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...SHOW PIECE (212 pp.]-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday...
...Booth Tarkington was trying to finish this novel when he died last May, aged 76. He had about a third of it still to write. It is now published, unfinished, with an introduction by his widow. She recalls how her husband distinguished what he called "the investigatory novel" from the "escapist" one-and declares that "the truth and mystery of human nature, and how most clearly to tell about that truth and that mystery" were the concern of his mature writing...
...Tarkington's Alice Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. In that year appeared the first printed copies of a mountainous adventure in English prose, called Ulysses, written by an Irishman in exile. In that year also a young man from Illinois began writing in Paris short stories in a new style, hard and lucid, that were published in a book called In Our Time; another young man, from Missouri, had published, in London, a strange, rich, deathly poem called The Waste Land. Between World Wars I and II the work of these men and a few others made...
Alice Adams, besides, was probably Tarkington's best effort to tell "the truth and mystery of human nature." His account of Alice's emotions and behavior during a saunter down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers...
...Ohio State he saw Harold Lloyd in The Freshman, bought a yellow slicker and an open Ford, and was pledged by Sigma Chi, which never got over it. The fraternity has since elected him-like Cartoonist McCutcheon before him-to its select group of "Significant Sigs" (others: Booth Tarkington, Roy Chapman Andrews and George...