Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following these is a pure folktale, the nearest thing to a Southern Grimm's tale...
Cocoanut Grove (Paramount) suggests that the modern song of the road will probably be attuned to touring trailers, and sung in mechanized caravansaries known as "motels." But Cocoanut Grove, a tale of the peregrinations of a sweet & dreamy Hollywood-bound dance band, trailer-towed on a shoestring from Chicago, has many a flat tire, never exceeds the speed limit...
...concluded that their enormous popularity did not constitute a serious reflection on U. S. taste. Zane Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers and wanderers of the wasteland, he decided, were interesting for a curious reason: They were like the heroes of some folk tale that had never quite got written. Nobody would compare the stories of Zane Grey to Beowulf, but before Beowulf there were probably generations of crude popular storytellers, handing on the same legends, gradually refining them, until eventually a poet appeared who could organize them into a unified work. Zane Grey...
...Plessan), a sympathetic record of Balinese ritual, is much more fully clothed than its popular predecessor of six years ago, Goona-Goona. Its exotic climax, a witch-exorcising trance dance, gives pictorial point to the recent reporting of Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias (Island of Bali) and Novelist Vicki Baum (Tale of Bali). Produced before either book was written, Wajan has been held up by years of litigation following the suicide in Germany of Jewish Dr. Dalsheim (The Wedding of Palo, The Head Hunters of Borneo), in the early days of the Hitler regime...
...having no margin accounts Richard Whitney & Co. had always avoided this). Dick Whitney tried to bluff his way through by submitting fake figures, but the Exchange sent accountants to his office. This time, Brother George was in Florida, so Dick ran to Morgan-Partner Bartow with the whole miserable tale and a request for $280,000 more. Banker Bartow went to Lawyer John W. Davis, who forbade any financial assistance as improper. Bartow then motored out to Long Island to see J. P. Morgan himself. "Mr. Morgan was shocked beyond measure. He gave me his judgment that there...