Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reprisal is the first novel by the author of the Gestapo thriller, Escape, since the revelation that Novelist Ethel Vance is really Grace Zaring Stone cleared up the biggest U.S. literary mystery of the decade. For three years this mystery caused a stir in U.S. intellectual life equaled only by the agitation over the question: who should play Scarlett O'Hara in the movie version of Gone With the Wind? No doubt the publishers expect this furor will turn Reprisal into a bestseller. But Reprisal is no Escape. The book is a slow-moving study of French life under...
This show must prove to Hollywood's satisfaction that the same old routine can be put over again and again if pepped up with a shot of light-hearted acting and novel lines. It is the perfect comedy for today; you can look at a uniform and still laugh, you can neglect the war and November hours, you can take your best girl and have one swell evening...
...gets its performance under "Gone With the Wind" length, the German producers of "The Brothers Karamazov" are forced to omit huge chunks of plot. The entire tale of Aliosha, dreamy near-mystic and perhaps the hero of the novel, is scrapped to make way for the study of Dmitri Karamazov, his love Grushenka, and the intricacies of another brutal murder. The German production is good so far as it goes, but Dostoevsky fans will weep at the wholesale butchery of the novel. Anna Sten, as the seductive Grushenka, contributes a fine performance...
...General Carpenter is one of the Army's writers, directs much of its relief work in England. Throughout their lives the Carpenters have lived within the Army's rigid pattern, which forbids smoking, use of alcohol, going to the theater. The General has not read a novel for 20 years. A typical Salvationist couple, the Carpenters have two children, both in the Salvation Army...
Author Conrad Richter (The Trees') has already published one novel about the Southwest (The Sea of Grass). The setting of his brief new novel is Arizona in the early 1900s...