Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rash Act; Author Ford considers it "the best piece of work I have yet done." THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND - Waldo Frank - Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank's novels of "mystical realism," this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE-Sarah Gertrude Millin- Harper ($2.50). Sombre story...
Paramount and Fenway: "Bellc of the Nineties"--Mae West gets her second showing in Boston when she appears at the Paramount and Fenway in this rather boisterously amusing tale of the ever so gay nineties. Also "Big Hearted Herbert", telling the story of a boorish, self-made man and his conversion by members of his family to the amenities of life, is included on the bill. Guy Kibbee has the leading role in this picture, which is taken from the play of the same name...
THIS story of "Retreat from Glory", Lockhart's sequel to his famed "British Agent," is not quite as good as that original opus for the simple reason that the material is not as good. In this tale of travel and experience after the war, Lockhart takes us on his semi-official banking and diplomatic mission to East-central Europe...
...against the sublime grandeur of the Dolomites, this simple folk-tale becomes a motion picture of heroic proportions. Every scene is beautifully photographed, yet without obvious pretension. The roles are competently handled by Fraulein Riefenstahl, who plays the mountain girl, and a group of native Tyroleans. There is so little dialogue as to obviate any necessity for familiarity with German or Italian. "The Blue Light" is a truly distinguished and unusual film and one that would provide a refreshing evening to any picturegoer...
Like other Robinson narratives, Amaranth is a tale of moral issues. This time the scene is set in a shadowy country not unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell. It is the place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment...