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...looks like Mr. Barton looking like Mr. Hull," reported Robert Garland for the World-Telegram, "but he wouldn't leave Grandma Lester lying dead out in the field. He'd bury her." Comparisons noted, critics agreed that Jeeter was still being capably performed, predicted that Tobacco Road, with a year's impetus behind it, was well on its way to setting another Abie's Irish Rose endurance record...
...time to bother herself with moral reflections. She is a June among prostitutes who supports her family on the profits of her popularity among travelling sports. The family includes, besides four children, a sot of a husband and Minna's unregenerate mother. But both Vergil Harris, the husband and Grandma, are set pieces. They live their restricted lives in the Harris' hill-top shanty, they are used for the purposes of background, but they do not often carry the story forward. Neither does Amy, the youngest child. Amy is a literary creation, a very amusing one. She is the little...
...rest of the characters depend on her economically but that she furnishes a great deal of the motive force behind the action. I, for one, amperfectly convinced that Minna's creator has done justice in bringing her back to the shanty after the temptation of marriage. Like Jenny, Grandma and Amy, Minna belongs in the Schlaraffenland which she has done so much to create...
...they had a game-warden in the family. It all started with Clay Goodhue's arrest for snaring fish on his own father's property. That led to a suspended sentence and two fistfights. But when officers of the law came to free the family pet, Grandma Goodhue's caged red bird, shot guns were taken off the wall. The posse that had set out to hang Pa Goodhue lost its nerve, but that night somebody shot him in the dark. His murderer almost got away to the war scot-free; just in time Clay found...
...means let TIME make its advertisements as interesting as its editorial content. I would much rather read an item such as Milshire Gin's facetious blurb for "Grandma's Old-Fashioned Gin Sponge-Cake" [TIME, July 16] than one of TIME's own recorded facts to the effect that one Dr. Morgan used "Drosophila melanogaster" [TIME, Oct. 1] in his laboratory experiments...