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It Seem to Me HEYWOOD BROUN THE theaters of New York. I think, are doing very nicely. It Is quite true that the trivial is celebrated too frequently, and we are still a long way from developing a native drama which represents the interests and the subject matter of the country as a whole. The American novelist is three or four jumps ahead of the American dramatist in sensing the temper of the times. Rut even in an era of crisis a good show remains a good show. It will be quite difficult to find much

inner significance in “Boy Meets Girl,” but to me it is the funniest of recent farces. To be sure, it pokes fun at the movies and at the pretensions of the magnates, but that has been done so much that by now even the producers are a little timid about taking themselves too seriously. In fact, Hollywood has an inferiority complex, which is rather a pity, since film standards are at least as high as those which are maintained in popular magazine fiction. * In one sense Bella and Samuel Spewack soften the blow of their

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satirical attack by employing precisely the same plot at which they aim their shafts of ridicule. “Boy Meets Girl” does tell the story of a boy who meets a girl. Os course, the Spewacks are hardly out to have their plot accepted as anything more than a thread on which to hang a wealth of incident. In all probability the Hollywood satire Is made more effective from the fact that it is written from the inside and by a pair of authors who seem to have at least a sneaking affection for the factory, even though they lambaste it. a a a // oily wood // ankerings “tJOY MEETS GIRL” is less bitter than “Once in O a Lifetime," and I think it may be a little funnier, though it is rather unfair to compare something fresh in your mind with a play which you saw several seasons ago. At any rate, Samuel and Bella have not burned all their bridges behind them. I rather think they said to themselves, "And there isn’t any reason why this shouldn’t make a pretty good picture after we have done with it as a play.” I thought I detected that Hollywood hankering when I discovered that the heroine was being respectabilized at the end before my astonished and somewhat, protesting eyes. I was lor having the baby in the case remain entirely illegitimate, just as he had been in the beginning. However, ‘‘Boy Meets Girl” is an example of the type of play which is done just about as well in America as in any other theater of the world, or better. It has the gayety of fresh and ingenious invention and the exhilaration of pace. Even those gag lines which are very definitely planted and prepared for pop out as if impromptu because of the skillful playing and the shrewd direction. “Boy Meets Girl,” as far as my taste goes, is far and away the funniest play in town. tt tt tt Breaking New Ground A S to the finest play now being shown hereabouts, would pick Maxwell Anderson’s “Winterset.” Distinctly this is a play which breaks new ground. It is a good melodrama to begin with, but I do not hold with those who think that Anderson should have done it “straight.” He is defending, and successfully defending, the playwright’s privilege to deal with current problems without being bound of necessity to adopt the realistic approach. Os late there has been too much disposition to rule all fiction and drama out of the court of capital cases unless the form were strictly naturalistic. Critics on the left bank have been pretty severe with “Winterset” and have been inclined to label it as well-intentioned, but muddled. I rather think that they are emotionally upset by having the hangitig judge treated as if he. too, were a human being. But it is thus very role, superbly played by Richard Bennett, which seems to me to mark Anderson's greatest achievement. Anderson breaks with the tradition of heroes and of villains and shows the judge to be one more individual bound to the wheel of the system in which he lives and actually racked to insanity by the role to which society has consigned him. It is, I believe, a more revolutionary concept than it would have been to provide him with horns and a tail. (Copyright. 19351

