Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GUARDSMAN?Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a delightful Continental tale of how to seduce your own wife without her suspecting...
...Lotta Crabiree's living niece, who has just thought of the rather amusing fact that she is the daughter of John Crabtree, Lotta's formerly childless brother. This other trifling circumstance happened out in Arizona where things always have been a little hazy anyway. The sad moral of this tale is that one should either be careful where and whom one marries, or remember the casual affair afterwards...
There is a parody, for instance by Charles Dickens who is usually connected with the high romanticism of David Copperfield of the serious vein of The Tale of Two Cities. He has taken the lines of Gray's immortal elegy and transformed them in very mediocre doggerel, into the tale of a eat and dog. Here, for example are the opening lines of his version of the church yard verses...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS - A cruel tale of the old man, the young man and the old man's bride carved by Eugene O'Neill from the granite strata of lonely New England life...
Stark Young - "A little melodrama, brightened with the happy gaucheries of puppets in their wires and plumes and shields of brass, but delayed with a loosely threaded tale and vaguish manner of telling...