Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Innocent Voyage (adapted by Paul Osborn from Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica; produced by The Theatre Guild) makes a game try at a tough target. Richard Hughes's strikingly original novel is a caution to dramatize. In one sense a fantasy about some 19th-Century children who fell into the hands of pirates and plagued the merry life out of them, it is also a bold study of the seemingly innocent but impenetrable, amoral and frequently shocking nature of children...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, rarely heard from in the past two years, proved to have been writing her first novel. It concerns a young couple in a plane...
Salvador Dali (Secret Life of Salvador Dali) had also finished his first novel. Characteristically, he said he had again chosen Dial for his publishers, because the name is an anagram...
...Walsh Girls may feel that Mrs. Janeway does not know it. A careful, detached work of fine craftsmanship, The Walsh Girls is a story of U.S. small-town life in the dreary '30s, with a glance over the shoulder at Europe. The book is unique among U.S. first novels in that it is strictly a novel of character. So carefully does the author outline each feature in her pictures of Helen, George and Lydia that the book takes on the quality of a preserved family parlor with portraits by Sargent on the walls...
...Walsh Girls has been more highly praised than almost any first novel since Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed. It deserves most of the good words given it. It suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in the story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom...