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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | March 12, 1930 issue

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The drama "The Plutocrat," Booth Tarkington's defense of Babbittism, has been adapted for the stage of the Vanderbilt Theater. In it, Earl Tinker, Napoleon of the meat trade, blunders from his native Omaha across the ocean to Egypt, and by the simple process of stepping firmly on everyone's toes succeeds in revealing to all the real greatness of American character. He sings Sweet Adeline in the smoking-room, and slaps the foreign adventuress on the back. Earl has neither manners in the conventional sense nor even the most rudimentary beginning of that capacity to understand tastes of another upon which manners are founded.

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PLUTOCRAT, The (Theatrical production); THEATER; MEAT industry & trade; PERFORMING arts; CHARACTER; ETIQUETTE
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