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...Vickers (RKO-Radio). Sinclair Lewis' story of a woman social worker is satisfactory material for the cinema. As adapted by Jane Murfin it briefly shows Ann Yickers (Irene Dunne) at the start of her career, coolly fencing off the admiration of a clownish confrère and a suave young barrister (Conrad Nagel). It deals more comprehensively with her wartime love affair with Captain Resnick (Bruce Cabot). After these preliminary romances and Ann's brief, unhappy experience as a prison-executive, the picture launches enthusiastically into the matter of her liaison with Judge Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston...
Thunder Over Mexico (Upton Sinclair) is a feature length null picture whittled out of the gigantic 243,000-ft. opus which Director Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein made in Mexico over two years ago. In silent form with a musical accompaniment, it investigates a minor miscarriage of social justice on a Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into...
...frisky as a calf, playful as a puppy, and if need be, billicose as a bull in a beauty shop . . . a combination of Walt Whitman, 'Buffalo Bill' and Theodore Roosevelt." West Virginia-born, he studied at Allegheny College, Brown, and Boston University. He claims he told Author Sinclair Lewis to "write a book about a preacher." Author Lewis settled in Kansas City where "Bill" Stidger was preaching, got him and other local ministers to help him with Elmer Gantry. But Dr. Stidger "most certainly did not have in mind the kind of a preacher book that Lewis wrote...
...little masterpiece as Lamb in His Bosom. After reading it, many who also read the Harper Prize Novel (The Fault of Angels, TIME, Aug. 28) may wonder why Lamb in His Bosom did not get the prize, may recall rumors that at least one of the judges (Dorothy Canfield. Sinclair Lewis, Harry Hansen) voted in its favor. Authoress Miller may miss the prize-money but Lamb in His Bosom can get along without any such endorsement: a good book needs no prize. The Carvers were Georgia crackers, pre-Civil War era. By "civilized" or "modern" standards, they were poor whites...
Next day while the steel code was being set down in black & white, General Johnson tackled the oil men. All his hard-boiled energy could not get them to agree with one another. Chief split was on price fixing. One group including Harry F. Sinclair, Kenneth R. Kingsbury of Standard Oil of California, Wirt Franklin, president of the Independent Petroleum Association, wanted complete price fixing from well to consumer. The other group including the representatives of Standard Oils of New Jersey and Indiana, Texas Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Gulf, Sun, Atlantic, favored only that oil should not be sold below...