Word: naomi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FOUR GENERATIONS?Naomi Jacob?Macmillan ($2.50). Anglo-Jewish family novel, earnest but not first-rate...
...DAVID-Naomi Royde-Smith-Viking ($1.75). Psychological novelette about a wealthy mother and her worshipped...
...child. The illegitimate daughter, when she hears the story, rebels against her mother, forswears love, goes to China to do mission work. At the end she runs away from the mission school with Paul Lukas. As both mother and daughter Ruth Chatterton is skilfully but unconvincingly theatrical. Best shot: Naomi Kellogg (Ruth Chatterton at 45) on her deathbed...
Schoolgirl reveals an attitude toward love and morals among the very young in the South. Naomi Bradshaw (Joanna Roos) plans to elope with a boy, is thwarted by the same father who spoke the same epigrams in Coquette (Charles Waldron), is sent to boarding school. Miss Barnes advances the theory that if her heroine had not been sent off to school she would not have been seduced by her boy friend, later to be pardoned by her erring parents. The play is embarrassingly bad for the most part...