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This current pop hit perfectly describes the view of man held by a new school of novelistless writers. From Cervantes to Hemingway, storytellers have assumed that man has hopes and aspirations, and that they could be expressed meaningfully. Bosh, says the new school. Man is a blob, creeping and leaping about a world he cannot control, his words meaningless or hypocritical or both. The best thing a novelist can do, the argument runs, is to ditch the novel as it is now known and write a new kind that shows man as the pitiable blob he is. Two new books...
...Chicago men's-wear trade publishers named David A. Smart and William H. Weintraub. For $200 a throw, he got short stories and articles from such Depression-struck authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passes, Ezra Pound and Dashiell Hammett (one exception: Ernest Hemingway, who got $1,000 for The Snows of Kilimanjaro), served up the cheesecake of Artist George Petty as dessert. Despite the 50? price tag, fashion-plating Esquire boomed to a circulation of 625,000 in 1937. Chortled Publisher Smart: "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before...
...simple beauty of the love affair is all but lost, remaining only is Ingrid Bergman's magnificent smile which explains more than all of script-writer Dudley Nichol's chopped rendition of Hemingway...
They are all reasonablby faithful to the book, and speak in Hemingway's quaint manner, phrasing the English words in Spanish word order. In the book the effect produced is soft, but on the screen it seems artificial The "these" and "thous" of the book are mercifully deleted...
...Although Hemingway's characters are there, Hemingway seems generaly missing; but this is perhaps an insurmountable hurdle in making a book into a film. In any event it was adequately done, and Miss Bergman is at any time worth the price of admission...