Judge — January 1937 — page 51: what you’re looking at

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A FREE COPY ..FOR YOUR LIBRARY of a volume containing sine complete plays by the winner of the NINE PLAYS BY EUGENE O’NEILL CONTENTS Selected by the author, with an Introduction by Joseph Weed Krutch MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA STRANGE INTERLUDE EMPEROR JONES MARCO MILLIONS THE GREAT GOD BROWN ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WINGS LAZARUS LAUGHED THE HAIRY APE DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS RETAIL PRICE FIVE DOLLARS EucEeNe O'NeILt's plays in recent years have marked him as the most significant figure in the contempo- rary American drama. The recent award to him of the Nobel Prize for Literature puts a foreign stamp of approval upon our own native appraisal. This volume of repre- sentative plays, selected by Mr. O'Neill, wasa past “book-dividend” distributed, free, among Book-of- the-Month Club members. Why a free copy of this volume is now offered to you, is explained below. WHY WE OFFER TO GIVE YOU A FREE COPY OF THIS BOOK FREGNE! HERE is no reader of this magazine who will not S: RPE find it in many ways to his advantage to subscribe “a Sto the Book-of-the-Month Club, and we make this offer to demonstrate that such is the case. ‘What we propose is this: mail the coupon below, and a copy of NINE PLAYS will immediately be put aside in your name, and held until we hear whether or not you care to join. In the meantime, a “booklet wil at once be sent to you outlining how the Club operates, No Compulsion to Buy Any Book—Study this booklet at your leisure. You may be surprised, for instance, to learn that belonging to the Club does not mean you have to pay any fixed sum each year. Nor does it mean that you are obliged to take one book every month, twelve a year (you may take as few as four). Nor are you ever obliged to take the specific book-of-the-month selected by the judges. You have complete freedom of choice at all times, More than 125,000 families— composed of discerning but busy readers like yourself—now obtain most of their new books through the Book-of-the-Month Club. What are the advantages that induce them to do so? Books You May Have Missed—The principal one 1s that you really obtain and read the new books you promise yourself to read. Over the past few years there have undoubtedly been dozens of new books which you were very anxious to read at the time, but which you would confess sadly you simply never “got around to." This would never bappen if you belonged to the Book-of-the-Month Club, The Club’s unique systema effectually insures you against missing the partic- ular books you wish to read. One Book Free for Every Two Bought—There are also very marked material advantages in belonging to the Club. Records over the past few years show that for every two books its members pur- chased, on she average they received one book free. Book-dividends alone (which represent a form of profit sharing) amounted to more than $1,250,000 worth last year. Here is a remarkable fact: of the tens of thousands of families which use this service, not a single one was induced to join by a salesman, Every one of them joined upon the recommendation of friends who were already members, or after simply reading—as we ask you to do —the bare facts about the many ways (too many to outline fully in this space) by which membership in the Club benefits you as a book- reader and book-buyer. If you are interested, simply mail the coupon, and a free copy of the NINE PLAYS will be reserved in your name, pending your reading of the booklet we shall send you. BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB, 38S Madison Avenue, New York, Prease send me withoat cost, a booklet outlining how the Book- of-the-Month Club operates. This request involves me in no obligation to subscribe to your service. It is understood that if I decide to join the club, I will receive a free copy of NINE PLAYS, by Eugene O'Neill. Business Connection, if any Official Position or Occupation... If adteen years or under check here, and address envelope Dept. B,C) Boos ehipped to Canadian members through Book ef-tbe- Month Ciab (Canada) Led, comicbooks.com