Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel feature of the exhibit is a collection of propaganda posters, which are being used in Russia to encourage workingmen to produce more, educate themselves, and improve the public health. There is also a group of pamphlets describing present travel conditions in Russia...
...Riverhead" is a novel both sensitive and powerful. It has profited by the battles waged by D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis for the freedom of literature; and shown that the novel has at last come into its peaceful own. "Riverhead" will probably be read and enjoyed, as the novels of Thackeray and Jane Austin are today, when most of its contemporaries are forgotten
Paul Sharon, the character about whom the novel is built, is completely human; his healthy vigor, his disgust at shani and hypoerisy, his feeling for beauty, and his strong passion are contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...
...without success; whatever Warner Brothers spent on this picture can safely be listed on the wrong side of the ledger also. This is the fault, not of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who acts in the picture and helped Niven Busch Jr. write an intelligent adaptation from Mary McCall's novel, but of a weakness in the story itself. Trying to show how a young officer of the Tsar's guards faces the issues of the revolution by marrying one of his servants (Nancy Carroll) and becoming a son of honest toil instead of a Paris taxi driver, it does...
...Kentucky born & bred, though she has more "learning" than most of them aspire to. Contemporary of Wisconsin's much-touted Glenway Wescott at the University of Chicago, after taking a Ph.B. there she went to Manhattan, worked at writing. Critics fell over themselves to praise her first novel, The Time of Man, have continued to bow gravely in her direction. Unmarried, calm, grave, handsome, Authoress Roberts, 46, lives at Perryville, Ky., plans to write many another grave, calm, handsome Kentucky tale. Other books: My Heart & My Flesh, Jingling in the Wind, The Great Meadow, Under the Tree (verse...