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...Selznick International) is a slick-dandy, too-well-tailored dressing up of Mark Twain's homespun yarn. Its Hollywood pretty-prettiness needs more than anything else to have its face & hands rubbed in good Mississippi mud. But neither time, Technicolor nor cinema trickery can dim the essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted...
With the exhaustively accurate settings, the high-horsed performances of the grownups (particularly that of May Robson as Aunt Polly), Author Mark Twain might have been well pleased. But more than once he would have harrumphed at the self-consciousness of the child actors. Hollywood usually looks to professional youngsters for parts like Tom Sawyer. But Producer David O. Selznick has no child stars on his own roster, and had no wish to borrow and boost one under contract to someone else. When he put Tom Sawyer on his schedule two years ago, he started a nationwide hunt that viewed...
Last week, accompanied by 11-year-old Ann Gillis, a green-eyed, red-haired veteran of eleven pictures, Tommy was back in Manhattan. Together the pair had curtsied to the press, spoken over the radio, journeyed to Elmira, N. Y. to lay a wreath on Mark Twain's grave. Back home, Tommy sighed, "Give me The Bronx any time." But The Bronx was not the same: the fan mail was already starting to come in. Wrote one: "I heard you on the radio last night and I am looking forward to seeing your picture very much. It was very...
Half of Illinois lives in Chicago and half lives "downstate," and the unwillingness of the twain to meet has made Illinois politics as unpredictable to the experts of the Roosevelt regime as to most of their predecessors. In 1932 the Chicago Democratic machine of Mayor Edward J. Kelly and old Boss Patrick A. Nash reached out to help Downstater William. H. Dieterich of Beardstown beat Downstater Scott W. Lucas of Havana for the U. S. Senate. Since then downstate has acquired an efficient political boss in the person of bald, forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate...
...compiled each week by the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune and The Publishers' Weekly. They give a clear picture of U. S. week-to-week buying of new books. But do they give an accurate indication of U. S. literary taste? Librarians (who hold that Mark Twain is still the most widely-read U. S. author) aver that they do not. Publishers of inexpensive reprints are inclined to agree with the librarians. Releasing figures last fortnight on the sale of his Modern Library series (95? and $1.25), Publisher Bennett Cerf disclosed that Dostoyevsky's The Brothers...