MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON. Kathleen. il *$1.25 (5c) Doubleday
20–5771
The story is an Oxford undergraduate prank. The Scorpions, literary club, agree to write a serial story on shares. In lieu of ideas they make up a tale around certain names mentioned in a letter accidentally found and signed Kathleen. They work themselves up into some romantic fervor about their heroine and eventually go on an expedition to find the real Kathleen at the address mentioned in the letter. She is all their fancy has painted. Under various disguises they gain entrance to her home and after an orgy of mystification, Blair, the Rhodes scholar from Tennessee, makes a clean confession and carries off the palm of victory.
“A slight and amusing tale.”
+ Booklist 16:314 Je ’20 + Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 10w
“‘Kathleen’ is forced from beginning to end. ‘Kathleen’ is a warning to all writers who ignore the fact that there are difficulties even in the construction of a trifle designed for an hour’s entertainment.”
− + N Y Times 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 260w + Review 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 160w
MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON. Pipefuls. il *$2 Doubleday 817
20–20442