Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1946 — Page 16

: = LOVE MISS TILLI BEAN." By dey. $2.50.

: F ISTEN, men, for your

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are writing for women. have your noses buried in In the meantime the women of your households are throwing off the last vestiges of puritanical reticence and hav-

ing a good laugh at the figure men cut In novels written by a

a » » "TAKE for instance, “I Love Miss . Chase, a novel

ty shop. e parades a aumber of our| ed, distracted sex past Miss

ili Bean and not one of them stacks up to Tilll in a grasp on realities, Till is the daughter of one of the strangest Quaker households you

ever laid eyes on. She lives In Pa., and is 8 when a

dealer from Italy named Rechetti arrives in town and, after

. r ” RECHETTI is a happy, easyfellow who takes Tilli and her mother to Italy, neglecting to

practical. So life goes on. Bean is quite unlike any of} girls you and I might select for]

quickly. vo i) Her wide-eyed ess, her good | nature are

ih = . » BEFORE she can gét sentimental about young men, her Italian stepfather warns her against marrying

oft his feet. i BS 8why are you afrai asks Pierre. you, you know.” .

d to kiss me?’

, neither exactly the color of was modeled so cunningly

if Miss Chase's pages.

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4 40 take a peek at some 0 daughters are reading these days. 1 doubt that you know what's go Whenever I see you reading, you detective stories or the sports page.

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his marvelous creations, she hard for Pierre and rushes him

“I'm in love with

~ OVERCOME by her impetuousness, he gives in and plans the most wonderful wedding dress for her—|in Father Kirschner's mission, and is Peggy, Mr. Stacey's secretary flon of an ’ y Sune ‘other governments over a 35-year a gown of chiffon of an incredible The Ka-|Who is “a ravishingly pretty girl.” other gove nor rose, my skin,

| cally.”

“IT'S SURPRISING how proud some people are of anything they've written—beginners espe-

That's one conclusion Miss Mary J. Cain, reader's assistant at Central Public library, has . reached in more than 15 years of experience in helping readers and writers. “A lot of aspiring authors appeal to us for advice and assist-

{ka Chase. New York, Double-

f the novels your wives and

ing on in stories women

can who is in Ttaly studying sing- | ing, with little talent. Donald worships Tilli and has a high opinign of unsullied womanhood. This not only gives Tilli's stepfather a shock, but it even makes Till wonder whether this “knight in shining armor” is really human. I regret to record that, profiting | by her father-in-law’s advice, Tilli | practically pushes, her suitor into the arms of another woman and then marries him. There's more to come, but you Tilli is the modern girl, realistic, uninhibited, eager to be loved and not a bit shocked by conventional reticences except when her daughter becomes pregnant before marriage. » = DO YOU remember the play, “The Philadelphia Story”? In that the women were fairly sophisticated, too, but they kept up appearances for the sake of the men. The heroine was cleared of guilt, so the audience probably went home happy. At least, the men did. The women, I am now inclined to believe, must have snickered at us behind their programs. There's a good sized snicker at finicky males in Ilkd Chase's story, too.

ance. Some haye talent. Some haven't. ' sn = “THE ONES without talent often seem even prouder of their work than the ones with talent. When I see somebody jealously hugging a manuscript, almost afraid to let anyone else sée it, I'm apt to suspect that the writing doesn’t show too much ability." Miss Cain is proud of the fact that Central Public has helped a number of authors write some of their best hooks. ” J ” EVANGELINE WALTON, for example, whose novel, “The Virgin and the Swine” (Chicago, Willett, Clark, 1936) was well received, did all the research for that book at Central. Miss Walton showed Miss Cain a letter of praise from John Cowper Powys, the distinguished British writer, after “The Virgin and the Swine” had appeared in England.

er's assistant at Central Pub

on book problems. ” ” » MARGUERITE YOUNG got job is helping readers, many of the historical background for her | them grammar and high scheol

novel, “Angel in the Forest” (New | students, with individual probYork, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1045) | ems. with the help of Central Public. PIETY Jeanette Covert Nolan and Helen IT’S NOT always easy. “One of

our main difficulties is the unwillingness of some people to disclose just what it is they want. And so we sometimes have to ask |

Boyd Higgins are two other local writers who continually use the library's facilities. The main part of Miss Cain's

