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Died. Edmund W. Booth, 60, editor and manager of the Grand Rapids Press, and stockholder in six other Michigan newspapers; in Grand Rapids, of, hemorrhage of the stomach...
...Author. It is 28 years since The Gentleman from Indiana was published. Newton Booth Tarkington was then a young Princeton graduate living in Indianapolis. He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus. His position in national letters is analogous to what Princeton feels. The Henry van Dykes, ever revered, belong to an age gone by. The Scott Fitzgeralds, ever provocative, may belong to an age to come. The Tarkingtons, craftsmen and satirists whose conscience and good manners are not disturbed...
...PLUTOCRAT?Booth Tarkington? Doubleday, Page...
...first performance of "Shoot the Works", the Pi Eta Club's musical comedy starring Howard Whitmore Jr. '29 in the feminine lead and R. H. Booth '27, who is acting the principal male role, has been set for either the night of February 9 or 10, it was announced last night by the Pi Eta publicity manager...
...effects are like the effects of opium, and four times as strong. A "dope" (morphin addict) quivers with hunger as the time comes for his injection. Sometimes he has a hard time finding a place to take it; he goes into a hotel washroom, a taxicab, even a telephone booth. Out of his pocket comes a piece of candle. He wants to sterilize his injection. He puts water in a spoon, heats it over the candle, dissolves his morphin, filters the solution through cotton, fills his needle, injects. It is to him a holy ritual. He is happiest when...