Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mamba's Daughters (dramatized by Dorothy & DuBose Heyward from his novel; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is not another Porgy. It equals Porgy as a document on Negro dialect and folkways, has some exciting, a few touching moments. But if Mamba's Daughters took one step more it would topple over into sheer ten-twent-thirt...
Though no acknowledgment of source is made, The Primrose Path strikes many a playgoer as a dramatization of Victoria Lincoln's popular novel, February Hill (1934). First mentioned for production by Sam H. Harris in 1935, the play went unproduced for three years, after a Fall River, Mass, woman, charging that February Hill maligned members of her family, sued Author Lincoln for $100,000. So far the case has not come to trial...
Enough to alarm the woman-wary is the contemporary trend to novels and memoirs by writers' wives and mistresses. Few years ago Arnold Bennett's mistress, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, and his wife, Marguerite, published their intimate memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...
Latest such old wife's tale is Madeleine Boyd's novel, Life Makes Advances (Little, Brown, $2.75), by the separated wife (now a Manhattan literary agent) of an elegant Manhattan ex-critic. While husband's and wife's names are fictitious, Author Boyd confesses the characters are real...
Miss Lofts goes out of her way to handicap her fifth novel. She prefaces it with an essay on style: "Style of writing," she says, "should be something of which the reader is supremely unconscious; it should be clear and neutral, like the glass of a shop window. And because one offers a study of people long dead is no reason why that glass should be the knobbly 'bottle' kind which hasty judgment might deem more seemly." Under close examination Miss Lofts's glass proves to be fairly clear plate, not too marred by fingerprints...