+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p681 N 27 ’19 2450w
HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN. Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–161
Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.
+ Ath p1208 N 14 ’19 70w
“The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest of the story.”
+ − Booklist 16:244 Ap ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
Bookm 51:205 Ap ’20 260w