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...twenties one of the most popular songs in the land was the lugubrious lament of a dispirited convict who wished he had the wings of an angel. Some 5,000,000 copies and phonograph records of The Prisoner's Song were sold. According to a myth as hollow as it was widespread, the composer was a condemned man awaiting execution in the death house of the Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma penitentiary. In Manhattan, around the all-night delicatessens where Broadway song pluggers and publishers gather for gossip and fun, it was always assumed that the composer was Vaudevillian...
...this little book the author of "Look Homeward Angel" and "Of Time and the River" tells us about his literary method. He writes and writes and writes, he makes lists of rivers, towns, railways, names, he burns with the desire to set down on paper the secrets of America. Sometimes it seems as though he just has to write, other times he can't write to save him. When he gets so many million words done he and Max Perkins sit down and make a book out of them...
...Last of the Mohicans (Reliance). During the siege of Fort William Henry on Lake George by the French and Hurons under Montcalm (1757), two daughters of the British commander, Alice (Binnie Barnes) and Cora Munro (Heather Angel) set out from Albany for the Fort...
Watching the Kingston parade, an American Legionary named Harry Whitney stiffened in patriotic anger when he beheld the announcement, "Peace, Father Divine Is God" stitched on a U. S. flag. He summoned police, who stopped the bearer, a white woman called Fair Angel, directed her to take the flag back to the boat. Later, on the premises of the "Promised Land" where Father Divine was watching a few of his followers swim in a pool whose outhouses were marked for SISTERS and BROTHERS, the police .asked for the flag, got only the little cultist's soft reply...
...their own eyes at least, as bold pathfinders in the realm of entertainment. Last autumn, with The Story of Louis Pasteur, Warner Brothers made the astonishing discovery that straightforward biography, long a well-rewarded branch of literature and the theatre, was equally adaptable to the cinema. The White Angel, another apple from the same branch, is not only a worthy but often a fascinating study of the past, reviving handsomely the glory of bygone days and deeds. A similar entertainment presented on the stage would attract encomiums not only from critics but also from teachers, doctors and philanthropists...