[Letter], 1915 June 7 : Kennebunkport, Me. [to] Mr. Lorin L. Raker, New York / Booth Tarkington.

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[Letter], 1915 June 7 : Kennebunkport, Me. [to] Mr. Lorin L. Raker, New York / Booth Tarkington.

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Letter written concerning Mr. Raker's desire to make "Penrod" into a vaudeville sketch or a play including the need for finding a playwright and a manager. Mr. Tarkington says that he could not personally do it as the material does not take a theatrical form in his mind nor does he have the time. He gives Mr. Raker permission to proceed including trying out a sketch in vaudeville for a couple of weeks without royalties to see if it works. If successful then arrangements could be made to continue or to have a play written based on the strength of the vaudeville engagement.

6 p. ; 17 cm.

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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...