Show Fannie Hurst Hard Hard at VI Work ork Fannie Hurst writes Harpers Harper's from Montigny France I am sure at work in paradise I have never found a sweeter kind of rest and peace and beauty than thau that of this countryside I hope to go on to Italia later but right now I am drugged Last night for instance one one of ot moonrise peasants peasants peasants peas peas- I ants In lanes long still lanes of canal canal canal ca ca- ca- ca nal water with barges putting up for the night and the barge girls clopping about in wooden shoes shoes- funny poppy fields all folded up In sleep sleep nIghtingales nightingales If It I seem to rhapsodize it is b because causo life Ufe here here these midsummer days Is pretty much that A rhapsody BEING nEING ED I Two Cosmopolitan books of last i fall tall are In process of ot being I screened Thomas MeIghan Is now in Alaska acting for tor Famous Players Play Play- I I ers era the ohe role of ot the heto in Tho The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood I of I new novel nove-I A Gentleman Courage has Just appeared And Mary Astor has recently left NeWYork NeWYork New NewYork York for Hollywood to begin work I on Harry Leon Wilsons Wilson's Oh Doctor Doctor Doc Doe tor torI Miss Astor Is is' Isto to be the nurse Dolores to Reginald Dennys Denny's Rufus the hypochondriac I about a pretty woman It is as all personal personal per per- and Intimate t about a barn door lasa as It is ish about u a neighbor I That ThatIs I Is to say if It one of his neighbors ran away with the wife of ot another of his neighbors Kelly would be profoundly Interested He would find o out oud about It everything that he conveniently and respectably could and somewhere In the ac accounts accounts accounts ac- ac counts of the elopement he would pick up a little thing a word said to a cabman by one of ot the elopers dopers that would be the thing timing I ho he sought To eIlY X It would be bethe bethe bethe the key to th the th motives and viewpoints vIewpoints viewpoints view vIew- points that brought about the crisis and In that he would be bo neathe near nea the purpose of all his searching The word we have for what he seeks is character I Another wa way of putting this and of expressing the extraordinary cUriosity cu curiosity cU- cU of an extraordinary man Isto isto Is Isto to say that Kelly wants to to know what stuff this mortal world Is made of ot Ho lie finds out moro more about I It than han most of or us do and ho he writes as he talks talk talks with liquid clearness j of the That's what makes him one I most interesting men in th the th coun j try |