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...brilliant pre-War era belonged Ernestine Schumann-Heink, hardy at 73, broadcasting in Chicago last week for Hoover Vacuum Cleaners and sending flowers to the bewildered Mother Dionne from "Mother Schumann-Heink." Geraldine Farrar, long the high-spirited pet of the Met, has also turned to radio. Sedately she describes the doings on the stage where once she ruled. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan last week after her Debussy lecture-recitals and a visit to Sing Sing...
THIS WANDERER -Louis Golding- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Mr. Golding takes a vacation from his heavily-documented novels to tell some modern Arabian Nights tales. Style: easy, effortless, luminous...
When Publisher John Farrar received from Colonel Tweed in London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors...
JOSHUA TODD-Fulton Oursler-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Bulky, somewhat raffish story of a young man against whom fate loaded the dice...
...SEGUNDO SOMBRA: SHADOWS ON THE PAMPAS-Ricardo Güiraldes-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The life of a gaucho on the South American prairie. Has been called the Argentinian Huckleberry Finn...