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Lemuel Pitkin, whose story begins in typical Alger surroundings, with a widowed mother, a mortgaged New England house and a villainous lawyer, quickly passes on to breezier events. Encouraged by his friend, "Shagpoke" Whipple, a smalltown banker, to seek his fortune in the big city, Lemuel sets out for Manhattan, falls victim to a confidence man. and is jailed by mistake. Here his dismantling begins: all his teeth are pulled out by order of the kindly warden. Lemuel is surprised to meet his friend Shagpoke in prison. To Lem's commiseration the bankster replies: "I am an American businessman...
...coveted journalistic prize in the land. Its terms personify the traditions of the late, great Joseph Pulitzer. First won in 1918 by the New York Times for thoroughgoing coverage of the War, its roster of winners is a roll-call of important U. S. dailies. Only twice has a smalltown daily been thus honored: the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun in 1926, the Canton (Ohio) Daily News in 1927. But the Pulitzer Prize winner for 1934 is so microscopic that most newsreaders east of the Rocky Mountains needed an atlas and an Ayer's Directory of Periodicals to identify...
...Madam Secretary Perkins, enjoys the chairmanship of NRA's consumers' advisory board, and has become a favorite with the General. Sister Mary founded the Junior League at the turn of the Century and later sought an outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers. Sister Mary is constantly in touch with her brother by telephone. Together they joined Vincent Astor in financing Today. Mentioned for Minister to some European capital last week...
...Baum & John Golden; John Golden, producer). Based on a Baum novel (And Life Goes On) serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine this play has none of the swift movement, the arresting reality which made Grand Hotel a smash hit and a pattern for imitators. It unfolds a devious tale about a smalltown German doctor (Walter Abel) and his wife (Mady Christians). For seven years she has assisted him in perfecting what he believes to be a momentous medical discovery. Suddenly she runs away from her drudgery with a banker who has had a motor wreck outside their home. The friend whom...
PRESENTING LILY MARS-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Author Tarkington's memory, straying fondly over his own early love for the stage, has lingered long enough to inspire a sentimental romance about the U. S. theatre some 20 years ago. Presenting Lily Mars concerns a Southern smalltown girl whose untutored genius as an actress the story never manages to make remotely plausible. Flirtatious Lily had never gone further than high school lessons in elocution, consequently enjoyed a fixed conviction that she was destined for high success on the New York stage. Her conviction is stubbornly shared by her down...