Word: bellamann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VICTORIA GRANDOLET-Henry Bellamann-Simon & Schuster...
FLOODS OF SPRING-Henry Bellamann -Simon & Schuster...
Kings Row (Warner) is a small, turn-of-the-century town in a Midwest State that might be Kansas or Missouri. It is also the title of Novelist Henry Bellamann's lengthy chronicle of the social rigidities, dignities and horrors of life in such a town. Although the novelist's attempt to see his town steadily and whole has necessarily been limited by screen censorship, Director Sam Wood's cineversion of Kings Row is potent, artful cinema...
...Author Bellamann knows his locale because he was born there-in Fulton, Mo. in 1882-and educated at the town's college. A musician and teacher of music, onetime dean of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, he writes with a composer's power of conception, a doctoral insipidity of style. In his long (674-page) chronicle he deals boldly, methodically with the social rigidities, dignities and horrors of life in the town of Kings Row at the turn of the century. The pattern is complete; the vision is undistinguished...
...scene when Parris Mitchell comes back to take a post at the State insane asylum. And in the last half of the novel the quickening optimism and pretense of the 20th Century are played off against the sterile meanness and tragedy unfolded to young Dr. Mitchell. If Author Bellamann's art were up to his understanding, the result would leave readers shaken. As it is, they may feel sick...