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...dawn or dusk, to the point where the movie seems to suggest that the sun never really shone in the old Southwest. Except for a gusty, artful performance by Actor Huston-the last before his death in April-The Furies is notable only as a sample of what Zane Grey might have done if he had tried to write like Eugene O'Neill...
...MAVERICK QUEEN (246 pp.)-Zane Grey-Harper...
Firmly fixed among the few comfortable absolutes of the 20th Century are such situations, all grown from the plots and protagonists of Zane Grey's novels. For some' 45 years Author Grey has been demonstrating that yellow-bellied villains die violently and that silent, clean-livin' cowboy heroes ride on forever with the virtuous western (or reformed eastern) girls of their choice...
With the appearance of Author Grey's eighth novel since his death in 1939, the mystery of where all the new books are coming from will puzzle many readers more than the maverick queen's bloody secret. Mrs. Zane Grey's answer: her in defatigable husband, who sometimes polished off a novel in two or three months of fast scribbling, was 15 to 20 manuscripts ahead of Harper's schedule. That could well mean another decade of easy readin' and hard ridin' before Zane Grey's zealous fans reach...
Since the war, French fiction has been obsessed with the theme of the Resistance movement. Usually it portrays the movement with the moralistic, black & white simplicity of Zane Grey on the subject of cowboys and rustlers. In dealing with the theme in The Barkeep of Blémont, French Novelist Marcel Aymé has granted it some of the complexity it possesses. Because he has gone beyond mere slogans and asked himself how people actually felt and behaved immediately following France's Liberation, his novel shines with quiet credibility...