Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World's Full of Girls (adapted by Nunnally Johnson from Thomas Bell's novel Till I Come Back to You; produced by Jed Harris). Nunnally Johnson, one of Hollywood's surest-footed scripters (The Grapes of Wrath, Holy Matrimony), slithers about rather badly on Broadway. The World's Full of Girls has nice dialogue, some pleasant scenes. But it suggests a wobbly coupling of two plays rather than a dramatization of one novel. Half of it portrays a large Brooklyn family addicted to quarrels and adorned "with quirks; the other half describes the punctured-and-repaired...
...Cliffe girls got up early to send its WAVES and Harvard's Navy men "Sunrise Serenade." The 6:30 to 7:30 o'clock hours were too great a strain, however, so they had to content themselves with the regular 7:30 to 11 o'clock evening hours. Another novel feature was Rennie Phoenix's playlet, "The Boy Behind the Gun," a nostalgic, feminine view-point of the boy friend in the army...
...they will not forget the legend of Sid Tussie's education. It is a classic. Taken out of the novel of which it is the finest part, it is one of the best stories of childhood in American literature. Sid Tussie lives in a clear-eyed, clear-headed wonderland of woods and mountain people, innocent as rain, dodging the occasional attempts of his drunken kinspeople to kill him dead, and watching them-how they drink, dance, ride mules, fight and keep out of jail-with such sharpness that their archaic Kentucky highland talk is truer in his recording...
...yearly ten-week personal appearance tour. She is tired, she says, of playing the gay belle of the Gay '90s. She turned down the leading roles in Sin Town and Pittsburgh because they didn't come up to snuff. Meanwhile she has written two plays and a novel. She is going to call the novel Joe Casanova...
This part of the novel loses its savor almost as soon as Uncle Kim is buried. Readers may quickly forget the farcical, burlesque-show complications of the Tussies (46 of them move into a mansion; Grandpa greets the sheriff who comes to evict them with the query: "How many boys did you have to die for our country...