Word: hemingways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Earth (Contemporary Historians, Inc.). Last winter Writers John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish and Ernest Hemingway (see p. 66) decided that one way they might intelligently serve the Spanish Leftists was by producing a film showing the Leftists' version of the origin and progress of the revolution. Finding that little of the source material available in the U. S. could adequately supply them with the dramatic and pictorial qualities they had in mind, Messrs. Dos Passos and MacLeish formed Contemporary Historians, Inc., decided to send their own experts to Spain. There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway...
...would have been surprising if The Spanish Earth had not turned out as well as it did. Everyone connected with it, largely liberal artists eager to contribute their talents to the cause of Spanish democracy, has a record of high achievement. Besides Author Hemingway, who wrote and recites the infrequent but unforgettably eloquent narrative lines, there were five other unusually meritorious contributors. Director Ivens and his photographer, John Ferno, won the National Board of Review's second award for a foreign film* last year with their filming of the damming of the Zuyder Zee. The sonorous Hispanic melodies that...
...Alone Lost ($2), sharp, readable but disorderly free verse by Robert McAlmon, who published Ernest Hemingway's first book in the Contact Editions, Paris...
Making the first big public speech of his career, Ernest Hemingway did not appear until 10 p.m. while groups of his agitated admirers tried to locate him in hotels and bars, checking the airport where he had landed after flying from Bimini. Arriving while Walter Duranty was still speaking, he paced the wings before going onstage muttering: "Why the hell am I making a speech?'' But as he began to describe what he had seen reporting the Spanish war, he warmed up eloquently...
Shown at the Writers' Congress were selections of The Spanish Earth, a film of the civil war, taken on, the Loyalist side of the front lines, the work of a gifted young Dutch cameraman, Joris Ivens, who with Hemingway spent several weeks on the battlefields and whose picture is being prepared for distribution by John Dos Passos and Archibald MacLeish...