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...Arrowsmith (United Artists...
...modern operator of those old-fashioned mills of God which grind so notoriously slowly and even more notoriously small. Author Rothermell in his 14th novel (his first 13 he destroyed) pulverizes his hero to the vanishing point. The somewhat grisly story, which owes debts to Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith, he tells with a workmanlike resolution oddly contrasted with his two chief characters' feckless attitude of laissez faire...
Always addicted to imitation, the cinema industry enjoyed no fewer than six "cycles" last year. United Artists' Arrowsmith, a brilliant picture about a doctor, caused two other pictures about physicians to be manufactured. There were cycles about reporters, lawyers, monsters, mothers compelled to practice prostitution to support their children, Broadway colyumists. A politician cycle, a Hollywood cycle (see p. 26) are forthcoming...
...book. The heroine, Anne Vickers, "will be a sort of female Babbitt playing a reverse role, but she is not intended as a sarcastic interpretation of that glorious class of American women who help make the wheels of business spin. She will live on Main Street and Dr. Arrowsmith will be her family doctor...
...Rhoads is no dour, highstrung, achey Dr. Arrowsmith. He is a jovial, rollicking young man who has topped every group he ever has been with. He was president of his high school graduating class at Springfield, Mass., marshal of Bowdoin, 1920, president of Harvard Medical, 1924. Both his A.B. and M.D. degrees were cum laude...