Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margery Sharp, British author of the cinematized Cluny Brown, flew to the U.S. for a month's vacation, speculated on the casting of her soon-to-be-cinematized Britannia Mews. Who should play the disreputable Mrs. Mounsey, "the Sow" ("Her person was obscene . . . she sagged with fat . . .")? Novelist Sharp had an idea: "Charles Laughton . . . would be simply marvelous, but I don't suppose that would be quite proper, would...
...Happy Birthday" is an epigrammatic field day for novelist Anita Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life...
...Shaw solemnly announced that royalties from their sale had jumped 170% in two years-from about three shillings in 1889 to about eight shillings in 1891. "I doubt," said he, "if any other living novelist can show such a record...
...almost ten years, Novelist Cecil Scott Forester's tarry yarns (Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, etc.) have delighted readers of all ages-even those who usually get a touch of seasickness from historical romances, marine or otherwise. This fifth and (according to the publishers) last of the series is the poorest of the lot. It involves too much dry-land maneuvering and lush love-making on Hornblower's part, too little Royal Navy salt and lore...
...Horatio does stay at sea long enough to dampen Flame's mutiny and to steal a fully laden French West Indiaman right out from under Boney's nose. That done, he goes ashore in France-where Novelist Forester finishes him off with a peerage, Bourbon pals and an indirect, improbable part in the victory at Waterloo...