Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duffus hails from a small town in Vermont. He got his schooling at California's Leland Stanford, worked for Editor Fremont Older's San Francisco Bulletin, the New York Globe under Bruce Bliven, and regularly comes through with a novel, a biography or some other book every second or third year, written with competence, measured skepticism and social sympathies. Duffus' latest book, The Innocents at Cedro: A Memoir of Thorstein Veblen and Some Others, suggests that he got a great deal of his color, flavor and method during a year (1907-08) spent as an adolescent dishwasher...
Work and Play seems as exhausted as France. The conflicts are spiritless, the dialogues read like editorials, the goings-on of all the characters, with no one of whom the reader feels akin, seem meaningless. The pathos of the novel is extraneous. It lies in the reader's dark foreknowledge of what was so soon to happen to this France that Remains describes. All these picnics, love affairs, speeches, quarrels, schemes, crimes, recollections, arguments about the future, projects for preventing war-this, Romains seems to say, was he best that French intelligence was doing. Few of the actions were...
...Good Will fails as a novel, as an exemplification of Remains' philosophy it is an achievement...
Individuals still suffer, fight, endure loneliness and the bitter failure of all this work in Remains' new novel form as they do in life, and as they always have in good fiction. But in Remains' book their triumphs and their tragedies are alike unmoving. Seen as mere units of the world in which they live, his people seem strangely alike, and strangely unlikable...
Suds in Your Eye (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Mary Lasswell's novel; produced by Katherine Brown and J. H. Del Bondio) chronicles the capers of three beer-befuddled old girls in a San Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...