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

AWAY back in 1829 there appeared one Sylvester Graham, who had a system jl diet involving elimination of meat, sauces, tea, coffee, alcohol, popper, and mustard, and who insisted that to be healthful one ought to eat lots of vegetables, whole wheat bread, fruits, nuts and salt, and drink pure water. This is the same Graham who is responsible for giving us graham crackers and graham bread. About 1892 appeared Alexander Haig with the idea that uric acid was a factor in the causation of disease. This Haig argued that uric acid comes from eating meat, that it accumulates in the blood, and that as a result meat eaters are unhealthy. The diseases which Haig particularly associated with uric acid were high blood pressure, rheumatism, gout, diabetes and Bright’s disease, but he did not hesitate to include as well headache, epilepsy, mental depression and anemia. It took about 20 years for medicine to prove with more than a fair degree of certainty that the uric acid by hypothesis was without scientific foundation. tt tt a YET there continue to be sold a considerable number of patent medicines based on the uric acid idea, and the purchaser will read in the advertising literature that the real value of these patent medicines is to clear the uric acid out of his body. Now, you need not be afraid of uric acid in your body. Chemical studies of the blood show r that this acid is increased in the blood when there is an abundant amount of meat in the diet, but uric acid also is present when meat is not eaten. Even more certain than this, careful studies of the tissues fail to reveal that the uric acid is in any way associated with the forms of inflammation which appear in rheumatism and Bright’s disease. Moreover. plenty of people w<th high blood pressure have never touched meat. Lest it be thought that these articles are designed in any w T ay to boost the sale of meat, may I say at this point that only moderate amounts of meat are necessary in any well-balanced diet. The diets that have been developed by nutrition experts, who are trying to work out a minimum essential diet for those on relief, include meat on only two days of the week.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

PALESTINE, central link in the chain that binds together the three continents of the Old World, promises to become as important in the field of prehistoric research as it long has been in the field of history. The plain of Jezreel, in the northern part of Judea, lay on the highway between Egypt and Syria. It was the road that connected continents and as a result the battling armies of the ancient nations met there. Judea became known as “the cockpit of Asia.** Nation after nation invaded the land and in the four corners of the world. a a a SCHOLARS have long been engaged in unraveling the history of Palestine. It is only since the World War that scientists have become equally interested in the prehistoric treasures of the region. Much of the work in the region has been carried on by the American School of Prehistoric Research, of which Dr. George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University is director. This work is now' revealing that the records of many town sites and fortress sites can be carried back without break to the dawn of the Old Stone Age. “The attention of prehistorians was attracted to the Near East by Zumoffin's researchers in caves on the Syrian coast near Beirut in 1897." Prof. MacCurdy says. “Little wa.- done, however, within the present limits of Pales;ine until after the World War."

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Nazis Bluff Europe With Fast-Built, Now Obsolete Air Fleet

The truth about Nazi Germany’s present and prospective military strength is one of the tilings Frasier Hunt wanted to find out at the start of his reportorial tour of Europe. The facts of the German war machine now in the making are contained below in the second of Hunt's uncensorcd cable dispatches. BY FRAZIER HUNT (Copyright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.) JDERLTN, Dec. 5. (by cable from London) Germany today is spending money like a drunken sailor. On her air force and her army she is laying 1 out $125,000,000 monthly.

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years to create an army of war strength. In the meantime Germany will do anything to preserve world peace until she’s ready to hold her own in a war. In recent months the world has been flooded with old rumors of the strength of the German army. Even with the taking in of the first conscripts two weeks ago, the army numbers only 400,000. Within a year this number will be raised to probably 600,000. This is the regular peace-time army. For real war the army must be at least three times this size with two trained reserves for each regular. tt tt tt MORE exaggerated are reports of the magical creation of a mighty air force with as many as 5000 planes. Doubtless some of these fantasies are a deliberately fostered bluff on the part of Germany. She did pour millions into an orgy of aircraft building, grinding out like sausages some 2000 planes that were practically obsolete when delivered.

Four-Man Conservative Bloc of Supreme Court Includes Justices Sutherland as Legal Captain, Mcßeynolds as Caustic Individualist

This is the second of a series of articles on the justices of the United States Supreme Court. BY HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. George Sutherland is regarded by lawyers as the strong man of the four-man conservative bloc on the Supreme Court. During the ’2os, before Chief Justice Taft and Justice Sanford died, the conservatives had a clear

majority of six on most issues. Justice Sutherland, a native of England and a former Republican Senator and Representative from Utah, has been regarded as legal captain of the conservatives since President Harding appointed him in 1922. He was a protege of Senator Reed Smoot and u ring-

