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...Hans Undset, 21 year old son of Sigrid Undset, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for her powerful pictures of northern life in medieval times, may enroll at Harvard this fall...
MADAME DORTHEA-Sigrid Undset-Knopf...
Madame Dorthea is a study of a bourgeois wife & mother in the early months of widowhood. A really good novelist could have made something of the theme with no sales-trimmings. Madame Undset puts it in the 18th Century, replete with archeological detail, dopes it to the teeth with "colorful," superfluous characters, whips up a spurious suspense, and still is too much of a bourgeois wife & mother to bring...
...wholehearted sympathy of at least some readers, Jorgen Thestrup mysteriously disappears, and Madame. Dorthea divides her time between her children, household duties, settling the estate, and flashbacks on her married life. All these domesticities are reported in an abundance which Tolstoy could have made wonderful and which Sigrid Undset's high-grade Dorothy Dix tone of voice makes tedious...
Died. Anders Undset-Svarstad, 26, son of Norwegian Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Sigrid Undset; defending his country; somewhere in Norway...