Word: sabatini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dockworker, graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, protege of famed Sculptor Lee Lawrie, ex-War pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. And he turned out such successes as Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda, Mare Nostrum. His name was linked so closely with Sabatini, Ibanez, Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro that it was sometimes uncertain whether he was director, author, actor, or all three. After a ten-year career in Hollywood, Rex Ingram, then only 35, dropped out of sight...
...Rafael Sabatini's 34th adventure story, The Sword of Islam (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), compares favorably with his best work (Scaramouche, Captain Blood). As dramatic as Italian opera without music, it is as ornately composed as Italian pastry. Laid in the 16th Century, it concerns one Prospero Adorno, wide-browed, slim-hipped soldier-poet, who first appears as commander of a naval squadron blockading Genoa. He changes sides several times, several times buys and talks his way out of captivity, is dishonored, vindicated, at last makes mincemeat of the Moslems, wins beautiful Gianna. Who fights whom is immaterial-the main...
...LOST KING-Rafael Sabatini- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). "The modern Dumas'" 26th riproaring tale gives adventure story readers their money's worth in 379 pages about Louis XVI's son, the "Lost Dauphin...
Captain Blood (Warner) seems to be Warner's answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Mutiny on the Bounty. Whatever the literary merits of Rafael Sabatini's florid novels, they make excellent cinema fare when served with the crispness and gusto of Captain Blood...
...Decent. Free from sex. Action. Nothing in the decadent line." Clean and decent contributors to Adventure have included George Jean Nathan, Ellis Parker Butler, Konrad Bercovici, Octavus Roy Cohen. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Albert Payson Terhune. the late Edgar Wallace. It was the first U. S. magazine to sponsor Rafael Sabatini...