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...cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed simulacre of U.S. small-town types, at worst human caricatures of something ineluctably real. Its heroine, Carol Kennicott, the Madame Bovary of the wheat elevators, was the archetype of a million repressed U.S. small-town men & women. Even readers who detested Carol Kennicott as much as her Gopher Prairie neighbors did were attracted by her husband, solid, plodding long-suffering Dr. Will Kennicott. Main Street was a shriek...
Sinclair Lewis gave the world its classic picture of the American conformist. Whether he was known as Babbitt, Doc Kennicott, Joe Doakes or the great American boob, this monster was terrible, and to escape him (or his wife) the intellectuals of the 1920s fled from Main Street...
...just received a Christmas card from Glenview, ILL. signed "Hal and Olive"; unwittingly appeared to have knocked his masquerade into a cocked hat. Glenview (pop. 1,886), 20 miles from Chicago, is too small for secrets. Hal and Olive were promptly discovered to be Harold and Olive Kennicott, longtime friends of one Edward Leopold Delaney, with whom they had corresponded in. Berlin...
Attempts to locate Edward Delaney disclosed that he was an exactor, ex-writer, onetime fellow trouper of attractive, 51-year-old Mrs. Kennicott...
...poor Irish family, probably somewhere in southern Illinois, handsome, black-haired young Delaney started his acting career about 1910. For two seasons he played the part of Blackie Daw in one of Cohan and Harris' road companies of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingjord. Playing opposite him was Mrs. Kennicott, then Olive Artelle. Delaney left the troupe in 1915 to .go to Australia, where he played the part of The Killer (see cut,p. 51)in Seven Keys toBaldpate in Josephine Cohan's company...