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Notably of the mine run is Harold Robbins' The Dream Merchants, which begins promisingly as a closely documented account of the rise of a Jewish storekeeper to movie power but quickly subsides to a spun-sugar saga of love, virtue and clever financing, all triumphant. Where Author Robbins writes as chronicler he has interesting things to say; where he begins to function as novelist he is simply depressing...
...this issue of the CRIMSON went to press, top Globe moguls were still in executive session in an attempt to decide whether to run two days' worth of the Kigmy saga today or to make up later for lost kicks...
...first, and more engaging episode is the saga of Mr. J. Thaddeus Toad, hero of British author Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Disney has brought him to life on the screen with a spontaneous, satirical humor that does well by Mr. Grahame...
Blue Lagoon (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is a British import which might better have been dropped in the South Pacific, where much of it was filmed. Purporting to be a South Sea-romance, it is actually about as long-winded and emotionally fogbound as a Norse saga...
Between installments of the Dabney saga, Author Street, a onetime Baptist preacher and former newspaperman, wrote a novel of contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the Dabney clan beyond 1893, he bogged down, doubted that he could finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read...