Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...
...York Sim while he recuperates from an accident (TIME, June 16), revealed that he once wrote and sold to Davis two short stories, which Davis published in Munsey's Magazine which he then edited (1904-1920). Further revelation: the author of "My Brudda Sylvest," oldtime Italian dialect song, was Jesse Louis Lasky...
...rule, dialect stories, ladened down with spurious local color, and almost comically heavy tragedy, are the inevitable result of attempts to tell of Life in the North Carolina Mts., the Norwegian fjords, the Normandy fishing villages, or the Scottish Highlands, but "Gallows' Orchard" has none of these faults. It suggests power and strength without making its principal character spit tobacco juice on his or her hands. Its catastrophe really is tragic, and even though the whole story is one of tragedy, it is not lacking in beauty...
Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love and When a Woman Loves a Man (Victor)?Fannie Brice sings the first in her ladylike Yiddish dialect, the second is in the My-Man mood...
Like its predecessor, this book is a collection of Bible stories told in darkey dialect, with darkey psychology, darkey embellishments and modernizations. Sly, humorous, kindly, they are reminiscent of the late great Joel Chandler Harris's tales of Uncle Remus. A sample: "So Solomon started kingin' up and down de road, a-bowin' and tippin' his crown to de ladies and makin' riddles at de men folks, and he was a mighty good king...