Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writers of any sex or nationality can be more charmingly amusing than "Elizabeth" (Elizabeth Mary, Countess Russell), when she sets her mind to it. The Jasmine Farm shows her at her mindful best. Written with a wit so inoffensive that it is hardly perceptible, this novel will keep many a plain reader from more mischievous pursuits for a pleasant, if softening, hour...
...jacket of February Hill appears the descriptive blurb: "The story of an amoral New England family." Like most blurbs this one conceals more than it tells about Victoria Lincoln's excellent novel. If the publishers had been looking for a more accurate, though perhaps less cunning, device for gaining publicity they might have called it a study in contrasting morals. It is true that Minna Harris, the strongest character in the book, finds little time to bother herself with moral reflections. She is a June among prostitutes who supports her family on the profits of her popularity among travelling sports...
...chance to live, so busy is he kept recalling childhood experiences. Mr. O'Hara, in Appointment in Samarra, has employed this technical device to explain the temperament of his hero, Julien English. And here is Victoria Lincoln, following along in what is, by now, a well worn path. Her novel would have suffered little by the omission of Vergil Harris' reveries. I do not contest the truth of the method. I merely suggest that it is not universal outside of novels, and that it is becoming a little shopworn...
...fell the prized cachet of being chosen as the man in his class to serve Oliver Wendell Holmes for a year as that Supreme Court Justice's secretary. But Francis Biddle has not confined his activities since school days exclusively to the law. He has written a novel about Philadelphia (The Lanfear Pattern), book reviews, short stories. He has also busied himself in the interests of international amity and social justice for minorities. A member of the law firm of Barnes, Biddle & Myers, he even went so far as to undertake a case in behalf of some Pennsylvania dairy farmers...
...Anne of Green Gables (RKO) is a dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, published a quarter of a century ago, whose heroine Mark Twain called "the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted when she turns up at the farm of Matthew (0. P. Heggie) and Marilla (Helen Westley), who had expected to adopt a boy. Her ready smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert...