Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tale told by Playwright Harris, sister of Producer Jed Harris, and her collaborator concerns an economist who is misunderstood by his actress wife but profoundly appreciated by the New Deal and a female book reviewer of The New Republic. All hands agree to a collusive divorce, necessitating the employment of a professional corespondent, an honest girl from Tenth Avenue (Miss Conklin). The drama then resolves itself into the following questions: Will Miss Conklin put on the pink pajamas? If so, will she get into bed with Actor James Rennie? If so, will she spend the night? If so, will...
...shears and a paste-pot. Yet no company but M-G-M bid for the book. It is as far from conventional screen material as a good fox-night from the sick air of a soundstage. Director Richard Thorpe has kept a newsreel vitality in his telling of the tale, much of which was made in Missouri, almost the whole of it out-of-doors. It is Lionel Barrymore's best part in years and a valid and vital contribution to current cinema. Some shots: Possums drowsing on a bough, hounds running down a gulley, seen from above...
...point a few feet above the water, a hurricane may well be the end of your world. Authors Nordhoff & Hall, who for the last 16 years have lived in the South Seas as exiles from civilization, write about a hurricane as two having authority. As popularizers of the epic tale of H. M. S. Bounty they have learned how to spin a stout melodramatic yarn. Plot of The Hurricane is truer to Hollywood than to life, but the details of its color and setting are firsthand, first-rate...
...GREENLAW - Kenneth Payson Kempton - Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). An amiable tale of crotchety down-East characters, complete with quirks, cranks, wiles...
DARBY AND JOAN - Maurice Baring - Knopf ($2). Superficially serene tale of an aristocratic Englishwoman, by the aristocratically serene English novelist...