Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those two amiable wage Stuart Erwin and Skeets Gallagter, make "Bachelor Bait" very amusing. It is the story of a matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not...
A picture which is full of fish makes a particularly appropriate vehicle for Warren William's debut as detective. His likeness to John Barrymore is proverbial but he really looks more like a carp. Born Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minn., he went to France during the War, resumed his...
Author Haines knows whereof he is writing. Though only 25, he has spent seven years as a lineman on power highways and electrical railroads. But in celebrating his craft and the men who pursue it, he has not overlooked the fact that novel writing is also a craft in itself...
ENGLISH JOURNEY?J. B. Priestley? Harper ($3). At 40, John Boynton Priestley is one of England's most comfortably successful writers. His huge-selling novel, The Good Companions (1929), made him an overnight reputation on both sides of the Atlantic as a sentimental hearty of the right sort. Thousands of...
TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND-Edward Shanks-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). No one will ever accuse Edward Shanks of genius but many a reader will welcome his Tom Tiddler's Ground, a lengthy (552 pp.) but unpretentious novel of pre-to-post-War England, with a lyrical German interlude. Author...