Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night Life of the Gods (Universal), directed by the late Lowell Sherman, is an adaptation of the novel in which the late Thorne Smith played with the idea of a scientist who discovered how to turn humans into stone and statues into people, used his trick to revive a group of mythological effigies in a museum of art. Out of respect for the Legion of Decency, Director Sherman and his associates were compelled to clip their wings in following some of Author Smith's imaginative flights. Obviously on the screen it was impossible to have the gods and goddesses...
Author Frank, admitting that not enough is known of Cervantes "to build up a biography without gaps," has chosen to write his life in novel-form. U. S. readers will prefer Author Frank's version to Spanish Author Tomas' (TIME, July 23), but may find themselves wishing they knew more about Cervantes than either biographer can tell them. To such a wish Bruno Frank would reply: "Then read Don Quixote...
...material of art is common property. So is the finished product. The process of making one into the other is the trade secret of artists, but on each book, picture, statue is the trade-mark of the maker's tools. The smoothly machined product of such novel-factories as Edna Ferber needs no watermark: consumers know it is standard brand, Grade B entertainment, an honest product sold for an honest price...
This story of contemporary Sydney is not so much a novel as an interrelated series of portraits; the portraits are not so much human likenesses as translations into brilliant descriptive talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights...
...GRASS GROWS GREEN-Hortense Lion-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Family novel of German-Americans...