What Would the Sage of Fair Lane Think? Nov 23, 2008
Meanwhile, the Reverend J. Frank Norris, a fiery and controversial fundamentalist Texas preacher who was also pastor of a mammoth Detroit congregation, preached a sermon that was broadcast on WJR radio in the city, as well as being printed word for word in the Detroit Times. Norris called the Rouge Plant strike the work of revolutionaries and Bolsheviks, and suggested that anyone participating in it was not being patriotic in light of the war clouds looming on the international... (Townhall.com)
Lodi man compiles history of last 50 years of First Methodist Church Nov 22, 2008
Do you remember any of the former pastors, such as Norm Mowery, Darrell Thomas, Herbert Hirschfeld, Frank Norris, Richard Bimson and Jackson Butler. How about the people who made the choirs sing. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
More American Movie Epics from the ... Nov 18, 2008
In 1996, the original film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Clips from the movie can be seen . Erich von Stroheim s Greed (1924) Greed was the ambitious brainchild of the Austrian born Stroheim. It is a bleak and depressing tale of three basically decent people whose lives are destroyed by greed after one of them wins the equivalent of a $100,000 lottery. The... (Suite101.com)
Love your library: See artists showcase 'Out of Print' May 15, 2008
Discuss McTeague A group will meet Monday, May 19, at 7:15 p.m. at the West Branch Library at 40 College Ave. to discuss McTeague by Frank Norris. Next month, the group will read and discuss Pudd nhead Wilson by Mark Twain. (Somerville Journal, MA)
Visit a pleasure for supporters Apr 19, 2008
Clinton s visit means we are an important area, said Frank Norris as he put his arm around his son, Grant Norris, a first-grader. There are a lot of good Democrat votes here they need to reach. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Author tells Kiwanis Club about key story from Ft. Worth's history Apr 3, 2008
Author Jim Gatewood previewed his newest non-fiction book, J. Frank Norris, the Top o' Hill Casino and Lou Jenkins ... But all that success came only after J. Frank Norris set aside the fiery purges that ignited Fort Worth and its gambling industry. (Terrell Tribune, TX)
From Golden State to golden culture Mar 23, 2008
Distinctly Californian contributions to American culture were as various as they were notable: the novels of Frank Norris and John Steinbeck; the architecture of Bernard Maybeck and Greene and Greene; the photography of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams; above all, that alluring assembly line collectively known as "Hollywood.". Demonstration, not discovery, is what the rest of the country experienced with California in the '50s - a demonstration that it had come of age as full cultural partner and... (Boston Globe)
An intellectual insider, forever on the outside Jan 3, 2008
By temperament and social circumstances, Kazin gravitated to the great realists who set out to take the measure of industrial America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, writers like Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris. To a great extent, Cook argues, literary time, for Kazin, stopped with the rise of fascism, the collapse of the socialist dream and the onset of World War II.. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Books of the San Joaquin Valley Dec 23, 2007
"The Octopus," by Frank Norris (1901): The best-known fictionalized account of the Mussel Slough Tragedy in Kings County. It tells about the conflict between Valley settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad. (Fresno Bee)
