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...Medal for Benny (Paramount) rates a medal for Paramount. The first reels of this John Steinbeck story are a little ripe with folksiness, but along about the middle the picture comes vividly to life...
...Viking authors whose books went on Nazi bonfires: Lion Feuchtwanger, Stefan Zweig, Arnold Zweig, Franz Werfel. Other Viking authors: John Steinbeck, Ludwig Bemelmans, Dorothy Parker...
...American audiences, anxious about the American cinema art, the Mayer-Burstyn production of John Steinbeck's "The Forgotten Village," released in 1941, should be of considerable interest. It is worth noting, primarily, that no major studio took on this documentary of the Mexican village of Santiago and its fight against typhoid fever. Squalid ignorance is not the sort of thing Hollywood can treat sympathetically, as a rule, but a small outfit has presented the conflict between the old and new in a manner that rivals the job S. M. Eisenstein, the Russian director, did in the same area...
...premature. To finance it the boys collected 500 frogs (for which Doc would pay 5? apiece), then traded the frogs to Lee Chong for liquor which they drank while waiting for Doc to show up. When he finally arrived, his house was a shambles. But no Steinbeck story of Monterey could end on so grim a note. All Cannery Row cooperated to make up for the destruction by giving the music-loving old scientist a party they could enjoy, and the book ends with the sound of revelry by night, a saturnalia of middle-aged harlots, party-crashing fishermen, aging...
...Aragon ("François la Colère") ; François Mauriac ("Forez") ; Livération Editor Claude Morgan ("Mortagne"); Poet Jean Cassou ("Jean Noir"), and (anonymously) Roger Giron, Chief of Cabinet in Premier Reynaud's last Government. Reprinted for Les Editions from smuggled foreign copies were John Steinbeck's Nuits Noires (The Moon Is Down) and exiled Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre...