Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bull spirit of U. S. newspapers, a red, red rag is radio's blatantly exaggerated "coverage claims." Last month mild-mannered Alexander Woollcott became an unwitting toreador in the radio v. newspaper ring. Seizing upon his radio praise of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice & Men ("I look upon [it] as a masterpiece") the book's publishers plastered newspapers in Chicago, Boston and New York with the claim that Pundit Woollcott had spoken thus "in speaking to 69,540,000 people...
...This has been an interesting case, with novel problems of law presented. ... I could find no exact precedent . . . but I did find an Indiana statute which reads: 'No marriage shall be void for the lack of a license or other formality required by the law, if either of the parties thereto believed it to be a legal marriage at the time.' My construction of that would be that if all they did was to sign an application for a license, as they both did, and one believed it a legal marriage...
Message of They Gave Him A Gun, adapted from William Joyce Cowan's novel, is that war breeds gangsters. This not particularly startling thesis is elaborately worked out in connection with Rose Duffy (Gladys George), the hospital nurse who falls in love with Fred but marries Jimmy out of sympathy. When Fred encounters the young couple in the U. S. after the Armistice. Jimmy is running a protective association that gives him ample opportunity to keep up his target practice. Fred tells Rose and Rose tells the police. By this time, Jimmy's slightly Freudian affinity for guns...
...sprightly onetime "Liz" Altemus, was screen-tested for Scarlett, which she will not play. Other major Selznick productions will be Prisoner of Zenda, with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Astor; also Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Nothing Sacred in Technicolor. First and most novel Wanger production will be Vogues of 1938. Most publicized Goldwyn contributions will be The Goldwyn Follies and Hurricane, sequel to MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty. Starting with the Follies, every Goldwyn production will be filmed in Technicolor. In England, Producer Korda's most noteworthy picture on the new season...
...story of an insignificant family of Illinois caught in the rapids of a post-war world. The story opens with the description of this young family, a description which almost at once introduces us to each member in terms which characterize them to the very end of the novel. Bunny, the youngest Morison at this time, appeals to us for his quiet sentimentality. The relations between this sensitive boy and his mother are as touching as they are true to life. His older brother Robert, aged thirteen, has had a serious accident which resulted in the amputation...