Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-03-09 | Page 3 | Edna Ferber's Newest Novel worth Reading

Edna Ferber's Newest ewest N Novel Worth R ading So ISo Big feig Is Inspiring as ts Well as Interesting Full of Color olor By SELMA MILLER So Big sold his birthright for lor a amess amess amess mess of ot pottage Ills mother did not want him to todo todo todo do it She eagerly sought t the the- e chance to help him realize his I dreams of ot beco beco ng an architect But So Big Bil preferred to sell bonds bondS' I and have his fame and fortune all an anat at once His mother told him he would someday be sorry I IThen Then So Big grown into the man Dirk met the only girl lIe He wanted her Instead of the girl he thought he had wanted and for whom he had f his career Texas was an artist and had starved and slaved and sacrificed to develop her sent heaven-sent gift So Big didn't need money to make Texas happy i but then he had already sold his II birthright Edna Ferber's latest novel So I Big Is really a story of ot So Big's I mother and a magnificent story at that It is Impossible to read of dainty but courageous courageous' Selina Peake the gamblers gambler's daughter without feeling a sacred acquaintanceship acquaintanceship acquaintanceship acquaint acquaint- with her High Prairie that stolid settlement of Dutch burghers south of Chicago In the SOs where Selina Peake lived op oppresses oppresses oppresses op- op presses the reader as it must have Selina herself At 19 Selina Pease set out for High Prairie to become the school schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher after her fathers father's death Her father had said that adventure lurked around every ery corner and Selina set out for ner tier new home assured that her lI life e would be one golden romance thereafter Too close association with the fare of a ladys lady's boarding school conjured up dreams to Selina of fried chicken and brown Dutch at High Prairie but at Klasse Pooles Poole's where she went to board she found soggy bacon for meals and no vegetables although it was a truck farm Her room re resembled resembled resembled re- re a polar bears bear's cubby hole In an Iceberg and she had to dress like the peasants do in Russian novels back of ot the kitchen stove downstairs Selina's adventure consisted of marrying a High and set set- down with him on a poverty poverty- stricken truck farm When So Big came she had to work in the tile fields too sitting the little fellow tellow then just so big on a handy pile of ot po potato potato potato po- po tato sacks sacs while she took the vegetables vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables from the ground And it was not a long jump from the dainty Selina Peake Peak in wine cashmere to the widow Selina youth and beauty gone atop a wagon of ot vegetables an old fedora hat on her head driving to the city to sell her load What Selina Peake suffered when she saw her sons son's love for Texas rivaled by the little boy whom she as a school teacher had loved and encouraged fanning him ambition until he had run vay a away to Europe and made himself a famous artist is a dramatic situation So Big is well written colorful and rich in inspiration as well wen as interesting Doubleday Page Co Garden CIt City N. N Y