Life — December 9, 1926 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Life fe Sy. Set marble or plas base, we pens, $30,00 The Gifts that Santa Claus’ would Choose Here are gifts that echo Merry Christmas all the year around Different, usetul, lovely, and friendly ¥ ¥ Wahl Fountain Pen Desk Sets and Wahl-Ever- sharp Writing Sets ¥ ¥ The desk sets are something entirely new ¥ A single gracefully ta- pered Wahl Fountain Pen, or a pair of them, perfectly balanced to the hand and set on a base of imported Italian Portoro Marble, Emeraline Glass, or Pearl Am- erith y¥ For the business man’s desk, let us suggest Portoro Mar- ble, jet black veined with tints from gray to gold, or finest Em- eraline Glass ¥ For the woman's desk, Pearl Amerith, with its texture and sheen of mother-of- pearl, in Silver White, Rose Pink, Orchid, or Empyrean Blue ¥ ¥ Ball and socket joints that permit turning the pens to any angle or elevation ¥_¥ Wahl- Eversharp Writing Sets —a Wahl Pen nested in an attractive gift box with its companion Ever- sharp—are trite gifts for eve body ¥ ¥ At Wahl-Eversharp counters everywhere. ve geld-filled $13.00 EVERSHARP and WAAL PEN © 1926, The Wahl Company, Chicago The Wahi Company, Ltd., Toronto Among the New Books Little Benny’s Book. By Lee Pape (Macy-Masius). In case you didn’t hear me the first time, this is the diary of a small boy which is a valuable contribution to American humor and something you shouldn't miss if you like books which provoke you to audible laughter. The New Universe. By Brownell (D, Van Nostrand Ce From the Sun, through the forn of the Earth, through the evolution of Man, to the social order of to- Which, of course, cannot be easily laughed off. Portraits and Portents. By A. G. Gardiner (Harper). An eminent London journalist presents a few close-ups of in- dividuals in the limelight The Free-Lance Writer's Hand- book. Edited by William Dorsey Ken- nedy (The Writer Publishing Company). A symposium of experts, including our own Mr. Sherwood, on where to sell your stuff— how! Wine, Women and War. mous (J. H. Sears ¢ Co.). 1 shall be an old, old woman before the last war diary is published, and it's a frightful future to contemplate. The Bugle Sounds. By Major Zinovi Pechkoff. (Appleton). Life in the cign Legion pointed up sharply by Maxim Gorky’s adopted son. Shen of the Sea. By Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton). Chinese stories for children which won the John Newberry medal, and somewhat deservedly, too. Words and Music. By Sigmund Spacth (Simon & Schuster). «Going just as far as possible in the burlesque spirit with some of our fireside musical institutions. I Sing the Pioneer. By Arthur Guiterman (Dutton). A member of the family writes a few ballads about those who helped to make the nation's history. The Emerald. By Hilaire Belloc (Harper). Something new in detective stories, with twenty-one drawings by G._K. Chesterton. To be reviewed later. The Younger Married Set. By George S. Chappell (Houghton Mifflin). Here they are in a book, in case you didn't read them in Lrrr. Among Us Cats. By W. E. Hill (Harper). One of my favorite cartoon- ists does for the feline family what he has been doing for human beings, and most amusingly. Juarez and Maximilian. By Franz Werfel Schuster, for the Theatre Guil A recent dramatic ex- periment in book form. B. L. Books Received John of Oregon. By Dan Poling (Doran). Sutter’s Gold. By Blaise Cendrars. Translated by Henry Longman Stuart (Harper). The Blood of Kings. By Reginald Wright Kauffman (Duffield). Red Earth. by Jane (Doran). Royal Seville. By E. Allison Peers (Harper). Toro of the Little People. By Leo Walmsley (Doran). The Everlasting Angel. Merwin (Scars). Toward the Flame. By Hervey Allen (Doran). Meditations of a Profane Man. By “H” (Holt). By Carl Van Baker Anony- England By Samuel The Ninth Wave. Doren (Harcourt, Brace). The Fire of Desert Folk. By Ferdi- nand Ossendowski (Dutton). i 1 Days of brilliant sunshine pered to springlike soft cool trade winds ..thri sports of land and sea— tennis, polo, hunting, fishing, yachting, motoring—their joys intensified a hundredfold by the ous tropical setting. ..b lint, fashionable gatherings at the races—or the famous jai-alai, fastest of games. Then the glamour of night time in Havana. ..living memories of a by-gone age—romantic, fascinat: —persisting, defiant of the gay, modern city in their midst free pleasure seekers thror luxurious hotels, theaters, opera, cafes—the magnifi Casino de la Playa where the God. dess of Chance holds sway entrancing experience. . .for intriguing. . .indescribably different. Come to Cuba now—it’s only go miles from America. (In Cuba even the warmest summer day is made pleasant by the cool trade winds, The temperature during 1925 never rose above 93 nor fell below 66 degrees.) Fer information apply to ary Cuban Conan \: rst Commisnon, Havens, comicbooks.com