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Junior Miss. The lively antics of a Penrod in pigtails (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Season's Best on Broadway | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Junior Miss .(TIME, Dec. 1). A gay female version of Penrod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...intramural mores of Father, Mother, Grandma and eight little Partridges from the time the youngest was born until the last has left the upstate New York nest. As bucolic Americana it is superb. As a picture of boys' life, it is what Booth Tarkington's Penrod is supposed to be and for many people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgia | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...last wartime's best sellers appear particularly relevant: Winston Churchill's A Far Country, Penrod, Tish, Over the Top, The First Hundred Thousand, Belgium's Agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books in War | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...When the final curtain comes down on the family drinking a toast, it seems like the conclusion of a homemade English boarding-school playlet. When Moll Flanders (Isobel Elsom) rustles archly across the stage in her duchessy silks, mouthing fancy, ye-old-tea-shoppe truisms, she brings to mind Penrod and his friends acting out Mrs. Lora Rewbush's egregious Arthurian "pageant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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