Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME and exceptional newsreel shots, the cinema has largely failed to record most of the great events of the last decade. Last week, the simultaneous release of two documentary films served to suggest the possibility that the cinema in general might at last be waking up to its non-fiction possibilities...
...versions showed that the Post's seven installments accented Brill foibles, heightened the picturesqueness of the story, diluted its satire, toned down the dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction for the big magazines ("a somewhat ghastly parody on life"), blotted out one character (the narrator's mistress) entirely. All told, Literary Agent Carl Brandt cut about 90,000 words from Wickford Point, before submitting it to the Post...
...attempt to point the way to the correction of these ills. From every angle it will attack the problem of presentation of ideas through sound. To quote its Constitution: "The object is to study and perfect new techniques for radio in the writing and producing of plays, poetry, and fiction, and effective presentation of political and sociological subjects of a more general educational character, and in the composition of music as a part of dramatic presentation, and to provide close collaboration between the writers, composers, and radio technicians...
...years, ago, in Milan, Italy, a new weekly magazine called Omnibus appeared. Skillfully edited by Leo Longanesi, 33-year-old Fascist journalist, it printed political articles, photographs of pretty women and, as its specialty, the fiction of such little-known foreigners as Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell. Italy's best magazine, Omnibus quickly became its most popular as well, with readers clamoring for more & more contemporary U.S. authors...
MURDER TO HOUNDS-Edward Acheson-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Murder in a neurotic fox-hunting Virginia family, combining an innocuous love story with the most engaging Englishman in recent crime fiction...