Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shaw, Mr. Smith replied that the American public is fascinated by a name and does not discriminate between a brilliant past and a dull present. It is fairly obvious, he continued, that Galsworthy had little to add in his later years to the reputation that the Forsy the Saga had established, that the world left the prolific H. G. Wells behind a decade ago, and that Shaw, in spite of his amazingly brilliant mind, has little to contribute to the thought of today...
...Party's Over (written & produced by Daniel Kusell). The dramatic saga of the Blakeleys is another addition to the rapidly increasing play cycle about family life in New York City. It is not so pungent a narrative as that which described the Hallams of the Upper West Side (Another Language). In their Park Avenue purgatory, the Langdons of A Saturday Night were more urbane. The Rimplegars of Brooklyn (Three-Cornered Moon) still hold the all time record for dulcet insanity. But the Blakeleys, who inhabit a presentable but unspecified sector, amuse at times...
...over Author Linklater's Juan in America (TIME, March 4, 1931), might expect another picaresque comedy from him, but The Men of Ness is as different from his first book as a Soglow cartoon from a Rivera fresco. Serious this time, Author Linklater has written a carefully primitive, saga-like chronicle about the Vikings who once harried and inhabited his native Orkney...
...David to utter lengthy banalities on his family history, one must overlook these, and forgive her. The remainder of the task is well done. The general effect of the book is to send one scurrying to his own genealogy. Perhaps that is all that one should require of any Saga...
...called upon to comprehend. Good shot: Phyllis Barry-a clever young actress whom Producer Goldwyn admired last year when she was playing in a Hollywood musical comedy-in a theatre with Colman, laughing at Charlie Chaplin. The Devil Is Driving (Paramount) is another chapter in Paramount's current saga of crime & punishment, dealing with misbehavior in the garage and the nasty methods of automobile thieves. These thieves are not adept. When they steal a "classy closed job" they drive it so fast that even traffic policemen notice them; in trying to reach their base of operations, the Metropolitan Garage...