Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same reason that made James Fenimore Cooper an author. After reading an English novel aloud to his wife, he declared: "I could write a better story myself." When his wife dared him to try, he turned out the first of some 30 novels...
Temptation (Universal-International) comes about as close as the Johnston Office will permit in letting Merle Oberon get away with murder. Adapted from a musty Robert Hichens novel called Bella Donna (forerunner of the stories with spiced-up Mediterranean settings that used to run in Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine), the turgid old yarn has been tried three times before in the movies. The verdict, in spite of its fine feathers, stylish production and highfalutin misbehavior, is guilty-too sluggish...
...hard-riding yarn about a drover who refused to shoot 1,000 head of cattle, decided to "overland" them across 1,600 miles of forbidding mountains and desert. The storytelling, acting and incidental romancing are not quite up to Hollywood Standards. But the jagged, weirdly beautiful landscapes are novel and interesting...
...friend Poet Louis MacNeice's unfinished radio play Aristophanes). Hostile to salaried discipline, Thomas avoids steady employment, tolerates the Labor Government because "running down Labor . . . eventually brings you alongside the Conservatives, which is the last place you want to be." He is now working on a novel about the life of a young...
Jules Romains' colossal super-novel, Men of Good Will, has at last ground to a wordy stop, after 14 volumes (the original French runs to 27), some 7,500 pages, and about 1,000 characters...