THE DEMI-WIDOWMary Pickford Bobbs-Merrill ($2).
Dedicated "To Someone I Love," Mary Pickford's first novel tells the story of Coralee Dumont, golden-haired, silver-voiced little widow whose extraordinary run of good luck began when she was stranded in Paris one July.
Going hungry for the sake of her infant son, Coralee fainted at a tryout for a part in a revue the great Chardon was producing. Thereafter good fortune came her way in breath-taking abundance. When she accidentally collided with a handsome young South American in the street, he turned out to be a dashing Argentine...