Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Muni and James Hilton are combined in "We Are Not Alone" to produce what might easily prove the best picture of the year. A man who is one of the best actors alive has portrayed in the story adapted from Hilton's vivid novel perhaps his most thoroughly human movie role...
Readers of Walter Dumaux Edmonds' novel about the effects of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley, on which this picture is based, may recall the trials of Lana (Claudette Colbert). Softened by the refinements of cosmopolitan Albany, she is suddenly plumped into the cis-Schenectady wilderness by her pioneering husband Gil (worried-looking Henry Fonda). Lana goes into hysterics when the first friendly Mohawk, Blue Back,* pops up in her lonely cabin...
Moment in Peking, Lin Yutang's first novel, is modeled exactly on traditional Chinese novels. Almost 100 characters crowd its 815 close-print pages; it is written with almost Basic English simplicity. Crammed with incident, but plotless, Moment in Peking chronicles the history of three wealthy middle-class Chinese families, from the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when its heroine, ten-year-old Mulan, is kidnapped by soldiers, to New Year's, 1938, when she joins the epic flight of 40,000,000 high-spirited refugees into China's vast interior...
...last 76 pages, covering the Sino-Japanese war, hardly do more than scratch the surface of the contemporary Chinese scene. But Moment in Peking, far superior to Author Lin's whimsical The Importance of Living, may well become the classic background novel of modern China...
...Translated by Pearl Buck, it is the only classic Chinese novel in English...