Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...version of the yarn tells of a cowboy named Rot-Gut Pete who fell victim to a giant flycatcher plant in Arizona. Searchers for him found only a watch, 42 boot nails, 11 buttons, a six-shooter, a belt buckle and two silver dollars...
Merchandise. Soft goods will be in fairly good supply, with more woolens available, but civilians will not get as much cotton cloth and less than 50% of the 1943 rayon yarn production. Men's haberdashery will tend more & more to ersatz fabrics. Perfumes and toilet goods will be cut by war demands for alcohol. Notions, blouses, handbags will be difficult to obtain. Draperies, rugs and carpets are already so tight that one West Coast retailer placed an order for 1,000 rugs of any color, any pattern and any size provided they could be retailed for less than...
Somerset Maugham can spin a colorful yarn out of those aspects of human relations that usually lurk in literary backgrounds but rarely appear boldly as the central theme of a story. At times a bit maudlin, the English novelist has avoided stereotyped sentimentalities in "The Moon and Sixpence," and Warner's has followed faithfully with a moving cinema rendition of the tale of simmering desires and explosive emotional escapes...
...other job on the program, "Through Different Eyes," is another of the series of flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...
...NOBODY'S VINEYARD- H. C. Bailey-^k Crime Club ($2). Josh Clunk, London criminal lawyer, who chants revival hymns while plotting legal deviltries, saves a client and clears up, in his own oblique style, four mysterious deaths in a corrupt English seaside town. A highly rewarding yarn...