The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24

There is a decided O'Neill touch
TO Ibis story and to this character
and Marcy. the Imaginary prod
uct OF Lorna Noon, seems to nestle
very close to ONenl's heroines.
Not that the author has borrowed
any Of nc realistic thunder from
O.NeuD but rather that in fiction
she has become the great Snowman
and writer of life just as O'Neill is.
Dark Star" Is published by the
Bobos- Merrill Company of Indian
apolis and if I am not all wrong this
one is going 10 be a best seller for
many months. 1t sells for $3.50.
Then, what kind Of a girl is this
Nancy who is going to cause more
buzz of conversation than Elmer
Gantry' did?
The author tells you in the first
line of the first chapter of Dark
Star Just what kind of a young
ster she is.
The author tells you in the first
line as you meet Nancy" Nancy
vas glad when her grandmother
died. CLAD. but q little afraid. like
some wild thing. long Gagged, sud-
denly lei loose"
Then We see this girl who knows
that she vas bonn under the dark
star of an unmarried father and
mother. The fact didn't bother her.
The thing that bothered Nancy was
whether her father was the low
groom of stallion horses or the head
of The proud but insane house OF
the FasSeferns.
After her grandmother funeral
Nancy decided that the groom vas
not her father. just by looking at
his horrible face. She knew that
that thing could not be her father.
So she decides that she is q Fasse-
fern. q. member Of family that
generally committed suicide.
Was not Nancy little Wild? A
little mad? AND when she grew up
and had her love" experience with
4 Young but temperamental COM
poser OF pipe organ music and her
ether passionate experiments with
life. Nancy knew that she vas a
mad Fasscfern.
And giving herself that cloak Of
mao responsibility, Nancy when she
faced the result of her mad but
beautiful love with the composer,
Nancy decided that she was not the
jIi=gitimate thing of Willie WealnS.
the groom. but that she was a Fasse-
fern.
Nearly all the Fa5seferpS rode to
their death in unique suicide. So
Nancy runs to hers. throws herself
over a clifton and she smiled as
the sharp black teeth of the sea
came Up to meet her because she
knew that she was a Fasseiern.
The book starts with death and
traged- and It ends that way.
logical and a realistic way. III the
life story Of Nancy. YOU meet Diyot
Mag. the village hatrack. who muir
dered Nancy's good for nothing
mother because she vas about TO
tell Nancy a lie about her birth
which would make the child think
that her dad was the groom.
/ Since The American Tragedy"
, We have had no murder done in flc-
( ton 50 logically and so completely
as when Diyot Meg coaXes Bella,
Nancv's mother, to go to her final
sleep.
/ You will meet the elder Mrs An
I derson. the mother of the pastor of
I the kirk. who is one of the cleverest
old danes who ever graced a page
of fiction. She iS@n unholy old
/ thing because she plans long fight
against the wife of her son. This
battle is a masterpiece and one of
/ the finest created scenes in this
/ story.
And no wonder that Nancy fell
! in love with the Whistling Boy, the
lad who becomes a great composer
! of organ music. He was made for
] dreams. a little love. but without
the strength to pay the price. and
/ he was surely made for passion. And
/ so was NanCv-pasSlOn when love
came. That was Divot Meg's code
Of life.
! Even when realism becomes stark
. naked. even when Divot Meg airs
! her philosophy of life in cruel
straight terms. even when Nancy in
meeting passion is interested and
not afraid, We have a gigantic con-