Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sylvia Scarlett, taken from Compton Mackenzie's novel of 1918, is a story of a set of people whom the main stream of life has pushed a little to one side, sharpening and coloring them unforgettably in the process. It is made memorable by a role that almost steals the show from Miss Hepburn's androgyne: Cary Grant's superb depiction of the cockney...
...England sailed Author Herbert George Wells after five lively weeks in Hollywood. Last November wise Author Wells assured himself a warm reception in Hollywood by hailing the cinema as "a finer art than the novel, finer than the stage, finer far than the opera." He stayed with Charlie Chaplin, earnestly studied production methods, wrote abbreviated scenarios which he calls "treatments." Having declared himself "immune to blondes," he was taken in hand by two riotous brunettes, Writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, became the season's socialion. Called upon for a speech, he dodged: "Hollywood leaves...
...Coffret de Laque," a film based on it novel by Agatha Christie, will be presented by the French-Talking Films Committee on January...
...Maine and went South to be a mother, cook, seamstress, smalltown housewife. But she never got over her ambition to be a writer as well. She ground out short stories. They were all rejected. In late-at-night, snatched moments over four years she slowly tapped out a novel. It was about a Maine farm, the kind of country she had grown up in. She called it The Old Ashburn Place. One of her daughters read a few pages, did not like it much. Her husband was no hand for fiction anyway, preferred the Bible. But when the book...
Whether progress is provable or not, even praisers of times past would have to admit that the historical novel of today stacks up favorably alongside its peers of yesterday. Though past-partisans might not allow Robert Graves's Claudius books, Alfred Neumann's The Devil, Lion Feuchtwanger's Power and Josephus, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than...