EEE EEE Eel SSS seen anme eee ees Bee rePrecerm es” -_ ser atee te gE Te ge TRA eg Tg EAE A, TE ER AT ee enn nn nn nnn nnn een nen eee NN “Author of ‘Jake and Kid’) “sssiveessis Writes of ‘0 p ' i" BOOK CORNER: / | wnVo | , ; F HIGH RIVER, Ale, (CP)—¥. OOF CP Peter Pan Creator Lovable, one of Canada’s best known authors, thinks a writer Baffling Says Brogr apher should live on his pwn back dourstep and write about EDITOR'S NOTE 4\ While book reviews submitted 'to The Dally News “Book Page” - | by. members of the Prince: Ru- 4. perl Public Llbrary "“Baok | Re- Aiview Club” are ‘of extremely ji high standard .. . they ARE 4 STILL. TOO LONG. ° Z| We enjoy putting out ‘a book! page for you and many times 7 standing , special | “fo oth weekend, ’ New! i . are hard-pressed to find mater- \ things with which he is familiar, This is another in a series of book reviews arranged for la} of similar vein to. keep tt all shades jst delivere a , That's why he lives in this . The Daily News Book: Page and sponsored by the Book Review “hook page.” ‘Therefore too- Club of the Prince Rupert Public library. It is hoped that the A ary. s hoped th a Cage ta town, 40 miles south al te age a ai ersily: reviews of books from the library by various city residents aml - a , rode the; presented every week will help stimulate interest and encout- — ‘ Creator of “Jake and the Kid,"|rods and hitch- hiked to Mont-| age others to use the public library’s fiction, non-fiction and- popular CBC series, and author! real where he boarded a Greck| ref i of numerous storics with a Prair-| freighter and worked his pas- reference facilities to a greater extent. ‘ong reviews make. extra. work, Thirty. to 45 minutes are often spent whittling down 4, 500- ‘word review to the required. 300, We. repeat * Anat 30° lines, each urs 1 day au writioe to seven visited Eogond aera By CYNTHIA ASQUITH Nene eoy wishing in i paly of the 24 hours may find himiSpain on a f (E. P. Dutton # Co, Inc, New York) UREA A lh ER g News COPY Paper ory ee doing a wide variety of things, ‘Tach night he wrote. Ione Reviewed by FRANCES LARGE _| BERNARD OSTRY, co-author wie thelr revlows can: have it from fishing to cutting meat, dlary-fashion lett € 10Ng, Cynthia Asquith first met Sir James Barrie at a dinner party! of “The Ag f Mack .: i by calling at the editorial rooms y-fas etters to _his/ jn 1918 and in her diary she wrote him as the “shy, sad, apparently ; Te eed | (upstairs), That too wil, make One day recently he cut and| mothe - King,” i 0 “book. roy packaged half a rime beef for} lished ih the University of Ment morose little Barrie.” At a second meeting she found him droll which . ca inte nes pk your job ane rte easter a the home decv-freeze. |toba Quarterly and Bill the | ite ant te sald she had no’sense of ease with him. | OBC cancelled proposed TV. you write 450-word reviews, io /DIll Mitchell handles knife and; publishing confirmed his desire bring, nase pave MOANL 0 | meen | nal diseustion. on it, CBC don ra sate a8 First quality. Assorted» ‘eg theat- -saw with familiarity andj to be a writer, at e third. dinner together, fot personality, He was a man who which. said book just didn’t j when it left you; - “when its lengths. Branded movhindse, 2 duse, During his university days} He had en:ered university with ; T Dart, Barrie! liked and enjoyed people. His| merit. a special program, was ‘chopped down to:300 words..IU'S|f ‘ to lie worked weekends one term In|intention of becoming a doct was at his best, infinitely amus-| understanding of the theatre! criticized in House of c re ee ie fresh’ meats department. of ! ecoming a doctor.