Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clairvoyant (Gaumont-British), remotely suggested by an Ernst Lothar novel about a man who discovered he had the gift of detailed and exact prophecy, makes eerie entertainment out of the supernatural. Like The Scoundrel which needed two outright miracles for a happy ending, The Clairvoyant uses the modest method of understatement...
LAND OF WOMEN-Baroness Katherina von Dombrowski-Little, Brown ($2.50). Slowly paced historical novel of 19th-Century Paraguay, dealing with the love affair of a dictator who led his country into a war that reduced the population from...
...claypit. In what now seems to be settling down into a serious contest between him and the other most eminent fiction writer of the South, William Faulkner, Mr. Caldwell has here delivered the latest blow. He has equalled if not outdone himself and his rival in inventing novel and repellent forms of rape and violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large collection in a trunk. As a fitting accompaniment to these actions, most of the people in the book display the usual pathological symptoms...
...which are obviously due to the early stages of the business, these "sleeper buses" are far more comfortable both day and night than the conventional "parlor car bus," or the day coach of the railroads; are cheaper than even "tourist sleepers;" offer the great middle class of travelers a novel, adventuresome medium for the long journey from the coast to the Middle West; will no doubt be in the near future greatly improved and extensively used...
...cinema would have considered dangerously subversive propaganda. By no means either a Communistic tract or a libelous indictment of Standard Oil Co., it is nonetheless a thoroughly embittered picture of a U. S. corporation and its technique in foreign expansion. Adapted from Alice Tisdale Hobart's best-selling novel, its hero is a U. S. oil salesman in China, and its message, only mildly impaired by a self-contradictory sequence timidly tacked to the story's end, is one that might make an attendant in a highway service station think twice before he scrubs a client...