The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1922, Page 11

FRIDAY, JANUARY 138, 1922. A WEEKLY ~ By Homer Brew BOOK DISCUSSION eee | Being a veracious account of the first weekly meeting of | The Star Book Club, as transcribed by the unfortunate mem- SLL They door a few ; sulkity desks. (Not that we have any preju- dice against the unfair sex, but BLUE COW BUTTER STORE Cut Price Saturday G tnation LEAF LARD, lb. Pot Roast, Ib........... PEGGY'S BAKERY HAMBURGER, lb. FARMERS MARKET UMLUUENYOOSVENTEUUGEENELOSERAAEOUOOOAEUUATOOANULUAEEA SUN AA ber selected by Fate and the Big Boss. The door of the star chamber is locked against a possible invasion by Wanda and Cynthia and other feminine scribes who want to join Our Little Group of Serious Thinkers. we might want to discuss or a revised Rabelais—and they would cramp kick peevishly at the times, then depart for their respective gen” our style) behind his HERE ARE 1922 ‘The members are seated desk and SUPREME VALUES AT THE I om pel 2 wl ‘td Join our crowd of thrifty buyers where the cars start. Tomorrow—shop where you can SAVE MONEY Seed Ib; 2 Ibs. for 45¢ Double size A-No. 1 LIMBURGER CHEE: j 40¢ a Brick. Special Opposite Big Meat Market Round Steak, lb. Sweet Bacon, ib. ee Wieners, 2lbs.......... Eastern Sausage, Ib... INDEPENDENT PACKING CO. NO. 3 WE CASH PAY CHECKS FRESH LYNDEN BUTTER—Best in the Country. AMERICAN LOAF CHEE: E Near Main Entrance Dismond “I” Little Pig Sausage The meat delicacy that mete In your mouth, TALL CANS, each .. wine gt i or SMALL CANS, each : @ Wieners, 2 Ts. ..350 SOUTH END DEL ICATESSEN Stall 0 10c . .20c .-10c . .18c ..2le . 20 . .35¢ . 20 Eliiett 4239 PEGGY’S BREAD 1'4-Ib. loaves for 10¢ Always the Same High Quality To clean up our Fruit Cakes we have cut them to 40¢ a pound. BUTTERHORNS, now 2 for........ COOKIES, per dozen Pot Roast, Ib........ Boiling Beef, Ib.......... Round Steak, Ib......... Facies; Ve errs ce Hams, Ib.. Leaf Lard, Ib..... Stah 84 It took five years Rear Entrance to make it right = An Amazing Book of | ¢ Revelations Dealing Frankly With Life and Living edition 10c “Jur of horn-rimmed LL aT RUROGTTTRTRTTIRT TAT TT TT nmen; Hal ne of his pepper it whirte © er ne a ble and odoriferous pipe; Bob twiddlin the black ribbon f his pine M Av « Mann aning be against the wall; i. T. balancing h lee ¢ om a Home Ure arching his pockets for a } tima and Hank reading the advance notice on a copy of Edna Ferber's “Three Soldiers,’ Hank opens i ne a chgaret,” demands ner lank reluctantly disgorges iors,’ he begins mateh?” — interrupts “Three Soldiers,” he continnes amy, if any of you fellows want anything more, speak up! TI thought thie was a book @ not a Y. M. C. A. canteen “Go on, Ko on," he is urged by the attendant literati, cognocenti and intelligenaia ie Three Soldiers’ is one of the out standing books in the mess of the post-war literature.” “Who wrote itt’ “dohn Dos Passos, a young Harvard graduate, He presents im startling style an cntirely new picture of American youth in the war machine ‘over there.’ The moods, thoughts and men- tal viewpoint of the doughboys are phrased in blunt and force ful wording which leaves no doubt that they did not like the tmultiple horrors of war.” uaslon | BOB SEKS ‘e MISTAKE “That's where he made his mis take” Bob puta in. Bob was in | the marines, the advertising branch of the army, so he haw to stand up for the military lite. “The ordinary doughboy got quite a kick out of the service,” he goes on, “He was always grousing about the hardehipa and about his su- perior officers, but he really enjoyed the life to a certain extent.” “The trouble with the book is that ite hero is not typical of the American doughboy,” Homer Frew interjecta, (Homer was in the air service, #0 what does he know about | the army”) “The principal character te an artintic, soft-voteed, super-cultured individual who weeps bitter tears when he ts forced to do K or pick up cigaret butts in the com- pany street A whole chapter is devoted to his agonies when he has to wash the barracks windows!" DESERVES BEING LIKED BY KEALISTS “Well, anyway,” Hank finally manages to my, “it la a grim and depreming book and deservedly popular with our growing number of ‘realism Despite some of its minor