Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fisherman, and Father James Keller's account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
Other book men are convinced of increased public interest in spiritual matters. "Practically nobody has moral security," says an editor of Simon & Schuster. "People are now simply more than ever interested in spiritual values and finding a home in them...
Replied Snyder: "My interest in the song comes not from the text but from the melody." The Kansas City Star picked up the same tune in an editorial: "Nobody need bother with singing the words because the citizenry-we hope-won't be expected to remember them anyway." Last week, Missouri's lower house apparently agreed, approved Snyder's bill...
...timely subject matter adds interest rather than importance to the play. The Traitor has its serious side: there is some intelligent discussion, and even, in the person of Walter Hampden, a probing professor of philosophy. But as it proceeds, the play becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument...
Hollywood keeps so busy wooing its "mass" audience that it traditionally scoffs at catering to "class" taste. Last week, taking stock of the moviemakers' problems, FORTUNE added its voice to an old lament by the critics: the industry is passing up a good bet by producing little to interest the 40 million Americans (mostly over 30) who only occasionally go to the movies. Pointing to the box-office success of Henry V and Hamlet, FORTUNE said: "The audience that made these pictures successful is the market that the industry generally ignores . . . Many good pictures made in Hollywood have shown...