Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competent portrayer of Dutch domestic scenes (The Rebel Generation, The House of Joy), Authoress van Ammers-Küller in her latest novel gives an account of life in her native Delft early in the 20th Century. Beginning her tale with something of the ordered, crystalline detail of Dutch interior paintings, she ends it in cloudy emotional confusion and disillusionment...
Readers who like to take their summer literary pabulum cradled in a hammock will find Authoress Eliat's Oriental tale breezy enough to keep them rocking comfortably. Perfumed with voluptuous myrrh and frankincense, it subtly insinuates a more acrid wind that whispers:-Vanity, all is vanity. "Except the next woman," wise King Solomon, ensconced in his hive of wives, says solomonly. When he hears that Balkis, Queen of Sheba. is coming to study his incomparable wisdom, he looks forward to the first lesson with extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel...
Though romantic Ireland may be buried: deep, as Irish Poet William Butler Yeats averred, there is life in the body yet. A heartening sign of this life is Authoress Farfell's full-flavored tale of Irish manorial life. In the big house at Puppetstown the accumulations of centuries of aristocratic, carefree culture crowd the charming ramshackle rooms. But the Cheving-tons, for all their culture, still follow the ancient traditions of wild-Irish sports and speech...
Ownership in Hollywood confines itself to either a pent house or a woman and in "Possessed," now at Loew's State, there is only the more obvious alternative. It is the tale of a full blown tiger lily who leaves the rather shut eye environment of her plowed fields to seek more stately mansions in New York. But she differs from the other members of her calling in that she is quite frank about her purpose. When first she meets her eventual benefactor she asks him, "Are you rich?" to which he replies "Is that all you want, my money...
...aged tale, but while there are men and women this sort of thing must go on. What's good enough for life is good enough for Hollywood. As a matter of fact it is an entertaining job for both Miss Crawford and Mr. Gable do very creditable performances. She is fair to see in almost any costume, and she has a lot of them, and what is more she can be a very good actress. He travels along his masculine way with grace and ease, though he is unconvincing as a politician and a Harvard man, both of which...