Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just one painting held the crowd momentarily. Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's pustulant portrait of Dorian Gray, painted for MGM's movie of Oscar Wilde's novel, stared arrestingly from under a strong spotlight. To keep calloused fingers off moldering Dorian, he was surrounded by a low grey fence. Blurted one housewife, after minutes of careful study: "Anyway, you can tell he's English." The man who painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused...
Several things put "The Yearling" far above any movie of nature, childhood, or animals that has appeared in the last few years. Its producers must have realized that the original novel needed no new "twists" or fetching young women, to be put across; just a few good astors, suitable scenery photographed in technicolor, and enough imagination to see the real movie possibilities of the book. All of these are here, and the result is something worth seeing...
Although "The Yearling" may remind one of the haunting nature novels of W. H. Hudson, happily it plays safe in keeping its feet firmly on realistic ground. As a background for the romance are the problems of a small farmer in feeding his family, while he lives more or less cut off from the world. The necessary influence of the few contacts with the outside is made clear, and thus the story is kept credible and interesting. On this basis, the fresh imagination of Miss Rawlings' novel delights, hardly ever falling into dreaded bathos...
...ultimately dispiriting quality of O'Hara's writing has been variously explained. One explanation: since his first novel, Appointment in Samarra, he has worked out a kind of ring technique for polishing off his subjects in one fast round. Subjects on which he might have to go the distance are not taken on; such subjects include whatever, if anything, O'Hara may love...
...have won so big a reputation on so small a body of work as Edward Morgan Forster (rhymes with divorced-her). Often described as England's foremost living novelist, he hasn't written a novel since A Passage to India (1924). The four other novels he wrote earlier, all fairly short ones, came in a feverish burst of activity-for him-between 1905 and 1910. The rest of his fiction includes only a dozen short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume...