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...edification of Communist Poland's literary set, Warsaw's daily Express Wieczorny published its own list of bestsellers in the U.S. book trade. No. 1: Ernest Hemingway's saga of a fisherman and a marlin, The Old Man and the Sea-"A tale of rampant sexualism." No. 2: Whittaker Chambers' Witness-"Memoirs of a former FBI agent...
...luck changed for good when, with mamma, she left Paris for London, became a hairdresser at the Savoy Hotel while mother did dressmaking. Today little Madeleine is Mrs. Robert Henrey, au thor of several well-written books, mother of gifted Child Actor Bobby Henrey (The Fallen Idol). Her saga of life & death in Paris is an endearing, peculiarly feminine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism, a reminder that life has its quota of sentiment and that it can be conveyed without sentimentality...
...saga of the Sherwood sisters from Columbus, Ohio and their misadventures in a Greenwich Village basement with a past should be pretty well known by now. Certainly it is to Rosalind Russell who to creates her old role as the protective elder sister. A charmingly casual comedienne. Miss Russell plays the long suffering Ruth with lump angularity and delivers the play's best lines with superb timing. She is also more than adequate to the musical demands of Wonderful Town, meeting them with a surprisingly strong voice and high good humon. When a song is clearly out of her range...
Essentially, it is a tale of two Dickenses that Biographer Johnson has to tell. One is a 19th-century success story, the other a saga of personal disenchantment. Success came to him with a smash at 24 with The Pickwick Papers. It swelled with each succeeding novel and never deserted him as he launched into weekly newspaper editing, amateur theatricals and public readings. In the end, he became a kind of king-of-the-hill of Victorian letters. At his death in 1870, he left ?93,000, in today's money something like a million dollars. But through...
Developments in the saga of the sale of the Boston Arena took an apparently favorable turn yesterday, with the announcement of the possibility that the Metropolitan District Commission might purchase the sports palace for use by Boston school and college athletes...