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None but Jordanstowners would deplore Author Johnson's humane sentiments, but many from other counties will squirm at the humorless rhetoric she dresses them up in. Unreconstructed oldsters who remembered Booth ("Old Tark") Tarkington's The Conquest of Canaan averred that they still preferred his version of the story...
...false gods that have been forced upon us in the museums." These sentiments are heartily seconded in Sanity in Art's ensuing pages by a number of press quotations from Music News, the Elkhart, Ind. Tribune, the Birming ham, N. Y. Press, followed by approving letters from Booth Tarkington, Baritone John Charles Thomas, Senator & Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis, and Mrs. H. G. Wotherspoon, president of the Daytona Beach branch of the National League of American Penwomen. At the end of the book are appended, without any explanation, 98 pictures, starting with prehistoric rock carvings, showing 29 Logan prizewinners plus...
Penrod & Sam (Warner). Even the audience which did not read Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories when they were the same age as the protagonists will catch some of the backyard necromancy of their childhood in this latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood...
Thus last week continued the lining up of teams of famed names for the big game on Nov. 3. To offset the Republicans' Cornelia Otis Skinner, Geraldine Farrar and Ginger Rogers, Democrats had Helen Hayes, Lillian Gish, Grace Moore. Sally Rand. George Ade and Booth Tarkington were signed for Landon. George Jean Nathan and Theodore Dreiser for Roosevelt. Chester A. Arthur III. for Roosevelt, was ready to cancel out John Coolidge's vote for Landon...
...humor show to advantage in the midst of the customary variety of characters including a wealthy old capitalist, his very spoiled niece, a charming hostess, the inevitable handsome playboy, and an assortment of gangsters. Young Jane Withers brings up the rear in a companion piece, a screen adaption of Tarkington's "Gentle Julia," which informs the fans for the current year that the nineties were gay and that true love conquers...