Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will find plenty of candor, but not quite the kind of thing they expected. The first 250 pages are dull as dishwater-a long-winded genealogy of Havelock Ellis's ancestors (healthy, middle-of-the-road sea captains, churchmen, businessmen, who "neither rise nor fall"), of his sheltered childhood, of his innocent young manhood as a schoolteacher in Australia, medical student in London, platonic lover of Olive Schreiner (The Story of an African Farm), who called him "my Soul's wifie." At that time, Ellis candidly confesses, he was 5' 10½" tall, weighed...
...blue sapphire, a memory of childhood, and a "gallant Gesture,"--these are the elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have tried their hand at it. Latest are Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the "Beau Geste" trio...
...gaslit era before cinema and radio, St. Nicholas was the No. 1 U. S. magazine for young people. Like the old quarry where swimming was forbidden, like the first ice on the pond in winter, it was an essential part of childhood-a storehouse of fruitful articles and hair-raising fiction for adolescents...
From his young manhood, no prophet could have predicted Bolívar's future. Heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Venezuela (his childhood income was around $20,000 a year), this slight, hot-tempered, handsome young Creole aristocrat was the pampered darling of his family, at 17 began his conquests in the salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made...
They Knew What They Wanted (by Sidney Howard; produced by Leonard Sillman) is the Pulitzer Prize play that made the late Sidney Howard famous. After 15 years it seems (like rooms and houses not seen since childhood) much smaller than memory suggested. It still has fresh and human qualities and a wise moral, but clearly it was the brilliant acting of Pauline Lord, Richard Bennett and Glenn Anders that gave it its original gloss...