Word: freude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine-looking title page. There are two cartoons and four incidental drawings. The drawings are reasonably good, if uninspired, but the cartoons don't seem to belong. A couple of letters to the editors are perhaps the most amusing part of the magazine. One, from a Cliffedweller named Annabelle Freud, complains subtly about the murderous crew of characters in the stories of the last issue. Happily, the editors have taken her advice...
Since he moved to the Big Sur country near Carmel, Calif, in 1943, he has become the hero of a group of neo-bohemians who live in tents and huts along the nearby highways, talking and practicing Freud and D. H. Lawrence, and letting their willing women keep house and hold jobs. In Harper's Magazine this month, Mildred Edie Brady calls the Miller devotees "the new cult of sex and anarchy"; their bible, says she, is a book by Wilhelm Reich entitled Function of the Orgasm (says Henry Miller, who claims no responsibility for the cult: "A boring...
With little deadpan humor, the picture is full of obvious but fairly amusing jokes about the insularity of Boston patricians and of obvious, rather anachronistic japes about Freud. Ronald Colman has gentle grace in the title role; Edna Best as his wife and Percy Waram as a brandy-muzzling relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown...
Enormously earnest and energetic, The Varmints is also enormously overwritten, and naive. Walt Whitman might have tried a novel like this at 21, had he been born a girl and been exposed to the heat of Freud, Faulkner, Dos Passes, Fannie Hurst and Gulf Coast Florida...
...widow who has turned her back on love (Walter Pidgeon) in order to raise two stepchildren and pay off her late husband's debts. The stepson (Robert Sterling), just home from the Navy, is a nice, levelheaded boy. But the stepdaughter (June Allyson) is something straight out of Freud. Since no one has ever told her that the adored father who died when she was five was a weakling, a dipsomaniac and a thief, June sits all day at the piano, strumming Debussy and mooning over daddy's memory. Meanwhile, stepmother Claudette works her fingers to the bone...