A Farewell to Arms dictionary–held upside down. The Italian translation had in fact already been prepared illegally in 1943 by Fernanda Pivano, leading to her arrest in Turin. A Farewell to Arms was met with favorable criticism and is considered one of Hemingway's best literary works. Gore Vidal wrote of the text: "... a work of ambition, in which can be seen the beginning of the careful, artful, immaculate idiocy of tone that since has marked ... [Hemingway's] prose." The last line of the 1929 "New York Times" review reads: "It is a moving and beautiful book." However, since publication, A Farewell to Arms
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"