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· 30 WILMETTE LIFE August 2, 192Q the church and the drama-from Brigham Young to Doctor Cadman; the olayhouses and the organization meth~ds of the principal little theat~rs of America; the extraordinary development of dramatics in high schools. At the instance of the American Association for Adult Education and the Carnegie corporation· Mr. l\facgowanauthor and producer of some twentyfive plays- traYcled over 13,000 miles tn gather the material upon which this honk is based. Thoug-h the hook is ad dressed to the gene ral reader the appendices include a large amount of material on budgets and repertories .. as \\·ell a.;; bibliographies. all of sp~cial interest tn little - theater patrons. Comment on Current .Books MEMOIRS OF A GOTHIC AMERI - with the exa ltati on of visions and with CAN. By Anne , Kavanagh Priest. the haplessness of repeated defeat. 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Johannes von Guenther Harper ~ and 'of a developing social conscience This is a novel in the form of per- as well as a study in heredity and sonal recollections, something really environment. big- an American epic of the ·first rank. lts central character is emergent \\' oman and its hackgrounct is that THE SHOPPING BOOK. A 11anual cruel, tender, inefficient, p tent thing for Housewives. By \\' illiam H. called the Family. It i~ the story of Baldwin. Macmillan. ho.\\. a unified personality is developed, By advertising, hou. e-to-hou. e cana so ul is made, out of the ,·ariccl, often ,·assing, appeal$ by mail. and di sp lay s incongruous materials furnished. by in the stores the house\'- i ie is incessancestrv and expcril'ttce. 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The tyle through- clothing and jewelry, groceries, drugs, \Htt is oi hi~dt literary quality and the etc., setting forth clearly and without analYsis of motircs, the reflections prejudice the r elative ach·antages of upot; the task s and tragedies of life, diffcr<.'tlt materials and methods < t.td the meaning· of . eli-sacrilice. the men- pointing the \ray to wise huyin!!. Hcn·1 tal struggle s of those who are in dis- is a book that shows you how to get tress all contribute to the making of ynur money's wurth by choosing meran absorbingly fascinating human cltanclisc that will gwe you good doculllcnt in the ori ginal sense of that sernce. t hre<1dhare temt. Like all true epics it is i.n a deep sense raceless, timcles~ I FOOTLIGHTS ACROSS AMERIt nttrrors the age-long cnntest bt · ~ twCt' ll humanism and tracltionalism, ICA. By Kennth ~1acgo~,· an. Ilarco urt, m\·stirism and materialism. of a free Brace and Company. · sp-irit in revolt against a philistine en.-\ surH'Y of American progress tovirnnmcnt, oi seli-rcgarding and al- \\ards a ~atinnal Theater as e\·icknced trui:-.tic te_ndcnc.ies ..at \\·ar f~>r ~he 1 in the Little 'fh,·a tl:rs, . the un_ iversitics, lllClster~· tn an tndtndual. It ts alive and on Broad,,·ay. It ts the hrst thorough and authuritative estimate of the scope and vitality of the new national theater \\·hich is arising outside the commercial show-b usiness. It reviews the important littl e theaters of Europe. that hred Stanislawsky and Reinhardt, 111 our Synge and Bricux; the rise and de.\ cline of Broadway and the Road; the lirst reh cllinn in the little thnters oi Chicago and Provincetown: the pioneer work of Profe:;sor Baker at Hanard; collegiate schools of playwrighting. acting, scenery, design, and production: Fountain Pens the rise oi nati,·e i~.)lk-drama: the A wonderfu I pen for =-Yery member Littll Country Theater for the farmers; in the fa m i I y. <irea.t for business, l3y Hildcg:-~·· Flanner. :\!acmillan. These are pncms of introspection. of meditation. nf lO\'C and nature and delicate humor. and yet the keynote of the hnl>k is not the delicate or the frag i ~· · · The emotion from which :\li ss Flanncr's poem · sprin g 1s a thing of cnm·ictioti" and depth. and 'vvith rare sensitiveness to heautv she has m()lclcd it into verse. There ·is in thi s volume a most interesting variety in the form. \\·hich ranges from the quatrain throug-h the longer lyric and the sonnet to a more experimental manner hnth rhvm ed and unrhvmed . "Time's Profile." :\[iss Flanner~ first hook to appear in four years. f u IIi ll s the promi;-;e of her earlier work. TIME'S PROFILE. - THE GOLDEN FALCON. B\' h.ubert P. Tri stram Cotiin. ~[a ~millan. There is pO\\·er and originality in these poems, ancl a rare unity of nw nd-that of \Yonder at the beauty and ferocit\· nf the \\·orld. One of the authors 0\\~n lines might \\·ell be u . ed tn describe his work: "There are no shields of sha(lO\\. wh e n he looks." His intense awareness of the significance in all life gins rise to completely fresh imag~ry. Lines such as these might he chasen almost a~ random: "\Vith necks like arrow on a bO\\. Acrt1SS the sky the wild geese go . . "I saw three deer go past my doo r at dawn. \\'ith he ... ds hcl(l hi~h tht'Y filled their eyes \Yith light ·... 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