RIGHT FACE

Lovers of the true and the beautiful will agree with the Bookman in its suggestion that, for the good of American literature and increased sales, certain authors forbid the dissemination of their photographs. One cannot look at Joseph Hergesheimer for any length of time and still remain confident in the belief that he has taken tea with Corrine Griffith as many times as he says he has. Christopher Morley undoubtedly has a very kind face but he does not appear to be as whimsical as his publisher's blurbs would have led his readers to believe. And, as the Books man points out, will Durant's goatee is splendid goatee as such but its insouciance little becomes a best selling philosopher.

That Edna St. Vincent Millay does not destroy the illusion which her henchmen and harpweavers have created is small compensation for the fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of the comedian, and Sherwood Anderson, fortunately, gives an impression not incongruous with his writing. But these are exceptions. They cannot counterbalance D. H. Lawrence's beard nor Ford Maddox Ford's chins. And all the world now knows that the authority on behaviorism in blondes is herself a jet brunette.