Word: serialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for Saturday matinees in the neighborhood cinema circuit, the movie serial that reached its zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...
...title of "general," set up military despotisms. Central America, which separated from Spain in 1821, fell into five republics shortly after armed Indians revolted, led by a former pig-driver called the Angel Rafael. Ever since, the Ladinos had kept the little countries in turmoil with a meaningless, serial struggle between political ins & outs, usually labeled "Liberals" and "Conservatives...
...romantic fantasy as Forever Amber and Green Dolphin Street. The Bolinvars, a story of thoroughbred horses, hounds and men, was first published in 1937 in a limited edition, at $15 a copy. This year's voracious appetite for romance brought its revival as a Ladies' Home Journal serial, and in a trade edition with a $10,000 promotion campaign by Publisher Holt. It reads like a blend of Black Beauty, The Stockbreeder's Manual and The Three Musketeers...
...London Times, most reverend of Britain's newspapers, apologized to its readers for a mistake perpetrated in its youth. Published every weekday throughout the year except on Good Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day,* the Times blamed a careless 18th-Century staff for an error which had caused the serial number on its front page to exceed the proper figure by 23. The mistake, said the Times, would be rectified by numbering 23 issues with the same number: 49,950. Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true 50,000th issue...
When wellborn Erica Drake said she was going to marry her Jewish boyfriend, Father Drake howled his head off, Mother Drake wept torrents, the best people were appalled. But Erica stuck, to her guns. First published as a serial in Collier's, 30-year-old Author Graham's study of anti-Semitism in Canada would probably have stirred up more interest if it read more like a novel, less like a studied, romantic essay...