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The Highbrow Literati By W. E. Hill Copyright. 1935. bv Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Syndicate. Inc. Queen Helen returns. Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, eyeing the tennis crown she yielded to Helen Jacobs in 1933, is wielding a racket again after a long lay-off because of a back injury. She has high hopes of a come-back. f Associated Press Photo. « i Hollywood version of the Easter bunny. Jean Parker makes a very charming one as she flirts with the petals ot an Easter lily. r- 1 I pk <1 1 How to get a publisher is the big problem with young authors, especially those bear ing erudite manuscript dealing with something like the coal mining situation 01 atoms and molecules. Such a one will do well to exert every ounce of charm on * the boss’ secretary. Flashing eyes, pearly “ teeth and well organized winsomeness are great assets This girl is getting out a little book on “Internal Verities, Six Lessons on Morning M e d i t a tions,”at her own ex pense. One step ahead of new thought and every other thought. Very limited sales. / m / 4 Tlu- publisher’s tea, given t for the benefit of the young * lady novelist so that the i” newspaper critics can see what she’s like. (In the ' foreground are two rival novelists talking about royalties.) r-1 ■ II r * * L Sometimes a highbrow author Jjj will get a little too high for the , ' public and then she has to be \ urged to be reasonable. The I “ member of the publishing staff" with the most charm is sent to confer with her and if he is the type everything goes smoothly." / s. The book on eco I. nomics. All about the depression and ' budgets. Tells about how the au thor’s husband lost all in 1928, and how the family went right into an abandoned fann in Vermont and did . their own weaving, planting, barber ing and carpenter p ing on a budget of $2 a week. m These two have been so highbrow for years that prac tically nobody but the reviewers ever read what the y wrote. Then, with no warning at all, their last book turned out to be a , terrific best seller f and now they are buying diamonds and ermine and i* chinchilla and stay ing at ritzy hotels and being just too grand. aV Conference between publishers and author V ot thrilling manuscript entitled “Economic Stability of the European Peace.” The galley proofs are ready and now with war ' looming on the far horizon, something has to be changed. (That’s the author, chew ing on a fountain pen.) '« . Circus days ahead. And these fair aerialists are / tuning up before they break Winter camp at Sara sota, Fla., to hit the road again under the big top. Associated Press Photo. The elephants are rehearsing, too. To make sure they remember how to delight America, young and old, with their “chain gang” step, they are trying it out at their Sarasota Winter home. 1 Associated Press Photo. A double winner. Miss Peggy Fleming of Chicago won both the best coiffure title and the "golden red-head” title at the recent Mid west Beauty Trade Show there. ' Wide World Photo.