Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

peen dDie, SO lar, 10 plie up IN the
| name of woman. Sally's beauty was
of the sort that draws men as flowers
draw bees and butterflies II objecti-
f1es the supreme instinct of all male
creation. So magical was the lowell
ness of Sally that her father had to
keep her locked up against the pur-
suing male hosts of the neighborhood
roundabout. Rejoiced to have Sally
married, and safe. at last was that
anxious father. But, as IL turned out,
he had simply passed his troubles on
over to the distracted bridegroom, who
upon the honeymoon was himself
obliged to keep Sally under lock and
key, lest she be actually rapt away
under his very eyes like a Sabine
woman of old. Sally. however, was
used to being a prisoner and she didn't
SO much mind, though she had DEAN
ed that a usband" would provide a
little more room to move around in
than her frightened father had done.
And so the story goes on with the
troubles that gathered around this
lode-star of loneliness. Everybody had
agonies of trouble--everybody, but
Sally. who was quite contented with
food and sleep and places to go and
a home and, maybe after while,
baby. Now the end of this story.
says the author. gives the good
promise that before long everybody
will be able to find out about Sally
that which Elizabeth" herself un.
doubtedly already knows-and that's
a first-rate promise to readers.
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TILE CLEAN UP. BY Mark Lee
Luther. author of 1.-THE Boosters, :"
etc. indianapolis: The Bobbs- Mer.
rill Co.
TT used to be that heroes of romance
Jared out to fight and slay dragons
and demons and ogres and other
| mythical creatures inimical to the
safety and happiness of mankind
Nowadays, however, there appear to
be very real demons and ogres, around
whose overthrow is the sturdy purpose
of modern heroes of current life itself.
The Clean Up is based upon such an
actually of the present. The city
manager is a creation of modern life.
In city and town all over the country
he is today undertaking the clean and
efHcient administration of various To-
calities along practical business lines.
Already we know of many cases where
this modern project has drawn up two
opposing forces. Opposition is in
herent in the situation. On the one
hand Is the intrenched and settled ele-
ment; on the other is the new conner,
the innovator. Settled ways of doing
are disturbed, self-esteem is bruised,
local pride is'hurt-all this as a natu-
raj sequence, even where there is moth.
ing of guilt to cover, nothing of wrong
doing to conceal. THE Clean Up"
projects such a situation. Here is a
bad administration of civic matters.
Here are corrupt politics and busy
agencies of many a kind, all mis-
nfevous and harmful. The story is,
therefore, packed with conflicting in
terests, with rival activities, with over
tapping efforts, with futile measures
and with great waste. Into this un.
happy city complex walks the hero,
the new city manager. More dragons
to slay here than all of ancientry
could muster, more cireumventions to
effect, more Illustrations to set up,
more new ends to achieve than any
believable story could hold, were 1t not
for the fact that the author recognizes
and uses the chief agency of modern
life, that of the organization of the
forces under his hand. With this fac
tor of actual life in hand, he plays the
lone hero against the community in a
plausible and most interesting manner.
An active, energetic, well managed
novel on theme. that is both current
and outstanding.
FOLLY'S GOLD. BY Leroy Scott,
author of Mary Regain" etc.
Boston: Houghton Miff1in Co.
THE modern novelist runs along
with the times picking off from
the surface of events some aspect of
human behavior that is easily recog-
nizable and that possesses as well the
quality of dramatic appeal Within
the past few years a fresh vein has
opened up to the writer keen to new
themes. This is the not unusual de-
lection, nowadays, of certain officers
OF the law from their sworn obliga-
ton to pursue and apprehend crime.
Leroy Scott bases his new novel upon
a situation of this sort. Facing each
other here in deadly combat are two
detectives-one an honest officer, the
other rascal using the privileges
OF his profession for the purpose of
blackmail and extortion. The author
has turned out here two clever and
interesting men, both playing at the
top notch of their skill to win out,
the one against the other The chap
tiers of this romance of crime stand
in effect like series Of short
stories. each presenting q situation
OF It's own to try out the rival &C.
tivities Of these two experts And
very exciting incidents these turn out
to be. They are bound into unity by
the opposing interests OF these two
men and by the invariable appear
ance of Mary Regain at some pivotal
point in each of these adventures.
Mary Regain is an old friend of the
readers OF Leroy Scott, for in another
story this girl stood out among the
higher class criminals Of New York.
Mary, however. is good enough to
save. and SO. this salvation becomes
q part of the story In hand. Natu-
rally. this element involves a love
story that plays second-a good
second to the really stirring Incl.
dents that chase one another through
this Vivid and tense story OF high