Show I MARY B BORDERS BORDENS CAREER Novelists Novelist's Works Affected by Her Hei- Childhood Childhood Childhood Child Child- hood Experiences Won Recognition RecognitionS S for for- Work in World War Among the younger generation of j English women writers who have raised the raised the craftsmanship of the subjective sub sub- novel no to a plane that is the tho wonder r and despair of other nations na na- na- na one of the most prominent Mary Borden is an American Although since her marriage to Brigadier G General eral Spears nine years agO Miss Borden has lived in Franco France and England with occasional visits to the United States State States States- she still hasan has hasan an extraordinarily strong feeling of belonging to America particularly the west Her childhood in Chicago Chi cago and holidays at the family homestead in Indiana left vivid Im Impressions un- un upon which she has drawn in several of per her mer books The ample am am- pie old farmhouse in Indiana was the scene of many a a. jolly Thanks Thanks- gl glI giving I It belongs to the grandfather grand grand- father John ohn Borden a a. Rhode Islander who ho in his adventurous youth routh sailed called down the Ohio in search of silver H He found no no allVer sil silver all sU- ver vel but very ery good f farm rm land nd so he settled on the Kentucky border of Indiana and built the friendly old homestead which his grandchildren made a a. place of delightful mem mem- ories ones D DOMINATING I INFLUENCE FLUENCE Throughout Miss Bordens Borden's book The Romantic Woman Joans Joan's father played pla a dominating steadyIng steadyIng steadying steady- steady Ing influence in her life as much muchas as Miss Bordens Borden's own father did In In hers In fact Joans Joan's childhood In in Chicago the games she played pla and the battles between the Hot Push and amid the Micks l which she writes of ot are largely biographical The Hot Push was a gang of gentlemen's sons augmented augment by their sisters and their sisters sister's chums who went to a a. private school next door to the public school and waged dall dally daily warfare with the Micks who were dismissed at the same time I There was a a. constant dispute as asto asto to the right of way to a German baker bakery several blocks distant The Micks l fought to deprive the softies sorties of pumpkin pies and the time softies ties who were wera a fairly good match with their fists engaged in many a drawn battle The vacant lots were the fields of ot glory until a cry of the copper scattered both gangs into the alle alleyways wa These little pictures of the gang of Jf the hundred and fifty white mice in the attic attle of Joan and her chums three long- long legged little girls in jn sweaters and tam o lr Ir the butlers butler's pantry pantry pan pan- tr try eating cake and talkIng talkIng talking talk- talk Ing about are among th the vividly remembered passages In that wise young story of or romance and disillusionment WINTER SPORTS There were skating parties too and bob sleighing in the winters The chief emotional interest was the revival meetings of tho the Moody church Most 1 Chicago families of the lOs were deeply religious and I it was not unusual for children to attend the services of some of the themore themore themore I more violently evangelical creeds and to experience emotional upheavals upheavals up up- which the they mistook for re religious religious re- re experiences upheavals which left a powerful and disquietIng disquiet- disquiet Ing m memory mory In Jn all of her works Mary Borden Borden Borden Bor Bor- den has never been able to free herself from a a. distaste amounting to horror for any any- form of emotionalism emotionalism emo emo- in religion After graduation and a a. trip around the world Miss 1 Borden led leda a pleasantly nomadic life chiefly In France and England The war found her in France and it Is these four years that she looks back upon as the most intensely Interesting periods of her hermer hife She organized and ran a large field hospital for forthe forthe forthe the French arm army After the armistice armistice armis armis- tice lice she found herself the possessor posses posses- sor of or five live war medals the tho Legion of or Honor tho the Croix de Guerre the French gold medal of or the Service de deSante deSanto deSanto Santo Sante and amI two British war medals HAS BEAUTIFUL HOME During the short periods she spends in London Miss Borden lives In one of the most beautiful old houses In the city a house designed by in Little LIllie College street just behind Westminster Abbey Abbe and well within the sound of Big Ben The great hallway and main staircase are arc of veined cream col Oled ored marble and the library is 1 finished finished fin fin- in- in in the beautiful natural paneling pan pan- cling eling for which many ol old English houses are famous The Tile floor of the dining room is made of squares of polished steel that gleam like sil au- sil- sil ver On this stands a dining table made of a s solid slab of green r ma-r marble marble marble ble flanked by chairs of a a. soft yellow decorated mv decorated with delightful lItI lit littie little lIt lIt- tie tle red flowers This gracious old oldhouse oldhouse oldhouse I house with its daring modern touches is a perfect setting for Miss 1 Bordens Borden's sophisticated and and b bno no means color colorless ss personality H Her she maintains her reputation as be beIng being be be- ing one of the Ule most smartly dressed dresse and brilliant of or London's hostesses Miss 1 Borden Dorden is perhaps best r m- re remembered for Flaming her novel Il go in which the novelist returned to New York for b her r setting Constance Skinner author of Tha Search Relentless knows wh whereof eo she sho speaks when nh she deals with Ul th Can Canadian dlan northwest She was born In northern British Columbia miles mlles from a a. railroad at the Hudson Hud Hud- son Bays Bay's trading post where father was as a a. leading factor He childhood was spent amon among fut fui traders Indians and mounted po lice Although her background Is Oa 4 nadian she has long been q In the United States as a a. historian historian having contributed two volumes volumes-j Pioneers of the Old Southwest and Adventures in Oregon t 1 The Chronicles of America of the time Yale University Press At 11 11 Miss Skinner was autho of ot a still unpublished novel Al A 14 n she wrote she wrote and produced a a. three three- act net operetta and at 16 she was as a special writer for several Canadian newspapers Two years later sh sl became a full-fledged full reporter foa fda fo fd o a a. San Francisco newspaper chronicling chron chron- everything from fire murde and sudden death to s symphony concerts con con- cents Miss lIss Skinner has covered a a. Id field in her writing Her poetry ha hawon hag hai won prizes from the London Bookman Bookman Book Book- man and the time PO Poetry try Magazine an ant anthas has been translated into Russian Spanish French and German Slid Is the author of seven juveniles several sev se eral moving picture dramas tw T pla plays s 's and many short stories an and magazine articles And with it all she sho has found foun time to be a a. member of tho the 4 tivo committee of the Poetry of America a a. fellow of the Ro Roya Geographical Society of Great Brit Brit- am aln and a fellow of the American America I Geographical society Provides Banjo Realistic Gaunt Picture of Lif Life The TIme setting letting of Banjo by Cl Claud la si l McKay is tho the port ot oC Marseilles with its flotsam and jetsam oB of the human tide swept in from al alt corners of the time world white black brown yellow Into the bubbling kettle of ot the Orient and the Oc Occident come the wastrels wastrels- the bad m men n tJi thet deportees the p panhandlers It ii id is here that the story op opens ns Banjo and his gang of black boys The Tho life me in the ditch and on tha the fringes of the time Square Bum Square Bum those two quarters of Marseilles where Marseilles where the lid Is never on on-Is on Is described described- wIth racy realism From the moment omen that Banjo gathers together a litt group of jazz players and sets time the whole ditch shuffling to the contagious contagious contagious contag contag- ious rh rhythm of Shake That Thin Thins down to the time very very- last page the story moves to the beat of black boys boys' jazz Here is a a. book full of a a. th thousand new and exciting sensations Eve l' Everywhere Every Every- here w-here life me moves lustily and violently violent violent- ly tragedy ti puts a a. sudden period to boisterous comedy and tho the blade black boys move mo on from cafe to bar taking taking tak tak- in ing life as It conies Harper and Bros |