Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy, was in Holland gauging economic conditions for President Roosevelt when his $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Playwright James Hagan and the Paramount interests was thrown out of a Federal Court in Manhattan. After alleging that Playwright Hagan's One Saturday Afternoon was cribbed out of his novel, The Avenger, Plaintiff Child had tried to withdraw his suit with an apology. Refusing to permit this. Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed the suit only after assessing costs & fees against Mr. Child and remarking: "It gave me a pain. The charges are absolutely unfounded...
What the late great Tolstoy's War and Peace did for old Russia, And Quiet Flows the Don attempts for new. Not nearly as long (755 pp.) as Tolstoy's epic. Author Sholokhov's novel is big enough to house comfortably over 50 principal characters. More typical of the traditional Russian novel than the Sovietized product, And Quiet Flows the Don hymns no paean to the Five Year Plan. Its ponderously simple narrative follows the fortunes of the Don Cossacks from peace to war to revolution, leaves them in the midst of civil strife. Though...
...second time; Director Howard Estabrook, who had been in England making notes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming David Copper field; Novelist Hugh Walpole who, as a vice president of the Dickens Society, had signed with MGM's Associate Producer David Selznick to help keep the Dickens novel from "reeking of America." To ship newsmen Producer Selznick functioned as advance agent for an even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with his wife Irene, daughter of MGM's potent Louis B. Mayer, said he had chatted with...
...confusing it gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene and pictorial power...
...Ivre. THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA- E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Author Delafield's famed Provincial Lady visits the U. S., keeps her ironic eyes open. To those not already bored by her she will seem refreshingly funny. TIN SOLDIERS-Robert Wohlforth-Al-fred H. King ($2). Realistic novel of West Point, by one who went there...