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LATEST BOOK REVIEWS
LOVE ON THE SET
A Film Colony Romance
Change of Hearts, by Elizabeth
į Frayne...
WORKING GIRL'S LIFE
Good Fortune And Happiness
Once upon a Time, by Ruby M
Yay
FROM MACAU TO SINGAPORE
Eastern Waters For Adventure
Ship Ashore by Sydney Park||
man.
Ayres.
Tintes had been bad with Cap- Sheila Marlow came back from
When Jackie is just a working] abroad to End that her brother Ian girl employed in a large city store tain Bowker and his battered old had fallen in for a film contract a life is happy enough. But whealschooner. For weeks he had been in Macau, without being: leading man to the famous Jenni- good fortune sreaks close beside lying fer Glenn. She didn't like Jenner, and tempts her into foolish able to raise a ton of freight and fer, but she did like Dermot Vin- deceits, good fortune and happi-with the harbour dues piling up ness do not go hand in hand. But all the time. Also, he had lost! cent, another film idol over from the gods cannot frown for long on his mate. And then, all in 24 Hollywood to make 2 **Bonnie
Jackie. Prince Charlie” film. In fact, Sheila, who had told Alan Randall that she didn't intend to fall in love, fell very hard for Dermot.
That meant quarrelling with. Ian; but Sheila wasn't to be brow-| beaten by any elder brother, especially when he wasn't behav- ing any too well himself. So off
she went to share a fat with Ian's Anne, and to do some posing for a highbrow film director.
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A DELIGHTFUL ROMANCE
New Novel By Ruby
M. Ayres
hours, everything was changed, and he found himself southward bound for the Celebes, on time-{ charter, with a new mate and three passengers aboard.
It was a good start--but the start is not everything; and before the Merry Maid crept through the breakwater at Singapore three months later, those aboard her had Compromise, by Raby M. Ayres had seen
even stranger things Do you believe that you "compromise" with Life and Love? strange waters.
can than are usually met with in those
Penelope and Philip thought they A quiet week-end at Aunt could until they tried, but at last Grace's country cottage, with Alan they had to admit that it was im- and Love de- as another guest, was a welcome possible, that Life
or nothing. This is respite, Dermot was difficult once manded all too often, and-well, the rest was one of Miss Ayres' most delight- iful romanCES and you will love
Penelope, one of Miss Ayres',most) charming heroines.
Blue silver, by Victor Bridges. A first-class, full-length, and easy! grippingly-exciting story by the
Elizabeth Frayne has produced popular author of "Greensea Is another romance just as charming 17 land," "Peter in Feril" and other as "Too Good to Lose." 17 famous
thrillers. It tells how
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Richard Arnot, disgraced and ruined through no fault of his jown, sets out with grim deter-] 17mination to clear up the mystery, it in which he has become involved! 20 His two chief allies, Spider Gall,
the young East End boxer,
ANOTHER HIT BY
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"Rustlers Of Beacon Creek"
Rustlers of Beacon Creek, by Max Brand.
The Colonel was a hard worker who knew his range. Under ordin- Jary circumstances he would have made a fortune and built a royal Iranch out there in the mountains.
But circumstances were any- thing but ordinary. Herd after Happy Jack, by Max Brand
herd of cattle disappeared when- Happy Jack Aberdeen was there the lawless clan of the Mon- laziest, happy-go-luckiest hombre
tagues wished to increase their north of Rio Grande. That is, hej,
Istock. It was range war. The law was until he met the great outlaw High noon, by Ruby M. Ayres. Charlie Lake. Then something as far away, and to the swiftest For seventeen years Heather As-clicked inside, and Happy's life spoilet And that is why the Co- and surrest shooter belonged the The scenes are laid partly in),
ton had been mother, housekeeper became a whirlwind of hell-for-lonel put the stranger on his pay- London and partly in the lonely and general adviser to her father, leather, six-shootin' action. A life 16 creeks and marshes of the East brothers and sisters. For them, on which makes about as fighting and
Coast, and the whole story reads).
the death of her mother, she had exciting a tale as Max Brand has along with a swing and vigour said good-bye to the man she loved ever told. 15 which never falters from the first and had devoted her whole life to
17 page to the last. It has all the the care of her "family."
17 Hightness of touch and refreshing!
17 sense of humour which admirers And then Bruce Logan came
of Victor Bridges" work have home-but he came home with
9 learned to expect.
Heather's beautiful, gay sister, Vilette; and Vilette told her how much she loved him and how she
hoped to marry him. Bruce didn't
love Vilette, he still loved Heather, yet once again, this time for the Isake of her sister, she sends him 21away.
Then Fate takes a hand, i and Heather sails away to South. Africa after all with the man she
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