Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his world, leaves Anna to join his regiment; and the snowy night when Anna goes to the station to say goodby to him and waits alone after he is gone, to kill herself. Largely omitted from all this are the vital secondary themes of the novel, the marriage of Levin (Gyles Isham) and Kitty (Maureen O'Sullivan), the complex affairs of Anna's brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) and his wife (Phoebe Foster). Far more important, however, is what Producer David Selznick and Director Clarence Brown contrived to stretch the limitations of their medium to include: the strong essential melodrama...
Alice Adams (RKO). The tests of time and translation into cinema have had an unpredictable effect upon the Booth Tarkington novel which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. Then it was a sad little story about a small-town girl so ashamed because her parents were poorer than those of her friends that, when a glamorous visitor fell in love with her, she destroyed her one real chance of happiness by carrying on an absurd pretense of being richer and more popular than she was. Nowadays,, because people whose circumstances are as comfortable as those of the Adams family seem...
...Indians had been pacified; industrialization was developed before the country was fully explored; the passage of history that in other sections of the West was spread over generations was here compressed into little more than a decade. Last week Harold L. Davis won the seventh $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with a story laid in this period of Oregon history...
...mountains to the hop fields, from the wild coast on the west to the parched lands on the east, dodging sheriffs, thinking they were after him even when they wanted someone else. His Oregon wanderings were so extensive that Honey in the Horn sometimes reads less like a novel than like a travel book. A six-fingered Indian boy, also one of Uncle Preston's wards, befriended Clay, hid with him. Then Clay fell in love with Luce, tall, fair-skinned daughter of a wandering horse-trader, rode away with the horse-trader's outfit...
...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann ($1.25). MacKinlay Kantor has long revealed a preoccupation with native Midwestern themes and legends of the sort that characterize folk literature. The Jaybird, his novel of a wandering Civil War musician who befriended a Kansas waif, was a sentimental tale for which modern small towns provided an incongruous and unromantic background. Author Kantor now returns to the mood and manner of The Jaybird with a slight, short novel in which a Missouri legend of a wonderful foxhound serves as the frail basis for a story involving revenge, murder and a family feud...