Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thrice-Told Tale...
...Holy Man Brahmachari will get out from behind his beard long enough to read Charles Pettit's Elegant Infidelities of Madam Li Pet Fou (Horace Liveright; 1928), he will find the tale about fanning a deceased husband's grave told in a much more elegant fashion...
...vice. By Dickens standards, too much of Williams' material was close to mediocre. The brief annals of Paul Dombey exposed Dickens' mawkish side; a little-known ghost story, The Signalman, raised no goose pimples. Surprisingly, the one real nonhumorous success was a dramatic pastiche from A Tale of Two Cities. Even much of the humor was secondbest. Williams did score a bull's-eye with a minor yarn, Mr. Chops. If a showman as gifted as Emlyn Williams ever goes to work on the great comic figures in Dickens -Pecksniff, Micawber, Sairey Gamp, Mrs. Jellyby, the Wellers...
...tale began 13 months ago, when a county grand jury convened to investigate charges that the examinations given to school-system telephone operators were "rigged" to discriminate against Negroes and Jews. In the course of the hearings, a crusading school principal named Mrs. Ione Swan asked to testify. Mrs. Swan was not immediately concerned about the discrimination issue. She had, she said, far more serious matters on her mind...
Unhappily, the film betrays its literary origin by stressing emotion rather than motion. It is the tale of the Rev. Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee), a simple Zulu minister who journeys from Ndotsheni, Natal to the great, bewildering city of Johannesburg to find his lost sister. There he discovers that she has become a prostitute in the squalid; segregated shantytown where the plight of black-skinned people in a white man's world is shockingly evident. The black voyager also finds that his only child, Absalom, has murdered a young white champion of the oppressed Negroes. The victim...