Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Survivor. Joseph Gregorcsek complained to a Chicago divorce court that his wife, Mary, had beaten him several times. Carnivals bill him as the "man who hangs himself and lives to tell the tale...
Presenting Lily Mars (M.G.M.) is a conventional screen version of 73-year-old Booth Tarkington's tale of a stagestruck small-town girl. This juvenile darling (Judy Garland) gets to Broadway before you can say Jake Shubert, marries a great producer (Van Heflin), and is soon seen swaying in black tulle in a super-sumptuous musical show staged by the lucky fellow...
This absorbing tale of a lynching opens one afternoon in the '80s, as two tired stubble-bearded cattle punchers (Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan) canter into the hushed, cruel, lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering...
...northern coast of Occupied France. Blonde, 16-year-old Yvonne, a French girl who devoutly believes in truth, comes face to face with the awful consequences of honest dealings with the enemy. Rich in character studies of Nazi soldiers, Gestapo functionaries, French villagers, First Harvest is a dismal, moral tale of average literary merit...
Harold Smith's "Appraisal" ranks with the Advocate's best stories. Featuring the same control of medium which has characterized this author's earlier work, this tale demonstrates a new and more mature attention to descriptive detail. An unusual plot conception adds interest to the story, but its triumph is the integration of plot will the delineation of character and scene to achieve a unity of achievement uncommon in undergraduate literary effort. Ralph Bennett has contributed an excellent account of an everyday incident at a barley harvest. More a narrative essay than a short story, this episode gains from Bennett...