Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen U. S. cities. The play is a moony obeisance to that fount of so much good & bad dramatic material, the brothel. Across its one majestic set parade half a dozen wenches, chipper lads and befuddled dignitaries in dinner jackets, a grafting commissioner, sinister "backers." a youth in love with an inmate, a twittering astrologist. a blundering social worker, a moody "Professor" (Eduardo Ciannelli), a baleful headmistress (Olga Baclanova ) who keeps everything under control until she falls in love with the Professor. It takes almost the whole third act for her to tell him her feelings, for him to spurn...
...idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit of a brutally selfish love affair with a mulatto girl. Then he supports himself in uneven luxury by literary hackwork (including begging letters), borrowing, sponging. Eventually he develops a flair for playwriting. makes a tidy fortune, goes to Hollywood...
Elinor Norton is a poor little rich girl of the pre-War period. Her mother's plans for her do not include marriage to Carroll, summer neighbor who tells the story. Carroll is always in love with Elinor, but she is too much under her mother's thumb to feel affection for anybody. When her mother arranges a match with Socialite Lloyd Norton, it goes through as planned. Elinor and Carroll, moving in different social worlds, drift apart. After the War he meets her again, sees that her marriage is a failure. Lloyd has become an impotent neurotic...
...FIRST LOVE AND LAST-Howard Coxe- Harcourt, Brace...
...with the interview in her girlhood that lost her her lover. This reversal of the time sequence has a natural advantage of giving the story a marked crescendo. With his second book, Author Coxe has come a long stride forward since his first novel (Passage to the Sky). First Love and Last is a cleanly written, intelligent, first-rate...