Books: Romantic's Return

Romatic's Return MARS IN THE HOUSE OF DEATH— Rex Ingram—Knopf ($2.50).

Once upon a time—as who over 21 doesn't remember?—there was a movie director named Rex Ingram. A very romantic director he was. Himself as handsome as a movie star, he was born in Dublin, had been a New Haven dockworker, graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, protege of famed Sculptor Lee Lawrie, ex-War pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. And he turned out such successes as Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda, Mare Nostrum. His name...