Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under the Siamese moon, 20th-Century-Fox has fashioned an interesting tale of what can happen when a prim but courageous English-woman goes to take up the white man's burden and remains to guide the destiny of a struggling monarch and his nation. All this is decidedly novel for a high-budget film, but Director Louis Lighton and his star, Rex Harrison, manage to carry it off with ease and maturity...
...Pirates. The first Hardy book to carry a U.S. imprint was his third novel, Under the Greenwood Tree. This was pirated by Henry Holt in 1873-i.e., it was copied from the original London edition without so much as a by-your-leave. Holt, however, immediately wrote to Hardy, explaining what he had done and promising that "you shall participate in the profits." This was high-class publishing in the 18703. Until international copyright became effective at the end of the 19th Century, publishers on both sides of the Atlantic (especially on this side) simply took whatever they liked...
...coarse of British novelists, thereupon threw up his hands. He told his U.S. publishers to withdraw the book if they saw fit-"it is so much against my wish to offend the tastes of the American public." Jude was Hardy's last (many now think it his best) novel. Its reception "completely cured" him, he said, of further interest in fiction. He turned back to verse, his original love, and wrote little else during his remaining 30-odd years...
...Human Bondage (Warner) is a handsome, efficient, totally unnecessary film remake of Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel. It contains few surprises for anyone who has ever read the reputedly autobiographical book or seen the well-made 1934 movie with the late Leslie Howard and Bette Davis...
...title refers, in irony, to a select circle of the prewar Harvard faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer...