Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week What People Said, a 614-page, dramatic first novel, laid in imaginary Athena, Oklarada. offered the first work of fiction to tempt comparison with Middletown in Transition. On the surface Author White's Main Street still looks much as it did in Main Street and Babbitt. Like Sinclair Lewis. Author White gives no solution for Main Street's inhibiting culture, offers no antagonist capable of creating a better one. But Author White's novel carries an undercurrent, nowhere found in Lewis' books, of those acute undersurface tensions detected by the Lynds...
...Author. Round-faced, mild-mannered William Lindsay White resembles his famed father, Kansas Editor William Allen White. But of his father's homey writing on Midwestern small-town life Author White's novel shows no trace. Born 37 years ago in Emporia, Kansas (five years after his father bought the Emporia Gazette), Author White well knows the Midwest he writes about. He knows other environments as well. At 18 his father took him to the Versailles Peace Conference. Graduated from Harvard in 1924, after a year at the University of Kansas, Author White spent the next ten years...
Whiteoaks (adapted by Mazo de la Roche from her novel Whiteoaks of Jalna; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings). Chief distinction of Whiteoaks is its 101-year-old heroine, played to the age limit by Ethel Barrymore. A wealthy, imperious, chops-licking war horse, Gran Whiteoak is surrounded by an obsequious tribe worrying over who will inherit her money. Neither her fuddy-duddy children nor her horsy grandchildren are prepared to see it go to Finch, the family neurotic (Stephen Haggard), and they kick up quite a rumpus when it does...
Bostonians who found Peter and the Wolf lots of fun were not alone in not knowing when to applaud music by contemporary Russians. Two years ago, Soviet Russia officially banned "Leftist" tendencies in music and art, held up James Joyce's polyperverse novel Ulysses, "written in English that can hardly be understood by Englishmen," as a celebrated example. Two years before that, Nazi Germany had banned exactly the same types of modernistic art as kulturbolschewistisch...
Died. Edward Mandell House, 79, confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson; of old age; in Manhattan. "Colonel" House was author of an anonymous novel, Philip Deu: Administrator, published in 1912 about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept...