OVER THE EDITOR'S SHOULDER.
WE BEGIN in this issue "Golden Apples," a novel by , author of that original and well-liked novel. "South Moon Under."
The setting of her new novel is the Florida pine country. The three principal characters are a young man and his sister, squatters on the land, and the owner, a young English remittance man, exiled unjustly by his family.
This is Mrs. Rawlings' own country: she writes of it so intensely that the trees and vines and marsh grass seem just beyond the room, and the reader partakes of the exile's bitterness, and the eager hope of the squatters.
When you see your friends paying $2.50 for "Golden Apples" in book form, you will be proud that you read it first in Cosmopolitan. - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
WOMEN readers will be interested to know that Mary C. McCall, JR. (Mrs. Dwight Franklin), who wrote for April Cosmopolitan, "The Man Who Gave His Heart Away," has just had twins in Hollywood.
In Hollywood also is Noel Pierce, feminine in spite of her name. Cosmopolitan published her first story, "Night Club Hostess," and we have just received a new one "Leading Man." It is a study of a rising star who learned that it pays to think of others."
MRS. LAVINA JENSEN, of Green River, Wyo., has read Cosmopolitan for 20 years. She writes: "When I was a girl you meant romance and your stories went hand in hand with my own romance, you came into my new home with me-a rest when I was tired, an escape from the humdrum things of life. You have been romance, travel and education- a wonderful medium for bringing me the lives of other people-I do hope we have another 20 years of life together."
Perhaps there are others who have read the magazine longer, since or near its beginning, almost fifty years ago. We should like to hear from them.
Mrs. Martin Johnson, the famous explorer, will soon entertain you with a jungle dinner. Cosmopolitan readers will sit down with her in the lair of the lion and dine miraculously on-American foods.
Attend the Preview in Cosmopolitan
MORE best-selling books and popular movies originate in Cosmopolitan than in any other publication. It's a pleasant thing to be able to tell your friends "I saw it first in Cosmopolitan."
MOVIES AND BOOKS' of 1934 that originated in Cosmopolitan
MOTION PICTURES
Samuel Hopkins Adams-It Happened One Night
Robert W. Chambers-Operator Thirteen
Irvin S. Cobb-Judge Priest
A. J. Cronin-Once to Every Woman
Edna Ferber-Glamour
Rupert Hughes-Miss Fane's Baby is Stolen
Damon Runyon-Ransom, $1,000,000
Edith Wharton-Strange Wives
Clements Ripley-Black Moon
BOOKS
Achmed Abdullah-Never Without You
Faith Baldwin-Innocent Bystander
Rex Beach-Masked Woman
Pearl Buck-The Mother
Agatha Christie-Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective
Warwick Deeping Seven Men Came Back
Rupert Hughes Love Song
W.Somerset Maughan-East is West
S.S.Van Dine The Casino Murder Case
P.G.Wodehouse-Thank You, Jeeves!
Louis Bromfield Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
NONFICTION
Achmed Abdullah-The Cat Had Nine Lives
Parker Morell-Diamond Jim
Elsie Robinson-I Wanted Out!
Next month we will publish a list of motion pictures that will appear in I935-based on Cosmopolitan stories
A NOTED book critic, commenting on Faith Baldwin's novel, "American Family," praises her for not following the "machine-made" type of magazine serial. "American Family" was first published in Cosmopolitan. Katharine Brush, Pearl Buck, Louis Bromfield, and A. J. Cronin are others who do not write machine-made serials. Their novels are also serialized in Cosmopolitan.
Faith Baldwin's next contribution to Cosmopolitan will be a complete short novel, "Wife vs. Secretary."
TED HUSING'S "Ten Years Before the Mike" is the first in a series on the development of radio broadcasting told from the inside in the inimitably casual manner of this famous sports commentator. Ted Husing could lend color to a report on the life of the oyster, and here he has fascinating material, and a pageant of personalities.
KATHARINE BRUSH made a list of "Things I Am Going to Do When I Get the Chance," while she was finishing "Don't Ever Leave Me," which continues in this issue. So now you may think of the beautiful Miss Brush gracing with her presence the Monday morning police line-up and the theaters, picking out pictures for a blank wall in her studio, motoring through the South, getting acquainted again with her husband, her son, her friends. We think she will have to write another book to rest up after this mad whirl.
Rebecca West, English novelist, paints for May Cosmopolitan a portrait of Sinclair Lewis that is a model of analysis and description. From her pages the tall, red- haired Sauk Center boy who made good all over the world rises a great soldier, searching for battles.
STARK YOUNG'S "Shadows on Terrebonne" in this issue is as good a short story as "So Red the Rose" is a book. He writes with grace and color, like the flash of a fencer in a romantic duel. Stark Young ©Doris Ulmann
THE ghostly mining towns of the West, long deserted and falling in ruins, are now reviving with the rising price of silver. Elsie Robinson, author and newspaper writer, will soon contribute an article on them to Cosmopolitan.
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The average price of a new home then was $3450 about 2.16 times the yearly average wage of $1600. Which was about 2.56 times the price of a new car $625. Today?
