Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1952 — Page 28

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THE WORKS OF LOVE. A 1 val. By Wright Morrte. New York,

i Knopf, -$3. . By EMERSON PRICE IN. his latest novel, THE WORKS OF LOVE, Wright Morris is at his best—and that means an extraordinary piece of work. The story “is that. of Will Jennings Brady, a man of very ardinary talents who becomes, nevertheless,

something of a. mystery when

saople to poverty and it is ) Morris is through with him. people to poverty,:a it is a plea

r to save them from extinction, Will Brady, born in a sod house \ ia in Nebraska, was driven through Wild Duck *

out all hig life by a need which If you have ever thrilled to!

modern sogiety does not always the migratory birds particularly recognize or reward, He needed ducks--as they make their way to love, and he needed to be loved. northward in the spring, or ‘as

While he was not conscous of this, they predict the cold winter while

it decided his course in two mar- flying to the warm south, you will riages, it dominated his relation- want to read WILD WINGS, by ship With his san, and it pursued Frank 8. Stuart (McGraw-Hill, him into a lonely old age in an $3.50), The author follows them unfamiliar city.and among strang- throughout an entire season. It is ers a fascinating book. And it made of his death both Pleasant Return p pathetic spectacle and a magr pificent, if tragic climax to a h nivel you will surely want to read. upon a time I delighted, says While this work has in it many James Branch Cabell in Ql ET somber moods, they are often re- PLEASE (University of Florida

lieved by humor of uncommon Press Farrar, Straus & Young, quality $3), “I return with frank tre-

pidation. They but rarely, as we Strange Eskimo

say, hold up. In far Northern Canada and w ck . Mure SHER, as Sy a great distance inland from Hud-" ra aca flab fie d Bay lives a strange band of ' ; hhergaste son 4 land where ~—1 can but dazedly wonder that Bakimony bo and lasts BNYbody, even so gullible a perwinter 8 at 50 years JON AS memory convicts me of for many months, ye bY yea . having been upon occasions beago these people lived apy Yi vond numbering, could have they were prepared at all times viewed with seriousness any such to supply their needs. balderdash, or could even have ~ In those days they numbered accepted without a frenzy of propome 2000 people. Today there test any such stilted and clumsy are less than 50, and in winter writing or so manv. persistentthey. face, each. year, such severe yy ‘§yacctr te substitutes for hu-

“To the hooks in which once

food shortages that they remain man’ gpéech and human’ pera EARGPABY Mraphic picture of the ported himself

on the brink of starvation. Their jor , , .” : food consists entirely of caribou} Anyone beyond his ‘youth will meat, and the skins of these agree with this. But there are animals provide their clothing. exceptions — and James Branch Farley Mowat, a Canadian, Cabell is one of them, I can respent approximately two years turn to his early work and exwith them, living their life with perience the rarest of pleasure,

learning their complex language. fléctions in this new book with He tells of his adventure in a # Sense.Bf meeting again an old “fascinating book titled PEOPLE and valued friend. —————— OF THE DEER (Little, Brown, Cronin Fascinates $4). The book is an indictment It is rare enough-for a man to of the white man for reducing the become a distinguished ®uccess

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in a single field, much less two Yet these dre the achievements of A. J. Cronin, who became a thighly #guccessful physician and

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930. a fire ' TTERS Ls 7-1. ¢ { \ O . 1930 His firet book HATTES | NEVER GREW UP. B, Cobina Wright Sri New York Prentice Hall, CASTLE launched him in a new $3.71 :

career that has since brought him yo (spy VICTOR LITTLE ple started calling her daughter fame and fortune. Elaine Cobb, of Deep Creek,» Young (‘obina.” The author said Cronin tells of his early life, of Ore, then 18 and a talented she believed it inevitable that hig transition from physician to and newly recognized singer, was soon people would start referring author, and of hig later life In standing in the darkened opera to her as “Old Cobina,” so she ADVENTURES IN ° TWO house in Mainz, Germany, listen- started the Sr. and Jr. WOFRLDS (McGraw = Hill, $4). ing to an operatic rehearsal. If Cobina Sr.'s life story were And it is a fascinating story The manager offered as a novel ~it would be throughout, told with the same of the opera ; laughed off the book shelves as sense of the dramatic that has company, who far too incredible to belong even won him thousands of loyal read- assigned the in the realm of fiction.

rolés and ] : ys whom A A few of the highlights after In one section of the hook he ; : she left the Oregon ranch, “as

tells of his four years spent in jmmediate fu- lbig as a county” following the medical practice in the Welsh ure depended, teri death of her futher coal . mining towns. You will slipped up, threw Tye erious h b dered: hfar, indeed, before” finding his arms around j¥ho may. have been Inurdered,; Search far, in ' Elaine: and de- {dazzling career in opera in Europe; marriage to the most popular author of pre-War I days, natively like a {Owen Johnson (STOVER AT wolf of fact or - Mrs. Wright | yvALE, etc); a brilliant social fiction. She screamed. She bit, career in New York; boredom and Has New Book She slapped him. And ran back then a divorce and Smartage B to the hotel and into the arms William ay right, a John Bartlow Martin, formerly her prim, spinsterish, New a of Street's “brightest boy” of the

lives of coal diggers.

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+. them. sharing their hardships-and Just as I read the essays and res. 0f The Indianapolis Times staffi, 4. + when 1208; the -erash-which left multi-

and author of INDIANA: AN' po writing about the episode in millionaire Wright penniless; di-

- INTERPRETATION, has written her autobiography, Elaine Cobb, YOr¢® scandal; career of singing Ta new book, MY "LIFE IN who is now Cobina Wright Sr, of In Might clubs and onthe radio} {|

CRIME, story of a professional Beverly Hills, says,“I am still un- flier in the movies and now a criminal, to be published Mar. 26 able to laugh at the obvious trite. Hearst Hollywood columnist and by Harper. ness of the whole incredible epi- Presumably “in the chips™ again. . = —y!sode. I leave that to'O. J. and the The style is sprightly, the story otheg grandchildren who will no is lively and often spicy, and doubt recognize all the ingredients name after name of celebrity of a soap opera except that no one from the Versailles Peace Contied grandma to the railroad ference to the present parade tracks.” through the text. She says Uncle Cobina continues, “Like Nellie, Jesse Jones bought her a dozen the Beautiful Cloak Model, I roses during the Peace Conferwrapped my coat about me, hold- €nge. Later, says Cobina, Uncle ing it tightly to cover the shame Jé5se got lost from a party tourof my torn garments, wiped those Ing Buckingham Palace and was horrid kisses from my mouth as fpund in a room before a fire. best I could sand, frightened and’ Shoes off, Uncle Jesse was warm-

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