Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
ROCKS AND MAGAZINES: TIMELY
TALES FOR THE SUMMER SEASON

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minion of Canada. The music and
drama department Is represented by q
startling article on 1.-THE Conquering
Stride of Music" and by 1.-THE Grow
/ ing GarrulousnesS of Bernard Shaw,
an amusing and acute arrangement OF
the latest phase of the Irish dramatist s
curious development. An article on
"The Rehabilitation of Terpsichore,
with beautiful and rare illustrations,
throws new light on the revival of the
art of dancing.
The Theater Magazine for July is
full of interesting features. Virginia
Frame gives an account of Little
Theaters in Foreign Lands" with char
acteristic pictures. The series "The
Actor in the Street" is continued, Lew
Fields being the subject, and there is
an interesting account of the person.
ality of John Mason, whose success as
the gambler in 1.-THE Witching Hour"
has been the talk of the theatrical sea-
son. George Z. jerks, himself an ex-
perienced theater manager, gives a
glimpse of the road experiences of a
debutante during her first season on
the stage, and Ada Patterson contrib
utes one of her characteristic inter-
views, the subject being this time "A
Chat with Denman Thompson" George
Backus, the well known actor, contrib
utes some amusing verses entitled ION
a Tour of One Night Stands" and Ed
ward Fales Coward has paper on
1.-THE Palmy Days of the Drama"
Frederick c. Patterson writes interest
ingly on Hero Worship as applied to
stage favorites.
The fiction in Putnams and the
Reader for July includes the second in
stallment of Alice MacGowan's Jul
dith of the Cumberlands,' the first
chapter of a two-part story by Mrs.
Hugh Fraser called 1.-THE Heart of
Geisha;' "A Problem for Two" by
Elliott FloWer-a business story with
well-defned love interest; "A Song
and a Dance" by Jane Dalziel Wood
"a story in which the love interest is
dominant; and How We Elected the
Old Man." by Edward Salisbury Field.
blending business and politics in rich
mess of bribery and corruption.
The July Worlds Work is the annual
uplift number filed with the records
of the strong, creative tendencies IN
such men as Clifford Pinchot about
whom Herbert Knox Smith, the COM
missioner of corporations, writes an in
teresting study. 1t centers around the
great governors conference at Wash
ington. The editor of the Worlds Work
attended the sessions, and under the
title THE Governors Conference and a
New Patriotic Impulse" sums up the
tremendous significance of the move
ment for the conservation and better
use Of natural resources, to which the
Worlds Work has given much atten-
ton during the. past year.
A novelette, of unusual interest opens
the August number of the Smart Set.
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scious Eve" and is written by G. We're
Tyler, a writer who probably has a
keen insight into the feminine tempera-
ment. The situation on which the novel
is founded is at once unique and dar-
ing, and the ending is so absolutely
unlocked for that it will surprise even
the most clever readers.
Numerous well known writers are
represented in the August issue. Par
ticularly interesting is Elizabeth Jor-
dams story, Her Letters" Lillian
Bell, who never fails to write a lively
story. contributes a bright sketch called
Dinner for Six"
Popular Mechanics is a faithful
cnronicler of everything new in the line
of mechanics and kindred subjects In
the August number there are 155 arti-
Giles and 1873 illgstrations-every story
written so you can understand it,"
Ine mechanical features of the Repub-
lican national convention are described;
a contributor tells about a visit to
Hudson Maxim, where he saw some
startling, almost incredible things. Mr..
Maxim uses high explosives for cook
ing purposes as unconcernedly as If II
were wood or other fuel. Wireless
waves are now used for controlling
electric trucks, and an interesting ar
ticle tells how it is accomplished. A
big elephant at Cincinnati, o., swal-
lowed valuable diamond ring and the
X-ray machine was used on the beast
to locate the gem. Jumbo didn't like
it very well, but he finally submitted,
as the illustration accompanying the
article shows.
ION the Job Bill"' is Joe Chapple's
distinctive note in the elaborate Con-
vention number of the National Mag
azine for July. The issue contains sixty
pages of. snappy, Illustrated sketches of
the national convention at Chicago,
written in the crisp, characteristic style
of Joe Mitchell Chapple, the editor, who
always manages to see things worth
while from a happy point Of view. His
photographer is apparently 'like-
minded" for almost every illustration
represents the celebrities at the con-
vention wearing gay smiles. as though
life depended upon being cheery-even
at a convention.