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his Senate service from 1905 through 1917. He was president of the American Bar Association in 1916-17. Pale, tall, slender and scholarly, Justice Sutherland has the only beard on the bench except that of the Chief Justice. It is a Vandyke, accentuating his slenderness. His voice is weak, and those in the court room often have difficulty hearing him. but on constitutional points he is listened to with utmost respect in the secret conferences where the court talks over its cases and votes its decisions. He is 73. and in recent years has combated failing health which has not impaired his mental keenness one iota, lawyers say. This year he voted against the NRA oil control, NRA itself, the Railroad Pension Act, the Farm Mortgage Act. and the President's removal of Trade Commissioner Humphreys. He also has voted against chain-store taxes by states, the Minnesota farm mortgage moratorium act, and state milk control. SUTHERLAND wrote the opinion of the court majority refusing on technical grounds *o review the merits of Georgia's Reconstruction Era anti-insurrec-tion law in the Angelo Herndon case. He wrote the powerful dissent for the four conservatives in the Minnesota mortgage case, attacking this depression farm act as an unconstitutional impairment of property rights and the “sanctity” of contracts. With the court’s current tendency to split on more and more cases, Justice Sutherland’s leadership in legal thought is expected to affect the conservative arguments importantly. This tendency was shown in one day last month in which dissents were filed in nine cases, four of them being 5-4 decisions. Justice Sutherland was on the losing side in only three of the nine divided cases. tt tt tt AN 1896 Gold Democrat from Tennessee, who broke with Bryan, also sits on the Supreme Court and fights the New Deal as

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Impressive pageantry, such as this in Munich, marked the induction of the first conscripts into the new German army the other day.

Today these hurry-up planes are being employed by Gen. Goering for training purposes, and a display of equal haste in pushing pilots through all-weather flying is killing 20 men monthly. The fact is that Germany has only a handful of real front-line bombers and modern pursuit planes. The most important point is that she will soon be turning out fighting planes and bombers at a rate of more than 100 a month. Anew type bomber does 218

bitterly as would Carter Glass or James M. Beck. He is Justice James Clark Mcßeynolds, who was the party’s

leader in trustbusting under Woodrow W i 1 - son, and apparently still holds to his ideas of that era. Justice Mcßeynolds is one of the two bachelors among the nine, a tall and gaunt-fa ced gentleman of 73 who is noted for his nimble tongue and

caustic wit. He is merciless in questioning lawyers during arguments before the great bar, and not at all loath to voice his own opinions as gratuitous comments. Lawyers fear him. He carries his legal individualism so far that he dissented alone to the court’s opinion which held that a coal marketing association does not violate the anti-trust laws. But when the New Deal leased the apartment house in which he lived for 20 years, to house a governmental agency, he moved out without a protest. He sometimes digresses from his written opinions to deliver acidulous homilies. Most notable occasion of this sort was in the 5-4 gold case decision last spring, when he departed from his carefully worded reasoning to deliver a stump speech against money devaluation. “Nero undertook to exercise the power when he was in Rome,” he said, arguing that devaluation was an act of tyranny by which all debts could be wiped out. The Constitution, he said, “is gone.” He addressed the little audience in the court directly as “you,”

DR. FISHBEIN PLAYS HIS HAND CORRECTLY

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miles an hour, a speed unsurpassed in Europe for this kind of plane. a a tt WITHIN a year Germany's air force will equal any in Europe. France still will outnumber the German air force, but half of France’s planes are unfit for actual 1 combat. Only America will have finer bombing and pursuit machines. Equally unfounded are reports of a system of underground hangars.

and wound up with this peroration which electrified the tomblike silence that normally marks court sessions: “That never was the law, it never ought to be the law, and the shame and the humiliation of it all no one of us can foresee.” a a a THERE is virtual certainty that he will be in the conservative camp if the court di-

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BY ERNIE PYLE "PITTSBURGH, Dec. s.—There aren't many people, I'll tell you, in this day of airplanes and stream-lined Zephyrs, who get a chance to ride on an old-fash-ioned day-coach, stop-at-every-crossroads kind of train. You couldn’t see two blocks, it was so foggy and rainy, when we chugged out of the old Erie station down under the bridges in Cleveland. Any kind of train, and especially a slow one, feels mighty good on a day like that. At least you know you’re not going to ram into the top of the Terminal Tower in the fog. There were about a dozen passengers on our coach. The young fellow behind lay down in his seat as soon as his ticket was collected, and didn’t wake up till we got to Pittsburgh. The elderly couple ahead had long talks with the conductor whenever he came by. They knew him slightly, I gathered, and he was glowingly telling them of his recent great experience.

