Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does, there will be two good reasons: 1) Paramount, under the supervision of Designer Raoul Pene du Bois, has turned Miss du Maurier's novel into one of the most eye-drugging jobs of costuming and color on record; 2) the story disguises an essentially drab little suburban flirtation as high romance, retaining the most sure-fire features of both...
...forthcoming books and they have the privilege of checking off what they want and can buy up to one thousand rubles' worth each month. Most of what is left goes on the open market and is bought up in a matter of hours. The average price for a novel on the open market is ten rubles, or about $2 at the official rate of exchange...
...process. Joseph Stalin takes an intense interest in literature. Sometimes in the small hours of the night a writer may get a telephone call. It is Stalin. He congratulates the writer on the book and sometimes gives keen and thoughtful advice. One book, The Great Mouravi, a novel about Stalin's birthplace, Georgia, by a woman writer, Anna Antonovskaya, had been sidetracked by the publishers until Stalin called her up and told her it was brilliant and gave her some additional information on Georgia...
...Mama's bank account" that gave Kathryn Forbes the title for her novel. Van Druten adapted her idea for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and the result is a very appealing family portrait that remotely reminds one of "Life With Father,' but makes the Clarence Day hit look like a Radcliffe Idler production...
With the issuance of the long-awaited Year Books one of the most novel and worthy ideas other than the concensus that Berna Tool oughta bagga head of the past six months has been suggested by the Battalion idea-man, and bride-groom-to-be, Jock Brunner. Jock proposes that when the long twilight of senility and retirement descends upon our new effervescent lives and we look not to the future, but back upon our glorious past, we will, as is customary, hearken back to the days we spent here at Harvard. In any relationship in which a group...