Troubled Conscience— Author of ‘Escape’ Has New Novel

Borchard. National Foundat

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heroine of a novel. She isnt] ERROL FLYNN'S novel, “Show sophisticated, at first, but she 1earns | qo; » might have been overlooked today 1f his name had np

canght

my eye. -¥ 1 I wondered what would be told n actor who fi writing “harder but more satisfying

acting. : The publisher declares “Show-

any man who has never had a mis- | down" has already received such 4 * He stands guard over her t0|good advance reviews that the au- gives us “Winter Meeting, this terrible contingency. |thor is thinking of making only one especially worried that she|pj Anglo-Saxon. They

sea, especially the Pacific.

these waters,

by a German missionary. O'Thames is eager about

Cleo, a movie actress. nakas get into the story, too. . MR. FLYNN'S conventional and the daring innu endoes of the text are shopworn, There are good underwater pas

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"THE SHAPES THAT

Margerie Bonner. Death stirs up wild excitemen

| when it is learned that the victim [Who is in her early 30s and the vic-

{left a will which obscured the hid {ing place of his fortune in a puz |zling astrological cryptogram. More murders complicate th | search for the treasure and solu tion of the puzzle. The yarn has a colorful settin

and cryptography.

[5 epee mr Local Author to ‘Be Feted March ||

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a year and devoting most of b time to literary work. I think he ought to ponder that step well. |

” » . MR. FLYNN knows and likes the |

He 18|gbout unnecessary things. good at describing the hazards of

In “Showdown” his hero is an Irishman, Shamus O’Thames, skipper of the yacht Maski, who is rescued on the shores of New Guinea

women, Ganice, & religious worker

® » writing is quite

w | » » ” : a. . CREEP." By! I ENJOYED Peggy's conversation, ! AFTER Paris — back to Italy| Margerie Bonner. Scribner, $2. however. At one point she says: end is an Ameri-| An American couple on scientific | expedition on Vancouver coast finds | early, a battered corpse in a fishing shack [at least, and at another she says: in “The Shapes That Creep,” by|“What a drip!” which isn't.

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By DONALD

“WINTER MEETING." A novel.’

| foreign policy. |

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THEL VANCE is famous Foreign Policy—1776 to 1046."

The Foundation Press is headed | by Samuel R. Harrell, president of | the Acme-Evans Co. and student | of international affairs, with Frank-

as the author of “Es-| pe.” Even though we now in L. Burdette, secretary; G. Vance | Smith, business manager, and the |

know that she is Grace Zarinto two|George 8. Olive Co., treasurer.

Stone, she continues to her work packages and write under both Trustees of the National Founda- | names. As Ethel Vance she now|tion for Education in America, her first|which will guide the activities of story with an American background. the press, include J. K. Lilly and It, too, is a novel about escape, | Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis; ut not the active kind in which|Dr. Herman B Wells, president of | one overcomes living enemies. Indisna university, and Mark Hon- | It describes an escape from a|eywell, Wabash. | troubled conscience, owned by peo- z= 2 = | ple who do too much brooding] PROF. BORCHARD has done an | it Iaront and excellent job in giving the backu ey didn’ and act ; sick, how would the author be allel 00nd of development. of Ioreign [to tell their story? They'd just be policy in a quickly understandable book for the layman. It is perhaps

| commonplace, like the rest of us. {the only study of its kind that has | |

” ” » IF YOU should meet the four been presented briefly. people who make the story 20, be| qq to those merits the fact that

two warned that only one of them is|pror Borchard has served as legal

| really carefree and contented. That adviser to the United States and period in numerous diplomatic Peggy Has such lovely looks and negotiations, arbitrations and con-| {such trim legs that she annoys her ferences, and you have a book employer, a middle-aged widower which can be highly recommended. - {with a delayed boiling point. He| The outstanding milestones of our | makes it a point never to look at historic attitudes on foreign affairs ~ her unless it is strictly necessary.|are, says Prof. Borchard, develop-

sages, rotsblv a fight with ~“~*"s. He is the first character of this kind ment of the policies of non-inter-

“But alas, Plerre doesn't marry her, after all. He suffers from a The movies have not taught the I have ever met in a novel, or in|vention, neutrality, recognition of : > auuaor how to wie aig.

debilitating ailment, fully described |

|other governments, the Monroe {doctrine, removal of commercial re|strictions, freedom of the seas, ar|bitration and expatriation.

life.

