Mild Oats

[solid copy, minor shelfwear, tiny stain on top edge of text block; jacket has shallow chipping along top edge and at base of spine, spine heavily soiled, front and rear panels a little less so]. Light-hearted Booth Tarkingtonesque novel about a teenage Everygirl, one Jane Jones, who we meet "in the throes of adolescence" and subsequently "struggle through [her] great crushes [and] follow her ambitions to become alternately a poet, a peeress, and an actress." Ryerson (1892-1965) came to the movies in the mid-1920s, after having already established herself as a journalist and writer of short fiction; she often wrote in collaboration with Clements, her second husband, to whom she was married from 1927 until his death in 1948. They co-authored numerous plays (including three that made it to Broadway in the 1940s) and several mystery novels, and Ryerson herself had quite a decent string of movie credits, including as one of the three credited screenwriters on THE WIZARD OF OZ. This was actually the second novel the duo had written about young Jane and her best pal C, following "This Awful Age," published in 1930. A proposed film version of "Mild Oats" was rumored in early 1934, and although it never came to pass, the earlier book did finally make it to the screen in 1941 (as HER FIRST BEAU), but not without having first been repurposed as a stage play called "June Mad."

Product Info

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company

Year: 1933

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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