Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over 25,000 copies of Thomas Mann's new novel, "Joseph and His Brothers," have so far been sold in Germany. Translations of it have already been arranged in Italian, Danish, Polish, Dutch and English. In this country the book will be published in the Spring. Alfred A. Knopf has just sent the manuscript to the printer, and Mr. Elmer Adler, noted typographer and designer, is at work preparing the jacket. "Joseph and His Brothers" is Thomas Mann's first novel since 1924, when "The Magic Mountain," was published...
...Bright Lexicon" is the title selected by Donald Culross Peattie for his new novel which will be published on March 23rd by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It is the story of Kyril, the Wunder-kind, from a boy to young manhood, when he discovers that knowledge cannot be translated into happiness and the oldest of human emotions recalls him to seek his destiny as have most men before him. Mr. Peattie's conception of Europe--rather the opposite of Spengler's declining West--grew out of the Riviera's fascinating cosmos of disrupted society. He sees Western civilization...
...picture, which is based on the novel of W. R. Burnett, author of "Little Caesar," in which Robinson gained his first screen fame, deals with a man whose passion for gambling is so strong that he gives up love and home and practically everything in life considered worthwhile because...
...tremendous ballyhoo for a musical picture when the public is just about fed up with the song and dance story that oozes from Hollywood in heavy doses? Frankly, I can not explain the whims of the movie fans, for "Flying Down to Rio" presents little that is novel except for a dance by the chorus on the wings of huge planes--and the Carioca, "a hot, volcanic new rhythm that is sweeping America." But I recommend the movie merely on the performance of Fred Astaire who has finally been focused by the cameraman, (you will recall that he lost when...
...spill while fox hunting gave her a limp for life and, when she finally drifted to Hollywood, narrowed the scope of her acting roles. Detemined to win literary fame, she fied to a mountain cabin near Santa Barbara, carrying four hundred volumes annexed during her wanderings. She wrote two novels and then got gold fever. After encountering nine milion deerflies without panning enough pay dirt to blind one of them, she went down to the seashore "and ventured inta matrimony for two years," Except for a few brief experiences as a scenario writer, Miss Gore has remained in that seashore...