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...UNPOSSESSED - Tess Slesinger - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Last week a new novelist burst, like a modern Pallas Athene, full-panoplied from the aching head of Uncle Sam. Critics who always lift an eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of plain citizens she seemed indeed a well-armed lady. Her utterance was racier than classic, and the bird of wisdom on her shoulder looked more like a mockingbird than an owl. But she was obviously a messenger of the gods, and Publishers Simon & Schuster announced her as such. The Unpossessed...
Into a Brooklyn police court was haled Tess Gardell, 300-lb. Italian soprano who performs as Aunt Jemima in radio and musical comedy. She was charged with assaulting (jaw, glasses) one Abraham Zimmer (130 Ib.) whose automobile had collided with hers...
...ills of office and the Ways & Means Committee had a sobering effect. But at nights he forgot his troubles with the British Ambassador, assisted by whiskeys' & soda (bicarbonate). Administration affairs were just beginning to straighten out when Jim Doolittle, the President's brother-in-law, who married his sister Tess under compulsion, was arrested for 'legging in Montana. That scandal was the prelude to worse troubles. In its effort to balance the Budget, the Senate taxed landlords 50% of any rent they charged, 150% of what they got. What with Wall Street investigations, the Depression got so thick that Julius...
...taken many new pictures during the last summer which will enlighten the provincial and refresh the memory of the cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift of combining the country of which he talks with the characters about which the authors have written. The result is that Tess lives her tragic life before you, and you pause with Mr. Hersey to watch the straggler on the read at twilight while the heath embrowns itself against...
...James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton) stood in Dorchester last week with a string in his hand. He gave the string a tug. some drapery dropped and there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world -was unveiled, Sir James made known an obscure fact...