Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike other tellers of stories in pictures, Artist Reid has the advantage that everyone is familiar with the tale he has to tell; he can often be decorative instead of continuous. But he labors under the difficulty that faces all modern portraitists of Christ: either to be original at the risk of irreverence or heresy, or traditional without originality. On the whole he sticks close to the traditional. Exceptions: showing Christ as a young man wistfully watching the youths and maidens walking out together through the fields; making Judas an evident fiend, a bat-eared Apollyon. Best cut: Lazarus...
...hero of her tale is a strange Finn. Dr. Tawaska. A cold, mysterious fish of a man, he travels unobtrusively over the world, investigating occult mysteries, appearing at long intervals to Caroline, "the woman with white eyes," to listen unsympathetically to her news, to announce that life is literally a dream, to accuse her of being asleep. "You are asleep with your eyes not quite closed, slits of white showing." Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however...
...TIME (in its "historical series") tell the tale truly and well? If so, John Brown would be the last to object...
...picture-tale of life and love among the acrobats has a heroine but no hero. She is a hard-working trapeze artist, muscular but buxomly beautiful. Her partner, who is no relation but who acts consistently as a big brother to her, is an enormous fellow with a dumbly faithful expression. In the same show is a paunchy middle-aged Romeo who sings romantic love-songs so convincingly that even his mouth becomes heart-shaped as he warbles. The singer is carried away by the artiste's charms, acrobatically displayed, and pays her respectfully romantic court. She is enchanted...
...swift, thoroughgoing character sketches. The action takes place in a waterfront saloon, the son (Alexander Kirkland) of whose ponderous proprietor (Dudley Digges) is sea-struck. He must choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana), both families being longtime friends. Throughout this tale of youthful self-sacrifice are interpolated visitors to the estaminet: a pompous ferryboat commander who is touchy on the subject of his wife's fidelity; the roguish, lovable saloonkeeper; able Guy Kibbee (late mortuary supply salesman of Torch Song) who is in love with Miss Torchiana. Marseilles...