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FATA MORGANA?Hungarian importation by the Theatre Guild. Booth Tarkington's Seventeen theme done in the European manner by Ernst Vajda (pronounced Voida...
...Booth Tarkington, novelist and dramatist Litt.D...
FATA MORGANA-A young man wakes up to "the fact that a mature woman's passing fancy is a mirage-and learns it a bit more spicily than Booth Tarkington would teach...
...street "well-dressed, in the habit of the time, his silk hat shining, his collar of a somewhat exaggerated height, his cutaway coat tightly buttoned, his trousers fitting close to the leg. He carries his gloves and a neatly furled umbrella." He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning the wisdom or motives of the world of adults...
...Booth Tarkington's--"Monsieur Beaucaire" has been revived in London and is now playing at the Strand Theatre with Gerald Lawrence in the title role. The play is especially well-received by old-timere with whom it has long been a favorite. Although this slight but exquisite story was published twenty-five years ago and has seen a complee revolution in literary styles, Mr. Tarkington's publishers, Doubleday, Page & Company, report that it continues to be one of the most popular of his books and seems to remain uninfluenced by time and literary fashions...