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...Author. Says Walter Dumaux Edmonds of his novels from Rome Haul to Young Ames: "I'm a pretty good technician, sort of a fancy reporter who reports on the past instead of the present." Purpose of his fancy reporting: "To tell, through the daily lives of everyday people, the story of New York State and its key periods in history...
Readers of Walter Dumaux Edmonds' novel about the effects of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley, on which this picture is based, may recall the trials of Lana (Claudette Colbert). Softened by the refinements of cosmopolitan Albany, she is suddenly plumped into the cis-Schenectady wilderness by her pioneering husband Gil (worried-looking Henry Fonda). Lana goes into hysterics when the first friendly Mohawk, Blue Back,* pops up in her lonely cabin...
...time to read the Christmas Advocate rather than its review. You could glance through the magazine in a dozen minutes, and read it all in three quarters of an hour, and if you read the review I shall insist that you read the Advocate afterwards at least Mr. Dumaux's story. Truly a Christmas number, there is a thorough treatment of the holiday from the gently falling snow flakes sort of thing to the realistic modern. And there are also the usual number of varied essays, verses, reviews and editorials. A good number, but not distinguished...
Perhaps the strangest of all gifts of three night wanderers to a child born on a Christmas Eve, are the cup, the pipe, and the kiss of "The Three Wise Men", by Jean Dumaux. Perhaps the strangest of all tellings of the old story, very gently, very gravely, very beautifully! Tramps in the night, a lonely barn, a refuge, a man and "the skirt", and a new born babe! Of these the story that every one knows is told, the story that every one knows by heart and in his heart...
...understand the meaning of all the apparitions that came to Karl as he waited at the cross-roads "over both of which corpses have been borne to the burial-ground", but the retribution was Karl's secret, not ours. Mr. Barnett writes with a hint of magic. With Mr. Dumaux he should share honors...