Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be surprised at the list of well-known U. S. writers who have been glad to get on the WPA payroll: Poet Conrad Aiken, for example, who wrote the memorable description of Deerfield, Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children of Strangers, Fabulous New Orleans), whose guide to New Orleans was complicated by the difficulty...
...cast kidded this plot the effect would have been tragic, but they play it straight, with frequently hilarious results. In Negro theatres it will be a conventional Western, and it can play the artier white houses as a parody. Best parts of the picture are the tunes, Harlem on the Prairie and Romance in the Rain, written by a white man, Lew Porter. Now and then the harmonizing of The Four Tones in Albuquerque or Jeffries' big baritone going to town with The Old Folks at Home shows how good a colored musical film might...
...play show's the strange, tragic comradeship of Lennie, a huge, fetish-bound dullard whose innocent pleasure was to pet small, furry things, whose vice was his crazy strength that inevitably killed the things he loved to touch; and George, a wiry, roadwise nomad whose chief job in life was looking after Lennie. The hopeless fairy tale that George (Wallace Ford) tells Lennie (Broderick Crawford) over and over about the little house on the little piece o' land, with an alfalfa patch and rabbits for Lennie to pet, where one day they will live "off the fatta...
...Hesse, and was the mother of Victoria of Spain, who passed on the curse to her son, Prince Alfonso, onetime heir to the Spanish throne, and the late Prince Gonzalo. Last week the ancient curse pointed up in a new form as the House of Hesse leaped into another tragic role in world headlines...
...detailed catalog of slips whereby the New World has fallen from its original promise of a New Age to the "age of brass" following Appomattox; to the ''age of gas" initiated by "logolyrist" Woodrow Wilson; finally to the "age of soap-grease" sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt. Most tragic slip, in Poet Masters' reckoning, was the Civil...