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...GALLOWS' Orchard, a first novel by Claire Spencer (wife of Harrison Smith, her publisher) has everything and is everything necessary to make it an extraordinary good novel...
...rule, dialect stories, ladened down with spurious local color, and almost comically heavy tragedy, are the inevitable result of attempts to tell of Life in the North Carolina Mts., the Norwegian fjords, the Normandy fishing villages, or the Scottish Highlands, but "Gallows' Orchard" has none of these faults. It suggests power and strength without making its principal character spit tobacco juice on his or her hands. Its catastrophe really is tragic, and even though the whole story is one of tragedy, it is not lacking in beauty...
...your acquaintance are both devoted readers of the works of the late Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, that you have, both covered the 350-odd short stories, the six full-length plays. Of the six, four have been produced in Manhattan since autumn: The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and, last week, Uncle Vanya. Presented with artistic piety by Producer Jed Harris, Uncle Vanya was ecstatically received by confirmed Chekhovians. In addition, cinemagoers had the opportunity of beholding birdlike Cinemactress Lillian Gish in the flesh...
...push cart on Orchard Street, in Manhattan's lowest East Side last week there was, for-sale-cheap, a Harvard Alumni Directory...
...Author. Not only is Gallows' Orchard Author Claire Spencer's first novel, it is her first published work of any kind. A Scotch girl from Paisley (where the great Paisley shawls were made), she came to the U. S. 12 years ago, aged 19. An art student, Author Spencer paints "strange and surprising landscapes, which are the admiration of her friends," designed the jacket for her own book. She knows more artists than writers, reads few modern writers, has never read Thomas Hardy, to whose Tess of the D'Urbervilles her book has been compared...