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...TIME in the arrogant tone of an innocent accused, explain to one who has faith the remarkable coincidence of the Chrysler pan on the cover of its current issue (Jan. 8) and the Chrysler blurb on the inside spread. Then let my not always omniscient brother-in-law mend his talk...
...miss this "dynamic movie in which the gangster is depicted as a man not to be despised, quite a noble creature at heart; and crooners are portrayed as they really are, just overgrown children with hearts of gold and never oblivious to the finer things in life,"--blurb...
...Stout is far from being the D. H. Lawrence of the U. S., notwithstanding the blurb on his latest book, but Forest Fire is an up-to-date, readable Western yarn. Though it gets tragic at the end for no good reason, by & large it stays true to its cheerful nature...
Good horror stories are rarer than almost any other kind of fiction. When the blurb-writer for The Werewolf of Paris wanted a horror-classic to compare it with, he hit on Bram Stoker's famed Dracula (1899). still the seldom-disputed favorite in its field. Author Endore's discursive narrative does not keep up to Dracula's plane but it has its moments...
...been highly praised, it is a reaction not unmixed with perplexity. There are in fact two possible comments on "The Colored Dome," and the position of its author in Irish literature, but the choice between them depends on certain information which is not usually contained in the cover jacket blurb. One would like to know whether this book was written, as it was published, after its author's recent success. "Pigeon Irsh," or whether it is an early work issued on the strength of the previous one. It was "Pigeon Irsh," which this reviewer has not read, that gave...