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...first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, and one of the more intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first major role, 1936. Key Largo, Maxwell Anderson...
Father was a different part of the problem. There were "other women" in the life of Economist Edward Sherwood Mead: "One of them had red hair, and one almost persuaded him to marry her." His voice was "loud and direct," the "imperative mode was very congenial to him," and when angry, he resorted to sarcasm and bitter parody. His judgments were "conservative" and "money-bound." He wanted Margaret to become a nurse because she was "not strong enough" to study for a college degree-though at the time she was carrying a heavy high school program, making the costumes...
Petrilled Forest. The Loeb is determined to quench the local appetite for dramas of the Depression West and there is no reason why Sherwood Anderson's classic shouldn't leave the customers satisfied...
...School Flick presents the ever popular Little Caesar the first of the big 30's gangster flicks, with Edward G. Robinson as "Rico" at 8 p.m and the OK Hamphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard film of Robert Sherwood. Petrified Forest at 10 p.m. Sat. at Harkness Common...
...must be unhappy these days, what with the assaults on his character that pour out of other people's memoirs. But if anyone needs to be reminded that Hemingway could dish it out too, Torrents of Spring will do as an example. It is a brutal parody of Sherwood Anderson, a man who influenced Hemingway's prose and helped him materially early in his career...