Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Kieran, Information Pleaser. Nine-year-old Gerard, who wrote a scathing review of Kieran's Nature Notes (TIME, April 14), took it all back, said he really thought the book was wonderful. ∙∙ In Manhattan, Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made his Broadway debut as director and angel of the season's quickest flop: one performance. Critics called Good Neighbor "immensely dull." Said stage-struck Lewis who lost $25,650: "They were right. When you get that universal a comment there is no use fighting...
Died. Harold Fowler McCormick, 69, reaper millionaire, Chicago opera angel; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills. Son of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the revolutionary McCormick reaper, Harold and Brother Cyrus Jr. built their father's business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska...
...individuals but also mature in the course of the volume. At points the intimate realism in describing Flip's artistic ambitions, her crush on Professor Brooks Creighton, and her feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled but not firmly and finally knotted, dangle rather...
...novel, The Hills Beyond is mostly short flights of fiction. The opening piece on Grover Gant (who died early in Look Homeward, Angel) is a short, beautifully disciplined work, in a style of which Wolfe is popularly supposed to have been incapable. Chickamauga, which Wolfe slicked up unnaturally in the vain hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary...
...once more displays amazing versatility. Uproariously funny scenes are provided by the minor characters, especially blundering, vulture-visaged Edward Everett' Horton and James Gleason, who does one of the funniest pantomime jobs since Charlie Chaplin hung up the baggy pants and Hitler mustache. Claude Rains, as Mr. Jordan (the Angel Gabriel in a streamline edition) gives one of the subtlest characterizations of recent screen history...