Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This theme will run through a series of full-page ads, starting in November, in the Druggist's big sister, Hearst's International Cosmopolitan (circulation: 1,850,000), with an added plug for important Druggist customers like Absorbine, Jr. Fletcher's Castoria, Seiberling's Dry-wear Latex Baby Pants. Only cost to them will be $10 worth of products a month as prizes in a window-display contest. Text is being prepared free by eight leading advertising agencies. "Cooper-ating" editorials will be released each month in 20 Hearst daily newspapers (combined circulation...
Valley of the Giants surrounds its heroic theme with robust climaxes as huge, numerous, tightly packed and ancient as the rings on a redwood stump. They include a free-for-all fight wherein a redheaded lumberjack named Ox (Alan Hale) demolishes a barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place...
...Bengal Lancer than a merger of early epics about the winning of the West, with the usurping Prince Ghul substituting for Sitting Bull and the Khyber Pass as stand-in for the Oregon Trail. Principal distinction between its plot and that of the early American version of the same theme is that, instead of a golden-haired heroine, the Prince (Raymond Massey) maltreats his brown-faced little Hindu nephew (Sabu). Busily organizing a gigantic revolt of all the border tribes from Afghanistan to China, Guhl undertakes to cross a tight-lipped British cavalry captain (Roger Livesey), whose function...
...business (Bread), birth control (Seed). They have brought him neither the literary reputation of his brother nor the big profits of his wife. But they have been moderately good, moderately successful, have kept him from being known as simply "Kathleen Norris' husband." Bricks Without Straw takes the topical theme of Radical Youth. Son of a strait-laced Midwest banker, likable, 20-year-old Jerry Kennedy went to Manhattan in 1904, fell in love with a beautiful music student named Connie, married her in spite of his family's bigoted objection to her Catholicism. Then he lost...
Despite its brutal theme, Horns For Our Adornment shows an underlying sympathy for its characters which, by comparison with the unadulterated nihilism of Celine (TIME, Aug. 29), makes Sandemose seem buoyant with human feeling. This quality to some readers may be as shocking as the author's merciless realism...