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Playwritins Clus Play to Be .Seen at Evanston Evidence of a true affiliation of Northwestern university and the Evanston Drama club is seen in the first production of a three -act play from the Playwriting class sponsored by these two institutions. Jessie Royce Landis. with an e~ cellent supporting cast. will appear Ill Alice C. D. Riley's three-act play. "Amelia," under the direction of Blanche Bannister Arns at the Evanston Woman's club on Thursday and Friday evenings, November 20 and 21. Members of the pram~ club are entitled to one free ticket If sec~red before .November 10, after which date they will, be on general .sale at Chandler's Book store, Dans street, Evanston, and the Book Shop, 1555 Sherman avenue, Evanston. CHTI.DREl\'S BOOK WEEK AGAIN times wrote kind letters back full of and 'charm' and So quickly time rolls round! T~e words like 'promise' and then the~e would be halmy days make us forget that Ch1l- 'freshness'; another tea-party or evenmg At Home , drcn's Book Week is here again-and to talk about it al~ and to read th~ that Christmas is just around the cor- letters and Leonora s newest poem .. ner. A s usual there is the fascinati~g What volumes of irony and wisdom I array of children's bOOks-beautiful!): IlAnd John has been allowed to ta.ke lustrated, new editions of old favontes, an evening stroll, "a breather," w1th new authors, and even a greater th:m his father. "It was somethinjr th~t usual number of additions to favonte he had been able to share w1th h1s series. Joyously illustrated pages '?eckon father. and without (wi!~ess . that you from every book store wmdow. hand on his shoulder) sp01hng 1t for Thing that "We never had when n·r him His mother could not have done were children." . that~ she would have point.ed out parAmong the many. an outstanding adu- ticular stars or quoted thmgs or exevement is "Doctor Dolittle's Circus," claimed about the lovely night-smells which Stokes brings out, another one of of the garden. And Nora couldn't that series which is dearer-don't con- have done it, either; she wo~ld have Make B-kbaTiac a Pleaa·re tradict me, children-well, . anyway as been making up poems about 1t all .the -atdear to grownups as to ch1ldren. time; it would have been to her JUSt When the Doctor makes up his mind one more thing to get a poem out o_f. to help Sophie the Seal to escape. fr?!'l But he and his father had done th1s her unwilling and therefore unJUStifi- together. They had not spoken; they B-k·Uen t· tile Werl· able captivity in the circus, and return had only stood there noticing, list~n-1:~=2=18=S.=·=W=a=INI=all::;;A;Y;e; ..;:;:Cil;le;a;c;·;;~ to a pining husband, there is not one of ing loving it-for itself. It was hke us who is not holding his breath for the' understanding that they had had fear the bloodhounds will track them long ago about the lily-pond, only An authoritiv~ booll about the down. "A sentimental girl, is Sophie, ·· better, nearer, stronger. A breathonimal.r of the circus fMIIIJgnV the animals said and it is no wonder that er ... " LIONS 'N' TIGERS Jiving in \Yater ~ much she should easily By the time that Nora's flickering 'N' EVERYTHING emit that element from her eyes. little candle has sputtered out John Hugh Lofting has captured something has "arrived" as a playwright. It is By Courtn~y Ryley Cooper A new book about the gilded which is only captured once in . . . as if, guided by the calm steady light jungle-the city of circus cages oh many years. It is the secret of writ- of his father's life he has sailed where the captive wild beasts ing with perfectly congruous incongru- through rough waters and reached spend their days. Here are ity. To children it is quite natural that port safely at last. tales of apes and monkeys, of Ilona and tigers and leopards a seal should confide her longings to reand elephante-of animals. that turn to her husband, to grownups it is Red Cross Junion Give remembered, ana men who fordelightfuJJy humorous to have her wipe Flowers to Diaablecl Men got. $2M at au a..ueuen away a furtive tear with a flipper. It is LITTLE. ·aoWN .t CO,. a delicate incongruity, not the uproarious On Armistice Day, the opening day of BOSTON P1111ol ..llen kind of the fat man coming in violent . contact with