Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Apr 1936, p. 32

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A booik wWh r ake. you proud of belaag aun Amoricum. Chaidler's visrm CARxDs 100 Engraed Garde 100 C4rdi fronim ' .» 3 your pat ..... à* Printeil Came, 75é IL: RIWNGtON G.02 MARSHALL FIELD& COMPANY. Uvanston Store ilew Bée@ leurGarde n A Modern Guide te S~uessfuai Gardeng by P& .K"Ibis $1 Through thec novelist's eyes the reader r .ivs the dramatic events of Tit' reign-the fire, the plague, the visit of the exotit Bérenice. ,lRé travels-.witb Joseph to Judea, sits with tbe Jcwisb fathers, in the days *of ýtheir. great sor-, row, searches witb the bistorian -for infor mation ý about' a certain prophet said to -have been crucified, at jerusaleim Thus bhe sbares in the strange spectacle of a new faith cominig into birth. Feuchtwanger paints bis beroagainst the background of an era that more than almost any other was adventurous, colorful, and profoundly stirred by -tbe cternally crucial. questions 'of European culture. JosePhuis, the companion, volume to The Jew of -Rome, tells. the magnificent story of the early'life . of the bistorian, and -of 'the 'wars of., the Jews and Romans. Published in 1932, it bas corne tb7be regarded as one of Peuchtwangerýs piaster works in the field oif historial fiction, and Tihe Jeu' of Rome is now coniing to share tbat honor. It is a panorama of a brilliant age, and a niov- ing portrait of a man wbose essential> bonesty made of him a wanderer tbrougl, the world. Feucbtwanger bas also written The Oppermtannts, a picture of wbat hap- pened to Germany under Hitler; Power and The UgIy Duchess, two bistorical novels,; Sudccess, a miodern novel; Marian>ne in India, a book of short stories, several plays and an American song bookç. Story of EngIish Gfid Sally: The Story of a Poster Girl will be publisbed by Charles Scribner's SoRs on May 1. The author of The Smzoking Leg. a volume of short stories, and Arm's Le» gth, a novel, tells here the story of an English girl's existence wbich began and ended witb good peo- ple neglecting to do the rigbt tbing at the - right time. Miss Theodôsia, Payotel, of Glen- coe is' Co llabo ratiig tu>th G. ýA. Grant-Schae fer in the publication of o>eretta, for children. Their sixth operetta, "The B ea ut yCon test," has just beeà published bi-Raym»ond-A. Hofiman Company. "Child of Evil" Shows True Provincial South. Octavus Roy, Cohen reveals the provincial South,i ail of its unique colors and character types, through the drarna of bis new novel, Child of' &il (Appleton -Century). To the' insular town of Beverly cornes the widowed Ruth Hanmilton, returning with two children to lier native, homie in an attenipt.to support tbeni. Trans'- formiing the adjacent swampland into a tropical garden is the enterprise she selects. The resulting boomi in the community attracts tourists, among tbem a gambler, Kirk. Reynolds, suave and sopisticated,' Under bis cvil speli faits nineteen-year-old Kay For*rest, with whom Mrs. Hamilton's son is in love. Then one night, on a dark road, brutal tragedy. strikes the comnunity--a cold blooded killing involving Kirk Reynolds and necessitating bis keeping a firmer hold on the girl. dosia Paynter and G., A., Grant- Schaetct. was publisbed a few weeks ago by Ray- miond A. H-offinan company. Miss~ Payntet resides at 449 Hazel avenue. Glencoe. and.is employed ini the general bopk department of Cbandler's siore ini Evanston. The libretto -for this publication; and those. for. the entire series, have been written: by Miss Paynter, Mr. Grant- Schaefér collaborating as compose. The tities of thé five operettas: previot sly puibished are: Whe» To71ys Came to Ie." <' Pays o' KerrY Dalicing," '"The * fojtey 'Pirates," "'7'he-Adiventùrrs of Pi!tocchjo," and "Punch antd Judy." "ýA» OId KeiittckyGardeiz" is scheduled for Puhlicatioiî some timne in the summer, a,,d -Treasuwre JsIiwd and To*0 aw1n will appea r in the faîl or sbortly tiere- after. 7'he Beautv Contest, a two-act. ope r- etta for a cast of ail girls, wilI be pre- SSented in May by thé Girls' Glee club of -the Nichols scbool in Evanst-on, 1anîd Mfay 7 rhe 'line y P;rates will be pro- duced at the Foster scbool in Evanston with a cast of 150. The plot of the new operetta, set in, the garden of a fashionable Americali sumnier resort hotel, takes place. in the present day, and is iigbt and-humforous. Eight youing women find the botel toc, duli and décide to leave. Whenl they learn the hostess of the hôtel is to run for the office of mayor, they change their minds about departing and remain to electioneer for ber. *To divert the rinds of 'the womei f romi the élection, the opposing candi-' date instigates a beauty contest. At this junicture Sylvia Spankum. beatity ex- pert. etîters the scene riding a bicycle. Two sets of twins, the Tinikins girls. and the Simpkins boys, plus sorne bath- ing costumes. of the year 190Ü, further enliven. the action, whiob, closes wheni Jim Dandy,I a count ry boy, wins the winner (of the beauty oest),. . Is Evanston Store rna- af- of

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