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...Lost Lady (First National). That last week's major murder case was named after An American Tragedy was due less to Author Theodore Dreiser's novel than to the moving picture of it. A Lost Lady will not give the U. S. public a favorable impression of Willa Gather. Adapted from one of the few authentic masterpieces in U. S. fiction, it is a collection of stock situations which resemble neither the original nor anything else, except previous Hollywood false alarms. Worst shot: Barbara Stanwyck gardening in high heels...
...many another newshawk, swooped at once on the catch-phrase the moment they heard, two months ago. that Robert Allan Edwards, 21, was accused of bashing his pregnant girl over the head in a lake so he could marry his other girl. That was exactly the plot of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. The comparison put last week's trial on the front page of practically every newspaper in the land...
...today," rumbled Novelist Theodore Dreiser in Manhattan. "I find life still interesting. When I get to the point where I don't find it interesting I'll get out of it." He read Novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart's remarks on Russia (see above), snorted: "She learned that in four days. I suppose she inspected all of the three and a half million people in Moscow and learned all about the rest of the country in four days...
...matter of temper, not temperament, among writers, possibly only Theodore Dreiser betters him. That prognathous jaw is forever setting itself in grim determination that someone "shall be cut from ear to ear." He gets actively annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...