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Show Writers Team to ! Do Rollicking Story of . Love "Uncle James Shoes" Makes Delightful Reading for ... Idle Hours "Unci James' Shoes, by Dorla Webster and Samuel C Webtr, Is a say, rollicking lov story, on of whOM coauthors la tha brother of Jean Webster, creator of "Deddy-Ing-Legs." : . Uncle Jamaa waa tha family god. It wun't because of hie looks, nor baeauae of a la disposition, neither of which was anything to boaat of. It waa entirely beceuae of hie bank account, which waa eo far ana away the blggeet thine of He kind In 8tormvjle that rnele'Jamee prme-tlcally prme-tlcally ran the town aa well aa hie family. ' No ' wonder Kuphemla. Jamea' only aieter, conetantly Instructed In-structed her children to be politely attentive to I'ncle James. Tet, after af-ter all her struggles to keep her children In with I'ncle Jamea and Irouetn Bessls's children out with 1 Uncle Jamea, Billy. Euphemla'a I trnatMMM MM WMll.hAM his busl- nesa without the ajlghteet regard for' Uncle Jamea ahoea. Instead of thinking about Inheriting Inher-iting money. Billy thought about making It. Hla specialty waa salvaging sal-vaging things that no one elee wanted, and while hla brother worked In hla uncle'a office, at ' a dleeeuragtngly small salary. Billy tinkered with old rare and motor boats and plied up an encouragingly encouraging-ly large bank account. But there came a day when I'ncle James had to be reckoned with, after all, for Billy fell In kive with a girl from the elty, and Undo Jamea gave her father auch an unflattering character charac-ter eke'.ch of Billy that It seemed ss If the romance would be blighted forever. But perhapa It may here be etaied lhat the romance waen't blighted at all. aa "Uncle Jamea' Bhora" will delightfully demonstrate. demon-strate. tThe Century Co.. New Tork City.) |