Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Feb 1933, p. 38

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TaIIy ",d'.Place Cards 1724 ORRINOT'ON AVENUlE Orricat6si Hotel BIdg.ý EVAXSTON Ely Culbertson's ~C~h.'I 4A--r 13LUE IBOOK 4 for 1933 ànSquare ad Bulet alMost everything clôes. It is, >to ail intents and purposes, ýa mystery story- but it is- by no means an ordinary one. Quiet chuckles turn to uproarious Iaughter aspoor Simon Heath bec omes more and more 1 Il- volved in t'he entanglements. sur-, rounding a small stel asket. On page two, on his wvay pp to London, Simon becomes the sur- prised possessor of this steel casket together With the infornmation tiiat it -cintaitis;-,tuie bones of the Proffliet Yann. On'page 21 he surrenders i.t to a. bogus clergyman wlîo tells hirn that it contains the love-letters of a. proiiienit society wonîia;. Then, alfter hearing the story of the miysteriotîs Zoe-witlî whom lie falis abjectly iii love-he is iinstruinieiital iin recover- 4ing. the casket, whie'h fottailis (lie is told) certain importanlt documents of the kingdom of Euravia. Simon, his cousin Oliver, .and the redloutbtab)le Fred Huggins sêt ouit to solve this mystery, cquipped Nvith false beards aniaIl the well-known, Scotlatnd Yard disguises. But the sit- uations continue to becoine more' awkward anid the circunistances nioreý complex unitil fiîîally the authors re- veal the solution. It i.s all the grea.t- "U-1311ubb OU ltauu character plus and poetry. A perfect gem tfor con- Mr. 'Kaufman's trenchant wit and in- struction and literary technic. the fallible sense of theater were respon- story has, at the saine time1 a rhyth- sible for- "Miniclç" and the playful mic, musical style.' Deligbitful Scotch' P icture of the theater's "Royal Fai r words and. phrasing are intersperscd ily."and lend rnuch to the beauty of thc The focal point is a dinner >given talc. by a* New *York hostess foir two1 The hieroine of thé story is not titled English visitors, and the att- introduced tili the seventhi chapter ors follow in, trernendous détail, the (tlie book lias ten chapters, to be eéx- lives of eight of the ten guests during ac)pisJlei ht"ogsako the week, that culminates in the'd diro lelàtee n IIloveîiness" who spoke withl such.."a ne ftels cn. T o accompEliî beloved lhuskinéss, that sue should be thIs , they *involve their characters md osyeeyhn wc. ti %iii a nî.iesh of cs sedratio s no W onder that shie came to appear whib Slutiresstrincre(libility i fles pages of t!he diary of Adaîn and e(Iirea ful at t estblî~. Vetreen, minister of a :tiny kirk, in. 'Tle. process is subtie, however, and! (lCtl anusng a(l lî annd,îc >~asil1o%ývl)0tiI' dScotish 'glen., But then 1Iàarn getting ahead of my story. nmat rial -never- taxes fini'y.011 trý jlIgtù6nIake lu start ,at the patience.,I iarv the Eîîljsh havte 'hallëiiged me to "Dinner at Eight" inleVitalv c soybgnsii iy 1h'- UueîlwIx S .1 '*My liae s thie I èe of the miovie star's suicide, Inost care flot foi' the Adani '\it ,h ii.-;unforr- stiringin he play througfrco a- tunate aitons..1 ki arntwvefty-!'iX Tearle's magnificent performance, :_ years of ag, amid, thougli long in the 'legs, look nîyle ounger thian is sec.mIl oantornie that stage directions 'co 1- in ny acred'calIli ng, being cleaii shav- vey only imiperfectly. But the punll- en w~ithiout any lieed to u.se an imple- gent dialogue and! most of the pic nient; indeed 1 h.ave desisted for two turc carv oer i th scrpt.years back.' ture cary oer i th scrpt.The Rev. X'estreen describes iii de- tail ife and the people Iin the glen. Galsworthy Illourned Hlis meeting with Milss Julie L;ogan in Literary W rld hapndwe that young lady The eat of ohn GalWOrth asone myvst erusrenasot evLtor lat lTicsday brtih to a close a the Rev. iestrecn's Iriencis seemced - - -u'iouc edie1 an offer ot knight- B ook Befor,-, Death hiood, anid tblose who read lus books may readily understand why. Often :0. E. Rolvaag, who died recent.ly, lie'had corne forýward as chiamlpîin of the author of Giants in the Earth, burnanitarian causes or to point a which lias been so often favorably fing,,er at injustices, of tîhe social or- conpared with Knut H-arnsun's der. H-is popularitv as a novelist was Growth of the Soil, epic saga Of uuot only limited -to the literati, but the eartb and the earth's life, wrote reaclîed' particularly tlîose people The B3oat of Longing, which bas wvbo are called "just folks." fle' will just been publishied in translation. It be uni versalIl mourned because lie tells the story of a young Norwegian would have written even greater boy, the only 'child of simple, hionest things. R li. H-iaruy, james j,. 'ardner, ..S I Ray. Lw Ufli&tnflCK~, dJU 1..) 1me1V iiiiisterV , -i ÇUuiU tell you things. about bier any one .of %wliicli wôould make you drop hier in the burn, tboughi yoil were standing in the middle of it with the jade in your aris" .Feeling sure that is love. "would stand defiant in tlîe middle of the ocean witb Miss Jue Logan on tbose terms," be tells Miss Julie what the "Old Lady"* said and begs to know what she meant. There. is nothing to rion. Pulitzer prizes whispers are flow go- ýbert ing the rounds is William Rose Blen- handles an engrossing therne concerli- ardy et's Rip Tide: A Novel in Verse.'In -ing the tragic entanglements of thrée this a distinguished poet, delicately lives. I

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