Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philip Lewis, produced by Otis Chatfield-Taylor). One of the hardest things in the drama is to make the fires of a purely interior, mental hell apparent to an audience. Usually only the greatest playwrights, the Ibsens and Chekhovs, can do it. Fledgling, adapted from Authoress Chilton's novel Follow the Furies, does it, though it is hardly a great play. It also does other, much less admirable things-confuses its central tragedy with subplots and religious argument in the manner of old-fashioned "problem plays." But the hell remains visible, registers hard...
This week appeared Willa Cather's first novel in five years. It is an immaculately written account of a few months in the life of a family in Virginia. The year is 1856. The family is that of sober, plebeian Henry Colbert and his subtle, suffering, tony wife, Sapphira. They live, well-supplied with slaves, a little beyond the edge of civilization, within the fringes of the mountains. Sapphira's widowed daughter, an abolitionist at heart, does good among the mountaineers and the slaves. Sapphira's husband, another, spends most of his time at the mill, earnestly...
Willa Cather could not possibly write a bad novel; but Sapphira and the Slave Girl bears witness that she can write a dull one. This dullness, though, is the sum of many honest virtues: a nicely formed story, characters drawn with delicate authority, sharp, evocative vignettes of Virginia living & landscape. The whole work has the well-made, healthful, sober clarity of a Dutch interior. And like many unexceptionable people who inspire neither more nor less than respect, Sapphira is not too dull to be pleasant reading...
...SENTIMENTAL NOVEL IN AMERICA 1789-1860 - Herbert Ross ] Brown -Duke University Press...
...Last week the Chicago Opera was in the middle of its six-week season. This year's new angel and ardent publicizer: Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick of the Tribune. There were other novel ties. A chorus whose average age was 25 tickled Chicago eyes as well as ears. The Ballet Theatre, which earned huzzahs at its Manhattan debut last year, joined forces with the singers. Last fortnight a performance of Carmen got columns of publicity: in the last act 18 Chicago cops, led by Chief of Traffic Captain David Flynn, took turns appearing as Spanish dragoons riding nine police...