Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DAMES AT SEA is a delightful parody of the movie musicals of the 1930s, complete with naive Ruby, who comes to Broadway to tap her way to stardom...
...good man is hard to stand. But his restrained tone of voice and inhumanly cool, cruel irony convey the impression of barely repressed personal rancor, such as a son might feel in trying to discuss his father. Perhaps this, and the fact that it is set in the 1930s, is what makes Mr. Bridge more than an objective caricature of the uptight WASP personality so often under attack today. What emerges is a muted image of an American type as pure, enduring and applicable as George F. Babbitt ever was. Mr. Bridge's unwitting and rather dated dilemma, Connell...
DAMES AT SEA is a delightful parody of the movie musicals of the 1930s, complete with all the frenetic tap routines and naive Ruby, who comes to the Broadway jungle to dance her way to stardom...
...Negro successfully robs a bank instead of a chicken coop we can honestly claim to be emancipated." The speaker is a character in this flawed but forceful first novel. The scene is a Southern city in the 1930s. For the Negroes who dwell there in remorseless squalor, a measure of freedom and manhood can be earned only by breaking the white man's law. For a bright, ambitious Negro, the best way to prosperity is not through business or the professions but in the illicit sporting life: gambling and the rackets...
DAMES AT SEA, with a talented cast of only six, is a delightful spoof of the movie musicals of the 1930s, with all their intricate dance routines and big, glittering production numbers...