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...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...
...suppose that there is necessarily an intellectual 'depth' in the deep tones of the organ; it is possibly the sign of a deprivation-our suspicion of gaiety in art perhaps signifies an inadequate seriousness in ourselves. A generation charmed by the lugubrious-once in O'Neill, Dreiser and Anderson, now in Steinbeck and Van Wyck Brooks-is perhaps fleeing from the trivial shape of its own thoughts...
Hired by Hollywood to write a film story for an ice skater was ponderous Theodore Dreiser, 71. The New York Post reported, in the past tense: "Theodore Dreiser . . . was a titan ... he was one of the favored modern authors. . . . In 1925 he published An American Tragedy, a major work...