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Sweepings (RKO). Daniel Pardway (Lionel Barrymore) arrived in Chicago soon after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp. He started a shop in the Loop, hired as general manager a smart Jew (Gregory Ratoff) who climbed across the sock counter out of the crowd at a sale. The shop grew into a huge department store called the Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb...
SWEEPINGS-Lester Cohen-Bom & Liveright ($2.50). A new dynasty has been founded in U. S. fiction. Its name is Pardway. The roots strike back to Peter Aram Pardway's smithy in postRevolution New England. The great branches flourish in Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase...
...Pardway history is thus, essentially, a rushing calculation in cumulative finance, dissolved by human degeneracy. It must be from the fact that its history is so baldly calculable, that the Pardway dynasty, broadly founded though it is for literary purposes, is composed of beings that are not very human. Daniel and Thane Pardway may have been human beings (their author says he drew them from originals) but in this book they are seen as animated cash-registers-Daniel in his big bargain-sale Loop department store; Thane as the bellicose Black Bear of the wheat pit-to the virtual exclusion...