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...Ethan Frome (adapted by Owen & Donald Davis; Max Gordon, producer). When Max Gordon announced that he was going to present a dramatized version of Novelist Edith Wharton's frosty little masterpiece, the first thing that came to the minds of those who had read Ethan Frome was that the producer would have a devilish time staging the sledding crash which is the tragedy's ironic climax. As it turns out, there need have been no such public anxiety. Between them, Producer Gordon, the Playwrights Davis and Designer Jo Mielziner have achieved a rare triumph of art and showmanship...
...PINKERTON FINDS A BODY-David Frome-Farrar & Rim hart ($2). Shy Welshman Pinkerton goes trustingly about Oxford; finds himself suspected of murder. Rescued by Yard's Inspector Bull, Pinkerton reveals the necessary clue...
...PINKERTON GOES TO SCOTLAND YARD-David Frome-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Busybody Pinkerton makes more trouble, has more excitement than usual, in a suburban poisoning case...
...Edith Wharton's second home (she has lived there since 1907), most of her 42 books have been concerned with the U. S. scene. She does not admit which literary child is her favorite, but says she is "bored and even exasperated'' when told that Ethan Frome (her most-famed book) is her best novel. A Backward Glance might well be her own choice, for into it she has distilled the fading essence of her vanished world: good manners, polite intelligence, brave impotence. Summing up as a human being...
...readily be cleared up by simple psychology. The unusually large number of sensitive people, cases of nerrous breakdown, and even many cases of apparent physical disorder are due to the fact that our culture is a culture of suppression, especially in New England. "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Ethan Frome" are true pictures of the abnormality and irritation in personalities caused by suppression...