Word: sigrid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LONG DREAM - Sigrid Boo - Dutton...
Americans think of Norway as a cold slice of northern forest and fjord, of Norwegian writers as weighty (like Sigrid Undset) or gloomy (like Knut Hamsun). But a Norwegian novel published this week is as different from this preconception as its author's startling name. It could have been written in any country of Europe...
...Oslo Kathleen Norris whose eight books have been translated into 13 languages, Sigrid Boo (rhymes with Hoo) at 40 makes her first U. S. bow with The Long Dream. As befits the country that originated the langlauf (long-distance ski race), her novel is slow in starting, spends nearly half its length on the heroine's retrospective thoughts during a train journey back to her native town after seven years' absence...
...first thought was "O pu sing sin" (Chinese for "I don't believe it"). Her first words were, "That's ridiculous; it's incredible." Outclassed by earlier prize-winners like William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Mann, by women novelists like Selma Lagerlof or Sigrid Undset who have won it before her, Pearl Buck would be placed by most critics below such U. S. possibilities as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks...
State Department officials refused to give Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie a passport. Reason: although she was born in Brooklyn, the U. S. signed a complicated treaty with Norway in 1871 by the terms of which her return to Norway at the age - Winner of 48 matches to Fred Perry's 35 in their 1938 professional tennis tour. of 3 made her a Norwegian, maybe. Experts last week were not sure what she was. Pouted pretty Sigrid Gurie: "It's untrue about Brooklyn not being American. Brooklyn is a part of this country. I'm certain...