Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Could Only Cook (Columbia). A light-hearted variation on-the theme of Cinderella, the picture concerns a jobless girl (Jean Arthur) who picks up a young man (Herbert Marshall) on a park bench and, unaware that he is the president of Buchanan Automobile Co. on the lookout for novel recreation, persuades him to pose as her husband so that they can apply for cook and butler work together. Their employer turns out to be a genial racketeer (Leo Carrillo), who does all he can to further his domestics' increasingly complicated career. Failing to marry his cook himself, he discovers...
Novelist Booth Tarkington predicted: ''The novel and the poem may become extinct in 200 years, 100 years or in much less time. Radio and talking pictures already have displaced books in many homes and television will injure the popularity of books. There always will be books but perhaps the only books in the future will be reference books, scientific-books and research books...
...days before Christmas. It was Mrs. Jacobs' 44th birthday. It was also her 22nd wedding anniversary. But none of these pleasant milestones was the cause of the Jacobs' rejoicing. What had happened was that in far-off Manhattan the judges of the Bodd, Mead-Pictorial Review 1935 novel contest had awarded their $10,000 prize to one Margaret Flint. And Margaret Flint was Mrs. Lester Warner Jacobs' maiden name...
...Author did not have to look further than her desk for her material. A conscientious, self-effacing newspaperwoman, she is Household Editor of the Newark Sunday Call, has been in the same job ever since she finished school, 20 years ago. Besides the two novels mentioned, she has written many a pseudonymous children's story, another novel, Head of the Family. If I Have Four Apples is the January choice (with The Next Hundred Years) of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...have lined up a dozen-odd professional writers, given them carte blanche to be skittish. Publisher Alan Rinehart, only non-professional contributor, skits creditably on the perils of childbirth from the husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes a Bronx seduction scene...