Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to exhibit amazement. No amazement is in order. Taking a subject about which everyone has speculated—the financial insecurity of old age—the picture examines the case of Barkley Cooper (Victor Moore) and his wife Lucy (Beulah Bondi). Adapted by Vina Delmar from Josephine Lawrence's novel, directed by Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap), the story is presented with rare cinematic honesty. It is acted by Victor Moore, in his first serious cinema role, and seasoned Beulah Bondi, with that effortless perfection which, because it can come only from long experience, all younger actors lack. The result...
...books have never been bestsellers, but last winter an extra-editorial utterance of Editor Armstrong's caught the public ear. So timely, so comprehensive, so stimulating did U. S. readers find the 106 pages of We or They† that it began to sell like a racy novel, by last week had passed its 40th thousand...
...become almost impossible." Dictatorship and democracy literally do not speak the same language: "How, specifically, are we to discuss art with people who say 'art' and mean 'propaganda,' to whom music by Mendelssohn is not music, and poetry by Heine is not poetry, and a novel by Thomas Mann is unworthy, not because of extraneous fact wholly disassociated from all possible measures of beauty and satis faction...
...OUTWARD ROOM-Millen Brand- Simon & Schuster ($1.25). Story of a girl who cured herself of manic depressive insanity, with a happy ending that is plausible if not probable. A distinguished first novel...
...Belmonte, long before the civil war closed most of the bull rings. To observers with long memories and high standards, bullfighting had become decadent: its matadors were virtuosos, its backers venal, its public vulgar. Against this modern (1934) background of decadence Joseph Peyre sets his Prix Goncourt prize-winning novel of bullfighting Madrid...