Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wedding Night (Samuel Goldwyn). Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife (Helen Vinson) return to his inherited Connecticut farmhouse so that he can write a novel undistracted by their Bohemian friends. Their next door neighbors are a family of Polish tobacco farmers whose quaint ways appear to Tony ideal material for a book. When the Poles buy one of his fields, he lets his wife go back to town with the money, settles down to serious research on his subject...
Author Edna Ferber never attends a first night of one of her plays, flees from Manhattan when her new books appear. Last month she escaped the publication of her newest novel, Come and Get It (TIME, March 4), by sailing on a Mediterranean cruise. Returning on the Conte di Savoia last week, she reported her flight: "Palestine is a country in the making, like America busy and alive. I found the King David Hotel simply flawless, thoroughly modern. Yet all around is the suggestion of the Biblical. For instance, I would go down to the bar for a cocktail...
Only an average-length novel (255 pp.), He Sent Forth a Raven took Author Roberts five years to write, makes correspondingly slow reading. Author Roberts' tricks of style, which include a growing fondness for the ablative absolute, have hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again...
Only those who buy or borrow bootleg books got a chance to read the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the most outspoken novel yet written on sexual unhappiness, its cause and cure. Those who read it remember, besides its paeans to physical passion, punctuated by Anglo-Saxon four-letter words and North-country dialect, its Lawrentian plot: how Lady Constance Chatterley, full-blooded young wife to a paralytic peer, sought fulfillment elsewhere and found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward...
...supporting cast was somewhat less distinguished, although honorable mention should go to Frederick Miller, who was outstanding as the detective novel-reading waiter...