Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PRESENTING LILY MARS-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Author Tarkington's memory, straying fondly over his own early love for the stage, has lingered long enough to inspire a sentimental romance about the U. S. theatre some 20 years ago. Presenting Lily Mars concerns a Southern smalltown girl whose untutored genius as an actress the story never manages to make remotely plausible. Flirtatious Lily had never gone further than high school lessons in elocution, consequently enjoyed a fixed conviction that she was destined for high success on the New York stage. Her conviction is stubbornly shared by her down...
...Smalltown Bankers Sirs...
...amazement your paragraph in the June 5 issue, p. 13, in which the last lines read: "They saw their deposits which they had spent a life time to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government to pay for the mistakes and dishonesty of every smalltown bankster...
...review of the past four years however, will show a tremendous balance in favor of the small-town bankers. No smalltown banks have crashed with such reverberations, even in proportion to their size as we have seen go in the cities. For ten years the city banks have been drawing from the country banks by their advertising, their claims to being in close touch with affairs and their stock market facilities and their claims that size makes strength...
...smalltown bankers grinned and bore it without a whimper. Now that the shoe pinches it is the big bank and the big banker that makes more noise than a pig under a fence. It is the big banker who goes to the R. F. C. and it is the big banker who started the banking holiday. The little banker keeps on and on despite the onus that has been given to his profession. Give the smalltown banker credit for a job well done. ALLEN D. RUSSELL Plymouth Savings Bank Plymouth, Mass...