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Miniatures of Young Love and Old, Done in Quiet Humor The Story. For his latest volume Mr. Tarkington has collected thirteen stories in his lighter vein. For the setting of these amusing tales he selects a large middle western city (presumably Indianapolis), or one of the growing middle western towns...
...Significance. Mr. Tarkington is important as an interpreter of the humorous side of the Middle West, and a writer of amusing stories in which children are delightfully pictured. Mr. Tarkington shows the sunny leisure and the small daily happenings of a growing town. None of these stories rises to greatness, or pretends to do so. Some are mere sketches, some full-length, none are wholly serious. All abound in laughing observation of the antics of children and young lovers, all are excellent in the reproduction of Negro dialect and children's prattle. None is profound or disturbing, keeping...
William T. Tilden 2nd, the World Tennis Champion, starred last night in the first production of Booth Tarkington's comedy "Clarence" presented by "The Concord Players" in the Veterans' Building, Concord. The performance will be repeated tonight and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock...
...Booth Tarkington's Bristol Glass (comedy of life on the Maine Coast) will open at the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago, April 9, with Frank McGlynn (of Abraham Lincoln], Gregory Kelly, Ruth Gordon and Frederick Perry in the cast. The piece is scheduled for an autumn opening...
Hollis.--"The Intimate Strangers" by Booth Tarkington. Wherein Billie Burke's maturer charms win out against the wiles of a Tarkington flapper. Delicate conversational comedy...