Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After spending a reputed $200,000 in preparations, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last February abandoned its film version of It Can't Happen Here, a best-selling novel of 1935 in which Sinclair Lewis showed how a Fascist dictatorship might come to the U. S. Indignant Mr. Lewis thereupon offered the play rights to WPA's Federal Theatre Project, which went ahead with plans to produce the play simultaneously in a score of cities all over the nation. It was agreed that Nobel Prizewinner Lewis and his collaborator, Paramount Writer John C. ("Jack") Moffitt, should divide royalties...
There are so many jokers wild in Absalom, Absalom! that most readers will feel that the cards have been hopelessly stacked against them. It is the strangest, longest, least readable, most infuriating and yet in some respects the most impressive novel that William Faulkner has written. At first glance it is so pompous in its language and so ridiculous in its theme that readers accustomed to honest dealing will call at once for a new hand. Its action takes place simultaneously on three levels, and although Author Faulkner includes a map, a chronology and a cast of characters to help...
DEATH IN THE DEEP SOUTHWard Green-Stackpole ($2). "Neither a crime novel nor a mystery novel," laid in an anonymous Southern city, in which an unassuming New York teacher in a business college is convicted on circumstantial evidence of murdering his beautiful 15- year-old student...
...dramatization of "It Can't Happen Here" is not a finished production, but it retains enough of the novel's emotional ferocity to be well worth seeing. There can be no question that the adaption of the novel to a dramatic vehicle constituted a difficult task and that it was not completely successful. Further, it is noticeable that production difficulties are less easily overcome by a federal theatre group than by a private organization...
...filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium, for the use of exaggeration and caricature is at all times, terrifying rather than ridiculous in the novel...