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...picture is derived from the monster novel by Theodore Dreiser. In his two tomes, Dreiser impeached not so much a pipsqueak libertine as the social order which produced him. Dissatisfied because the cinema failed to impeach similarly, Dreiser tried and failed to secure an injunction against its showing. But there are other and more important qualities which Dreiser got into his book and which Adapter Samuel Hoffenstein, light-versifier and onetime theatrical pressagent, and Director Josef von Sternberg failed to get into the picture...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
Clumsy but honest Theodore Dreiser, although he would not like to write himself down "as a total pessimist," and thinks Life "taken all in all, a fairly good show," has "not the faintest notion of what it is all about...
First public figure to enter the altercation was Author Theodore Dreiser, who protested the Scottsboro affair to Governor Miller of Alabama...
After finishing high school he went to Chicago to get a job, and there ran into an old teacher of his who managed to get him into the University of Indiana. But Dreiser's year there was a failure, left him with little respect for formal education, which he regards as "a serviceable means of passing the time." Back in Chicago he worked in a hardware store, drove a laundry truck, changed jobs usually for the worse. But then he entered the lists of love, acquitted himself not so badly. That perked him up. The book (and his youth...