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Show Helen Reichrnsrs Presents Opening Beck Review To Packed House Sunday By MABEL JARVIS Staff Writer Helen M. Reichman presented the opening number of the Sunday evening Book Review before a packed house at the library Oct. 13, choosing as her subject "Loon Feather", the initial novel by Iota Fuller, an obscure young author. These semi-monthly, book reviews, sponsored annually by the Dixie Reviewers in cooperation with other literary clubs of the city, have come to be an essential part of the winter program in St. George and afford an opportunity for the general public to enjoy the best and most interesting in literary productions by the most capable reviewers. Miss Alice Pendleton presided over the Sunday Sun-day evening program. "Loon Feather", proved to be an enticing historical study and Mrs. Reichman gave it in a most delightful manner. The story of Oneta, daughter of the great chieftain Tecumseh,- killed during the American Revolution, and of the Indians and fur traders on the tiny-turtle-shaped Mackinaw island at. the intersection of the : Great Lakes proved an interesting study of customs, superstitions, and accomplishments and of the sorrows and joys that befell In- j dain women who inter-married with the traders on that obscure island. Convent-educated in Quebec Que-bec to become a charming lady, Oneta is still bound to her people by these ties not even her foster ( father, a Frenchman disappointed in his own first love, can break down. Likewise his own half- j breed son, Paul, retains his pride J of ancestry and builds his life on j that, background, although he goes far afield in the fishing and fur trade, resulting from capacity j in business inherited from his French father. The brother and sister are closely bound by these ties of ancestry, and blaze new-trails new-trails for their people, Oneta winning win-ning the priceless Loon Feather, symbol of the tribe name, for her courageous sacrifices in behalf of her people, fulfilling in her marriage mar-riage to the friendly Dr. Martin, one of the predictions made at her birth, that she should bring one greater than a king to her tribesmen as her husband. Through Dr. Martin, the plagues of scarlet fever, small pox and other diseases were held in check and hundreds of lives saved, and the history of the great chiftnin Tecumseh preserved preserv-ed through the generations. Mrs. Reichman received hearty applause for I he masterful book review The next book review will be given Oct. 27, when Rodney A. Ashby presents, "Idle Men, Idle Money", by Stewart. |