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16 W1LMKTTE LIFE, FRIDAY. TANUARY 4, 1924 * I i u'.idino Limp ABOUT BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM A Strange and Lovely Fantasy "THE SOUL OF KOL NIKON" By Eleanor Farjoon This is a charmingly imaginative story of tha struggle of Kol Nikon, born a changeling, to attain a soul. It is a strangely lovely tale of how Kol Nikon born just at the death of his father was hated by his mother who said the Hill people had taken her own baby away and left Kol Nikon in his place. Throughout his life Kol Nikon is filled with hunger of his mother's love, a hunger which is never satisfied. He is given a fiddle by "the little gray man," one of the Hill people on which he played "the greenwood in all its moods," "the song of violets creeping in faint smoke rings about the feet of the pines" and "human things when his heart was at its hungriest." He finds the hill under which his brother is hidden, but cannot bring himself to change places with him. As he grows up he finds his music does not satisfy his mother and he enchants various people trying to find out what love is that he may play it to his mother. How he casts a spell over Flora, making her believe that he is Janke, her lover, how they are married and how he finally comes to give up his place to his brother are charmingly interwoven. It is a fanciful book, beautiful in imagery and filled with drama and feeling. Ester Hoed. Informal Theatre Chat "PLAYWRIGHTS IN THE MAKING" By Brander Matthews One of the interesting features of the present day in literature is the increasing number of technical books disguised by a chatty and informal manner into a very pleasing subject. In fact these books are often so fas- cinating that those who are not initial- ly seeking knowledge are drawn into reading them with pleasure and pro- fit. Among the best of these books is Brander Matthews' "Playwrights on Playmaking." No one is better equip- ed to write about the theatre than -?#}!?!!?: M?.Uhpws: who h*s for ai long period taught dramatic literature at Columbia University. In this illum- inating book are included a host of facts about the theatre which will make this book invaluable for anyone interested in the drama, and especially for the playwright who will find in its pages the discussion of the theories of the theatre and the secret.s of stage- craft. Into the treasure chest of this book. Professor Matthews has packed abundant anecdote and a wealth of jewel-like thoughts on the dramatic art--one feels that not to P****** *ai read this book is to »"ss a literary fortune. By w;"»K "Playwrights and Playma*"„g,' Professor Matthews has «u..e a great service to the theatre, and endeared himself to his many friends. John Cornell. More Desert Adventures "HARVEST OF JAVELINS' By Bertram Atkey Before Dick Marchurst leaves Eng- land on a hunting expedition in South Africa with his friend, Marchurst, his uncle warns him to beware of weakness for. women. Warning that his theory is, "Every sin has its javelin." Dick is twenty-three, unusually handsome and inexperienced. Hood- ies, a parasite, has attached himself to Dick because of his prospects of faebming Lord Lissmere. Stopping in Cairo, Dick becomes enamored with the Egyptian Sais, famous courtesan and dancer. While at her house he engages in a fight with an unknown man. The man crumples in his hands --dying of heart failure. Hoodies, in answer to Dick's call, discovers that the man is Charles Lammarsh, a wealthy New Yorker. Planning to obtain a hold over Dick he does not disclose his knowledge. Sais promises to do away with the body. Returning to the hotel, Dick meets Mrs. Lammarsh, whose purity and beauty attract him. Continuing next day on their hunting expedition, Dick and Hoodless are captured by Red Emir, a renegade Englishman, turned desert bandit. El Addar, their black leader, tells Emir that Dick is not only wealthy but loved by Sais. Red Emir desiring to add Sais to his harem, dispatches El Addar to her to bring ransom. Weeks later, the ban- dit's scouts sight a military patrol and Red Emir forced to break camp, is about to kill his captives by impale- ment at the stake, when Sais rides into camp. Red Emir takes her with him, and Dick and Hoodless are rescued and taken back to Luxor by the military patrol. This is only a beginning of a series of blood and thunder adventures in this tale of desert passion. Dana V. Rush. Citizens Invited To New Trier Open House Parents of New Trier High school students, as well as all other citizens of New Trier who are interested in local educational problems, will be guests at the high • school Thursday, January 24, which has been designated "Open House" day by superintendent Frederick Edson Clerk. On that day the class sessions will be arranged for the afternoon and eve- ning hours so that the visitors may wit- ness the students at their regular work. Dinner will be served in the spacious new cafeteria Mess hall of the school. There will be a special program in the auditorium during the evening. 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