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...what film was William Faulkner reversed...
...Paramount) has a title borrowed from a popular song, a story borrowed from William Faulkner and subjected to reverse English. In The Story of Temple Drake, Miriam Hopkins was a well-bred girl whose association with low characters led to unpleasant doings in a cornbin. In All of Me she is a patrician girl, selfishly in love with a young engineer (Fredric March). Her association with a petty crook (George Raft) and his mistress causes her to be a bigger and better person. Raft steals a handbag, goes to jail, kills a guard escaping from Manhattan's Welfare Island...
...warm their hands over something more human. In Gentlemen, I Address You Privately she writes, with what seems an almost deliberate avoidance of charm, about people who cannot be said to exist, who would hardly matter if they did. Authoress Boyle, nearly as far astray from normality as Faulkner, has clothed her fairies in human guise, but they remain fairies...
...addition to Dr. Jones, the committee includes Dr. George H. Bigelow '13, of Boston, retiring Massachusetts Commissioner of Health; Dr. Eugene F. Dubois '03, of New York City, professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical College; Dr. Channing Frothingham '02, of Boston, physician-in-charge at the Faulkner Hospital; Henry S. Grew '96, of Boston, the only layman on the committee; Dr. Edward B. Krumbhar '03, of Philadelphia, professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Ernest G. Stillman '08, of New York City, a relative of the donor of the infirmary...
With the twentieth century and the war came a closer approach to comprehension. Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Mencken, furnished blocks for the building; but none was sufficient architect to complete the edifice. Others were sidetracked, as Irving Babbitt to Humanism, Thornton Wilder to Catholicism, Krutch, Jeffers, and Faulkner to Pessimism. Hemingway tried to dodge the problem of values in bullfights and drink without success...