Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Java Head (Basil Dean) is a conscientious transcription of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel about a New England sea captain and the Manchu Princess he married and brought back from China to early 19th Century Salem. That it is much less exciting on the screen than it was between book covers is due partly to the fact that its English producers fell down badly in the matter of sound recording and partly to the mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer...
...compromised by turning out a book of sketches the mature Maugham was to dismiss as "crude and gushing." Despite his impulse to try again, despite his deep love for Spain, he could never find a Spanish character or theme to satisfy him. He wanted to write a romantic historical novel, rejected the story of Ponce de León because Ponce de León had left Spain and journeyed where Author Maugham would not follow...
Unmindful of literary bores who tell the plots of stories they hope to write, Author Maugham in Don Fernando subtly recreates the atmosphere in which his unwritten novel was to have been laid. A master of indirection, he begins unobtrusively with an account of contemporary Don Fernando, fat, dirty tavern keeper who forced on him a biography of Saint Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius, who disappointed a noble family, sacrificed his influence with the great, and in the flower of his youth went to live among the poor, captured Author Maugham's imagination. He visited the town where Loyola had suffered...
...Royal Canadian Mounted Police was the life story of Los Angeles' Thomas M. White, the "Rattlesnake Bandit." John J. Bennett, "New York State's Fighting Attorney General," sounded the war cry against "Commercial Racketeering," while in the penny dreadful manner Editor Lawes himself began a novel about New York City's criminal classes entitled "Legal Larceny...
Jenkins had gone to school to Henry James, put her down as a writer of subtlety and power. Last week Author Jenkins offered a novel that gave proof, at least, of her versatility: a breezy little romance about a schoolteacher who fell in love with a cinemactor...