Word: saga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colt. The saga of "Happy" Chandler has been vividly before the Kentucky electorate for the past eight years. By heart the voters know how he was born to poor parents in Corydon, how his mother left his father in 1902 when Happy was four,* how he sold newspapers and did odd jobs while getting through high school. A 170-pounder, 5 ft. 10½ in., compact and fast on his feet, enormously cheerful and energetic, he arrived at Lexington to enter Transylvania College with "a red sweater, a $5 bill and a smile." He got a job in a laundry...
...Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from every liberty-loving Britisher who can afford the admission price after...
Black, barrelhouse cabaret singers were not long in converting Frankie's exploit into a torchy part of the St. Louis saga, but Britt's mother somehow influenced them to leave her son's real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion...
Mazo de la Roche's Jalna, novels are second-rate Forsyte Saga, gain nothing from being dramatized. As a picture of genteel rapacity, Whiteoaks does nothing in three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says...
...Frenchman had written The Forsyte Saga, that protracted story of family life might have been no shorter, but it is a safe bet that readers would have been well informed about the Forsytes' sexual life. In The Pasquier Chronicles Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel...