Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston is at it again. A few years ago a board of burly policemen "laboriously read and censured" Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." This expedition won the ancient city a renewal of its already venerable fame. But it seems this was not sufficient, or at least the action was not rabid enough. This time "Candide", Voltaire's great philosophical novel has been seized by the Collector of the Port. The immortal work has been arraigned on the charge of "obscenity and obscurity." (Of course, it will surprise no one that M. Voltaire has been found obscure by such gentry...
...great City of Purity is working up. First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time. Shakespeare's turn is next, we see it coming! Daily Princetonian
...once rumored that Louise Dresser was the sister of Novelist Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser had a brother, Paul, who changed his name to Dresser and gained fame by writing songs ("On the Banks of the Wabash," "My Gal Sal"). Paul Dresser, not Theodore Dreiser, was the friend, not the brother, of Louise. He knew her at a time when he was selling candy on a train which ran through Indiana. Louise, nee Kerlin, came to the station to meet her father who was a conductor on the same train. Conductor Kerlin was killed in a railroad wreck; Louise brought...
Already I am obligated by able assistance so graciously given by such fine folk as Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Fannie Hurst, Frank O'Brien - Editor of New York Sun−Joseph and Elinor Pulitzer. All correspondence will be promptly answered if addressed to George FitzPatrick, Private Box 939 GG., G. P. O., Sydney, Australia...
Manhattan) Publisher Donald Friede, president of Covici-Friede Corp., formerly of the late Boni & Liveright, was convicted in Boston last week for violation of the Massachusetts statute forbidding distribution of objectionable literature. The book: Author Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. The book's theme: how U. S. conventions and his own limitations caused a young man to murder his sweetheart...