ment in Chicago. They are the women’s team of four, mixed pair, national team of four, and the naUonal open pair. The program, however, includes games every afternoon and night throughout this week for the amateur or home player. The largest entry of the tournament is in a special amateur pair game which comes Saturday afternoon and night. This is open to the novice and to those who will not be participating in the finals of the national open pair game. The winners will receive full masters’ qualifications. Dr. Morris Fishbein, nationally known medical w r riter, is an enthusiastic amateur bridge fan and, in a recent practice session for the national tournament, I watched the doctor play a hand which brought out a very good point. The novice at contract is inclined to take either too many finesses or not enough. A finesse should be employed only when there is no other possible play in the hand. The point in today's hand is quite simple. The opponents cashed the first three diamond tricks. East's heart return was won in dummy with the ace and

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935

There are a number of underground bomb-proof storage sheds for planes and parts, but most important are the bomb-proof tanks of gasoline. Great underground reserves are st<#ed against the day when the borders may be sealed. _ Meantime Germany tries desperately to get from coal and a few wells sufficient gasoline for war purposes. Normally she consumes three million tons, but the general staff figures that by 1936 it will be able

vides on New Deal legislation at this term. Justice Mcßeynolds is popularly supposed to have been “kicked upstairs” to the Supreme Court in 1914 after he had, as President Wilson’s attorney general, conducted a series of anti-trust prosecutions. He was forthright and bitter as he is now. Born in Kentucky, he went to college in Nashville, attended the

TT seems that this very train -*• was the one that was held up by robbers near Warren, 0., just the other day. This very conductor was in charge. “I told them to go right ahead,” he said. “There wasn’t anything else to do. I told them to go easy with the passengers, and not be tearing the rings off their fingers and cussing them. “But they weren’t interested in little stuff,” he said. “They wanted the big money. You never sawanybody dressed finer than they were. Expensive suits, and their pants pressed. They looked like young business men. But I could tell the way they went at it they were professionals, all right. And they meant business.” The two girls across the aisle chimed in with questions. The middle-aged man a couple of seats back, who was riding on a pass, just stared out the window. The white smoke from the engine lapped back alongside the train so you couldn't see anything at all from one side. And the day was so gray, and the

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a spade finesse taken, West showing out. Now\ to make the contract, Dr. Fishbein had to find the queen of clubs in the West hand. True enough, if the club finesse failed, his contract would be defeated two tricks, but if it succeeded the contract would be made. Therefore. Dr. Fishbeir* was right in taking the club finesse, as this gave him the extra needed entry for finessing the spades. (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.)

to produce two million tons required for war. a tt tt IN building up her army from top to bottom. Germany is unencumbered either by antiquated equipment or old military ideas. The general staff is not making the mistake of the air corps byrushing the production of untried equipment. It calmly formulates its plans, then pushes them with incredible speed. At present Germany is swiftly building 24 divisions constituting a peace-time army, eventually reaching 36 divisions of 13,000 men each. The whole country’ and dictatorship exist for the army. Hitler and the general staff command industry, trade, agriculture and every phase of national life. Instead of importing needed butter for households, the army gets copper, rubber and oil. At least 12 months will be required to train and equip the regulars of the peace army. By training 400.000 recruits annually, a war army of 2.000.000 men will be built in five years—if there is no internal breakdown. Approximately the same time will be required to equip the reserve divisions. tt n a THE biggest surprise in the new army is its artillery. Instead of the old three-inch artillery of the World War, all artillery regiments are armed with four-and-one-half-inch howitzers having superior striking power together with the added value that they can be fired from almost any position. The new German army is ahead likewise in its mechanization and motorization. Three fully mechanized divisions are in the building and a number of batallions of swift, small tanks have been completed. Always the general staff keeps in mind a possible campaign against Russia. Germany does not believe she will have to fight i France again. It is worth repeating that until her war army is ready, Germany is the greatest guarantor of world peace. How Nazi Germany—on an un- ! precedented spending spree—is ! marching toward an unknown economic fate, is revealed tomorrow in the third of three articles which Frazier Hunt has cabled I from abroad to this newspaper.

