Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart readers began to have qualms when they read the first "Fighting Frankau Editorial": "The incessant toil, the incessant thought which have gone to the making of this 'new paper' . . . have given me joys and pains, compared whereto the joys and pains of mere novel writing seem vapid...
...house of Harper & Bros, states that Novelist Frankau has just written them as follows: "I am terribly busy starting a tremendously big paper for England and the Empire. This naturally will take up most of my time for some months to come. But after that I hope to start novel writing again with renewed vigor...
Weathering a mediocre first act, "The Red Robe," at the Shubert, gets under way in the second and third, and areas through to a place well up among the "Vagabond kings" and "Student Princes" of historical musical comedy. Its source is "Under the Red Robe," the novel of twenty years ago by Stanley Weyman, and its plot, if you are a stickler about things like that, is so definite as to inspire bold-faced play acting by Cardinal Richelieu, in the person of Jose Ruben. Add his name to the sedentary principals who have dared do their historical atmosphere well...
...climax in the hall of Attila, king of the earth, where the last of the Niebelungs sing their death-song under the burning roof. With a sound accompaniment this picture, the last made in the UFA studios before Hollywood companies bought up their talent, would be a novel and supreme form of grand opera...
THIS SIDE IDOLATRY, A Novel Based on the Life of Dickens-C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ("Ephesian")-Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). The faults and foibles of ''the Inimitable" show him less noble, less lovable, more humanly possible. Dickens lovers will chafe, disagree...