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THE FIRST READER—By Harry Hansen ‘Great Mischief’ Presents A Polite Portrait Study Of His Satanic Majesty

"GREAT MISCHIEF." A novel. By Josephine Pinckney. New York, Viking Press, $2.75. *THE COLLECTED TALES OF A. E. COPPARD." Knopf, $5. w5ILENT CHILDREN." By Mai-Mai Sze. Brace, $2.50. THANKS TO THE efforts of the Book of the Month Club, several hundred thousand readers are getting a closeup this week of his Satanic majesty, the devil. It is not a very horrible portrait, rather a polite one. He appears in the club’s latest choice,“Great Mischief,” by Josephine pinckney, the Charleston author of another best seller, «Three O'clock Dinner.” The immediate question is: Why did the club choose a pook of fantasy? It deals with an old-fashioned. druggist in

New York,

New York, Harcourt,

a man with poetry, humor, an engaging style and an original imagination, who first caught the approval of the public with a little tale called “Adam and Eve and Pinch Me.”

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"GARAGE"—This drawing from the Indiana State Library, reproduced in Philip D. Jordan's “The National Road," shows the stage-coach barn on Maryland

St. between Meridian and Pennsylvania in the 1840's.

Charleston who gets confused by the problem of good and evil and

invites damnation by falling in| love with a blue-eyed goldenhaired witch who gets recruits for hell. Maybe the club's editors thought others are confused, too. Or maybe they merely decided to give their -readers some unconventional fiction, balancing it with George R. Stewart's “Fire,” the story of a forest fire. However, Miss Pinckney’s minfons of hell are so polite, and Timothy Partridge, the druggist, is himself such a mild, hesitant little man of 36, that I get no shivers down the spine for contemplating Timothy's trafficking with the lower depths. His resentment against his sister Penelope, who wheedles little sums of money out of him in order to take care of various charities, including her favorite Confederate veteran, Mr. Dombie, becomes guilty when they are inadvertently killed in a fire started when he burned his Bible. Miss Pinckney’s druggist, Timothy, has played so much with strange potions and enchantments and read so much about the black art that he is disappointed when he meets Satan. He begins to slide back to a moral position. “Good and evil are interactive,” explains Satan; “they depend on each other for existence. Which camp you prefer is largely a matter of taste.” “But that philosophy just won't do,” replies Timothy. “In the end you have to have a moral order, a reason for a course of action. Even you admit that to sin you have to have a code to sin against.” Alas, before Timothy gets his moral code in’ working order, Charleston is visited by what he believes to be the Judgment Day. He has been pumped full of superstitions by His mammy and doesn't recognize the true character of the fissures that open in the earth. I don’t believe Miss Pinckney’'s way of ending the story solves any of the problems she has raised in the case of Timothy. And it doesn’t remind me of Hawthorne. But this much is true — her prose is a joy to read, just for its own sake. If her novel, in spite of its use of fire and brimstone, seems a light tale, that may be because Charleston writers are so innately . polite and hospitable that they can’t be ‘tough and crude, not even to the devil. » = »

IT MAY SEEM odd that an in-

Mr. Coppard’s personal comment is brief, but supplies a guide to his preferences. He is enamoured of the folk tale. He says people of all ages have enjoyed hearing tales and that “the closer the modern short story conforms to that ancient tradition of being spoken to you, the more accept-

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the smooth flow of talk in his] tales, the easy way of addressing the reader, talking to him. He, also prefers to plot his story] through the mind of only one of

long time.

