Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...When Huw Morgan begins his story he is close onto 60, slag heaps have crept close against the house his youth was spent in, and he is about to leave forever his native valley in Wales. Within a page he has sunk back more than 50 years deep into glassily clear reverie, into a time when the valley and life in it were beautiful...
...Valley, Huw's brothers and sisters scattered to the dominions, to the U. S., to Germany. Only the broken remnants of the family stayed on. It came to its worst when Huw was in his 20s, in an addled, furious, revolutionary strike with which none of the Morgans could hold. The strikers threatened to flood the pits, Huw's father, inspecting them, was crushed to death. There, Morgan breaks off and makes...
...their common native speech and who use it with a sensuous efficiency which, in its verbal splendor, its folksy lilt and whine, approaches literary affectation. Yet in this, his first published novel (he has destroyed five), he has developed a hypnotic ability to do precisely what he pleases. His Morgans, those they live among, the country they inhabit, every incident, every reflection Huw Morgan ventures on the whole matter, have an even radiance and euphony plus a rock-bottom tangibility. If it be only would-be great How Green Was My Valley is still uncommonly rich, able, moving...
There is no significance to Mr. Satterlee's stress on two shipments and to his statement that Morgan "did not lend any money on [a] second shipment of carbines" (I make no statement to the contrary in my book). For the two shipments involved one transaction -Morgan paid for the whole 5,000 carbines, while the claim on the Government was not for payment on the second shipment but for balance due on the whole 5,000 carbines [when all had been delivered]. Ketchum testified that Morgan "refused to allow the others to go until he received the money...
...kindly, jealous Hugo Matuschek, Frank Morgan (who has a flair for Central European roles) turns in his best perform ance since he was Diana Wynyard's husband in Reunion in Vienna. William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...