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With nice Victorian scruples, Biographer Scudder likewise calls it a happy marriage. Modern readers will likely be more interested in his unstressed evidence of Jane Carlyle's frustrations: her nervous headaches and insomnia, her refusal to write (although her good friend Dickens said she could outdo George Eliot), her...
(On Confession) : You cannot shock the priest. . . . There is nothing interesting about your sins . . . so there is no need to make a good story out of them. . . .
Midnight (Paramount). For the past year and a half, Paramount has been struggling with all the $120,000,000 resources at its command to produce another comedy as good as True Confession. Midnight does it. The story-about a chorus girl who lands in Paris on a rainy night with...
It also happens, with elaborate variations, in Beware of Pity, first full-length novel of symbolist-minded, 57-year-old Austrian Biographer Stefan Zweig (Marie Antoinette). Told to Author Zweig as the "confession" of an Austrian War hero. Captain Hofmiller, it is a pre-War tragedy which came from Hofmiller...
Built up with detailed analyses, confession within confession, the story moves slowly. Two incidental stories-of Edith's father and her doctor-share almost equal space with that of Edith and Hofmiller.