Word: zona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women, Kiss the Boys Good-bye). Two other women have made smart collaborators: Edna Ferber with George S. Kaufman (The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight), Bella Spewack with her husband Sam (Boy Meets Girl). At serious drama three women in their day won the Pulitzer Prize: Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett (19-20), Susan Glaspell for Alison's House (1931), Zoe Akins for The Old Maid (1935). But Zona...
...Died. Zona Gale Breese, 64, novelist, essayist, playwright (Birth, Preface to a Life, Yellow Gentians and Blue); of pneumonia; in Chicago. In 1921 she won a Pulitzer prize for her dramatization of her own novel, Miss Lulu Bett...
...title might suggest, Zona Gale's latest novel "Light Woman" provides highly entertaining reading characterized by a note of levity. Although in size the book may only be called a novelette, in substance it is much more than this. Behind many of the seemingly senseless words of Mitty, the central character, lurks a meaning all too true to be dismissed as the talk of a "light woman." She embodies in her philosophy of life much that every modern person has left. Her overpowering self-interest is freely admitted, and despite all opposition to such a characteristic, we somehow excuse...
...Light Woman" is better suited to the stage even than to reading. Practically the entire book is conversation and its dramatic qualities are constantly evident. Zona Gale has written two very successful plays, and the adaptability of this novel to the theater is outstanding...
LIGHT WOMAN-Zona Gale-Appleton-Century ($2). Fluffy stage piece, transmogrified into the story of what happens in the old homestead (upstate New York) when oldest Son Nicholas arrives with playful Mitty, his supposed wife, for the family reunion...