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...Majestic, is probably less dull than most of its predecessors, being saved by the ingenious idea of having a father unaware of his high school daughter's fallen state and a daughter unaware of her conference-attending father's peccadilloes recognize each other on the brink of incest. The quick swoop of the lustful hawk onto his defenceless prey and the horror of the ensuing recognition provide a few tense moments in the long and wearisome record of the ruination of Ann Dixon...

Author: By T.b. Oc., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...husband, marry and live happily ever after, with no pangs of remorse. A model of devotion to the rest of the community are a planter and his half-sister who keeps house for him. When the planter marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Master Maugham | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

THIS BRIGHT SUMMER - Anonymous-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Rape, incest, murder and suicide in New England hills add up to a ludicrously gruesome pastoral of horror-Faulkner material without grace of Faulkner ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Answer: Shaw | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...nothing of his existence; everyone but Sheila thought he was Dermot's son. Years later, his mother and father dead, Barry met Gordon's daughter Meredith. Not knowing they were half-brother and sister they fell in love. Poet Robinson Jeffers would have carried them on to incest. Author Benét stops things just in time, lets Barry drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novel in Verse | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...Sullivan's burlesque on Mourning Becomes Electra, the most elaborate buffoonery in the show, runs to punning. One character is mortally "a-Freud." another consents to a request with "Well, if you incest." Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the one who gets shot at the end of the rigmarole, but is happily saved from death by a telephone book which he has been concealing beneath his clothing the manuscript for his new play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays: Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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