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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jul 1935, p. 36

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by John Erskine........... $2.50ý CoRNISH of SCOTLAND YARD by G. . Cornish......'0 CATHERINE, the Portrit et au Empregs. by GiflaKaus ....... 1724 Orrington Ave., Gre. 0227 Evansfon Heurs: v Io â6 ls About iufii Time used as a pastime is some- thing new un der the suri. Ibisý book by. Gerald X~aufman, is a strikingly novel treatmfent of a mystifying and alluring subject. There are Time Picture.-Puzzles, Time Sentences and Time Sequences. It is a game book of exceptionally high standard. You will - ind it on, sale at Chaniders o-n Fountaiti Square, Evanistoni.-Adv. TYPFWMUTES Repared R.,nted Sold ~ 0.11.1 for and Dolivered IKWork Quaranteed the various manifestatious -of the present greatly changed and reborn Ainerican theater and drànra, witb side reflections on allied pbases of life and letters. The chapters include a confideutial and searicbing apprai sal of tbe pec- cadillos of crîticismas it is curreutly practiced, a survey of the reason be- hind tbe passing of. tbe theater that we- - have, previously *engaged, - an analysis of the, fictitiaus and - much- writtený-of giamour 'Of the theater of the so-called . "good ..aid davs," a Sharp and puucburiug scrubiny 'of the preten,sio.n s of' the present-day )Europeaui theater, and a divertiug, contemplation. of, the many pers istent but, utterly:,bollow critical Iegends concerued with the theater, bbe drama, and the mnî and w%,omeu who perform jin it.. There are also chapters dealingý with "Certain Writers for- the Thar-ndGrrd Stein,~" "Cri- Picture Censorsbip," "Producers and Productions," "Summer Tbeatres,"i "Tbe Personal Side of Eugene O'Neill," and "The Buncombe of Sex Appeal." The volume covers the living, breathing theaber of the mioment, flot the theater as we boa ofteu fiud it, a deacl, professionally undone thing, between book covers. Mr. ' atlian is I.times. -And not only of tuaI theater,] Ibut 'of its audiences-, critics, Play- wrg*s Iproducers, and - ife --gen- I. I. tu EagflW Wbum*h .1 Müd1 I-BRITISH JUBILEE STAMPS The scarcest issue -complete is the se'-,,n-value set from India-. We have it for ... ..... . o The moîr- neresing, te many people, is the shrée-value set froni Austr-ilia. Price...5c For Windsor Casti,- One of the most beautiful',booke from Cambridge- for some lime- is A Catalogue of iie Dra7vinýgS o1 Lcor'. ardo Da Vinci inz thé' Coillt-io;i of His ,Ia.iestv, the King. at tWindsr- Casi1l, by Keuîîeth Clark. in t\,,t) the- preceding year," was awarcied last Nveek to 'Monica Shannon for be-r "Dobry," a story of a peasant boy in Bulgaria. The a wa rd was mnade at a session -of the fifty-seventh annual coniference of the -American Library associa'tion,.1bv Elizabeth D. Briggs. of the Cleveland, Ohio, Public Li-_ brrWbo is chairman of the sec- tion for library work with children. Altbougb the prize-winrîing story gives- a colorful picture .of the Bal- kans, it-s autbor bas 'spen.t2al ber life in California., Sli'e grewv up on a 22,000-acre ranch in, the Bitter -Root. inountains. Before, moving ta ber present borne iii Sauta 'Monica slie livedý for seven years on a rem ote ranch in the Sierra Nevadas. This is the fourteenth year that the John, Newberry Medal' bas been awarded. It is the gift of Frederick G. Mélcber, ècitor ' of Publi sher's WVeekly. It is named for anl eight- eenîth century 'booksel-lèr and pub- lisher wbo is reputed ta be the first bookmian to appreciate the oppor- tunity of devoting special attention to the reading interes-Is of cbildren., Story of Hungary Sheila Fitzgerald gatbered tbe back- ground niaterial for ber first novel, Hungariani Rhapsodyv, Nwhen at the age of 21 she Nvent ta HuiigarN to teacb English ta the children of a famiily living riear Budapest. She did- not know a word of the languiage- and no. one with wbom sbie came ini contact could speak English. She stayed for a .year, living a strangely isolated existence. She said thé' children learlied a -little Englisb, but she biad ta give up the job at the end of a year because she could, noten- dure bavinig:no one ta talk té',ber in her own language. A.fter her, ex- perience: in Hüngary, M iss* Fitzgerald Went ta London, where she spent four years lu various positions. She li hasben ivinL with lber family in and 'revea-! tue uark snadows wnicn- cross his mind. . In this novel there is aIl the sensuality, the superstition, the- primitive fanaticism., carefreeness and easy bumor of, the black man. But there is morüe îbau tbàt. There is the, violence. that caunot.be'disas- sociated from. tbe illiterate- neg ra's charactier. Under a corner s treet lamp a negro dances alone'ini 'heer exuberance. He cares notîing for the stares of tbe curious wvhites. In an baur he.may bc slasbed ta death'-for claiming a dime in a, crap garne. - No trouble'is too. heavy ta bear. Sickliess, poverty are forgotten in dancing, in "shoutini' spirituals."ý or in Ioving. Don't Yoti JUccp, Doni't l'it Jl1oan lias noa ane settîing for its background and io one group of negroes for ils characters.. The sceiles are iu and arouud' Charleston -the Waterfront: "Sacred1 Grouhd" below l3road street wh2ere the aristoc- ratic aid families - live and maintain their negraes as they always bave, doue ,the city streets; the sea isiands wiîere the swNamps and plantations are.,- Av lay i-l Charleston one can see1 the people in this novel. Tbey are ou street corners, sioucbing or -str.ut- ting uip the street, leaning out of shantv windows. or living bebind tbe ligb waiis vhich suirround their white- folks' inansions and their owin yard the U audnIy, A.11s t' aperton roni Richimond. Lasses, the girl from the sea island ýývha blas' style, and Tater, ber arrogant young- lover. Richard- Coleman -,as barri in WVashington, D. C., îwenty-seveu years ago. In 1932 lie wvet ta Charles tpn were he stili ilves. New NovBist, Louisa Wilson, whose first novel, Broken Journey, %wrli be puhlished on july 24, is 29 vyears. old. She was M of tue tnrst editon oI vMark s szm tzs Npotcbook.- This book, brought out twenty-five years after the'author's d death,>-as a feature of the Mark jiTwain Centenniai celebration,- is scheduled for' publication on Oc- tober 3. possible trom the text-book method, Thre Robnso CruoesMr. Glover~ bas omitted batties, dates, Thr@ Rabnso Cruoesand constitutions and bas remember- Arctic S. 0. S. by joseph Velter,- a ed that the story o-f the ancient world story of the adventures of three men is the story of men and women. In marooned for a year iu a Ioneiy wire- Mr. Giover's, h;nds the happenings of less station deep in Siheria, will be 'twQ. thousand years ago appear, as publshe on uiy24.they were, romantic and thrilling.

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