Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Garnett has legal power to interpret men's minds. Last week he had to decide about the last testament of Louisville's late Civil Engineer Charles K. Needham. Needham, a sentimental bachelor who died ten years ago at 80, once read Jean Jacques Rousseau's novel Emile, wherein that 18th-Century romantic tried to persuade French mothers to nurse their own children. Persuaded in his turn, Needham bequeathed money for an annual prize ($100 to $200) for the healthiest white Louisville baby nine to 15 months old. "nourished by its mother for a period...
...quickly denied that he got any of his ideas for novel clothes from Esquire, saying, "Not Esquire, decidedly not! I don't get my clothes from anywhere in particular, but from everywhere in general...
...award for the most distinguished novel dealing with some aspect of life in America went to John P. Marquand for his book "The Late George Apley...
...easy to keep off the floor, catalogued The Flying Yorkshireman as consisting of: 1) a fantasy by Eric Knight about a man who discovered he could fly, amusing but stretched thin; 2) a sentimental story by Helen Hull about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood by I. J. Kapstein. Main trouble...
...doubtful if "Un Carnet de Bal" deserved the Venice award as the greatest picture of 1937. It is far from great; although they may strike American audiences as novel, the trick plot and twisted cynicism are old stuff on the European screen. But Julien Duvivier, master of French directors--he has made better films than this--has given "Un Carnet" the touch of the artist, which combines with competent acting and force photography to make the picture thoroughly worthwhile...