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...been amiable, even pollyannaish. Ladies' literary clubs like it. Mr. Doran, long a friend to young novelists, found a kindly young disciple in Editor Farrar, redheaded, chipper, who could gently pat the backs of hopeful literati. To many, Critic Farrar is a promising second edition of Critic William Lyon Phelps. Mr. Farrar will continue to function as editorial director of the Doran book business, will also contribute to the Rascoefied Bookman "a department somewhat like Dr. Phelps's in Scribner's-only different...
...that acolyte of American criticism, William Lyon Phelps, anticipate Mr. Joads epigrammatic title by some several years...
...William Lyon Phelps, Professor of Literature at Yale University: "Sinclair Lewis was once a student of mine, but I care little for his latest opus. Last week I said of it: 'There never was a minister like Elmer Gantry. . . . My grandfather and father were Baptist ministers. All my living brothers are Baptist ministers and there has been a constant stream of Baptist ministers walking through my house for years.... I have never known one like Elmer Gantry. It [the book] was obviously written by Sinclair Lewis when he was in a rage. The author was literally foaming...
Asked concerning the growth of Hollywood, Mr. Lyon said. "20 years ago, Hollywood was nothing but orange groves and fig trees. It has grown with the motion picture business. Where 20 years ago there was plowed ground and fruit trees, six and seven story Buildings now stand. Hollywood is just one large institution. Boston is a city where there are many industries, many manufacturing plants and people engaged in many trades. Hollywood is different, It centers around the moving picture business entirely. Very little that doesn't pertain to pictures, happens out there...
Dispelling the thought that Hollywood is immoral and vice-stricken, Mr. Lyon said. "If an actor in Hollywood gets inebriated every paper in the country prints it in large headlines. How ever, here in Boston, where drunks are seen every night on the street, no one seems to hear of it. The papers delight in disparaging Hollywood...