Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Ricardo de la Fuente, handsome and schooled in the mannered ways of the Spanish aristocracy," says this novel's blurb, "came to 16th Century Mexico because of a romantic entanglement which violated the moral code of his class and time." One of Ricardo's first acts on reaching his sugar plantation in the New World was to violate Lucita, an Indian slave-girl: he calmed his conscience by muttering that she was "scarcely more than an animal." And when he met his branded, filthy, full-eyed, Indian field hands for the first time, Ricardo's only...
...most reptilian bits of legal chicanery that ever made fiction look almost as strange as truth. They are hounded by blackmailers; they are tortured still more severely by their inability to trust each other; they come at last to a surprise ending which, in the novel, had much the force of a mule's kick. Scripters Niven Busch and Harry Ruskin have had to tinker amazingly little with this hideous story...
Titian-haired Virginia Cunningham, whose trouble is schizophrenia, is the heroine of Mary Jane Ward's novel, The Snake Pit, which has already caused a mild stir in psychiatric circles, and netted Author Ward over $100,000 in advance royalties. It is based on Author Ward's own experience as a patient in an Eastern mental hospital...
...Author. Novelist Ward was born in Fairmount, Ind., has been married 18 years. The Snake Pit is her fourth novel. She has finished the first draft of a fifth novel and the outline of a sixth. Says her husband: "Mary Jane isn't happy unless she has a novel under...
Difficult problems of staging inherent in the play itself, together with the limited size of the squeaky, theatre, have been met and solved in a novel manner. The frequent scenery changes called for in the first and third acts have been eliminated by placing two sets on the stage, side by side, and only a minimum amount of imagination on the part of the audience is necessary to follow the movement of the plot...