Word: lancasterism
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Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a conman of religion is in many ways better on the screen than it was as a book. Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons and Arthur Kennedy are surrounded by the rich, authentic flavor of tent-show evangelism.
At the Lancaster (Pa.) Free Public Library, youngsters borrowed eight times as many books in 1958 as in 1954. The population of Lincoln. Neb. has risen 30% in the past ten years, but book borrowing has doubled. At the 80 branches of New York City's public library system...
Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a con man of religion, which is rich in the gaudy flavor of tent-show evangelism. Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons and Arthur Kennedy all have the time of their lives hitting the sawdust trail.
OLIVE S. ROBERTS Lancaster, a.
The struggle is set in the dusty barrens of the Panhandle a few years after the Civil War. An old range-runner (Wiseman), mad with grief and battles, spreads a sinister story that a dark-skinned girl (Hepburn) adopted by the long-dead father of the rancher-hero (Lancaster) is...