Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of Bernadette Soubirous, passingly well; her voice goes up and down in the right places, and she assumes the proper expressions at the proper times. But the Bernadette of the play simply is not the same pitiful; yet glorious Bernadette whom Franz Werfel portrayed in his best selling novel. The supporting roles are over-acted; the speakers try to convey in each line all the emotion and conflict of the play with the result that the audience is deluged by a flood of bombast that leaves it reeling and listless...
...year when mayhem, murder, dipsomania, drug addiction, perversion and incest are much commoner in U.S. novels than in U.S. life, Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase has contributed a novel whose muted prurience is almost prim. The story concerns the adventures of two U.S. Quakeresses* named Bean. They are natives of Lanesboro, Pa., where the Widow Bean's father keeps a general store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli, off to Italy. He has neglected to tell his U.S. wife that...
...Author. Nicodemus is Author Walworth's fourth novel (the others: Faith of Our Fathers; They Thought They Could Buy It; Feast of Reason). Daughter of a Methodist minister, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Merle Crowell, Novelist Walworth lives in a remodeled farmhouse in Chappaqua, N.Y. Says her friend, Writer Grace Perkins, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Fulton Oursler: "She's small, she's trig, and if she isn't younger than her married daughter, her heart doesn't know it. Her spiritual essence is a faith that permeates everything she does...
Susan and Slick are the chief characters in Ethel Vance's new novel. In two previous novels, Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939) and Reprisal (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942), Author Vance, who under her real name (Grace Zaring Stone) also wrote The Bitter Tea of General Yen, has used her talent for melodrama to best-selling effect. .But Winter Meeting is quite a different kind of book-a brief, sharp study of the way in which lives may be turned upside down in the twinkling...
...severe heart attack warned Novelist Franz Werfel that he might not have long to live. So the author of The Song of Bernadette decided to spend the days before darkness writing a satirical novel about the world of the future. Last August, a few days before he died, Werfel was revising the last of Star of the Unborn's 645 pages. It describes how Werfel rose again from the grave, none the worse for a sleep of some 100,000 years, on the "Third Day of the Fourth Earth-Month of the Seven Hundred and Forty-Second Sun Week...