Word: dreiser
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Drama in the coal fields of Harlan County, Kentucky, assumes the proportions of American tragedy when Theodore Dreiser waves the crusader's flag. Sheriff deputies are paid by the mine owners; houses of strikers are dynamited and burned. Children die, seven or eight per week; nobody is indicted for the killing of twelve miners while forty to fifty miners are indicted for the killing of three deputy sheriffs. Miner's pay is forced down to eighty cents a week; three thousands out of the eighteen thousand miners are blacklisted. Local officials regard themselves as the agents of the mine owners...
...When Mr. Dreiser's account, together with the report of his committee yet to be published, is divested of prejudice and examined against the background of history, the incident will remain one of the year's outstanding examples of the wrong way to meet an extreme business emergency. Enlightened business will probably view it as one of the results of the lack of organized planning in a period of over-expansion. Economists may view it as another symptom of the passing of Old King Coal. Sociologists may attribute its extremity to the lack of education in the district in which...
Slowly recovering from pernicious anemia Ring W. Lardner was removed from hospital to home. In the course of a press interview, said he: "The prince of all bad writers is Dreiser. He takes a big subject, but so far as handling it and writing it-why, one of my children could do better." Author Lardner has four children, all boys. Last summer the youngest, David Ellis Lardner, 10, was "humorous editor" of High Tide, juvenile newspaper of East Hampton, L. I. Richard Lardner Tobin, nephew, is managing editor of the Daily at the University of Michigan (TIME...
...stumbled upon an extraordinary novel. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise is the work of David Graham Phillips who wrote best-sellers 25 years ago, when best-sellers were even more likely to be trash than they are now. But Susan Lenox, though it contains cliches which make Theodore Dreiser seem epigrammatic, is no trash. Its story of hardships, financial and amorous, in the career of a woman who becomes a celebrated actress, might have seemed to a lay observer wholly suitable to the cinema. The producers of the picture thought otherwise. Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) now differs...
Boston's reputation for civic censorship is old and well established. It was Boston that forbade Mary Garden to appear in Richard Strauss's Salome. It was Boston that banned the sale of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. It was Boston that kept Scribner's Magazine off the stands for printing the final chapters of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The list is endless, but Boston's tireless censorship is generally directed at the stage and the printed page. Not for many months has it bothered with sculpture and the fine...