A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ("tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist George Peele. The novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable
Happy Days (1929 film) merged in 1935 with Twentieth Century Pictures to form 20th Century Fox. No widescreen print of "Happy Days" is known to survive. Happy Days (1929 film) Happy Days is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, notable for being the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed in the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gance's "Napoléon" (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. In 1927, Paramount released "Old Ironsides" with two sequences in a widescreen process called "Magnascope". In 1928, MGM released "Trail of '98"