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Vivian Taylor, who is fresh from Vassar or somewhere and uses her knowledge as something to throw bitterness at, is given a convincing portrayal as a young neurotic by Evelyn Dorn, once you've tumbled to the fact she's meant to be neurotic, and not just sophisticated. Ann Holt...
Reading Eugene Armfield's Where the Weak Grow Strong is like trying to carry too many bundles at one time, dropping several whenever you pick up one. It begins on a July morning of 1912, when the northbound flyer whistles for Tuttle, N. C. (pop. 5,000), a dead...
UNDER ONE ROOF-Ruth Eleanor McKee-Doubleday, Doran ($2). One reasonably peaceful Thanksgiving Day in a Los Angeles family composed of parents, a neurotic librarian, a teacher with heart trouble, a grass widow, a college girl, a high-school boy, an automobile salesman.
He left college to go to war, watched the excitement wild-eyed, as did Ernest Hemingway. His This Side of Paradise in 1920 was greeted as the first authentic novel of college life, a nervous, vibrant chronicle of post-war and youth and America. Like Hemingway, handsome active, neurotic Fitzgerald...
Sworn Enemy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A first-rate screen play by Wells Root and a first-rate performance by Joseph Calleia make this otherwise ordinary Gangster v. Government film agreeably nerve-racking. Calleia is Joe Emerald, neurotic head of a protection racket who, because his own legs are so weak...