Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very best and worst. On Tea for Two the briskness and sprightliness, as they must occasionally to all improvising pianists, get way out of hand. His sincerest admirers will play oftener the solider, more artfully imaginative passages of The Boy and the Boat, a number which should make even plain listeners' feet pat as rapidly as their cheeks would blush if the meaning of its title were generally known...
About half of London's publishers moved to countryside offices. All laid in big paper stocks in anticipation of such a paper famine as occurred in World War I, when even wrapping paper became almost worth its weight in gold. If paper prices rise, Penguin and other cheap books will suffer first...
...World War II trebled sales of Mein Kampf and Inside Europe, publishers facing an enigmatic future looked for clues in the publishing history of World War I. Most startling discovery was that only one book* appeared in the U. S. which even remotely prophesied a European war in 1914. Published in 1913, it sold 500 copies before war came, later sold...
...result, a compression of wonders perceived by a sensitive ear and mind, is to prove the plays strange and fresh enough to have been written yesterday or even tomorrow. Illuminated and relieved of their characteristic length and considerable dross, some seem almost too attractive, too clearly themselves. Not that Shakespeare's flops are spared. "The poet in The Comedy of Errors puffs with unnatural effort. . . . His rhymes . . . rattle like bleached bones." But The Merchant of Venice, in which money and love go hand in hand and uncorrupted, is a "gentlemen's world," inhabited by "creatures whose only function...
...Angels Wash Their Faces" even got its title idea from a previous picture. "Hotel For Women" was a confused imitation of "The Women" and "Stage Door" with the spontaneity of neither. The only original element was the appearance of Elsa Maxwell who was poked into the script in such a slip-shod fashion that she almost seemed to be posing for a movie interview rather than taking part in the picture...