Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Managing Director Irving Mills of Master Records, Inc. (TIME, March 22) last week as he totted up the newest U. S. record company's first week's business. As a house policy, accent on what is known in show business as the "freak draw" is novel in the recording industry. As applied to Mills's Master (75?) and Variety (35?) disks, however, it had apparently worked.* Anticipating initial sales of 40,000 records, the company was swamped with orders...
Died. Albert Bigelow Paine, 75, biographer crony of Mark Twain, member of the Pulitzer Prize Novel committee since 1929; after a month's illness; in New Smyrna, Fla. At 24 he started a photographic supply business in Fort Scott, Kans., met William Allen White with whom he collaborated on Rhymes by Two Friends, first book of both. He once wrote a biography of the late Banker George F. Baker of which only six copies were published, one for each member of the family...
...books (Lean Men, The Olive Fields; were laid in Spain, where last July he joined the Loyalists to fight against Franco. Perhaps because these writers are not simply men of words but of deeds, the stones they write seem as direct as action. Ralph Bates's second novel never mentions Spain's civil war or the state of Europe. It is the tale of how six men found their way down through society to a Greek sponge-divers' island, went the rest of their downward journey together. Freeth was a South of England...
...Contemporary novels laid in the Pacific Northwest have substituted an ironic for a sentimental meaning in calling that part of the country "The Charmed Land." In The Laurels Are Cut Down, Author Binns attempts for the first time, in telling the story of two brothers who grew up on Puget Sound at the Century's turn, to trace the rise of that disillusionment. Readers who found his Lightship a talented and dramatic performance will not be disappointed in Archie Binns's second novel, may think it a good candidate for the Pulitzer Prize...
...Lost Horizon" we have a thought vividly presented, artistically developed, and--like all pithy ideas--dropped ingloriously at the completion of a circle in impressive, but essentially trite conclusion. The circle is the story in James Hilton's novel or, in this case, the scenario of Frank Capra's production. The conclusion is a toast to the truth of the author's though by his characters...