quin,” demonstrate different facets of the author's talent. Maybe

top. » . ” HERE IS A STORY about lost, dispossessed children far different from any that has come out of the war. “Silent Children,” by Mai-Mai Sze, reads at times like a prose poem. For the author has taken a group of children, hungry, in tatters, thrown together by the war, and reduced their experiences to the essentials of human relationships with dignity and tragic beauty. Perhaps the fact that we expected such a tale to deal only with horrors in the most naturalistic manner accounts for our surprise. The place and the nationality of the children is not clearly stated, and it is not necessary. Some of their talk is afult, and that is useful, too, for this is not reporting. Members of the group have varying experiences, but operating through all of them is the instinct for survival. As long as no danger threatens them from outside, they fend as best they can for themselves. When adults, refugees like themselves, enter their camp, tragedy follows. Here the - desperation of the children is balanced by the helplessness of the adults. The most philosophical of the latter, a former soldier, wonders what particular trait enables some men to survive over others. These children, though weak, have proved

surance man in Green Bay, Wis, far removed from England, should be responsible for the publication of “The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard,” hut this is the case. Earl E. Fisk is known to his friends as a man of discriminating tastes in literature. Lately he has lobbied for the republication of these tales, getting the author to write an introduction. The house of Knopf, which issued the Coppard stories over 25 years ago when it was occupying its first office at 220 W. 42d St., has made

their fitness to survive. But in doing so they have broken into stores and robbed goods, and others are out to clean up “the rats.” Implicit over all is “the brutalizing effect of war and destruction.” = ” »

{ This |thinking, rather than a tale told {for your entertainment. It leaves {many unanswered questions in {my mind. |

New Caldwell Novel

Heaven,” “Fishmonger’s Fiddle,” | th d with rare feel“rhe Field of Mustard” “Nine-|>.0r Of the road w penny Flute,” “Nixey's Harle- ot:

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Philip Jordan's Book Recounts Dramatic

History of Nation's Fam

"THE NATIONAL ROAD." By v Bobbs-Merrill, $4.

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Philip D. Jordan. Indianapolis,

. By HENRY BUTLER PHILIP D. JORDAN'S “The National Road” is the latest addi-

able it becomes.” This explains tion 10 Bobbs-Merrill's American Trails series.

It's the story of what is now U. 8. 40, and consequently has

considerable local interest.

Even historically, the National Road has somewhat the same poetic significance that it has in the late Ross Lockridge’s “Raintree

County.” For the National Road]

the characters, thus getting a uni-| (vor a century ago symbolized fied effect that is easy to see. [ipo American dream, The stories in this yolume in-|ward urge, the promise of better Spotty—good for a few miles, clude some that have crept into land, better living farther on. anthologies ‘and will be there a yy jordan, who is professor of |

“The Ballet Girl,”| hist t the Univer“Dusky Ruth,” “Ring the Bells of |. ncrican history at,

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ing for the picturesque and dratic.

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the 1750's, when serious-minded young George Washington was recording the strategical .mistakes of his superiors in the campaigns. It brings the reader up to date with a graphic description of the moderd Speedway annual classic. In between, there's a lot of important material. One point most of us readers will learn forthe first time is the fact that the National Road never was a fin-

hullabaloo about it in Congress and elsewhere, the road remained

then incredibly bad for as many miles more—until railroad competition rendered it obsolete. It was unbelievably expensive. In a pre-machine era, rock-bust-ing was done by hand; so building and repairs were lengthy and costly. What's more, the road-builders had to learn from experience. The initial’ practice of laying a foundation of heavy stone blocks to be covered with smaller stones and gravel

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The National Road

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Note the pigeons, still with us.

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PUZZLE—FIND NOBLE ST.—Here's the National Road bridge over

made in the 1840's by Christian Schrader.

TOMLINSON'S ANCESTOR — A century ago, Indianap food in a roofed-over market on the site of Tomlinson Hall, as this other Schrader drawing reproduced from the Indiana State Library for "The National Road," shows.

