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The Blue Book Magazine, April 1911
The Blue Book Magazine, April 1911 This issue contains a cover color supplement featuring Mary Garden as Salome and approximately twenty stories of varying genres. The lead novelette, "The Mystery of Superstition Range" by John H. Whitson, details a girl of the Emeralds. Other fiction includes adventure tales: Frederic Reddale's fourth Matt Bardeen episode involving a diver retrieving copper billets from the Thames; "The Stolen Submarine," the third King of Knaves adventure by Egbert; and Frank X. Finnegan's sixth Holly of "Big Nine" installment. Frederic B. Linton contributes "Required by Contract," about an inventor outwitting a businessman. Additional stories cover diverse subjects including a Japanese invasion scenario, a Lake Michigan storm rescue, a prize-fighter's debt, an automobile conversion, and aerial romance. The issue features a Stageland section with photographs of theatrical productions, including extensive coverage of Edmond Rostand's *Chantecler* and Arthur Pinero's *Trelawney of the Wells*.