Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Smith, author of the best-seller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and her publishers, Harper & Brothers, had a quarter-million dollar libel suit grafted on them by Miss Smith's cousin, Mrs. Sadie Grandner of Brooklyn. Perilously perched on the legal limb was a character in the novel, one Aunt Sissie, who once worked in a rubber factory, had eight stillborn children, called all three of her husbands John. "Public scandal, infamy, and disgrace," claimed 60-year-old Cousin Sadie, who has been called Sissie for some 50 years, once worked in a rubber factory, had four shortlived...
Catherine is chief of a dozen characters who move through Author Gordon's seventh novel like shrouded figures on their way to the graveyard. For The Women on the Porch is a desolate, often poignant, hypersensitive study of life in death. Its theme: that in the world of today the dead are more alive than the living, memories more tangible than reality. Its chief quality: a sustained mood of doom that pervades every walk of life and hangs like a fog over the Tennessee landscape...
...cold rage of Author Gordon's mood and prose gives The Women on the Porch literary distinction. Some readers may feel that, like the famed poem by her husband, Allen Tate, Author Gordon's novel might just as well have been called Ode to the Confederate Dead...
...Canary (RKO-Radio) is porcelain-jawed Anna Neagle sacrificing her good name by flashlighting the Luftwaffe's way to Buckingham Palace. Just to watch reputable Cinemactress Neagle play a fifth columnist for half a picture-length without once tipping the audience a wink or an apology is rather novel. More traditional kinds of suspense involve saboteurs, spies, counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better than...
Repetition does not breed reward in this case. With continual emphasis on the same theme the humor palls somewhat but the authors have introduced a few novel twists which keep one guessing most of the time...