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...Henry Bellamann, musician and teacher, hoped to write a three-volume novel about the lives and loves of his home, own, Fulton, Mo. (pop. 10,040). The first volume, Kings Row, published in 1940, leaded bestseller lists, sold more than a million copies, was made into a movie 'starring Robert Cummings and Ann sheridan) that kept much of the novel's sadism, incest and violence. After Bella-nann's death in 1945, his wife Katherine completed and published his Parris Mitchell of Kings Row. The third volume has never been written...
Last week Katherine Bellamann, sixtyish, promised to "continue the story" on 1 new radio show called Kings Row (weekdays, 3:15 p.m. E.S.T., CBS). Scripted by the Bellamanns' good friend Welbourn Kelley, the radio version of Kings Row has most of the old characters, the same Midwestern scene, but takes place in 1951 instead of the 1890s. The show seemed good enough to bring Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. back to daytime radio after a nine-year absence. What listeners heard had a familiar sob-and-sacrifice ring: noble young Dr. Parris Mitchell outwitted villainous Fulmer Green, gently disengaged...
Kings Row (Mon. 3:15 p.m., CBS). New series based on the Henry Bellamann novel...
Kings Row, a bestseller of eight years ago, was an oversized and overwritten but doggedly sympathetic effort to see through the front doors and store clothes of a whole Midwestern horse-&-buggy town. When Author Henry Bellamann died in 1945, he was working on the second book of what he had planned as a trilogy. Finished by his wife Katherine, Parris Mitchell of Kings Row (the Literary Guild selection for May) carries the story through World War I, continues with unimaginative tolerance a chronicle of everyday good & evil that readers of the first book will welcome as they would...
Through Dr. Mitchell, the Authors Bellamann attempt what amounts to a mass psychoanalysis of the town of Kings Row. Rape, murder and lesser sins are examined in language that seems lifted from a handbook of psychiatric cliches. And thanks to a brazenly contrived plot, good is rewarded and evil gets its come-uppance with a sureness and thoroughness that real life rarely witnesses...