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U.S. Highway 40

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Pogue's ttle's Hotel on E. Washington St., from a pencil sketch

i left the farm to be caught in an Indianapolis police raid. ‘He's burned himself and he'll have ta sit on the blister.’ After a rain, = a they looked out at the road and x . » said it was ‘slick as a whistle . « « They had a droll way of speaking and a sharp wit too. A wanton, defiantly shaking her head, said. she knew who the baby's father was. The wise Ine dianian sagely replied, ‘If you walk through a berry patch, can you tell which brier .scratches you?" And he includes such nostalgic items as the following: “At the Union Inn, in Indianapolis, three glasses of wine cost 1815 cents. The price of a bottle of brandy with sugar was a dollar. To this popular tavern came Benjamin A. Noble to celebrate New Year's Eve of 1833. Before the night was over, he stood 29 treats of bonded whisky. His total bill was $1.43" As Mr, Jordan points out, it was the automobile that made roads better. The National Road, in constant disrepair before the

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olis shoppers bought

proved hopelessly people wanted the road here and,and equally common passion fer taken ill, and they died, every automotive era, improved as autos

wrong. Midwestern spring fresh- there to help their home towns hard liquor, both of which con-|one of them, in from two to six improved. And it's hardly neces

ets would wash away the surface, leaving the cumbersome stone blocks exposed, a constant hazard to wheeled traffic.

” » o THE ROAD BECAME the subject of fierce debates in Washington. Southern legislators resented the then huge expenditures on a project of no benefit to the South.

ished product. Despite all the

"THE ART OF WRITING FICTION." By Mary Burchard Or- ' : New York, Prentice-Hall, 4, ; “THE ART of Writing Fiction,” by Mary B. Orvis, which PrenticeHall will publish Monday, should attract considerable local attention. For Miss Orvis has been teaching creative writing in the Indiana University Indianapolis Extension Center for a number of years. She thus has had an opportunity to communicate her enthusiasm for contemporary literature to a large following of students. “The Art of Writing Fiction” represents Miss Orvis’ critical and analytical studies of modern writing undertaken as a basis for her teaching. It is an appreciative guide to good writing rather than a series of recipes for success.

» » » MISS ORVIS IS QUICK to admit that there is no substitute for talent. Like teachers in other fields, she realizes that the ablest students somehow contrive to teach themselves. Whatever miracles are involved in the process of learning are not wrought by the instructor. What the teacher of writing can do is make helpful sugges-

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Therefore, any possible upsurge]

| Erskine Caldwell has just de-

of interest in fantasy has nothing livered the manuscript of his new

to do with this

publication, novel, “This Very Earth,” to his

though it may help the ripple be-|publishers, Duell, Sloan & Pearce. come a wave. Better yet, this|Scheduled for fall publication, the

book may win friends for one of | forthsoming

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tions. “The Art of Writing Fiction” is full of such suggestions. The book is addressed to writers who are aiming ‘at selling their work. and since Miss Orvis draws most of her illustrations and examples from the work of successful contemporary or recent writers, she has written a remarkably useful book.

» » 5 THE TREND in modern fic-

Lobbyists and special-interest

New Book Is Appreciative Guide to Good Writing

ADVICE—Mary B. Orvis, assistant professor in Indiana University's Indianapolis Extension Center, whose new book, "The Art of Writing Fiction," contains valuable advice to writers.

{cial tween or within personalities.

creative writer's debt to Freud, a debt acknowledged by such masters as Thomas Mann. She shows, also how social comment, par-|

It is thus practical, ticularly the fictional treatment

of some of the more glaring injus-| tices in our society, has become an important ingredient of novels! and short stories. { Even readers familiar with) {most of the illustrative material] {Miss Orvis uses will find her en-| thusiasm contagious. Whether

|tion, Miss Orvis notes, is away! you're writing or not, “The Art of

from mere plot, mere incident. Writing Fiction” will be pleasant’

Miss Orvis stresses the modern |

{grow. As it turned out, the towns tributed to serious accidents. {by-passed either decayed or had {to wait for railroads before they disease. {could expand. |sons, traveling westward on the Back in the 1840's, when the National Road in 1838, put up at|

road was having its busiest pe-ia public house a few miles east of say about Hoosiers. ‘Hoosiers

|riod, it brought a host of now- Terre Haute. At breakfast they |

{forgotten problems.

