Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's jukeboxes; coonskin hats, flintlock muskets and some 100 other Crockett-inspired products flood U.S. stores (TIME, May 23). Now at last, the film has reached movie theaters, but its belated arrival is far from an anticlimax. Technicolor and the wide screen combine to make this classic tale of derring-do bigger and better than ever. The episodic story has been shortened by 40 minutes but not changed: Davy still fights the Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies gloriously in the Alamo. Newcomer Fess Parker plays the famed frontiersman with just the right blend of John Wayne...
...Ferocious Flannery weaken her wallop by groping about for a symbolic second-story meaning - in this case, something about salvation. But despite such arty fumbling, which also marred Author O'Connor's novel Wise Blood (TIME, June 9, 1952), this is still a power ful and moving tale of an innocent Pole who stumbles against the South's color bar. Whatever her uncertainties in the longer form, Flannery O'Connor packs a punch in her short stories that for sheer sardonic brutality occasionally recalls the early Graham Greene...
...kill her as a lesson in political and personal morality for the England he loves. After that, it's the gallows for Jim Latter (Chester Nimmo has already died of a heart attack). Only a novelist of Gary's power could have brought off this unlikely tale. This last third of the trilogy is also last in merit. But like the rest, it has move and go and a life of its own. Too bad that Nina, Nimmo and Latter had to die. They were good company...
...SECRET RIVER, by Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings (55 pp.; Scribner; $2.50). This little Florida fairy tale for children, the only finished work found among Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' papers after she died 18 months ago, tells about a little girl named Calpurnia. Once upon a bad old time, when nobody could catch any fish, Calpurnia turned hard times into soft times by finding a secret river crammed with succulent catfish. Evidently, Author Rawlings never published the story because she hoped some day to dream it up to novel-size. It is reminiscent of the same cracker-filled scrub forests...
...dark. Among his suggestions for seven-to-twelve-year-olds: A Child's Garden of Verses, Hawthorne's Wonder-Book, Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Swiss Family Robinson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Just So Stories, Ivanhoe, the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare, Tom Sawyer, and Treasure Island. For the 13-year-olds and up: Lady of the Lake, The Call of the Wild, David Copperfield, Huckleberry Finn, Lays of Ancient Rome, A Tale of Two Cities, Idylls of the King, Westward Ho!, Lorna Doom, Kidnapped and Two Years Before the Mast...