Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poet Carl Sandburg, authority on Lincoln, authoritatively scotched a Rome radio tale that Italian Patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi had been asked to lead Union troops in the Civil War. The poet labeled it "just one more of those goofy affairs that come out of Italy...
Next Monday, DeVoto, the noted writer and editor, formerly a lecturer on English here will tell the tale of the ill-fated Donner Party which frose to death in a high mountain pass in California...
Macbeth (produced by Maurice Evans in association with John Haggott) may at last pay its way on Broadway. Actors from E. H. Sothern and Robert B. Mantell to Lionel Barrymore and Philip Merivale have wrestled with its intractable horrors, have never made them popular. The blood-soaked tale of its towering, ambition-haunted criminals gets in places too much beyond human size to be fully communicable in the theater. The raging fevers of its hero's mind somehow strike cold upon the hearer's heart. But last week Actor Maurice Evans and Director Margaret Webster...
Theatre (adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel by Guy Bolton & Mr. Maugham; produced by John Golden) is a half-brittle, half-gooey tale of a glittering English stage couple who seem to the public like Darby & Joan, behave in private more like Don Juan and Jezebel. The first half-in Maugham's typical drawing-room style-is a faintly nasty account of their infidelities, so carefully underlined that for a while it looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets...
Leroy J. Benoit is an instructor in French, a man who spends much of his time in Sever, many of his hours correcting papers, but he is an instructor who can tell an unbelievable tale of sabotage, of large-scale intrigue, of fifth-column...