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...Chief sponsor of the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society is Harley L. Clarke, president of Utilities Power and Light Corp. Others: President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Rufus Cutler Dawes, financier, brother of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes; Novelists Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson; Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News...
...Plutocrat was originally a novel in which Booth Tarkington rather effectually rebutted Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt by describing the world travels of an Omaha porkpacker who, for all his bluster and gaucherie, was admirable rather than asinine. His virtues were particularly apparent by contrast with those of an epicine playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...
...theatre, constructed at a cost of $450,000, is to be the showplace of the Triangle Club (most famed college musical comedy organization), founded in 1893 by Author Booth Tarkington. Annually the club produces and takes on tour a homemade theatrical durbar, written, musicalized and acted by undergraduates fortunate enough to gain club membership. The largest individual donation ($250,000) to the theatre, which rises like a Norman barn in front of the railroad station, came from Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, '88, president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. No Triangle mummer himself, the building bears his name...
...Your Health? contains a trio of hypochondriacs whose health fluctuates according to moods and the vagaries of a broken blood-pressure gauge. Connoisseurs will be reluctant to believe that this comedy was actually written by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson...
...Significance. Like the Booth Tarkington of Penrod, Arthur Thiess is sensitive to the dreams and growth of boys and girls. Unlike the U. S. author, Frank Thiess probes deeply, uncovers with tender hand, like a rose-lover, their straining growth...