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10 \VILMETTE L a picture that bristles with big scenKe~. Such historical charcters . as It Carson, Jim Bridgc;r and Btll Jac~ son scouts and typical western chat:J. ct~rs, are portrayed in the Paraf!10Uf!! screen version of the no\·el, whtch I.> conceded to be one of th e most not able literary achievements of the present decade. today carrying tow ropes was more popul~r. This practice. has almost ceased. and yet the Ch1cago Motor club answered some 22,471 calls for help la~t year-so cars do stall even today , <J nd tow ropes would help the stranded motorist." ..JULIE CANE" Through the partnership fir " part of with the book manv and ~clude~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cane's naive his are among ot-hers, the varied start ofand 350 covered daughter again st the world is the wagon s from Westport Landing (now chief interest. "You can 't fight these Kansas City ), in 1848. The terrors of people. See? You got to live with fording fre shet rivers. prairie fires and ·em. an' if you once start them pick- the like are depicted with great realing on you. they'll tear you to pieces. ism. A buffalo hunt is one of the . . . 0' course they're a lot of mutton- ,., ,.,_ t exciting scenes. Old Fort heads. an' we can run rings around Lrulger with a night attack and fi_ght ·em. you an' me." by day with Indians . are shown. The After Julie start s to school we have dividing of the trails to Oregon and less of this partnership and more of California at old Fort Hall, a touch her contact with other characters who of the gold fe,·er in California, magare less real. And when at last it nificent mountain shots and a culminais necessary for the plot that Cane tion of the rvmancc: -with the estah!]lUSt die it is as if the author thought ~ishment of one of the first _ho?testeads Well, the realest part is over, we m Oregon- these are all mctdents in might as well hurry this along." So one phantom torments Julie, another By GA:\£ALIEL BRADFORD PPY are the children in those weeps for her. another grasps her Author of "Damaged Souls" hand and marries her. And in the B .\.RE SOL"LS homes where the sandman is a min"Because of the superb nature end we are told in one terse sentence 8 strel too. A minstrel who carries that julie was successful in the life g~e:tli~nmai~~-lal B~~~ to~~·sbe~be~~ of a rich New Yorker on which she book ." Boston Transcript. them into dreamland on the soft C:'ntered. "For, whatever else you may HARPER A BROTHERS think of her, she has certainly been Publiahera wings of melody. The strong wings of charsuccessful- a s conspicuously success- ~;;;;;;;;;;;;:;:;:;:;:;:;;;;;;;;;;;:;~ ful as Niagara Falls." Remarkable r acter-enriching song and musical story. simile I We vag uely wonder whether Make B-klt·Tf·s a Pleao·re Julie's s uccess came in tumbling over And when they are safely tucked away, mother -atprecipices, or perhal)s makins abr·d deO wheat biscuits. can sink back in her chair and enjoy musical In anv case Julie was successful, gems by Paderewski, Hofmann and hundreds B-kwllen to t·e World and we know, whether the author tells :us Se. Waltao· Ave.. c·leaso us so or not, that it was because her of other famous pianists. They will play for father tauvht her that she could bel~====;;============~ her as truly as if they were actualJy seated at m a~ ter of her fate. This is the true I' reality in the book, the relationship of the keyboard ofSAILS OF SUNSET Julie and her father and the little · town-the rest somehow slips into a B~ CECIL ROBERTS less vital world. By HarYey O'Hirria·, Harper A Bro·. Emer o n said " 'Tis the trick of na ilure thus to despise toda y . . . . Eve r y roof is agreeable to the eye unt il it is lift ed. then we find tragedy and moan ing women and hard eyed hu she nds and deluges of lethe, and the · me-n ask 'What 's the news?' a s if th e o ld were so had." This tri ck of nature has been strong in our day, es pecially in the class of ··Main Street" fi ction . Th e relief in .. Julie Can e" is thi s, that the charact t> r mos t firmly caught in the tragedy of th e small town , is able to " lift his own roof" and soar aw"y. Juli e Cane's fath er the grocer, jeeringl y called "Sugar Cane' by th e chil drt-n, rather fell into eve rything in h is life, including the groce ry busiA ma gni fi ce nt epic of the ~arly ness and heing Jul ie 's father. Th e wes t is James Cruze's latest Parala tter fa ct he neve r r egretted. the moun t production, "The Covered fo rmer he escaped from in a sort of Wagon." wh ic h will be the feature fanta stic scienti fic int erest in which at Community House for three U4Y S eternal space wa s poised at th e end of starting Thursday, December 4. th e village !S treet. and he was a suThi is a picturization of Emerson perior heing treading above the world. Hough's new novel of the same natne. having in h is mind extraordinary pow- and it is said to be one of the grcaters which he would at some time call est photoplays ever seen on the screen. forth . The feature s embraced in this stor}' tak would be firing roma n cand les at feeble old Jumpinjak." And th ere are more. oh many more. .. A Loose Lad r .. by . C al~a Wi~~er; "Stummox" by Fann 1e \\ urs t : ~or the ' first time in si xte en rears, Ka trinka slept in a bed. Once. Th en bed collapsed. After that , on the floor . as usual." But the n we can 't quote them all. "Th e \\'o man of Knockemout " b\· Call Hai n, and "A Cure of Soups," by Miss ~c la i r. a~d th e rest. . He re is a parod1 st who ts not only a shrewed criti c. but mor e th a n that , a real humori st. -------- COVERED WAGON FILM ON WAY TO WINNETKA H . E. Ringholm, of the Otis Ele vater company, has purcha~ed the Still Pays to Carry Henry Brewer residence at S1xteenth Tow Rope, C. M. C. Says and Lake avenue, according to George C. Kroll of the firm of Heinsen and "Perhaps not one motori st in one Kroll, Wilmette realty dealers who hundred carrie s a tow rope" . says a were the brokers. bulletin iss ued by the mech.amcal first aid department of tHe Chtcago Motor club, "ye t carry in g thi s useful article would frequentl y save a man a lot of · time, trouble and money. If you have a tow rope handy m?st any motorist will 'hook on' and gtve you a lift. 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