Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satirical portrait of Noel Coward, Impassioned Pygmies is first-rate. As a caricature of Lawrence's biographers it is catty but acute. As a novel about real human beings it is less than fair...
Sutter's Gold (Universal) is a picture which cinemaddicts have been anticipating almost since the start of talkies. Blaise Cendrars' novel-about the Swiss immigrant who settled on land grants in California in 1839, founded a private empire called New Helvetia, lost it when nuggets in his millstream started the gold rush and spent his last years begging Congress for restitution-came to the attention of Universal in 1928. The studio bought it as a vehicle for Jean Hersholt. When Hersholt left to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the picture was postponed. In 1934 Director Howard Hawks worked...
...Marxian cause-&-effect thesis. Sample: Dasha's baby dies because it was conceived in the muddle of pre-Revolutionary days. Though few U. S. readers will find Author Tolstoi anywhere near the equal of his great namesake, Darkness and Dawn is an indication that the Russian novel may be turning again to its traditional form...
...HILL-Eleanor Green-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Very short first novel of a middle-class family seen through the searching eyes of one of them, a just-grown-up girl. A refreshing contrast to such books as Josephine Johnson's ornate Now in November, Pulitzer Prizewinner for 1935, The Hill is well written, but in prose...
OBITER SCRIPTA-George Santayana-Scribner ($2.50). Collection of scattered lectures, essays, reviews by the onetime Harvard philosopher whose first novel (The Last Puritan, TIME, Feb. 3) made him a best-seller...