PAGE FOUR.
THE SALEM ITE
Saturday, May 10, 1930.
Book Review
“MY HOME IN THE
FIELD OF HONOR”
Nothing can possibly take the
place of actual experience for the
realistic telling of a story. Even
a writer gifted with rare imagination
is inexpressibly handicapped. How
ever, experience brings a realism and
an appealing truth to the stories of
Frances Wilson Huard. One of the
best of these books is “My Home In
The Field of Honor.” Miss Huard
is an American woman who married
a Frenchman in the days before the
World War. Her home in France,
Chateau de Villiers, was near the
Marne about sixty miles from Paris.
Thus situated, Mme. Huard was
in the very midst of the ac
tivity during the first part of the
war. Her home became later the
headquarters of the German Army
on their way to Paris. The immedi
ate vicinity of de Villiers became
famous, for there were fought the
battles of Soissons, Chateau Thierry,
the Argonne, and the Marne. Be
fore the German occupation Mme.
Huard’s chateau was made a Red
Cross hospital, and she was finally
forced to evacuate it just before
the appearance of the German army.
Nothing more thrilling, or yet more
terrible than such a life can be im
agined. Just think for yourselves
of it. An American woman left in
charge of a huge estate with no men
to aid or protect her; her husband
immediately called to the front, and
hard fighting—seven miles away!
And think of all this and subsequent
adventures written all to gether in
one thrilling, breath-taking—even
sad, volume. Mme. Huard has
written in this book all the details
and interesting notes that make her
volume an unusual one. It is excit
ing; it is realistic; in places it is
funny; it has its humor and it has
its sadness. With a rare insight
and a powerful ability of narration
Mme. Huard has gathered all her
own life history for three years, and
published it. I may venture to say
that nowhere else may be found such
a book. Few people had the oppor
tunity for such experience as did
this courageous, whimsically, wholly
delightful woman. Her own unfalt
ering courage, amazing ability and
sense of humour are clearly visible,
though that is far from being in
tended by the author. In short,
“My Home in the Field of Honour”
is an informal, realistic, poignant,
yet somehow humorous, tale of the
world war told by a woman who
saw it from a ring side seat, and
whom it touchcd heavily.
THE HIGH ADVENTURE
Jeffery Farnol’s on unlimitable
charm is revealed in one of his most
delightfujl books, “The High Ad
venture.” Like almost all of the
other Farnol books, the setting is
laid in England in a day when gen
tlemen were gentlemen', and ladies
were dreams! To be a gentleman
meant to bg foppish, fasjliionable
and languid, but to have a wrist of
steel and an unerring aim. Herewith
lies the tale of a man to whom the
first of the adjectives does not ap
ply, but who most assuredly merit
the last.
“The High Adventure,” is the
tale of a straightforward, rather ob
stinate young man who went out on
the high ways and by-ways to seek
his great adventure and he found it
—and his lady as well! Mr. Far-
nol’s rare skill at description is a
great advantage. Some stories are
of adventure, some of court life, oth
ers of mystery and still others of
love, but “The High Adventure” has
them all with a dash of human to
boot. Elegant gentleman, exquisite
ladies, gallant cavaliers, and lan
guid beaux, follow each other in
and out of the tale, while ever about
are creeping, sinister footsteps of
mystery and adventure. Jeffery
Farnol’s master band has produced
a gay yet serious, a humorous yet
sinister, a light yet earnest, story in
his latest “The High Adventure.”
Nowhere else could one find such
a combination of ideas and sub-plots
as are found here. Having once
opened its covers, no reader will
be content to put it down, until the
last page has been devoured eagply.
It is indeed a “High Adventure” for
any lover of boolw.
TERM PAPER-ITIS
“Knock, knock, knock, knock!’
No, it’s not the drowsy-eyed por
ter in Macbeth who utters Shake
speare’s well-known lines, but a
noise made by hammers, chisels, and
saws. As I sit here at my desk at
the hour of 6 A. M., awaiting the
muse of inspiration so that I may
continue my term paper, all I hear
is the intermingling of “see-teaw,
see-saw,” "bang, bang!” and “knock,
knock—knock, knock” just outside
my window. What a nuisance! Here
my term paper for Eng. 3-4' is
at ten o’clock and I can’t get the
inspiration to finish it. I have al
ready passed the stage of: “The
essays have a fitting choice of
words,” “The mood is mostly hum
orous,” and “The personal essay is
rated for its great variety of sub
ject matter. “I have even mentioned
that incontestable fact that “The
essayists are retrospective” (Heaven
only knows what that menas—give
me a dictionary quick). While I
wait for inspiration, I start in
writing my 153rd footnote, “Boys
Grown Tall, The Contributors’ Club,
(with the apostrophe ( ’ ) after the
S), The Atlantic Monthly (Thank
goodness, I didn’t forget the “the,”
“Knock, knock, knock,” sounds
again. It is crazy that I am, as the
Frenchman would say. Everytime
I hear that sound I almost go dis
tracted. For a week it’s been this
way—when anybody looks at me I
feel like I want to cry? when I go
to class I day dream and disgrace
myself; I even walk in my sleep.
