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...play tried out in Washington, flopped too. The romance was more durable. They remained in Washington with George C. Tyler's company, played there in A Young Man's Fancy, and parted, Miss Fontanne to Chicago with the company, Mr. Lunt to rehearse for Clarence, which Booth Tarkington had written for him. Their golden year was 1921. She had her first great success then, in the George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly Dulcy. And Actor Lunt, after a two-season run with Clarence, was established on Broadway. Next year they were married...
Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
Science itself might almost have predicted the names of those to whom all this appealed. Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Edgar Lee Masters, Burton Rascoe, John Cowper Powys, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, Harry Leon Wilson and Tiffany Thayer were present one night at a dinner given in Fort's honor by Publisher J. David Stern. Fort himself said almost nothing, quietly sipped ginger ale. The others enthusiastically laid plans for a Fortean Society which would propagate Fortism to the ends of the earth. The exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx...
...played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon for fear that laymen would discover that the universe is not running according to man-made schedule; that Alexander ("Town Crier") Woollcott is an ardent Fortean who gives away dozens of Fort's books to friends; that Booth Tarkington would discuss Fortism in the next issue. No better and no worse than the rest of the magazine were the words of Charles Fort himself, piously printed from his jumbled notes just as they were found in the shoe boxes where he kept them...
...Author-Kenneth Roberts. . . Down-Easter from way back, was born in Kennebunk, Me. in 1885, still spends his summers at Kennebunk Beach near his great & good friend Booth Tarkington, After graduating from Cornell (1908) he journalized on the Boston Post, Puck, Life. During the War he served as a captain in the Intelligence Section of the Siberian Expeditionary Force. For nine years after the Armistice he was roving correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, in which his stories are now usually serialized. With his wife and fox terrier, Roberts winters in a telephoneless Italian villa, works a heavy schedule...