Word: onely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artillery of Time-Chard Powers Smith-Scribner ($2.75). An undisciplined whopper (853 pages) about two New York State farm boys, one of whom carries the ball for rising U. S. industrialism (in the '50s and '60s), the other for democratic idealism...
...one meeting, the board of The Borden Co. elected: 1) William Callan as Vice President-in-charge-of-Casein-Adhesives-and-Prescription-Products; 2) Arthur W. Ramsdell as Vice President-in-charge-of-Sales-of-Evaporated-Condensed-and-Malted-Milk, Cheese-Mincemeat-and-Caramels...
Tower of London (Universal) solves the problem of what to do next with a popular monster (Boris Karloff), who has already been deranged (The Lost Patrol), mummified (The Mummy), roasted alive (Frankenstein), resurrected (The Son of Frankenstein). Horror-man Karloff is now introduced to one of Hollywood's most accomplished villains (Basil Rathbone) in the cellars of the Tower of London circa 1480. There, amidst moaning victims, clanking chains and chopping blocks, Villain Rathbone (the crookbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester) shows Monster Karloff (Mord, the club-footed constable of the Tower) how to satisfy an active homicidal mania...
...next few years they had introduced to U. S. readers such little known or unknown writers as W. B. Yeats, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Anatole France, H. G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, as well as the poetry of Stephen Crane, the fiction of Henry James. They published one of the first (and still classic) examples of the new realism, Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Their designers were (and still are) the best in the country: Bruce Rogers, Updike, Goudy. A little heard-of French painter named Toulouse-Lautrec made an advertising poster for them...
...One House Contain Us (Liveright, $2), a Rumanian prize novel adapted by one Oscar Leonard, is a slick if not sleazy combination of boudoir romance and political satire, might have been influenced by Molnar, Schnitzler, any one of a thousand under-the-pillow French novels...