Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since no one has seriously advanced the idea of dominion status for the Philippines since the 1946 independence date was set three years ago, Shadow Boxer Quezon's novel cry for "someone else" last week seemed to suggest that what he really wanted was the unbeatable situation of occupying both corners of the ring. At week's end he relaxed from his labors, entered a hospital to have his appendix...
Father Malachy's Miracle (adapted by Brian Doherty from Bruce Marshall's novel; produced by Delos Chappell). When devout little Father Malachy (Al Shean), with the help of God (offstage), sent a dance hall whizzing 20 miles through the air, he was not damning dance halls. He was proving to a skeptical Anglican parson (Frank Greene) miracles could still be performed, and he hit on the dance hall only because it was handy. The miracle was a fine success, but the Pope disapproved. "Too showy and new-fangled," said the bishop (St. Clair Bayfield). The dance-hall customers...
Where older hands fumble the difficult job of turning books into plays, Playwright Doherty, a young Toronto barrister, succeeds. His dramatization retains the saltily reverent flavor that won for Bruce Marshall's novel an appreciative public...
Eleven years ago a few U. S. readers paid $5 for copies of a two-volume novel translated from the French, forbiddingly titled The Thibaults. Its little-known writer was Roger Martin du Gard. The imposing boxed edition was made to look even less exciting by quotations from reviews that compared the book vaguely to the works of Balzac, Romain Rolland and Marcel Proust. Martin du Gard, said the New York Herald Tribune loftily, "reconciles at once the fastidious preciosity of Proust and Rolland's passionate evangelism with the traditional body of art." In a year when best sellers...
Third great reason for small U. S. book sales is the price of books. If a popular magazine is worth five cents, a novel's reading matter must be markedly superior to justify paying 50 times as much for it. In England the sensationally successful Penguin Books, started two years ago with a capital of $500 and a small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past...