Word: holden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BELIEVE THE HEART-Raymond Holden -Holt...
Thus considered, the novel is far from fascinating. What gives it its considerable interest is Author Holden's dogged, intelligent exploration of precisely those matters which run-of-the-mine novelists shirk: namely, the ambiguous complexities of even the most "normal" motives and actions. These subtleties and minutiae are themselves the true substance of this story. Lacking entirely the brilliance of the best work in its field, lacking no less the textbook glibness of the cheap work, as a psychological novel, Believe the Heart is definitely to be respected...
Natural Sham. A typical compilation of 1939 magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree...
Golden Boy (Adolphe Menjou, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden; TIME, Sept...
Lacking the gutty foreignness that flavored the Odets play and disguised the too-literal symbolism of its situation, Golden Boy is saved from sinking into a slow-moving dialect melodrama chiefly by the freshness of its new male star. Curly-topped, ingenuous-looking Actor Holden was picked from Paramount's roster by Director Rouben Mamoulian, who, after testing hundreds of candidates for the Golden Boy role, chanced to see Holden in a screen test for another picture. Most surprising fact uncovered by Columbia's publicity department about Actor Holden, born William Franklin Beedle Jr. 20 years...