Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Each time after her thin, vibrato-less voice had gone through its intense phrasing of a gaunt little tune like "Good Morning Heartache" the crowd clapped ardently and stamped their feel. Finally she did a simple, stark presentation of "Strange Fruit," which carried more punch than Lillian Smith's novel, and then she disappeared despite her howling admirers. They stamped, and shricked, and ranted, and raved. Finally Louis, anxious to get on with the show, said, "Take it easy, she's just gone out to change her dress," and the crowd quieted down. But she never came back...
...forum on E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India," previously announced by Kirkland House as scheduled for last night, will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. I. A. Richards, University Professor, will speak on the novel...
...taste," burbles Chilean Author María-Luísa Bombal, "the grim, documentary type of writing is overdone today. I prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at $125,000) for Producer Hal Wallis. Even without book royalties Author Bombal's literary take is tops for a Latin American writer...
...readers know French Novelist Roger Vercel for his Tides of Mont St.-Michel, a fictional Cook's Tour of the famed medieval island abbey off Brittany. Less ambitious but just as colorful is the latest Vercel novel published in the U.S.-the story of a rich, gone-to-seed Breton family who live at Plangomeur, a mansion not far from Mont St.-Michel...
John Roberts, Chairman of the Department of English at Williams College, will speak this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the fourth of the Kirkland House lecture series on the works of E. M. Forster. He will discuss Forster's novel, "Howard...