Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peggy-Ann. Aided bv Gilbertian satire, Broadway slapstick, attractive dancers, the pepper of quick wisecracks, the charm of music, Peggy-Ann skipped right up to the head of the class in current musical diversions. Peggy-Ann (Helen Ford), a Cinderella in love with a penniless prince, falls asleep, dreams a crazy romance of department store and Cuban summer resort adventure. Helen Ford and Lester Cole sing the song hits, "In His Arms," "A Tree in the Park." Lulu McConnell, stylish stout comedienne, Charlestbns, croons, while pretty Betty Starbuck, as a clownish brat, keeps the audience a-roaring...
...COULD STAND UP-Ford Madox Ford-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Author Ford's three-volume metaphor for what the War did to the presumable core of England is herewith completed. There are deep scars, wrought by much cleaving to duty. The scene is littered with social and personal wreckage. But the core survives...
...oldtime, blundering, self-crucifying British individualism; for an egotism whose one sinew is self-respect, that Author Ford's central figure stands. When the War came, Christopher Tietjens of Groby, ponderous, gentle, clumsy, omniscient, was already under the triply complicated strain of an abnormally faithless wife, financial difficulties and his love for Valentine Wannop, a young person of much head and spirit. In Some Do Not (1924) he resisted his need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that...
...Significance of Author Ford's work, aside from its having established him as never before in the forefront of contemporary writers, is its relentless penetration and comprehension of personal and social values too subtle to be more than hinted at by lesser men. The chronicle unfolds itself, chiefly through the disordered thought currents and abrupt conversations of the characters, with all the perplexing yet inevitable indirection of actual life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being...