Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Group Theatre). Usually propaganda plays are grim, clenched, bellicose. But the social message of Irwin Shaw's "Brooklyn fable" is as softly conveyed as a woman's "Yes." The Gentle People is the story of two benevolent middle-aged cronies down Coney Island way who love to fish of an evening. A tough young gangster (Franchot Tone) extorts "protection money" from them. He seduces one man's daughter (Sylvia Sidney). At length he demands their savings. Their patience pushed too far, the outraged cronies decide to drown their tormentor. Once they do, everybody becomes as happy...
After a Parisian judge had failed to settle their differences, Actress Jacqueline Delubac started divorce proceedings against her husband, famed Actor-Author Sacha Guitry. Meanwhile, the theatre receipts almost doubled as they continued to make love to each other night after night in Un Monde Fou ("A Mad World...
...become British vice consul at Baltimore, she suddenly gave her motto a new focus. From then on she resisted her Protestant upbringing and Michael. It is this part of the story which is enough to scare male readers about literate wives and mistresses-a recital of love affairs, bedroom lyricism, plate throwing, tongue lashings, a self-righteous exposure of everything from Michael's lack of ambition to his dirty hairbrushes...
Unlike these three old-fashioned rousers, Royal Regiment, by Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...
...thought that this novel conclusion, in place of the customary "Sincerely yours," or even "Love" (as the case might be) was something worth calling to your attention. The author of this masterpiece was not a Radcliffe undergrad, as one might think at first, or even a college girl. She is a senior in a-small town high school right here in the Bay State...