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...Great American Novel has not yet been written. Herman Melville did several chapters of it, Walt Whitman some chapter headings, Henry James an appendectiform footnote. Mark Twain roughed out the comic bits, Theodore Dreiser made a prehistoric-skeleton outline, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway all contributed suggestions. Last week it began to look as if Thomas Wolfe might also be at work on this hypothetical volume. His first installment (Look Homeward, Angel) appeared five years ago, his second (Of Time and the River) last week. In the interval Author Wolfe had written some 2,000,000 words...
...High School. In Comedy Artist Curry has included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill scowl, Aerialist Lillian Leitzel drops from her circus partner's arms to death...
...three who covered the case, knowing for a fact that we had been sent out on the inquiry the day after Edwards' arrest . . . and that we were sent solely on the strength of Mr. Israel's recognition of the popular appeal lodging in the resemblance to Dreiser's story, felt he alone was entitled to credit as first to spot the idea...
...Tower Magazine, sold in Woolworth stores. Tower's gumchewers' magazines are headed by able Publisher Catherine McNelis, who also publishes the intellectualist American Spectator, of which Dreiser was a onetime editor...
...judge was moved to warn Author Dreiser to cease making faces at the jury...