Word: tarkingtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...inimitable naturalness and naivete are being crowded out by stereotyped gestures and muggings, such as no small 'boy does except at an amateur entertainment. Jackie is now at the difficult age when he is too big for infant roles, and too pocket-size for adult parts. Booth Tarkington should come to his rescue...
...sketches are grouped ingenuously under two heads?"Enthusiasm" and "Resentments"; and there trip from the pages as variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse of the beautiful hands and the voice of moonlit magic, and in the very next chapter, Charles Chaplin, who "does not rattle around even in the word 'genius'"; and Elsie Janis, upon whom he has these many years kept "an often startled but always affectionate...
...Fighting Coward. There was once a light satire which Booth Tarkington wrote, and it was called Magnolia. This is it again, cinemized, burlesqued. Of course it is entirely improbable, but most funny things are. Whereas there was once a lily livered young butterfly chaser, whose hat was stamped on by a rude bully of a rival and Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then...