Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

my heart to Yancey Cravat-that no account
loved the riff-raff, gorif1ed in the daily riots!
Like it-well!"
Now wait minute. Think of this. Here is
a great spread of space which one of these
days is going to be the commonwealth OF Okla
homa But just now it is not much except miles
of red guey soil that nobody wanted because
it was worth nothing at ALL And this being
true, the great and good Government OF the
United States said, Give it to the Indians.
And this they did with formal ceremony and
benevolent bearing. The Indians were used to
moving CT to being moved. It began away down
in Georgia, all through the East in TACT. AS
land toward the West seemed desirable the
Government grew benevolent toward the Indian,
assigning him a brand-new reservation further
on. It seemed that this was the last stand for
the Indian since no sane body of people could
possibly desire this red clay spot of earth. But
it proved to be otherwise and again the West
was opened to settlers, Oklahoma was on its
way. And here Edna Ferber's story begins. In
dians cowboys, cattlemen, restless failures
farther East adventures. iOoSe women ana
tight men fiocked in, among them Yancey
Cravat with his aristocratic wife from away
down South and his little boy, "Cim" Cimarron
Wooden shacks, gambling joints, highwaymen'
ready gunner, Sunday service, Monday shoot
ings-these make up a part OF the motley with
which Edna Ferber, supported glortousiy Dy
Yancey Cravat-workS out pioneer settlement
through which the reader races breathless with
excitement for the what next?" that is sure
to be on the way. Curious issues come from
the situation set here in SO fervid and telling
drama Yancey Cravat-true adventurer, spec
tacular performer, wizard OF personal attrac-
ton and a baby without substance. Yancey
Cravat is triumph of genius-of Edna Fer
ber's genius. He is true. He is here. You know
him and SO do L Not up to his real mark IN
our routined hfe-but he is here. somewhat di-
unfinished from this gorgeous lawyer and editor
ruling the little Oklahoma settlement. Failure
God bless him! But he had to be just that, Tor
that was the seed of him. So, first, here is
piece of true artistry-Yancey Cravat. In
natural sequence of the hamboyance OF the
man there fell to his naturally competent wife.
the lady from the South the gradual control
and making of the paper, the Oklahoma Wig
wan" Sabra Cravat, by logical development
became editor and pioneer woman. Congress-
woman, If you please, and q leader known all
over the country for her ability and sagacity
Here is a plausible outcome, projected in per-
fectly Staid manner of growth Another big
point for this amazing tale. Let us go along
with the little boy "Cim'-so like his father,
but weaker even, so beautiful in his glance, so
elusive of seizure That is the kind Of boy that
GROWS up to be married by some girl. He never
inarries her. She does 1t. She did in this case
an Indian girl. There is another simple and
natural blend of blood, that may be, may not
be- q good leaven. All the time the settlement
Is passing into town on its way to being
y
Is the little daughter of the Crayat household
The mother sends her East for an education
60 get her out of the rough frontier influence
And in the course of time Donna comes home
oil educated and. in effect, little modern van-
bire who chooses the richest man for her own.
takes him, lives like queen with the poor
weakling-and is happy for quite while Well
must stop sometime. But you can see that
scope of this novel, You can see too that it is
D plausible invention and significant one IN
its interpretations and projections. have not
said enough to spoil your Appetite hope
have MOTOR one of the most absorbing tales
that you will come across for, Oh for a long
time. Almost every novel has prize attached
10 it nowadays. assume that this one has,
1t deserves a big one and VIII set 1t. am sure.
In popular acceptance and enjoyment.
THE WOMAN OF ANDluA BY Thornton
Wilder, author of THE BRYCE Of San Luis
Rey," etc. New York: Albert and Charles
Boni
H>HE loneliness Of the human. The seeking
u and not finding. The half promise. the full
Failure. Loneliness. An island OF the coast Of
Greece, lovely in its sea and sky, in its fields
climbing toward the one, ,sioping toward the
other Simple folks busy with the vines and
the hocks and the tradings from island to
ISLAND Busy, too, with marriage plans for
their sons and daughters, q rich harvest OF
STURDY gTandSonS ana great-BTauuSonS as sflc
truly desired issue. Then, the coming of the
woman, 1.-The woman Of Andres" Different, dis
turbing, alien The life of this woman becomes
acute in its troubling quality to the islanders.
IT Is diverting their young men from the
hitherto accepted path Of an island wife and
many island children. Strange ceremonies take
place at the house of the woman from Andres
feastS to which only the more beautiful or the
more manly of the young men are bidden. The
food of epicures is placed upon the tables around
which, reclining, the woman and the young
men gather while she intones from poet
philosopher the music and the wisdom of the