Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. E. Temple Thurston, 53, British novel-a-year man (The City of Beautiful Nonsense, The Greatest Wish in the World), playwright (The Wandering Jew); of pneumonia; in London...
Christopher Strong (RKO). The cinema is where all Michael Arlen characters go when, so far as the literary public is concerned, they are thoroughly dead. Christopher Strong, derived from a novel by Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau, is about imitation Arlen characters who can be recognized as such by their fondness for treasure hunts, evening clothes and "keeping fit." It is another caste-mark of such persons that they have nothing better to do than indulge their romantic emotions; the habit gets them into typical difficulties in this picture. A lady aviator (Katharine Hepburn) meets Sir Christopher Strong, M. P. (Colin Clive...
...Michigan and the world believed fortnight ago that Henry Ford, veteran foe of bankers, was about to become the State's greatest banker by taking over the strapped Guardian National and First National of Detroit and running them under his own novel ideas ("The first duty of a bank is to be a safe repository for money"). Last week they learned that both banks had refused the Ford offer, changed their minds, were about to reorganize and carry on under new Federal and State emergency legislation. Delay in adopting the latter was partly traceable to antagonism between Detroit...
...Fielding and the Beginnings of the Novel," Assistant Professor Maynadier, Sever...
...Fielding and the Beginnings of the Novel." Assistant Professor Maynadier, Sever...