Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

105 Classified Advertising Rate 25 cents a word Last forms April Issue close Jan. 20 SCREEN1LANB Book Reviews — From page pj A LOST LADY— Willa Cather (Alfred A. Knopf, New York). In A Lost Lady, Willa Cather gives us a character study of a tepid Emma Bovary of the prairies. Somewhere between Omaha and Denver Captain Forrester and Mrs. Forrester occupied a position of envied prominence in the pioneering town of Sweet Water which snuggled up along the main line of the Burlington Railroad. The Captain was twenty-five years older than his pretty wife; temperamentally he was that many centuries removed from her. He was slow, heavy and honest; she was swift, volatile and weak. Duty and pleasure wedded. Many shadowy figures passed between these two; not too reputable messengers from the world which Marian Forrester desired. It is the story of the steady retrogression of a soul born to be lost. She could not be saved because she would not save herself. 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