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6 WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY AUGUST that he, as well as the c~~ract~rs, is a fool. That's the theme, Arent We All" fool s? " CHILDRENOFTHE MOON" Martin Flavin took the road that leads to a bitter taste, in ending, his play, "The Children of the ~{oon, as he does. From the newpo1!1t of the story as developed in the prmted version, up to the last few pages, tl~ere is the development to a happy endn~g. It is al~ost inevitable that MaJOr Bannister and Jane should leave us hand in hand, but not for the moon in the aeroplane in the fog.. The treatment of the plot IS somewhat novel. It is serious with touches of the dreams of di storted p~rsons taking complete control. W1th a happy close, there woul~ probably be the criticism that "Ch1ldren _of the Moon" is merely a post war fl1ght of fancy. As it is, the reaction is moody and pessimistic toward all t he characters- except the grandmother. The strangness of the incidents with relation to the ravings about the moon, puzzles a little. The re is the belief that the Atherton fami ly is composed of fanatic astronomers, but the grandmother is a normal h uman being and so is Jane, until her selfish mo~her suggests to her that she, too, ~~ a child of the moon. Then Jane g1 ves up the man, Major Bannister, she wants and can have. And on ly by taking her to fly to the moon in the aeroplane in a heavy fog, does Jane consent to go with the Major-to death .-Jac Tulman. 1924 IBOOK REVIEWSI trays the c ity in which he lives more than Dirk does. T he wealthy suburban group love h im because. th ey delight in his superiority, the htnterland appreciates his physique. T here is no cimplex plot nor sex lu:e "'SO BIG" in this arena of life as it is lived 111 "What mak es ·~ o Big' so popular?" this volume. But there is lik The That que tion has been asjced by life that every one lives or wants to many who haYe not read Edna Fer~er's live. It is the real thing. realistic sketch of human bemgs, especially Selina DeJong (nee Peake) , " AREN'T W E A LL" and her son Dirk, which has its locale Of the contemporary dramatists w~o in Chicago and the suburbs. It is a have exposed the upper class fam1ly book of life as it is. life of the English, none seem to have The title is a little misleading to that easy satirical style that was co~ one wllo l._gers through the first mon in Oscar Wilde's plays as .1 hundred pages o fthe book. Why is shown hy Frederick Lonsdale m it "So Bill?" Because Selina is al- "Aren't ·we All," which had. a run ~n ways working and thinking of her boy the New York stage and 1 now m whom she called So Big. The name book form. was given him when he would say he The story of the pla.Y lea~!' the loved his mother or whatever thing reader through some w1tty d1a loJ::_ue was put before him, by measuring a hy Lord Grenham, the worlrli:Y w1se distan ce between his thumb and fore- father of Willie Tatha m. Lord Grcnlinger and saying "So Big." We read ham chants his advice and knowledge o fthat in the first few sentences and of women to his less exp.:ricnced son, then So Big is forgotten and Selina who in a moment of forgetfulness looms out as an honest-to-goodness ki ssed a young woman just as his person . · wife, Margot, comes on the scene. Selina Peake in th e days of the priv- H i' regrettable s~ep was. tak.en heate school of ~[iss Fister's; Selina cause he was longmg for Ills w1fe who Peake as the orphan: Selina Peake had taken her vacation in Egypt. as the nineteen year old school teacher The play is mainly "talk" and when in High Prairie when "cabbages were \\'illocks. a man with whom 1Iargot, beautiful." She expected this to be under an assuemed name, had a flirmore of a nad,·etllure in the home of tation in Egypt, arrives, th ere is susKlaas Pool where she was boarding; pense developed-with the hope of seeshe appreciated the artistic imagina- ing some action. But even that cools tion of Roelf Pool. who~e imaginative off with more or less ease. talent would han~ been wasted in the All this while the reade r realizes High Prairie neighborhood where the foolishness of the entire affair. everybody thought him to he "dumb." In the end-there is a little ruffling of Anything that was not concerned with the conversation,-the reader finds out hard hand work on the farm was "dumb;, among the Dutch farmers in High Prairie. Would she ever marry a farmer? Never! But . he did. She was different than mo,t of thr farmers' wi,·es in High Prairie, hut really not until after her hushand died. Then she toilrd and lahored to ha,·e her son have the ad,·antagcs of education and life, just like most mothers feel and act. That mak es the story so interesting. E\'ery mother can find· a prototype in Selina. Every mother is a Selina. E\·cry young man and young woman sees in · elina the kind of a mother they would want: the kind of a mother who would ha\'e helped them much mor e than their own parents. That seems to be life and that's \rhat "So Big" is. Dirk or So Big, is the type that Chicago is filled with. Success, that is the aim, regardless in what fieldmoney, power, grow th. Dirk, in real- ~ ity, is Chicago. Hardly ever has there been a charact<·r in a book who por- Vacation Book Plan ia Popular Venture Here About 75 families . have . t~ken advantage of the special . pnvtlege extended to Wilmette restdents by thf public library to tak~ a n~mber. 0 books on their vacatiOn tnp dunng the summer and return the!~' when tbey come back without P::'-ymg fin.es for overdue periods ·. acc~rdmg to tss Sue Osmotherley, ltbranan. The privilege wa.s requested so that the cards at the hbrary could be r~ newed every two weeks. Th.e vacation period privilege ends m September. 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