Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Who Came To Stay (by Kenneth White, based on a novel by R. E. Spencer, produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) relates the dreadful events in "the upstairs sitting room of the Garvis home," a ponderous, gloomy Victorian chamber. Here three weird maiden sisters -one of them an unspeakable witch in a bathrobe-live in apparently acute sex frustration with their widowed, musical sister-in-law and her daughter. Finally the last of the weirds, afraid of becoming more so, decides to burn the house down...
...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...
...John O'Hara, music by Rodgers & Hart, produced by George Abbott). Since he came of age, John O'Hara has spent more time in nightclubs than many men have in bed. He has stayed till closing, seen all the sights, heard all the jargon. His short novel Pal Joey consists of the magnificently illiterate letters of a nightclub crooner and hoofer, an attractive, low and decidedly rubbery heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice for the moola...
...Giant Joshua is the 633-page story of a Mormon wife and of the pioneer community in which she lived out her marriage. Exhaustively detailed and rather well-told, it is not merely a good fictional history of a special group and period; it is also a good novel about human beings in general...
...truly adequate account of such a life as Clorinda's, of such a community as Dixie Mission, would perforce be a great novel. But adequacy, on that scale, is no small word. Maurine Whipple gets a great deal onto paper, both of the weight and progression of a life and of the interlock-ings of a community, but it is only in her last 30 pages that she approaches adequacy: a strong groundswell almost to the edge of "grandeur. As for the rest, it is at best an infinitude of competent but never quite excellent stitching...