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TWEEDLES?An affable diversion largely devised by Booth Tarkington. Proving that the unwritten social register is sometimes stronger than the one in circulation...
...Clarke '27 won from J. G. Cohen '24 by default; F. I. Carpenter Jr. '24 defeated N. Y. Chang 2G. B., 6-3, 6-2; Philip Boone '26 defeated W. C. Boyd '26, 6-0, 6-2; R. C. Bostwick 4E., defeated R. H. Booth Jr. '27, 6-3, 6-1; S. G. Churchill '26 defeated J. C. Cairns 2G.B., 6-3, 6-3; W. L. Coleman 1G. defeated H. G. Cayley '24, 6-1, 8-6; W. K. Cochran 2G. B. won by default from J. J. Corn '26; E. A. Cornwell 1L., defeated C. K. Cummings...
...spent one year in the Law School. From 1893 until 1910 he lectured in English Literature at the University and in 1910 was made an assistant professor. Seven years later he became an associate professor in which capacity, he is now serving. He has written the "Life of Edwin Booth" and "Freshman English and Theme Correcting in Harvard" and has edited a number of books of English Literature. He is an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, and is a Trustee of the State Library of Massachusetts. Last year he was made an honorary life member...
...Reveals what is likely to happen when Main Street migrates to Hollywood. Glenn Hunter has made the movie-struck youth a byword in America. TWEEDLES-The old curiosity shop of the Maine coast made the setting of a satire on the futility of first family ways. It much resembles Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. POLLY PREFERRED - From the lobby of the Biltmore to the lots of Hollywood in quest of the non-stop record for making a movie star. Genevieve Tobin in the spotlight. LITTLE Miss BLUEBEARD-A concoction by Avery Hopwood in which Irene Bordoni plays with the sunny...
Magnolia. Booth Tarkington tells a tale of the lower Mississippi in the costume and accent of the South of years ago. A most practical young man is ejected from his father's house because he is unwilling to fight a duel. He returns?seven years later?as the notorious "Cunnel" Blake, whose voice makes the forests to tremble. Even the notorious General Orlando Jackson quakes at the roar thereof. But the faithful heroine is not deceived. Beneath the " Cunnel's" roar she still hears the softly sentimental whisper of the poet-lover...