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With the same workmanlike technique she used in her novels of Yorkshire mill-towns, Phyllis Bentley last week turned back 2,000 years, retold the old story of Julius Caesar, his rise and fall. Though her version lacked the imaginative freshness of such historical novels as Robert Graves's on the Emperor Claudius or Lion Feuchtwanger's on Josephus, and neither added to nor subtracted from history's blackboard, it furnished modern readers with a stirring, up-to-date account of one of Rome's greatest true stories. Author Bentley also hoped that her factual record...
...later he made his first speech in the House of Lords, saw Childe Harold published, awoke one morning to find himself famed. The story of George Gordon Byron's next four years is one of the most fantastic in the history of English literature. Last week it was retold in two capable volumes, both of which gave evidence of the extraordinary thoroughness with which Byron's perplexing life has been studied. Although Peter Quennell's 320-page biography is limited to the years between 1811-1816, the climax of Frances Winwar's longer and more inclusive...
While reading all such material and pursuing all such researches, he developed many a quirk, which Prudential men fondly retold this week...
...fortnight the attack of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) from which Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday, at every change in her condition, the Press retold the strange case of Patricia Maguire (TIME, Dec. 17, et ante). Not until last week, however, did her case achieve the dignity of a full-length professional report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Then & there Dr. Traut wrote of his best-known patient...
Unfortunately, a posthumous cast is almost all that distinguishes Shoot the Works from innumerable other cinemusi-comedies. It was loosely assembled from Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler's loose play, The Great Magoo, and named after "a revue produced by Heywood Broun two years ago. Retold is the familiar narrative about a young actress who makes good and her overconfident lover, a sidewalk concessionaire named Nicky Nelson (Jack Oakie), who absents himself during" the middle of the story to facilitate her career. Best song: "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming." Best joke: the reply of Nicky...