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Absolution is the most astonishing piece in the collection. Imagine Booth Tarkington suddenly endowed with a real sense of beauty and a Slavic flair for psychology. Rudolph Miller, aged eleven, has enormous, intense blue eyes and a private name for himself, "Blatchford Sarnemington." By lying at the Catholic confessional and observing the effect upon his puny father and the sex-starved priest, he discovers the difference between himself and his "official" soul...
Hello, Lola. Booth Tarkington's novelized report of puppy love and its perils reached the stage agreeably enough and amused many people. It has now wandered farther afield to become a musical comedy, rather less happily. Reference is made of course to Seventeen...
Anguished outcry has been raised particularly by disciples of Mr. Tarkington. His extraordinary story has been treated with even more disrespect than librettists normally show to their inspiration. This however need not have cut an irretrievable nick in the show's appeal. There are perhaps some thousands of people who enjoy musical shows and do not know their Tarkington. Even the addicts were only mildly diverted by Hello, Lola...
...Harry F. Sinclair 47,709 Governor Al Smith 0 Frank W. Stearns 43,156 James A. Stillman 167,085 Billy Sunday 10,111 Gloria Swanson 57,075 Charles P. Taft (Brother of W. H. Taft) 151,430 Mrs. Charles P. Taft 121,753 William Howard Taft 1,723 Booth Tarkington 8,478 Louis Tiffany (Jewels) 48,220 Reginald Vanderbilt 44,006 Frank A. Vanderlip 74,599 Henry Walters (Art) 475,851 George J. Whelan (Tobacco).... 201,081 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson 349 Rabbi Stephen S. Wise 547 William Wrigley (Gum) 2,644 Adolph Zukor...
...Booth Tarkington has written another story for Thomas Meighan; a story that looks dangerously as though he had rewritten it from an earlier Meighan film. The star plays a convict-innocent of course -who gives up his revenge because his girl suggests it. Mr. Meighan's films of late have been just about as thin as milk can get. They are still popular...