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Shakespearean Abundance. This failing severely limits the realistic depth of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain does not record "the curiosity, the shame, the torment" of adolescence; and in that particular sense Mark Twain's whole memory of Hannibal is "a libel [on] a full-blooded folk." But "in what he perceived, in what he felt, in the nerve-ends of emotion, in the mysterious ferments of art which transform experience, he was a great mind-there has been no greater in American literature." DeVoto notes the almost Shakespearean abundance of life that floods Mark Twain...
...when I'm sitting without anything to read waiting for a train in a depot, I torment myself with the poet's dictum that to make a house a home, livin' is what it takes a heap...
Pert, youthful Sylvia Weld, playing her first Broadway lead, gives a tense, natural portrayal of inner torment. Ralph (brother of Frank) Morgan seems rather too professional to be convincing as the father, but Tom Powers plays an intelligent priest to the life. John Hoysradt appears as an outrageously affected writer whose rasping impudence stabs the girl like a sword...
...home town, Port Huron, Mich., previewed this picture in three movie houses simultaneously on the eve of the 93rd anniversary of his birth. The Port Huron of the picture is a less appreciative human hive with no movie houses. Its citizens seem to have little else to do but torment Tom Edison. Even Tom's kindly father (George Bancroft) begins to look askance at his gifted offspring, who is universally called "addled" or "tetched." Mother Edison (Fay Bainter) explains the unhappy state of affairs: it is because "Tom is looking for causes, not effects." Tom seems to feel most...
...Whatever it is, the Youth Congress might have been especially designed to torment Martin Dies. It is a conglomeration of 63 national organizations; claims 4,600,000 members, has an organizational structure as complicated as an Insull holding company. Some affiliated organizations: Esperanto Association of North America, American League for Peace and Democracy, Association of Lithuanian Workers...