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...parallel really lay between the Edwards case and that of Chester E. Gillette; of Cortland, N. Y. which Author Dreiser had drably copied into his book, even to giving his hero the same initials?Clyde Griffith. It was 28 years ago that Chester Gillette, raised in a sternly religious atmosphere, got a job as foreman in a rich relative's collar factory. He took up with a pretty factory girl, Grace Brown, but, by the time she became pregnant, Gillette, socially ambitious, had been taken up by another girl, an "heiress." He took Grace Brown to Big Moose Lake...
...reporting the Gillette case as An American Tragedy (the second volume is almost a stenographic record of the trial) Author Dreiser made Society the villain for having endowed Clyde Griffiths with a sordid background and for tormenting him with emotional stresses with which he was not equipped to deal. (The film version, starring Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Sidney, angered Dreiser to the point of trying to keep it off the screen because, he complained, it slighted the Dreiser sociology...
Last week the same lady, now Queen-Empress of Britain, went to John Brown's dockyards on the Clyde for another launching. On the ways rested what will eventually be the biggest ship ever built in Britain, a 34,000-ton half-finished hull known until last week only as No. 534. (TIME, Oct. 1). Standing in puddles in the pouring rain, a vast crowd saw Queen Mary press a button that started the hull down the ways. At the same moment Her Majesty smashed a bottle of Australian Burgundy against No. 534 and cried: "I am happy...
Many oldsters, water dripping from their hat brims, held their breaths, for technically the job of sliding the gigantic Queen Mary into the narrow Clyde was ten times as difficult as the launching of the Albion. But there were no accidents. It was all over in 75 seconds...
...this week, 100,000 people from all over the United Kingdom were headed for Clydebank. Grandstands seating 16,000 have been erected in a wheatfield opposite the shipyard. More than 1,000 invited guests will view the ceremony from the Anchor liner Tuscania, berthed at an adjacent dock. The Clyde steamers Queen Mary and King George will hold another 1,000. Microphones will carry the ceremony to every country in the world. What name No. 534 will bear the world will not know for sure until Her Majesty raises her voice to cry: "I christen thee...