Word: hemingways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just read a review of the motion picture The Last Flight in the Aug. 31 issue of TIME. "The mood of the picture" to quote your reviewer, "seems to have been induced by an author who was trying to imitate Ernest Hemingway with one hand and Philip Barry with both feet...
...that would be practically the neatest trick of the week, for any author to execute. It would be especially difficult for me, since, although I am familiar with the work of Mr. Hemingway. I have not read a line of Mr. Barry's, nor have I had the good fortune to attend one of his plays...
...have learned that it is futile to protest against the Hemingway comparison; most every young author who pokes his head above the ground nowadays is beset by Hemingwayniac; armed with bayonets, banderillas and empty Vermouth bottles...
...review of The Last Flight your critic has charged the author with a one-handed imitation of Mr. Hemingway and a two-footed imitation of Mr. Barry, whilst inducing the mood of a motion picture on the side. A very neat effort indeed, as I have said, and nearly as difficult as Mr. Joe Cook's celebrated attempt to imitate four Hawaiians...
Origin of the Horrible Hemingways was the revival in Los Angeles of several old-time melodramas in which, it was noticed, most of the villains were named Hemingway. The charter members and founders were three disgustingly fresh young men who hate everyone, who trip up old ladies on stairs, wrest candy from children, push invalids down hills in wheel chairs and take away cripples' crutches. Most Horrible (official title) is Alan Brown, sophomore at Pomona College. The other two: Robert Forbes, sophomore at Stanford; Parley Johnson, student at Harvard School, Los Angeles...