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...eyes dimmed but kindly, has become one of the most popular characters in stock. But in Great Laughter Fannie Hurst has created an aged grandmother who seems destined to end ail aged grandmothers in popular fiction. In comparison with her, the teetering representatives of the oldest generation in the Jalna novels of Mazo de la Roche are just so many leaping adolescents, the doddering Forsytes of John Galsworthy are scarcely of school age. For Fannie Hurst's Gregrannie at the age of a hundred is still managing her fortune, fixing up the grandchildren when they get into those readily...
Biggest single publishing award open to aspiring authors is the fat old Atlantic Monthly's annual $10,000 prize. First and most famed beneficiary was Canada's Mazo de la Roche, whose Jalna won in 1927. Last week another woman writer was similarly enriched when Mrs. Winifred Mayne Van Etten, 34, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, received the 1936 Atlantic prize for a novel called I Am the Fox, which the Atlantic Monthly Press will issue in August...
Especially striking is the way in which they've caught the atmosphere of Jalna. It's something you really feel--an everpresent background to the absorbing doings of the Whitcoaks...
...much for Jalna...
George Raft and Alice Faye, aided and abetted by Patsy Kelly, do the honors in another movie called Every Night at Eight. Us, we don't like George Raft, but the music's good and so is Alice Faye. And Jalna is well worth waiting...