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...Murray Butler by Artist Samuel Johnson-Woolf. Charles Hanson Towne had a piece about his favorite subject, "The Lost Art of Ordering" (meals); Ring Lardner Jr. wrote solemnly about undergraduate guzzling at Princeton. There were stories by John Dos Passos, William McFee, Manuel Komroff, Morley Callaghan, Erskine Caldwell, Dashiell Hammett, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Vincent Starrett. Bobby Jones, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Charley Paddock wrote about sports. There were cartoons by Alajalov, John Groth, Steig and four others, funny pieces by George Ade, Montague Glass, Harry Hershfield, photographs by Gilbert Seehausen, Paul Trebilcock, poetry by Joseph Auslander. Finally there were...
...Dashiell Hammett had written Grand Hotel, the result might have been something like Sleepers East. Author Nebel cannot command Hammett's sulphurous and suspense-laden style, but he has fitted together a first-rate melodrama, whose plot is more cunningly joined than Grand Hotel's, its suspense and climax better managed. Sleepers East is headed for a brisk trip, with Hollywood one of its way-stations...
Hard-boiled Writer Ernest Hemingway started something when he published his first popular book (The Sun Also Rises]: earnest critics have thought they discerned among his imitators the beginnings of a School. But the two most outstanding followers of Hemingway, William Riley Burnett and Dashiell Hammett, seem to have been not so much started by his example as let loose by it. Both have a manner that owes its start, perhaps, to Hemingway; but both have branched off into a patented, individual style of storytelling. No pioneers of language, they have been content to follow their leader into new country...
These alarums and excursions Author Smith relates in a style that owes something (but not too much) to hair-raising Dashiell Hammett (The Glass Key; TIME, April 27). Well above the average of detective story fiction, The Broadcast Murders reads as if its author was an old hand at the game, though it is his first attempt. But Fred Smith is an old hand at another game: radio. Having served his apprenticeship as a lumberjack in California, a schoolteacher in Indiana, a sailor on the north Atlantic, a government employe in Spain, an importer in Brussels, he became director...
...Played in German, with a good anonymous tenor voice in the intervals when Emil Jannings makes gestures appropriate to singing, Der Grosse Tenor was exhibited in Manhattan last week at the UFA Cosmopolitan Theatre, hereafter to be used for other untranslated UFA products.* The Maltese Falcon (Warner). Author Dashiell Hammett, a onetime Pinkerton detective, improved the technique of horrifying readers by writing quick, unmannered prose and by making his characters tough as well as unscrupulous, appallingly bad as well as secretive. Some of the characters in the best-selling Maltese Falcon were too bad to be included in a cinema...