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J8 WILMETTE LIFE June 1, 1928 . fOVNrAIN .JIVARr. · DIANtJON ----~-. ......~~~ . Esther Gould's Book Corner II ~--------.: JUST PARAGRAPHS which causes you to come at five o'clock and take a rain-check so you can go out and get some dinner. New York and as much of the itinerant population as could get there has stood eagerly before the box office and waited as docilely as if it were Charlie Chaplin they were going to see. This means first that Eugene 0'Neill is the fashion and secondarily that Mr. O'Neill is our only great playwright and he has in this play done a tremendous thing. It has the length and scope of a novel, and it does what no play has ever done before in just this way, it gives the thoughts as well as the words of the characters. It is a play of such complexity that even those who intend to see it would do well to read it first, and those who do not, and do not ordinarily like to read "just a play," will find in it the ordinary depth and breadth of a novel. The "Strange Interlude" of the title is life itself, the way it appears to the main character, Nina. After the stress of love and life are over she feels that it has all been only an interlude, a period of storm between the dreaming of happiness of her youth and the rest from iife which comes with age. She says to the man who has always loved her, and who has been waiting for this time. "I want to go back to my father's house where I dreamed of happiness in mv youth before I fell in love with Gordon Shaw; and all this tangled mess of love and hate and pain and birth began." It has the quality which is in all O'Neill's plays, a haunting sense of tragedy, the imQOSsihility of finding what we expect in this world. Book Notes ;_____ ·BOOKS T elepbone for them if you like: VniYeraity lOU Wilmette 3701 Roaera Park 1122 Octavia · Margot A1quith The story of a younger daughttr and of the three strangely difftrent men who are conctrntd with htr destiny. Stokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.5 o' The Fall of the Russian Empire Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., Ph. D. TIM story of the last of the Romanovs and the coming of the Bolshtviki, written by a studen~ who knows his subject. J-ittlt, Brown ·~ Co ·.·.·. $3.50 The Gobbler of God Percy MacKtnJt A story poem of Kentucky legend, the Gobbler of God works the_ idiom of mountain speech into a cadence of strength and btauty. Longmans, Grun Co. . . . S2.oo a Soldier of the South War Letters of General George E. Pickett to His Wife Edited by Arthur Crew Inman Houghton Mitllin .......· $2..50 The Road to Buenos Aires Albert Londre1 Translated by Eric Sutton M01cmillan Company ..... $2.50 Tennis Helen Will· Simple and direct presentation of the principles of tennis by one of the greatest women players of the world. Scribner .......·....... $:2.5 o Embattled Borders E. Alexandtr Powell Hue is a clear and well-informed exposition of the enormously comwex conflict of national interests which is keeping Europe in a state of continuops tension. The Century Company .... S·J -50 Rum, Romance and Rebellion Charlt1 William T auuig Quite as pungent as its title: Minton Balch and Co . . . · . S.f.OO The Intelligent Wo~an' s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism &rnard Shaw "By this book I shall get at Amtrican men through American women. In Amfrica every male citizen is supposed to understand politics and economics and finance. He is ashamed to expost the depths of his iaaonnce--but he bas no objection to my talking to his wife and if be should chance to Soon to be published is Arthur . Stringer's new novel, "The Wolf \Voman," a story of a Canadian girl, The second book by the aged adventhree-quarters wolf and one-quarter turer, Alfred Aloysius Horn, has been woman, who comes to New York prechosen as the new book by the Literary Guild. As Trader Horn . was the pared to tame it. Guild's own discovery we don't know "De Chinesche Papegaai:' has just whether this is a feeling of loyalty or been published in Amsterdam. What l whether the new book, a novel, "HarYou've never heard of it? Well, transold the Webbed or the Young Viklated into American it means "The ings," will prove to be as widely fasChinese Parrot," and was written by cinating as his first volume. The trade Earl Derr Biggers. Biggers' new edition of the book will be published Charlie Chan novel, "Behind that on June 8. Curtain," has just been published and Ellen Glasgow in a very interesting is being rea~ avidly by the Charlie article on the novel turns her brilliant Chan fans whose name is legion. Charmind and slightly caustic tongue to a lie Chan is the delightful Chinese decomparison of the American and Rustective who solved the mysteries in sian manner. She makes a new and three Biggers' books-"The House well put criticism of the former, that Without a Key," "The Chinese Parrot" we are afraid to treat of things of and "Behind That Curtain." the spirit or "soul" as the Russians Judge Marcus Kavanagh, whose have it, that "Nothwithstanding our in"The Criminal and His Allies," book, ordinate zeal for improving and reis being widely read and discussed, forming the body, we continue to treat maintains that in no country except the soul as an impoverished female reAmerica is the law held in contempt. lation who i~ welcome only so long as "One day, a year or so ago," writes the she makes herself useful about the judge, "during a quarrel between a house. With the soul that loafs or bookmaker and a horse-owner at the star-gazes or is slow to lend a hand Windsor race-track the gambler swung in our legitimate business of making his hand to a revolver in his hipover the world we have as little papocket. 'For God's sake, Jim, don't tience as if it were both in fact and shoot!' cried a friend. 'Remember you in theological fiction our deceased are in Canada.' Jim didn't shoot." wife's sister." John Erskine has just returned from ··sTRANGE INTERLUDE" a three-months' lecture tour all over the United States. He was amazingly successful, and · tremendously popuBu Euaene O'Neill lar, having been widely heralded by his Bon~ & Liveria:bt three novels, The Private Life of Helen of Troy," "Galahad," and "Adam The country has been ringing with and Eve." Professor Erskine is now excitement over the Eugene O'Neill working on his new- book, a modern play "Strange Interlude." The play score which will endeavor to portray the American scene as he found it A POT -BOILER on his lectur_e tour. "ASHENDEN OR THE .BRITISH The only element ever to have been AGENT" discovered by an American chemist is illinium, found by Professor Hopkins By Somerset Mausrham of the University of Illinois. 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