Subject: Re: Ring Lardner Jr. R.I.P.
From: Suzanne Morine (suzannem@dimensional.com)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 23:10:05 GMT
At 05:34 PM 11/29/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Anyone else noticed that Ring Lardner recently passed
>away. I've seen two small blurbs on him in TIME
>magazine (one being an obituary). It said he was one
>of the black-listed screenwriters during the whole red
>scare thing.
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)
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