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...DEAR BELLA-Arthur Kober-Random House...
These episodes of life in The Bronx have for principal characters Bella Gross, a private secretary who will not let herself be called a stenographer; her father and mother; and the young man she thinks occasionally of marrying, Max Fine, a C.P.A. who will not let himself be called a bookkeeper. All the stories (originally printed in The New Yorker and now illustrated by The New Yorker's Sydney Hoff) achieve the distinction of being not only funny but sympathetic...
Outside a small room in the County Court House in downtown Manhattan, a mob of 500 clamored to get in. A fiery, black-haired teacher-unionist, Dr. Bella V. Dodd, rushed about shrieking: "The hearing is packed!" Inside the room, jam-packed with newsmen and eager spectators, the curtain rose last week on a legislative investigation of subversive activities in New York City's public schools...
...with a novel treatment and style, crisp and accurate enough to hold a lot of attention. "The Boy-Girl Relationship" naturally concerns just that. Only the boy never meets, or tries to get, or loses girl. His love, which is completely accidental, is a pleasant variation of an old Bella Spewack theme...
...Favorite Wife is the latest offering of the husband & wife script-writing team of Bella & Samuel Spewack (Boy Meets Girl), the latest comedy collaboration of Gary Grant, Irene Dunne and Producer Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth). It is also the latest variation on Too Many Husbands, though this time it is the wife (Irene Dunne) who returns after she has been declared legally dead, finds that her husband has married again that morning...