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YOUNG MRS. GREELEY-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran...
...Author Tarkington has often before but never more mercilessly demonstrated his knowledge of smalltown wives. In Young Mrs. Greeley he involves two of them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young...
...Booth Tarkington, wife of the novelist, was hospitalized last week in Indianapolis. Cause: celluloid combs in her hair had caught fire...
...spoke, at Atlantic City last week, famed Author Booth Tarkington to an able New York Times newsgetter. And further...
Less important than Babbitt or Arrowsmith, kinder and more accurate than Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth is as shrewd a piece of reporting as any of the earlier volumes. No scoop, it has a pale prelude in Tarkington's Plutocrat, but Dodsworth is the exhaustive definitive edition...