Page Twelve CINEMA: Change (Continued fromn' Pie 11) an interlacing dance pat his earlier manner, but1 A Nous la Liberte seems to rise ;is given additional poin to prophesy in the famous se- $ iorr's exhortin voice quence in which an audience of V 1~VN s brefan{ magnates, harrangued by a patri- demonstrates that t otic orator, crazily chases back soundtrack crled a not and forith after a swirl of wind- dition, lere is little sen blown money. It is as though turns the macnates' pu Clair meant to predict the events nostalgic view -- fi of 1936 to 1940. The director, shooting this scene fro tern after the scene nt by the over-view ouch the table trai- ise in the rsuit into shionable m above, THE MICHIGAN DAILY among some afficionadoes-that the film can never match its voiceless achievements. The mar- velous artists of the silent screen emerged . in the struggle against an unnatural barrier; once the barrier came down, hopeful ex- pectation almost immediately outweighed regret. BOOK REVIEW: Sinclair Lewis In Retrospect Sunday, November 11, 1956 JAPAN: I- ICosslletfroin Pace7' bring a stepladder and take it down myself." A: "Then, supposin you are ill and vant a glass of water, what would you say to your husband?" B: "I'd say 'I am terribly sor- ry to bothor you, but would' you mind giving me a glass of water?' A: "Sounds almost like solicita- tion! I.'s nice to be coirte- otis. Does your husbliid a; k you to ido snom lin for hin'? B: "He keeps doin-u I, A: "What dos he say, thent" B: "Hey! Give me massage, will you, I have a stiff neck. sA: "Myoodness, it's a com- tand'! Then what does lie say when lie asks his mother to do something for hiim' B: "Veiy rarely he rdos, cnd with constraint, 'Ihi other dayh ccaid to his mother. iWould you please kick that ash-tvay toward me?' to cv- eryone s amusement. He is for larriage remiss but seems to hesitate to bother his own mother.'" A: "It's good to treat the aged kindly. However, such a dif- ference in attitude towrd a mother and a wife in other words, his mother is more important for him than his; wife!" B: "Isn't that,namtial A moth- er is a mother. A: "I don't understand a Japa-l nese man s attitude toward wcomen, especially toward lhis wife. A husband certainly looks down upon her. He talks to her with rude form of lanuagte, never treats her in a polite manner" B 'I don't think a husband is, particularly rude to his wife. It's not a matter of being rude or polite. It's simply al A: "I am not simply thimkin about language form. 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Phone NO 2-2500 or NO 8-7200 Just sci g r irned ts oex , ine "With Love From Gracie," by could never coic to recognie. tie sceen tuirned to nl examination cest-beatig "culture peddler" of life more intense and detailed Grace Hegger Lewis; Harcourt, for what they really were-simply than had been previously possible. Brace; 355 pp.; $5.75. cheap forms of petty crooks and Silence restricted the film to the By ROY AKERS tailoring-is never obvious. But treatment of genecal themes, re- B Aparasites, who were either too lazy current situations, universal di- , Tth Love From Gracie is ai or too stupid to join a syndicate. lemmas-- Chaplin's Tramp, Kea- epilogue to what might have Sinclair Lewis in all of his lonely toi's chd dpu figii-- or forced been a sonderful kind of love and restless life never cams o diiectors to rec he ily pon 'nloe u ho oit s see the beauty in the sondrous liles to adsice thticc plots, as in . and glorious and spacious land Jeanne Ney. soon be nearing her twilight years, that is America. The good life, to With sound, the film was free but she viewed the eventful begin- him, sas where you found it - in to deal with the local, the parti- nsing of the ill-fated tryst as ithe Montmarte dive, the Roman cular. the ideological: Clair's lithe. young girl with golden hair brothel and the Enelish pub whimsical but desierate prole- who believed that a whispered It is for George F. Babbitt. more tcions, Pabst's miners concerned cares, -like stardust and a silent than any other one character, that with international boundaries, 1 troth-is forever. Sinclair Lewis will be remembered, working conditions and Socialism. And in this her benediction to and rightly so For Lasis not only And the marvelous continuity of a love found once, and then mis- created George F. sbt.t-he was films like The Straw flat and placed, Grace Hegger Lewis has the original Babbitt of them all. Jeanne Ney would no longer be both buried and resurrected the And his tagedy lay in the simple disrupted by written titles. na iwhose heart she won and lost. fact that he could never face hiin- Her one-time husband has b en self in the mirror. The iherent necessity of sound too long deadd. His Cooks are period wis revealed in the use of live iceis gatherin dust on the Jr HEmale char,ater, in the Lewis musical background throughout library shelves. And the words books are, for the most part, the whole of the silent era. Pres- he coined - Babbitt, Arrowsmith, crude, inentitive louts. The wom- ent-day audiences forced by lack and Dodsworth are now outmoded en they marry, or with whom they of proper resources to watch the phrases from the yesteryears. are enamoured, are the sleek, silent masterpieces as accompa Harry Sinclair Lewis might be smcooth products of finishing nied only by a projector's whirr' termed the official spokesman ior schools. With Love From Gracie keenly experience the fact that the rip-roaring nights of the is, in a sense, merely a retelling of movementthrough time - unlike Twenties, just as Tomn iWolfe was a Lewis novel. the arrested motion of painters biographer and prose-prayer sayer Grace Heg.5er Lewis tells tier and sculptors - demands sound c for the doubtcridden years of the story with s ntitivity and com- Our eagerness to see the work of Thirties. But the Quixotic resem- passion. But here again we have the silent artists under such con- blance between these two most an ugly, gawky provincial