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...nobody seemed to care. The present generation, still curious about Uncle Tom's Cabin as the greatest propaganda novel in the history of the U. S., has little feeling for it as the greatest hokum play in the history of the world. Harriet Beecher Stowe fought against having her book dramatized, on the ground that if people began going to Christian plays they would end up going to un-Christian ones. But in an age before U. S. copyright laws protected the author's dramatic rights, Uncle Tom was pirated (by Actor G. L. Aiken and others), with...
...reproducing the saloons and docks of New York of every age. Alice Faye feels right at home in her own tavern, having at last become an owner. Her thwarted love for Fulton descends upon Fred MacMurray, an uninspired but satisfactory waterfront bum who turns into a magnificent shipbuilder. Harriet Livingston, in the delightful person of Brenda Joyce, is the recipient of the best remark of a fair script, when Fulton, self introduced, says "Miss Livingston, J presume." Incidentally, they get married...
...Zurich, in Trieste, in Rome, again in Paris; his agonizing poverty during year after early year; the years of almost in conceivable misuse at the hands of publishers and, in his case, of printers; the horrifying succession of attacks on his eyes; his relief at length, thanks to Miss Harriet Weaver, from financial worry; the 34 years of unprecedented work he has done in the teeth of all deterrents: work which in the opinion of many mature critics gives him a place beside Shakespeare and Dante...
...sooner had this stir passed when another new U. S. singer caused another. No Wagnerian heavyweight, Soprano Harriet Henders (real name Henderson) made her Metropolitan debut as the soubrette, Sophie, in Richard Strauss's gay Rosenkavalier. Iowa-born and California-bred, Harriet Henders had gathered bouquets for eight years in most of Central Europe's leading opera houses, but remained almost unknown in her native U. S. A coy, roly-poly actress with fluid, round-edged top notes, she sang her part with veteran poise. She was tops in Sophies...
KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty...