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...McChesney Berry, founder of the Berry Schools for mountain children at Mount Berry, Ga., protégée of President Theodore Roosevelt; with the third annual medal of Manhattan's Town Hall Club for "an accomplishment of lasting merit."* Other nominees for the award: Author Newton Booth Tarkington. Producer Daniel Frohman, Playwright Marcus Cook Connelly, Banker George Foster Peabody...
...work at the filling station every day and when he comes home he hides his overalls, tells lies about where he has been. In the end he beats out the man who runs the filling station across the street. His partner marries his daughter. Quietly literate dialog by Booth Tarkington helps the effect, but it is always Arliss who gives the little picture distinction. He finds many things to do that make moments and the character come alive: mummery with the medicine, which he carefully measures out. and then throws through the window; his manner with his young partner (David...
...King of Siam; James Joyce, who last week was preparing for an operation to prevent total blindness; Booth Tarkington, whose sight has largely been restored by surgery; Earl Musselman (TIME, April...
Father's Son (First National). This is an unpretentious, appealing little picture based on a story by Booth Tarkington and vitalized by Tarkington's flair for writing about adolescents. It tells about a boy who lives in just such a frame house as millions of U. S. boys live in and who diverts himself like these other millions but who has a hard time because his pranks get on the nerves of his pompous father (Lewis Stone). The combat between father and son reaches a climax when the mother leaves home and sets up a separate establishment with...
...Unknown God. Or it may merely indicate that Anything Goes. But most curious is the fact that Fort has a following of some note, who have formed a Fortean Society to praise his name. Publisher Kendall's jacket blurb is enthusiastically contributed to by Authors Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, John Cowper Powys, Ben Hecht (who announced himself "the first disciple of Charles Fort"). Manhattan's conservative Herald Tribune is quoted as calling Fort "that amazing genius...