| ing, extraordinarily kind’ and/and stagecr ine ees House of Com- | your, review and.we'd. prefer to, large Winnipeg store In his second year of pre-njedl- | delightfully gay and siagecraft was unique. , | mons’ for action, run it exactly gs you wrote th. a la upeg store. cine, his wrist trouble recurred| «tq put me ‘on the best of | . He tried his friends sorely, DY) oe me a : The work was only one phase} and for a while It was in 5 ver" é a plas- i te " _{ he was very dear to them and in a varied and far-nficld life! ter east, rms with myself,” the author} norhans the best par) of the) diuich has resulted in his becom!" ‘To round off his formal train | ”U!C*: book is the description of the] | 9 * rt ; pe ot Wool. Filled My Ing a versatile and successfull ing as a writer, he went to Beat- A few weeks later cyathia AS-| summers at Stanway where his! {° For Fine and Exquisite ot COMFORTS | author. Now in his carly 40s,/t1e and took a course in short| (ut? Became Bartles “private! trienas tiled the old count | 7 CP r ae he has a wealth of personal cx-+story and play-writing, For a private secrelary”—and - began! nouse i overflowing “Ns | of perience Lo draw on for his stor-|few 'ycars after that he did q/ 2 "sociation which was to last) “ty the midst of them was Bar- a Jewellery a i Good ‘ually chinta, cover oa Les, ivariety of things, mostly by wa j unt Barrie’s death 20 years rl Naa anal o e,.. playing crick ganiz. ing, assort Lou Bill Mitchell was born in Wey- of collecting story material. ne ater, ing the ndlesg como of atu. &, assorted colo ts, Size lum, Sask, and lived there un-: worked In classified advertising Those 20 years were difficult | We.» wielding a lawn cro uet il 12 years of age. . HIS mother |jn 1936 and later became a pro- | es for Barrie, He had been an}, 1 4. with i ly skil q t and a brother still live there and! gram arranger for a Calgary ra-{ intensety industrious as well as alles with deadly skill . .. ab _— , woe. A 60x72", cosy and warm, A‘: . ror Every Occasion re IH good extra and pleasing’ to look’. at, Special, whet: Hill makes frequent visits to his! dig station a great creative writer, but at 57 his wittiest, gayest, most en-: ce! - . . “ normmecitne (lcaring self. a . ! rs home town, He attended the University of ne longed for “one engrossing| "No man ould have asked “MAKE SURE IT'S. Son OY At 12 years, Bill developed tu-/ Ajberta in 1940-41 takin ' g educa- \ " : ‘loving ay . : . : : bercular wrist condition and hisi tion and for two years taught (“Mary Rose" and “The Boy mre Ot atone a tale eo dovtor recommended a warmer! gohoo), David' were tne only full length timentality urs thi intin te ISON’ I OY climate for the winter, Mrs. | While at the university, pili} Plays Barrie wrote during | the any vs S intimate” oe Jewel fers | Se om rear for the winter and returned to\ Now they have three children: | This book is a delightfully ine eae nectce A TOSS spend the summers near Regindy orm, 19; Hughie, 9, and Willa formal record of those years, | PRA ANAC CASS AEO tT nana ida and attended the Univers HWY) The first Mitehell stor esl - ae oe y was: pressions of a complex andj ; 2. ot Manitoba. ‘sold to Maclean's Magazine on sometimes baffling but lovable, THE UNIVERSAL S$ - , FRIDAY AND oS “Toxh Aa te, During ihe varly years of his! the day Bill and Merna were | cece tee ee ecm cntie ee sete — s : a developed what he terms his sting stories since 1933 and re- B Lj EdC “sense pereepvo the they stock ‘ceiving a consistent run of re- ureau ists: ‘in-trade of a writer.” The sense: jections. Another shi ment a “als perception of what is going on| While writing a feature, “Cow Stock ° thi ‘5 be up at this .price,-subs Mitchell took her son to Florida! met and married Merna Hirtle,| latter part of his life’) and sympatheilc “Portrait of DBs finished high schoo! in Flor- i Lyne, one year. Barrie's nioods were the ex: oe wrist trouble the futuye author married. Bill