marry- ditions cc our ultimate tribute controversial of American Novelists' ing a gracious, refined erl above to them, does not end here-it merely be- his social bracket. Lewis might The sound-track imposed a new gins. have understood Gracie ,r 'f first discipline and new opportunities. he had only understood himself, 'ihat the work of those who first I NLOOKING back from 'he rainy His wife to him was like his son: understood the challenge is stli side of the Nineteen Fifties it is they were nice to have around, unsurp:assed is a mueasure, not not easy to conjure up the atmos- but he didn't know what to do only of their genius, but of the Ihe in which such men as Sin- with a faily. vast possibilities which lie before i Sinclair Lewis was not only close !us osiiltrCsuci c eo lir ewL-s'iand Thomas- Wolfe the youngest and most profound- mixed their clay and asf ttheir his chaacters; he was part of ly popular of the arts. models. We live in a different and them, and in the telling of their --- - .. - a ister hose. Amtdst te soat-hik mutual story his books have spun ebraying of Elvis Presley, the piano a magic history of the prohibition plinking of Liberace, and the and flapper era Certain passages "truth squad" rantings of Richard In his novels touch so very deeply o Nixn (o allpeope) i is ome-uon the problem that i uniquely times hard to hear either cur Americas. The story of men iwho, minds or our hearts spam in the rat racr for a bigger car racle of through the coinfuson of the noise and a finer home, are too weary to We are, added to this, stupified think and much too tired to love. ecords on the one hand by too much Sinclair Lewis was biting; his plenty and horrified, on the other, satire was cutting but, whatever by the potential threat of the else may be said for or against C o u rseatom bomb. Eerything-un to him, he kept fth with 'at he C o U rse and icudinugele chronice on our believed to e the truth, cars-has become sacred; every- This book, by his first wife, will, Athing, that is, ecept God and the no doubt, cause a resurgence of his right to think and speak in our works among current readers. H wn way. Many of them will discover his own way.finely-hi eled talent for the first .ady March 15th And that, in essence, is what tinel-thesllenlyfsrethe time, Others will only oee the Grace Begger Lewis has so won-symbolismithere,and start reac.- ty Recordings derfully resurrected-a man who sny their neigibors as the Bab- both could and would speak and bitts. ' And' those who do will 9 5 95 the era in which, and for which. fall into the same mistaen line he spoke. The tormented Sinclair of thought that has nearly ob- Lewis was not something alien to scured one of America's finest or apart from his world. And if writers. People are not alike; they See These Remarkable Ad- the twenties were a time in which are different, and in all this world vantages at Learning the a man emptied a fifth of bootleg there could probably not be a pair 'vngag eay.h whiskey with the aid of two jigger of more totally different en ' "Living Language" Way. glasses and then sat looking at hans two George F. Babbitt. " learn At Hornet i iealnkdsu irrelta w ereF abt No classes Just turn on ree.hos miserab.nakdsotminrored or, re:, listen! It's easy, brilliantly in the clean, clear space 'HE craft of writimg is a lonely t sfn, it's fast! between the empty glasses-well- " Set YourOwn Hnimrml-- ete o(a-lokd thimng; somethimg that is neither Most ie pe di n maybe it s easy to learn nor to live with. This tes adaybutyoudecidehow and seen even this, than never much time to spend yourself I to have looked at all. Silair Le'is learned in his own " ChooseYourOwnClssmotest wretched way. And in reading the Learn by yourself -or with But Lewis's own particular prob-~story of his first marriage we have figoen oiy. No Iate enas were not omly rere relic-str ho Cfe o r -ise aos sycome to meet the man who was is the ame--only $9.951 tions of his time. The yokel from hidden behind the books. In a " Your Teachers v uPatideec Sauk Center liad, as domany sense, too, we have met the woman gotagy awrd,poe provincials, an nwho lived with him while his g::eat entire lesson as ofiten as you for the elusive label that so often books were beinwrittenBut wishi defies definition - te som ooktscer hem -v n- Bu sh somethingafter leaving Gracie, Sinclair Lewis or other called "Culture. 'This, never produced another book to ome in, Phone, or Mall Coupon Today too, was the same affliction that compare either with his talent or Thomas Wolfe, another provincial his fame, AME from Asheville North Carolina, The carrot-topped man from DRESS was to learn to suffer in common Sauk Center won many honors in na me at once the cooplete iing with Mr. Lewis. life but, while making a fortune e coarse for at writing and being awarded the h p Spanish AN EEw idbt h oe nM iart ) On)erman M iarl AND hERE ee fied bus the Nobel prize, he never found the similarity and variance that elusive thing Caled happiness. He ch uor dee ide $.ei I was at play in the writing person- seemed to have overlooked it in his I alities of two unique, American own back yard. -....-_.... I...talents. Lewis and Wolfe were With Love From Gracie is indeed I both grossly enamoured with all told with love. It's not what she -._.C.. ....._- things "foreign"-only the foreign says exactly but the way she says language, the foreign painting, and it, that makes one wonder whether s-a_---.-...._.--.-- the foreign writing were "cl- Sinclair Lewis didn't pass up the itred." All things less were too greatest honor of all much too too American and provincial. e;rlyin life. For back in them Tom Wolfe, unlike Iewis, finally there rip-roaring days of the 300y found his bearings. Wolfe came to Twenties, Gracie Hegger Lewis realize that culture - like good must have been a pretty special West of Hill Auditorium manners, kindness and perfect sort of blonde with whom to have Sinclair Lewis to his dying day been in love.