Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adam. Not many readers would yet think, of Cozzens in terms of the late great Joseph Conrad, but even fewer will quarrel with the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice. Author Cozzens has a Kiplingesque flair for dramatizing hard facts, a shrewd zest in making a plain tale move and glitter...
Though her tale is tangled, the plot of the story is simple enough. Two girlhood friends. Marta and Pauline, not yet apparently fat but obviously fortyish, have for-gathered in Paris. Russ, an old pal, a U. S. businessman stationed in Antwerp, squires them through Belgium, hopes to join them for a few days in England. But business keeps him in Antwerp till Pauline's boat has sailed, so he keeps the date with Marta alone. They have a mildly amorous affair, with no strings attached, and part, perhaps forever. All the time, however, they are really in love...
...detectifiction are not usually able characterizers, and vice versa; it is too hard to do, gives unnecessarily much for the money. Oldster Eden Phillpotts has made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...
...tidy sum in its long Broadway run. Kreisler wrote Sissy frankly hoping that it too would make him money, a fact which would have surprised last week's audience far more than the music did or the sentimental enthusiasm with which Vienna Socialists reacted to the old Habsburg tale...
...jobs, was given to the Chicago Daily News by Emma Redell, large Baltimore-born soprano who sails this week to give 30 concerts in Russia on the invitation of the Soviet Government. Soprano Redell did not invest in Samuel Insull's utility corporations but she told a tale which made the News investigate the circumstances and whereabouts of Chicago Civic Opera artists who did. Said she: "Whenever some one would be engaged always there would be a snow-storm of literature telling them how much money they would make by investing in Mr. Insull's securities. I hadn...