(Don’t be afraid, I lock my door
at night, and I walk anywhere it
will be down three flights into the
icy depths of the swimming pool).
When my roomm|ate asks me^ to
clean-up the room, I obediently
clean it up almost unconsciously; I
listen to all the announcements in
chapel, and I don’t lose the “Y” key
—sure enough, there’s something
tur-r-rible wrong with me—it’s Term
Paper-itis. Why, even now I’m
ting here psychoanalyzing my mind,
instead of finishing my paper.
Well, here goes, to finish it—in
spiration, or no inspiration: “In
concluding (watch, out. I’m gonna
have a dangling participle—Fatal
error, 100 points off, my deah), we
(editorial we, you understand) state
that the modern familiar essays is
a variety of original subjects, both
concrete and abstract; that it por
trays the personality, characteristics,
(by the way, what else can it por
tray?) and environment of the au
thor; that it is mostly humorous,
but can be both humorous and ser
ious (phenomena of nature); that
the essay is well organized (and
how), has a fitting choice of words
(under repetition—2 points off),
and that everyday language is used.
Truly, the familiar essays of |to-
day is ‘an incomparable vehicle of
self-expression.,” Footnote for the
last, s’il vous plait—Johnson, Sam
uel, in The Comedy of Errors, 1930,
P. 62.
And that is the end of “Familiar
Essays of Today,” the thesis of the
ages! Hip, hip, hoo-rah! As it
is now 7 A. M., I will turn on the
radio to give vent to my suppressed
desires and wake the sleeping
cherubs who will probably turn into
devils at being waked up.
So this is the end of Term Paper
itis. But the next time you see
Soph with a far-off, distant look i
her eye, or doing something out of
the way, such as not eating “choelit”
pie—please understand that she i:
affected by an awful disease which
unduly affects all Sophs in the
spring of the year because of their
unique personalities and the hu
midity of the atmosphere.
‘‘Rose Ellen”
FACE CREAM
For a Perfect Complexion
See Demonstration Today
Schulte’s United
At The Theatres
AT THE CAROLINA
For the first three days of the
week, a universally popular comedy
will be the main attraction. It will
be “The Cuckoo,” in whieli Bert
Wheeler, famous comedian of the
stage is starred. This comedy is
full of laughs, and clever lines. The
fan who has seen Bert Wheeler will
be right there to see him again, and
the fan who has never had the op
portunity of seeing him will also
be there, Bert’s reputation insures
that at least. So everybody at Salem
should turn out to see the funniest
picture of the year..
On Thursday, Friday and Satur
day comes the ace of all western
pictures, “The Texan,” featuring
Gary Cooper and Fay Wray. Sup
ported by an able cast, these two
popular young players really make
screen history. It is a tale of the
wide open spaces, where horses are
horses, and men, cowboys. Surely
ne ;else could beat Gary at act
ing his own life story. Those of
you who saw “The Legion of the
Condemmed” will agree that Fay
Wray is just the right leading lady
for him.
“Beau Geste,” and “Peter
Pan” is also responsible for this
dramatic masterpiece of the talkies.
The last three days of the week
e high spots, too, because then,
Alice White comes to town. This
it is in “Show Girl in Holly
wood,” the serial hit of Liberty
Magazine. It is a sequel to the first
'Show Girl” in which Alice White
also played the little role. In the
colorful sequence. Jack Mulhall
plays (ably as usual) the role of the
leading man. “Show Girl in Hol
lywood” is more than the usual song
and dance skit, it really has a fas
cinating plot. Although it has plenty
of good dance numbers, there is also
plenty of action and drama.
Blanche Sweet and Ford Sterling
to the success of this movie.
Save the best for the last, parts of
'Show Girl in Hollywood” are film
ed in Technicolor.
AT THE STATE
For Monday, Tuesday, and Wed
nesday of next week, the State Thea-
presents an unusual attraction,
“Lummox,” adopte;d from Fannie
Hurst’s best seller, “Sensation.”
That picture is the outstanding,
dramatic, talking picture of the year.
It is the unique story of a wealthy
poet who falls hopelessly in love
with a servant girl. The actors
chosen from thousands of applicants
Winifred Westover, Ben Lyon,
William Collier, Jr. Myrtle Sted-
and many others well-known
players. Mrs. Hurst, herself, watch
ed and criticized the filming of this
picture, which is, incidentally her
favorite of all her books. Herbert
Brenon, who produced “Sorrell and
WONDERFUL’
SAID THOUSANDS
WHO SAW IT ON
BROADWAY
MON.-TUES.-WED.
Bert Wheeler and Rob
ert Woolsey, the mad
wags of “Rio Rita,” in
their first starring pro-
“’“The
CUCKOOS”
Matinee
10-25-35
Night
THUR.-FRI.-SAT.
The Carolina Theatre of
fers for your approval
Gary Cooper’s Second
Outdoor Romance
Gary
COOPER
In
“THE TEXAN”
Laurel & Hardy
—In—
“BRATS”
CAROLINA NEWS
PICTURE
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