Subject: Re: Ring Lardner Jr. R.I.P.
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 23:30:19 GMT
> Here is a Web page about the Ring Lardner who Holden
> mentions in The
> Catcher in the Rye (p. 18, 141). He died in 1933. He
> had a pretty short
> life: 1885-1933.
> <http://www.eldritchpress.org/rl/rwlsr.htm>
>
> That page says: "Please don't confuse Ring W.
> Lardner (Sr.) with his son
> the writer Ring Lardner Jr."
>
> It looks like that site links to complete reprints
> of some of his works.
> "There are smiles" isn't one of them. (Holden liked
> "There are Smiles"
> about a traffic cop who falls in love with a speed
> demon lady. I liked that
> one, too.)
>
> Suzanne (not Jennifer :o)
Thanks for the link and for shedding a light on this:)
I'll be sure to read some of those stories someday
when I have more free time:) So, was Lardner Sr. the
one Holden mentioned in "Catcher"? I do remember him
describing the story about the traffic cop falling in
love with the speed demon lady lol.:)
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