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30 W I L ME T T E L,l F E January 14, 1927 DID YOU KNOW- FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Rogers Park 1122 Wifmette 3 700 That Sherwood Andcrsou has writtm a rem.arkablc mtd Hnique book, which he calls "A New Testament fn That Zona Care was seven years old when she n·role her first 11ovel '! That Eugene O'Ncif('s great play uMarco's 111illions" will be out this spring, which ·will br ~"; first tiu1 c that a play of O'N etll s lzas r1·rr heen published before stage presentation! That the International fttry of A ·wards of the Sesqui-Ccnfemtial Ex~osition has awarded the A1.neriran L'11itarian Association a gold medal in rccn,qnitio11 of tile hi.qh qualitv of its r.rlzibit of literature, f'ostcJ:s, hool~s a11d picfltrn in the Palatr nf flduration '! Americana 1926 H. L. Mencken Alfred A. Knopf Caravans and Cannibals Mary Hastings Bradley Appleton S5.oo !11.\lllQ! IT)) lt...llllo ~lL~.Jl ..,lll!..,(QJ Fiction IN>."""""" TQ) I§)I?'OrruiiDltllw J/ Walks and Climbs In the White Mountains Karl Pomeroy Harrington Yale University Press $2.50 "L'ncler the Tonto Rim"-Zane Grey A glorious tale, st.rong with the scent of the pines and the vigor of the vast solitudes. "Vivid Vi\·ian"-H. L. Gates ·( By the author of "Joanna.") ~feet her sister flapper, more to be petted than to he scorned. "Tom orrow ~fornin g "-Annc Parri sh An epic novel of a woman's life-a ~torv of hope and of a mother' s im peri~hable love fo ~ her so n. Plutocrat Booth Tarkington Doubleday Pa~e ~ Co. $2. oo The Joyous Conspirator George Gibbs J. H. Sears ~ Co .. Inc. $2.00 This Day's Madness The Author of Miss Tiverton Goes Out. Bobbs . Merrill ~ Co. Go She Must David Garnett Alfred A. Knopf The Best Short Stories of 1926 Edited by Edward J. O'Brien Dodd, Mead · ~ Co. "A \\'oman in Exilc"- H. A. Vaclwll :\ hu stling hu -;iness man from Cali · sta11d:-:. " ·ith the ~battered fragmen t New Books iornia mar ries a high hrecl En.c:li:-h I ni h<' r Jiic about her, yet tltt· l'XCt· lk tll'l ' l't 111 tvtllpt 1ra r_,. Yc rsc ~· irl and tab·s her \Vc :;t. ' of the crait"man"hip makt':-- p n--. ild~· ;1 .\ ikctl - l' harna l Rose . !J!I\\{':-flll tf'fl'Ct. .-\ u-.landn-C~·clop '_.:; Eye "Bmnin ~ \\ 'it ches " . "Y t~ un g \\' oo< ll c·,··· 011 till' <,t]Jvr h;llid . . - \ ra ric de 1{ lllt~l h·o l"arlllan ---:\p ril .-\ir :-; , i~ th\.· ~;· rt <,j p];;,. \\ l1 ir !J ph"" llllll-;1 l'nnklin~- I'ocm- o i a Li ttle \.irl :\ \\·;mllh- rolfl riul. modern nnn·I. IH'ttvr t lJ;I JJ it n·;l(k It h<I n't. in <ill J,·;· !Hlrt raying· a woman's hea rt and . 1 l1 1 Cran l'-) :tnitt~:·'., Bny \\nrc!-. tilt· litnary c·-xcl'll t·nn· th1111.l!:1 l'ulkn -L' o!r1r nn in con Aict. : it has l!,'nod dramatir quali :it·-. 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Cvor . t.:t· Kaufman' s a 111 11 '111 g Stl'll a Hcn :-;rl ll, · h;l\·i .ng- llla!·ril'd a n "Buttn and Lgg .\Lu1. " ;,nd \!; ,··,· . : Tri shman \\·lw hold s a po:-;itic1 11 in th l' C'nnnvlh·\ "T hl' \\'i,cJ<,m T o<>t 11." .\ 1-<1 'l'w tl JH'\\. hook s that hare Ju st been Brit i., It Cthtnnh !:'en· ice in Chin ;I, nm o le( irivnd "The Crt·<·tJ I L1t." l1t added t() the snie . of Studies in Adult 1 n;1kv- hn il(l tlll; in ~fanchttria. J In : whirl1 \\·c han· the laugh r'n ~l' " Y·· ·: k Educati o n, publi:;lwcl by ~lacmill:tn lak-,t no\·l·l. "G ood-bye, Stranger," ha:-- j h:l\·ing had it fir -;t. company, are "The Unin' rsity Afield." a (._'J 1ine:--l· bark~Tnun ~l. and its opening : :\lt ogethtr ~fr. ).f atlt k' -; 1Jr'r'k i." 1){,·:1 b~· A. L J laii-Quc~t. and "C or re sJH 111- :--ccnv. i11 which lhky, the .