University of Virginia as a classmate of Oscar Underwood, and practiced law in Nashville until Theodore Roosevelt brought him into the Department of Justice as an assistant attorney general. After 1907 he practiced in the big New York law firm of Paul D. Cravath until President Wilson called him into his Cabinet in 1913. Tomorrow—Brandeis and Stone.

windows so misty you couldn’t see much from the other side either. So we just rode. We stopped every little while. The engineer handled the train smoothly enough. It w r asn’t an unpleasant ride at all. The coach was a little chilly, so that when you lay over in your seat for a nap you felt stiff and chill when you woke up. Every once in a while you looked at your watch, and said to yourself, “A third of the way now,” or “Half the way ncw\” tt tt a A GIRL in a leopard coat got on at Youngstown. She read The Youngstown Telegram clear through, then worked the cross-w-ord puzzle, then laid the paper down. I wanted to ask her for it, but she was pretty, and she might think I was getting smart, so I let the paper go. I read three pieces in The Atlantic Monthly, but it was hard to keep my mind on them. It seemed better just to stare out thf window, even though you couldn't see anything. One article was about being a widow. It suddenly occurred to me, sort of funny like, that I could never be a widow. I didn’t finish the piece. A few miles outside of Youngstown the train stopped. It was sort of open country on either side of the train. After a long while we backed up a few hundred feet, then waited some more. Nothing ever passed us. Finally we started and went on again, as though it were an afterthought. Slow trains always have at least one stop like that, just to keep up interest. As we got nearer Pittsburgh, we stopped oftener. So many people got on and off the train. I lost track of the individuals. The coach was half full when we reached Pittsburgh. Everybody seemed sort of somber, like the day, and few of thefti talked to each other. We pulled in on the dot. Three hours and 25 minutes out of Cleveland. You could have made it in three-quarters of an hour by air if the day had been nice. But the day wasn’t nice. Everybody got off the train and carried their bags up the platform. Nobody said anything to anybody else, and you couldn’t tell from their faces whether they were glad to be in Pittsburgh or not.

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Fair Enough !■ HOUR ENOA, Dec. s.—Alter 48 hours in Genoa I am not quite ready to prepare complete and final disposition of the subjects of Fascism. Ethiopia and the effect of sanctions on the ordinary life of Italians. Those who can speak enough English to maka themselves understood to me men-

tioned the name Mussolini in a peculiar way. Unlike Germans, they do not regard their dictator or leader as God. for they are Catholics, and so are many leaders of the Fascist Party. It was wisely recognized that God. as a phase of life of the Italian people, was adequately covered by their old standard faith. But neither do I find that they regard Mussolini as a terrible oppressor. Instead he seems to be looked upon as a great force of the state—the boss and general manager. who will give them plenty of

