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MIRTHFUL HAVEN-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran...
...Booth Tarkington has never been a socially weighty writer, but his early books had a kind of restless threat in them. His sympathies were evidently with the young man who rebels against the machinery of money. As Tarkington grew older his sympathy with rebels thinned, mellowed or changed into a kind of bantering, gentle satire that implied less of particular criticism than of general tolerance. But in his latest book the criticism is less implied, more explicit, than ever before; his satire less tolerant, less gentle...
...scene of Mirthful Haven is Maine, where Tarkington has spent many a summer (at Kennebunkport) ; the principal characters are Maine natives. Villains of the piece are the "summer people." Edna Pelter is the pretty but declassee daughterof Long Harry, lobsterman and owner of a shack that summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes...
...manuscripts from famed authors. Soon the Sun's readers found on the editorial page, "Fannie Hurst Recalls:", "Irvin S. Cobb Recalls:", "Mary Roberts Rinehart Recalls:"- friends of Bob Davis pinch-hitting in his column. The list grew so long-Ben Ames Williams, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Newton Booth Tarkington, Ring W. Lardner, Sam Heilman, Sophie Kerr, Dorothy Canfield, Henry Louis Mencken, Montague Marsden Glass, George Ade, etc. etc.-that the Sun's Bob Davis column promised to become a complete parade of U. S. literati...
...Author. Jesse Lynch Williams was born in Sterling, Ill., but to his many friends his name was always linked with Princeton. He and his great & good friend Booth Tarkington wrote plays together in college, founded Princeton's Triangle Club, undergraduate dramatic society. After graduation (1892) Williams, worked on the New York Sun, wrote short stories in his spare time. In 1917 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his play, Why Marry? In 1921 he was elected president of the Authors' League of America. Careful writer, Author Williams wrote She Knew She Was Right four times. His quizzical, seamed...