Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Late Christopher Bean (by René Fauchois; Gilbert Miller, producer). Playwright Sidney Howard has drastically adapted Playwright Fauchois' Prenez Garde à la Peinture, shifted the scene from the suburbs of Paris to New England, turned Frenchmen into Yankees. The result is a zestful tale about avarice, abiding love and a painter whose reputation was made for him ten years after his poverty-laden death. An article in The Atlantic Monthly suddenly brings down a horde of critics, crafty art dealers and forgers about the ears of Dr. Haggett (Walter Connolly), in whose home the late great Chris Bean lived...
...double-span the distance between Berlin and Bagdad, averted a receivership action two months ago. Last week it performed a turnabout. Its management went to Federal Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris of St. Louis, the judge who gave the Frisco "another chance" in the first action, and told him a tale of depleted cash, crippled borrowing power, pressing creditors. President James Malcolm Kurn was thereupon appointed receiver for the system, biggest yet to fall this Depression and third in the past year to meet its receivership in St. Louis. There was no consternation in railroad circles at this turnabout...
...theme that is not so much hackneyed as perennial, Artist-Author Lindsay has tacked a tale that should tickle many readers. His profuse and enthusiastically unconventional drawings of wilder & wilder life on his desert island share the satirical realism of his sharply moraled tale. What would really happen to three men and a girl cast up together in an Eden enforced? There have been plenty of guesses; Author Lindsay's is as good as any, more entertaining than most...
...TALE OF TROY-John Masefield- MacMillan ($1.50). Though England's Poet Laureate Masefield does not believe in drinking his annual allowance of good Canary wine (TIME, Jan. 11) he upholds most laureately another time-honored poetic tradition: reading poetry aloud. He dedicates this Tale of Troy to the seven "beautiful Speakers" who recited it, last Midsummer Night, in his attentive presence...
...Odysseus' successful gate-crashing scheme of the Wooden Horse. Though he contributes no mighty lines or markedly memorable verse to the Troy legend, Masefield's dramatic narrative, in which different speakers take up the story in turn, adds some freshness of its own to an oft-told tale...