Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a man fancies himself most in a role that would surprise his friends. Clowns are notoriously tragic actors. Often prose-writers break out into a poetic itch, and if the rash is compelling enough, even break quarantine and show themselves in public. Author Faulkner, with a prominent but still embattled reputation as a proseman, now comes forth with a small (72-page) book of poems. It is his second such venture (in 1924 he published The Marble Faun) and only deep-dyed Faulknerites will find it more fine than frenzied. His simultaneous debut last week as a cinema author...
...children: her own daughter, Ann, and the 10-year-old son of the late Barbara La Marr whom she arranged to adopt two days before Miss La Marr's death. Reconciled to the fact that audiences will always find her writhing hands, her quavering voice, even her tragic smile peculiarly funny, she now sticks to comic roles, will presently appear in Maids a la Mode...
...Stout is far from being the D. H. Lawrence of the U. S., notwithstanding the blurb on his latest book, but Forest Fire is an up-to-date, readable Western yarn. Though it gets tragic at the end for no good reason, by & large it stays true to its cheerful nature...
...sets his mind to it. Some of his books have been more ambitious than Friday's Business but none is more delightful. A modern Prince Otto without the Presbyterian implications, this tale of an imaginary European country is so detachedly and lightly told that even its theatrically tragic end brings only smiles of applause...
...President last week offered Nebraska's Arthur Francis Mullen, his floor manager at the Chicago convention, a seat on the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Mullen, whose friends had hoped he would get the Attorney Generalship, turned down the judgeship because "in these stern and tragic times I can render greater service to your administration as a private citizen...