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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of these, and other, first-rate accounts of the current struggle that has divided all Italy begged off making any quick judgments of the U.S. at first sight and relapsed into the kind of tourism that is apparently inevitable with first visitors to New York. "No matter how many times you have seen it in pictures," he said, "nothing can prepare you for the sudden sight of the skyscrapers as the ship moves up the harbor. Its impact is terrific and unique." So saying, he was off to see the town-especially Wall Street, which reminded him of London...
Last week, Author de la Roche and the saga of Jalna, a mythical 19th Century estate in southern Ontario, were still making literary news. Mary Wake field (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3), Miss de la Roche's eleventh novel of the Jalna series, was published in the U.S. The Literary Guild chose it as the Guild selection for February (for March in Canada) and expected Mary Wakefield to sell 500,000 copies. That would push the sales of Miss de la Roche's novels (now translated into a dozen languages) near the two-million mark...
...Roche had written Mary Wakefield in the pattern of other Jalna novels. The setting was southern Ontario, where Mazo herself was born about 60 years ago ("I am not old enough to be proud of my age") and it was written not far from the countryside the author described...
...intrusion that Author de la Roche welcomes is her daily bundle of mail, with letters from Jalna readers all over the world. In last week's mail was a hand-tooled notecase from D.P.s in a camp in Germany. Other letters came from Dutch people whose farms were flooded, from Frenchmen who lived out the Nazi occupation. Most correspondents write wistfully of the serenity of Jalna manor and the abundant life of its people...
...successful plays in Paris last season was Jean Pierre Aumont's "L'Empereur de Chine" in which the author also appeared and directed. Now translated and adapted by one of our most successful playwrights, Philip Barry, and given a new title, "Figure of a Girl," it is an interesting play to see, and the present production contains some really enjoyable acting. But as a play it is no great shakes...