Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STILL IS THE SUMMER NIGHT-August Derleth-Scribner ($2.50). Dramatic story of two brothers' love for one woman (conclusion inevitable), fluently told against an interesting background of smalltown Wisconsin life in the 1880s...
Mentally and emotionally, Robert Wadlow seems to be a normal 19-year-old smalltown boy. He was a star basketball player at Alton High School. He swims well. He does not go boating because the only time he entered a rowboat he foundered it, almost drowning his father and himself. Nor can he join in social sports like tennis. He is too big to go out with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows...
...economic fulcrum on which Tide Rising is balanced is Jim Cogswell (Grant Mitchell), a smalltown New England druggist. Jim is the kind of man who pays his debts, faces his business troubles courageously, acknowledges his responsibility to the community by serving on the :own council. A natural point of pressure from both the haves and the havenots, Jim runs into his first dilemma when the town's poor folk and laborers want him to authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise...
...attraction. Here Coach Moore (William Frawley) wins the game by putting O'Riley in, disguised in a nose cast, after he has dismissed him from the team for improper behavior. Best part: Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, 1932 Olympic swimmer, more recently famed as Flash Gordon, as a linebucker and smalltown girl jilter...
...palm of his hand, received too little footage in his previous pictures should be delighted by Old Hutch. It contains practically nothing else. Adapted by George Kelly from a Garret Smith story unearthed from the Saturday Evening Post files for February 1920, it shows what happens to a smalltown ne'er-do-well when he comes on a robber's cache of $100,000. Climax of his subsequent regeneration arrives, as anticipated, when the $100,000 disappears...