Twentieth Century Writers Film Clips
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Dr. Seuss Tries His Hand at Grown-Up Fiction (Stage Magazine, 1937)
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel: 1904 – 1991) was all of 33 years of age when this one page piece of fiction appeared in THE STAGE MAGAZINE; that same year his first book went to press, And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street .
The article is illustrated by one of his delightful drawings that future generations would come to know so well.
| Carl Sandburg at 70 ('48 Magazine)
A three page salute to the American poet Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) written by Louis Untermeyer (1885 – 1977) marking the occasion of Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln. Untermeyer, famed anthologist in the republic of letters, was a great admirer of the poet and goes to some length pointing out how Sandburg's life experiences made his poetry stand out:
"A great rhapsodizer, like his predecessor Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg has freely ranged the country for the subject of his poetry. He has celebrated the native scene in practically all its phases, from windy shouting of the metropolis to the silence of the fog which moves over the city 'on little cat feet; from violent jazz fantasies, in which the drums, traps, banjos, and horns cry 'like the racing car slipping away from a motorcycle-cop' to delicate and hushed nocturnes in a deserted brickyard."
| A Review of Saroyan's 'The Adventures of Weasley Jackson'
(Script Magazine, 1947)
The 1947 review of William Saroyan's (1908 - 1981) war novel, "The Adventures of Weasley Jackson":"What makes [the novel] good is what makes Saroyan good. In this case his wonderful satires on army life, wangling , and the weird fauns of his private universe. What makes it bad is the overdose of soliloquies, hymns and plain mutterings on love, death life and the appeasement of divine wrath by means of scapegoat."
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