Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current trend in U. S. cinema is biography. Biographical cinema got off to a good start three years ago when Warner Bros. made The Story of Louis Pasteur, followed it with The Life of Emile Zola. At Twentieth Century-Fox, Darryl Zanuck played up the vogue with such million-dollar footnotes to history as Lloyd's of London, In Old Chicago, Suez, Jesse James and Alexander Graham Bell...
Bernard Berenson is a frail, spirited, punctilious greybeard of 73 and a U. S. citizen. His life has been such a courtship of opportunity by intelligence as only the Melting Pot is supposed to produce, and in fact it produced him. His family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania who settled in Boston soon after the Civil War. They were poor but they thirsted for culture, and young Berenson worked himself through Boston University with an eye to a literary career. The beautiful and dashing Mrs. Jack Gardner, then engaged in setting Boston on its ear, discovered his brilliance and helped...
...masterworks and graceful, serious essays in handily numbered paragraphs on the artists of each great Italian school. To U. S. boarding school girls abroad in well-chaperoned quest of charm, these became standard vade mecums. In 1900 prospering Mr. Berenson bought a villa near Florence and settled there for life...
Died. Constance Lindsay Skinner, 60, novelist, historian, journalist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in the Canadian wilds. Constance Skinner wrote mostly of frontier life, before her death supervised a historical series on The Rivers of America (TIME...
...that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively artless picture of life on a South Texas farm, written with such quiet good nature that, when it suddenly turns into a tale of murder and suicide, the transition is almost as shocking as the events themselves. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the title story, brings Miranda back, separated from her husband, working...