Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...halting little tale which Gay Divorce has to tell relates the adventures of a young man who finds himself at an English seaside resort pining for the girl he spent a day with a fortnight before, after which she vanished. Her sudden reappearance is fraught with complications, since she is bent on getting a divorce on the strictly technical grounds of adultery and soon is under the delusion that her young man is the professional corespondent for whom she is waiting. Dancer Astaire, the young man. only once loses his temper with Miss Luce, the extremely tempting young woman. With...
...Author. As a small boy in the late 1890's Lloyd Lewis heard many a tall tale from Indiana veterans about "Uncle Billy" Sherman. Schoolroom texts, newspaper work, ad-writing failed to dampen his curiosity. Three and one-half years ago he set to in earnest: interviewed Sherman relatives, tracked Sherman's movements, read masses of unpublished letters. His readable, scholarly biography is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Author Lewis, now dramatic critic of the Chicago Daily News, has also written Myths after Lincoln, Chicago: A History of Its Reputation (with Henry Justin...
...timers will recall with a smile the production of the following fall. Percy MacKaye's "The Scarecrow." Based on a tale of Hawthorne, it was a fantasy of a scarecrow who could be made to come to life and who could be kept alive by continually smoking a pipe. James Savery was ideally fitted for the part of the scarecrow in every respect except one; he was made deathly sick by smoking. The ever-resourceful technicians, never thwarted, finally evolved the scheme of filling Savery's pipe with punk. In the excitement of the performance, Savery would invariably inhale once...
...career, and somewhat overcome by the exuberance of adolescence, for the club was in its twentieth year, H. D. C. produced Michael Gold's "Fiesta," a really excellent tale of Mexican provincial life. In spite of the unusual acclaim it received in Cambridge, the censors declared the play unfit for presentation in Boston, and the show was closed before it had run its allotted number of performances. This came as a great surprise to all those connected with the production, and earnest pleas were made for a reconsideration of the censorship of a play which dramatic critics had considered...
...forger are thwarted in their attempt to swindle Miss Lord and dupe the world of art; the most admirable touch of all is that the benevolently paternal and sophisticated art critic of the Herald Tribune brings it all about. Nothing could be more like a charming German fairy tale than this masterful triumph of the good and beautiful over the bad and ugly...