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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Nov 1938, p. 58

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casc ~L ior iuetrouoJ4w.l'JvLctv*.J The actor is Leo G. Carroll, who will play Marley's Ghoât. MODERN TOGS Jleanette MacDonald and Nelson > Eddy appear together lor the fltst timne in' modern clothes in Metro-» Goldwyn-Mayer's. "Swieetheartsi." OLUL md NEW. 1 0OL 1 N S Oùtûts for, Students Straxgs - epairs E. N. DO.R I N.G 1612 Orrigtonp, Evanston Ore. 6168. Ready for inspection:, Christmas Cards for personal iinprlntingi. LLOYD HOLLISTER INC. 1232 Cenffal Avenùe, Wilmiette pie in a happier era in uzee.xîulw- vakia. .Castie Camp ber most recent book. just publisbed by Macmillan- tells. of -the: thou sands of .Young people in Prague after the World War who needed -a paefor: healtbful recrea- tion, adjustnients, new points of view, and a revised and'intensified spirit' of comradeship.. Under the leadership- of a young -American woman and hem staff at the Students ceniter in Prague, a camp was e stablished on the site of an old castie offered by the govern- ment: Here to this ancient. stone edifice, over f ive hundred years old, buit'on foundations said to be nine hundred_ years old,. came girls with different. Slavic namfes and differ- ent personialities and problems. Miss Hess' books on Cz eehoslo- vakia, wbich include. The Motrnted Falcorn, T1he kj'Isoqwe Mane.y Zosigue-sa and ber newest one, Castle Camp are Tbased on a ct ua i experiencese she shared after the World War when she was active in the eabilitation work in that -country, and aided the students at the University of Prague to build their student building. Both Miss Hess and Edward Cas- weli, who did the illustrations for ber book, have been recently dec- orated with. the Order of the White of the ever-popular "Snow White," and a brief and amusing, fantasy for children, entitled "Peep-Sbow Park." Miss, Paynter. a former resident of, Glencoe. is now making ber home.i Chicago'. The Raymond A. Hoffmnaf Co, of Chicago has published' ail of the books. The- drama of little lives is re-. vealed with skill in -the fil teen stories contained in "The Long ,Valley" by John Steinbeck.' The v~olu.me jLQ3ri. s,5fnbecJç's for- mer success an d1 best seller, 1 Ctij Mice and M e n." Thé Viking Press is the publisher. FRnds Dramai in Lives of the Qyster Tongers William Heyliger's River . Man (Appleton- Centumy) is another of the author's stories of young men in iniiuîtry. Clay Ratidall is an oystefr "ý-Snow White and the Seven D Warf s," the longest of the thre new publications, is an operettaý in. tbree acts based-on the Grinm .fairy taie. Its charac:ters, include the beautiful princ1ess, the, good and the bad queen, the king, frosty fate,, the court doctori the woodsmnai, fiowers, and elves. the seven dwarfs, ýthe townspeople and stili others. Repre-> sentative of its catchy songs, somne sad and some. joyous, are -Snow- White's Lost in Forest Wild," "Who Is the .Firest of Thern Ail?" "Whislk Away, for Now 'Tis Day!," or "We Are B.oid, Bold Dwarfs." As in al these operettas. full directions for staging, costumes. and dance steps accompany the vocal score and libretto. "'Scrooge's Christmas.," on theýý other hand. is based on Dickens' "Christmas Carol," and tells the story of how Scrooge is persuaded away from is -countiXng- house-and- bis money long enougb to have, a and z IJames. Ideo Cu lished e.4----- rodeo, that great Ameian ion, has found an informmd ardent spokesmnan in Wil ,Flint Spea'rs: Cotvboij Ro- mtestant, which Seribners pub- October 14, is primariiy the of a cowbc$y, one o! Wili best and most adventurous ters. In bis career, from eam- fnrmal contests on thue ange owfl unwritten Iaws, its own loyal- ties. When the 'oyster barons, by' leas- ing river bottom, slowly encroach upon the independeitt tongers, the lutter try to solve their problem in their own way-the, way of past times. But Clay Randaîl sees the need of new methods if tbey are not to fight a losing fight, Such I rbeIion azainst the traditional "ragamuflfl5, *toC, or-the '..-atenit family join in singirig Our Bones Are Cold," "Bob Up Resplendeit" "TeGoodby Goose.- or frolic in "The Bonfire Dance," all rollicking- pieces with strong rhythms appeal- ing to. cbildren. Originality Ilere True originàlity is expressed in "Peep-Show Park," the little fantasy written to be performéd by paper dolis,' a nurse, a chorus, Sally and the wilkmaids. ard the scarecrow. international relations,; me uCi.. and A. F. of L. to pig preventi Ithe infield-fiy ule a nd Disney. Jazz Prohi of Innoenc~e efore thie addition to nis activites as jouriî :re the movies, and the ist and soldier, he , witenr oe there were more tban than a score o! haîr-ralsing detecti 1 auomoblesbefore thue stories and is the inventor of su n." "Clubfoot"* and "Mr. Treadgold." i. CARI LIBRAItY S6atioflTy. NEW il

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