Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre," said Miss Fay Bainter to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon in her dressing room between the acts of "First Love", the French importation in which she is now starring at the Plymouth. "The theatre and the modern play are in quite as good standing as the novel of today and other fields of artistic endeavor...
...American Tragedy-Dreiser's novel cut to the bone and strung up for the stage...
Hangman's House. Willard Mack, the dramatist, has two other hokum-weighted melodramas currently padding his Broadway income, The Noose and Lily Sue. Compared with them, this third, from Donn Byrne's novel, is a theatrically diseased mess. The story follows the lives of a young country gentleman, Dermot McDermot (Walter Abel) and a neighboring country gentleman's daughter, Connaught O'Brien (Katherine Alexander), both born to the grassy slopes of Ireland, in love with their land, their horses, their people and each other. She is forced to marry a villain who shoots her pet race...
...Another novel, "A Man Could Stand Up", by Ford Madox Ford, the third of the great trilogy on the last living Tory, Xtopher Tietjens, which is, excepting "The Great Parade", the only great thing that the last war produced...
...novel, "The Sun Also Rises", by Ernest Hemingway, which may be very good or very bad, but which at least it is inconceivable not to have read...