Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State Fair (20th Century-Fox), a Technicolored, Rodgers-&-Hammerstein tuning-up of the Phil Stong novel, is meant to be as happy as a hayride down the middle aisle of Oklahoma! The spacious, easygoing story...
...Phil, the Fiddler is a memorial to a successful crusade that Alger led against the padrone system, by which hundreds of little street musicians, brought to Manhattan from Italy, were kept as virtual slaves. The story deals with one boy who escaped and was adopted by a rich doctor...
Tenderhearted as he is susceptible, the captain cannot bear to hurt the feelings of either woman, and is deftly bulldozed into marrying both of them. With the help of his relatively brainy first mate (Phil Silvers), he tries to keep both ends from meeting by inventing a twin brother. He also: 1) gets simultaneously involved in the Army and the Navy; 2) pretends suicide; 3) is arraigned as the murderer of his "twin." In the long run, through the kindness of Scripters Arthur Kober and Frank Gabrielson, he wiggles out of practically everything and sets off to serve his country...
MARTA OF MUSCOVY - Phil Stong -Doubleday, Doran...
...Quantities of stuff," says bluff Iowa-born Novelist Phil Stong, have been written about the "vain German nymphomaniac" who was Russia's Catherine II, "Catherine the Great." But Marta, "who was truly great" both as Peter's wife and as Empress Catherine I in her own right, has rated only one biography, written in the 18th Century. Author Stong, with the same racy narrative power that made his State Fair one of the most likable novels of more than a decade ago and has since earned for his two dozen-odd novels and children's tales...