There were drank milk and immediately de-|

{There were difficulties like the time they reached Illinois, five| /stage-drivers’ passion for racing |or six hours later, they were All|

|days. Upon inquiry it was learned sary to add that the Indianapolis There was crime and there was that the place where they had Speedway, with its revealing ex“A family of six per- eaten was in a milk-sick region.” periments, was an

important ® « =» causal factor in all our MR. JORDAN HAS plenty to modernization. . hn /

“The National Road” is an ex

talked a lot in proverbs, using cellent example of vivid, popular

phrases that came from the land history-writing. It certainly will

|toll-gates, the stage-drivers’ bane. parted on their journey. By the and barn. ‘You can't spoil'a bad attract a large Hoosier audience

egg. they'd say sneeringly of a for its admirable sidelights on local good-for-nothing who had early Indiana. A

|Ask Mrs. Manners—

I'm E dt Girl m Engaged to a Girl, 1 LOVE THE GIRL I'm engaged to but I still think of | two others, not just once-in-awhile but often. I want all three but I know I can just have one. I'm 21 and engaged to be married soon. I was in the AAF and met a lovely girl overseas. I had her friendship when I needed it most and I thought I loved her. Later, in California, I met another girl at a USO dance and met her parents. I thought I was in love with her. All the while I was in service a girl from my home town wrote to me and I'm engaged to her. I'm not sure I love her, but she is sensitive. If I break umy engagement with her I'll lose her forever—and don’t want to lose her. DESPERATE MORTON. You aren't in love, you know, or there wouldn't be two extra

giris. Tell your fiancee the truth—it won't hurt her as much now as it would in marriage. Don’t try to hang on to her—that's selfish.

Seeks Data on Comic Script Author PLEASE TELL me who writes the script for Lum and Abner. J. F. B. Ask Forrest Owens, producer, KNX, Hollywood, Cal., if the information is available.

Try to Treat My Two Two Sisters Alike I TRY TO treat my two sisters alike but they act slighted. I'm 17 and can go see one of them every week-end. They live in the| same town. I attend a religious school, my mother is dead and my| father lives alone.

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| her husband do more for me, and she is more my age. She asked

mand sophisticated writing. They Me to spend the summer with her but I'm scared to tell the older

want insight, psychological analy- Sister. How can I make them both feel the game toward me?

|sis, something more than superfi-| PUZZLED, treatment of conflicts be-|

Wouldn't a summer job be better all the way around? Divide your visits as much as possible and don't argue with your sisters. Concentrate on one sister at a time.

{ Naturally, I think more of the younger sister because she and bow.

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but Love Two Others’

quit drinking when someone else mentions it. My husband used to spend quite a piece of his check on payday for drinks and we got in a hole, We had an understanding, though, that has worked fine and my ideas came from reading your column,

He said he didn't realize how much he drank because he was : with the boys and he drank more than he wanted before he knew it. Now he drinks at home and it costs about $1 a week. We

are both satisfied this way and are getting our bills out of the way, I don't know if you are an old maid or not, Mrs. Manners,

but whatever you are you have a great knowledge of human nature, .

STEADY READER AND ADMIRER. I'm so pleased if I've helped at all. Doing whatever helps an individual to be a better person and

making the people around him happler looks like good philosophy *

to me,

Attention Please—Towering Texan I FEEL IT my Hoosier duty to make the towering Texan

happy. May I put in my bid? I'm 5 feet 8 inches tall and have '

dark hair and eyes. I love sports as a spectator and participant, I'm 25 and haven't had trouble meeting eligible men. MARJORIE.

I'm Tall and Enjoy Summer Sports

I FIND YOUR articles interesting, especially the one by the I'm tall and have offers from nice fellows who aren't

tall Texan. tall so I turn them down. I'm 5 feet 7:4 inches tall and have blond

hair, blue eyes and a pug nose, though my nose isn't noticeable,

I enjoy summer sports especially and like dancing but I'd rather D. M. B.

