Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote a moving, nostalgic novel of the Florida scrub, South Moon Under, in which proud and good-natured backwoodsmen were pictured retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways...
Adapted from Humphrey Cobb's recent best-selling novel (TIME, June 3) about a reputedly authentic incident on the French front in 1915, it looks at war from a more intimate and shocking angle than Dr. Holmes's dreamy drama. The tale has to do with a gallant regiment of the line which is called upon by a sadistic, medal-hungry general to take a heavily fortified German hill, "The Pimple " after two previous attacks have failed'. The regiment is cut to pieces before it gets through its own wire. The general goes into a psychopathic rage...
...horror of Paths of Glory eloquently communicated in the novel and just as ably conveyed from the stage by Adapter Howard and Producer Hopkins surpasses that found in most realistic War literature. In addition to the wasteful slaughter between sides, Paths of Glory reveals a cannibalistic phase of war in which men on the same side want to take each other's lives...
Since the first days of fall practice, critical news hawks and sporting experts have marveled at the novel efficiency introduced into coaching organization. Instead of thirty-seven old coaches teaching forty-three systems, they have seen a single man directing the entire regime...
CHANCE HAS A WHIP-Raymond Hoiden-Scribner ($2.50). In a literary scene dominated by tales of the barbarism of war and the hopelessness of peace a novel of oldfashioned, happy, romantic love stands out as conspicuously as a shy and innocent girl surrounded by disillusioned dames who have lost more than their youth. As a result Raymond Holden's Chance Has A Whip emerges as particularly refreshing, with at least one extended section that is calculated to remain long in readers' memories. The grand passion in Hendrick Fillmore's life is his love for beautiful, dark-eyed...