Word: wellses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Island of Lost Souls (Paramount) offers to connoisseurs of acting an opportunity to observe Charles Laughton in the role of a depraved physician who sets up a physiological research station on a remote Pacific isle and comes to a bad end at the claws of a crew of extras made...
THE BULPINGTON OF BLUP-H. G. Wells-Macmillan ($2.50).
No matter how he troubles the waters, no matter how deeply lucid he may leave them, at the bottom of every book its author may be found. Herbert George Wells cannot hold his breath long enough to stay there: he comes bobbing up, threshes around, blows off steam at a...
From his childhood up Theodore Bulpington had an imaginary alter ego which he called the Bulpington of Blup, a romantic dream-figure in which he increasingly took refuge from the drab reality of himself. Only child of a dilettante critic and an "advanced" mother, Theodore was born into an artistic...
Author Wells does not like Theodore. He is at some pains to show that all his characters who dislike or despise Science are white trash or will come to a bad end. Like most enthusiastic exhibitions of bloodthirsty bayonet work on straw men. Author Wells's easy triumphs are...