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...Dodsworth (adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel by Sidney Howard; produced by Max Gordon). Motorcar Manufacturer Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) sells his business in bustling little Zenith so that he and his wife Fran (Fay Bainter) can enjoy leisure after 20 years of marriage. They go abroad, where Sam is excited by historic sights, Fran by the attentions of other men. She apologizes for Sam to her glassy continental friends, frankly tells him to go home and let her have her fling...
...Dodsworth's dramatic impact is cerebral rather than physical. Some of Designer Jo Mielziner's eight crafty settings are repeated to mount 14 scenes on shipboard, in Zenith, Paris, Berlin, Naples, London, Switzerland. Occasional lack of restraint in the direction is well covered by the acting of Fay Bainter and Walter...
Professor Emeritus Henry van Dyke of Princeton, commenting on the award of the Nobel prize in literature to Novelist Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), said: "They handed Lewis a bouquet, but they gave America a very backhanded compliment." Commented Novelist Lewis: "I am particularly honored that the attack came from where it did." Then he sailed for Sweden to receive his $46,350. Said he: "Naturally I felt that some day I would get this recognition, but I did not know when. I should be just as glad if Eugene O'Neill had received...
...prototype, were ever zooming for the Home Town, a Big-Business Administration, private real estate developments, the Rotary club or God. Last week Realtor Babbitt zoomed Author Lewis himself into an unanticipated world prominence. Aiding were heroes of three other Lewis books - (Mar tin) Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry (Sam), Dodsworth, accepted by the same vast public as typical of the U. S. scientist, prelate and minor tycoon, respectively. But Babbitt remained foremost among them as a representative of U. S. citizenry and U. S. literature, having been more translated* and being more lipworthy in name. George Follansbee Babbitt was recognized...
Congratulations. So glad you had the nerve to write just what you did. I am chaplain of Canyon City Post 180 at Azusa, Calif. Robert M. Dodsworth. Azusa, Calif...