Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make any part of their dull lives seem deeply significant. If, as some critics advised, the ghastly hospital episode were omitted from the play, the drama would never reach any height at all. Roadside is written and played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts out of gaols, woos and wins Miss Ruthelma Stevens (the comely somnambulist of Hotel Universe). Unfortunately, the speeches and posturings which the cast must affect are not of the sort which result in success in the theatre. Roadside must...
...made is a solid garden wall around a corner of Old England. The people who walk there are known to many as the Forsytes. This book of short stories Author Galsworthy calls "footnotes to the chronicles of the Forsyte family." As his reason for adding to the family saga he pleads that "it is hard to part suddenly and finally from those with whom one has lived so long...
...taxing task for feature editors. Sex stories always sell, but detective stories, War stories, even gangster stories are becoming "old stuff." Last week, William Randolph Hearst's New York American, ever mindful of the classics, solved its feature problem by simply beginning to reprint that 50-year-old saga, originally printed in 64 nickel novels, Deadwood Dick, Prince of the Road by Edward L. Wheeler. Readers past middle-age, to whom the yellow paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance with their clandestine friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read...
...ites the authoress is Mrs. Simpson. James Simpson Jr., whom she married in 1927 and from whom she now lives apart (in Manhattan), is son of the board chairman of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. But to the publishing world she is sec ond principal in a Father-&-Daughter saga unique in its annals. Their wealth is immense. The Chicago Tribune is the greatest money-maker among U. S. newspapers. The New York Daily News has the largest circulation in the U. S., makes other millions. But hardship makes the closest bonds. And Liberty, the Patterson pet, has found hard...