Word: fitzgeraldized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARTIXO & OTHER STORIES-William Faulkner-Smith & Haas ($2.50). Successful authors rarely make the mistake of writing too much. Ernest Hemingway, whom unfriendly critics call a careerist, has yet to write an obvious potboiler. F. Scott Fitzgerald has schooled his readers to make a distinction between his sacred and profane work (TIME. April 16). After Sanctuary, the macabre literary sensation of 1931, William Faulkner's first editions became collectors' items. But last week, with the publication of his Dr. Martino & Other Stories, it began to look as though Author Faulkner's market might soon reach saturation point...
...many a U. S. reader a nine-year period of suspense ended last week when F. Scott Fitzgerald, bad boy of U. S. letters, published his first novel since The Great Gatsby (1925). Somehow during those intervening years the news had leaked out that Author Fitzgerald had big ambitions, would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel...
Tender Is the Night is a story of U. S. sophisticates abroad. Fitzgerald's are introduced as a little clique sunning themselves in agreeable idleness on an as-yet-unfashionable Riviera beach. To Rosemary, a naive cinemactress resting after her first success, they seem mysteriously charming. She is grateful to be taken into their closed circle, immediately falls in love with the head man, Dick Diver. But he seems to be perfectly happy with his beautiful wife, Nicole, and their two children. Other members of the set are Abe North, a musician who no longer works...
Last week, in Gary Ross's Manhattan studio, Zelda Fitzgerald showed her pictures, made her latest bid for fame. The work of a brilliant introvert, they were vividly painted, intensely rhythmic. A pinkish reminiscence of her ballet days showed figures with enlarged legs and feet-a trick she may have learned from Picasso. An impression of a Dartmouth football game made the stadium look like the portals of a theatre, the players like dancers. Chinese Theatre was a gnarled mass of acrobats with an indicated audience for background. There were two impressionistic portraits of her husband, a verdant Spring...
From a sanatorium last week which she temporarily left against doctors' orders to see a show of Georgia O'Keeffe's art, Zelda Fitzgerald was hoping her pictures would gratify her great ambition-to earn her own living...