defects, it is a first-class piece of work Homer Brew is the next reviewer He has just finished “Eric Dorn,” by Hen Hecht, and is partially stunned by the cascade of words. “Thte op he mys, “is the Moat prillia Piece of verbal acro bation I have yet encountered author seems to be trying to words what modern painters been trying to do in color “He is a futurint—ecubmt—im- Preasionist. Anything you like. But his effects are stunning. Some of his descriptions are like pastels — masterpicces of verbal description. “His description of a newspaper Office is perfect.” “Ye Ed puts in. “There in no mistaking it—the old Chicago News office.” Homer continues OMER KEEPS TALKING “Erte Dorn ia the universal » the Oltimate seoffer philosophy lovers, do ia have 1) He has no He ix so en srosmed in words that he can hardly peresive reality book is toonoctastio be popular with the it f¥ caviare But goed caviare.” You didn't ne creed. It will Boronia doggone neve clubs, tell Georke un much about the book,” protests. “And I never ate caviare in my life.” That's kind of novel Homer arguen. “You can’t describe the dream of an ‘Intellectual “hop- head.’ ” Bob unlimbers his shiftalah “We come now,” he orates, “to ‘Ptomaine Street’ by Carolyn Wells. “It is little more than a clever but rather trite play on words, the But it is one of the leverest satires of the season. People who like Miss Wells’ works will find this book up to her usual frothy standard. Others ptob- ably w nything in it, un nm Street’. ‘The best parody of ‘Main Street’ in ‘Main Street’,” somebody pute in It im evident that he didn’t appre ciate Sinclair Lewis’ expose of the TURN ABOUT ‘ 8 FAIR: PLAY “I might add,” Bob finishe: Miss Wells evidently didn't” think nuch of “Main Street’. This is only wt, however, for it neem# reason r Lewis will ot.” the list is heay Sonex” by George the 23rd ts bly certain that Sine t Like The next r stuff he Song of rof. Jastrow. © reviewer "The volume ove that Solomon of Songw He 1. That Solomon did not write the k on is an attempt to did not write the he ora one ricalt begins Ares id hymns That he was not he songs 2. That the sone es carrying a divi 4.7 re not allegor. Treana ge at it is not a drama. That it is not a tory, but simple, powerful folk ms, which forced the pedanta to lude it in the Bible because of the rresistib universal appeal of emotional love SOMEBODY ELS! EKAKS jounds like Laurence Hope comes a hopeful voice ard of the ‘Song of Song “That's what you get for not read (Elizabeth Asquith, daughter of the former Prime Minister of England) ® character in continuous | | it in." | to!en’sy viewpoint from the days when “1 never | repre Jan enthusiastic THE SEATTLE STAR Stalle—Pike tall cans 30¢—Limit 4 onyer ry > SOAP vstal | White.'s.;26¢ At Sugar Stalls—Pike Place and Economy Markets Stock Reduction Sale! EXTRA FINE ORANGE PEKOKN TEA, LB. ALLAN CAN IMPORTED OLIVE OIL . IGALIAN CAN ZOLA SALAD OIL... 3 CANS CAMPBELL’S TOMATO SOUP .. 2 large cans Milk cee ie Sma! Navy Neans ’ 10 can Aunt Dinah Mo- Speckled Bayou * ae Split Lima Beans . iden Syrup She Hreken He Sweet Prun, ihe Glows Stare ee pkg. 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Kratt Cheene .....20¢ 2 Iba, Seeded Raisins BSE | 3 cans Assorted Vegetables. .35¢ 60 Ceylon Tea eee -48¢ | Fresh Nut Margarine 25e¢ Mapleine Kiddies love Mapleine-fia- vored rice, cereal and corn starch puddings, 202. bot avo ..-35¢ Crescent Baking Powder We recommend it for light. perfectly raised cakes and Wb, 35e¢ biscuits GREEN’S BUTTER STORES Stalls 102-103-105 Main Floor, Corner Market Sanitary Market Also Stall 102, ine your Bible,” gomes another; is the theme of Edna Ferber’s well- quice | Written tale,” Ye Ed sums up. he book is really an Interesting} A thunderous knock at the door| soncludes. “It) interrupts the seasion at this point | is t r nf ry asdust aca-|It is the office boy demanding that | style, and shows what can be/ the editor interview an irate burglar] with sterial as old as the| who has objected little publicity amen.” The office boy is quickly banished chet. 7 rer.