Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1916 — Spending It All. [ARTICLE]

Spending It All.

Of Booth Tarkington the anecdotes are legion —almost as numerous as they are about O. Henry. It remained, however, for Jesse Lynch Williams to tell this story in connection with his comment on Tarkington’s ever ready repartee: “After ‘The Gentleman From Indiana’ had made its hit,” he says, “and Mansfield had put on ‘Beaucaire,’ and that made a hit, I said to him one day, ‘Now, I hope you’re going to stay in New York for a while.’ “His reply was a most charming satire upon himself —‘Oh, I’ll stay here till I get it all nicely spent.' ”