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...JULES - Mari Sandoz - Little, Brown...
...When Mari Sandoz. writing under a pseudonym, won honorable mention in the Harper Intercollegiate Short Story Contest in 1925, her aging, domineering father thundered at her: "You know I consider writers and artists the maggots of society!" But on the last day of his life, when he was demented with pain, disease and alcohol, "Old Jules'' Sandoz broke down and urged her to tell the story of his struggles as a homesteader and community builder, in the desolate Running Water region of western Nebraska. Last week his daughter fulfilled his wish with a biography that won the Atlantic...
Simply and directly written, Old Jules is the story of a tenacious career in a tough country, presents intelligible pioneers who were made coarse by hardship and loneliness. Although she confesses to an abiding fear of "Old Jules" that dated from her girlhood, Mari Sandoz writes of him with sympathy, without sentimentality, with an honest facing of some unpleasant aspects of his character...
...supporting roles will be taken by Edward Streeter '36 as Scraggy Evan the Post, Robert McKee '37 as Owain Flatfish, Miss Betty Ruth Lawrence as Mari Jones, Miss Katherine Young as Mrs. Jones Bakehouse, Stephen Greene '37 as Timothy Ysgairnolwen, Howard Patch '38 as Mr. Gas Jones and Miss Agnes Love as Mrs. Resurrection Jones...
Other members of the cast are Lois Hall as Gladys--Miss Hall was the Sphinx in "La Machine Infernale"--Edward Streeter '36 as Scraggy Evan the Post, Robert McKee '37 as Owain Flatfish, Betty Ruth Lawrence as Mari Jones, Katherine Young as Mrs. Jones Bakehouse, Stephen Greene '37 as Timothey Yagairnolwen, Howard Patch '38 as Mr. Gas Jones and Agnes Love as Mrs. Resurrection Jones...