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Dreiser was formerly editor of Delineator, New Idea, and other magazines. Among his novels are "Jennie Gerhardt," "A Traveller at Forty," and "An American Tragedy." In the last few years Dreiser has affiliated himself with several liberal movements, and is therefore well qualified to tall on "Liberalism...
...RAYMOND GERHARDT...
...Jennie Gerhardt (Paramount) is the second adaptation of a Theodore Dreiser novel which Producer Ben Schulberg and his favorite actress Sylvia Sidney have made for Paramount. The first, An American Tragedy, understandably vexed Author Dreiser. This one, equally understandably, has his approval. Without the patient wisdom of the novel, slurring some of the tragic ambiguities which Dreiser so painstakingly explored, it contains much of the meat of the book, makes its gently sinful heroine and her brash, uncertain lover characters who are affectingly, if somewhat too forlornly, real...
...Jennie Gerhardt (Sylvia Sidney) is a girl whose chief characteristic is a pathetic gratitude for small favors. It is this which causes her first mishap: a brief affair with lonely old Senator Brander who dies before he has time to marry her. To support her illegitimate daughter, Jennie gets a job as lady's maid in a patrician menage where the linen closets are large enough for téte-à-tétes with the chipper young son of the family. Lester Kane (Donald Cook). The romance between Lester and Jennie develops gaily enough until he goes...
...Student President Mills, who assembled for an early morning "pep meeting" his Vice President Henry Plude, Secretary-Treasurer William O'Neal, Controller Art Clark, Advertising Manager Fred Disterdick and student merchandising managers. The real Younkers' executives-Henry Frankels, Robert H. Duffy, Ross Dalbey, H. A. Metcalf, Karl Gerhardt et al- had fun too, taking a holiday and thinking up problems for the students to solve. Estimating that they had gained much goodwill to say nothing of increased sales, they planned another High School Day for next year...