Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-29 | Page 5 | New Davis Novel Proves Highly Entertaining

i I New Davis Novel Proves Highly Entertaining By DAVE COLEMAN Times Have Changed and sum summer summer summer sum mer Is wending Its Us balmy way hither Times Have Hae Changed Is a anew anew new story by Elmer Davis of the tho type that Is by common consent usually dubbed a yarn The application application application cation of or that appellation Is not meant to be disparaging for Times Have IIa Changed does without effort and without a single moment moment mo mo- ment mont what It evidently I is designed tb lb acc accomplish In a word wore It Is en- en It contains a wealth of or materials for entertainment Mark Onell a a. war veteran who wo happens to be a school principal and to be married to a wonderful girl named Marjorie and a full and va va- 3 4 ned assortment of hidebound rela rela- lives is the central figure of ot the tha h book He lives In Wynwood W add doesn't like it From v Wynwood can be seen the alluring towers of New ew ew York that In the distance appear like the storied minarets of ot a ro romantic romantic ro- ro mantic mantle past Mark takes a a. days day's vacation from Wynwood's bonds and attends a fraternity banquet reunion In New NewYork York He meets with an old friend called who has a reassuring and cajoling gift of conversation that leads Mark Marlc to overstay his leave from his home suburb In the hectic time that follows a prominent prominent prominent nent place is taken b bv by an old quIll which his wife has charged him to bring home safely e because c It Is a family heirloom o much u cherished b by Aunt Cordelia CordeIla A couple of or hard and shifty gentlemen are greatly desirous of or obtaining the quilt which Mark had loaned to an old chum and which was being thrown here and there about a theatrical boarding house The adventurous gentlemen were so interested in the quilt because within It was as cached a fortune In diamonds Startling result from Marks Mark's attempts to carry earn out his wife wife's s wishes and the tho crooks' crooks attempts to gain wealth Then rhen too there Is a R. city struck pupil of or Marks Mark's who Imagines him to be In Jove iove with sith her She leaves to start a stage career on the same samo train that Mark takes taken for tor his evenings evening's evenings evening's eve eve- ning's outing The sharp e eyes es of or orthe the towns town's constable and a number of or gossiping tongues couple the tha two in ira an elopement which achieves newspaper headlines and almost confirms Aunt Cordelia's Cordelia a suspicions that Mark i la Is a. a snake In sheep's clothing A masked ball encounters encounters encounters with policemen reckless chauffeurs chaut- chaut fours feurs a water carnival breaks and illumine the swiftly moving story with adventurous surprise sur sur- prise Quick twists and turns and lightning action carry the tale along alonS at a a. breathless rate and rest the weary mind from politics psychological psychological psychological reactions and anN uplift cam cam- Just the book for tor a warm shirtless shirtless shirt shirt- less afternoon a hammock swung by a canyon stream and nothing to do but rest s dt te Robert M. M r. r McBride Co New ow ew York