Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Novel, Thornton Niven Wilder, for his Bridge of San Luis Rey (TIME...
...when the rains of November were thrumming a monotonous tattoo on the roof of the baseball cage, he has practised for but one thing: that the Varsity might be great. In return he asks nothing; though, when honor's at the stake, like the heroine of almost any novel, he has been ready always to "go the whole...
...WALKS IN BEAUTY-Dawn Powell—'Brentano ($2.50). There is a theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel...
...lodger in the garret died, his grandson came west from Harvard. He was what Dorrie had wanted and she, apparently, suited him. At the end of the story, it is a comparatively safe guess that Dorrie will come to Manhattan, get her poems published and write a novel whose heroine is a dreamy little girl called Dawn Powell...
...film is also well adapted to the revue. One is thankful that he can turn to the refreshing scenery of the Ozarks after the dazzling artificiality of the stage programme. Harold Bell Wright's "Shepherd of the Hills" is much better in film form than as a novel, because it reveals the heart of the Arkansas-Missouri Ozarks in all their beauty, picturesqueness, and wildness. In a glorious setting we have a typical elemental drama of emotion among the Arkansas mountain folk. Feuds, stills, stark love, stark hate, stark death, are all mixed in best First National style. The conglomeration...