Show Comely English Maiden Rises to Heights of Glory Choice by by Charles Guernon Details Calamities and nd Successes of Life Struggle By BEN r In Tn n hoice Choice by Charles Guernon a theme inevitable In life liCe and literature literature lit lit- is hailed with the gesture of an inventor taking or ov oa a patent There are told the calamities and successes of a comely comely- English maid arising from the peasantry to the topmost rungs of sheer glory So far so good The TheIs Is a privilege which any maid mal 1 Is entitled to ex exercise exercise ex- ex and we are surely not one oneto oneto oneto to suggest that the thing cannot he don done Follies girls an and 1 cinema stars are continually reaching the zenith of fame by no less remarkable remarkable remark remark- able strides han than those recorded Inthe in inthe inthe the current Cinderella tales While hile Guernon has told a tale full o of oc his fatal malady lies In unhappy emphasis This emphasis Is that people are prone to decide what they are going to todo do o and then do It for better or worse At the moment we can think of or orno no Imaginative work worle we have ever read In which human beings move about which could net in all an good grace be issued from the publishers' publishers publish pUblish- ers' ers presses under the title of ot Choice In every story choice Is merely another way of saying that something happened For of oC all the wearisome burdens which afflict the human soul the necessity of choosing between this and that between between between be be- tween cup custard and raisin pie or between politics and plumbing is perhaps the most insistent And so 80 when Abe dhe gifted Miss land Is deserted by the scion of ot English nobility she is faced with the alternative of or either doIng doing doing do do- ing one thing or another That her us ste Is somehow changed bythe by br t the e choosing is not to be marveled marveled mar mar- at When Guernon placed place 1 his emphasis sis upon the factor of or choice Inhuman in inhuman inhuman human lives he set up the untenable untenable untenable unten unten- able inference hat that books named Babbit hamlet and Three Weeks arent aren't as much concerned with what their choose to do as his own particular volume He lie may not have hae looked at it in quite that hat light but the final analysis anal anal- sis Is in the same Aside from this matter of applauding applauding applauding ap ap- ap- ap in the wrong places however however however how how- ever Choice is by no means to o be lightly disposed of ol In Tn particular the chapters dealing with the early struggles of or the girl In Florence while she seeks to become a great greatsinger greatsinger greatsinger singer are contrived with an eye ee trained d for effective detail After she becomes a great diva she is inclined to In Indulge in the luxury of emotional affectation to toan toan toan an alarming n extent would would 1 be qu quite I le lad GU Mn ly intended 10 o satirize the temperamental operatic star J. J.P. J. J P P. Lippincott Company Philadel Philadel- phia |