Motion Picture Reviews (1933)

Eight Motion Picture Reviews Chrisman, A. B.: Shen of the Sea. Dutton, $2. Vivid and amusing stories about Chinese people. Coatsworth, Elizabeth : Boy With the Parrot . Macmillan, $1.75. Sebastian was an Indian boy in Guatemala who, with his parrot, sold silks and beads from the pack he carried on his back. In The Cat Who Went to Heaven Miss Chatworth has written delightfully of Good Fortune, a little cat that lived with a Chinese artist, and in Cricket and the Emperor's Son she has set down the stories a Japanese boy told to the little son of the emperor. Dalgliesh, Alice: Relief’s Rocker. Macmillan, $1.75. About a little girl in rockbound Nova Scotia and her sea-faring uncle. Gay, Zhenya: Pancho and His Burro. Morrow, $1.75. Burrito was a donkey, fuzzy-eared, friendly. Pancho was his master. The story tells of what happened when they went to market in a Mexican village. Lattimore, Eleanor: Little Pear. Harcourt, $2. A delightful story of a mischievous Chinese boy with a round, solemn face and eyes like black apple seeds. It gives a picture of how Chinese children live — their toys, their dress, their food. Martin, D. B.: Awisha’s Carpet. Doubleday, $2. About a little Arab girl in Tunis who learned to weave beautiful rugs. Palm, Amy: Wanda and Greta of Broby Farm. Longman’s, $1.75. Of two little girls, with enough in common with little girls the world over to immediately be friends, and how they spent the summer on a farm in Sweden. Perkins, L. F. : The Swiss Twins. Houghton, $1.75. One of the long-familiar and popular series which includes stories of the lands and adventures of Dutch, Mexican, Japanese and other twins. Purnell, Idella: The Talking Bird. Macmillan, $2.25. While Paco, a little Mexican boy, watched his grandfather mending shoes, he listened to old, old Aztec tales. Rowe, Dorothy: The Rabbit Lantern and Other Stories of Chinese People. Macmillan, $1.75. Twelve excellent stories about Chinese children, with lovely illustrations by the Chinese artist Ling Jui Tang. Siebe, Josephine: Hay Village Children . Houghton, $2. Stories acquainting the American child with peasant children at play in a German village. Spyri, J. H.: Heidi . Lippincott, $1.50; Ginn, 84c. The famous and long-loved story of a little girl who lived with her grandfather in the mountains of Switzerland. Weis, Rhea: Beppo, the Donkey . Doubleday, $2. A decidedly attractive book about Sicily. The author has told other stories about Ali the Camel in northern Africa, Coco the Goat in Spain, and Peppi the Duck in the Tyrol. FOR OLDER BOYS AND GIRLS Adams, J. D.: Vaino, a Boy of New Finland. Dutton, $2. Legends from the Kalevala are woven into a dramatic story of a boy in Helsingfors at the time of the revolution that gave Finland her independence. Adams, Katharine: Wisp, a Girl of Dublin. Macmillan, $2. Concerning the friendship of an Irish girl and two Americans and their cousins in India. Finger, C. J.: Tales From Silver Lands. Doubleday, $2.50. Here are nineteen interesting legendary tales from South America. Forbes, H. C.: Mario's Castle. Macmillan, $1.75. The story of how a mystery is solved by an Italian boy and an American girl. Lewis, E. F. : Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze. Winston, $2.50. An excellently told story of a boy of modern China. Lucas, E. V.: The Slowcoach. Macmillan, $2. The gay adventures of seven English children who travel in a caravan through the Shakespeare country. Mazer, Sonia: Masha, a Little Russian Girl. Doubleday, $2. One who spent her own childhood in Russia writes the story of a girl in a Russian village before the revolution. Meiklejohn, N. L. : The Cart of Many Colors. Dutton, $2. Of a boy from Palermo in sunny Italy and how he went to Florence to learn to be an atrist. Miller, E.C.: Children of the Mountain Eagle. Doubleday, $2. The mountains of Albania are the setting for this tale of Bor and Marash. Pram of Albania is the story of an older Albanian girl while Young Trajan, by the same author, weaves into a fine narrative of a boy and girl in modern Roumania many fascinating glimpses of customs and ceremonies. Mirza, Y. B.: Children of the Housetops. Doubleday, $2. A charming story of the home life of a little girl in Persia. Myself When Young tells of the author’s own boyhood. Mukerji, D. G. : Hari the Jungle Lad. Dutton, $2. Life in an East Indian jungle is here, and in Kari the Elephant, interestingly portrayed. Phillips, E. C.: Gay Madelon. Houghton, $2. Gay little French Canadian Madelon, singing for tourists by the roadside, dancing, going to Quebec in a sleigh through the deep snow, will be much loved by American girls. Illustrations by Ilse Bischoff give an added value. White, W. C. : Made in Russia. Knopf, $2. A book decidedly in the modern manner; a compelling interesting account of arts and crafts and customs. What is made in the various villages and towns is vividly presented, with an accompanying illustrated map. Paralleling Made in Russia is Made in Mexico. Wiese, Kurt: The Parrot Dealer. Coward-McCann, $2. A story set in a rich background of Indian life in Brazilian jungle.