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...picture of a literary generation" as well as a self-portrait. But it is additionally a well-done picture of what it meant to grow up in a world where the ring of the doorbell might announce the arrival of anything from a female Czarist assassin to corpulent Hilaire Belloc. In those days, young Garnett had no intention of surprising the world, as he did in the '30s, with such out-of-the-ordinary novels as Lady into Fox, The Sailor's Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when George Bernard Shaw, watching him play...
...Night of the Hunter has some of the tension of Marie Belloc Lowndes' famed story of a psychopathic killer, The Lodger, plus a sequence of runaway river life that recalls the Injun Joe passages of Mark Twain. Davis Grubb, 34, was himself born in Moundsville, W. Va., and named after a grandfather who captained a steamboat on the Ohio. Next for Author Grubb's story: a film version by Producer Paul Gregory (Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), with Charles Laughton directing...
...heavy that he makes Jack the Ripper seem no more than a sort of lovable nuisance on a late date. In this picture, in fact, he literally does just that. Director Hugo Fregonese lets himself get caught between his old-fashioned devil (the screenplay is based on Marie Belloc Lowndes's 1913 thriller, The Lodger) and the deep blue sea of modern psychiatric interpretation...
...historians have ever tried to defend "Bloody Mary." Roman Catholic Historian Hilaire Belloc sought to soften the impeachment by showing how bloody was the age in which she lived and how well-deserving of the same epithet were "Bluff King Hal" (her father) and "Good Queen Bess" (her half sister). But none has succeeded in presenting Mary against the background of her time with quite the acumen and diligence of H. F. M. (for Hilda Frances Margaret) Prescott, a sometime Oxford lecturer and novelist (The Man on a Donkey-TIME. Sept. 22. 1952). First published (under the title Spanish Tudor...
Mahjong in One Lesson. There he was a thoughtful, graceful writer and an incandescent idea man, and he charmed some diverse writers into contributing to the Independent, including Andrew Mellon, Anna Louise Strong, Hilaire Belloc, Frederick Lewis Allen ("Mahjong in One Lesson") and John Dewey. Politically, Herter followed the Republican line, but sometimes the line chafed. He was a strong champion of the League of Nations, a scornful baiter of old Isolationist Henry Cabot Lodge, and he never hesitated to lash the administration in Washington...