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...Parkington (M.G.M.) is the fourth lesson in the Garson-Pidgeon series on true love and enduring marriage (Blossoms in the Dust, Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie). It discharges an obligation to the Louis Bromfield original by drawing a fine distinction between the robber barons of the '90s, who robbed each other, and the Wall Street wolves of the '30s, who robbed widows and orphans. Another distinction that may strike audiences as more valid is that the barons (most of them) ended up in mansions on Fifth Avenue and the wolves (some of them) in Sing Sing cells...
...biggest, most expensive, most marmoreal mansion of all was that of hot-tempered Major Augustus Parkington (Walter Pidgeon). The Major built it as an anniversary present for his wife Susie (Greer Garson), the pretty little boardinghouse keeper from Leaping Rock, Nevada, and to open it planned the most elaborate ball of the season. But the Major was a crude fellow in the eyes of his neighbors and, when the night of the ball arrived, the Four Hundred cut him dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie...
Also desired by the Library are W. Ivor Jennings, "Parliament"; Harold J. Laski, "Parliamentary Government in England"; A. W. Peach, editor, "Selections from Thomas Paine"; A. S. Ronur, "Man and Vertebrates"; Vernon Parkington, "Main Currents in American Literature"; Louis Hacker, "Triumph of American Capitalism"; Anne Radcliffe, "Mysteries of Udolphe"; F. M. Stenton, "First Century of English Feudalism"; James F. Cooper, "Home as Found...