Word: bellocs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several popular pieces will be repeated tonight. "Tarantella," by Randall Thompson '20 will be sung for a second time this spring. Based on a poem by Hilaire Belloc, this number was written for the Yale Glee Club in 1937. The Choruses from "Patience" will also get a repeat performance...
Died. Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, 79, author of the everlasting, best-selling The Lodger (1913); in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, England. "Mrs. Belloc Lowndes," sister of Author Hilaire Belloc, was a trail blazer and old settler in psychological-crime mysteries, wrote more than 35 novels in 40 years, mostly about nice people with snarled-up psyches...
...Universal-International) suggests that James M. Cain and other hard-shelled melodramatists could have taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall...
Readers with even a 20-watt memory ought to recognize this old eye-popper. Some may recall it as a favorite parlor puzzle a decade or two ago. The late Alexander Woollcott published a breathless version in which the missing person is an elderly woman; in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' The End of Her Honeymoon (1914) it is a young husband. All are variations on the same theme: a victim vanishes, leaving no sign of his existence; in feverish haste his hotel room is refurnished, repapered or walled off. The hotelkeeper (sometimes it is the police) has reason to dispose...
...nonsense-rhyme, the deadpan fantasy, the whimsical fairytale, the gay and dexterous verse-strummings on themes of mayhem, decapitation, kidnaping, cannibalism-an era that began with Thackeray, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert himself, and was carried on into the 20th Century by James Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Evelyn Waugh...