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...POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE- James M. Cain-Knopf ($2). Like the Ancient Mariner, who held his unwilling listener by the power of his glittering eye, the awful compulsion of his tale, Author Cain's high-powered shocker will keep many a reader spellbound. The Postman Always Rings Twice, though it gives the impression of a stark naked love-&-murder story, is actually narrative stripped to its underwear. Author Cain's hero is as hard as any cinema villain but he obeys cinema rules, goes sappy...
...contrasted with the pitiless realities of sea and storm. Though he has a resounding reputation as a realist (his "big novel," The Village, is written in naturalistic, Chekhovian style) Author Bunin was once numbered among the symbolists, has also written and translated verse-notably Byron's "Manfred" and "Cain" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha...
From James M. Cain, a veteran of the days when the Mercury was indeed a sole refuge in a plague-ridden land, there come comments on Hollywood which reiterate the thesis repeated ad nauseam by this writer in these columns, viz., that movies cannot be good, but are excellent considering their number, audiences, and mode of production. For those who road and believe not, subscribe to Consumer's Research and buy not, an article by Mr. Sayre, late of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dispels many puffs which inflate the current nonsense about streamlined horseless carriages...
Alabama's Captain John ("Hurry") Cain cut through St. Mary's right tackle on his own 29-yd. line, swerved toward the left side of the field, wriggled away from three tacklers and sidestepped two more on his way to the goal. After 57 more minutes of bruising, grunting, thumping, kicking and pounding, the score still remained Alabama 6, St. Mary's 0, at San Francisco...
...driving rain at Birmingham, Alabama's John Cain and Tennessee's Beattie Feathers had a punting duel. Cain's kicks averaged 48 yards to Feathers' 43. but he made one bad one, behind his own goal line. Tennessee took the ball on the 11-yd. line and Feathers carried it across for Tennessee's touchdown...