Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Show Boat (Universal). The problem of knitting episodes of a novel in a way that will reduce or eliminate, for picture purposes, the chapters introduced to show the passage of time, is emphasized in Edna Ferber's romance of Mississippi minstrels because her story touches three generations of show people and includes the life of one of them from childhood to maturity. This was not the only problem that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made...
...Nineteenth Century Novel", Dr. Starr, Sever...
...novel kind of contest in this day of dance marathons and bunion derbies seems highly improbable, and yet today in Cambridge something unique in the field of competitions, a phonograph listening marathon, is to be started. Promptly at 3 o'clock two Harvard students are to take their places in the windows of the Music Box, Cambridge's tiny shop on Holyoke Street, and there begin to listen without once stopping, to all and any one of the some 5000 odd records which the Music Box has in store...
...have done more work during the past year than ever before. I have written a novel, short stories and several essays. It is true, I believe, that being unable to see is a great aid to concentration. You are not distracted by outside elements...
...stars are nearly all on hand just now. Lenore Ulric brings her blandishments to Belasco's "Mima", fairly swarming with devils and nightly shaking the stage when its steel hell collapses in the denouement. There is Katharine Cornell in a poor dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, "The Age of Innocence", the star at her finest and given brilliant support in a stuffy play by Arnold Korff. Alice Brady graces with effective acting the rather trivial play based on the old badger game, "A Most Immoral Lady...