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Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Walter Huston in Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth...
Later (1925) came Arrowsmith, an onslaught on the mass production of doctors and mass practice and humbuggery of medicine, a romantic apotheosis of the medical scientist. Dodsworth (1929), the esthetic and amatory adventures of Samuel Dodsworth, automobile tycoon, and his wife in the cultured lands of Europe was a modern Innocents Abroad. Elmer Gantry (dedicated to Henry L. Mencken) was a rich caricature of a corrupt and ranting preacher (as he might appear to the village atheist). In The Man Who Knew Coolidge, a superb tour de force, Lewis used his remarkable talent for mimicking U.S. speech to let George...
Rumor Crop. The unexpected arrival of the U-530 started a flood of rumors. Brazilian Admiral Jorge Dodsworth Mar tins, boiling mad over the loss of the cruiser Baía (see above), said he believed "that the U-530 could have torpedoed the Baía." Another Brazilian, Admiral Dudal Teixeira, believed that the U-530 came from Japan. An Argentine reporter topped them both: he had seen a Buenos Aires provincial police report to the effect that a strange submarine had surfaced off the long, lonely, lower Argentine coast, had landed a high-ranking officer and a civilian...
Wyler is neither cocky nor objectionably conceited, but he vigorously maintains that "the best picture or star in the world is not worth a tinker's damn without good direction." His pictures speak for him: These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel, Wuthering Heights, The Letter, The Little Foxes, etc. They have not spoken loudly enough, however, to win him an Academy Oscar for direction, despite the fact that few directors can match his picture-by-picture output...