Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Miss Howe was not originally a novelist, but a monologuist, spending her salad days barnstorming around the country before beginning as a writer. With two books under her belt, Miss Howe is presumably deemed a novelist. Actually, she has remained a monologuist. "We Happy Few" is not a novel, really, but a series of vignettes, all of which black out with a punch line. Many of these are very funny, and Miss Howe's satire bites deep, but wisecracks do not a novel make...
...talk, always serious without ever being solemn; enlivened with humor . . . yet never falling to the level of the sad professorial joke. . . . No, lecture isn't the word . . . no musty air of academic infallibility clouding the room, no laying down of the law and gospel according to Turner; but . . . novel ideas carelessly thrown out with more questions asked than were answered, more problems posed than solved...
Smoky (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a long, beautiful, rather intense friendship between Fred MacMurray and a horse. An expert Technicolor treatment of Will James's famed (32 editions), 20-year-old novel, the picture is a big-budget Western designed to delight small boys of all ages...
...Luckily for the reader who wants to know what really happened, Historian R. Gerald McMurtry, who is an instructor and director of Lincolniana at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., retells the unadorned facts in an "appendix" which is almost as long as and far better than Olive Carruthers' novel. It reprints a letter Lincoln wrote in 1838, which tells his version of the story...
...story, based on Roger Vercel's Goncourt Prize novel, Remorques (published in the U.S. as Salvage-TIME, Jan. n, 1937), is lacking in what the U.S. trade likes to call "big story values." Nothing much happens. Tugboat Captain Gabin, married for ten years to a nice, affectionate little blonde, suddenly finds that he's mad about Mile. Morgan. Except for a few convincing details, that's practically the whole plot...