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GLENPORT, ILLINOIS, by Paul Darcy Boles (424 pp.; Mocm/7/on; $4.95), may remind readers that oldtime dispensers of sweetness and light like Gene Stratton Porter (A Girl of the Limberlost) and Grace Livingston Hill (Rainbow Cottage, Happiness Hill) at least put heart into their hokum. Paul Darcy Boles merely puts hokum into the heart. The Grayleafs are newcomers to Glenport, 111., a whistle stop near Chicago. It is 1929, and Ave Grayleaf, the father, is a baker, as busy and happy as all the seven dwarfs. Homespun Ave has the American flag tattooed on his right arm and a bad case...
...insane asylum, finally succeeded in imprisoning her in a convent. And so on and so on, through libelous pamphlets, lawsuits, threatening letters, dirty verses pinned on doors, pornographic memoirs, in such detail that readers may find themselves longing for Little Women and A Girl of the Limberlost...
...Around 1,500,000: Mrs. Porter's Girl of the Limberlost and Laddie; John Fox Jr.'s Trail of the Lonesome Pine; Owen Wister's The Virginian; Harold Bell Wright's The Winning of Barbara Worth; Jack London's Call of the Wild; J. L. Hurlbut's Story of the Bible; Wells's Outline of History...
Laddie (RKO). The best-selling novels of the late Gene Stratton-Porter have generated some of the most outlandish ballyhoo in the weird history of cinema promotion. To honor A Girl of the Limberlost, Indiana set aside 75 miles of State highway running by the Stratton-Porter home, from Geneva to Rome City, called it The Limberlost Trail. In 1925 when F. B. 0. produced Keeper of the Bees hundreds of schoolchildren were persuaded to plant Gene Stratton-Porter memorial trees. Last week's ballyhoo for Laddie was in the tradition of its predecessors...
Girl of the Limberlost (1909) Gene Stratton Porter...
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