
wnat then? He did not. He did. too And
having misbehaved like the lad he was, re-
CARELESS Of the fact that he did It all himself
why. then. Anthony stin stark and still afraid
OF lie and htmseif-why, then, Anthony again
crawled In out OF the weather to the mother
ing safety of the money and the studio-and
the woman His dreams? Oh, where all dreams
go when one is young and scared-and nude
quite irresistible story of surface laughter
and suhsoil sadness. And said Oscar wilde
that wise young man, no doubt talking about
tnls very Anthony, or his father:
Ihere are two tragedies in life: one Is not
ting It."