hell if they step out of line, but will treat them as kindly as pressure of his plans permits him to as long as they obey orders and don't attempt to cheat. b a u A o Election Worries L"' \ERYTHING is up to Mussolini, and everybody is relieved of all responsibility in the management of the country. There is no need to worry about candidates or elections, and the Italian citizen spares himself the trouble of standing in lina in a dirty cigar store to drop a ballot into a polling box, which is then tossed into the river, or pull levers on a machine whose gadgets have been fouled with gum or hairpins, as in the United States of America. Even if he were permitted to vote every now and again, as freemen are in democratic lands, he would be sure to elect his routine proportion of grafters, barflies, ignoramuses and sockless nuts, all to the detriment of the nation and in the long run of himself. They have neither Jimmy Walkers nor Big Bill Thompsons in Italy. They have put it all up to a tough mug who knocked their heads together and took charge. Mussolini, he built this road. Mussolini, he stopped beggars and put them in hospitals, or put them to work. 0 r put them in jail. Mussolini, he made hotels publish their rates, and be built big steamships to carry the flag and pride of Italy into New York. He went into Sicily and smacked down the same sort of hoodlums who almost took over Chicago a few years ago. He slaughtered those he couldn’t catch, threw others into dungeons for life and threw the fear of God into the rest. B tt tt The Why ness of the Whatnot TJEOPLE have to die somehow some time, and A Mussolini, with his Vesuvian oratory, has insisted that it were better to live heroically and die young than to be unborn or, being born, to spend threescore years and ten in stupid, timid routine. It’s a subject which climbs 'way up into the lofty question of the whyness of the whatnot. You get his idea, though you may not agree. Nathan Hale was what? Perhaps 25. And Chauncey Depew was what? 90. Which would vou rather have been? I was surprised, though, at the freedom with which certain Italians, who had ro way ot knowing that I was not a flycop, expressed them- * selves on the subject of the privilege of dying heroically of fever in Abyssinia. One young man was due to go away soon and he was afraid because he had no wish either to free slaves or to fertilize Italy’s new empire with his martyred physique. Another who had one child of 15 months was dreading the call and wishing he had at least four. He realized, however, that the element of time was against him, unless triplets should honor his humble home within the next few months. But there was no favorable symptom, and he was downcast and wished he could be in Brooklyn, where he knew some people. It seems just barely possible that 48 hours is not enough to analyze the situation. I will report further.

Contact Glasses

By Science Service CONTACT eye glasses—thin shells made to fit inconspicuously betw-een eyelids and eyeballhave been hailed with considerable publicity. The general impression seems to be that they are the latest thing in cosmetically attractive eye glass, something for the person who must wear glasses and finds the ordinary shell or metal frames uncomfortable or unbecoming. They have aroused “vain hopes and patients ask about them,” stated Dr. Ray K. Daily of Houston, Tex., at the St. Louis meeting of the Southern Medical Association. When they are necessary, when they may be useful, and why they can not be generally used at present was told by Dr. Daily. They are really not very new. for Dr. Daily points out that “experiments wuth contact glasses have been made for almost 100 years.” The chief deterrent to their use was, at first, the technical difficulty of manufacturing them, even for use in the one eye condition for w-ihch they are particularly helpful and for which they w-ere originally designed. These technical difficulties have been overcome, but they are still very expensive. Dr. Daily does not feel they can be generally included in the outfit of the eye specialist until they have been greatly reduced in price and made accessible to the large mass of people. tt tt tt THERE are no conditions for which contact glasses are definitely unsuitable. Dr. Daily said. One authority finds that persons with inelastio eyelids or eyes sensitive to smoke can not wear them. Chief indication for their use is the eye condition known as keratoconus, said Dr. Daily. This is a cone-shaped deformity of the cornea of the eye, the condition for which contact glasses were originally devised and for wihch they do the mast good. Vision is improved, the condition is kept from getting worse, and in some cases is actually improved, it appears from Dr. Daily’s discussion. Fortunately, persons suffering from this condition have eyes very tolerant of contact glasses. The glasses may be used for the more common conditions such as farsightedness, nearsightedness and astigmatism, in which the images are not brought to a proper focus on the retina. Properly fitted and ground contact glasses are more helpful than ordinary glasses in these conditions, according to a German authority quoted by Dr. Daily. Because the contact glasses enlarge the field of vision, they are partciularly helpful to drivers, pilots, sportsmen, swimmers and the like. Dr. Daily pointed out, even though they are not a necessity for the average person with ordinary eye defects. Their inconspicuousness, of course, gives them particular appeal for actors and artists.

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MR. S. S. VAN DINE is with us again, guiding Philo Vance through a tale which displays very neatly the detective's profound erudition, and which also reveals him as having an unsuspected human side. Indeed, there is but one thing wrong with it; it isn't much of a detective story. The book is “The Garden Murder Case” <Scribners, $2) and it tells about gentlemanly gamblers in a New York penthouse. One of the lads gets murdered just after they get their bets down on the fourth race, and Vance happens to be on the scene. The tale is far from satisfactory, as a thriller; but it docs give Mr. Van Dine a chance to show how much he knows about race horses. (.By Bruce Cattoru.

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