Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composo-Graphic. For postures which the two twins would not or could not adopt, chorines were employed. The surgeon who proposed to divorce the pair, one Francis Pantesco Watson, was interviewed by reporters. The Graphic's circulation jumped 40,000, because its readers were delighted with this ingenious tale of romance and deformity...
...TALE OF GENJI, PART IV-BLUE TROUSERS-Lady Murasaki, translated by Arthur Waley-Houghton Mifflin...
...Significance. With the appearance of each volume of The Tale of Genji critics burst into frenzies of enthusiastic comparison: "Fielding's Tom Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece...
...Author. A lady at the glittering Japanese court of the 11th Century, Murasaki Shikibu was a shrewd observer of life in the capital. Up to her time fiction had taken the form of short fairy tales and allegories; her 4,000-page novel was a distinct innovation, the first attempt at realism. Some say she was called Murasaki after the heroine of her famous tale; others (among them Amy Lowell) say that the Mikado whose favorite she was wrote her a poem: "When the purple grass (Murasaki) is in full color one can scarcely perceive the other plants...
Married. William C. De Mille,' 50, cinema-director (What Every Woman Knows, Nice People) ; and Clara Beranger, 42, scenario writer (Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde); in a Pullman drawing room, at Albuquerque...