Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theodore Dreiser, 73, rose bulkily from Hollywood obscurity and joined the newly-resuscitated Communist Party (see U.S. AT WAR). "More and more it is becoming recognized in our country," he said, "that the Communists are a vital and constructive part of our nation...
...Theodore Dreiser, author of the galumphing American Tragedy, who last week told Columnist Earl Wilson: "I hope [the servicemen] react by ballot or by revolution...
...Others: Voltaire's Candide, Boccaccio's De cameron, Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, Upton Sinclair's Oil, Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks...
That salute is characteristic of Preston Sturges' treatment of a theme which might more normally interest Theodore Dreiser or some true-confessions Dumas. Sturges, like René Clair, has always understood the liberating power of blending comedy and realism, wild farce and cool intellect. But the best of the domestic and anarchic satire cannot be suggested on paper; it is too thoroughly cinematic. It reaches its perfection in William Demarest, whose performance is one of the few solid-gold pieces of screen acting in recent years. But chief credit for The Miracle must go to Sturges, who has given...
...were not even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...