Word: tarkington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Magnolia and Tweedles. Booth Tarkington will enter these two contenders in the sweepstakes. The first is a character comedy of the South in which Leo Carillo will be starred. The second revolves about the relations of August visitors with native sons and daughters in Kennebunkport, Me., where the author spends his Summers. The scene is an old curiosity shop and the cast contains the names of Ruth Gordon, Gregory Kelly and Frank McGlynn...
...Dear Mr. Tarkington: My little Isaac acts a lot like your dear Penrod?could you tell...
Such a picture is this latest edition in celluloid from the pen of Booth Tarkington. Ben Alexander and Joe Butterworth carry the title roles. Newcomers, they promptly take their place among the leaders of this children's Crusade in California. For those who favor cinema children the picture will afford consistent entertainment...
Apparently, the devil has inspired the amusement people with the wit to call for referenda, for everywhere except in South Dakota these popular ballots have been favorable to their cause. The "decline" and "de-generation" of Rome, caused, as Mr. Tarkington has shown, by Sunday gladiatorial combats, have failed to impress America with the importance of one day of absolute holiness. The Lord's Day Alliance is peculiarly fortunate; it will never...
...courses at Columbia; since they were so fortunate as to live in New York; then, to subscribe to a correspondence course; next to buy Dr. Eliot's "Five-Foot Shelf". Since they asked for advice about books, Dartmouth sent a list of 155, dating from Walter Scott to Booth Tarkington--recommending Barrie and Shaw especially. President Hibben suggested, among others, "Introduction to Political Science" by Pettell, "The Life of Abraham Lincoln" by Lord Charnwood, and "Literary Taste and How to Form It," by Arnold Bennett...