Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fictionalized biography is at best a bastard literary form, at worst as silly and hoked-up as, say, U.S. cinema's recent contribution to the biography of Frederic Chopin, A Song to Remember. The American is a sober, workmanlike job, but it suffers from the acute schizophrenia common to all work of its kind. The biographical and historical detail limit its interest as story. The choice of facts and the touches of literary fancy work limit its value as biography. Novelist Fast knows facts when he sees them, treats them respectfully, arrays most of those relating to Altgeld...
...Horizon. Along with his Enemies of Promise (1939) and The Unquiet Grave (1945), these writings are chiefly valuable in that they communicate and defend a love of writing as an art. They show a humane concern and alertness for the dedicated writer's lot in a radio-cinema civilization. They are full of bright glances into the writing process...
...Hecht, Hollywood-Broadway literary swashbuckler, gave the Manhattan press the inside dope on how he buckles down to work for the cinema. "I'm a Hollywood writer," he explained. "So I put on a sports jacket, and take off my brain...
Will Hays, 66, was confused with an Encino, Calif, neighbor named Will Hays, who died. Ex-Cinema Czar Hays, alive & well, modified only slightly the standard denial. Said he: "The rumor of my death is just as exaggerated as was the remark that Mark Twain made famous...
James M. Cain, 53, cold blood-&-thunder novelist whose second wife complained he once threw her clear across the room, was sued for divorce by Wife No. 3 -oldtime cinema siren Aileen Pringle, 45, who had lasted almost two years with him. The charge: cruelty...