Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealth by the post-War partition of her empire-Germany can offer wider economic horizons if Economic Plan Dictator Goring chooses, and not otherwise. That the two nations may form a customs union is now highly probable. Since the Austrian schilling is fairly sound money, whereas the German mark is artificial in the extreme, the two countries will have a tough currency transfer problem on their hands, probably to be solved by the barter methods of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. In the end, an economic unit the size of small Austria and big Germany combined ought to be a much sounder...
...Selznick International) is a slick-dandy, too-well-tailored dressing up of Mark Twain's homespun yarn. Its Hollywood pretty-prettiness needs more than anything else to have its face & hands rubbed in good Mississippi mud. But neither time, Technicolor nor cinema trickery can dim the essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted...
With the exhaustively accurate settings, the high-horsed performances of the grownups (particularly that of May Robson as Aunt Polly), Author Mark Twain might have been well pleased. But more than once he would have harrumphed at the self-consciousness of the child actors. Hollywood usually looks to professional youngsters for parts like Tom Sawyer. But Producer David O. Selznick has no child stars on his own roster, and had no wish to borrow and boost one under contract to someone else. When he put Tom Sawyer on his schedule two years ago, he started a nationwide hunt that viewed...
Last week, accompanied by 11-year-old Ann Gillis, a green-eyed, red-haired veteran of eleven pictures, Tommy was back in Manhattan. Together the pair had curtsied to the press, spoken over the radio, journeyed to Elmira, N. Y. to lay a wreath on Mark Twain's grave. Back home, Tommy sighed, "Give me The Bronx any time." But The Bronx was not the same: the fan mail was already starting to come in. Wrote one: "I heard you on the radio last night and I am looking forward to seeing your picture very much. It was very...
...MARK TWAIN-Edgar Lee Masters-Scribner ($2.75). Polemical biography that goes beyond Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain in picturing the humorist as a clown whose genius was warped by his refusal to challenge the ruling powers; written in an exasperated style that suggests Poet Masters would not have enjoyed Mark Twain even if he had written in another fashion...