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...women reading the earth under the quandary of the sky." Out of the compromise that must always result between the intention to portray life and achieving that portrayal arises the village of Midland and its inhabitants. Ab Carver with his big laughter, the blind Wilbur Allen, and Bruce Durken who, true to melodramatic tradition died in the final burning of the church about which the story is woven and to which he had dedicated his life...
...production of Greater Love and its almost simultaneous collapse might have passed without much comment except for the appearance of Comedienne Mary Hay as the brave little sister. She not only made her debut into "the more serious drama" with the play, but, using the name of Bruce Spaulding, helped write...
...seems convincing, than a tragic one. Here the plot and characters are convincing enough, but as in so many last acts, there seems to be a faltering and as labored effect to tie together all the loose ends. The action there goes on in retrospect in the mind of Bruce, and as I read this stream of memories I felt that the author was perhaps groping for something that he had not quite found. Also, at the very end the shifting of emphasis to the part fate has played in the life of Bruce's father would seem...
...Bruce also is described in a few apt words which give one a picture which would take paragraphs for a less skillful writer to delineate...
...Bruce, good-natured, blue eyed, light haired, his forehead...