Show Short Story Book ook by Edna Ferber Just Published Mother Moth r Knows Best a new flew book by Edna Ferber whose Show Boat and So Big have achieved such phenomenal success success suc suc- success cess has just been published by Doubleday Page Cb Co The eight tales which make up the volume are eight novels in fn miniature Some of them cover a long longstretch longstretch stretch of years some of them embrace the lifetimes of the characters concerned None de depends depends de de- on a single episode but all are full full bodied bodied presentations of character incident and back back- ground Her people are in humble hum- hum ble circumstances They live just outside the yards yard's in Chicago Chicago Chica go go in the th narrow r rr w walk walk-up apartments apartments apart apart- apartments ments of th the west side in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York alongside the tracks in an unpainted cottage in Kansas And the chief actors are women women ranging from a musical comedy star to the wife of a stockyards hunky Decorations by Ilonka Karasz Karas add to the at- at of the volume |