Word: tarkington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. You can, if you like, read Earl Tinker as Pen rod grown up. Laurence Ogle might be Willie Baxter, twice Seventeen. Or you can regard The Plutocrat as simply a new Tarkington vehicle full of up-to-date types, sent out parading to show people how they look. The balloon tires of burlesque protect anyone it runs over from being injured. Mme. Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest. Mr. Tarkington has written books of more uniform merit...
...Authors. Julian Street was born in Chicago 47 years ago (he always knows what he is writing about). He worked on a Manhattan newspaper, married and soon set out to be his own literary boss. Painstaking and deliberate, he fixed upon Author Booth Tarkington as an object for deep admiration and their subsequent friendship had much to do with the Streets' removal to Princeton when it came time for their son to attend college. There, pensively fingering cigars, graciously suffering undergraduate interruptions, Julian Street produced his famed Rita Coventry and the O. Henry Memorial Prize story...
Absolution is the most astonishing piece in the collection. Imagine Booth Tarkington suddenly endowed with a real sense of beauty and a Slavic flair for psychology. Rudolph Miller, aged eleven, has enormous, intense blue eyes and a private name for himself, "Blatchford Sarnemington." By lying at the Catholic confessional and observing the effect upon his puny father and the sex-starved priest, he discovers the difference between himself and his "official" soul...
Hello, Lola. Booth Tarkington's novelized report of puppy love and its perils reached the stage agreeably enough and amused many people. It has now wandered farther afield to become a musical comedy, rather less happily. Reference is made of course to Seventeen...
Anguished outcry has been raised particularly by disciples of Mr. Tarkington. His extraordinary story has been treated with even more disrespect than librettists normally show to their inspiration. This however need not have cut an irretrievable nick in the show's appeal. There are perhaps some thousands of people who enjoy musical shows and do not know their Tarkington. Even the addicts were only mildly diverted by Hello, Lola...