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FRilJA Y, NOVEMBER 21, 1924 large business TWENTY YEARS AGO " edt1esday featuring Anna Q. Nilsson .,T Twenty years ago the Be 11 T t~ 1e- hotels . and Stuart Holmes. phone System, with mu'ch t.~eptdaA tim :d young man who, on his first tion tried out one of the new horseadl·enture in the world of men, enco~nt- less, carria,..es.' Now the motor fleet 1 ·;tr of the Bell System comprises more crs tragedy, love, hate, venge.tuce, t' than 9,000 cars and trucks. and ne .v and courage beyond his wildest drea~s. tires have to be purcuased ~n . the That's Charles Ray in "Dyt~amlte average of one for every three S 1 'th" which wtll be the attractiOn. at minutes. H~ward theater, matinee and evenmg of Th:mksgiving. Jacqueline Lo~an :md Telephone companies in the United Wallace Beery are in the supJ?Ortmg ca.st. States employ 190.000 telephone oper"Manhattan," Richard D1x s first .PIC- ators. In addition, thousands of tele- sc reen of palm trees leaning :.gainst the THE COMPLETE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE sky's base with lanky nostalgic arms; arrived at his house that reached <·ul a· Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. him suddenly from tl)e tangle oi the hcctic.encroaching bazaars. opened tht: ~oratl! tale ture of as a head of his own company, IS a wealthy young New Yorker who Time is a wondrous thing. . One ·as morning was beginning to boom <HI is left millions and finds the t~as, da.nj dies. There is a flash, a flurry, and the horizon with a golden, stan"~~~~ sants and routine calls of hiS socta a great quietness in which time be- wedge-like gesture." "N o-;talgt:, set dull. He hies into .the center of gins to do its work . Then in a few years men find them- "stabbed," "livid," "hectic." are good gangland and gets into mtxups th~t ~n selves looking directly at the depart- in their place, but like sharp tools they ally end with the New Yor:.\!r "'.~mung the sister of one of the gang. Maned man's accomplishment whatever it should be handled carefully. The plot, intersperse~ with pa.rag~aphs hattan" will be shown at the Howud may be. As on hazy days one finds oneself looking directly at the sun. of curses on each others heads, IS shgh~; Friday and Saturday. The haze does not obscure the sun, it a proud though starving Shareef, . h1s is the rays, the light, which blind one's losing fight with life, his beauttful By EMANIE N. SACHS eyes which are obscured. So it is with daughter who leaves him to marry ~ holy TALK the personality, the colour, the life of man, "desert rat" as his father-tot ·law "You wlll be cheating yourthe artist who dies-time obscures all picturesquely styles him. selt of some great r4'ading If that, his work remains. you rnlss 'Talk'" says John If the style were very. much better The rewakened and constantly grow- we would call this a work of art, if the V A. Weaver . HARPER A: BROTHERS ing interest in Oscar Wilde's works story were very much stronger we wuuld Publiahera is proven by the increasing number call it a good novel. of new editions which we find . The latest complete edition which the Cos-~ mopolitan Book Corporation has rr1.. brought out contains in addition the t ~ne 0 ore 6 A Nation· Wide Beat Seller only thing which their other editions By the Author of The wood Carver of 'Lymp:ts have not contained, the "De Pro- ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - fundis." This five volu11Je set of Wilde, DEEP IN THE HEARTS OF HOWARD exquisitely clothed in lavendar limp MEN Agnes Ayres comes to the Howard leather, is an ideal gift set-if you can By Mary E. Waller theater Sunday in "Wordly Gqods," the t>art with it I The Chicago Daily News calls There are the "Plays of Wilde" screen version of Sophie Kerr's story. it "One of the most interesting Pat O'Malley, Victor Varconi ~nd those brilliant flashing things for things Miss Waller has ever which he is perhaps best known. Edythe Chapman head the supportmg written." "Lady Windermere's Fan" with its cast. The production is a modern matNinth Large Printing acrobatic words, "Salome" with its rimonial farce. An automobile sales$2.00 at all Booksellers man sells himself to the girl he loves on menacing poetry. Boaton, Little Brown A: Co., "The Novels and Fairy Tales," the "talk" and through luck his "sales talk" Publiahera best known of them the brilliant "Pic- comes true. ture of Dorian Gray," the pitiful Vanna Du Maurier, a great actress "Birthday of the Infanta." whose wishes have never been balked. is "The Poems of Oscar Wilde" the determined that her advancin:~ age shall rather formal early ones oversha- not interfere with her lifelong ambition dowed by the great sincerity of "The to own her own theater and continue in Ballad of Reading Gaol" and that pursuit of her art. So she regains her ~nnet which is so like a sigh. lnst youth by a delicate operation in Vi"He las." enna, and under what cost can he se;!n "The Essays of Oscar Wildl·" with :n "Vanity's Price," which will be at the their caustic comment on hooks and Howard theater Monday. Tuesday and authors, dress reform and dishes. by "The Prose of Ocar Wilde" with its satire and paradox. There is a ruthless tearing aside There is a satisfaction in havingof the veils from human life in the complete works of an author. It this "The L"ncertain Feast." by is indeed having "the last word." The great American Solita 'Solan. Newspaper man, successful, envied by his o~ novel of the year-and "Shackled" of that class which i:. lnng 1 companions, finds his marriage short stories or short long stories, is a . and indeed his life, an "uncertain its setting is Chicago tale of modern Algiers. Its chief claim feast." It is essentially an to fame is its style, which like its len~th. and her environa. Am~j;~~inJ},o~an~aniel Geer is.......,.~H-is in the_ borde.cland hf>tw&ltl' ..-.L ..& ad. lt a1m~te an atmosphere, an At bookstor '1 1 $Z. atmosphere which is inseparable from G. P. Putnamta Sons our idea of Algiers whether we are readin a "Round the World Cruise " postNew York City er or looking at the latest artist's conception of "Midnight in Algiers." 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