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...Primrose Path (R. K. O.) was a rollicking stage play about a gamy family whose life and loves were as broad as their humor was low. Grandma was the central figure, and what a figure. She did and said whatever she liked, and Grandma liked it carnal. Her gay married daughter ran her a close second. And her tough little granddaughter was never far behind. There were some other characters in the play, but they were poor ordinary mortals whose problems seemed sordidly normal beside this engagingly ribald trio...
...bureau drawer. For Joanne's 72-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Eva Snapp, had been telling her stories of the Ohio River floods for years, and busy little Joanne had been jotting them down. Some time shortly after infancy, Joanne had decided to do a scenario based on grandma's flood experiences. Since then, it has been her life work...
Sweethearts. Everybody's marraine in this war as in the last is venerable, foghorn-voiced Mistinguett, 64, triumphant sexy grandma of the Folies Bergère and Casino de Paris. Her famed extremities are still as shapely as they were generations ago (see cut, p. 25). Nobody looks at her now-withered face, and since "Mees" no longer has the strength to do her Apache dances under her own power she is swung and flung about the stage by two virile youths. "Mees" last week came tottering from Bordeaux where she had been helping the Duchess of Windsor raise...
...poor old grandma is probably turning over in her grave 200 revolutions to the minute because I've developed into such a brazen individual as to solicit correspondents from mighty Harvard. But I'm a demanding little female from the heart of Texas--curly eyes, laughing hair, and all--and the best you've got is none too good...
...sketched his people in this first chapter, James Still tells of their japes and sorrows and near starvation, the rich archaic poetry of their talk and customs, in a clear, dry style as unsentimental as his seven-year-old's eyes. Before he is through with them-with Grandma, who at 78 still shucks her own corn; with Uncle Jolly, always laying up in jail awhile "or breaking ribs or taking direct action in affairs of property; with the neighbors, mean or kind, in mining camps and on hill farms-he has produced a work of art. He might...