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Owen Johnson has been married five times, has written three classics (The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale), has worked for the Republican National Committee (1920), the Democratic National Committee (1928), has ten times won the gentleman farmers' exhibit of fruit, vegetables and flowers at the Stockbridge, Mass. Grange Fair. Last week his first public office sought him. To his swank Stockbridge home trooped several hundred neighbors headed by Harvard Instructor William Ellery Sedgwick, nephew of venerable Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly. Tumbling their words excitedly together, they asked 58-year-old Novelist Johnson to become...
Over the length and breadth of the land, even in Fort Beulah, trouble broke out. Doremus' hired man, "Shad," grew more insolent than he had been, spied on Doremus, became secretary of the League of Forgotten Men, then commander of the local branch of Windrip's private army. Windrip dissolved Congress, arrested protesting Senators, imprisoned his ally, Bishop Prang, had Prang's rebellious supporters shot, ordered his Minute Men to turn machine guns on crowds. When Doremus wrote an editorial criticizing such statesmanship, he was locked up, his son-in-law was killed, his paper taken over...
...Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry's body in the gutter. Paul Madvig is accused of murder. Ed Beaumont arranges to have himself invited into the camp of Madvig's enemy, Shad O'Rory, has a hard time getting out. But back he goes, once patched up, calmly watches Shad O'Rory being choked to death...
Director Frank Tuttle uses Dashiell Hammett's trick of understatement, builds his picture to unbearable suspense in the scene in which Beaumont, battered, bleeding, crawls from the bed on which Shad O'Rory's henchmen have thrown him, starts a fire in the mattress, tumbles 20 feet out a window, drags himself to safety...
They got sick in great smoking contest, behind the bushes, or from eating the Welsh rarebit which the Tennessee Shad concocted of cheese and witch-hazel. They invented a Goldbergian "Sleep Prolonger" (alarm clock to window to heat register) which, produced in commercial quantities, made the night hideous by performing at any hour except the right one. They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their...