Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Novel-reading admirers of Ernest Hemingway, who boasts that he sharply distinguishes in his own mind between Novelist Hemingway (gruesome, gory, hyper-cynical) and Journalist Hemingway (objective, conscientious and in good taste), were struck by his description of signs of Italian valor on the battlefield of "little Caporetto" or Brihuega last week. "The scrub oak woods," cabled Journalist Hemingway, "are still full of Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they...
...title might suggest, Zona Gale's latest novel "Light Woman" provides highly entertaining reading characterized by a note of levity. Although in size the book may only be called a novelette, in substance it is much more than this. Behind many of the seemingly senseless words of Mitty, the central character, lurks a meaning all too true to be dismissed as the talk of a "light woman." She embodies in her philosophy of life much that every modern person has left. Her overpowering self-interest is freely admitted, and despite all opposition to such a characteristic, we somehow excuse...
...Light Woman" is better suited to the stage even than to reading. Practically the entire book is conversation and its dramatic qualities are constantly evident. Zona Gale has written two very successful plays, and the adaptability of this novel to the theater is outstanding...
...news vending organizations. In fact we strongly suspect that the men in charge of make-up on the local journals aren't sufficiently shocked when one of their fellow leaves his earthly vessel. We think they sit around waiting for some one to go in a particularly violent, or novel manner and then start to work...
...whose talent will bear watching. Novelist Ernest Hemingway praises these stories for "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness." ALLI'S SON-Magnhild Haalke-Knopf ($2.50). Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset...