Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Mar 1935, p. 44

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Mak* Our Modern Rleti Library, Your Reading He adquart.rs YoulI b. delightid wifh Our Splen.- did selection of fresh-ff-fh..pr.ss bookcs. Hors, are flue. of the new-- est; Corne and Get It Edna Ferbre' tale of a Wisconsin Ium- ber king. A -House Divided Pearl Bucis pou>erf ai andin g to ber xuaretrdlogy. Possession Gordon Sayre's rmcy new novei. WIEDOLDT'S -IWANSTON Rests Eyes IJ more volumes of diaries by that famous diarist, Sumuel Pepys, ail- nounces that one of the discoverer.ý ~of tiiese diaries is Arthur Bryant who is writing a biography of Pepyi and has already brought out the f irsi volume, Samuel Pepy, T/w Me an in the Making. Mr. Bryant expects to draw' on this bitherto unrknow*n material ini writing the concludinig.vol ,ume of the biography', whi*chý will b.e publisbed this Fàll by MacMillan.'. .Whereas ýthe other Pepys diaries w ere .written .in -sborthand, *these newly discovered journals are' in longhand. Ofle deals with the period of the so-called Popish plot, the other with King Charles Il's inves- tigations. into the affairs of the British Navy Office. .As, Pepys was, closely concerned with both these matters, being one of the victims of the terror aroused by the fabricated story of the Cath- olic "plot," and being entrusted with the defense of his office during the Parliamentary inquiry into its nian- agement, Mr. Bryant%~ story of Pepys' life will be enriched by this new material. Picture of Life in Mexico Given in Story of Maestro, Maestro is a littie book that pre- sents true sketches of Mexican life; episodes in thë-WÔrk of "Maestro," principal of Casa Blanca schol It tells only a few of the diverse tasks that, he was called upon to periorin, ,extra -curri cu larly-a nd which -he per- formed m~ore than willingly. The author, Mrs. Colvin, has had opportunity to observe Maestro's work through many. years. She hà-as gone with him to. the homnes 011 the people, and there the incidents that' she has, woven into these sketches so impres sed her that she has igiven them to'the public, TYPEWRI1FASRepaired Sold Caied for and Payniter1Il Grant-Schaefer of Williamstown, Mass., wrote the music for' the oper- etta,' which is in two acts. This is the third operetta Miss Payn. ter bas hiad. published, and will', it is expected, prove popular w'ith school children producers as have. ber otber works. The operetta- will be presen- ted, for, the. first- time May 17 by the Hiaven schôol boy's glee. club., Mr. Grant-Schaefer, who comes to Evanston eacb spring, is. now re- arrangi.ng the, music for top voices. and completingý arrangements with M iss Mary Kiess, director of music at Haven; and Miss Rita Criste, head of dramatics. He 'will be here fer a month. Proceeds froni the perform- anewilI defray the cost ýof murais 110W being painted by Carl Schefler for the Haven music, room., They are illustrations of :rhythm. Junior.School Sponsoring, Book Reviews in Evanston The first of the series of book re- views which Miss Eleanor Perkins is presenting for the Friends of Chicago junior schoo)l, was .held Wednesday, March 6. at the home of Mrs. Harley L. Clarke, 2603 Sheridan road, Evans- ton. Miss Perki-ns reviewed The Fort v Day's of! Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel. In addition to the- prograni which wvas annotinced last week, Miss Perkins wilI. review Pe-soiial Histvy by Vin- cent Sheean. The next prôgrani, March 13, are books for and against the New Deal. NezcFron tiers by Henry Wallace and It's Up Io Us by James P. War- burg.. This séries is for t he lbenefit ofthe Chicaàgo junior- school at Egn I. aà school for little boys: vhoarun derpriyileged The committee in charge cotnsists of Mrs. -Andrew Collins, president, Mrs. C. H. Warnier, Jr., chairmani, Mrs. J.: H. Allen, Mrs. Clarke and Mrs. Floydi Masters. Mrs. Walter Hansen is as- sisting. r. st 'iiieJ-tUl, ZNat ýannequin, with yours. Laime? wrong on you, baby. Katherine-Where did you pick up. that ine? Petruchio--Just ad 'lib' Kate; it icornes niatural to. me wvhen I1 look at you're like a that beautiful Bah! l'Il bet So, on, Friday Shakespeare's The Tmnqof the Shrezu will corne forth nlot only in 1935 dress. but ini modern speech. The "experimient" in moédernizing, Shakespeare in both spee ch and dress will* be made by the North Sho'.re Little Theatre at the Evanston, Wonian's Clubi Auditorium Friday, afternoon. Mrh 8) at 3 o'clock.,(ac "Iamn very much interésted i n this ptesentationi," said Brent ' renn, di- rector of the Littie Theatre, who wili take the role of Petruchio, "shrew tanier.". "Others hav~e tried to ined- ernize Shakespeare ini dress, buit that has not helped in bringing hin pt date. 1Upt "I -am sure that Shakespeare wrote bhis plays. in. the then current vernacu- lar. Why should we flot then presenit hirn in the present-day manner? "The actor bas long been hampered by the blank verse and classicaI ex- pressions. Now we'll try to show Just wvhat ýShakespeare meant, and 1 think evéryone will find this>play a bowling coinedy." Miss Gladys Cannon will play Kath~- erine, the shrew, and Miss Mary.Jane Currie will take the role of, the sister, Bianca. During. the initernn-sîons a. style show ýwill be staged by an Evans-ý ton shop. The OBie I Silht,. Largest Selling Bookc The -bible, according to a 1935 Wanamaker (Philadeiphia) diary "is stili the largest selling. book ever printed: alinost 11,000,0)00 Copies a Reaid the W.. t ds jlunfamn Square I. oi neroic proportions. Its settinig is50lUI ucui thbreatnofth ne hlh the Highlands of Scotland1, and the ofcotyysidée: His innermost tod s.time is the Napolconicera when the o o or sorrow, bis feeling for er Highlanders were struggling to hold nature, bis convictions and hopes, his Evansfon: their homes and. glens. against evic- burning humanity, here find a voice tion by English sheep barons. entirely bis ow,,.

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