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...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...
...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...
Nearly 20 years ago Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and a score of lesser authors made their reputations by dramatizing the deadly influence of Main Street's narrow, inhibited middle-class culture. What has been happening on Main Street in the last hardbreathing decade of boom and depression? The single serious attempt to find out has been Robert & Helen Lynd's brilliant sociological study, Middle town in Transition (TIME, April 19). On the surface, reported the Lynds, the cultural pattern of Main Street in 1935 appeared to be intact. But the pattern showed significant new bulges...
...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...
Last month's best-seller lists revealed only two big changes in the ranking of popular favorites. Five months after publication. Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came suddenly got its second wind, spurted ahead of Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents. And among non-fiction best-sellers Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People wobbled out of first place, was crowded hard for third by two newcomers, Edward Ellsberg's Hell on Ice and Rene Belbenoit's Dry Guillotine...