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...fourth U. S. installment of The People of Juvik, a six-volume Norwegian "saga," Author Duun's story tells of young Odin's adventures in a fairyland whose marches lie more in his own nature than in the Norwegian countryside. Though he is only a bastard Juviking, enough corpuscles of that great family's blood tingle in his veins to make them burn intermittently with mischievous, heroic, un earthly music...
...have missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation of his Juviking books in the U. S. has left a large market untapped: The Trough of the Wave sold 1,063, The Blind Man 556, The Big Wedding 372. Not discouraged, Publisher Knopf will wind up the saga with Youth, The Storm...
...born in Cambridge in 1859, and the early part of his life has passed largely into saga form in his stories and reminiscences. Locally he worked on the Cambridge Horse Car Line, ran a tobacco shop near Beacon Hill, and for some time before he was enrolled with the Lampoon he was employed along the Gold Coast. Many of his stories dealt with his travels about the world, now as a bath-steward on a North Atlantic liner, now as crew on a cattle-ship. His repertoire included tales of the Boston fire and many epic incidents from Australian experiences...
...Tough to be Famous (Warner). No sooner had the stage turned to the Lindbergh saga for a new pattern (Happy Landing, TIME, April 4) than the screen did likewise. Perhaps the screen turned first, for It's Tough to be Famous was withheld from the public for several weeks because of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., captain of a disabled submarine, having saved the members of his crew is prepared to stay submerged and die. Rescuers pry him off the bottom of the sea and into a more embarrassing if less dangerous predicament. He is welcomed ashore...
Otheman Stevens in the Los Angeles Examiner: "Some time ago a story of Billy the Kid was issued and called a 'Saga.' If that was a Saga Gun Notches is an Iliad, also an Odyssey. The story of a prairie fire is a bit of an exquisite word painting as ever was written; the incident when Bill Greene at La Cananea and Tom would have taken the State of Sonora from Mexico if Tom could have hog-tied General Kosterlitzsky is a new matter of history...