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Newspapers throughout the state had carried the news that Scarlet Sister Mary was too scarlet for Gaffney. Now they carried the story that the Cherokee Times had a scarlet serial. And next-great "scoop" for the Cherokee Times!-they carried news that Scarlet Sister Mary had won the Pulitzer Prize for 1928 as best U. S. novel of the year (TIME...
...dropping in upon the Cherokee Times-Gaffneyites cancelling their $1.50 subscriptions. But also came notes, many of them from outside of Gaffney, ordering new $1.50 subscriptions. For this week the Cherokee Times was the first of U. S. newspapers to begin publishing the year's Pulitzer novel in serial form-a feature for which big metropolitan publishers always bid handsomely...
...Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...
...picture then slows to an annoying pace. Even the Indian war dance and struggles atop high precipices fail to arouse the average movie goer. A climax in which the hero races a Ford containing two cheating palefaces is replete with all the nonsensical devices which made the western serial thrill of 10 years ago pass into bad repute...
There is a capital hit at "art moderne" in the page headed "Gift Suggestions in the Modern Spirit." There is perhaps a little too much flattery of Fougasse--three pages of small, serial drawings are rather a big dose, even for those who have formed the habit Blackburn's drawings are a good corrective: he wields a broad brush, and his humor is not thin...