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...American Tragedy, published in 1926, established him as everybody's hero. The story of a naive young man in a hurry who murders his pregnant mistress so he can marry the boss's daughter, it was acclaimed by Joseph Wood Krutch as "the greatest American novel of our generation." Within a year it made Dreiser $40,000 in royalties and $80,000 in film rights...
...posthumous career began poorly enough. The corpse of Benito Mussolini hung heels-up alongside that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, like a pig outside a butcher shop. But last week, with the 20th anniversary of his death, the reputation of the Duce was undergoing a remarkable rehabilitation in Italy...
Throughout, no fewer than 22 major characters clash, plot and love together. Matt Devlin is entertained by the bride of his brother, who dallies occasionally with the teen-age mistress of Matt's son Morgan. Morgan's married sister gets her kicks from his best friend, a mean and hungry panhandler who keeps disappearing into the arms that Morgan has just left. In New York, Joshua Ching's mistress is younger than his daughter Suky, who, in her turn, takes two men to heart, including Cousin Morgan, who, when in town from the West, shares a couple...
...competition, "The Reprisal." Mark Bramhall, an Osbornian iconoclast, puts a reckless, sensuous man into the collar of a divinity student, then sticks both man and collar in one corner of a writhing triangle. The dialogue blazes with violent, staccato speeches as David, the protagonist, banters and bickers with his mistress and the good girl in the piece. Occasionally the sarcasm and the yelling get childishly out of hand, but as a whole the drama is exciting, exhausting, and superb...
Bramhall excels with dialogue, but he has a problem with his premise. Why the collar? Why is David a divinity student? At one point his mistress asks him, "Isn't that why I disgust you--because I keep dragging you down to earth . . . because I know you're anything but a saint?" Yet David seems firmly earthbound from the beginning, a man clearly cut out to rip the cloth rather than to wear it. By making him an aspirant for the pulpit, Bramhall turns David into a blunt tool for tedious bludgeoning of religion, superflous to plot and good taste...