Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood...
Playwright Jacques Deval (Tovarich, Mademoiselle, Her Cardboard Lover), author and director, sets his scene in a Parisian girls' club whose portals no man may pass-officially. Of course one manages to slip in, thus providing a thread to the tale and bringing pretty Danielle Darrieux (this time, in contrast to her star-crossed Marie Vetsera in Mayerling, a lively minx) a climax of illicit motherhood. Manhattan censors ordered an English subtitle indicating that Danielle and her young man (Raymond Gall) have been secretly married all along...
...Craig's Wife" presents a different problem, both to the reviewer and in its subject matter. This is a tale of domesticity gone wrong, a problem of the misunderstanding and misunderstood husband and wife, and a story of the worm of a man who finally turned...
From the coal mine town of Bradford, Ala., last week came a unique tale of lynching. According to Special Officer F. L. Brittain of the Alabama By-Products Corp., which runs Bradford's mines, a mob of "several thousand Negroes" gathered outside a beer parlor called the "Bloody Bucket," accused two white men of assaulting a Negro woman in a wood near the "Bloody Bucket," threatened to lynch them...
Central character of the novel is Napoleon. Heroine is his Polish mistress, 20-year-old, blonde, serious-minded Marie Walewska. By rubberizing history, pseudonymous English Author Pilgrim contrives a cinematic tale based on the ten months which marked the height of Napoleon's career, the beginning of his skid toward Waterloo as a result of his Spanish campaign...