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...Total sales to date: 1,300,000. Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse has sold more than 1,000,000 copies since it appeared in June...
...readers have lately had their work cut out for them. Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse, Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind have all been of approximately 1,000-page length. Last week Meyer Levin's The Old Bunch (964 pages) gave wrist-weary readers another hefty handful. Aside from actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale...
Anthony Adverse (Warner). When Warner Brothers bought screen rights to Hervey Allen's 1,224-page best-seller of 1933 for about $35,000 readers wondered how those cinemen would succeed in putting the whole story into a single picture. As revealed last week, the answer is extremely simple. Warner Brothers do not succeed in anything of the sort because they do not try. Although the picture is twice as long (2 hr. 19 min.), as an average Hollywood production, it carries Author Allen's celebrated adventurer (Fredric March) through only about two-thirds of his career, leaves...
...hectic career since J. Ogden Armour cracked up in 1921 and left his company with a $253,000,000 debt. In 1933-34 a prolonged stockholders' battle brought peppery old Frederick Henry Prince of Boston into control of the company. Mr. Prince sunmoned from London Robert Hervey Cabell, Armour's London manager, made him president of Armour early...
...well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that for the umpteenth time Romance was again rearing its tousled head. With such an enormous good companion...