I found a review of Daughter to Diana in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for Monday, June 10, 1935. It really must be seen to be believed.
ALLENE CORLISS'S "Daughter to Diana" brings up the subject of the mother who didn't want to grow old. but who had a daughter who would grow up. Things come to a pretty pass when mother and daughter make sheep's eyes at the same man and there is the very dickens to pay when the young one happens to see him kissing the old lady in the moonlight. Diana, the mother, was also something of a conniver, as witness the way she spread gossip about Julian and Lou Ann, so that Karen, the daughter, was nigh on to getting broken-hearted. The move was a bad one, for it almost threw Karen into the arms of Greg, but what transpired to bring smiles to the faces of the true lovers and a proper happy ending had best be left to the reader. More serious, indeed, is the author's notion that Dartmouth rows a crew at Poughkeepsie. Karen, always fond of the underdog, is going to cheer, we are told, for the big Green boat, and that ought to be astonishing news to Dartmouth alumni and to Dartmouth undergraduates, too, It might have been overlooked and charged to the license allowed the novelist, but for the fact that Miss Corliss has the rest of the party rooting for California and for Columbia, which, I understand, really do row down through the bridges from Kruin Elbow. It seems that Julian was a Dartmouth man and that is why Karen wanted to cheer for the invisible lads from Hanover. If Miss Corliss had really wanted to give Karen an underdog to cheer for, why didn't she send her up to the New Haven Bowl to see Dartmouth play football with the Yales, a game at which the Green has never beaten the Blue?
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ALLENE CORLISS'S "Daughter to Diana" brings up the subject of the mother who didn't want to grow old. but who had a daughter who would grow up. Things come to a pretty pass when mother and daughter make sheep's eyes at the same man and there is the very dickens to pay when the young one happens to see him kissing the old lady in the moonlight. Diana, the mother, was also something of a conniver, as witness the way she spread gossip about Julian and Lou Ann, so that Karen, the daughter, was nigh on to getting broken-hearted. The move was a bad one, for it almost threw Karen into the arms of Greg, but what transpired to bring smiles to the faces of the true lovers and a proper happy ending had best be left to the reader. More serious, indeed, is the author's notion that Dartmouth rows a crew at Poughkeepsie. Karen, always fond of the underdog, is going to cheer, we are told, for the big Green boat, and that ought to be astonishing news to Dartmouth alumni and to Dartmouth undergraduates, too, It might have been overlooked and charged to the license allowed the novelist, but for the fact that Miss Corliss has the rest of the party rooting for California and for Columbia, which, I understand, really do row down through the bridges from Kruin Elbow. It seems that Julian was a Dartmouth man and that is why Karen wanted to cheer for the invisible lads from Hanover. If Miss Corliss had really wanted to give Karen an underdog to cheer for, why didn't she send her up to the New Haven Bowl to see Dartmouth play football with the Yales, a game at which the Green has never beaten the Blue?