had been submit- Fay FLA 5 ft WS cannot cra | SH FETS around one and the ability to'yeaven,” on beef shipment from, Slang Terms | 100 sumuiate the same feeling isthe Alberta ranching at Be ‘very high count, free. from readers Is what wriling consists | 435) pot his fitst nequaintance TO CHOOSE €. . filling. ene: size 2 81100. { of, he says. lwith the Highwood country. He F, @ f FROM © hy used Lo walk down the jong! Uked High River and decided it or us omers itrort and out of W cybur non t tot, vas where he wanted to live. CALGARY @ — The Better . | ne unchanging and sient: Ty 1948, Bill went lo Maclean's! Business Bureau here has issued There's Real Value Here. Sore Were: Prairie to spend hours there by Magazine in ‘Toronto as fiction | booklet explaining the slan cS 4 i cornet geen Coe remaining there Unree oy faatatking swindlers to help |) lly $2 ho the Wind,” was quite literally su-| ‘sa, ls st nove hoe el prospect tive customers ree rigina y 5. Tak aQKe e Your C oice ate jobiographical In mony portions. ‘lished in 198 and led to his po-, ON cm. ver of the: | was that Httle boy out on the:, sition with Maclean's, Other than | en Rose, manager of the Prurie, listening, looklay and. shat period, he has lived at High | bureau, said they will always This Fantastic Price. Be Early for Best waiting on the Pralrie vastness) piva ‘make a siip of the tongue and Cc fis and mystery.” ver. ae _ any person versed in (he “slang. Selection cx = Sr EEE ust can recognize it and stecr | po clear, *, i Chi Dy hes Writer To Leave \" Included in the booklet» are: * = ; a4 es |: ithe words “alagazam” and “air.’ ie ritese U3 t Government’ ost ‘ dale," The first is the traditional a : OTTAWA, (UKIO— Nicholas i reeting of. confidence. men, CHOP SUEY . Monsatrat is resigning from; while the sccand indicates the: . CHOW MEIN | ‘the United Kingdom Govern. ! person to whom it is addressed: | /ment Service with effect from is an ‘aristocrat’ of the frater-: Open 6 p.m.-3:30 a.m. | April 21st, 1956, t nity. | He will be sneeceded as diree-: If someone refers to a person, d C f, ‘tor of the United Kingdom In- | as a “sweet pea” or a “lily” it Ho ywoo a e. ‘formation Services in Caneda by j indicates he believes that per-, MADIES — 7 ‘Donald Kerr at present intson is a chump. An “addict’ is a) so oe Subs, ‘Large: sizez 543 Vor Oulside Orders Ph. 6226 | charge of the United Kingdom chunip who gets taken onee and fl TC ' J scolors; soft and Ve Information office | in Toronto. ‘keeps coming back for more f 2 Special. EACH... tet ——— - : : ‘ ni : vale ty an . ts ‘ some of the phrases are fairly common use in everyday _speceh, For instance, a “beef,” e : : mu pallyhoo,” . ; : ea | to clear the way:far. néw. Spring mer: | A “eapper" is a lure for fake duced drastically for quick clearance | chondise that is now on the way. : _ MAROU ISETTE:. V aucuons and we Jean deal!’ is a SIZES 10-29 SIZES 1 9-20 ry RT \; INS | cash sale, A “doodiebug” Is a de uy : ae : a An assortment of odd num- ‘Odd. pigces, “an . | bers: Soveral pair alike, - wool. mixtures. Suitable fo 4 e non-scientific gadget for use in’ -urying to locaie minerals or ail, © When theres a “flyer” out far area” man dt means there are PS . “Warrants ‘ot ie arrest in seve . mostly large 51208. All. |. dresses, suits, ’ skirts h white chenille. spot, Clear- aay wide.. YARD. eral conmunities ab the same ; tine, He might try to case the ing out for new stock, Vale. From siluation by “fitting (he mitt" “ ues Up fo #3. 9 PAIR. bribing an offeiat a special 53° 39 | | Broken lines from regular stock. Re- | Fitted and Boxy ¥ hie’ ‘suits reduced |. ERILLED Prince Rupert ” A confidence man needn'| | LADIES’ jook dike a gorilla, He might be To a “from. with glims!) 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