Word: conways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel, in which are blended, with peculiarly happy results, fantasy, allegory, whimsicality, and a pathos that is neither mawkish nor morbid. To tell the story of "Lost Horizon" would be wellnigh impossible, and extremely injudicious, for Hilton's telling leaves nothing to be desired. His characters are vivid, notably Conway, a youngish Englishman, whose exceptional talents the war effectively prevented from materializing...
...there is one factor in Hilton's novels which justifies the belief that he gives promise of writing great faction, it is that he penetrates the level of superficiality that restricts so many modern writers. In "Lost Horizon," for example, through the eyes of the central character, Conway, one is brought into contact with the issues that underlie present-day life. But there is no preachment, no propaganda, nothing that to, so to speak, foreign to Conway himself. Now such writing has the elements of permanence. Hilton's style is faultless in its case and smoothness, easily adaptable...
...that year Carle Cotter Conway, who had married Mr. Norton's daughter, decided that his piano business was in for heavy weather. So without much difficulty he made himself the active head of his family-in-law's can business, in which he had long been a director and big stock holder...
Ambitious Mr. Conway launched an expansion program which more than doubled the size of the company, pushed it west to the lush packing shores of California. He even gobbled up the third biggest unit in the field, U. S. Can, and with it Oscar Caperton Huffman. Mr. Huffman was not anxious to sell in 1928 but one day he turned up in Mr. Conway's Manhattan office. Mr. Conway began a long speech about all the benefits of a merger but he was cut short...
Stingarce (RKO-Radio) is an Australian bandit (Richard Dix) of the 1870's, named after a barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...