Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliothousetope the atrocitties practiced upon the HArvard faculty in a bit of muckraking of which Upton Sinclair himself could be proud. Not even the short stories have been allowed to slip into a flaccid groove, as so many of the capitalistic short stories have the habit of doing. One tale of a Kansas kindergarten teacher who loses a first-class virginity on a third-class deck, while another is the bitter challenege of a young aristocrat whom the depression forcs from college...
...Journey By Night (adapted by Arthur Goodrich; Shuberts, producers), a hackneyed, pathetically pretentious tale of a romantic young man who ruins himself for a scarlet woman, is less notable as an evening's entertainment than as a record-breaker for failure. Once called A Trip to Pressburg and again The Face at the Window, it was written by Leo Perutz and produced by Max Reinhardt in Vienna in 1931 with Mrs. Ferenc Molnar as the leading lady. Three U. S. producers held rights to the show before the Shuberts had Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia...
...foolish ones" of her title refer to the dwindling minority who remain stubbornly loyal to the old U. S. traditions. She compares them to birds whose love of home overcomes their fear of winter. Like As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones is a quiet and well-told tale of the second rank...
...moderns expect the world to end with a bang, at least in their own day, but the year 1212 seemed to many an appropriate date for Doomsday. Rumor set the exact time: the 12th day of the 12th month. Author Clayton begins his tale early in this ominous year, in romantic, ravaged Provence, where the fat lands of favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power...
...VORTEX-José Eustasio Rivera- Putnam ($2.50). Melodramatic Spanish tale of the South American rubber forests. This only novel of its late author is a famed best-seller in his own country...