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...small Midwest town of the buggy days has long awaited a novelist who could see it steadily and whole. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, for all its savor, its dusty truth, was only a bucketful of that subject. Authentic handfuls may be found in Booth Tarkington, Willa Gather, Edgar Lee Masters. Kings Row, an intelligent attempt to cover the whole ground, is worthy of respect and worth reading, but it is not the hoped-for article...
...Hero of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen...
Seventeen (Paramount). In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they...
...spellbinding Four-Minute Men; its Red, White and Blue pamphlets, in which famed history professors rewrote German history; its National School Service (circulation: 20,000,000 homes); its syndicated news (20,000 columns a week), boiler-plate ads, feature stories by such writers as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Booth Tarkington, Rex Beach. Few have forgotten the CPI's war expositions, its traveling French officers, such stunts as Theda Bara in her Liberty Bond booth before the New York Public Library (receipts: $300,000 in one day). But the most voluminous memory will be surprised at the scope...
Birthdays. Benito Mussolini, 56; George Bernard Shaw, 83, quietly, in London, England; Henry Ford, 76, quietly, in Dearborn, Mich.; Booth Tarkington, 70, quietly, in Kennebunkport, Me. (Informed that it was Mussolini's birthday, Author Tarkington observed: "I have led a nice quiet life, which is more than...