Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bell for Adano (adapted by Paul Osborn from John Kersey's novel; produced by Leland Hayward) keeps its tone but not its resonance when rung in the theater. Although Playwright Osborn has been resourceful in retelling the John Hersey story and scrupulous about preserving its spirit, the result is a nice play rather than a notable one. The picture it presents is not quite dramatic enough, the presentation a little on the bumpy side...
Hand in Glove (adapted from Gerald Savory's novel Hughie Roddis by the author and Charles K. Freeman; produced by Arthur Edison) commits many crimes but not the fatal one of dullness. A grim pathological thriller, it has a double focus on a young sex psychopath who murders young girls, and on an idiot boy whom the murderer tries to frame...
...Frenchman's Creek," from Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name, isn't a bad yarn, but Paramount's production is a little too long-winded and self-conscious. Technicolor is brilliantly used, however, and largely compensates for the picture's weaknesses...
...these questions with a precision heretofore unknown on U.S. campuses. Now ready for use, the new plan lets the teacher be judged by his own colleagues. They in turn are guided by standards which the Washington faculty as a whole laid down in answer to a recent questionnaire. The novel application of these standards was worked out by Dean Edwin Ray Guthrie, recently chief consultant psychologist on the U.S. Army General Staff...
...days, when the Japs were having things their own way, and when we had to examine every scrap of information with a microscope for fear it would be helpful to the enemy." Karig, a reservist and former Washington newsman, and Kelley, former radio scriptwriter and author of a melodramatic novel, So Fair a House, spent months combing combat reports in the Navy's secret files, interviewing officers who had taken part in those first, mostly disastrous, actions...