Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed. ..." This description was intended by Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, who created the character and published the novel Babbitt in 1922, to represent a type of U. S. businessman. A vast reading public immediately accepted George Follansbee Babbitt as the go-getter incarnate. A school of Babbitt literature started, culminating in Booth Tarkington's The Plutocrat. "Babbitts," "Babbittry," "Babbittism'; became epithets applicable to all those...
Reno (Sono Art-World Wide Pictures Inc.). A novel by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. which was partly a lecture on Reno in travelog manner and partly a triangle lovestory is used here as the basis for the first picture Ruth Roland has made in years. She is the wife of a businessman who, faithless and cruel, tries to thwart her divorce. He accuses her of intimacy with a former suitor whom she met by accident on the train. A little child is involved in the suit, and this secures the sure laugh that children's voices get on the microphone...
Woodcutter Lynd Ward's first "novel" in woodcuts, Gods' Man (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), was first of its kind in the U. S.,? became a minor collectors' item. Mad Man's Drum's story is simple in outline, but Artist-Author Ward this time makes some of his sequences unnecessarily obscure. As before, he is decorative, eerily suggestive, reminiscent of morbid cinema...
...call 'Realism' is responsible for the unprecedented number of failures on Broadway during the last season. The drama should be a vehicle for glamour, a movement up and away from the seamy side of life. Eugene O'Neill's 'Strange Interlude' succeeded only because of the unusual and novel mechanics superimposed on a poor play. Boston audiences are the most appreciative in this country of farce or pure comedy. I'd like to play Shakespeare. I love Oolong tea and. English muffins, and I'd rather live in San Francisco than any other city in the world with the possible...
Strategy in Handling People is a how-to-succeed book, using a novel technique. It relates a series of anecdotes and then moralizes in italics. Typical moral: "People are all different and must be treated differently." The worst that can be said about the book is that it draws heavily on the life of Benjamin Franklin. But its merit is that the anecdotes pertain to some 300 other people from Louisa M. Alcott to Adolph Zukor...