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Not really a fairy story, Author Francis' tale is clothed in realism, but wanders into grotesque fancies that lie far from weekday life. Narrator of the story is Catherine, who tells her son this history of the childhood she spent in a Flanders farmhouse, in the years following the...
Catherine was the second of three daughters; her mother was a long-suffering woman who shared her daughters' adoration for their father, a wife-beating drunkard who had brought back a wooden leg from the war. As the children grew up, the eldest became a zealous partner in her...
Most of the 60-odd characters are a queer lot. Catherine's greatest friends were a retired courtesan, a worn-out sea captain, and the gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent...
Estheticians are fond of pointing out that one test of an actress' stature is her ability to seem superior to her roles. If this is true, Miss Bergner's performance in Escape Me Never goes far to justify the encomiums of critics who, after Catherine the Great, called...
Princess Catherine, pretty young daughter of the late King Constantine of Greece, turned up "incognito" in Hollywood, wanted to visit studios. Sigvard Bernadotte, grandson of Sweden's King Gustaf V, who was disowned for marrying a commoner and now works as a cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, took her to...