Word: troubadours
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...long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In spite of all the pomp and panoply of a conscientiously historical novel, this lengthy (438 pp.) tale of a 12th Century troubadour rarely makes sense as a story about human beings. By dint of piling on medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside are only senseless shadows. Peire Vidal, famed troubadour who actually lived until Author Cronyn...
STEPHEN FOSTER, AMERICA'S TROUBADOUR-John Tasker Howard-Crowell ($3.50). In a 70-year-old ledger in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital can be found the record of the death of Stephen Foster. The No. 1 U. S. songwriter, thin and wasted at 37, had fallen in his Bowery rooming-house, cut his throat, bashed his forehead. News papers took scant notice of the passing of the man who wrote "Old Folks at Home," "Massa's in de Cold Ground," "Nelly Ely," "Oh! Susanna," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky Home." Author John Tasker Howard, an expert...
...pedant brushing elbows with the more truculent half of life, as well as with the dusky female species whose advances he passes off with tactful gentleness, always taking his romance with a grain of salt and never once forgetting his station in life. We follow this troubadour and his disguise, waiting for him to betray himself and his vocation and we are not at all surprised to catch him meditating upon the companions of Xenophon when he comes upon the shores of Lake Balation...
...Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor, famed jockey of ten years ago now "coming back": the third race at the opening day of Jamaica, N. Y., racetrack; up on Mrs. D. Lowe's Chief's Troubadour...
...Second of the three famed daughters of Actor Richard Bennett, Barbara was best known as dancing partner of the late Maurice. If Troubadour Downey had any doubts about his own importance they were doubtless resolved last month when he saw the front page of the tabloid New York Mirror almost entirely occupied by a photograph of his wife. A wily cameraman gained admittance to her hospital by bringing a large bouquet. In the bouquet was hidden a camera...