HIGH LIFE IN NEW YORK.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 21

HIGH LIFE IN NEW YORK.

In "Light Lady," by Elizabeth Finley Thomas (Cassell), one Natalie Carrington, of the young "smart set" of New York, marries old Judge Harlowe, a man over sixty, for tho Bake of his wealth and position in high society. She soon begins to "adventure" in other directions: there is the episode with a wealthy financier which progresses in passion until he make;; it brutally clear to her that ho lias no intention of risking divorce proceedings and marriage; an Austrian archduke occupies her attention for a time, and then comes the Hon. Gerald Fitzclarence, artist and dilettante, handsome, a scion of English nobility, who woos her with cataclysmic impetuosity, and wins hor. After the liaison has gone on for some timo it is discovered in dramatic fashion by hor now fast failing husband. He refuses to divorce her, and the couple go to Europe, finally settling in Venice, which gives opportunity to describe the "goings on" on the Lido. Poverty threatens after a time: the artist is left lamenting, while Natalie sails off with his uncle, the Earl of Strathmere. "The Auctioning of Mary Angel," by Coningsby Dawson (Cassell), is the story of a finished product launched upon New York Society by parents whose fetish is money. Fresh from the quiet of a convent school Mary Angel is put up to auction by her mother in the marriage mart, and disposed of to the highest bidder. She quickly learns the creed of her world. "Eve," she reflects, "was the only girl who hadn't any parents—and even she went wrong." Monetary troubles cause difficulties and Mary leaves her husband and gives her confidence to a man who was originally her mother's lover. But it all works out well in tho end.