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...Self-Possessed. Two main characters dominate the novel. One is Charles Mallison, a 16-year-old boy who, in the scheme of the book, represents innocence and freshness, the potentiality of Southern white manhood unspoiled by ancient hatreds. Counterposed to Charles is Lucas Beauchamp, an old Negro farmer with some white blood in his veins, who lives in solitary dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race...
River Lady (Universal-International) is a solid little "sleeper" in a solid set of Technicolor pajamas. The studio seems to have intended making just another Yvonne de Carlo picture. But Scripters D. D. Beauchamp and William Bowers somehow got inspired by a logging war and turned out a trim screenplay; they even went so far as to write some good dialogue. Rough-hewn Rod Cameron turns in a smooth-sawn performance as a lumberjack, and Newcomer Helena Carter is expert as the girl who takes Rod away from his fancy lady (Miss De Carlo). Also starred is a redwood tree...
Died. Mary Annette Beauchamp, Countess Russell (pen name: Elizabeth), 74, British novelist (Mr. Skeffington, Elizabeth and her German Garden, The Enchanted April), sister-in-law of Mathematician Bertrand Russell; of a blood infection following influenza; at Charleston...
...lady known as Elizabeth is now an old lady of 74. Born Mary Annette Beauchamp (pronounced Beecham), a cousin of the late Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Beauchamp), she was married first to a German nobleman, Count von Arnim, and in 1916 to the second Earl Russell, elder brother of Philosopher Bertrand Russell. After their separation a few years later, she lived and worked in Switzerland, England and France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold...
Come Across (by Guy Beauchamp & Michael Pertwee; produced by George Buchar and John Tuerk with William A. Brady). Opening its eyes later than any theatrical season in a generation, 1938-39 otherwise clung to tradition, woke up with a bad taste in its mouth. Come Across is a tissue-paper "comedy-drama" offering English ideas of U. S. gangsters in an English version of U. S. slang. The scene is a London hospital where a mobster comes with a bullet in his chest and compels an unwilling surgeon to take it out by first kidnapping the surgeon's little...