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- 34 WILMETTE LIFE August 10, 1928 Esther Gould's Book Corner I JUST PARAGRAPHS Whether other people's choices are im'portant to us or not they are interesting. So it is in~eresting to note that the critic of the Providence Journal has picked out as the three most worthy books of . the present publishing season, "A Mirror f?r \Vitches" by Esther Forbes for bnlliance, James Stephen's "Etched in Moonlight" for distinction in literary merit, and "The Bonney Family" by Ruth Suckow as the most substantial contribution to American craftsmanship. How simple these artists are after all! Roland Pertwee, English author and playwright, writes to his publishers that he and Gerald DuMauri er have a hard time getting away from the theatre at night because of the enjoyment of "blazing away at a miniature shooting gaiJery" erected by the manager in DuM aurier's dressing room. The manager has a "rare gift for in venting targets, one night it is a super dreadnaught which, when hit in certain places, explodes, another night it is the Kyber Pass also riddled with secret magazines." ~ WHITHER AND WHY? "GEORGIE MAY" By Maxwell Bodenheim Boni & Liveright It is hard to say what Maxwell Bodenheim intended wh~~ he . wrot_e this book "Georgie May. ~.t IS evident that he intended somethmg more than just the portrayal of a character, the character of a southern courte~sa_n living in a city's underworld. Evident by the fact that he keeps bc;>bbing up from behind_ her at:d makmg resounding remarks 111 an tmpersonal manner like the loud speaker of .a hidden radio. "Speak loudly, Georg1c Mav utter your small plans and plc;>ts agat~st the slim y ~(]ual~r an~. sordt~ ness of your envtrons . . . Georg1e May, your life plays jokes on you an.d vou do not see some of them. Th1s keeps intact your minii11um . of self res.pect" ... and "Oh. _Georg·e Ma~' · did they give you ruhht~h and ca ll tt ~weet these - kettle -hrllird rancidly kind ~wners of the earth?" etc., etc . There is a falsity, a sickening sentimentality, which. ht>cause it denies itself with harsh sounding words, is not less sentimental, a large gt.·nerous emptiness. It would take no les . a man than Conrad tn du this adequately, a man with no less suht lety, sym pathy, delicacy of intuition. M_r. Bodenheim hasn't these. He has mstead a racy, vivid, sometimes poe_ti_cal, sometimes strident mannt·r of wntmg, a gift of sharp characterization, a certain feeling for dramatic situation. But he lacks the touch which would make Georgie May more than a hardhQilcd little courtesan, an individual ahout whom we do not care very much, the tmtch which would make her a symbolic figure. indicative of things greater than herself as Conrad's figures are. 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