Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pied Piper Malone. Booth Tarkington pulled up his chair and wrote this play expressly for Thomas Meighan. When the last foot of film had flickered it was obvious that he had not done a first class job. Smartly titled and perfectly hygienic, it is unsatisfactory as mature entertainment. The hero is a New England villager whose personality has attracted the idolatry of the entire juvenile population...
...summary: Harvard 1927 Belmont High School Hamlen, Burnett, Paterson, r.w. l.w., Ford, H. Foster Gross, Vander Horst, c. c., Thomas Scott, Cabot, l.w. r.w., White Bohlen, Ellison, Booth, Wylde, l.d. r.d., Sales Coady (Capt.), Ellison, r.d. l.d., L. Foster, Secov, Rosenberger, Whitney Burke, Daly, Harding, g. g., Grady...
...MIDLANDER-Booth Tarkington -Doubleday ($2.00). Mr. Tarkington has written the booster's epic. Dan Oliphant is the apostle of hustle. He is a gorgeous, epochal Babbitt. Unfortunately, he imports his wife from the East-a pretty, self-willed little product of civilization who hates the West fully as much as the West hates her. The book proceeds through pages of mutual irritation and tantrums, until, between the wife and the son who is like her, Dan is brought to an early grave just as the town, justifying his faith in its power of growth, vindicates his years of fierce...
Though French, wielded by such masters of the interposed Gallicism as W. J. Locke, Booth Tarkington, Leonard Merrick, is the most insidious invader of the English novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...
...summary: HARVARD BROWNE & NICHOLS Hamlen, Burnett, Vanderhorst, r.w. l.w., Child, Moody, Cutler Zarakov, Gross, c. e., Smith, Russ Scott, Cabot, Gross, Leverone, l.w. r.w., Whiting, Tower Coady, Booth, Harrison, r.d. l.d., Thompson, Sherman Bohlen, Wylde, l.d., r.d., Andres, Bow Flood, Burke, Harding, g. g., Tutein...