Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata by Pianist Alfred Cortot and Violinist Jacques Thibaud (Victor, $10)?The David and Jonathan of musicians play expertly the Sonata dedicated to the once eminent violinist, Rudolph Kreutzer. Later Tolstoy added to its lustre by using it as the kernel of his hotly-debated novel...
...PRIVATES WE-Private 19022-Putnam ($2.50). Says Arnold Bennett, booster of books, preferably British: "Her Privates We will be remembered when All Quiet on the Western Front . . . is forgotten." Like the German novel, Her Privates We is a record of personal experiences in the trenches, as the plain soldier knew them. It too is plotless, simple narrative, un-propagandist, unrhetorical. Its author has preferred to remain anonymous. Says "Private 19022": "The events described actually happened; the characters are fictitious." He tells of the fighting on the Somme and Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters...
Farrar and Rinehart will celebrate their first anniversary on June 6 with the issue of their first $1 novel. Other new titles will follow at fortnightly intervals. This week they re-issued four popular novels (among them Young Man of Manhattan) at $1. They will continue to publish $2 and $2.50 fiction...
...Divorcee (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Whether the success of Ex-Wife, the novel from which this picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities...
...health of that art in 1917; then the slow turning of chaos into the art-propaganda which today dominates Russian esthetics. The time is obviously not yet ripe for piercing criticism. Art in Soviet Russia is still strictly utilitarian, avowedly a tool for spreading Communism, educating the proletariat: ". . . every novel, poem and play can justify itself in the eyes of the Russian workers only if its author can demonstrate that it fits into the general cultural aims of the Soviet Union." These aims are fairly well known. Generally, they are: "... to raise the cultural level of the entire population...