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» WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1925 11 ii lo [grr Interested in Biography, Are You of Fiction, or History? "ESTHER GOULD local paper. Travel, For lists write to books | care your | "ELIZABETH" IN MENTOR "LOVE" BY "ELIZABETH" ROLE OF Doubleday Page & Co. "Elizabeth" has come out of her "German Garden" and it seems that she has strayed into one of sterner realities. With the same light and whimsical style she is treating a sub- ject of more weight. Catherine Cumfirit and Christopher Monckton were among the adoring few who went to see "The Immortal Hour" several times a week. Be- cause they were so few, on Christo- pher's thirty-third night and Cather- ine's tenth, Christopher moved over to sit beside Catherine. She was glad to have him but she did not encourage any sudden advances. Yet Christopher was a sudden young man. So sudden that he was dead in love with Cath- erine before she had time to tell him that she was a widow, with a mar- ried daughter as old as Christopher himself. So that by the time she could tell him Christopher had gone too far. And all the time, while Christo- pher is feeling the ecstacies of first love, the refrain of the world's judge- ment is going over and over in the mind of his best friend, in whom he has confided. "Poor Chris. A widow. Got him in her clutches. And what a name. Cumfrit. Good God. Poor Chris." But Christopher's headlong meth- ods prevail, and the widow promises to marry him. She feels so young with the rejuvenating power of his love that it surely cannot be a mis- take. She even looks so young now that the bus drivers all call her "Miss" or "Missy." They are married and go for a wonderful honeymoon on the Isle of Wight. When they return to Lon- don they settle down comfortably in Catherine's apartment. Then the in- evitable begins to happen. Christo- pher wants to dance, Catherine hasn't danced since she married George Com- frit twenty some years ago. Christ- opher leads her such a pace of ex- ercise and gaiety that Catherine takes to frequenting beauty parlors to keep her newly found youth. People be- gin to take them for mother and son, or at best aunt and nephew. _ Catherine becomes hectic with anx- lety and the effort to keep up. Then, all at once, reality steps into her life and she finds a new standard of val- ues. "Elizabeth" has tried to solve the problem of how much older can a woman be than her husband? Whether or not she has solved it she has made of her attempt a clever story. ADVENTURESS IN TEMPLE- BREAKING "STOLEN IDOLS" BY E. Phillips Oppenheim Little Brown & Co. To any but the "Prince of Story- tellers" such a title as "Stolen Idols' would be but symbolic. But not so to him. Here are the idols, little grin- ning Chinese things that for a thou- sand years have been sitting complac~ ently in a sacred temple making faces at the public. Then along comes Gregory Ballaston, a young English- man whose family fortune has dwin- dled so alarmingly through an exces- Stolen Idols The strange adventures of Geoffrey Ballaston, following his theft of a famous Chinese idol with whose jewels he hoped to restore the fallen fortunes of his house. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM $2.00 at all Booksellers Little, Brown & Co., Boston Publishers sive patronage of the racecourse, that he is reduced to desperate straits. Gregory and his father have heard the oft repeated legend that inside these polished idols are hidden all the jewels of this sacred temple, and Greg- ory and a friend have come over from England to have a look. But the priests for reasons of their own resent the intrusion and we first meet Gregory on his way to be fed to the crocodiles, and the friend we meet not at all, since he is dead. But Wu Ling, a Chinese trader, rescues Gregory and takes him back to Pekin from whence he may set sail for England, taking with him one of the idols which he has in his pos- session, the other having fallen through various vicissitudes into the hands of Wu Ling. Now the man who carved these grin- ning idols a thousand years ago, made them symbolic, one of the soul, the other of the body. One was spirit- uality, the other bestiality. Together they gave an impression of oneness, or of humanity, alone each becomes the symbol of only one side of human] nature. It was said that the "body" without the "soul" would have a de- vastating effect on its possessor, but Gregory is willing to risk it. It is not long, however, before it begins to take effect. Arrived in England the worst is not yet over and many things are scheduled to happen before the idols weep--since they come through their eyes--their gems. The moral code of the young Eng- lishman who thinks that because he and his family have squandered their own wealth they have a right to squander other people's, is a strange one. It makes rather strained rela- tions between you and your hero throughout the story. Otherwise the story is good, for entertainment, which is what it is meant for. Mr. Oppen- heim has written better tales than this and yet he has no reason to be sorry he wrote this one. Suggest New Plan to Relieve Traffic Snarl The establishment of a metropolitan traffic area embracing the territory contiguous to the large cities in the country, was suggested by the Chicago Motor club, at the Midwest Motor Transport conference held in Chicago, May 27-28. Zach C. Elkin, of the Chicago Motor club; Dr. J. Gordon McKay, of the United States bureau of public roads; and George F. Quinlan, Cook county superintendent of highways, members of the resolution committee, recom- mended that the highway division of the conference take steps to formulate plans for the creation of these dis- tricts surrounding the traffic surveys similar to the one completed in Cook county be made in these districts. The plan is to secure the coordinated effort of federal, state, county and municipal highway officials, so that sufficient through routes for motor vehicles may be obtained. This plan HELL'S PLAYGROUND | By IDA VERA SIMONTON The famous novel upon which the | play White Cargo is based. New York | Brentano's BRENTANO'S ACERT LEN TN a Li "Mayfair," by Michael Arlen. compense," by Edith Wharton. aret Kennedy. ham Young," by M. R. Werner, Clara E. Laughlin. Winnetka 1101 BEST SELLERS "The Smiths," by Janet Fairbank. "The Painted Veil," by W. Somerset Maugham. "A Mothers Re- "The Constant Nymph," by Marg- "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitgerald. "Brig- "John Keats," by Amy Lowell. Travel Books--Bridge Scores and Favors--Place Cards and Cards of Congratulation THE BOOK STORE WINNETKA "So You're Going to Italy," by 724 Elm St. contemplates the widening of city streets, county highways and state highways in these areas, so that motor traffic could proceed from the heart of a metropolitan city to its destina- tion probably 50 or 75 miles distant, over one expanse of broad, through highway, containing no bottle-necks to slow up the large volume of traffic which would naturally flow through such arteries. Motor Club Recounts Hazards of Closed Car Changing from the open car to the closed car brings with it new hazards as well as new comforts, according to the accident prevention department of the Chicago Motor cub. "These hazards, lowever," says a bulletin issued by the club, "are no greater than are encountered in open car driving--they are only different. For example, the blind spot at the junction of the windshield and the side windows, disconcerts the man who is driving his first closed model, but he overcomes this when he learns to move over a little toward the cen- ter of the seat. "The motorist who has lately changed to the more luxurious meth-|. od of travel, will find that night driv- ing is difficult unless the windows are kept as free of dust as the windshield. He will also find that the more com- fortable appointments of the closed model, and the lessening of noises from the outside and from the motor, tends to increase the conversational facilities of his passengers, and if he is not on his guard he may find him- self committing one of the cardinal sins of motoring, turning around to talk to his passengers." A Novel of Wanderlust ETHAN Judge for yourself. 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