Word: authors
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Once the Kettle. This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn. At 82, he is a onetime Manhattan produce broker and skilled amateur magician who has spent most of a lifetime trying to expose fake mediums as "the vilest gang of crooks that ever lived." No magician at writing a book, Rinn has nonetheless succeeded in presenting a bulky and formidable blast against spiritualism in all its forms...
...Duke to a hideous hereafter. Like all good fairy tales-and The Thirteen Clocks is one of the cleverest that any modern writer has been able to tell-Thurber's story may mean only what it says; it may also mean a good deal more that the author has characteristically made no attempt to spell...
...Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's narrative is less bedizened with verbal gimcrackery, but it is still a bit too tricky for every taste. Nevertheless, there is no living author who moves about in fairyland with such wit and easy familiarity. As for inner meanings, please yourself...
Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell. Reminiscences and reflections on literature and life by the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four (TIME...
...reminiscent of his earlier works in that the old power and brilliance of action and dialogue has returned. Paul Kelly and Uta Hagen handle this play aboue a forgotten actor's return to stardom. Unlike the earliest Odets' stuff, however, this work has none of the social commentary the author is noted for; it gets along well without...