Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sound of Hunting (by Harry Brown; produced by Irving L. Jacobs) is Harry Brown's first play and, like his first novel, is about the war. But A Sound of Hunting lacks the substance, along with the timeliness, of A Walk in the Sun. It has certain merits, but almost no meaning...
...plot concerns a wife (Irene Manning) who, at a college reunion, meets the man (Bill Johnson) she almost eloped with ten years before. Romantically stirred by a novel he has written about her, she again agrees to elope, again doesn't quite. Unlike the usual musicomedy plot, this one is never for a moment let out of the audience's sight, is even shoved into two boring Antony Tudor ballets. Vocally it pays off with such schmalzy tunes as The Day before Spring and / Love You This Morning, a lively ditty called Where's My Wife...
Died. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, 71, realistic novelist of the new South; of a heart attack; in Richmond. A spinster who never went to school, she wrote her first story at seven, her 20th and last novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning In This Our Life, at 68. Between the two she cultivated muscular ethics, a sinewy style, the flaccid enmity of the old South. To the1 impact of her novels, a critic testified: "Southern romance is dead. Ellen Glasgow has murdered...
...hangover end of a five-day drunk. A naturalistic horror picture, it is a nightmarish look at the life of a specialized urban type: the fear-paralyzed writer turned alcoholic. In some respects, the picture is a better temperance tract than Charles Jackson's best-selling novel from which it was adapted...
...Lost Weekend has its faults. Readers of the novel will note two outstanding ones: the necessary flatness of the flatly hopeful ending and the oversimplification of Don's reasons for drinking. But most of the picture is acted and directed with honesty. Ray Milland is convincing and often disturbing in his hangovers, his delir ium tremens, his melancholy. Weekend sustains its interest legitimately: it does not try to dazzle with highly polished studio tricks or with classical pretensions. By sticking strictly to its business - telling an interesting story in the straightest possible way - it becomes one of the year...