Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Ben Dalton. 83, law-abiding brother of the three notorious Dalton Boys, oldtime Western desperadoes whose exploits filled many a dime novel; in an insane asylum in Supply, Okla. Still living in Hollywood is Brother Emmett, who in 1892 participated in the Daltons' ill-fated Coffeyville, Kans. raid in which Brothers Bob and Grat were killed...
Darkness and Dawn starts off like any "bourgeois" novel of the old pre-War snow-smothered Russia, but it has not gone far on its 570-page way before the rails begin to appear. Its scene opens among the Petersburg intelligentsia, gradually broadens to include engineers, workers, peasants, revolutionaries. All around the horizon the skies are darkening; as the atmosphere thickens and the wind rises, these rootless figures swirl in ever madder gyrations. Everyone hails the Revolution as the beginning of a new era, but for many it is the dawn of their last day. Though, like all well-behaved...
...Grace Brown's mother, who claimed she had been libeled. A U.S. playwright made a melodrama out of the story. A pair of French playwrights made it a character study. A Russian playwright made it a text for Bolshevism. But no adapters have departed so radically from the novel or achieved so exciting a result as the German authors of Case of Clyde Griffiths...
...novels there have been few authentic ones laid in Japan, fewer that go beyond the surface strangeness played upon in such books as Carl Fallas' The Wooden Pillow (TIME, Jan. 20). The appearance last week of a first novel by a young Westerner which gave evidence of a deeper understanding of modern Japan was therefore of more than passing importance...
...minds of the young generation about their duties, their chances in life. The extremes of poverty and industrialism in Tokyo, the meaningless political suicides, the continual troop movements toward Manchuria, are keenly described. Despite several soft episodes and what will seem to many readers an over-facile ending, the novel has the steady strength of an almost reportorial reality...