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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...
...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...
Divorced. Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.'s "Norwegian Garbo"; from Thomas W. Stewart; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: "My husband slapped me, threatened to thrash me, and said he would lock me out of the house...