Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evensong (by Beverley Nichols & Edward Knoblock; Arch Selwyn & Sir Barry Jackson, producers). Glib, ultra-British young Beverley Nichols used to be employed on the personal staff of Dame Nellie Melba. He cashed in on this experience when he wrote Evensong, a novel about a declining diva's race against time. Dramatized and produced in London, the story had a remunerative run. Produced for the first time on a U. S. stage, Evensong again sets one to wondering if the English often go to the theatre just to get out of the rain...
...Descended from Tartars, bandied about for almost a century from Tauris to Transcaucasia to Georgia to Cyprus, the Doukhobors-over 4,000 of them-arrived in Canada leaderless and penniless despite the help given them by British Quakers and by Count Leo Tolstoy who donated the royalties from his novel, Resurrection. Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader, was in Siberia but three years later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries and granaries expanded. Their property became worth $20,000,000 even though Canada took back 360,000 of the now fruitful acres...
MASK OF SILENUS-Babette Deutsch-Simon & Schuster ($2). Short novel about Socrates, humanizing Xantippe...
...Most popular novel published in the U. S. in the past 37 years is Quo Vadis, written by Polish Henryk Sienkiewicz...
...BOAT OF LONGING - 0. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Posthumous novel by Minnesota's late great Norwegian author...