In the troupe of variety actresses to which belonged that lively heroine, Sylvia Scarlett, there was one Miss Dorothy Lonsdale. She made an exalted marriage and became Countess of Clarehaven. The creator of Sylvia, Mr. Compton Mackenzie, now relates the adventures of. Miss Lonsdale, both before and after she became a peeress. This he does in his new novel, "The Vanity Girl" (Harper). It is a funny, frisky world, sometimes gay and often tawdry; Johnnies and peers and guardsmen and journalists and actor-managers and chorus ...
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In the troupe of variety actresses to which belonged that lively heroine, Sylvia Scarlett, there was one Miss Dorothy Lonsdale. She made an exalted marriage and became Countess of Clarehaven. The creator of Sylvia, Mr. Compton Mackenzie, now relates the adventures of. Miss Lonsdale, both before and after she became a peeress. This he does in his new novel, "The Vanity Girl" (Harper). It is a funny, frisky world, sometimes gay and often tawdry; Johnnies and peers and guardsmen and journalists and actor-managers and chorus-girls, and elderly relatives, puritanical and otherwise. Mr. Mackenzie handles it all in exactly the right spirit, never mawkish and never brutal. He is satirical, but not youthfully cynical like the painful Mr. Aldous Huxley. Although I think his clock struck twelve with the novel called "Sylvia Scarlett," I wish that he may live a hundred years and go on writing novels about every one of the Vanity chorus. - The Weekly Review , Vol. 3
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Modest sunning at the crown, a near fine copy in attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with a chip at the crown and some modest darkening. Poor but beautiful girl seeks advancement and freedom through the musical comedy theatre. Scarce in jacket.