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...Monsieur Beaucaire--Bob Hope roaming through Tarkington with Joan Caulfield, at the Met Thursday...
...Monsieur Beaucaire (Paramount), Holiday in Mexico (M-G-M), The Big Sleep (Warner), Canyon Passage (Universal) and Till the End of Time (RKO Radio...
...Monsieur Beaucoire (Paramount), the late Booth Tarkington's graceful romance about a Louis XV nobleman who disguised himself as a barber, was once (1924) a vehicle for Rudolph Valentino. Times (not to mention plots) change: today it is a scooter for Bob Hope. Mr. Hope, fortunately, plays the masquerading role...
...remote corner of the palace gardens, near the children's marionette theater, the old beekeeper continued his lectures on the terrors of strife among bees in times of scarcity. But the old man found hope-for the bees. "Do not be distressed. Monsieur," he said, smilingly waving his hands toward the buzzing hives behind their curtain of midsummer blooms. "It is a time of plenty in the garden and we now have peace...
Died. Newton Booth Tarkington, 76, best-selling literary Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with...