Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After having drawn a full house in New York for four weeks, and in the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston for three weeks, "Maria Chapdelaine," a movie from the French novel by Louis Hemon, will be shown here. It is presented by the French Talking Films Committee, and will be given on Thursday and Friday in the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2 Divinity Avenue...
...sweethearts and kinsfolk. Another is Don West, six-foot radical poet released fortnight ago from the death cell in Pineville, Ky. jail where he had been held on a charge of criminal syndicalism. A third is Ed Bell, who last week published Fish on the Steeple, a rowdy, hilarious novel that captured the flavor of life in the small hill towns where all the males pack guns and where all strangers are automatically considered revenue agents. Born in Smithville, Tenn. in 1910, Ed Bell worked in a brickyard at 10, has since worked in a rock quarry, on a bridge...
...postscript to his novel Author Cobb announced that characters, units and places were fictitious. For proof "that such things happened" he referred readers to, among other sources, the issue of Crapouillot which Columnist Pegler discovered last week. Characteristically, the magazine names real characters, units, places...
...houses filled every night in Moscow and stock companies by the hundreds performing throughout the provinces, is by all odds the world's most active and inventive. With an imitative eye on its spiritual mother, the Theatre Union has produced Mother, adapted from Maxim Gorky's novel of an illiterate old woman (Helen Henry)* who, once she gets the hang of things, turns out to be the best Marxist of them all. The play's subject matter is no more radical than the technique by which it is presented...
...blown up, found in 1933 when a garbled copy of the original was already going to press. Readers whose suspicions are awakened by such remarkable coincidences may be made more doubtful by the narrative speed and fluency of the memoirs, the dialogs which read like passages from a good novel, the portrait of Napoleon, which agrees so exactly with that of modern research. But they will be unable to discover contradictions or vagueness in the work itself, are likely to be convinced that it is "the most impressive close-up of Napoleon that we possess" and one of the major...