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...people, Doris Day and Gordon MacRae singing a number of pleasant old songs, e.g. If You Were the Only Girl, My Home Town Is a One-Horse Town -but Its Big Enough for Me, and the title tune. Unfortunately, there is also a screenplay. Too vaguely based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories, the picture unreels some foolishly romantic complications in a small Indiana town at the threshold of the Jazz Age. Among those present: a stuffy paterfamilias (Leon Ames), an understanding mother (Rosemary DeCamp), a comic maid (Mary Wickes), an unruly youngster (Billy Gray), a pet turkey named...
Your Joseph Wood Krutch item anent the Common Man recalled a good anecdote . . . Back when Henry Wallace, as a vice presidential candidate, was exalting the Common Man, Booth Tarkington . . . commented that the phrase would mean a lot of votes, but the advantage could be more than offset if only someone could prevail on Mr. Wallace to also come out as champion of the Common Woman...
Starting with the Babylonian Talmud (c. 450) right down to Booth Tarkington (Princeton '08) "Clothes make the man" has been a popular saying on the importance of what one wears. "We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference" contended Thomas Fuller...
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Booth Tarkington's The Fascinating Stranger, with Thomas Mitchell...
...Princeton grads made names for themselves in the lighter fields as well. Phillip Freneau 1771, the poet of the Revolution, called Princeton home for four years. Following in his literary pen splatterings have been Booth Tarkington '93, creator of Penrod and author of "Seventeen," an adaptation of which is now on Broadway, Henry van Dyke '73, Eugene O'Neill '10, father of modern American drama, James Ramsey Ullman '29, author of "The White Tower," and F. Scott Fitzgerald...