Word: traveloger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HOLLYWOOD THROUGH THE BACK DOOR - E. Nils Holstius - Longmans, Green ($2.50). Open-mouthed travelog of an English gramophone executive who tried to crash Hollywood as a scenarist, sometimes roamed Los Angeles disguised as a bum; told with minute, deadly earnestness as if he were the first white man to see the place...
Thoreau-like Captain Doughty. Quietly, competently written, the result is a sea story consisting of gently anarchistic philosophizing, exact descriptions, a travelog plot, the flavor but not the vitality of Tomlinson's best books, Gallions Reach and The Sea and the Jungle...
...contemporary writers. Having done his part by the South in "Stars Fell on Alabama", an engaging potpourri of myths, sketches, and experiences of Alabama, he turns to his native state in the present instance in a somewhat confused and confusing piece of copy that is part rationale, part travelog, part apology, part local-color journalism, but which holds the reader's interest throughout...
...literary works of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt were augmented by the publication of a juvenile travelog entitled A Trip to Washington With Bobby and Betty...
...into pictures made on location comes from their producers' natural reluctance to throw away bits of local color even when these impede their story. Sanders of the River, consequently, is full of native war dances, canoe-paddling, realistic spear-shaking and drum-beating which, no doubt interesting in a travelog, have no place in this narrative. It is distinguished by Michael Spolianski's curious but usually effective musical score, by Paul Robeson's vocalizations of lyrics which sound alarmingly like U.S. college football songs, and by Negro acting which is no less genuine because most of the performers have marked...