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Photoplay Studies
Volume VI
Why does Willie borrow money from his friends?
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What are the consequences?
Willie's hitherto untouched heart does a flutter when he first sees Lola, and goes into a complete tailspin when he keeps a blind date with her a few days later. This girl is everything: she dresses like someone a person sees in the movies ; she gives forth the latest wise-crack as if she'd just made it up ; she can speak volumes with just a wink of the eye, and knows how to handle men !
His love for the siren-like Lola turns Willie from a boy into a man over night, and he determines to make the world realize he's seventeen. He refuses to wear the checked trousers that a week ago were his pride and joy. He secretly arranges to buy a new flivver on what is inaccurately known as the "Easy Payment Plan." He goes through petty bankruptcy and is forced to work desperately at his first job. Suddenly becomes a man of the world, he even accompanies Lola to an Indianapolis night club. Love is wonderful, and the only drawbacks are the parents who refuse to recognize the change that has come over him,
the kid sister who insists on butting into his love affair, and the dapper young collegian, George Crooper, who gives him stiff competition for the affections of Lola.
The romantic competition between Willie and George reaches its climax in a haze of fluttering feminine eyelashes at a countryclub dance, at which Lola is to declare her preference. But in spite of the heated battle waged for her favor, the vivacious lady remains strangely unimpressed and speaks darkly of a mysterious midnight date and a young man named Jack. When Jack arrives at twelve, the horrible truth comes out. He is the boy with whom Lola had eloped to get married a few months before and from whom her parents had tried to separate her !
As the seventeen-year-old lady with a past drives off with her husband, Willie and George declare their war over — half crushed by their romantic defeat and half glad that they now know all about women — and life — at seventeen!
Is Lola likable? Does she resemble the girl in the book? Explain the changes.
PROJECTS IN CREATIVE COMPOSITION
1. Write an original dialogue in which a girl in her teens asks her mother for a new dress.
2. Write an original dialogue in which two girls are airing their views about the opposite sex.
QUESTIONS FOR ENGLISH CLASSES
1. Does the picture show that Tarkington understood young people? Give reasons for your opinion.
2. What incident or character