Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1937 — Page 14

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Famed Literary Folk Praise Her Book But Local Young Woman Remains Shy

Miss Erbradling Walton Writes About Druids Of Old Wales. | meee

By JOE COLLIER

Miss Evangellne Walon, who is very shy, walked into th: parlor and She

said she would “fetch a chair.” did, and sat down as though she were taking the witness stand. “I'm an amateur at Jeing interviewed,” she said. And so she was—a fascinating amateur who talked aout herself and her book, sometime; using prewar slang, sometimes prim words that seemed never to h¢ve been out of that parlor. il Miss Walton, who| i: 29, wrote “The Virgin and the Swine,” a novel of Druidic Wales. Wrcie it, got it published, and has bee1 in a spin in her cloistered home at 2858- N. Illinois St. ever since. John Cowper Powys, famous Welsh author, wrote her in a breathless scrawl that he was excited over the book ard that: “You are certainly. ‘ny favorite writer (except the in mortal Sir John Rhys) lon these my favorite subjects.”

Powys Writes Again

' Faith Baldwin, the nc velist, wrote 2 personal and unsolici ied letter of congratulations, and lat r sent along a postcard saying Miss Walton could make it public if he chose. Powys wrote two aore letters, each more superlative {aan the one before, ‘urging her to v rite another book on the same subject. James Branch Cable, the rovelist, told

Burton Rascoe, Esqure literary critic, that he| should read the book,

and Mr. Rascoe wrote tlie Pubiishers r

for a copy. | A man who said he ‘vas a doctcr in an asylum wrote fiom Florida that for $25,600 he wculd sell her the facts of his life, dnd that she could write them intQ a book that would gross a million 0: more.

Tutored at Home

All this and more 1appened to Miss Walton, who, beca'ise of illness, never went to public schools, but was privately [tutored a; home; who never before had heard of Mr. Ras-

7° Miss Walton

considering. started. Crush on the Druids But why Druidic Wales? . “Well,” Miss Walton asid, ‘a crush on it. I get crushes on things every so often. I did six months research work. Then one morning before I got up I had the idea for the first page. I wrote it and threw it jaway. “Mother came in, found it, read it; and said she | believed they (the publishers) would take it. Since I never had had anything taken before, and wanting more than anything else to have something published, I continued.”

She has a new novel

“I got-

mother took the manuscript to a girl friend in Chicago. They had luncheon, and the girl told her to take it to Llewellyn Jones, editor of Willet, Clark & Co. .

All Very Simple

Mr. Jones leoked uncomfortable during the interview, she said, and

prowled about in her personal life | with what seemed to be endless | questions. It developed later that he was afraid she was a schoolteacher. He had just read a schoolteacher’s | Mr. |

Jones kept the manuscript ‘and Willet, Clark & Co. published it. It was as simple as that. sale, Miss Walton said: “I haven't heard since January, and of course then everything was swamped under the ‘Gone With the

Wind’ excitement. Offers From Hollywood

Is it hard to write? - “Well,” Miss Walton" said, “on days when I'm tuned up, the words come fast and sometimges it seems that someone else is writing. Then there are days less tunéd than others.” i Miss Walton has had agency offers from Hollywood on possible picture adaptation for the book. “Some parts would picture beautifully,” she said, “but others—I'm afraid others wouldn't get past Will Hays.” Miss Walton didn’t know that Will Hays is an Indiana native, but said she didn’t think that would help much.

DYNAMITE SLAYING TRIAL IS NEAR END

By United Press HARLAN, Ky., April 2—The case of William Leonard, charged with the dynamite murder of County At-

torney Elmon Middleton, was expected to be given to the jury here today. ; It was believed arguments of the prosecution and defense would be concluded by noon. Testimony in the case was completed late last night. Leonard took the stand in his own behalf and denied “any connection with the slaying. .-

As for

RELEASED 10 PARENTS

Two sisters who can came to police headquarters to spend the night and later confessed they had run -away from their Cincinnati. home were released by police to their parents today.

NYA ‘Reports

Drop in 10 Years.

Juvenile delinquency in Marion decreased

County eighteen per cent

1935, it was revealed today in a report by National Youth Administra-

tion workers.

During the ten-year period, 5451 cases were brought before Juvenile Court. Between 1925 and 1930 cases numbered 3205, or 58.5 per cent of In the second five-year period only 2246 cases were handled.

the total.

The study was

which at the peak numbered 140. The most frequent offense committed by the boys was stealing.

That boys come

than girls was shown by the fact that 7.3 per cent of all boys were in court before the end of their ninth year, while less than .one per. cent of the girls were in court before the

age of ten.

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