Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the twentieth century and the war came a closer approach to comprehension. Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Mencken, furnished blocks for the building; but none was sufficient architect to complete the edifice. Others were sidetracked, as Irving Babbitt to Humanism, Thornton Wilder to Catholicism, Krutch, Jeffers, and Faulkner to Pessimism. Hemingway tried to dodge the problem of values in bullfights and drink without success...
...Theodore Dreiser will speak before the Liberal Club at a closed meeting early next month. He has refused to address an open meeting because he feels that his talk will be important only to those with liberal ideas. Lincoln Steffens will also appear before the club during the year...
...from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity...
Jennie Gerhardt (Paramount) is the second adaptation of a Theodore Dreiser novel which Producer Ben Schulberg and his favorite actress Sylvia Sidney have made for Paramount. The first, An American Tragedy, understandably vexed Author Dreiser. This one, equally understandably, has his approval. Without the patient wisdom of the novel, slurring some of the tragic ambiguities which Dreiser so painstakingly explored, it contains much of the meat of the book, makes its gently sinful heroine and her brash, uncertain lover characters who are affectingly, if somewhat too forlornly, real...
...high school graduation dress, when all this becomes as mawkish as you might expect. Forced to abbreviate, to underline, to shade his story, Director Marion Gering managed to preserve in the picture the calm sympathy for persons innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter, are perfectly cast. Good sequence: A policeman arresting Lester when, for a joke, he is pretending to be trying to scrape acquaintance...