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...remarks after the opening performance of Hamlet. With more daring than credibility, Playwright, van Druten (Young Woodley) has seized upon the idea of recapturing thoughts expressed in the past as the crux for a dramatic sermon on the wastage of war. A rich and sympathetic husband has provided Naomi Jacklin (Katharine Cornell) with the material to build a mental barricade against her personal War tragedy. In 1914 she was in love with a poet. Life at the front so embittered him that Naomi came to believe he hated her. Accordingly, she did away with their unborn, illegitimate child. Later...
VIENNA DIARY-Naomi Mitchison- Smith & Haas ($2). An English novelist's account of Vienna just after the late Socialist rising...
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...