Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Above All (20th Century-Fox), adapted from Eric Knight's novel of the same name, asks the bitter, irrelevant question: Why should a young, disillusioned, lower-middle-class Englishman risk his life for the upper classes unless he is sure of a new shake after World War II is won? Like the novel, the picture fails to give a satisfactory answer...
...accompanied by a striking (I might say unforgettable) photograph of two ducks-one floating in a tank of water, the other sinking (after the detergent had been added to the water). This week I received from book publishers William Morrow and Co. an advance copy of a mystery novel, The Case of the Drowning Duck. The jacket shows a duck expiring in a goldfish bowl and has a note from the publishers saying that Erie Stanley Gardner, the author, was inspired by TIME'S item. TIME Marched On, fast...
...only article in this issue is by Mark Shorer of Harvard's English Department. "Sons and Lovers Reconsidered" expertly analyzes D. H. Lawrence's first novel. Examining the author's motives in writing it, a desire to free himself from a mother fixation, Shorer demonstrates that Lawrence as a novelist could never obtain the complete objectivity necessary for an author indulging in autobiographical material. It is a shrewdly written reconsideration, albeit a trifle obvious in dealing with the Miriam-Paul relationship...
John Steinbeck wrote the novel in 1935, and found his first public. Dramatist Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road) made it into a dirty, dismal, unsuccessful play in 1938, and socked a drama critic* for saying so. It went to Paramount Pictures for peanuts ($4,000) and, after some customary Hollywood sleight-of-hand, wound up at M.G.M...
...bulk of last year's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscars were awarded to Twentieth-Century-Fox's "How Green Was My Valley." That these honors were bestowed on the movie adaptation of Richard Lewellyn's novel of life and death in a Welsh mining town was as good a way as any to prove that Hollywood still knows what art and science in a film are, and what they can contribute to an epic picturization of a beautiful and moving story...