Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Story, as the title* implies, is that of a wild goose-chase for happiness. Until she was 18 Judith Earle lived in a solitude broken only by the occasional comings and goings of the children next door. They have been her entire experience of life; of them she thinks...
BUGLES IN THE NIGHT-Barry Benefield-Century ($2). Remembering that his first novel, The Chicken-Wagon Family, was likened by the critics to Dickens, Barrie, etc., Mr. Benefield dangerously approaches cuteness in Bugles in the Night. He too visibly remembers to be whimsical, to introduce characters named Bullwinkle, Crackle, Wimpfheimer...
In the meantime, Doris and her man decide they will tie up for life, so the next day they head for a Justice of the Peace in a neighboring town in his little roadster. Superintendent Sweeney hears of it, and Cannon-Ball Casey is told to break all records in...
The settings, which are perfect, even to the posters outside the tent which optimistically portray the attractions to be found within, and the midway strollers who succumb to me lure of the Barker's fluent magic, contribute to the success of the climax, in which the Barker, about to quit...
In one of the cells lives a drab old maid with a parrot. To Mrs. Bowman's son (Douglass Mont-gomery), who has groped to young manhood in blindness, the spinster is kind, therefore beautiful. He venerates her as he does his own frowsy mother, who, when he was seven...