Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something Gay (by Adelaide Heilbron; Shuberts, producers) is something, but not gay. It tells the tale of a wife who sets out to reform an erring husband by the time-honored method of flirting with another man, finds the other man more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout...
...never likely to be widely popular, her readers know by this time that she does not lie to them, however uncomfortably, even drearily, she sometimes talks. Her ambition is prosaic but candid: "There is only one book worth writing-not to cheat, but to record every item in the tale of mistakes, joys. cruelties, and simple meannesses that make up our dealings one with others, then to write down the total, hand it in. and clear off without making a fuss...
...Doubleday, Doran ($3). The circumstantial tale of a post-War German youth, on the dismal theme of incest and matricide; not pretty reading, but honestly written...
When Author Thomas Mann, some ten years ago, began to write his version of the ancient tale of Joseph, he did not expect to find in its archaic simplicity such profound implications as he soon began to discover. The story of Joseph in the Bible takes 13 chapters; to cover the same ground Author Mann has already used up two full-length volumes, will need one more. But, as readers of the first installment know (TIME, June 11, Joseph And His Brothers is not simply an expanded retelling of the Bible tale. In the 50-odd close-written pages that...
...give sentiment and magic a freer hand, Author Williamson puts his tale in rural Germany. Fraulein Emma, a middle-aged spinster, lives alone in her isolated cottage, with her canary, cat and dog. Years ago her Lover Josef left her practically at the altar; her whole life has become one mnemonic system to keep his memory green and rankling. One stormy night the canary gets out of its cage and, terrified by the cat, escapes into the woods. Fraulein Emma searches in vain, finds instead a lovely young girl, Liesl, whom she brings home with her. Liesl cannot stand...