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...Sisters (Warner Bros.) substitutes for Dreiserian strength, tenacity and patience;-chief merits of the Myron Brinig novel from which it was adapted-the cinematically more essential merits of pace, tidiness and scenic value. Opening at an election-night ball in the mining town of Silver Bow, Mont, in the year 1904, the picture traces the lives of half-a-dozen of the guests, ending, for no particular reason, when they meet again to get the early returns in 1908. Ostensibly its three heroines are Louise, Helen, and Grace Elliott, daughters of Silver Bow's druggist, but before much footage...
...FLAVIN-Myron Brinig-Fair a r & Rinehart...
...articulate human had passed from the earth, a single sunlit raindrop falling on this depopulated planet would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...
...grand?" Her oldest son turns gangster, is killed. Three daughters become schoolteacher, waitress, fashion model. When two other children become famous Hollywood stars, May goes to live in a Beverly Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most remarkable thing about May Flavin is that it is offered as further confirmation of Author Brinig's emergence as a coming major novelist...
...wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered the U. S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, from Main Street in Montana to high life in Saratoga. Readers who flinch at phantoms need have no fear. Author Brinig is content with summoning his ghosts, asks them no embarrassing questions...