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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Feb 1938, p. 28

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VALENTINE GIFT SU"ESTIONS entam. sB4 OUI onoeu. ,e I01oivedIg eetinae gwètIngerds. Pea., estoovd. Frimes Ropoioeed DddWoy Sece - Ltàn ut.Fr.. 17»e S&ui.Mo *Ave4. UNI. me Pare D AUiA*EPAuMNI Rosa lie"Roach Fasseil .lnfoiors - Furnitur. ANTIQUES AND MODE.RN WallI and Floor Cvings. Slip Covers L.mps and Acoessori.s M2 N.- Wi1higen Ave, Chicago Phne Stapenor 5695 ladder, and other verse magazines a - i syndicated colurnns. Tbev have been reprinted in the Literary Digest and ini Poetrv Promenade. A book. of lier poems is planned' for the -near future,- and she is the author of ýshort stories and articles. Annincement was made recently on this. page that Mrs. Clough was one of. four Illinois poets whose work, appears in Arnerican. 14omen ,Poets 1937,. pub- lished by Hienry Harrison. -ýý Last year in the California Festival of' Allied Arts,, a niatibin-wide compe- tition, Mrs. Clough . won first priie. in French forms with-ber chant royal, and first honorable me ntion for a villanelle. On several occasions recently lier poems bave been awarded' honorable mention in. the "Between the Book End's Contest," conducted by Te Yd Ma lone of the Columbia Broadcasting sys- tem, and have been read over the ýair by Mr. Malone f rom WABC, New York *Mrs. Clough is-a direct descenan.it of Robert Burns and of Benjamin West. She entered Grinneli college at 16, and later transferred to Cornell college, M-\t. Vernon, Iova. She is a member of the North Shore- Writers' guild, the Western Poetry league. the Bookfellows. the Chicago- Poetry circle, and the Chicago Branch oÀ the National League of Amneri.-ai Penwonlien. Compiles lthe Stories Ruth Crar_' Clouait (Mrs. 'War- ren A;. Clou gh), 499 Drexel avc- nuec, Glencoe, one: of four local Poets listed on t/is page tzi*o iweeks ago arnonq those vrhose zuork ai'- pears ipn "Ameriran Wornen Poet s 1937" Ptiblished bi* Henry Har- rison, is the author of short sto ries and articles as well as poctry. Her work appears in peri odicals and lias bceji brôadcast over the radin. Crilkcs Favor Lafest' Biography of Chiang Escaping from Shanghai at the d of September. 1937, provided Robert Berkov, United Press manager at the ett. <(rs. iGodfrey i.uiicierg>, q435 Birch street, Winnetka*, are rep- resented in The Spring Antholoyqv 1937, a compilation of representative verse from the world's living poets. published in London by the Mlitre Press;. This' is, the eîghth animal' volume of the anthology and is- the Coron ation ,Year' edition. Mrfs. Tarr is affiliated ivitli varlous literary 'and poctry organizations, in Chicago and, on 'the north. shore, and her.poems have appeared at in- tervals in periodicals and anthologies. Eteanor Jewett is art cri tic, of.the Ch-cagé Tribune, and is also known to newspaper readers for Her oc- casional children's poems. Eleanor jewett's. piece in the above anthology, under the titie "A Ganie," is a *whimsical, sketch of childhood and pictures "lMary" 'playing a game with her mitteis 'on, a frosty day. Mis. Tarr bas writtenl two sonnets, "Sundown" and "Fulfilmnent," an ode teo -Sleep," and a "Love Song,"- for the anthology. Ail are exceptional for their maturity of outlook. Com- posed by a m-oman who looks back, upon a long.fuli life, they express a more universàl and compreheisive, pihilosophy of life than anything to be found in- the poetry of y-ountger %vriters. -Emphasis. is upon humiat relatio1ns, and humian experiences rather thani upon the beauties of nature (deity oi so manv ooets), and this uniic a nandxul ofthte narcly, the daring, and cýan iiier, 1 UVIU ri oover; tne r'resi- the adventurous have ptished steadilv dent Hoover wvas bonihed. Hehokl into the unknown and enlarged mnaJs passage on another American shIip,: it knowledge of his world in ways which never touched port. Scream4ing shrap- not so long ago were thought impos- nel and falling sheils cleared the biar- sible. hor at Shanghai of ocean-going coi.-. The' adventures of hese latter-day nierce. explorers have been brouglit together 1ekv ial1pshdthoghte by Charles E., Key, Fellow of the Royal fapanese 1lines in the midst of an ar- Georapica soiet. ito vou-etillerv duel and managed to board a cealld he alStoof eTy eticen t ume small -japanese ship bound for Naga- Jc.rlorhe tioi, hich Afe ed . roi saki. Chinese armies fired on the ship bas announced for Februarv 7 vnublic- as 't nsdis.a onte\hn :Je'lectioni me IWantnologv. The "Love Song," by the wav, is %Nv-ritteii in the rhythmi of one of the Mendelssohin "Song Without Words."1 A Bertrcsm Fan MIGNU UE - AUTO - FUàNITLINE--------------- lIbLry :inisiLb l COMAR OU RTICAN SAIE perfectly admirable 'book which in the Says Jane: " sinmly 'adore 'Ber- COMAR OR ATEAN *V5 comparativelv Short space of 600 pages tram,«' and I read the Bertramn books CONSUMERS CREIT CORP. contrives to -give a .iust account of over and over and over and over again. " B5 CHICAO AV . o ut. 8 20 3,00 ye rs t n t ey are sw ell. Jane bas added t trated and supplied viith helpful maps. now numbers more than 6M0. South or West, BOOKS are VALENTINES they 1ke b.st"

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