Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bred gentry were answered. These gentlemen assert, with a mildly bored, slightly patronizing, very assured air, that all movies are bad, and the sooner one learns it the better. That is a great deal less than true, and it should be crushed with the ineluctable persistency of Mr. Theodore Dreiser pursuing a liberal idea. The "Match King" and "He Learned About Women" are two of two-hundred-and-eight movies which will be produced at the University Theater in the year beginning January ninth, nineteen-hundred-and-thirty-three. If one were, in a moment of fancy, to imagine Terence...
...long conference table in a Manhattan publisher's office one day last week, registering varying degrees of pleasure. Large, dapper Publisher Richard Roy Smith beamed. Wide-eyed Critic George Jean Nathan puffed contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition of 12,000 copies...
...counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James Branch Cabell, Louis Untermeyer, Joseph Wood Krutch...
...author argues that literature should be judged sociologically rather than aesthetically. And on this basis he finds Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Upton Sinclair the greatest contemporary writers. But he does not take into consideration the fact that the sociological conditions which brought about a novel like "Oil," which he praises very highly, have passed; it's value sociologically speaking at any rate with likewise pass. Such circumstances are too transitory, too un-universal, too ratiocinative to form a basis for great literature...
Though frontier days have gone forever, the U. S. is still friendly, in some ways, to backwoods pioneers. In no other country could such writers as Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and Jim Tully hope for a hearing, let alone a respectful, respectable audience. In spite of their blunderhead awkwardness, Authors Dreiser and Anderson have won life memberships in the U. S. literary Senate. Jim Tully's persistent clamor in the lobby has not yet gained him admission. Crudely violent writer of crudely violent melodramatics. Author Tully has done better books than Laughter in Hell, but none more typical...