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Only a few, like Webster, still try to stick to the comic strip's old and worthy function: holding a mirror to a recognizable U.S. life. The late Clare Briggs's Mr. and Mrs., as an appreciation of marriage, made books like Cass Timberlane .look as naive as Daisy Ashford. Harry J. Tuthill's remarkable Bungle Family, almost alone among comics, dared to gaze steadily at the plain, awful ugliness and clumsiness to which the domesticated human animal is liable. When you have counted these -and Frank King's mild, wholesome Gasoline Alley, Chic Young...
Sinclair Lewis, whose new Cass Timberlane is a very best seller, took a look around and happily noted a "growth of literary consciousness," countered with the gloomy observation that "the best seller of today has little influence compared with the comic strip...
...Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith might seem a little out of place and even a little out of date. For a decade Lewis had favored U.S. readers with a book almost every biennium, but his last important work had been done in the beginning of the '30s. If Cass Timberlane now acquired new importance, that was chiefly due to the fact that the hundreds of thousands of men & women who would read his new novel had, while he was writing it, made the U.S. the No. 1 power in the world to which (with Novel ist Upton Sinclair...
Perhaps the most positive fruit of Novelist Lewis' recent flirtation with the little-theater movement was his friendship with Marcella Powers. She acted with him in a number of plays (see cut). Miss Powers decorated Lewis' Manhattan apartment (where he wrote much of his new novel, Cass Timberlane). When he bought (for a reputed $26,000) his Tudor mansion in Duluth, Miss Powers went out to visit him and decorate that. Says Lewis, when asked if he is planning to marry again: "No signs of it." Say his friends: "We just don't know...
...Novel. Was Cass Timberlane autobiographical-a preview of Novelist Lewis' apprehensions and hopes about the marriage of a middle-aged man to a young woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...