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...costumed melodrama of Mississippi riverboat life with Rogers as a steamboat captain, Steamboat Round the Bend in patter and pattern supplies historians with little new light on the Rogers saga. However, in addition to assuring cinemaddicts that they may still enjoy the dead actor as much as they ever did while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog...
...twelve short stories in All The. Young Men deal with Indians, are cut precisely in the pattern of Author La Farge's novels (Sparks Fly Upward, Laughing Boy}. Tall Walker, handsome Apache hero of "Hard Winter," went about his prolonged singing and dancing during a fiesta with all the enjoyment and absorption of a business man playing golf. At Taos, a white woman, fascinated by literary legends of the noble redman, made him her lover. When winter came and his wife on the reservation had trouble with the sheep and a sick child, Tall Walker was glad...
Though recovery may seem to go by fits & starts, actually it has followed a strikingly rhythmical pattern. Since its foundations were laid in the summer of 1932, each cycle of revival and recession had lasted almost precisely nine months. Last week it looked as if the third cycle, dating from last autumn, had run its parabolic course and a fourth cycle was just be ginning...
Less than a generation ago mass production of clothes began to overtake the pattern business. Women who used to spend their evenings at the dining room table under the gas light cutting their clothes from Butterick patterns found it cheaper and easier to buy ready-made dresses. For the first time in history pattern sales did not go up during the Depression as they had done in every previous business collapse. Though Butterick is still one of the big four pattern makers,* its sales sloped off from a peak...
...imagination dominated by visions and fears of war, of the years of war with an imagination dominated by dreams and hopes of peace. Last week readers who recalled his powerful War novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, found Author Zweig's short stories cut in the same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief resistance, but more often submitted hopelessly to fate. Most of Author Zweig's tales ring true, contain sharp characterizations that make...