Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TRAGIC LIFE-Vardis Fisher-Doubleday, Doran...
...second adaptation of a Theodore Dreiser novel which Producer Ben Schulberg and his favorite actress Sylvia Sidney have made for Paramount. The first, An American Tragedy, understandably vexed Author Dreiser. This one, equally understandably, has his approval. Without the patient wisdom of the novel, slurring some of the tragic ambiguities which Dreiser so painstakingly explored, it contains much of the meat of the book, makes its gently sinful heroine and her brash, uncertain lover characters who are affectingly, if somewhat too forlornly, real...
...been a big seller in Germany, and though the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it for June, many a bewildered reader may ask himself what all the shooting is for. To many a reader Little Man, What Now? will seem a thickly sentimental, occasionally pathetic, never tragic or deeply moving story of a very ordinary little man. As a case-history it is competently managed; as a novel it is second-rate...
...away who is claimed to have murdered his father, and the way of release from reality for the men, who depend heavily on periodic benders, Synge also shows the deep, unconscious yearning for the rare and the unknown in their earthy world. In the end the play becomes almost tragic as "Pegeen Mike," the shrewish heroine, realizes that she has lost her erstwhile wooer, "the only playboy of the western world...
...made him attack Woodrow Wilson. In the internationalism which he has always shunned-to the point of being called pro-German during the War-he now sees his country taking the lead. Five years or so ago it was the fashion to regard Hearst as a "failure" and a "tragic figure"-but though he may need cash (as always) and though his papers' prestige is low now that the country has outgrown them in both directions, above and below, it is doubtful that so subtle a mind as Hearst's is trapped in tragedy. He knows...