Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this incomparable domestic was made the central figure of the most recent novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, whose inspirational works of fiction have made him one of the best-selling novelists in the past six years. Born 59 years ago in Columbia City, Ind., Dr. Douglas entered the field of fiction by "sheer accident in 1929, after having written sermons and essays for 25 years. His first three novels, Green Light (1934), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932), Magnificent Obsession (1929), sold more than 340,000 copies. Similar to those works in its fine moral tone, its unabashed sentimentality...
Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative...
...field that interests politically-conscious Europeans, and one which few U. S. novelists have touched, Bitterly resenting the neglect of his achievements by serious U. S. critics, Upton Sinclair usually counters by mentioning the wide circulation of his books abroad. The Jungle is the most widely-read U. S. novel since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Oil has been translated into 30 languages, including Esperanto. A bibliography published in 1930 listed 525 translations of Sinclair's works in 34 nations, and 200 titles have been added since then. A library census in Sweden established Sinclair as the most popular...
...Already the cinema is beginning to realize 'its true functions; the theatre is losing its desire frenziedly to copy the novel devices of the cinema," says Mr. Nicoll. The great mistake has been that Broadway and Hollywood have tried to be like each other. The cinema should not try to reproduce closely stage plays. In the development of his conviction that the stage and screen are fundamentally different in their possibilities, lies the real value of the book...
...interesting and timely article appearing in the latest Harvard A, A. News, Freshman Coach Adolph Samborski discusses the problem of Freshman athletics from a novel angle. At the present, with many Freshmen still undecided as to which branch of sports they wish to devote their time to, this article might well serve as required reading, for the question of team versus individual athletics is ably discussed and frankly met. Mr. Samborski reaches the conclusion that too many Freshmen feel urged to participate in organized sports and try to "make the team", often hurriedly, and perhaps in some cases inadvisedly...