Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis B. Mayer would love to make a piker out of Alfred Nobel. So it was natural that when M.-G.-M. handed out a prize for a novel Louis Mayer did not stop at a mere $30,000 to $40.000 (the Nobel Prizes vary). He made it a flat $125,000-plus a bonus of up to $50,000 if the book becomes a bestseller...
...prize-winning novel for which Mr. Mayer gouged himself is Author Goudge's 13th. It lacks the sterner virtues of good literature, but it is tasty as a marshmallow, and practically written in Technicolor. Its setting swings between Britain's romantic Channel Islands and New Zealand, from 1830 to 1900. Its atmosphere is one of gentle domesticity, flavored with salty thrills of sea journeys and pioneering among the Maoris at the world's bottom...
Hollywood abandons its "we like everybody" policy in this movie, and the dangers of fascism are stated frankly and tersely. Pearl Buck's novel has been followed closely for the most part. The action 'begins in a peaceful pro-war Chinese valley; then, "the dwarfa" from across the mountains send over their deadly bombs. Shocked into realization of what is happening, the Chinese use all their skill and fortitude to ward off the enemy...
...last week the Rev. A. Ritchie Low, of Johnson, Vermont's United Church, had completed his novel experiment, having 81 Negro children from Manhattan to spend a fortnight's holiday in homes of white Vermont families (TIME, July 24). He had also received over 100 letters about it from interested strangers. One correspondent in nine disapproved, but the Vermonters and their visitors agreed that the experiment was a huge success...
When 17-year-old Sebastian Barnack, adolescent poet-hero of Aldous Huxley's new novel, arrived in Florence, Italy, he found life in the British colony revolving in oldtime Huxleyan fashion...