Show CLASSMATES ADOPT SIMILAR SL THEMES THEMES IN BIOGRAPHY AND FICTION DEAN S OUR LITTLE LITILE GIRL by Robert A A Simon Don Bout 8 right Live right BARNUM ARuM tv by M Sf R K- K Werner ner vier Harcourt Brace Drace Co Others rs briefly mentioned r aro The In hy by Georgo George Jean Nathan Knopf s R U R by Karol Karel Calk Capek Doubleday Page Chall Challenge b by V Y West Vest Doran Annals of Mu- Mu Music Mu Music sic In America by Henry C CLa Lahee lice Marshall Jones Co and To Town Torn n and Gown by byI I Limy nil and Lois Lols Doran Dorn BY Bl Ji JIMES ms o W Sv DnA DEA NEW NELV YORI YORK April 1 14 U T Two 0 re- re re refill Pot fill Dt books attracting widespread and favorable attention are arc linked togEther bv by coincidence of of circum circum- circumstances stances They are Barnum Darnum by byM byM M I R n Werner and Our Our Little IrI Irl by Robert Simon Each Is the respective authors author's first work lod the authors once ollee were ero class class- classmates mates class mates at Columbia The Th l coincidence goes furth further l than that Each Is Iq a biographical interpretation of ot life Barnum Is laHie he actual storY tow of the oa oni f a aid d dr r nl P T Barnum Darnum circus manOur manOur man Our Little Girl Is the fictional ton tors of se several croll characters but about a girl with Ith ambition but without talent for a musical 1 the he facts of ot Barnum's Barnum s life are In man many Instances stranger than The delineation of char char- character character acter In is Our Our Little Girl Is often orten I so authentic that the reader Is Iscom com the author has given n some Iome of his close acquaintances fictional names and d set act down ac- ac actual ac actual tuat events and con cons conversations In Jn neither case caso does docs the author spek sek to Inject himself Into lato the run- run i 1 In l lp I P T B BR EMi R Vf ning nine story Tho The characters speak for es 0 P T Darnum Barnum was as born nt at Bethel Conn In 1810 He had been II a a farm boy lottery lotte ticket t tsal sal salesman n store clerk bartender bl newspaper ne editor boarding hoino bOlhO hou keeper and when at 25 o I- I re Ie e bought his first freak CrEak an aged d black woman Joice Heth who hO was represented to be and was ad as the first woman oman to 0 base e dressed the infant George Georges s ton aching n d Lu Lu ue tie money ua HI I I all men honest was sins relle ed relle cd of most of It bv by b dishonest men At 31 broke he sold Biblical illustrations but others swindled him of his profits even esen In that enterprise He wrote adv ad ments ments for tor a Bowery Bowry theatre for tor a time receiving ing 4 a sleek neck Then ha he engin engin- engineered engineered a n deal by which he came ClIme Into i possession of the American Mu- Mu Museum Mu Museum seum in New lork ork A friend asked aked him what hat he had with th which to buy the museum Brass an- an answered answered an answered Barnum arnum for for sliver silver and toI I gold I has have ha e none One Ono of Barnum's first acquisitions bons for tor the museum was a of Niagara rails Falls The falls were I IS 18 Inches high and P T ad adser ader adver er the novelty nO as The Great Model lodel of Niagara Falls With Real Redl Water ater Honeymooners who ho could not afford the real thing went to the museum Instead Barnum s a greatest curiosity was the Mermaid It had th tha head of a monkey and the body ofa of ofa ofa a fish and was advertised as having hav- hav Ing hav-Ing Ing been captured by Japanese fishermen Ho lIe It with ani- ani animal animal ani animal mal species forming connecting links In the tho great chain of Ani- Ani Animated Animated Ani Animated mated Nature That was as 17 years Fc tat e 1 A S s 1 ROBERT A before Darwin Darssin DIU In wrote rote The The Origin of Species I lof Barnum arnum brought Jenny JInny Lind to 0 America not so much for mono money mono tiry tiry 1 profit 1 ont as to add something to his reputation other than the epithet of humbug At that time Barnum was as n a very sery wealthy healthy man ha haIng Ing amassed l a fortune fortuno through General Tom lom Thumb and other midgets ets In Amer lea Ica and Europe The 93 concerts which Jenny Lind gave gase In nino months under Barnum's management I grossed 34 of which 09 went wont to her hor o Barnum died In 1890 His Ills life lICe as Werner erner sets It down Is an nn ex- ex ex extensive e chronicle of American his his- history his history tory covering a period d of 80 years cars I Simons Simon's fictional heroine In Our Little Girl represents a modern humbug who finds her counter counter- counterpart pal counter pal part t In hundreds of others ills His would be Ie climb climb- book bool Is la a on who use exploitation e as rank as S those of Barnum but butmore butmore butmore more cleverly concealed One Is led to believe bellese belle e by his book bool that anyone can gh give ghe c a recital In a Ne New York concert hall and have hase their names In the papers and In electric lights If the they have hate ha e the thO th y hard cold cash to pay for it It TURNING TITE Messages from from D D ton ton N C reads Wont Vont yOU vou please say a kind word ord for tor Temple Baileys Dalley's The Tho Dim Lantern It Is Isone isone Isone one of the most popular books booles In I this section of ot the country Copies are aro hard M to get Perhaps it was as too clean In tone tono to receive much notice In New York George Jean Jan Nathan has been called d the th Broadway roadway smart Aleck George Ade Said Bald ho he reminded him hint of somebody with Ith a verbal Roman candle In each ellch hand Nathans Nathan's new book The 1 he World In I Is not no so aleck aa as a some somo Ol ot his pMt past writings on the theatre Of recent poetry I like liko best The Puritans Puritan's Ballad by Elinor Wylie Wyllo The exact Intent of Karel Capek In R U R the Theatre Guild play was not entirely clear clur to many who saw BOW It They ma may I Inow now study the Cecho satire on Industrialism at their leisure The play Is out In book form John Farrar editor of The Bookman believes that Challenge by V Sackville West WertIs The Tho Is superior to Bright Shawl which It resembles In plot and theme Deems Taylor says that Annals of If Music In AmericA by Henry C Lahee Is n fascinating eye birds view of our musical history Here lIero are arc some of the chapter titles In Town 11 and Go Gown n by Lynn Montross and Cols Montross The Pus Pus- Fusser ser Fus-ser sera ser Girls Who ho Pet The Tho First FirstMan FirstMan Man and Dry as Dust Perhaps you have hate ha e by now surmised that It deals with alth Ith college life n |