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WILMETTE LIFE November .15, 1934 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Watt of Racine, Wis., former Kenilworth residents, spent the past week-end with the C. Ho*ar d Bents of, 2000 Beechwood avenue. .The North Shores Finest Book Store and Rentai ,Library. .FREE .renitai on your flrst book froni our circu- lating library for the first 3 days. Brlng th:s ad today or this week The GORDIAN BOOK SHOP 415 Forth St. Wilniette 332 I[~HIBOOKS* REVUBWS *AUTHORS IW lie. and.Mrs. Roy Knauer, 166 Ab-Ilahian Aulh or Is C. F. Stockingj Novel ingdon avenue, Kenilworthi, were h ost and hostess to their ,bridge club at $iven This Y.ar's Tells of Ne'w Deal dinner Monday.. RSRphdFamous *Nobel Prize in Spiritual Uf. TYPEW ITE tente 1 Word bhas corne recently f rom Stock- LUCILE CRANDEN AND, THE INEW DEAL. BY Charles Francis Stocking. CIL. 28e-2616I holm that the Nobel Prize Literature The Maestro Co. Chicago. ICalIed fer andi DeIIv- e ered. Werk Gmaramteeui IOrrington Hotel BIdg. Evaustoa M ----~~""-" ~*1 ____________________________ WIFEDoLDT'S IEVANSTON On Davis Street Wilmette 10 I Ry C harles Nordkoff and James Norman, Hall The concluding vol- Ume -Of the great tril- ogy of sea adventure. $2.50 CHANDLER's Fountain Square Evanston Award for 1934 has been bestowed up- on Luigi Pirandello, the f amous Ital- ian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Pirandello7s best-known plays, al- ways the center of keenest controversy and discussion, include Six Charcters i n Search of an Atitht' r, 'the play that made him widely famous ini the United States, As laut. Desire Me, Right Fofi Are; (If l'oint Think So), *-ienry IV Tonighi Uf'c Iinprovise, and sev_- eral others. In recent vears P.irandello lias' won recognition for bis short st(ries, par- ticularly fo-r bis great cycle entitled Novelle l'er- un Ann-jo or, Stories for te lear Rounid - a linige collectio n destined to ri for 25 v'olumîes. Piran<lello's life lias been that of a student, ini contrast to the ever a'id stormy brilliance of lus î>Iays. Ilie as humn in 1867 ini Gerenlti. ltaly. He 1s therefore 67 years of age now. 1-e studied at Palermo, Sicily, the scene o>f soniie of lus finest stories, and tlien at Rome. 1,ater lic received his duc- torate ini letters anîd philosophy at Bonn, Gernany. 111 1907 lie' became a college professor at. Rome, a position hie hield until a few vears ag<>, whIex his increasing ame released him. AI- Nvays a serions worker and prolific writer, Pirandello began his career witlî a series of novellette or tales of Siciliati and.Soutberni Italian rural life, wvhichi began to appear.at the close of the last century, ini wliclî the patient reai- isin of leading schools of the day wvas interspersed withi a speculative and philosoplîic elenuent. From these stor- les lit proceeded later tu bis play,~ wliclî Bernard Shaaw bias declared'it)1 be the nost original wvork to le found Il in the theatre of aniv tinie or country. t as ini thesü plays tlîat, lie dis- plaved the %vealth of fantasv co,îihined with severest logic tlîat give thenu theïrj (listi.met ive, paradoxical quality. Hi .sg novels, like The I.ate .1liotIia IPascal and The 01d, and thelu' oUil!I, are! I)r(ducts of tlîis mature, fully-developed l)erio(l. Of late years Luigi Pi.ranidello : hias sppnt considerahie time in Paris and Mlan.He is now% residing iii Italv, stili producing plays. Walter No ble- Giilett, 533 Roslyn road, Kenilworth. returnied Tuesday fromn a week's business trip to New York. IPIIA S .1e V}BOOKSHOP LIBBAJLY Cards Statlenery New Books for Children. Specially 1'se lected and recommended for boys and girls. Time to get busy on that Chrisbnas UstI 1724 Orringlon Ave. Gis. 0227 Orrington Hotel Bldg., Evansfon 1 ý.-- Ao November .15, ý 1934 WILMETTE LIFE Jbis is the story of Bob Cranden ad his wife Lucile, livinig.in the very prosperous times just prior' to the crash of 1929. Into their apparent security drops the shattering de- nouement that Cranden is the father of a child born to a, native South American. The mother and tthis child quite unexpectedly appear at Cranden's New York home during the gala celebration of bis birthday ini the winter of 1928. The Craniden world crashed. Lucile fled from ber husband to seek forget- ifulness ini Europe and Cranden, dis- .missed by Lucile as manager of her ivast business interests and rejected by his erstwbile cronies, disappears. Finding no solace in aimless wan.- dering, Lucile returns to New York, ,only to be received witlî cooliness by, her former social flatterers. Hope- less and disillusioned, she setties down to a life of isolation to let the canker of her misery. conîplete its work of destruction. At tlîis critical junicture, Jasper XVade, an old friend of the fanxily, comes to Lucile witlb the suggestion of a New Deal, a seeýmingly impros- sible one, for it demands that she adopt her husband's illegitimate, sonr, wbose mother is tlîought to have ended her own life. Exhausted by ber opposition tb the plan, Lucile yields and signs the Code which Wade submits to her-a Code that provides for the re-coiniage of ideals, th e raising of hem depressed sense of values, and for right employ- ment and true business. The novel is well written and holds the reader's'interest, but it <loes flot Mrs. C. A. Keith, wit bie r dauigh- ter. Harriet, 310 WVarwick road, Ken- ilworth, spent the week-end visiting another dauglîter. and fainilv. the C. MX1. Larsens at their home in .Peoria, Ill. Mr. and NIrs. Thonmas Kirkpatrick of Detroit slpeut làst.week-end( with ic Martin Kresges, 2615 Blackliawk iroad. i Mr. and Mrs. Lyman IDrake and their son, Keith, of 933 Lake avenlue. recentlv returnied. from a teni-dav Svisit iii Tryon, N.- C.