Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Sinclair Lewis

Author:Sinclair Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barnes&Noble

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She disliked “The Girl from Kankakee” even more than she had expected. It narrated the success of a farm-lassie in clearing her brother of a charge of forgery. She became secretary to a New York millionaire and social counselor to his wife; and after a well-conceived speech on the discomfort of having money, she married his son.

There was also a humorous office-boy.

Carol discerned that both Juanita Haydock and Ella Stowbody wanted the lead. She let Juanita have it. Juanita kissed her and in the exuberant manner of a new star presented to the executive committee her theory, “What we want in a play is humor and pep. There’s where American playwrights put it all over these darn old European glooms.”

As selected by Carol and confirmed by the committee, the persons of the play were:

John Grimm, a millionaire Guy Pollock

His wife Miss Vida Sherwin

His son Dr. Harvey Dillon

His business rival Raymond T. Wutherspoon

Friend of Mrs. Grimm Miss Ella Stowbody

The girl from Kankakee Mrs. Harold C. Haydock

Her brother Dr. Terence Gould

Her mother Mrs. David Dyer

Stenographer Miss Rita Simons

Office-boy Miss Myrtle Cass

Maid in the Grimms’ home Mrs. W. P Kennicott

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