Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these tactics, in which Prince Konoye showed himself to be an inventive genius, the new Premier shoved the Japanese Empire a long step towards what it thinks it desires: totalitarianism. The Prince, who once appeared at a masquerade dressed up as Hitler, seemed last week to enjoy the novel game of dictator. Even the Army looked as if it liked being told what to do (because it was told to do virtually what it wanted). But there was almost too much novelty in Japan last week. Seasoned bystanders expected Konoye would eventually get bored, or the Army restive...
...adapting Helen Jerome's dramatization of Miss Austen's novel, able Screen writer Jane Murfin's collaborator was Aldous Huxley, who went to California two years ago for eye treatments. He wrote a screen play for Garbo about Marie Curie which disappeared without a trace, supposedly because of family objections (Daughter Irene Joliot-Curie is thought to have feared that her father would be dwarfed by Garbo). Author Huxley, who has treated Hollywood with marked reserve, would like to write an original screen comedy. So far his only other product made in California is a grim, fantastic...
...wife and 10-year-old son; Novelist Julian Green (The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey}, pessimistic Paris-born American who has preferred to spend most of his life in France, and now finds France actually too pessimistic for him; Novelist Jules Remains, author of the monumental super-novel, Men of Good Will, still un finished after 18 volumes. Said Frenchman Romains: "The immense majority of France is against Fascism...
British Novelist William Somerset Maugham is a great believer in firsthand adventure as a source for fiction. He turned his own experiences as World War I intelligence agent into the spy novel Ashenden. Last week the aging, 66-year-old author had abundant material for a World War II novel accumulated during a 20-day voyage of escape from France in the company of 1,300 British refugees...
Young Man With a Horn, by Dorothy Baker (TIME, June 6, 1938), was inspired by the life & work of the immeasurably talented Bix Beiderbecke. Readers raved over the novel; jazz musicians held it in thorough contempt.* Piano in the Band is like a roomful of rank amateurs through whose affectionate bloobs and bleatings may be heard, if faintly and scratchily, the record they are trying to duplicate: Tin Roof Blues. Whether readers can rave over it is doubtful. What musicians will think of the novel - since they are kind to the nonpretentious - is uncertain. But faulty...