Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Author de la Roche and the saga of Jalna, a mythical 19th Century estate in southern Ontario, were still making literary news. Mary Wake field (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3), Miss de la Roche's eleventh novel of the Jalna series, was published in the U.S. The Literary Guild chose it as the Guild selection for February (for March in Canada) and expected Mary Wakefield to sell 500,000 copies. That would push the sales of Miss de la Roche's novels (now translated into a dozen languages) near the two-million mark...
...Miss de la Roche lives on a quiet Toronto street in a red brick house shaded by poplar trees. There at 9 o'clock every working morning, with a writing pad on her knees, she scribbles out her story. By noon, as much as 1,000 words are written and ready to be transcribed by a secretary. Then Mazo, accompanied by her poodle, Chrysanthemum, goes for a long-striding walk before lunch...
...Miss Tatlock's Millions. Sure fun from some questionable subjects; with John Lund and Barry Fitzgerald (TIME...
Married. Wanda Hendrix, 20, green-eyed, up & coming cinemactress (Ride the Pink Horse, Miss Tatlock's Millions); and Audie Murphy, 24, rookie cinemactor and World War II's most beribboned U.S. soldier (18 medals and decorations, plus the Medal of Honor); in Los Angeles...
...Miss Darnell, who can be a temptress without even trying, has never shown so strikingly that she can be an actress as well. But, in a picture crowded with skilled performances-by Kirk Douglas, Miss Sothern, and Thelma Ritter as an aggressively democratic maid-of-all-work-Paul Douglas' spaniel-faced portrait of a tough guy stands by itself...