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...Dreiser is not an "average earthling." Born in Terre Haute, Ind. of impoverished German parents, Theodore was one of 13 children. Late Songwriter Paul "On the Banks of the Wabash," "My Gal Sal" was the only one beside his younger brother to become famed. Franker than the average, Autobiographer Theodore tells of the religious mania of his father, the hell raising of his brothers, the amorous experiments of his sisters (whom he protects by pseudonyms). Himself very shy, young Theodore trembled when he first saw a girl in tights, but seems to have been in love with love as soon...
Berlin's Vossische Zeitung was even franker. Its Angora correspondent cabled...
...Joseph Conrad," a guarded statement obviously intended to divert the criticism which, based on incidents from Dangerous Paradise, would be leveled at them if they admitted that the novel was the famous Victory. As a matter of fact the picture is no more unfaithful to its material than other, franker attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved phrases and balanced sentences like light behind a stained glass window, making the queer figures in the glass live after a fashion...
...funny how some little thing, irrelevant to the general scheme of the play, catches your fancy and stays in mind long after the rest of the spectacle has vanished. An example of this is one Franker Woods, as the program has him. If we were not dead certain from accounts in the daily press that Fred Stone is at present a broken-legged individual, or at best a golfing convalescent, we would go up to this Mr. Woods, and holding him gently between the thumb and forefinger say "You are Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance...
...season including the classics and semi-classics of the French stage as well as occasional new pieces. Almost equally well known in their way are the Follies Bergéres and the Casino de Paris, the two big theatres that house revues of the Ziegfeld Follies sort-only very much franker...