Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Lady is carried off with an unusual vivacity by Kay Francis. Its main drawback-that, as in most Kaufman plays, its crises are epigrammatic rather than emotional-is counteracted by its novel background and its general impudence. It is further notable for being Verree Teasdale's (Mrs. Aaolphe Menjou) first picture since her serious illness in October 1936. Her blonde coloring makes her a handsome foil to the darkling insipidity of Kay Francis, whom she outplays in their scenes together...
Barchester Towers (adapted by Thomas Job from the novel by Anthony Trollope; produced by Guthrie McClintick). For many years Anthony Trollope, the prolific mid-19th Century novelist, worked as an inspector for the Irish Post Office and is credited with saving all subsequent generations of mankind many steps by inventing the street mailbox as a convenient place for posting letters. As a novelist he saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close...
...Proposals that Mr. Chester will offer in Business' behalf could hardly be called novel. For its part Business is to make an earnest effort to put its own house in order and give serious thought to long-range economic planning. From Labor it wants union financial statements, voluntary cessation of political contributions, responsibility for propeny damage, and co-operation in amending the Wagner Act. Specifically Business is opposed to such legislation...
Bewailing the fact that such fiction frequently draws mediocre writers because it provides ready-made the stuff and substance of romance that they are incapable of creating for themselves, he said the historical novel must stand on its own merits as fiction...
...would write great historical novels "must show us character in relation to events greater than individuals, and yet he must show us character first of all as itself alone." He predicted that when a truly distinguished novel about the class struggle is written, it will not be dubbed "proletariat," but will stand as a great novel in its own right...