Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams of famed names for the big game on Nov. 3. To offset the Republicans' Cornelia Otis Skinner, Geraldine Farrar and Ginger Rogers, Democrats had Helen Hayes, Lillian Gish, Grace Moore. Sally Rand. George Ade and Booth Tarkington were signed for Landon. George Jean Nathan and Theodore Dreiser for Roosevelt. Chester A. Arthur III. for Roosevelt, was ready to cancel out John Coolidge's vote for Landon...
...errant youth of Cortland, N.Y. named Chester Gillette took his sweetheart, Grace Brown, out in a rowboat, drowned her because Grace was pregnant and Chester wanted to marry a rich girl. For a generation Chester Gillette's crime and punishment were forgotten by the outside world until Theodore Dreiser exhumed the case, wrote a wordy but exhaustive novel about it called An American Tragedy. Since 1926 the Dreiser story of "Clyde Griffiths' " downfall has become a sort of national institution...
Hardly a summer goes by now without some impatient young criminal providing the Press with an "American Tragedy Murder." Paramount filmed the story in 1931, subsequently defending itself against one suit brought by Mr. Dreiser because the company had "vivisected" his work, another brought by Grace Brown's mother, who claimed she had been libeled. A U.S. playwright made a melodrama out of the story. A pair of French playwrights made it a character study. A Russian playwright made it a text for Bolshevism. But no adapters have departed so radically from the novel or achieved so exciting...
...first big strike (Venetian gondoliers). It impressed her but hardly got under her skin. Back in the U. S., she and her husband set up a co-operative housekeeping venture in Manhattan with some other young intellectuals called themselves A Club. "Everybody"-from Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser-used to drop in for a chat...
FROM ROUSSEAU TO PROUST-Havelock Ellis-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Before the Nobel Prize Committee announced that no award for literature would be given this year, the magazine Books Abroad conducted a symposium to test the opinion of U. S. critics on likely candidates. Maxim Gorki received five votes, Theodore Dreiser three, Willa Cather, André Gide, Eugene O'Neill and Franz Werfel two, while a number of others, ranging from Havelock Ellis to Christopher Morley, received one apiece. If consistency of purpose, unremitting productivity, a distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock...