Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05


Of brilliant sophistit ties offered him the night
life and the day life of the big town in engaging
freedom. Faith Sweden, wife of an elderly mil
lionaire, was a leader of the group A beautiful
woman. And Gordon CarTuthers astounded
himself by falling In love with her A disturb
ing experience since so far re had not been the
one to do the loving. However, this is a slight
issue, not the point of the story at all. Rather
does 1t become one Of the elements among
many, by way of which this Englishman learned
the true quality Of the American woman. Not
all Of them, to be sure. but in a few weeks on
this side he did find out by way of the Faith
Swedens that he had been juvenile in woman
lore. He realized that his novels so popular be-
cause SO waywse and sophisticate, we're in truth
no more than Victorian stuff.
All this by way Of an engaging record Of the
nights and days of gay crowd seeing to it
that the popular writer enjoyed himself. All in
the way of this clever social drama there
emerges the true independence of women in a
frank acknowledgment of her identity with the
male in many an attitude and trait commonly
assumed to be his exclusively, and most prop
erly. curiously calm way Of going about her
business. whether that business be making
marriage or unnaking it, earning living or
accepting it, admitting that love passes and
abiding by 1t, that all fealties in nature
ephemeral.
Most interesting the schooling Of Gordon
Carruthers over here in the special field of
which he had assumed himself to be fully
possessed. Just gay novel whose substance
and point come out only by the way. never
crowding the gay business with which it seems
preoccupied
THE Education of Gordon Carruthers" would
not have been bad name for this adventure.
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