Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1951 — Page 17

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MR. SMITH. A novel. By Louis’ Bromfield: New York, Harper, $3.| & : By CARL VICTOR LITTLE | I preached a funeral oration over Louis Bromfield as a| novelist when I read his last one. I don't remember jts name ~ but it appeared.to me to be a

with an eye on Hollywood, a cheap and tawdry job not,

worthy of Louis Bromfield. But Bromfield's death as novelist I somewhat exaggerated

field runs out of his cell with a of a yell like good monk| Paphnutius ih Thais and tosses| a blistering bombshell of analysis ‘at our society and our times. Bromfield—and the ladies will please leave the room because you are torn to shreds and you won't like what he has to say—| seems to be writing his summing up. It appears that Bromfield has been doing some tall thinking while adding a cubit to the top soil of those experimental farms, And the more thinking he did, probably, the more angry he grew. The novelist all but runs amuck in his attack on the conventional wife of our times, the one who always insists on “sharing” every-

not let a man have a moment alone, who reads no books but gets her culture second-handed from Yady book réviewers, who considers certain aspects of marital life “sordid,”” who repeats the cliche that men are little boys and must be handled as such, who believes what she reads in the psychiatry columns in the newspapers, who is as phony as her lipstick and nail-red—on and on runs the bill particulars. Never even in Phil Wylie at his most vitriolic, have the ladies got a worse lacing than from Farmer Bromfield. Not only does he kick wives in particular and women in general,

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For in MR. SMITH Louis Brom-|yqqp filthy venereal disease films,

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one dimension quickie written

lincluding Mom, in the teeth, but|

a agsails the conduct of churches,| |blasts urban and suburban life, deplores and views with alarm a| |score of modern trends-—coddling| lof the misfits erroneously, he! says, called underprivileged, prolonging of worthless lives, New Dealism ‘which penalizes those with initiative and self-sufficiency. Listen: “It seems to be that the sickness of our society is that it has become a society either of stupid or contrived and cowardly extrovert individuals who fre-| quent the clubs, the pool parlors,| the night clubs, or bars out of sheer terror. Then give them-| selves over to talking pictures, to radio, to television, to comics, to

of Notre Dame University's ad

ject of an affectionate biography

a captain during the recent war.

lsports because, inherently and in- He is assigned to guard stores on thing with her husband, who willl

stinctively, what?

they are afraid. Of 5 pacific island with a detail of

Nn, luding Homer the “Such an extrovert society can four men, inc 2 E i create a great furore and hub- Woolhat from Georgia who sym-

bub; it can raise grea it] ills bolizes the underprivileged of our with the deadening ant nspired era. It is while on the.island muddy efficiency and mediocrity that the narrator takes a long of the Socialist; it can even amass |ook at life, at his home, his wife and expand and devalue the cur- gpd family, at his neighbors, at rency in its self-deception, but it his mistress, at society in genwill never contribute much to ci- eral and writes his: philippic vilization and in the end can which is delivered to Bromfield create only a society of morons py a sergeant after the captain is who will work for themselves killed. and others, like workers in a Some will say this is no novel, hive, merely td keep alive without but a tract, a preachment. I ever knowing quite why they are won’t quibble over classification. why they want to It's mighty interesting and vital stuff for the mature. Read it and gasp. and weep.

live.”

The narrator of MR. SMITH is

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