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...time he reached Des Moines for his meeting with Alf Landon (see col. 3), President Roosevelt had seen the worst of the Drought. Rolling East next day into the mild Drought belt, he stopped at Hannibal, Mo. to help dedicate a Mark Twain Memorial bridge across the Mississippi. At Springfield, Ill. for Drought talks with Illinois officials, a telephone talk with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau gave him occasion to declare: "The obligations of the Government-of the United States-are on a sounder basis of credit than ever before in history...
...inherited cultural resources," he has occupied himself ever since with his penetrating analyses of the dilemmas of creative genius in U. S. society, establishing a critical landmark when he wrote America's Coming of Age in 1915 and producing a native classic with The Ordeal of Mark Twain five years later. Last week Van Wyck Brooks offered the first volume of a literary history of the U. S. that surpassed all his previous books and that, as the first unified modern appraisal of the giants of native culture, seemed bound to deepen the influence he has exerted ever since...
...music." Cut off from the sources of his inspiration in old age, after his travels abroad, Hawthorne's genius disintegrated where Emerson's grew more powerful. At last he could not write at all, getting into that frantic state of inability to concentrate that later cursed Mark Twain. "Hard as he tried to write, pulling down the blinds and locking his door, he could not bring his mind into focus. The novel became two novels, and the two became four He could not fix upon a single setting...even his theme eluded him...He made four beginnings, constantly...
...Christian churches are officially committed to belief in Heaven as an ultimate reward for good, many a Christian considers it bad taste to speculate in detail upon life after death. Lacking evidence, a minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...
...Connecticut Yankee", joint product of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, flashes again its jolly anachronisms. Myrna Loy and Frank Albertson do the supporting, along with a host of telephones, automobiles, tanks, and machine guns. There is many an occasion for a belly-laugh, but one can't help feeling that the lavish spilling of blood militates a bit against the gaiety. "Forgotten Faces" shows Herbert Marshall, up the river for murder, nevertheless preventing Gertrude Michael, his extremely naughty wife, from blackmailing their daughter, adopted into respectability. There are some telling bits of psychological suggestion along the harrowing, strident...