Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Earth (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth appeared in 1931, it was at once acclaimed as the superlative word-picture of China. When Hollywood started to produce The Good Earth in 1933, it set out to make its picture equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin...
After so much Hollywood hubbub it was logical to suppose that The Good Earth would turn out as chaotic as its preparation and as superficial as the novel was deep. Instead, it emerged as a real cinema epic, faithful in spirit, plot and acting to its forebear, sure to rank as one of the great pictures of all time...
Pushkin's verse novel "Evgeni Onegin," basis of an opera by Tchaikowsky, is shown in its rare original form a series of tiny volumes, published during 1825-32 in parts. The first complete edition of "Onegin," published within paper covers in 1833, is also exhibited...
Reproductions in water color made for the American Index of Design, a project of the Works Progress Administration, form an exhibition at the Fogg Museum that is quite novel...
...training students be started right than that it be started early", the commission has advocated a slow beginning, with a year set aside for conditioning in cooperation with bureau chiefs, before students are admitted in September 1938. It has thereby avoided the temptation to rash action that so novel and exciting an adventure is bound to offer...