Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tobacco Road (20th Century-Fox) is a film perversion of the longest-running play in theatrical history, now in its eighth year. Jack Kirkland's stage play, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's novel, is a low-down drama of dirt, malnutrition and moral decay among Georgia backwoods farmers. It is full of rank, rutty sexuality, cretin humors, and a certain comedy of destruction...
...innocuous boy-meets-girl romance. The verboten questions of social caste and childbirth out of wedlock might have been replaced by sticky sentimentality and irrelevant filler scenes. Ginger Rogers could have devoted her talents to singing and dancing rather than to acting. But, with unusual regard for Morley's novel, the producers of "Kitty Foyle" brought this cross section of a white collar girl's emotions to the screen with almost all its original insight and realism...
...disillusioned, asks her to come back to him. Her heart says "yes" but her head says "no," and the stream of consciousness technique by which the story is told in the first person gives surprisingly strong dramatic punch to this dilemma. This nigh-to-perfect filming of a fine novel should not be missed, but don't go at all unless you can come in at the beginning. The picture is so well constructed that missing even a few of the opening scenes spoils the whole effect...
...most novel works that is sung is "The Rio Grande", an impressionistic work by Constant Lambert. This work, full of rhythms and jazz melodies, will be performed with the Radcliffe Choral Society in the joint concerto to be given in Sanders Theatre on March 6. Another work to be sung at that time is Thompson's "Alleluia...
John Houseman, associate of Orson Welles, will speak tonight in the Poetry Room of Widener on "Radio Adaptions of the Novel and Other Literature." The meeting is sponsored by the Crimson Network, and the Radio Workshop...