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...Upton Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart...
When the literary history of the present era is eventually written, the strange and flighty career of Upton Sinclair is likely to provide one of its most picturesque footnotes. He is as much a literary oddity and popular favorite as General Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur while Governor of New Mexico, and who was distracted from his romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles...
Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative...
Dodsworth was adapted by Sidney Howard from his own dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' novel, directed with a proper understanding of its values by William Wyler, splendidly cast and brilliantly played...
...Continental Oil Co., President R. G. A: Van de Woude of Shell Union Corp., President Alexander Eraser of Wolverine Petroleum Corp., President J. F. Drake of Gulf Oil Corp., President Henry May Dawes of Pure Oil Co., President William Starling Sullivant Rogers of Texas Corp., President Earle Westwood Sinclair of Sinclair Refining Co., President Edward L. Shea of Tide Water Oil Co., President Jacob France of Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Co., President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Corp., President William G. Skelly of Skelly Oil Co. Also indicted were Keith Fanshier, petroleum editor...