Maxwell Anderson of Anderson and Weill's "Lost in the Stars", a story of South Africa based on the Alan Paton novel "Cry, The Beloved Country". Anderson's long-running 1927 comedy-drama about married life, "Saturday's Children", in which Humphrey Bogart made an early appearance, was filmed three times – in 1929 as a part-talkie, in 1935 (in almost unrecognizable form) as a B-film "Maybe It's Love" and once again in 1940 under its original title, starring John Garfield in one of his few romantic comedies, along with Anne Shirley and Claude Rains. The play was also adapted for television in three condensed versions in
The Late Bourgeois World The Late Bourgeois World The Late Bourgeois World is a 1966 novella by Nadine Gordimer. The novel follows an egocentric white woman, as she negotiates a failing marriage, "half-hearted' love affairs and political intrigue. The novel was banned by the Censorship board in South Africa. "The New York Times" described the novel as the most "overtly political" of Gordimer's novels comparing it to "Cry, The Beloved Country" in its potential for shocking those outside of South Africa into acting about apartheid in South Africa. "Kirkus" reviews gave it a strong and positive reception, focusing on the engaging style, saying the