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...NEVER HAPPEN (182 pp.)-V. S. Pritchett-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...outfit going under the rather meaningless title of Nero Films, and their first effort is now on the market, to no one's particular advantage. Obviously, these gentlemen have seen a picture called "Notorious" a couple of times, and have consequently attempted a watered-down version of the Hitchcock formula...
...Miriam Chapin, sister of Curtice Hitchcock, New York publisher, came across Bonheur in Montreal. When she had read Author Roy's story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work...
UNDERTHE VOLCANO (375 pp.)- Malcolm Lowry-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...building up to a lovemaking crisis and not letting it come off-as Hitchcock did in Notorious-Caniff has become the best tantalizer in the profession. It is the same heartless treatment that keeps housewives suffering daily with radio's Young Widder Brown, and it has the same crass commercial purpose. "It forces 'em to buy the paper," says Caniff, "to find out what the hell is going...