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MISSIONARIES are vastly misundstood--even by themselves. So when Raymond Weaver from his cloistered Morningside attempts to place the spark of real life in the bodies of some soul savers at Kurodani in the Island Empire, one feels an interest akin to that aroused by a study of any community of gods or devils, not yet quite understood by the world at large...
...disappointed. Mr. Weaver, in a rather loose, often eccentric style, paints a delightful picture of a far from delightful picture of a far from delightful existence in the Black Valley. Here East meets West with as little mutual comprehension as Mr. Foster found in India. The pointed spire of the Compound Church pricks a sky too old to mind such petty prodding, and the Reverend Alurid Wilberforce's proselyting pricks even less effectively the soverign sufficiency of heathenism and of life. Tragedy grimaces from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees...
...certificate and $2,000 in cash went to H. G. Weaver of General Motors. He indexed every county in the U. S. as to effective consumer-power, to insure economy and efficiency of advertising...
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em. John V. A. Weaver, who claims fame as the author of a book of verse, In American, and as the husband of Peggy Wood, has herewith written his first play. To assist him he found George Abbott who, with James Gleason, wrote The Fall Guy. Together they have fashioned a homely fable of those who watch the song and sorrow of metropolitan life from the cheap seats. Clerks and poor boardinghouse folk are their characters. Their touch is shrewd and their comedy genuinely entertaining...
Baptists aren't the only bigoted beggars in the whole of Christendom. In Weaver's "Black Valley," that interesting novel of missionary life in Japan, the author draws a character not too unlike the maligned minister in "Rain" But he doesn't call him a Baptist. He might even be a Methodist or a--So you won't be able to laugh at his Baptistisms. Yet you might read the book anyway. It does not approach Forster's "Passage to India," but it is a very satisfying treatment of an unknown, if narrow, field...