Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been a tendency among certain authors to produce plays and novels with a particular view toward their ultimate adoption as material for motion picture production. Mr. Gilkyson's novel unquestionably has the situation and characters most suitable for use in scenario form. The Freemonts are the people concerned. Martin Freemont is a successful young lawer about to begin a political career which is to see him chosen as the Republican candidate for Congress. His wife is the daughter, oddly enough, of a woman whose selection by the Democratic party as candidate to oppose Martin Freemont complicates the novelist...
...fair love interest centered around the gradual accptance by Catharine. Martin's wife, of his ambitions as a politician. The account of her growing faith in the ability and justification of her husband is excellently conveyed to us by the author. It is this phase of the novel which is most interesting. The evolution of the love of Catharine for Martin and the lessening of her regard for her ruthless, sacrosant mother are both given to us convincingly. The portrait of the mother, Florence Willet Carmichael, succeeds remarkably. She is a grasping, hypocritical woman, capable of any actions which might...
Were it not for the occasional entrance into the novel of the stereotyped melodrama we have seen so often on the American screen, Mr. Gilkyson's novel would approach high quality. His prose is unflowered, simple and direct. It has the matter of fact tempo of its characters. Perhaps it is the most suitable fashion in which to achieve successful presentation of middle class people, but it is not even remotely capable of the engrossing effect of the style of Sinclair Lewis. Mr. Gilkyson has made a great potential story for Hollywood but he has sacrified quality in the attempt...
...honors in the Kremlin wall. The new Mrs. Bullitt, an out-and-out Red. appeared in Philadelphia in Russian costumes complete with high boots. Before Mr. Bullitt divorced her in 1930, she encouraged him to expose the foibles of his class in It's Not Done, a slashing novel in which scandalized Philadelphians thought they recognized Financier Stotes-bury. Merchant Wanamaker and Sateve-poster Curtis, all deftly mocked...
Though Harvard is the logical climax of the novel it is by no means the only peak. For, after all, who at Harvard is ordinary and does ordinary things? Her scholars devote their lives to great things, at any rate to recording and commenting upon them, in an heroic endeavor to persuade greatness to yield its secret. And the point of Hoffman's novel is that life can be led without greatness, for life contains enough besides to be always interesting and intense. There is pathos, as the story, of the old Grandmother shows; there is evil, as the story...