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This week the Paramount and Fenway offer entertainment of the pick-him-up-and-knock-him-down variety. As an antidote to the adventures of a wise-cracking radio columnist is shown a grand, old mother and son saga which is guaranteed to jerk a tear every foot...
...reading, such books usually possess an elusive quality that critics call solidity: elaborate documentation on the social background, careful discussion of daily family battles, naturalistic reporting on the details of clothing, finances, property. True to this pattern to the point of tedium. The Brothers Ashkenazi resembles a Polish Forsyte Saga packed into one volume, is dullest in its accounts of its heroes, most interesting in its pictures of the growth of the industrial city of Lodz that flourished before the War, declined after...
Since the publication of Walter Burns's The Saga of Billy the Kid in 1926, romanticized accounts of the lives of Western desperadoes have become as commonplace in the U. S. literary scene as gangster films in the cinema. Last week the appearance of a routine volume dealing with a minor Texas badman not only revealed how thoroughly this particular field of Americana had been combed but suggested that a work of definite historical value might be produced if Western biographers would turn their eyes away from the gunsmoke of legend that surrounds their heroes and concentrate...
...gullibility of the baseball public. Neither in 1934 nor 1935 was either pennant winner leading on July 4. Nonetheless, coming at midseason and coinciding with that mid-summer equivalent of the World Series, the All-Star game, July 4 serves as a convenient punctuation point in the long saga of the No. 1 U. S. sports event, the six months', 154-game pennant race. Last week baseball addicts were busy reconsidering the start and prophesying the finish of what has been so far one of the most surprising baseball years on record...
...creative literature [TRANSITION] . . . wants to substitute for the short story and the novel such forms as the modern magic tale, the myth, the legend, the dream, the saga, the folktale...