AUTHOR’S ANCESTRY
LEWIS SHOCKS BERLIN REPLY TO IMPRESARIO LONDON, June 24. Sinclair Lewis, the American author, has given Berlin a shock. The German impresario Herr Bartsch proposed to produce Mr. Lewis’ play, “Dodsworth,” and asked Mr. Lewis for a letter certifying his Aryan nationality. Mr. Lewis replied: “Who knows what ancestors I have had in the last hundred years. I am as ignorant of them as Hitler is of his. Address reply, ‘Sinclair Levy’.” [Sinclair Lewis’ satirical novels have gained him a high place among contemporary writers, and one of them added a new word to the English language—“ Babbitt.” “Dodsworth,” which has been seen in New Zealand as a film, was written as a novel in 1929. Mr. Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930.]
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19374, 12 July 1937, Page 5
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