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s BEauNI NN r-national Whotograph (Contest lu0AM0000E Yourcbld ne& to Win one of Priue-perso acier alon. vii tb.",p ettY i '0 328 Caà ty and char- e.judged for Novel contest. The book wluch won the $7,500 award was chosen by Sin- clair Lewis, Dorotby Canfield, and Louis Bromfield, who acted as the judges. *Publication of the book is scbeduled for:August 22.. -.Sinclair Lewis descéribes Hopaey, 1» theý Hor'» as "'full of raciness, of ad- venture, of color., It is one of those uncommon books tbat really express aland and 'an age--and, by, ex- Pressing them, really create, them." Louis Bromfield says: "Is bas a special gusto, flair and vitality," and Donotby Canfield reported Honcy ini the1 Horn interested me by hlaving to so high a degree its own flavor, its own atmosphene, its -own unbackney-. ed picturesqueness." Native of.Orego. H. L. Davis, whose finstý novelbas been awanded tbe seventb Harper Pnize, was born in Yoncalla, Douglas icounty, Oregon, on Octnbe 'r 18, 1896. His mother's family were early settlers and five generations of them still live there, having crossed the plains from Tennessee ini 1852. His father was a country schoolteacher, also a. Tennessean, whose family went West in the seventies to get oui of the devastation of the Civil war. Davis says: "Thé earliest years of my life were spent on a homestead ad- joining a village of bred-down mong- rel Indians who stole wbatever they could find loose and drank anything they could get down." ~aAt the age of nine he went to work as tpeseterand printer's devil for a country newspapen at Oakland, Oregon. When he was ten, be bended sheep on a mountain ranch near Elk- bead. 'His family nioved to a town in the Eastern Oregon sagebnush on the old freighting-line into the desent wben hewas e1een., and be sayso this. period: "I worked punching catie, drove. a derrick-team for a hay-crew,- hended she ep, and tied fleeces at shearing time, learned Spanisb fnom the Mexican sheep- shearers. and set type and printer's- VD>OJV10IOC> UOI JU £ IA~ S Iffl*C*I4 A volume, entitled North fo thc Orienit, will be illustrated by maps drawn by Colonel Lindbergh. The flight was made in the sum-, mer of 1931, over the great. circle route, by way -of Baker Lake, Point Barrow, Alaska, Siberia and .Japan, to China. The' narrative, accordin*t he publishers (Harcourt, Brace & Co.) deals. with the fligbt fromn the:stand- pointOf, Mrs. Lindbergh's own ob- servation.' It describes numerous encounters, friendly, or troublesome, and tells of Mrs. Lindbergh!s effor t to make herseif 'an accomplished radio operator. World Personaities Thomas A. Ediso.n said*llie."always wisbed he bad becomne a newspaper reporter." Ramsay MacDo nald's heart's de- sire is to write the life of John Knox. Tom Thufnb scandlized the Brit- ish Court by saying '"All righit, lady"ý to Queen Victoria. Stevenson and Hardy talk on writ- ing, in R. D. B.'s Procession. wbose author, R. D. Blumenfeld, bas been for thirty years editor of a great Londlon newspaper. Here are amusing and revealing glimpses of Americans fromi Barnum to Theodore Roosevelt' and Englishmen from Balfour to Tennyson, as well as Prince Bis- marck, Sara Bernhardt, Li Hung Chang and many other celebrities. Given Order of Merit John Masefield, Poet Laureate, lias now received from the King the addi- tional honor of the Order of Menit.. Order of Menit at one inie. Wben: oneholder dies, aniother- distinguisbed writer, scientist,,musician, statesmnan, or scholar, is appointed to receive the coveted bonor. Thomnas Hardy, and Robent Bridges wene so honored; Sir J. G. Frazer also writes O.M. after bis mâttée, fresh from the press toclay. In an éditorial in whicb she pleads for, a "fifty-fifty break" for the in- tel ligentsia in tbe planning of radio entertainment, Miss Luelle S. Laudin, editor of tbe "Review" 'and executive secretary of -the Women's National Radio Commnittee, wbich represents a, membership. of approximately , 17,- 00,000O, says: "The present. pre- ponderance of light- programs. is con- ditioning an entire nation, and par- ticulanly:tbe proportion thereof wbich- has neyer'been exposed to culture, to an appreciationof infenior entertain-, ment.. If wuld be just as easy to develop a liking for better things, by giving the peoplea greater number of worthwhile programs.- This does nlot mean that there would be no lighter features, but merqcly that the world's finest music, 'litenature and drama would he available in the same proportion. Then for the first time in the history of radio, the more dis- criminating portion of the national audience would get a fifty-fifty break, At present only tep per cent of al programs heard.is planned for this audience." Crtcisés Programs Besides carrying genenal comment on radio, the new "Review" outlines briefly the merits and defects of in- dividu.al offenings, basing, its evalua- tions upon the reports of hundreds of thousands of clubwomen critics from coast to coast who constitute the Committee's "listening-in" groups. Certain of the most widely pub- licized programs of the day are given Short shif t by these critics. ".Home on the -Range," the serialized story of Western life in whicb' John Charles -Thonmas, appears, is chanacter- ized as "ethe rnost musical program' on the air," tbe reviewer comment-ý ing: "When it is considered that tbis artist literally packs concert halls at every. appearance witb people who writer who bas not bïtherto found a Glenway Wescott, Julian Green, R~ob- Hour, Palmolive Beautiy Bo,fÀifla wide audience. Any author wbo is a ert Reynolds, and Paul Horgan. Sanderson and Frank Crummit, the citizen of the United States and who The selection of the judges re- State Fair concerts on NBC, Cornelia lias nôt published a novel in book fleets their choice o-f the best manu- Otis. Skinner, and Martba Deane, form prier to. january 1-, 1921, is script submitted for book publication. radio 'commentator on WOR, are eigible., The comipetition bas been Motion. picture,' dramatic and serial among theni. Prograins put on by beld every two yeaýrs .since 1922-'ý23. riglits play ne part in. this award. local stations are warmly -commended., j i