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TIME: THE PRESENT-Tess Slesinger -Simon & Schuster...
...When Tess Slesinger's first novel, The Unpossessed, appeared last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), critics gave it three rousing cheers. But few thought it Dostoevskian, none noticed that its title was a salute to the Russian master. Critical consensus was that Author Slesinger was a wit, which did not mean that her story was altogether funny. Last week her second book, a collection of short stories, not only deepened but broadened the impression her first one made. In Time: The Present Author Slesinger shows herself the somewhat proud possessor of what professors call "creative imagination." She has already...
...UNPOSSESSED ? Tess Slesinger ? ? Simon & Schuster...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home to all students in the University at the President's House 17 Quincy Street, Sunday afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock. This is the first of the President's tess this year open to undergraduates...
Change of Heart (Fox). Long the most popular romantic team in cinema, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell last appeared together in Tess of the Storm Country two years ago. Hollywood gossip to the effect that they were separated because of objections by Miss Gaynors husband seemed confirmed when she sued Lydell Peck, Fox executive, for divorce, charged "unreasonable jealousy." Last month Miss Gaynor's divorce from Lydell Peck became final. Now in Change of Heart she and Farrell are happily reunited. Neither homely nor comely, Miss Gaynor brings to her new role all the old sentimentality which made...