Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last person he saw, Velvet knew that her star was due to rise. How it rose, and to what heights, Au thor Bagnold should be left alone to tell. The Author. Many a Manhattan playgoer remembers the delightfully improbable Serena Blandish (1929) ; it was taken from the novel of the same name written (but not acknowledged) by Enid Bagnold. Author of only four acknowledged books (a war diary, poems, a child's book, a novel), Author Bagnold has an English reputation that might surprise those who have never read her. A beauty of the approved English type...
...French Talking Films Committee will present "La Femme Ideale" today and Saturday at the Institute of Geographical Exploration. This film, produced by Andre Berthomieu, is based on a well-known novel by Georges Oudard. The times of screening will be 1.40, 4, 6.30, and 8.50 o'clock. Harvard and Radcliffe students may now obtain tickets at Exhibition Hall in Robinson Hall Annex, on presentation of their Bursar's cards. The committee asks the students to presents their cards in person...
...spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer, and with a sigh asked whether this picture had anything to do with Dante's Inferne, the picture successfully translates and condenses the huge novel into a short movie...
Heading the bill at the University for today's revival show, is the screen version of Alexandre Dumas' adventurous novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo." For the most part adhering very closely to the Dumas script, the screen adaptation brings to the moviegoer who likes swashbuckling adventure and romance an hour's enjoyable entertainment...
...light comedy fashioned after the novel by Georges Oudard, this cinema took the prize for the best produced in Paris last winter...