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...which are dedicated to her. In Europe and South America in the past decade Actress Abba's long, sensitive face, throaty voice and pleasantly awkward gestures have been seen in a repertoire ranging from As You Desire Me to The Cricket on the Hearth. For the Sherwood version of Tovarich she not only learned English but acquired a slight Russian accent...
...fuse of Author March's time-bomb burns down slowly. Written in a slow, subdued prose that sometimes suggests that of Sherwood Anderson, sometimes that of William Faulkner in his less melodramatic moments, The Tallons is the work of a novelist whose increasingly powerful talent most alert readers will want to watch. Born in Mobile, Ala. in 1894, William March, whose real name is William E. March Campbell, published his first novel, Company K, three years ago, followed it with a strong but uneven study of the psychological effects of a lynching in Come in at the Door. Educated...
...BRANDON-Sherwood Anderson- Scribner...
...When Sherwood Anderson published Winesburg, Ohio in 1919 he laid the boundaries of an imaginative world that has occupied him ever since. It is a world such as no other U. S. novelist has presented, a world of small towns and cities that are quiet on the surface, inwardly seething with inarticulate poetic restlessness. Its inhabitants usually seem plausible and matter-of-fact at first acquaintance, but they brood, talk to themselves, take long walks at night, sometimes shout out incoherent poetry, have a tendency to leave wives, homes, business. Naïve, unpredictable, constantly bemused by the world around...
With this spinal cord of a narrative to hold it together, Kit Brandon is less diffuse than Sherwood Anderson's earlier novels, and Kit's candid puzzlement lacks the somewhat forced naïveté that weakened Beyond Desire and Dark Laughter. Sometimes the author intrudes with speculations about machinery, forest conservation, unemployment, strikes, the TVA, but his interruptions are brief and often effective. "The reader should bear in mind," he says simply, in describing Kit's marriage, "that Kit Brandon was and is a real person, a living American woman. How much of her real story...