Word: tarkingtonian
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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...
Geraldine (Pathe). Booth Tarkington, amiable observer of smalltown surfaces, thought and wrote about a homely girl whose father brought home a bright young man to make her happy. The producers and players (Albert Gran, Marion Nixon, Eddie Quillan) got the drift of the thing, but not the kindly, Tarkingtonian sparkle. The result is only fairish...
...effort cost her great growing pains. Accordingly Page's cup of political and social success had a sediment of gall and not one, but two, generations misunderstood Delia. The writing is faintly ungrammatical and occasionally droning, but not unperceptive or unsympathetic. Mrs. Sachs is a neo-Tarkingtonian...