Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Derived from a novel by Robert Nathan, this picture lacks the satirical implications of its original but somehow achieves a simple and disarming charm which is likely to prove valuable at the boxoffice. A delicate and sympathetic, if somewhat disingenuous, reflection of the funny side of the Depression, it rates high in the scale of recreation-ground cinema, well above Central Park, a small notch below Zoo in Budapest. Good shot: a zoo attendant (Stepin Fetchit) advertising to the furniture dealer the excellence of the meat he feeds the lions...
...Maynadier's course on the English novel, English 29, has become one of the most popular in the Department. He also conducts English 12, a composition course. He came to Harvard as an instructor, after taking his Ph.D. in 1898, and was promoted to the rank of assistant professor in 1929. While he could not be reached last night, it is understood that he will continue to live in Cambridge...
...story is adapted from the novel by Pierre Louys, "Les Aventures du Roi Pausole." When the picture opens, the island is already dominated by Taxis, the King's eunuch, who has introduced a strict regime of order and repression. Then a young aviator blunders upon the place and naturally falls in love with Pausole's daughter. To escape Taxis' prying eyes, she flees from the palace and is followed by the aviator. Setting out, ostensibly to find his daughter, the King discovers that one wife is better than 366, especially if that one be the lovely Sidney Fox. The remaining...
WILD PASTURES-Rex Beach-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Modestly described by its publishers as "a novel of romance and swift adventure," by an old hand...
CALL IT SLEEP-Henry Roth-Ballon ($2.50). A first novel, the story of three years in the life of a sensitive Jewish slum-child, told with painstaking and pain-giving fidelity to slum dialect, slum neuroses. Non-Fiction...