Big Family by Bellamy Partridge review in Cedar Rapids
The review praises Big Family as a delightful autobiographical excursion and compares Partridge’s clan from Phelps New York to many American families. It highlights humor in Partridge family customs such as morning inspections, large dinners, and village escapades. John Selby calls the book great fun with vivid anecdotes.
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Dig
Bellamy Partridge
Partridge
Partridges
Phelps
N. Y
Father Partridge
Grandmother
Louise
Louie
Bellamy
Miss Bruce
John Selby
National Geographic
Harper's
Scribners
Century
Cosmopolitan
Mer~ Eurys
North American Review
Forum
Mystery and Wakefield s Course in a Review Card
A literary market notes Percy Marks Between Two Autumns at Reynal and Hitchcock with $2.54. The review lauds its psychological mystery and flawed but engaging tale set at a country home, focusing on the enigmatic Tink and the unraveling fate it triggers. It also covers Mazo de la Roche Wakefield s Course and Ben Ames Williams The Strange Woman with brief plot notes and judgments.
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Percy Marks
Reynal and Hitchcock
Tom Steele
Letty
Letty Steele
Charles Tinker Larme
Tink
Steeles
Tom
Elizabeth North Hoyt
Ben Ames Williams
Jenny
Bangor
Isaiah Poster
John Evered
Mr. Williams
John Selby
Whodunit RATTLE HIS BONES by Julian Shore review
A drugstore rental library marketed mystery titled RATTLE HIS BONES draws critique for its dry skeleton of plot and title disconnect. The piece muses on whodunits and cites Gertrude Stein praising detective stories as an untapped fiction mine while noting crime's everyday exposure.
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Julian Shore
William Morrow and Company
Gertrude Stein
Books of the moment for boys and career guides reviewed
A Minneapolis author Curtis Erickson writes popular boys books The Navy in Review and The Army in Review join Civil Service Careers for Boys co authored with Norman V Carlisle The Art of Self Control by Ralph A Habas and Powder Valley Pay-off by Peter Field previewed with publication details and prices.
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Minneapolis
Curtis Erickson
Army
Navy
Erickson
Tom and Jerry
Norman V. Carlisle
Messrs Erickson
Carlisle
Washington
Dutton
Ralph A Habas
Reynal and Hitchcock
Powder Valley
Peter Field
William Morrow and Co
Critique of crime fiction's flaws and ambitions
The author laments crime stories often reduce to gore and puzzle solving, contrasting vivid, humane depictions of violence by Poe Dostoevsky and Richard Wright with the numb, mechanical plots that fail to evoke genuine emotion or insight.
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Poe
Dostoevski
Richard Wright
College Club Opens Fall Session With Mary Waterstreet
The Cedar Rapids College Club launched its first fall program Saturday afternoon at the Woman's Club House with Mary Waterstreet presenting a study of famous paintings. She portrayed Mona Lisa, Ann of Cleves, Marie Antoinette, Ballet Dancer, Whistler's Mother, and the Duchess of Windsor in period costumes with period-accurate staging. Mrs Flora MacKay Kitch furnished incidental music and Mrs W L Barnard introduced Waterstreet as club members discussed plans for the thirtieth anniversary yearbook. An informal reception followed.
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Mary Waterstreet
Cedar Rapids College Club
Woman's Club
Miss Waterstreet
Mona Lisa
Ann of Cleves
Marie Antoinette
Whistler
Duchess of Windsor
Madonna Lisa
Mary Wallerstreet
da Vinci
Leonardo
Paris
Dega
America
Windsors
United States
Flora MacKay Kitchin
W. L. Barnard
John T. Hecker
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Leland Stowe
Whittlesey
Whiteoaks
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Mazo de la Roche
Atlantic Monthly
Little, Brown and Company
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Canada
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Ireland
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Wake
Jalna
Ward
Margaret Dilley
Hell Cat
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Stoddard
Yates
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Jine
Bob Speer
Janet Lindsay
Fiske
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Frederick G. Murray
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