Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1925 — Page 8

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By Walter 1). Hickman ji HEN science hits Main Street, iW something Is bound to hapl.~ J pen. A laboratory is generally all Greek to most people and the inhabitants of the Broadway of inland cities generally become so interested that they decide to haVe everything from a “Better Baby Week’’ to “Sanitary Garbage Week.” But when science the old street, ones interest does not center upon the gossip of the tobacco chewers, but rather upon the man who is administering science to Main Street. Such is the task of Sinclair Lewis in "Arrowsmith,” published by Harcourt, Brace & Cos., New York. Received my copy for review from the publishers on the request of the author. Lewis,'you will recall, wrote “Main Street” and “Babbitt.” When I trotted off to Bermuda for my vacation some weeks ago, I took with me my copy of “Arrowsmith.” I was still “studying” this book when I docked in New York. Was stili at it on the train on my way back to Indianapolis and It was several days after arriving home that I completed it. “Arrowsmith” actually took possession of me. I felt tljat I actually knew Dr. Martin Arrowsmith. “Doc” wanted to be more than a pill doctor. He was essentially an adventurer in the laboratory. His first “god” or idol was Max

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By Walter I). Hickman r—iHEY say that a “uke” and a T crooning baritone unvites one __ to be romantic. Prank Crumit and Nick Lucas have inspired lot of date night emotions when their records have been played on a phonograph. It seems you do not have to wait for the moon to come out when these gentlemen are present on a record. They just seem to invite that “comfy” feelin’. Now comes anew member of the crooning type. His name is Richard B. Gilbert and you will find him on anew Okeh record. Gilbert is a baritone who is capable of doing a lot of trick “lipping,” a'sort of a compromise between a yodel and crooning. This happens in "Yearning,” one of those very sentimental date night songs which creates its own moonlight. There is enough novelty in the way the. accompanist handles the melody to make it a record that one xyill not soon forget. I believe that Okeh has an artist in Gilbert which meets the popular demands of the day. On the other side you will, discover," I Had Someone Else Before I Had .You.”, The theme is not. so “date-nighty. Meeting Crabbe When Victor announced that Armand Crabbe, eminent Belgian baritone, was engaged to make his first Victor record, I was interested. The two numbers -are in Spanish. In “Ranchito Viejo,” (Out on my Little Old Ranch,”) one gets easily the impression of the masculine worth of the singer. Here is a full, powerful and sympathetic voice which weaves with ease a tonal picture. _ . In the other number, VLa Cancion del Olvido —Junto al puente de la Pena ” (The Song of Forgetfulness— At the Bridge Crossing,”) you will discover a certain Argentine movement. But it is of course the singer himself in which you are most interested. He seems to possess a hilarious, rugged spirit. Judging this man- by his first record, I feel safe in saying that Crabbe will be a welcomed addition to those who take pride In their phonographic library. I have been asked concerning Sergi Rachmaninoff’s new Victor piano record. So far I have been unable to get it. Bela as a Soloist Those who go in for foreign orchesvas have been raving generally over Dajos Bela and his orchestra as retorted on an Odeon. These records are recorded in Europe. Odeon has just released Bela ap a i-’olin soloist. The two numbers are “Le Cygne” (“The Swan”) and Michallow’s “Gabotte,” Op. 2. Bela essentially is a weaver of intimate melody, meaning that in his quiet and Elusive passages he finds a certain quiet beauty which he imparts with esse to his audience. You feel that quiet charm ip “The Swan, ’ and you will also recognize the worth of the pianist. Here is a delicately recorded record and one which will result, I am sure, in genuine appreciation. In considering dance music you will be interested in Carl Fenton and his orchestra on a Brunswick. His latest is called “Just a Bundle of Sunshine,” with a vocal chorus by Billy Jonas and Ernest Hare. On the other side of this Brunswick you will discover the Regent

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Gottlieb, a great scientist but a made genius. There is something so cruelly magnetic about this old man of science that Max began to haunt me at night. At times I felt he was an old fake, but then his influence extender and he resumed his place as a leader. He was not a practical man. Ho was a genius and by his queemess and strange views on life he molded his disciples of research. And he made many enemies. A New Field Lewis, in writing “Arrowsmith,” had the services of Dr. Paul H. De Kruif, and the author gives this man credit to him “not only for most of the bacteriological and medical material in this tale, but equally for his help in the planning of the fable itself. . . .” At this time nearly everybody is bumping up against science. Lewis has entered this field and by introducing Arrowsmith and the many great minds and personalities that came into his life has given us a story of tremendous appeal. In a painstaking but dramatic way, Lewis takes us into the great laboratories of magmiftcently equipped research institutions. Before that we actually live with the young doctor, who was miles ahead of Main St. and who could not understand why the old street would not accept him. And yet Martin Arrowsmith accepted and rejected himself. When

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he came to being a husband he was both a success and a failure with two wives. But in the first wife, Leora, I believe you will find one of the finest conceived characters in the land of fiction. To some she might be a dumbdora who could not “grow” with her husband but it was the simple soul of this woman that caused Arrowsmith to be famous. He nagged at her and found fault n isn she failed to be brilliant at a dim er party everybody was “so smart.” She admits that she read an entire afternoon upon art but the people at the party didn’t talk on “art.” And while Arrowsmith was fighting the plague in a distant South Sea island, Leora became infected through her own carelessness. She died while Arrowsmith was having at least a mental petting party with the woman that afterward became his second wife. His second wife was a mint and Doc couldn’t get along with a smart woman with a fortune. And so Arrowsmith leaves her and his son. The Acid Test We meet several hundred characters in “Arrowsmith” and the author is just as careful in developing a character that exists only in a single paragraph as those who surge through the entire story. That is the acid test of great writ-

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ing. To me “Arrrowsmith” is more than a yarn; it is a course of study in human nature. Lewis creates structure after structure in this story—places where men live, fight, die and bleed for their ideals. Some of these characters are cheap skates and old wind bags, and yet one of the biggest "false alarms” finds himself in Congress. There is something so wonderfully

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