Word: bromfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EVERYTHING-Louis Bromfield-Harper...
...Luxe (by Louis Bromfield & John Gearon; Chester Erskin producer) is the kind of play which is so embarrassingly bad that it makes a playgoer's flesh crawl. Billed as "a play about the end of an epoch," it presents a frieze of specious, spotty and purportedly War-wrecked characters against a recent Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Rarely encountered outside the pages of bogus novels, these gloomy folk go about telling each other that they are "so tired," complaining of "the jitters," wishing they were dead. Once in a while one encourages another to "buck...
...Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American literature has grown up. It deals with all the topics that literature deals with anywhere...
Adapted from a story by Louis Bromfield. The Life of Vergie Winters is a wet-eyed salute to sacrifice. As such, it is an ideal vehicle for Ann Harding whose specialty is keeping a stiff upper lip amid life's many misfortunes. Actually, the miseries of Vergie Winters are unlikely, exaggerated and avoidable. That they may draw more tears than any of Ann Harding's other recent martyrdoms is due to Director Alfred Santell's clever use of his whole bag of tricks, including "asides" and sequences of "narratage." Typical shot: Vergie Winters, when little Joan runs...
HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW - Louis Bromfield - Harper ($2.50). Four long stories about what prolific but un-profound Author Bromfield calls "raffish people...