Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life's Too Short (by John Whedon & Arthur Caplan; Jed Harris, producer) tells the tale of a man named Fowler (John B. Litel) and his wife Helen (Doris Dalton) in "the great days of the New Deal." Fowler loses his job and Helen goes back to her old boss (Leslie Adams) who also happens to be her old lover. By successfully fooling himself as to his, his wife's and his boss's motives, Fowler does not find it hard to take up his old job again when it is offered. Anyhow, life is too short to worry about those...
...unaware that his Muse was often mute to his friends. Even as a little lad, Plato was his teacher; and philosophy his friend. He recalls his preference for the tales of the ancient sages; and the disappointment of his nurse who loved to read him fairy tales. There was a story of a wise man who lived in a tub and told an emporor to stand out of his light; there was a tale of a man who fell in a well while looking at the stars; and once upon a time there was a philosopher who plucked the feathers...
This seeming welter of sacrifice an sterling nobility may nor make good tale telling but it does make a good movie. The performances of Miss Oberon. Mr. March and Mr. Marshall are uniformly excellent and the film is admirably photographed and embellished by an appropriate and pleasing musical accompaniment. Good for a mellow mead...
...diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land. With Howard Lindsay, Depression's most prosperous collaborator (She Loves Me Not, Anything Goes), Writer Runyon has in A Slight Case of Murder made his legitimate theatrical debut by telling a monstrous tale of Saratoga and the high & low life attracted thither by August racing...
...GINKGO TREE ? Cora Jarrett ? Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A gothic tale of the struggle of a son and his malignant father, by the author of Night Over Pitch's Pond...