Here's Friendly Place to Dance

and I'm a nurse. E. New York 8t.—the 50-50 Club. They dance Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. E. M. J. Sorry girls—I can't forward your letters.. Go to the places I suggested to that tall man--you may meet him. oe.

highway

TO THE TALL TEXAN--I'm tall and Southern and like sports, There is a nice, friendly place to dance at 322

KAGE

This problem isn’t serious only when you letgjt become an issue. You'll become more and more absorbed in your career and your sisters will become more absorbed in their lives.

Seeks Epilepsy Treatment Data | DO YOU KNOW where in this city I can find a doctor, clinic! : or hospital treating epilepsy attacks? STEADY READER. 21e Wo Marglang 81,

Tonal» Jeyehiaiztnt Cronin, Waugh Books | w's q Here's a Tip on War Romance Due Out This Summer q IF I WERE the GI ignored by the girl who wrote to him during 7 { / the war and now won't date him, I'd ignore her. I'd go where she| New novels by A. J. Cronin and goes, taking another girl. Then she will take notice. That Evelyn Waugh are scheduled for happened to me once. {summer publication, according to Maybe she fed him a line and can’t face him—some girls did Publishers’ Weekly.

If business holds up, Texas, you'll soon have a team or ' rowing crew.

Let Mrs. Manners and readers of the column share your problems and answer your questions. Write in care of The Times,

Even readers of the “slicks” de- and profitable reading. —H. B.

—~|it if "she loses him,

IBLE BEE ANSWERS: as centuries

Christ is Matt. 19:14.

Wy We agree on the competition. Girls did -mislead GIs—but think of the faithful girls unwanted ‘by returned Gls, who had changed and couldn’t help it.

Don’t Know if | Love Boy Friend MY BOY FRIEND says I'll learn to love him as we grow older and live together. I don't know if I love him and I don’t feel old enough to marry. He is kind and we don't argue when I talk to other men. We disagree on music and movies for he likes hill-billy {music and “blood and thunder” movies. He is a good worker, has a good job, saves his money, pays rent to his mother and doesn’t drink except moderately. He smokes quite a bit. ROSE. Marriage is hard work, even when you're in love. Learning to love a man on top of learning how to handle him is a big order. You might grow to love him but I'd hate to try. You wouldn't list reasons to “sell” yourself and to “sell” me if you loved the boy.

Wants Information on Policeman's Job ‘I FIND MYSELF getting very tired of machine shops and have thought for some time of the city police force. There are somethings I would like to know about the department. What pay could a man expect to start with? Is there a set schedule for promotions? What chance would a person have of becoming a detective? What is the pay of the average detective? What kind of hours do policemen and detectives work? How many detectives does the city have now? ; ONE OF THE MANNERS BOYS. I like hearing from the “Manners Boys.” Policemen and detectives start at $2700 a year. Becoming a detective is a matter of talent. The police merit board acts on appointments, and the Board of Safety promotes the men upon recommendation by the chief of police. Policemen and

Husband Now Drinks at Home MY, MY, WHERE has Mrs. H. W, been? I recall many instances: where Mrs. Manners suggested church going to the lonely ones when she could have suggested the corner tavern. Mrs. H. W, evidently doesn’t realize that a persomdoesn’t just

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|that. She might think it's smart to refuse him but she may regret! H

detectives work eight hours a day but are available’ 24 hours |

a day. . | The city has 74 detectives including one inspector, two captains, one lieutenant and two policewomen. . x

The Cronin novel, tentatively lcalled “Shannon's Way,” prob-. {ably will appear July 19. Mr. {Waugh's novel, built around a 'story the author did for “Life”, jon a Hollywood cemetery, is a {satire scheduled for Aug. 6 publicatign. i

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