Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-07 | Page 4 | Napoleon's March on Russia is Scene of Compelling 'Vivandiere!'

I IT 1 ii 1 TI I Napoleons Napoleon's s March on Russia is Is Sc Scene ne of Compe Compelling Modern Mode n Di Diction toi dh Used sed by Phoebe Ga Gage Gaye e hiStory in hi Story of Winsome Girl Girt h b- b By Don Howard Howrd 11 Its Il senes scOnes scenes J laid f in s fa amous a- a march on on nu Russia sla diere by Phoebe F Gaye et is Isa a historical and roin romantic novel novel of one oJe of ot the mo most t interesting periods in the history of Europe Besides Beside that that it i is a winsome and compelling love story story one one str-one one that sometimes oye clutches Cutche at this tho heart hearl more than the reader ca caCS cs to to admit with its It beauty of ot se sentiment a and language It It Is the story etory of o- o as a little wine ae Ine seller seler attached atalie to to Naple Napoleons Napoleon's ns n's army a and of ot a a. a young ayoung man from a oble noble Parisian family 1 who mn w was a a le lieutenant lieuten ant In the tho emperors emperor's drag dragoons ons Of Of course the little lUe wine seller seler falls completely in love lo e with lh the dashing young youn officer r who because she is isso 80 so 80 far below him in social station staton al ha has nothing but affection rind and nd very vcr little of that for tot her Julies Julie's Jules Jule's devotion devotion devo devo- tion tonto to th the man who w was h her r lover Jover Cor for a a a night and her ber hero for tor all l lUnie Unie time reaches Its is climo during during- during the Ule terrible retreat at rr from tm ni Moscow when she sho nursed the Uie yo young ng officer after he be had lost one of ot hi his Ils legs In an entirely plausible situation Julie Jule becomes involved with ih th younger younge brother of or tho the officer through mistaken identity This af affair a- a a- a atall fair tall misunderstood both by by the girl girland girland girland and the te lieutenant arises arIse as a another er barrier between the two But where lieutenant the could see nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing but a ithe rather ather ragged and nd someI some some- I times dirty yet highly hl beautiful lit Ht- tle ln r his younger unger brother broth r saw aw In Julie something noble and fine something akin aIn to the spirit of ot Joan of or Arc I Authoress Gaye Gye Is little concerned with the reproduction of ot her he scene She c catches the atmosphere of ot war and details what there is of ot them v thorn take care care of themselves One One thing she can cn be b commended for lor is 15 IS that she she made mado ho no effort to r reproduce e the language gage of ot tho the time Her el story i Is couched couche li in 11 modern phrases phrae which is at once an improvement im- im Improvement Im im- provement rent and a a drawback to the tho usual historical novel Paradoxical Paradoxical I Well Wel its it's more than th tho imagination n I Ican can stand to to find Napoleons Napoleon's apol ons on's soldiers sol soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers calling a a. Chinaman a a Chink referring to toa a a a battle batte as aa a a a. show and 8 saying t that ai one is s oY Miss Gaye writes with beauty guiding her pen The river below held a a surface of ot glass glas under under which which- th the current ran secretively endlessly It I seemed l pp ble to to Paul Pau as a ho he watched that this this' holy stillness could ever ever be b broken that in less than an hour nour perhaps these men sleeping s so Sc pea peacefully tulY would be writhing the last last contOrtions contortions con con- of death dea The very dew descending used use no discrimination toward thorn thom b but t bathed them all allIn allin al In the kindly tears of morning No sound came from the wagons no noso so sound nd from tho the horses standing I with wih bent heads heads heads'