Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adapted by John Dos Passos from a novel by Pierre Louys, filmed in Director von Sternberg's best darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through...
...surprising was the desire of the Brothers Mills to do battle with almost the entire U. S. dairy industry. Their ideas of corporate management are as novel as their products. Brother Fred, 40, is president; Ralph, 37, vice president in charge of sales; Herbert, 35, treasurer and manager of the 19-acre plant; Hayden ("Bill"), 33, secretary. They keep their employes happy with beauty contests and sweepstakes on monthly sales. Last summer Brother Fred ordered beer served to every employe every day of the week. Even the office boys call him by his first name, sometimes pursuing him down...
Letters. ($1,000 each.) Best novel, Now in November, by Josephine Winslow Johnson (TiME, Sept...
Though not announced as such. Love in Winter is the second installment of Author Jameson's big novel-in-progress. whose first volume was Company Parade (TIME, May 21). In these books Author Jameson is writing the personal history of her day. Though her version is never likely to be widely popular, her readers know by this time that she does not lie to them, however uncomfortably, even drearily, she sometimes talks. Her ambition is prosaic but candid: "There is only one book worth writing-not to cheat, but to record every item in the tale of mistakes, joys...
Readers who think the modern novel is sex-ridden might find Ripeness Is All a case in point. But they would be hard put to it to raise a respectable objection to this solemnly hilarious japery. Even those who do not like English novels because they consider the English an annoyingly asinine race will find Author Linklater's soothing. Like many a sourly smiling Scotsman, he considers the Sassenachs a comic spectacle, fit subject for a farce...