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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Mar 1934, p. 46

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STATIONEty, 072M Omngdten Av@.. Omnol. nHalai i, SPECIAL 1m2 Specia Disp lay of. PRESCHO.OL Chandiers Fouwtain Square Evansfon M Thistere tae o a "ub"Mr. Clark gives the traveler every ganstereautetfor"cb who runs bit of information tbat he will need a gagste gautletforbis paper fdr bis tour of glorious Switzerland. bears the stamp of a genuine cjiarac- Prices of pensions, meals, railroad terization. It is listed both as juven- and boat tickets, as well as clear and ile literature and as seven-day fiction definite information about routes are for adult reading., ail given. Anyone who is making a trip "Young -Phililips" has disarming tbrough the Alps such as. Mr. Clark qualities of native pluck. and quiet writes àabout,. certainly wouild find >perseverance. Froin a tail-end posi;- this book. of inestimable- value.- So tion of.almost boring calm as.junior many guide books give a. great deal reporter on alag metropolitan daily, of information that is not practical, which supports b im. and hi s mother but 'Mr. Clark cornes right.,down to, h e finds himsielf-ià a vortex of, action,. "brass tacks" and shows you Plainl.y waging press 'war on boodlum ai-- how, Switzerland can 'be -"done" on, liance witb Big Politics. fifty dollars. In, no. way, however, is ýhe so ex One particularly helpful, chapter is citingly put. to the test as in personal that devoted to the Swiss General dedios f lyatytowards bis Abonnement, which is a season ticket editors on The> Press. Confidence valid for unliited travel on ail the and friendliness are. not waniting inlieofteSssedrlstmad the bard newspaper game. Both corne on the leading private Uines. The, sea- evntalyt Pilis son may *be entirely according to Thé worst fears of "his niother one's time andpurse. inaeriliz asa bessng n dsguse. Other interesting and helpful chap- A vin f ionial umo, abled f te rs are -on Geneva, the Rhone gla- mancecier, Berne, and casties in. Liéchten- romnce ad acoorfl prtaitofstemn, The book is written ini a lively s early city mornings' complet-e a real- manner and will be easy to reads istic story wbich reads like biography. and. clearly understood.-V. McD. f The jacket and fine black and white _______ drawings more. than hint at gangster SULGRAVE MANOR AND THE ' warfare within! WASHINGTONS: A History ands Henry Justin S ith, whb is: a Glen- Guide to the 1'udor *Hom f coe man, is managing editor of thel George Washington's Ancestors. Chicago Daily News. Mfacmillan. By H. Clifford Smith, F. S. A., with a Foreword by V"is-< Irma DuPre WiII Give count Lee of Fareham.p Book TalksinE aso Sulgrave Manior was the early Eng- e Subscriptions are ino Evanston ishi home of the ancestors of George ti ceied y Mss rni no beng e-Washington. Lawrence Washington, Iî ceied y Mss rmaFrances DuPre, f rom wborn George Washington was Evanston book reviewer and lec- svnhi ietdset ul h turer, for ber series of spring after- present house in 1539, and ii noonboo taks. hes wi lgven. des;cendants continued to *ive there at the Delta Zeta House, 717 Univer-lrthnet20easPucsdii sity place, Wednesday after noons at January, 1914, by the Commnittee for n 2:30, during March, April and May. th e Celebration of the Hundred j C 'Sensational Emergencies - Gertrude Vea rs' Peace between- Great Britain ji Stein and James Joyce" will be the adteUie tts ti o tite o Mis D.Pe'sbooc tlk flministered by. the Sulgrave Manor jas Wednesday,- March 21, and at , tatBordas. a public sbrine of Anglo- Pu tume she wiI comment on 1 Te'. eianfindhp Autobiograpby of, Alice B. Toklas," * 'Three Lives," and "Ulysses.", This is the' first comprehensive ar ______________ ifully illustrated book on Sulgrave by Manor. It tells of the most recent ' NEW BOOKS ýdiscoveries concerning the history of Pè ART IN4 AMERICA~. Froni Colonial! the building, the village, and the, ce Time to he P~sen Day Byorigiins of the Washingtoni family. Suzn7ne Lfolete-Clit:ar.,Irl -C 4- . - bas just. been put .onl in London. It deals with theatrical matters at the opening of the seventeenth century, and the great Shakespeare bas a "bit" in it! Richard Burbage, wbo inherite >d bis fatber's sbare in Black- friais theatre and an initerest in the Globe theatre, and acted as a boy ini the theatre inà Sboreditcb, is one of. the, cbief characters, iniMr. Williamns' opus. This Burbage rose to be, an actor of chief parts in, plays by Shakespeare, Ben. Jonson, and fleaumont and Fletcher.' He was: con-, s.idered a fine tragedian. Then, ini Mr. Williams' play there is, the.excellent. idea of Ann',Byrd who runs away. from home and. becomes a, boy-player .for Burbage,,(in,.the, days wben boys took women's parts on. the stage) witbout -his susp ecting bier sex. She falîs. in love witb bim, but ev.entuailv goes back to Essex and marriage. They say the backstage life ô.f.thie Burbage company . is deli-glitfullv done..And it is theclown of Shake-. .speare's company, Will Keinle-thie sanie who danced a nine-days' niorriS f rom London to. Norwich - and Salathiel' Pavy, the. boy act-or -,o Leautiiutlvlamented by Ben. jon- soni." who incite Ati to run off to .London... Altogethier (althougli. if it ivere produced here uinder its present title, the, populace. %vould leem it a play ceflte ring upon a tele-. phone number) 'I cao imagine mutcli entertainment in Mr. WiIIiarnsý; crca-, tion. John Gielgud, that other finc. English actor, has produced it. Compiles Questionnaire of Favorite Modern Books Miss Louise Lackner of the Çhes t Lut Court Book shop, \V nnetLki, i oQmpiling a sunmniarv of ýthe .vor- te books o ot shore residen.tý. She has sent out a questionnaire, isking five favorite moder n ovels. ublishedý silice about 1930, and five, ývorite tiovels of aIl tixue. The. listi me to be returned to Miss Lackner )y March 24. and from them she will nâake a g-enemal list of the most )opular. Those who have not me- ýived Mýi,-s Lackner's questionnaire Imav f onle out in ber sbop. BY EVANSTONIAN ltsLater Than You Thinik," by Il iFEYfS -given by one of America's outstand- ing economic experts, Dr. 0. M. W. Sprague. The same publisbing com- pany is also about to issue a simple explanation of money, its relation te prices and prosperi'ty, written by Vic- tor: S. Clark. The title of, the book will be, "Wýhat Is Money?" 3-- TYPEWRITERS REPAIRED RENTED » 1,C)li AND CO-OP GRE. 17 2 û 0rrington A -e.

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