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...sentimentality was not to be confused with his tenderness; Tarkington's affection for Penrod and Willy Baxter, for Alice Adams and Claire Ambler and all his young people, gave life to his novels. Sentimentality is itself a confusion, a failure to discriminate in feeling; and Tarkington even at his best failed in that way. Nothing in Alice Adams is more pathetic than the author's own willingness to let the Adams family be salvaged by a golden-hearted businessman and Alice herself by gallant enrollment in a business college. One such piece of symbolism might pass...
Blessings, Spelled Out. His last book, The Show Piece, introduces an egoistic boy who is still yelling "Yay" as Penrod Schofield did over 30 years ago, and whose father remarks (as Mr. Schofield would not have felt impelled to) on the blessings of being "a good American citizen living up to his highest principles in a good American community." That kind of thing would be enough to rejoice the shade of George Horace Lorimer, from whose Saturday Evening Post Tarkington earned riches for years. But it is not "investigatory" of anything that had not been investigated before and better...
...trade was to please the public for a living. But while they worked the mine of the U.S.'s more comfortable legends about itself, they worked it sometimes with real honesty and beauty. The literary data on life in the U.S. since 1900 would be as incomplete without Penrod and Alice Adams as it would be without Nick Adams and Jay Gatsby, Jennie Gerhardt and The Good Anna...
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...
...boosters is the Atlantic Monthly's soft-voiced Editor Edward Weeks, who says that radio is his son's daily "equivalent of Keith's Vaudeville, which at his age I was allowed to see only once a fortnight. . . . Henry Aldrich [is the] blood brother of Penrod and Tom Sawyer; and the Lone Ranger ... is the Robin Hood of our time...