Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Miles; Margaret Hewes, producer). The case of Lizzie Borden, who is popularly supposed to have murdered her father and stepmother in Fall River two generations ago, has produced a body of New England legend and at least one folk ballad. It has taken four playwrights to stage the tale, and what they have done is not important. What is important is the amazing transfiguration of Lillian Gish as an actress...
...LITTLE-Wilson Wright-Boni ($2). This novel about present-day Cuba treads delicately among the thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma...
...Actress Robson that George Bernard Shaw wrote Major Barbara, tale of a Salvation Army lass, his ablest document on social service...
...Hemingway's philosophy, he cannot help admiring the technical ability and power which enables him to present it so vigorously and subtly. In the present instance, however, the effect is somewhat destroyed by a presentation of that philosophy slightly more explicit than usual. Towards the end of the tale, where the author becomes quite definite and almost appealing in his references to the "opium of the people," the writing loses some of its force...
...STREET OF THE SANDALMAK-ERS - Nis Petersen - Macmillan ($2.50). Tale of Rome in Marcus Aurelius...