Word: tarkingtonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance is deft and sure, she does not hog this show. With the exception of Philip Faversham, who is colossally unconvincing as the Reverend James' worshipping young assistant, the cast is excellent. John Cromwell is a sensitive and appealing Marchbanks; in clumsier hands Marchbanks can be clowned like a Tarkingtonian adolescent. Onslow Stevens as well as Cromwell has steered clear of extremes. His Morell id not too pompous and too fond of his own voice to be loved by Candida. And Dorothy Sands is the old-maid incarnate in the role of Miss Proserpine Garnett, Morell's typist...
Remember the Day (by Philo Higley & Philip Dunning; Philip Dunning, producer) is a fragile, Tarkingtonian tale of the pangs of childhood, in which are to be seen the growing or just-grown offspring of some notable stage folk. The cast includes the late William Hodge's daughter Martha, Ed Wynn's son Keenan, Author-Producer Dunning's daughter Virginia, Moffat Johnston's son Peter and John Drew Devereaux (grandson). Mr. Dunning has had a sign placed over the stage door: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Unspoiled Children in the World...
...Cohan to take five years ago. In the first act of The Great God Brown, Playwright O'Neill searched an adolescent character's mind. But few playgoers would have guessed from these clues that Eugene O'Neill would ever set out to tell the Tarkingtonian tale of the Millers of Connecticut...