Judge, 1929-05-18 · page 35 of 36
Judge — May 18, 1929 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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The page advertises the novel *Young Woodley* by John Van Druten, adapted from his successful stage play. The photograph shows actors Helen Gahagan and Glenn Hunter in a scene from the New York production. The advertisement emphasizes the novel's critical success in England (already in its fifth edition) and argues that the book improves upon the play by providing deeper psychological insight into its protagonist—a lonely adolescent boy experiencing his first love with his housemaster's wife. Notable quotes from literary figures (Arnold Bennett, G.B. Stern) vouch for the work's quality. The play had run 17½ months in America; the publisher predicts the novel will achieve similar commercial success in book form. The price is $2.00 (plus $2.10 postpaid). This represents typical 1920s-era advertising strategy: leveraging theatrical success to promote a literary adaptation.
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A GOOD PLAY becomes A BETTER NOVEL... ARNOLD BENNETT YOUNG WOODLEY continues to be as he always was, perhaps, the most exquisite study in existence of a boy’s awakening to love. G. B. STERN Already the best selling novel in England. j Helen Gahagan and Glenn Hunter in a scene from the | New York production of the play Young Woodley | by JOHN VAN DRUTEN 1 A fascinating and exciting novel, far more than a perfunctory filling-in of the gaps in Mr. Van Druten’s play. Young Woodley is the tender yet unsentimental portrait of a boy—a lonely romantic and a poet at heart—who suffers youth's universal bewilderment at the promptings and questions of adolescence, perhaps a little more poignantly than most. This is a closer interpre- tation of Young Woodley and a more sensitive presentation of the boy who suddenly found the mystery of love revealed to him in the person of his house-master’s wife. This novel, written upon the theme of a play that ran in America for 1714 months, has already been published in England, scoring an immediate critical and popular success, and going into its fifth edition a few weeks after publication. We believe it will duplicate the success it achieved on the stage here and is now achieving in book form in London.—$2.00, postpaid $2.10. This book may be purchased from your bookseller. If a book store is not convenient, mail your order to the publisher, adding postage. Address The John Day Company, Dept. J. ' 386 Fourth Ave., New York City | comicbooks.com