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...flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree. Out of the automobile, unhurt, stepped its driver, hulking Author Theodore Dreiser...
Director Alfred E. Green has used specific properties-New York's Club Lido, the 5. S. Bremen. The famed tooth-pick-against-bedroom-door trick used by Kentucky detectives at Theodore Dreiser's expense (TIME, Nov. 23) is borrowed with a hairpin variation...
...Somehow, Slitter's Gold was dropped and it was decided that I should do Broken Lullaby. But they said, 'You mustn't shoot any dead bodies in the picture.' Then I tackled-Dreiser's An American Tragedy. . . . The script I made for it had Dreiser's approval. . . . Hollywood wanted just a police story, so I said, 'Why the hell pay Dreiser? Just get some clippings...
...nine votes. Died. Frederick Benjamin Haviland, 63, music publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold over ten million copies of songs in the U. S.; at the peak of his business he sold them at the rate of $45,000 a month. A best seller was "The Sidewalks of New York," shrewdly revived for Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...miners affords a striking example of the way in which the country allows itself to be victimized by a confusion of ideas. In this case practically all the parties concerned in the affair have permitted the essential matter to be beclogged with irrelevancies. The original group, led by Theodore Dreiser and Waldo Frank, raised a cloud of publicity which centered almost exclusively on themselves, and which in the case of Dreiser was of an exceptionally shabby character. The air of ineffective dilettantism which surrounds their adventures has gone far to discredit in the public eye the cause of the miners...