Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...qualifying trials the day before, William Denver of Audubon, Pa., and Hugh Hurst of Indianapolis were killed...
IMITATION OF LIFE-Fannie Hurst-Harper...
...only child of hard-working parents in Atlantic City, who had to take in a boarder to make ends meet. To contemplate the long, hard road between Bea and her destined summit would dismay most authors, but not energetic Fannie Hurst, who loves nothing better than building up material careers in print. As a starter, Bea was persuaded to marry the middle-aged boarder. With her mother dead, her father helpless from a stroke, her husband (insufficiently insured) killed in a train wreck, a baby and no prospects, it might look to the reader as if Bea's career...
...achieved, her daughter polished to a fine finish. Bea thought of retiring, of marrying her assistant. Flake, and having some fun before she got too old. Alas for tycoons, she found that Flake and her daughter were hopelessly in love. Over the end of Bea's career Authoress Hurst draws a brisk veil...
...humbly takes a prolonged beating from the world and the other characters. The situation of the heroine is socially, morally, economically and emotionally improbable, but genuinely affecting. Director John M. Stahl has elaborated the period detail of pre-War Cincinnati and Manhattan nearly as painstakingly as did Author Hurst. Examples: The high, ugly bandstand and the uniforms of the band playing Sousa's marches-on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati; the three-step stoop before the notion store where the family chairs are drawn on summer evenings; the restfulness of the street noises?plodding hooves on cobbles, a teamster...