the sidewalk. the Eighth Annual American Red Cross I ~===============i Another favorite is "Round the Year Roll Call, the Red Cross Juniors pur- I~ 1n Pudding Lane," by Sarah Addington, chased flowers from their service funds :Published by Little, Brown and Com- for the disabled veterans now under ·J1e -pany, with delightful illustrations by Ger- care of the Chicago Chapter. Individual bouquets were delivered to the homes and J>any, with delightful illustrations contract hospitals throughout the city. by Gertrude A. Kay. We meet Over 250,000 school children are now again the beloved inhabitants of Pudas Red Cross Juniors in Cook, ding Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Claus, Little enrolled Santa and the Twins, Mary. Mary. Sim- Lake and Du Page counties. The aim d Junior Red Cross is to establish friendple Simon and the rest. We go through ship and a better understanding of the <!ach month with them from the fir~t children of all nations. Letters are ex5now storm of the year when Polly Flinders feels so sorry for the snow man changed, through the schools, and at Christmas time boxes are sent to the <mt in the cold that she carries him in children in Europe. to get warm at her fire, to Christmas"A living memorial to those who gavt time when Pudding Lane decides for once their lives in Flanders Fields," The to turn the tables on Santa and give him Junior Red Cross sends flowers t:tch a grand surprise this year. Armistice Day to . the disabled ·Ia'!...·II ~""'"'""""'-"".,. ..= that they may know their sacrifice IS not .. . ---......,.;'·'j.oo~t:~~ _ COLOUR _OF YOUTH" forgotten.__ "".,... 1 (By u Fr~edlaender) . · ..... - · - : - - - &.:. J:.PHONES IN CHINA G. P. Putnam's Sons. The four largest cities in ChinaShanghai, Peking, Canton and TienThe most striking and, alas, unus- stin-with an aggregate population of ual feature of this very unusual book, approximately 4,500,000, have fewer "The Colour of Youth" is that rou telephones than the single American love several of the characters. Br1an city of Portland, Oregon, although Falladay is a real creation, a person there are fifteen times as many people at whose death you feel a great des- in the four Chinese cities as there are pair, your mental world seems im- in Portland. measurably poorer. And then you · p:;:;:;:;::;::;:;:;::;::;::;::;:;::;::,j find that his memory is there for you Now no one either young or as it was for his son all through his old wished the Doctor any ill life, a guide, a standard which never luck I Yet it is impossible to failed. · pretend to be sad that temporThis is the story of a foolish mot~ ary impecuniosity forced him to er who ruins her daughter by explOitjoin the circus to pay the sailor ing for her own ends a budding talent back for his boat! For that's for writing. A child enticed to walk what made the story belonging too soon becomes bowlegf.ed I The to the series which Hugh Wal5on "poor dear stolid John' is blesspole calls "The first real child's ~dly neglected by his mother and left classic since 'Alice.'" to the gentle guidance of his doctorIt is (if pouible) the beat of father. . all the Dolittl··· Much is crowded into a paragraph DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CIRCUS of Miss Friedlaender's work. Nora, By HUGH LOFTING John's sister, has become "Leonora" Frederick A. Stokes Co., N.Y. C. to her mother, while "mother" has become "Mimi." "At home, too, she went on writing quantities and quanDicl Napol-a Himself Write tities of things and Mimi went on THE MANUSCRIPT OF sending them to editors (with LeonST. HELENA? ora's age in brackets under her name) Translated by Willard Parker and to famous people (with little Evidence points to this renotes in her pretty feminine handmarkable document actually bewriting, appealing for their ~pinion). ing Napoleon's own telling of And the editors sometimes prmted the his life story. Here are the things, and the famous people somee'·ents of his career and the purposes which directed him told By HOMER CROY in the first person. "A graVERY ttme an installer signs R. F. D. 3 phic sketch. Brutally frank"The author of "West of the 1 for a telephone instrument at New York Times. Illustrated. Water Tower" tells the story of $2.00. 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