Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Cordelia Howard Macdonald, 93, the original "Little Eva" of Uncle Tom's Cabin; in Belmont, Mass. Aged four, she played in the first dramatization of the novel, performed at the Troy Museum in Troy...
...remarkable first novel came out of the South this week, and the Jeeter Lesters, Ty Waldens, Snopes and Joads moved over to make room for a new family of U.S. literary Kallikaks - the Taylors. Its author: John Faulkner, younger brother of William Faulkner (Sanctuary and eleven other novels). The story: how the Taylors and their neighbors exchanged the certain poverty of sharecropping in Mississippi for the uncertainties of city life...
Faulkner went to WPA as a "project engineer" in 1939, finished Men Working while laying sidewalks and digging sewers. He also finished another novel, Dollar Cotton, now with his publishers. The WPA is the best place in the world, he says, to write a book. But, he adds, if he can make $150 a month writing (he is sure he can), he will never do any kind of work again in his life...
Sholokhov invests his Cossacks with much of that tragic glamor U.S. Northerners feel in the "lost cause" of the Confederacy. This winner's ease of sympathy has a double-edged pathos now that the Muscovite winners stand to lose so much. As a political novel, The Don Flows Home to the Sea has almost ceased to have meaning. Though they are scarcely 20 years gone, its violent events, against the vast implacabilities which devour that same earth now, have the minute, archaic beauty of actions seen through a reversed telescope: Cossack fighting was an affair of horses, hard riding...
...clear that Author Helen MacInnes has studied the slick screen thrillers of her compatriot Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, etc.). Her first novel makes fast reading. Speeded up to her master's pace, it would make still better screening...