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...distinguished litterateurs, editors and colyumists present looked apprehensively at dour, bulky Theodore Dreiser.* Mr. Dreiser reddened but sat still, said nothing. Colyumists Heywood Broun and Arthur Brisbane who might have been the two "sage critics" in question, joined in the embarrassing silence. Then Host Long called on jovial Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb to save the situation. Mr. Cobb told Visitor Pilnyak that those present were very fond of him and esteemed him very highly, since, "you see, we don't know enough about you yet to be jealous...
After dinner, Messrs. Dreiser and Lewis were observed in a corner, talking heatedly, thumping a table. Suddenly Mr. Dreiser rose, smacked Mr. Lewis's cheek with his large right hand. Mr. Lewis said something more. Again Mr. Dreiser smacked him before friends pushed the two apart...
...Colophon (gilt-edged bibliophiles' gilt-edged quarterly) Theodore Dreiser revealed what he believes happened to the first edition of his first novel, Sister Carrie: In 1900 Frank Norris, then reader for Doubleday, Page & Co., persuaded his employers to sign a contract for its publication. Mrs, Frank Doubleday, social worker and moral reformer, read the MS. with a horror that persuaded her husband to "throw the books in the cellar" before putting them on sale. Norris quickly mailed out 100 review copies, the only U. S.-printed volumes of the book in circulation for the next seven years...
...Unknown God. Or it may merely indicate that Anything Goes. But most curious is the fact that Fort has a following of some note, who have formed a Fortean Society to praise his name. Publisher Kendall's jacket blurb is enthusiastically contributed to by Authors Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, John Cowper Powys, Ben Hecht (who announced himself "the first disciple of Charles Fort"). Manhattan's conservative Herald Tribune is quoted as calling Fort "that amazing genius...
...Last week in Manhattan a group of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Harry Elmer Barnes, Ben Hecht, Booth Tarkington, Edgar Lee Masters, John Cowper Powys, Tiffany Thayer, Harry Leon Wilson), formed a Fortean Society to create wider interest in the work of Charles Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands (out of print), Lo! (Claude Kendall, Publisher). For 26 years Author Fort has collected phenomena which Science has been unable to explain. He & his friends believe that modern knowledge must be freed of the prejudices of Science...