Word: annee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walls of Jericho (20th Century-Fox) is a protracted and generally unrewarding study of life in a Kansas county seat during the Teddy Roosevelt era. The principals: a politically hopeful lawyer (Cornel Wilde); his drunken wife (Ann Dvorak); Lawyer Wilde's newspaper editor friend (Kirk Douglas); his sumptuous bride...
There are glimmers of reality and interest all through Jericho: Linda's creamily venomous politeness at small-town parties; Douglas' intelligent performance; several of the scenes between Wilde, ill-cast and limited though he is, and the three women who make him such a lot of trouble; Anne...
BRIDIE STEEN (304 pp.)-Anne Crone -Scrlbner ($3).
Two publishers read Dublin-born Anne Crone's first novel and turned it down cold. Then an idea came to Miss Crone, 32, an Oxford graduate, and a teacher of languages in an Irish girls' school. She would send her manuscript to an old patron of Irish letters...
University Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Dramatization of Katherine Anne Porter's short novel, Noon Wine.