Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State Fair (20th Century-Fox), a Technicolored, Rodgers-&-Hammerstein tuning-up of the Phil Stong novel, is meant to be as happy as a hayride down the middle aisle of Oklahoma! The spacious, easygoing story...
...Wreckage. Japan is a nation of small things, small men (who before the war outnumbered the small women), tiny trees, narrow roads, minuscule farms, large cruelties and small, delicate graces. Small animals are popular. The bear is regarded with disinterest, but to the fox and the badger the Japanese attribute supernatural powers...
...Wilson, which grossed less than half its cost on its carriage-trade run ($1.00-1.50), has recently been re-released at popular prices (65-85?). 2Oth Century-Fox at best will break even...
...ends of his story in as neat a bow as possible (it was sometimes very untidy), reached for a fresh sheet of paper and started another novel. In this way, he said cheerily, he had amassed nearly 170,000 in 30 years. He had spent most of it on fox hunting-in fact, he admitted, his main reason for writing romances was to make money to buy horses with...
Writing Machine. He was only too ready to give his readers what they wanted : "a little foxhunting, a little tufthunting, some Christian virtue and some Christian cant . . . much Church, but more love-making." Only fox-hunting could keep Trollope from his daily hours of writing...