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Show Francis Labadie French -Canadian Story Teller The crunch, crunch of the port-' ed snow in the frozen silences of -j far North, the nip and stings:, paralysis of driving blizzards hun. j against the adventurers and p.; seekers in Alaska are all b&! felt in Francis Labadie's rendi: of the poems of Robert W. Sen", r the Canadian Kipling. For manv years in both Cat and the United States Mr. Lab has been recognized among the v most dramatic readers and it prefers of great plays and P: but he has touched the sup heights of his powers in h's zation of French-Canadian J': described in the poems of Drummond, and life in Al: described by t he poems of H--W. Service. Mr. Labadie enjoyed close fn-ship fn-ship with these two great poet-is poet-is therefore doubly equipP present their works with s" realism. r ; ) J V |