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...play, "The House of Connolly" as the movie "Carolina", will deal informally with some of the problems of the dramatist who works with material unusual to the stage. He covers a wide range of subject matter, from his own special milieu, the folk-play of South Carolina to the flashier contributions of the silver screen...
...three long short stories in Women Against Men are potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend, Victoria., who uses herself as material for love-affairs, her affairs as material for her best-selling books. Victoria is gross, cynical, shrewd; somehow her daughter turns out to be the opposite. She soon sees through her mother, takes her affection to Fanny. When...