Tag: 1936
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‘Novel on Yellow Paper,’ by Stevie Smith
Novel, 1936 A heady mix of memoir, stream of consciousness and breathless narrative, charting the life of Pompey, including her thoughts and musings on life, her friends and the people she encounters, including a trip to Germany. There is a real power in this narrative, which starts like a train, though does feel as if…
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"Modern Times", directed Charlie Chaplin
Movie, 1936 Satirical situations and a hard time for Chaplin’s tramp in a hostile, exploitative industrial environment, before salvation is suggested through a ‘gamin’ (street urchin). The physical comedy and repeatedly unlucky antics of the well-meaning duo point to the uncaring, greedy society, best illustrated at the beginning of the film, before the the gamin’s…
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"Laughing Gas" by PG Wodehouse
Novel, 1936 Wodehouse with an element of science-fiction and a switch of identities in a dentist’s surgery following a misadventure with the eponymous laughing gas, all of which leaves a young Hollywood brat’s body being taken by a toff from The Drones and vice versa. These misfiring figures are then let loose in a familiar…
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