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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debut of Herbert George Wells as a screenwriter. It places Alexander Korda's London Film Productions Ltd. on a par with Hollywood for production power as well as brains. It tells an extraordinary story which, while it may not convince cinemaddicts, is likely to captivate them (see pp...
...point with pride not only to the color of Author Harriss' style but to the knowledgeable way he handles the Carolinian flora and fauna, not to speak of human whites and blacks. And readers need to be neither centaurs nor Southerners to see in this little book (240 pp.) a lot of life...
...pp. 14 & 15 of TIME, March 9, as well as in other news accounts of what happened to General Hagood, it seems to me should be a potent lesson to those of us who pride ourselves on being loyal Americans...
...found his next book, The World Outside, much less to their liking. Last week they opened Once We Had a Child with mingled feelings of alarm. Their feelings were justified for Once We Had a Child is a tragedy of sombre hue. But it is a lengthy book (631 pp.) and long before the shades begin to close in, light-minded readers could find all that they were looking for in the way of hearty anecdote, curmudgeonly character and tender sentiment. Author Fallada thinks it his finest book, and critics who looked down long noses at Little Man were inclined...
...such a gaudy title as might be supposed. It refers to an Oxford colloquialism, "gaudy" (from Gaudeamus igitur), which is the equivalent of the U. S. "college reunion." Readers who are unfamiliar with Author Sayers' careful workmanship will find other surprises. Gaudy Night is twice as long (469 pp.) as the average murder story, and Author Sayers has taken at least twice as much pains as the average with her characters and setting. Second, its interest depends almost as much on its love story as on the unravelling of the mystery. Third, while putting its readers through...