“You know I usually retire very . =» ‘ » which is out of Emily Post| HE DISCUSSES each in simple |language, yet gives adequate back{ground for.an understanding of the |“why” of their development and their present status. The suggestion that the system of collective security has made a contribution to either international {law or morality is questionable, the ‘lauthor believes, : remarks that | He cites the League of Nations as </an example and, excluding its non|political functions, comes to the conclusion that its sanctions and other war-liKe activities have promoted neither peace nor undertanding. timulates the urge for self

The mystifying woman in the plot t|is Stacey's friend, Susan Grieve,

- {tim of some kind of an obsession. . | Stacey says she likes a “reclusive | atmosphere” and “leans toward be e | ing alone.” As evidence she when her guests leave she hurrie g | to wash the cocktail glasses and air

” . » SUSAN'S conscience is troubled because her father was a New Eng-|® land minister. {8 You don't really learn about Su-| san’s tangled thoughts until she|how ¢loquent self-styled sinners bemeets Lt. Novak, of the submarine tome under such conditions. service, U. 8. N. He suffers because| It's in the air, this confessing {he was on dry land when his submarine was sunk with all his pals. |&n

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"AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY—I1776 TO 1946."

FIRST BOOK from the National Foundation Press here in Indian- . 2 apolis is a brave attempt by Edwin Borchard, long-time professor of Errol Flynn. New York. Sheri- | By Ethel Vance. Boston, Little, international law at Yale university, to define the origins of national

unworthiness in the sight of God, d this seeking after anchorages.

SUSAN gets rid of her worrying over her father, “keeping his suffer-|

“1 saw what I had become, living

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ficlency and conquest, and poisons’ international relations, he believes.

= » » INTERNATIONAL organization to compel “peace” is likely to be tried again, he says, but to serve a useful purpose, it must have the power to deal with the deep-seated causes of international unrest. The United States is faced, in Prof. Borchard’s opinion, with “Problems which will not become clear until the treaties’ of peace with Germany, Japan and Italy are concluded. Four alternatives are ahead for ,

the U. 8., he believes, namely: (1) participate in UNO but be prepared | to pursue our own ends whenever

go their own way; (2) abandon idealistic aims, stop sacrificing ourselves and our assets for the benefit of others and seize territory we need, in nationalistic fashion; (3) continde, without abandonment of our idealistic aspirations, .to exert an unobtrusive policy of intervention in Latin America and try to keep this continent free of open war, and (4) decide that our efforts to obtain global order are too expensive, unappreciated or unworkable, and pursue. an exclusively American policy until other countties realize the ' idealism which prompted American intervention. Prof. Borchard makes it clear that the policy of the future hinges on unpredictable events. , vA,

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| date of “Sarah Mandrake,” her d | fi { |He was in a hospital at the time, Ethel Vance does not seem to get| troops participated. y TD iis have been invited to|Put feels he was “blinded by pride” |at the fundamentals. She makes| Oolor plates of divisional Susignts a leva Ne a or. prs ud He also has discovered that the|Susan and Novak talk it out and ahd well-selected maps complete " ay n y :

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holland to write about labor ers of studies by sueh men as Lewis problems.

apprentice, a toolmaker, a. boss, an owner, articles to trade

written fiction with an industrial 18ht. air, gardens and freedom from wackground for Ustrial traffic hazards. People should live . | closer to nature—trees, flowers, garnational weekly magazines. den patches—instead of depending

with the tem-

Dn, most of us take for granted and remeates “Pay gard as an inevitable development, Day” Mr. Mill has grown. without plan, without ¢ ' regard for human feeds.

{ things that complicate labor prob- | lems as we see them today.

| Russia or Great Britain decide to!

army ground forces, as the first book to his knowledge to attempt to cover the history of every division |that eomprised our ground combat forces, “Fighting Divisions” is just off the presses of the Infantry

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{ Mumford, Elie Saarinen and, on the

In his’ time, he’s been an areliitens ral de; Hoya s ® = ; + He's contributed BROADLY, the thesis is that journals and communities should be planned for

|on Sunday driving to get away temporarily from crowded, unhygienic cities, | The sprawling modern city, which

With such a background, and

holland has turned out one of :

