Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Elissa Landi, 38, novel-writing stage & screen actress, granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth (whose daughter, Elissa's mother, was never acknowledged by the Emperor); and Curtiss Kinney Thomas, 37, author; she for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Published a first novel (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Harper...
...impossible and gave a book about Brooklyn more newspaper space than the Dodgers. When Betty Smith was living in Chapel Hill, N.C., turning out unsalable one-act plays and reading the late Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River, which she says caused her to begin her novel, Private Jones was assistant editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly. Though they lived for six years in the same small town, they never met. A series of articles about Army life by Private Jones did what proximity did not. To Private Jones came a letter of praise from Betty Smith...
...novel, as is usually the case, has been considerably compromised. On one hand it has been purified and on the other it has been rather sensationalized to achieve the box office appeal...
Between October 1940 (when the novel begins) and Pearl Harbor (when it ends), only ordinary things happen to Jeffrey. Madge, his socialite wife, constantly complains that he never tells her anything (she usually fails to see the point of what he does tell her). He dallies for a few months in the Hollywood home of an actress, an old friend, and learns that he cannot write a play. His elder son, Jim, quits Harvard to join the army and marry a girl Madge does not approve. But on these bare bones Marquand has molded the flesh of Jeffrey Wilson...