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...frail, dreamy character of the real Edvard Grieg was more musical than comic. But Song of Norway's librettists depict the gentle, gnomish composer as a heroic genius whose fidelity to Norwegian folksong and his Norwegian wife is threatened by the wiles of an Italian countess named Louisa Giovanni. She represents the cosmopolitan musical culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three Hollywood studios were bidding...
...pulled into Decatur, Ill., stopped. News men crowded around. What was John L. Lewis doing in this neck of the woods? And where had he got the gasoline? John Lewis brushed aside all questions: nothing at all --just going to Springfield -"for my annual visit with my mother." (Anna Louisa Lewis is 84.) This quote got into the papers. Decatur residents, remembering that John L. Lewis lived 750 miles away in Alexandria, Va., put in outraged calls to their ration board...
Some of the old: Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women and Little Men; the novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim; Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan's studies on the influence of sea power in history; John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; and above all the masterwork of "the mother of level measurements," Fannie Farmer. Her Boston Cooking-School Book has sold over 2,000,000 copies, is rapidly creeping up on Gone With the Wind, which has sold over 3,000,000 copies. Such perennials ("back list") can be the most dependably profitable part of any publishing business that...
...defunct Roberts Brothers, and a joint publishing agreement in 1925 with the Atlantic Monthly Co. The Roberts list brought Little, Brown properties like Poet Emily Dickinson, Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson (whose Ramona was the dernier cri of the '80s), Edward Everett Hale (The Man Without a Country), Louisa M. Alcott.* Under the arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press, the Atlantic Monthly acts as a kind of Little, Brown scout. This has brought Little, Brown books like Mazo de la Roche's Jama novels (a practically interminable property), Walter D. Edmonds' Drums Along the Mohawk, etc., Nordhoff...
...Louisa (Edith Barrett) likes to put frogs on the dining-room table and make them jump into the marmalade pot. Emily (Elsa Lanchester) collects dead birds and tidies up the river banks. Ellen (Ida Lupino) manages to keep her sanity, except for one regrettable lapse in which she garrotes her employer: pretty, bewigged, aging Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom), a onetime actress whose onetime suitors have pensioned...