Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tale of a Jockey...
...Purchase Price (Warner) is a simple tale of struggle and blind love in North Dakota. George Brent is a bovine farmer who needs a cook and wife. Barbara Stanwyck, Manhattan nightclub girl, wants to get-away-from-it-all. She answers his advertisement. The picture hews close to the line of probability. The farmer's life is dirty, uncomfortable, exacting. His house is a bare sty. His manners are bad. Repelled at first, Barbara Stanwyck grows to love George Brent as his woes accumulate. A onetime suitor appears, lends Barbara money to pay mortgage interest, is knocked...
Less like a novel than like a tale told by some not too ancient mariner. New Author Walmsley's book will enthrall the large audience due to come its way. It speaks of fishermen's lives at Bramblewick, a tiny hamlet on the English North Sea coast. Heroes of the tale are the Lunns, who keep a weather eye out for any new chance to catch a living that the varying sea affords, keep a jealous friendly eye on the size of their rivals', the Fosdyck's, hauls. Villains of the tale are the stormy, treacherous North...
Juno Marin, twice married, has landed in the sanitarium after running the gamut of a gay society in which people ate to live, lived to drink and drank to forget living. In the first flush of their romance Vondorn takes up drinking again, and with that his tale is as good as told. How he and Juno run off to live and decay together in a hut in the desert, how Vondorn slaves at his book, how he visits the nearby Beldoro Observatory, prepares to take up residence with Juno there, is only the long prelude to the ultimate cough...
...literary midwife adept at helping her characters give birth to what she intimates are their souls, turns in a good job of soul-saving midwifery. Only after her hero has gone through highly sensational throes does she ease him with a dose of religio-romantic twilight sleep. The tale of his agonizings, told with a dramatic flair, will make a better movie than it does a book, as was probably intended...