Word: tarkingtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spoke, at Atlantic City last week, famed Author Booth Tarkington to an able New York Times newsgetter. And further...
Less important than Babbitt or Arrowsmith, kinder and more accurate than Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth is as shrewd a piece of reporting as any of the earlier volumes. No scoop, it has a pale prelude in Tarkington's Plutocrat, but Dodsworth is the exhaustive definitive edition...
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...
...motion picture, "Geraldine" is an attempt to render a comedy of Booth Tarkington's. Whether it is successful or not depends largely upon the individual spectator; there were certainly some present who liked it. At any rate Eddie Quillan does some comedy stunts which are almost sure to amuse...
...Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author of The Old Soak, said: "I like the man: his tone, his manner, his essential character...