-\mcrican · cntert;tillin,~ and inq ru rt iH·. a r ai·<· :1n d (knee Schook Lvreum~. Chautauqua :-;," girl. l' ntert'ain ~ t \\'n ~er i nth Chinese i beautiful coJnhiJJatinn. by John :-;, ::\\)fj·~·ingcr, · ~l·ntkmen at tea. is full of humor. .'\t I C J Benjamin Franklin's birthday is the 17th of J a~lUary. He was one of th~ (Q) first "poor boys who became famou~ in Am e r i c an life and letters. Hts axioms for developing business a~d "'I'l l E nEST PLAys OF 1!"125-26"-Burns accumulating wealth arc as c~r~ent 111 ::\Tanth·. this dav as in his. By a:;soCJatJOn h_e Anyone with sufficient .temerity to has become the patron . aint of bust- hope to follow the workmgs o~ the ness men. . drama from the backwoods of Ch1cago Books About Benjamin Franklin and its environs could not do bett~r Franklin-Autobiograph~than to clasp tb himself Burns Mantles Morse-Benjamin Franklin . collectinn of the ten be st plays of the O'Higgins-American :\-{in~l in Actio.n Kcw York season. The play s arc wc1! Russell-Benjamin Frankltn, the Ftrst chosen, tht'rc is no quc :-; tion of that Civilized American from iormer cxprrience with ~~ r. ).f a1~Sherman-Amcrican s tic's critical ability. and the ho~~ ~~ , For Business Men I prefaced _hy short. s m~.1111ary o_ f Th~ Sociolo~y Seas on 111 l\ cw '\ ork follo\\ ed h~ Beach-Introduction to Sociology r shorter ones by other C?ntri~>utor s (lf Ro:-;s-Social T re nd . that in Chicago and Caltforn1a. 1 Economics As Mr. 0. I.. Hall in hi :- summary Au stin-Secret rd. · High \\'ages of the Chicagn st~t-.on :;ay .._ , ".:\ow we Pound-Iron ~len in fndustry are hut a market fm: not a 111anufacSmith-Korth America turer oi, the shining crack s nf th<' 1 playhouse." \Vhi ch only g oes tn rt' D1cmcr--Factory a naf(cmcn t . Iin rorcc 111 y stat<" m c n t that \\T nc<"d Gcm·in- Devel oplncnt rd F.xecut1n! some such guide to \\'hat is really wh;~t Ability . . in tht theater. For example, thert J<. Kimball-Principle s oi Industnal Or - a Pulitzer prize play, "Craig's \Viie." ganization which did not fi ncl it s wa~' to Chicago. Scott- Personnel ~fan~tg_elllen.t and vet which was :-.urrl_\· c,ne of thcTcad-Pcrso nnel Adm1nt s trat1 on most - intere st ing plays of the year. If ~faking Goo d. in. Business . one would judge the actual \n·i~ht and Conant-P:m~rple s o_f ~ank1~1g w ort h o i a play's dial og ue let hm1 read Fisher-Pnnnple~ ol J\.cal 1·, stat c it. "Craig's \Yifc" \Yl1ich on the stag<: Practice . \\'a s a gripping production, stand s 0ut H o ld s ,rorth-~f o.ncy and Hank1ng a s one of the hr . t in point of litcrar:· Kester-Account111g craftsman . hip. Th e dialngu e i-. n: Kildu!'f- Pri,·atc Secret;~r~- . trcmch· pertinent, the climax oi the PuritJ~lnn -P\: r:o;o nal T ·. ffi cle tl ~- 111 play i:-;. built up from the fir s.t \rorcl s 0f Busmes s . the opening. \Vhile no \\Titten \ron! Scon:l- Co. t Accountmg . . can · give the full effL·ct of that :-!11\\' l~· Starch- Principle:-; of Ac!Hrt~:-.1 ng J, , ,\·c ~ing c urt;-~in \\'hile Craig\ \\' l i~· ~<eWll<eW\1$ (Q)f IB5 «» llK ~ I. I J· a. ~fa1;agemcnt ~I · < The Best Plays of 19251926 Burns Mantle Dodd, Mead ~ Co. $3.00 Lord's-First Floor Ju1t Imide the West Davis Street Door. e c n d D a k y ·s E n g Ii::, h h 11 s b a n d .. . . , · , , . .. , , . . T . . · · The "Orphan Angel." by Elinor \\\- i h I aga111 . . f rom a f a1ry c IJangl':-- I>ac' to a (I J·.<) 1,(I 1·· 1 - ;:--. 1],Ill( As 1II ·. . lie has been chosen as the book for COilllllnn 111<111. and the whole book ha:-; Georgl' TV having labored clunng rt!l Dcct.·mhcr hv the se lecting committee an ekl11cnt or iantaw \rhich temper:-; these years ttlldcr the distinction oi of the Book ·of the 1fonth club. the keenness of its s~tirc. having been one of the worst if no. the wor:-;t Prince of Histon·, ha. of course attracted numberless .biographers. 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