Word: fitzgeraldized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idiom neither poetic nor colloquial and almost impossible to read. In the joyless task of selecting the best, Editors Oates and O'Neill unaccountably passed up two excellent modern translations: Sophocles' Oedipus the King by William Butler Yeats, Euripides' Alcestis by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Otherwise, their handsome and handy collection presents all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in about the best light available. More interesting to most readers will be ten "anonymous" translations of Aristophanes in which that playwright's obscenity is done full justice for the first time in contemporary English. Though "anonymous...
THIS TIME IT'S REAL (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). One of the best colored hot singers, on a representative disc...
...MOON LOOKS DOWN AND LAUGHS (Billie Halliday; Vocalion). Another capable dusky diseuse, a little sultrier than Miss Fitzgerald (see above...
...consumption of cattle hides totals about 19,000,000 a year and the biggest individual buyer of them is the only woman buyer in the industry. She is short, blonde Sue Fitzgerald, who got her start as a stenographer in a tannery, now buys a million or more hides a year for International Shoe Co. Miss Fitzgerald, like most other representatives of big tanneries and shoe companies, does her buying in Chicago, centre of the packing industry of which cattle hides are a $100,000,000-a-year byproduct...
Three Comrades (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like many another able writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald has gone to Hollywood. In this script, with Edward E. Paramore, he tried to adapt Erich Maria Remarque's novel into a corrosive arraignment of Nazi Germany. They wrote a scene in which a poor Jew proclaimed his love for Germany, another in which a rich Jew refrained from cheating three young gentiles, a scene in which famed books, including Remarque's, were burned by Nazis. Hays office censorship left none of these scenes in the finished picture. Much political content is removed...