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Tweedles. Author Tarkington sets the scene in an antiquity shop on the Maine coast. Julian Castlebury, summer colonist, falls in love with Winsora Tweedle, native daughter of the curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...
...order to miss no opportunity of playing on the pecularities of adolescence Mr. Tarkington has created a hero with his brain just a trifle off center. Thus the youth, physically and financially at the highly marriageable state of 21, is able to engage in a serious love affair which has all the comic possibilities of Willie Baxter. For those whose passion is eugenics such a creation, with the implied probability of its recreation in a young generation of Tweedle-Castleburys, may seem a trifle inconsidered. Among the first night audience none thus disturbed could be discerned...
Magnolia and Tweedles. Booth Tarkington will enter these two contenders in the sweepstakes. The first is a character comedy of the South in which Leo Carillo will be starred. The second revolves about the relations of August visitors with native sons and daughters in Kennebunkport, Me., where the author spends his Summers. The scene is an old curiosity shop and the cast contains the names of Ruth Gordon, Gregory Kelly and Frank McGlynn...
...season that will bring St. John Ervine, Eugene O'Neil, Franz Molnar, William Shakespeare, Booth Tarkington, J. M. Barrie to Broadway...
...Dear Mr. Tarkington: My little Isaac acts a lot like your dear Penrod?could you tell...