Word: tarkingtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other day watching a rehearsal of Home Fires, his newest play. Here are plain Americans, behaving as plain Americans do. In this play he has attempted an exceedingly difficult task: that of writing tragedy in terms of comedy. His new theme is one that either Rachel Crothers or Booth Tarkington might have chosen: the story of the breaking down of a family due to the frothy characteristics of a rather ordinary American husband-a bond salesman, a $10,000-a-year man. Miss Crothers would have discussed her problem at length and her adolescents would have represented a current difficulty...
Tweedles. Author Tarkington sets the scene in an antiquity shop on the Maine coast. Julian Castlebury, summer colonist, falls in love with Winsora Tweedle, native daughter of the curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...
...order to miss no opportunity of playing on the pecularities of adolescence Mr. Tarkington has created a hero with his brain just a trifle off center. Thus the youth, physically and financially at the highly marriageable state of 21, is able to engage in a serious love affair which has all the comic possibilities of Willie Baxter. For those whose passion is eugenics such a creation, with the implied probability of its recreation in a young generation of Tweedle-Castleburys, may seem a trifle inconsidered. Among the first night audience none thus disturbed could be discerned...
Gregory Kelly (Willie Baxter in Seventeen) does remarkable things with the love-sick lad. His halting, almost plaintive, delivery; his queru lous monotone; his unaffected charm make the part almost as much his as Mr. Tarkington...
...season that will bring St. John Ervine, Eugene O'Neil, Franz Molnar, William Shakespeare, Booth Tarkington, J. M. Barrie to Broadway...