Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARIETTA-Johan Fabricius-Little, Brown ($3). Looking back on the earlier 1930's, what would some Mark Sullivan of the future pick as typical novels of that bygone day? He might well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply...
...picaresque chronicle). And like Anthony, Marietta's son was long aborning. Aside from these surface similarities, The Son of Marietta could not fairly be compared with Anthony Adverse, in all senses a bigger book. More protracted than packed, Author Fabricius' narrative could be simply described as a tale of guilty mother love and a spoiled son who turned out according to rule. Really two separate novels laid end to end, it gave thrifty readers the pleasant sense of getting their money's worth, perhaps a little more...
...Maternelle" is being held over till next Wednesday at the Fine Arts, and "A Tale of Two Cities" till next Friday at Loew's State...
...seems to have been at one time a fireman, at one time a pimp. Whether he also went to Russia for a time and married there (his alleged son, Hyman Barnett Zaharoff. is still trying to prove his paternity), Neumann leaves an open question. Less questionable is the tale of Zaharoff's absconding with 25 boxes of gum and 169 sacks of gallnuts from the Constantinople shop where he was employed, hot-footing it to England. (Neumann thinks that some time, somewhere Zaharoff also killed a policeman.) Having found his way to Athens, he worked again in a shop...
Advertisements announce loudly that David O. Selznick, the producer of "David Copperfield", is also the producer of "The Tale of Two Cities"-but don't let that deter you from seeing this latest revival of Dickens. The continuous action of this book lends itself to the movies far better than the Copperfield biography...