Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notorious Samuel Roth who, under the name of William Faro Inc., specialized in smutty publications. Last September William Faro Inc. issued a thick blue volume entitled "The Strange Career of Mr. Hoover Under Two Flags" by John Hamill ($3.75). In three months the book has sold far & wide, caused much undercover comment, more private indignation...
Springtime for Henry. Henry Dewlip (Leslie Banks) was as charming and entertaining a person as you would hope to meet. He drank too much, slept too little, made ardent love to his best friend's wife. That was before he hired wide-eyed Miss Smith (Helen Chandler) for his secretary. After that he quit tippling, quit gambling, went to bed early and infinitely bored everyone he knew. Finally he was reclaimed, but not before it developed that Miss Smith had shot her French husband?"poor dear"?because he simply could not break himself of the habit of bringing...
...this is a far?and very merry?cry from the sort of thing one has grown to expect of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Mrs. Moonlight, Art & Mrs. Bottle). And his comedy is populated by four of the most pleasant players now to be seen: wide-eyed Helen Chandler (rescued from Hollywood) ; facile Leslie Banks (late of tragic Lean Harvest) ; handsome Frieda Inescort (she has toured with George Arliss); and Nigel Bruce, the funniest man to be discovered by Manhattan theatregoers since Guy Kibbee was brought to light as a mortuary supply salesman in Torch Song last year. Admired in London...
...dialog. The story: Hero Thayer, vacationing with his wife in Europe, encounters a handsome young Greek, by name Paros. Mrs. Thayer flirts with Paros, falls in love with him. Meantime Thayer has discovered that Paros is a pretender to the Greek throne, the idolized head of a world-wide Society which is gradually getting Greece under its control. Thayer becomes Paros' henchman, surrenders his wife, sinks himself in the Society's work. Eventually, a mere devil for organization, he makes Paros Emperor of the U. S., himself takes the omnipotent job of Attorney General. Then...
...Carr's "Life of Dostoevsky" brings out ht peculiarities of the Russian mind from an Anglo-Saxon point of view. His subject had to a high degree the introspective, soul-searching nature of an average Russian. What Dostoevsky lacked was the wide decriptive power of Tolstoi. Psychologically his work is intensely interesting, but this should not obscure the creative and artistic qualities of "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov." Mr. Carr's book is a dispassionate study of the great Russian novelist. The biographer believes that Dostoevsky, in his subtlety, brutality, piety, and lust, came nearer to the inconsistency...