Word: sinclairism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also scheduled for this summer are some 50 famed legitimate stage stars, including Helen Hayes. Walter Hampden. Willie and Eugene Howard, Jane Cowl, Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord, Fred Stone, Eugenie Leontovich, Ethel Barrymore, and such oddities as Author Sinclair Lewis in his own It Can't Happen Here (Cohasset, Mass.); Accordionist Phil Baker in Idiot's Delight (Dennis, Mass...
...South Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass, announced that famed Novelist Sinclair Lewis would make his debut as a professional actor there this summer, playing for a week in July the role of Doremus Jessup in the dramatization of his book, It Can't Happen Here...
...Maguire, Wadhams Oil Co.; Amos Ball, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); Harry D. Frueauff, Cities Service Co., Cities Service Oil Co., Empire Oil & Refining Co.; Edward Karstedt, formerly of Continental Oil Co.; G. C. Morris, Pure Oil Co.; Alexander Fraser, Shell Petroleum Corp.; J. W. Carnes, Sinclair Refining Co.; Robert W. McDowell, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.; Frank Phillips, Phillips Petroleum Co.; W. G. Skelly, Skelly Oil Co., Ohio...
...Churchill, who thus might have been expected to snub Herr Henlein last week, actually invited this Hitler stooge to his London flat for a three-hour conference at which was present the Liberal Opposition Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair. This was in the early afternoon, and with much frantic telephoning a late tea party for Herr Henlein was arranged by Laborite Harold Nicolson, M. P. Leftist Nicolson persuaded to take tea with Stooge Henlein three middleweight British Parliamentary figures notable up to now for their last-ditch championship of Anthony Eden at the time he was ousted: Lieut. Commander Reginald Fletcher...
...week What People Said, a 614-page, dramatic first novel, laid in imaginary Athena, Oklarada. offered the first work of fiction to tempt comparison with Middletown in Transition. On the surface Author White's Main Street still looks much as it did in Main Street and Babbitt. Like Sinclair Lewis. Author White gives no solution for Main Street's inhibiting culture, offers no antagonist capable of creating a better one. But Author White's novel carries an undercurrent, nowhere found in Lewis' books, of those acute undersurface tensions detected by the Lynds...