Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winter's Tale. In Ockley, England, Miss Fanny Ennis, 69, suing John Purser, 73, for breach of promise, charged that he had promised to marry her when she was an innocent...
...beyond the fine single things it boasts-the Negro dancing and Oliver Messel's wonderful sets and costumes-House of Flowers is a truly individual musical, to be saluted for what it possesses before being penalized for what it lacks. Truman Capote's tale of a bordello life full of genteel pretensions, and with far more high style than low instincts, has a nice rococo playfulness. Harold Arlen's score is attractive and unified, the songs delicate and unglib. About it all there hovers-despite no great amount of overt comedy-a sense of the humorous...
Russian-born Zoé Oldenbourg's complex tale of knights and knaves is packed with scenes of horror. Children are slaughtered, adolescent girls raped, women's breasts cut off, men's eyes torn out. But unlike most historical novelists, Author Oldenbourg does not indulge in bloodletting and vices for the sake of the thrill. She has merely held up a mirror to the 13th century so that her readers might know what it was like. Young Haguenier's marriage and romance show in painstaking detail how a young man of good family once lived, wedded...
...Georges Bernanos, the camera watched a body dissolve in spirit, while in Pit of Loneliness the spirit of a feeling woman was stifled in perverse carnality; troth touchy subjects were handled with high skill. For those who cared to sniff the festering lilies of romantic decadence. Max Ophuls' tale of love in a dying century, The Earrings of Madame De . . ., was certainly the best of all the French contributions...
...plays, snaps his literary shutter again and again on portraits of the hero as cripple, and on the human personality in states of hopeless, neurotic disrepair. One story, Portrait of a Girl in Glass, shines with a luminous pity that gives it a lonely merit. From this tale of a childlike drift-and-dream girl, her aggressive mother and restless brother, Williams later fashioned The Glass Menagerie, and the story, like the play, is evocatively moving and moon-haunted. For the rest, One Arm reads too frequently as if the chapters of Psychopathia Sexualis had been raided for TV skits...