REVERSING THE POSITION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1060, 30 June 1910, Page 17

REVERSING THE POSITION.

A few years ago successful novels were adapted for the stage with such regularity that an outrageous joke was perpetrated in the practice. The young lady was depicted going in to a literary arcade for a cookery book. “Is this the best you have?” she asked. “ I should say it was,” replied the salesman. “ Why they are going to dramatise it.” Nowadays, however, it is all the other way about. The stage hit is instantly novelisedAmong recent plays so treated are “ Henry of Navarre,” “The Lion and the Mouse,” “ The Third Degree,” “The Whip,” “ The Brass Bottle,” while “ The Dollar Princess,” a novel of “ pride and passion,” is the latest bloom ,on the bookstalls. One would have thought the task of converting into book form a musical comedy would be an overwhelming difficulty, but from the interesting manner in which it. has been handled, no surprise need be •; felt if some literary genius turns out a novel on a song or a dance.