Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tales of America's early history can rival the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Though every schoolchild knows it, present-day writers are beginning to realize that such heirloom images are fit for more than being children's playthings. English Author David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring...
MOTHER SEA-Felix Riesenberg-Kendall ($2.50). Tale of a sea-captain in the late 1890's. Not to be confused or compared with The Sea Witch...
...Discounted by historians is Captain Smith's Generall Historic of Virginia, source of the rescue tale...
...morning he saw the dawn break over the old Kremlin after a gay night in Moscow. His happy-go-lucky spirit was held in check for a time after he married an Australian girl. Rumors were soon heard, however, of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess. This tale reached his ambassador and Lockhart returned to England "for a rest...
...Done Him Wrong is the same tale of an 1898 Bowery flower that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain...