Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inauguration in January was a great occasion in San Juan. One of the most notable facts about the ceremony was the presence of an imposing list of U.S. bankers and industrialists, including Macy's Beardsley Ruml and David Rockefeller of the Chase National Bank...
...Joan ditches her job with a broken-down carnival and meets up romantically with Deputy Sheriff Zachary Scott. Next she gets a respectable job as a local waitress. Before she ends up in the town's biggest mansion, as the wife of the state's biggest politico (David Brian), she has to take a series of plot hurdles and heartbreaks. Biggest hurdle of all is Scott's vicious, milk-drinking boss (Sydney Greenstreet...
...this murky yarn is the clear, vigorous, imaginative camera work. There are beautiful shots of Havana's buildings rising like white frozen fountains at the end of receding alleys, and some brilliant bits on the revolution in full swing. There are also good performances by Jennifer Jones, David Bond, Gilbert Roland (as a calypso-crooning conspirator), and onetime silent-star Ramon Novarro (as a middle-aged plotter...
...written about in this, his first, novel. At 44, and New York born-&-raised, he has produced six small volumes of poetry himself. The Well of the Past is a gently idealized version of the Manhattan '20s; yet Author Norman writes so carefully of the quiet life of David Gerald, and follows his simple and unpretentious thoughts with such detached sympathy, that the portrait ends by being impressive. This, he seems to say to the reader, was all that the Greenwich Village-Paris rebellion, in most cases, amounted to; in retrospect, it was nice people living a sensible existence...
Probably Novelist Norman's hero also had reserves of character somewhere, but nothing ever quite happens to prove the point, one way or the other. In this, as in the effectively drawn picture of David Gerald in love, the book may be true to its time and place; the result, nonetheless, is of David Gerald in a partial vacuum...