Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

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Advertising Section n What Do the Players Read? Some more of the film people express their literary preferences. Reginald Denny. Trautwine, Wright, Auchincloss, and Bell may mean little to the average reader, for they are authorities on engineering and mathematics. I am nutty about aviation and am planning a plane of my own design with a new tilt to the wings which I believe will add to the engine's power, so I direct all my reading toward things that have a bearing on problems and airplane design. Modern my reading Virginia Valli. fiction occupies most of time. The best that I have read during the past year is "The Wife of the Centaur." I think it presents a phase of life very frankly and effectively, and the characters are human beings whom we might easily find among those we know. I demand realism and human character drawing, in any novel. It may be because of this that I find biographies attractive. Perhaps for its contrast to the even tenor of my own rather sheltered life, but more, I think, for its brutal realities, I find Jim Tully's "Beggars of Life" gripping. I maintain no system in reading, but watch the reviews and buy books that I believe will interest me, and I have never been able to read a continued story in a periodical. I simply have not the patience to wait for the next installment, 'so have never contracted the habit. Corinne Griffith. The mysticism of Hindu philosophers, the deep-seated logic and psychological development of the German writers, the scalpellike words of the mercilessly incisive Russian school headed by Gorky — these real intellectual contributions hold appeal for me. What does modern fiction, as a whole, add to literature? It appears to me that the writing art is stagnating. The wonderfully symbolical works of Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet and seer, hold me spellbound, and the shrewd analysis of Arthur Schnitzler. The vibrant cross-sections of Russian life given us by Gorky, Tolstoy, and Andreyev have, an earthly smell, almost, a primitive quality, that is saved 'from grossness by being tinged with a quite simple light of spirituality. There is nothing superfluous in them, no line penned for effect. Nonessentials are stripped from the kernel and I get something with each reading. The present day is not a literary era for America. What modern work is there to compare with that masterpiece of mood, Ik Marvel's "Reveries of a Bachelor?" And yet when I mentioned the author's name, a certain motion-picture executive, who is comparatively well read, thought I was referring to a prizering gladiator ! For distinctive style and unique powers Lord Dunsany, O. Henry, and Tom Burke, among the realists, interest me, and Laurence Hope, Arthur Symonds, and in his earlier phases, Robert W. Service, among the poets. Lois Wilson. Let all who wish lionize these new sophisticated literati, these smart young highbrows who analyze and confute and write with pens dipped in acid. For me the sweet, old-fashioned charm of the historical novel. "Ivanhoe" was a childhood favorite and in spite of the regiment of books that I have read since none has replaced Sir Walter Scott's quaint gem in my heart. I have a leaning toward English literature — why, I don't know, unless it is that I appreciate conservatism. Walter Pater, the essayist, takes much of my leisure time, and a little pamphlet that is not long enough to be dignified by the title of "book" is a great inspiration to me. It is called "Courage" and is a printing of an address given by a little-known English Episcopalian rector at St. Andrew's University. But always I go back to "Ivanhoe," to revel in those colorful' days of old, emblematic of the adventurous spirit that ruled then, when men were knights and women were ladies and chivalry reigned supreme. To-day men are automobile salesmen, ladies are flappers, and chivalry is mostly found in the dictionary. I forget our excitable life and transport myself to that tournament of love and beauty wherein, with banners waving, knights fight for the favor of beauteous damsels, and everything is a gorgeous, dazzling panoply of color and magnificence. And that old baronial hall with benigh Cedric holding forth, leg of mutton clutched in one huge hand and mug of ale in the other ! Those were the days in which people lived. Ben Alexander. What do I like to read ? Well, I'm not much good at writing stuff but you said to tell it in my own words, so here goes. I'm only twelve but I've read a lot. I love Stevenson's "Treasure Island." I've read that Mr. Hutton says, "One of my first drawings is shown on the right. The other I made recently for a college publication. It took only five hours and brought me exactly fifty dollars. 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