THE JAZZ AGE.

By Marvin Barrett. Picture editor William Cahn '34. New York: Putnam's, 1959. 20$ PP. $5-95.

An exhilarating, gaudy, incredible era from Versailles to the Crash - a decade never to be forgotten, surely never quite to be repeated: the "Jazz Age."

Here are its high priests: Harding and "Cal," Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, Will Rogers and Rudy Vallee; Billy Sunday, Al Capone, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay; Mary Pickford and Clara Bow, Thomas Alva Edison, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan; Lindbergh, "The Babe," and Al Smith.

Here, too, are the Model T and Stutz, hip flasks and Prohibition, "Blue Skies," oil scandals and the Ku Klux Klan; "talkies" and the Charleston, speculation, "the long count," "two chickens in every pot."

This - and much, much more - was the "Jazz Age," now recreated in text and pictures by Marvin Barrett and William Cahn '34 in a book based on an hour-long NBC television program in the celebrated Project 20 series.

In racy text, and illustrated with over 250 striking, poignant, powerful photographs, the 1920's are truly made to live again in a volume that will gives its readers copious amounts of pleasure - and undoubtedly, too, at least a few pangs.