Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With far fewer sentimental soft spots than The Yearling, Author Rawlings' short stones deal with such Florida crackers as starvation-haunted farmers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, moonshiners. Readers of The Yearling know her sharp ear for dialect, her landscapist's feelings for the scrub country. Her short stories show...
WILD GEESE CALLING-Stewart Edward White-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Still to be written is a good novel about Alaska pioneers, Jack London's glamor books about the Klondike notwithstanding. Staking claim to be the first, this story of Alaska's plain pioneers is the 577-page tale of...
Probably the best friend Luxembourg has is the U. S., though few U. S. citizens have ever been there. Those who go there find it an expression of their most sentimental instincts: a tiny Switzerland with lofty mountains and beautiful valleys through which wander the Sure and the Alzette. Its...
Morning Star (by Sylvia Regan; produced by George Kondolf) gave Yiddish Actress Molly Picon, once the gay "Mitzi of the East Side," her first English-speaking dramatic role on Broadway. It also turned her into an old woman overnight, made her a grey-haired Jewish mama in one of those...
The Biscuit Eater (Paramount). A biscuit eater is a retriever who instead of fetching back game for his master to eat, eats it himself. This unsporting behavior puts the cur outside the pale. Few sportsmen will credit this sentimental tale in which the "love and patience" of two boys turn...