Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rising might of Germany is more clearly visible. The European balance of power is being further & further upset, and this is the traditional signal for British policy to shift so as to find itself at the new fulcrum. In exalted London circles of birth, finance and politics last week novel and weighty things were being said. One of these was that, sooner than most people think, His Majesty's Government may be reluctantly obliged to aid in slaking German thirst for more territory. In the city, London bigwigs were to be heard saying with approval that what "they...
Cinemaddicts remember Maedchen in Uniform as one of the distinguished German productions of 1932, a delicately realistic picture of life in a girls' boarding school. In book form it became The Child Manuela, was Christa Winsloe's first novel. Though not a formal sequel, Girl Alone is a further chronicle of maidenly adventure. Baroness Hatvany (Christa Winsloe's married name) is a prize-winning European sculptress as well as a writer, and this tale of regretful nubility in pre-War Munich bears many an earmark of first-hand experience...
Sylvia Sydney comes out of her listless emotions long enough to give a fine performance in "Mary Burns, Fugitive". The title sounds ridiculously like a dime novel and the story follows that pattern but it is well worth seeing anyway if you like gangsters and strong-minded hero-explorers. Sylvia is much better looking with her hair fixed and Melvyn Douglas is excellent as the man whom she would like to marry if she could but can't because she has been in jail. They marry anyhow...
Decorations appropriate for a St. Valentine's dance will be featured this year, and something novel in the lighting effects or color scheme will surprise the revelers who go to Adams House, which is well-known for its originality in ornamentation as evidenced by previous years...
...with your approval and what reservations should be made? It is unfortunately impractical for us to receive brothers or sisters, but we hope that whenever possible both parents will come. I should, of course, be glad of any suggestions you were kind enough to make as to details.ORIGINATOR OF NOVEL IDEA FOR PARENTS JULIAN L. COOLIDGE...