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NOVELIST AND THE CINEMA,
Do authors whose work is adapted for the cinema sareen obtain sufficient re- cognition for their part in the result? The controversy has raged between authors on the one side, and the pro- ducers on the other, Mr. Wells has at- tacked the film producers somewhat yehemently, and in terins that are rather incomplimentary. The producers, on their part, call the authors a pack of. fools, who are poor business people, con- tent to receive their cheques, and then take no further interest in the matter; they, are said to care little how their work is mutilated, and to be unshlo to ̈öffer any. suggestions or advice.
The question of recognising the person- ality of the creative artist is an old one. How many of us-or perhaps one should say how low of us-when we see a play, give a thought to the author. Probably we do not even trouble to look for hi nape on the programme. When we hear a ballad in the concert room we do not think of the composer and the lyric writer. Our praise and our apinlause are for the artiste who interprets the work. We are content to judre the resits without con- sidering how those results are obtained. Governlly speaking, the vast army of novel readers chooses its literature by titles. When a friend tells you ho has. just read a good book, in nine enzes out of ten he cannot tell you who wrote it. unless the authur's name is a household
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As time gues on the effects of the einema on the novelist's art are becoming more apparent. The up-to-date, writer now has two markets for his wares-one for the printed word, and the other for the screen. This two-fold influence does "not inake for better literary work, but it undoubtedly makes for better stories. Psychological stuff does not film well, but tales of adventure, and romance do. That
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Some readers may feel inclined to aban don interest in Vera Brittain's "The Dark Tide" (Grant Richards) after reading through the first 100 dullish pages. Miss Brittain commences her novel with a de- tailed description of college life "for women at Oxford University, but it is not untii Daphne Lethbridge has married a brilliant professor, that the author begins Ito hald her readers with a moving story of domestic drama. It is an unhappy marriage. The husband is a tempera- acntal individual who loses his love for his wife early in their union, and after- wards their married life is a sad story of misunderstandings. A crippled child is born, to them, after the husband has left' in a final ft of temper. Thon, in a year or so, the bustund returns to England to consummate his political career, which the suffering wife has power to wreck if she cares to drag him into the limelight of publicity. Does she do it? No; he has done Tittle good in his life, so now he has the chance let him take it. Miss Brittain.s story is well written, hut it is extraordi- narily sad and mournful. It reads not little bit like real life.
NEW MAIS NOVEL.
Yet another novel from the pen of Mr. S. P. B. Mais, who is obviously a regular (Grant Trojan. for work! In "Prunello Richards), Mr. Mais bas mixed the in- gredients of romance without omitting We have the devil-may- any of them. eare, impecunious young man who falls in love with the beautifal daughter of the aristocrat just about on his last financial legs; the vulgar, newly-made barca who is determined to marry the maiden in spite of all: the stately old home under the bammer; the bad haren duly installed in place of the ancient "family the girl's sacrifice of her love so that the great estate shall still belong to the descend- ants of an old linenge. This is one of the hardest worked of all the twenty-four re- cognised plots, and although we have read the same story a score or more times, we have never read it treated with the vim and pep that Mr. Main gets into it. He cer tainly invests his novels with an amazing. vitality. They are full of punch," and this one is so intensely modern that it contains a graphic description of the fort- hall Basco at Wembley Inat spring, refers. to listening-in the Egyptian discover- ics, and the very newly-named Southern railway.. I almost expected to find, to wards the end, hero Colin entertaining us with the latest insanity about the short- age of bananas.....
GUYING THE PRESS.
As a story; however, "Prunello" is a satisfactory medium for the expression of Mr. Mais's vigorous views, but his regular readers will begin to wonder why he con tinues to guy" certain aspects of news- paper production. His descriptions of the organization of a modern daily are. amusing enough, but unfortunately they are not true. Once again, his hero is an odd man on the Sen-book-reviewer, dramatic crític, and general, reporter. But principally, Colin Entwhistle is a cap- tion writer.
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