Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showdown would be inevitable-e.g., when Tom's wife recognizes the reasons for Tom's increasing amiability. But by the time Edna has fractured her back and Phyllis and Ralph have a house of their own, all tension is removed and the story comes to a classic sentimental conclusion...
...FOREST GIANT-Adrien Le Corbeau; translated by T. E. Lawrence- Doubleday, Doran ($2). This little French classic, a philosophic monody on the 7,000-year life of a California sequoia, was translated in 1924 by the late great T. E. Lawrence, calling himself J. H. Ross, the name under which he first enlisted in the Royal Air Force. Illustrated by woodcuts...
...Merchant Marine is a classic U. S. industrial example of the smalltown boy who did not make good in the big city. A century ago the famed clippers sailed out of Salem, Newburyport, Baltimore to capture the oceans of the world for two decades, carry 90%, of U. S. trade. By 1914 the U. S. Merchant Marine was carrying less than 10% of U. S. trade. Since the War it has been kept afloat only by constant Government help. Last week, when President Roosevelt signed the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, experts thought that Congress had finally offered enough help...
...thoroughly modernized version of the Mary Pickford classic of 1916, The Poor Little Rich Girl depicts its peewee heiress-heroine wandering away from her father's mansion, following an organ grinder to his basement flat, making friends with the vaudeville actors who live upstairs, joining their act which turns out to be a smash hit on the radio hour of the crotchety soap manufacturer who is her father's business rival. Shirley is absent from the screen in only six sequences, foots neatly through three dance numbers, sings You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby...
...started a tradition for U. S. authors of travel books which has persisted ever since. Brooding, melancholy, suspicious of the claims of foreign patriots, Hawthorne found little to cheer him except the occasional kindness shown by slum children to children still smaller. Critic Edmund Wilson was writing in that classic, if somewhat astringent, mood when last month he offered his skeptical impressions of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in Travels in Two Democracies. For most of his long (412 pages) Two Worlds, Lester Cohen also adopts the tired tone of his predecessors, finding little to awaken...