|into the Outer Darkness | Mit liege pana Tint |_ “I've read two books” Hal, the| her's novel pout “Chicago | Re@sHeaded, begins, “One of them | tated an argument abou ein the |! Midiculous, I leave the choice to | ag the Ne ter of AF the individual, United State indivi UN LE When this wag firmly quelled, he M filet LED oceeded pr | ; “Miss Ferber has given anoth | ) by er pos ntimate glimpse into | . Kafka, is a dollar and | the heart of Chicago life, But | half's worth of prefatory prom. | ise to entertain 9 reader, unful- | filled by the author in the suc- ceeding chapter, It is # collec. b ew three | ton of drinking yarns — that ot Shy tenes eres night be interesting if one were typical women—a maid of 74, gp Ds § f | irl of ‘ull of highballs. Inasmach as | Sen co lyy alg aris 4 . none of us is full of highballs, civil 2, of repressed girl of our own days, re eae eee toe say and a maid of the Flapper Era, ie other book is Joe Tumulty's "Woodrow Wilson a I Know Him,’ whom neither man, God nor the | i. of you are already familiar with the book does more than picture a cross-section of a metropolis. It mirrors a deep understanding devil ix able to repress. this ‘book, It gives a close-up pio THE UNMARRIED ture of Wilson as professor, candi. HAVE THEIR SAY |date, governor, president, warrior Flapper!” ker, {dealist and huzza from an un! married cognoscenti. | “An interesting transition in wom comes | statesman, peacema broken citizen. “It is a good book for people of | this state to read who seek to rid| themselves of machine politics and for Hurrah ssion was accepted as natural! gang rule. A book that prepares land inevit day when it is|the reader for the time, soon o n- | openly qui and even defied,’ ing, wen Wileon will. be untversat} I Have Only Myself to Blame” By PRINCESS BIBESCO | Wells: J. B. Lippincott, $1.25. “The Girls," by Edna Ferber; ne Dowbiedagy emai Ge | “Say, Jim, I hear your old sweet. | “Woodrow Wilson As I Know! heart has fallen in love with you all| Him,” by Joseph P. Tumulty; Double. | again. What's the idea, any | oa ————--—_ | Way? 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Beginn's Bake Shop. 1523% First Ave.—Sanitary Mkt $5. j Robinson persuaded the company to by Ben Hecht. publish it for him, Page & C frie Dorn, da. of his age--a man who lived too far in advance of his time to be under-| “Rummyniscens by Frederick| “The Hidden Places,” by Bertrand stood." |p. Kafka; Cornhill Publishing Co.,|W. Sinclair (Little, Brown & Com- Howls of “Throw Him Out!” “Kill | $1.50. pany, $1.90 net), Neither high-brow |" “phe Song of Songs,” by Morris| nor trashy, but just the sort of book Jastrow; Lippincott, $3. |to keep around for “odd reading.” “pnter Jerry,” by Edwin Meade! An ingenious plot is worked out thru Robinson (The MacMillan Co., New|@ number of exefting ramifications, York, $1.75). A cross-section out of/and the author presents, incidental the early life of the author, Clinical ly, an interesting study in erotrasts rather than literary, The principal|of fortune, The scene is said in point of interest in the work is not| Vancouver, B. C, ‘and the nearby so much why it was written, but how | woods, Democrat!" of Him!" “Doggone the wild«yed republicans club. Throwing thew cigarets in the waste paper basket, the first meeting of the Book Club broke up in » riot, eee ROLL CALL “Three Soldiers,” by John Dos Pas- sos; George H, Doran Co., $2 “Ptomaine Stree by Carolyn from the | JILTED LOVER FAVORED Seattle Housewives, Help The Campfire Girls |turned you down cold when you re-| fused to spend all your salary on clothes?” | “Maybe I did tell you that. she| called me a tramp and said she was| ashamed to go out with me. She was right, though, and T guess she knows I've taken her advice as she! |has smiled at me ever since I got this new overcoat and suit at) Cherry's. I learned that I can dress better on credit and have a big hunk | of the old salary left over. “They are on Second ave., between | Madison and Spring, 207 Rialto Bldg., the Pig’n Whistle. Take eleva Advertisement. ‘| NEED MONEY! do dental it And mu: work to get shall give the and workma ‘always, but a dollar for dollar yeu pay me for your dental work EDWIN 3. BROWN 106 Columbia st, For more than 20 yearn Seattle's lead ing dentist They will call on you and tell you how. Read This Story Which Lifts the Veil from the & Intimacies of Society — Starting in The Post-Intelligencer Next Sunday