Harlequin and Columbine

By: Tarkington, Booth

The night before, Canby was as eagerly happy as a boy at Christmas Eve. He tossed away his old employment because of his new career-opening so gloriously, with Talbot Potter's having accepted the play! But now came the letter from that actor with the famous smile: "Come up to my apartments at the Pantheon after dinner and let me see what changes you have been able to make in the play. I should like to look at them before deciding to put on another play I have been considering." Madison Avenue, after dark, shows little to reassure a new playwright who carries in his pocket a note ending with the words, ""before deciding to put on another play I have been considering."" It was Bleak Street, that night, for young Stewart Canby, and a bleak, bleak walk he took therein. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, wrote such keenly observed novels of American life as "Gentle Julia "and "In the Arena."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1117267806
• ISBN13: 9781117267807
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: BiblioLife
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 5.0"