8 - 5 a ONE MIGHT get pretty bitter * Mr. Millholland | about the effect of so-called “progable discussions | ress” on Indianapolis. A recurrent of labor-management problems in’ theme in Booth Tarkington's novels recent yewrs, . a lis the way in which mid-town In- ; | dianapolis, once a pleasant resiONE OF the book's greatest vir- | Sapo. section has ea Ba tues, however, is also paradoxically | smoke-ridden area. ! what some may regard as its greal-| wejther dirt nor architectural and est defect. In endeavoring to StriD| op gineering chaos is necessary aS] the labor-management situation of | pg. Gropius and others havel non-essentials and present it in|poginted out. But the traditional clear and simple form, Mr. Millhol-| wou of regarding money cost as land has had to leave a lot out of | ore important than human cost the picture. - In his vigorous and commendable Slay Rpede) Teplanning, search for facts, he has had to THE DIFFERENCE between an overlook a lot of values, attitudes|old-time New England village, deand other intangible, psychological|signed for human needs, and. such dreadful things as the endless rows oi identical houses in, say, Philadelphia, Pa., is instructive. Mr. Gropius makes the most of such dramatic contrasts. Those who revere classical architecture may be offended by the author’s description of such a build- ] ing as Washington's National galanalysis of such items as “a fair|jlery in the phrase “applied archaeday's pay” should contribute much|ology.” The point of view will, to the white-collar man’s under-|Rowever, be familiar to readers of| standing of the industrial worker's Frank Lloyd Wright's “Autobio- |

» " s HIS THESIS that bosses and workers must learn how to get along together, otherwise the public, will demand stronger and stronger controls, is clear and well presented, And his practical, common-sense

point of view. | graphy.” Back of every labor problem, how- | ® 8 = ever, is a vast inheritance of atti-| THE FEW good examples of com-

tudes and prejudices that compli-| munity planning will show the | |reader what could and should be |

| |

; . B® | done all over the country. But MR. MILLHOLLAND notes in- | such re-planning will take ‘tourage! tances of ‘joursialistic slanting: of jand a determination not to permit news. He does not, However, exam- | vested interests indefinitely to sub- | ine such questions ‘as Why the, de. | ordinate human values to money | mands of labor often are regarded | values.—H.B. | as more “extortionate” or “unrea- | Shat=St——————————. sonable” than the demands of mid- “x: dlemen, jobbers, distributors. Says U. S. Shirks : persistent and not Wo ami, R bili able belief in American folklore is! to the effect that buying in the esponsi ! ity cheapest and selling in the dearest| [8 AMERICA shirking responsipossible market indicates -superior| bility? | and enviable prowess. James Marshall, “in “The Europe, 2 = = {We Are Fleel From,” an article IT 1S “smart” (and therefore! ji, the A lmao Review of Literacommendably rugged and American) | ture for Feb. 16, says we are. for Indiana egg-distributors, say | Noting the American “tendency pay the farmer approximately half| 5 avoid the unpleasant,” he rewhat the consumer has to pay, OT marks on how Americans change for U. S. manufacturers to turn out the subject when someone discusses| nylons for the South American the devastation of Europe—a large black market. |part of it the result of our own R..S. Lynd, co-author of “Middle-fpmjiitary activities. town,” in a book called “Knowledge| with a stampede-like rush of ocfor What?” (Princeton University!cypation troops to get home, Mr. Press, 1939) lists a numbey of COR-|pfarshall notes a trend similar to flicting assumptions that complicate | that of the post-world war I when our thinking. He shows.how the| americans withdrew from the ideals of Christian charity collide| headaches and responsibilities of with the sharp, ruthless shrewdness | the ruined eastern hemisphere. that is supposed to be the mark of | a red-blooded, wide-awake man. " " s Wiie-ay | 'Star of the Unborn" SURROUNDING every labor dis-| Franz Werfel's last book, “Star

pute is a cloud of confused attitudes of the Unborn,” is a fantasy conof the sort you encounter in “let- cerning a man who returns, inters to the editor.” While Mr. Mill- | visible, to view the world 100,000 holland indicates such things in years after his death. It was passing, he eould not, without writ-| brought out by the Viking Press ing a vast treatise on social-psy- | Monday. chology, analyze the origin or the influence of such attitudes. And yet, though they are difficult to analyze, attitudes are far stronger than facts. Mr. Millholland demonstrates that in concrete situations, where purely psychological grievances sometimes cause production to drop.

n » ” IN HIS admirable zeal to get at facts and clear away verbal confusions, Mr. Millholland, I think, too cheerfully overlooks the somber and tragic forces that shape our civilization. . While the question is not imme{diately relevant to the subject of “Pay Day,” it occurs irresistibly: Why do we attain maximum production only when at war?

MR. MILLHOLLAND'S method of attacking items one by one and seeking agreement on point after point is undoubtedly sound. It's probably the only feasible method.

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