Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Passion (by Edward Chodorov & H. S. Kraft, produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers). Advance notices hinted that this play was about Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. The hint can be disregarded. The drama begins as an acid study of the relations between a jaded, unsavory novelist (George Coulouris) and his wife, part journalist, part demon, played by sinister Gale Sondergaard, whose performances here and in the cinema (The Letter) mark her as the female viper of the dramatic year...
WORLD'S END-Upton Sinclair-Viking...
...months ago Sinclair Lewis went touring in his native Middle West, scene of Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry. One day in Madison, Wis. he met University of Wisconsin's President Clarence A. Dykstra, took such a fancy to academic life that he impulsively offered to teach Wisconsin's students without pay. President Dykstra agreed...
...departure was outwardly amicable, the Milwaukee Journal reported that he had told a friend: "I've had enough of the faculty objecting to this and that. I'm through." The Journal also unearthed the reason for the faculty's hostility: they feared, despite his denials, that Sinclair Lewis planned to write a novel about them...
...Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake of blood, killing for the sake of killing. Even his admirers wondered where he was going to find another experience big enough to make him write...