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MAINSTREAM-Hamilton Basso-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...seven books Hamilton Basso has written of the South. The region of his novelist's imagination is a sullen and moldering domain, full of crime, where malicious clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
From Cotton Mather to F. D. R. In Mainstream Hamilton Basso has a new character in a new scene. The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like...
Miss Bergman was an only child. Her mother died when she was three. Her father, a big, merry, popular photographer-artist, who liked to flex his basso in the bathtub, hoped his daughter would become an opera star, and early accustomed her to the enjoyment of routines before cameras. Ingrid was deeply attached to her father, but even before he died, when she was 13, she was much alone and without playmates. As soon as she learned to walk, and about as naturally, she learned her famous self-sufficiency and intactness. And she learned the thing that made it possible...
Hollywood let it be known that Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Chaliapin were there and at work: the late great Playwright Anton Chekhov's nephew Michael and the late great Basso Feodor Chaliapin's son Feodor as cinemactors in Russia; the late great Novelist Leo Tolstoy's grandnephew Andrey as the film's technical adviser...