Word: upton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sergei Eisenstein's much disputed film is being shown at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston for the first time. I can not see why the critics were so partial to the director in their reviews and so annoyed with Upton Sinclair who cut two hundred thousand feet of film to a length suitable for a feature picture. After viewing the film one is convinced that the original scenario remains intact, and that the only possible reason to reprove Mr. Sinclair would be that he made the film too short...
...UPTON Sinclair, prophet extraordinary, has been telling the world what it was coming to for thirty years; and, despite his unorthodox economics and occasionally almost unbelievable naivete, he has usually succeeded in striking the gong with uncanny precision. His latest assumption of the role of seer, however, is not likely to add to his reputation as an oracle. "I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty," subtitled "A True Story of the Future," is an account of the manner in which one Upton Sinclair, novelist, captured the California Democratic primaries in August, 1934, was elected Governor in November...
...strode slender, freckle-faced Eva Le Gallienne of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre and strapping, hollow-eyed Ethel Barrymore. Invited to address the Assembly earlier in the week, Miss Le Gallienne failed to appear, was now making amends by speaking gratis. Several hundred Philadelphia socialite women, including Mrs. Upton Favorite, Mrs. Trenchard Emlen Newbold and Mrs. Arthur B. Waters, the Assembly's director, who had scolded her roundly and threatened to sue, appeared to hear her apologize. But Miss Le Gallienne had no apology to make. She rapped out: "I'm disappointed...
HARVARD YALE England, g. g., Quayle Wemple, r.f.b. l.f.b., Murray Stent, l.f.b. r.f.b., Bates Morrill, r.h.b. l.h.b., Curtis Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., G. Fawcett Gummere, l.h.b. r.h.b., K. Fawcett Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Aspinwall Clos, r.i.f. l.i.f., Maxwell Manheimer, c.f. c.f., Upton Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Jordan Baxter, l.o.f. r.o.f., Coerr...
...Sued. Upton Sinclair, writer, and William Fox, onetime cinema producer; by Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian-born pacifist; for $100,000 damages. Charge: that in Writer Sinclair's indignant book. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, she was depicted as an "arch-hypocrite" in approaching Producer Fox with the Peace Ship plan which she also took to Henry Ford.* Died. Reinhold Tiling, 37, German rocket plane experimenter; of injuries suffered when a rocket he was charging with liquid explosive blew up in his laboratory, killing one assistant, wounding another; at Osnabrück, Germany. Died. Charles Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman...