Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Mar 1933, p. 34

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EASTER CARDSl Are Note on Dis>Iay 1. 1724 OEINGTON AVENUE Orrington Motel Bldg. SALLY i Sheila MacDonald "A gay. Wise, humçrous sfory of the ' ps end,,dowýns of life .4 l ove inSouth Arica." $2 IFounfain Square Evanston prov o~V i i ILLoAr nU. Ann Vickers is born ini a small tawn in Illinois'. Al ber 111e she bears the impress of that environmnent. Her father who was a. teacher had certain. principles of living that formed ber character. "Sobriety, bonlest work,ý -'paying bis debts, loyalty-and a pride -thiat, woùld let hini ineither cringe, nor *bully, these wcre ber fatber's code."ý Anti goes ,ta a college ini New Eng- land,' studies nursing in, New York, labors ini the cause of, woman's suffrage >in Ohiao, works in settie- nients ini New York. and Buffalo, and studies sociologyat Columbia. Tries to- Reforni Prisons Bec ause ý she is deeply interested ini prison reformn, she wishes to go ta the *'worst possible1 pen" ta leamu about "pepoIogy' as it really is." She biecomnes educaional director of the W7onien's division at Copperbead Gap in anijddle 'western state. Whien she is ready to enlist sympathy and aid for reforin of the infamnous place,. she finds ta ber horrar upon wlrat deaf ears ber tales of the prison can fali. She becomnes an authority ou voca- tianal training in wonen's reforma- tories and finallv is superintendent ofl whio xeel nound ta lilce Los iAngeles will be antused by it, and Los Angeles, upan the theory that ta suc- cèeed is the greatest *proaf «of success, will recognize the. advertising value in it. A city that in 1932 outdid pré- viaus Olypmniads withou t going i uta the- red can rest secuire amid its archives of reading notices. .Beginning bisstor-y with the founid- ing iu 1781 of the pueblo or -'tawn of Our Lady the Queen aif the Angels, and describmng its subsequenu grawth ta a "helîhale of the. tiest," Mr. Maya engagingly offers lunformation: upon the booms.aud budgets, the men, mauners, and methods that have -con- verted into an inland seapart of firsu ra1;nk on the coast, a community in which only five percent are- native boru citizens, and 80 percent af its other boosters imports frônm the Uml-towu and rural purlieus i a back home east. Mr. Maya, ane- time a Califat-nia newspaper man, predicts that after Los Angeles's present area af 442 square miles filis up, the. phienomenal. activity of 'the populace will yield ta the saporiflc effects of the mnild climate. Bu 't the Las Angeles Chamber of Commerce -a mos t--energetic body-lias ar- ranged for that, and they are already ment in place of the corrupt partisan inetbod of governnient. Due ta such circumstan'ces as a pony shoe murder and the negro population's holding a revival. on election day, the identity of "Hizzoner" changes several rnes thiraugbout the- story, but, , ititil *"Dearsie"- Dorsay is enabled ta real-_ ize his dream of City tnailagçiienit through the bankruptcy of the Greater City, of Malta and, bis. cap- ture of the pony m'urderer,: one of these changes are for the better. This is just the type of book which the, American voting public. needs to miake them sit up and take* notice, af the candidates whom tbcyare el ect- ing9,to- office.-MARY JANE, CURTIS. The C. W. -Washburnes ýWrite Children's Book Mr. andMrs. Carleton W. Weeh- humne of Winnetka have written a comprehensive book on astronamy and geography for children, entitied .'The Story of Eartb and Sky." It will be published by the Century company about the first of june, and wvill contain 401 pages. There will be ninety drawings and thirty full page photographs. Mrs. Washburne is now writing She marries a matn who is also a. is experienced social worker and wha expects bis wife ta play the part of a "littie wornan," Naturally ber marriage is President a f-ailtire and white we bave no ad- Wrie miration for ber busbaud, neith er t-e can we admire ber tréàtmeut ai bim. Publication She wbo bates prisons has ta live by Frankliu througb the trial that ser.ds ber lover. advanced fror a judge of the supreme court af 20. This acti( New York, ta prison for receiving a John Day c.an bribe. receiving tbe of"- afi Delai >mAl Loôking Forua noa Roosevelt m Dril 16 to Mat ýe rînciu- oy,wiltt bave aire *to be based partly on fact and partly. on fiction. tes To Give Lecture Lessons ard on Short Story Writing wâs~i John T. Frederick, lecturer- at teNortb.western university, will presenu p a series of lecture-lessons on short nn try writing cluring Mat-ch 'and ln's bayfloaciexper her 1classroom. Is true to the spirit ýe knowu facts, oa. the "fed up" worries. n perli witb they have been, ds, noises;, and r i e-s of -for use

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