Word: sondelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making fools of characters who were fools to begin with-is telescoped a little, but the magnificent climax-when Arrowsmith goes to the West Indies to fight bubonic plague-is more impressive, because more explicit, in pictures than in print. In the West Indies, Arrowsmith's friend Sondelius (Richard Bennett) dies, wishing he could have one more drink. Leora dies too, while Arrowsmith is away inoculating natives against plague and making friends with a lady who, in the picture, does not become his second wife. Arrowsmith comes home to tell Gottlieb, who started him on his career...
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