The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-07
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN


BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
rs it not funny how few lines Of
Il verse will catch your eye? 1
have before me Kaleidoscope" a
national magazine of poetry. In 1T
is a poem of Vera Flandorf, former
ly of Indiana, but now of Chicago.
At the age of IL she had poem in
a text book. Even Indiana Poetry
magazine has published her poems.
In Kaleidoscope" of the latest
issue, she has poem by the name
of "A Song for a Meadow Walk"
In the first line she invites the
great out of doors. No pavement.
No heat. No waiting for cars or
buses. Just that release.
~OWARD-MCANN is offering
~ a prize of $50 to any book
seller who will give them title for
the novel by Wilfred Saint Mande
which they will publish Nov. II,
Armistice day. The book will ap-
pear in England as War, Wine and
Women" 1t has been tentatively
announced in the publishers cata-
log here as Men at War" but both
titles have been used before. To
avoid confusion they are seeking a
new one. OF the fifty-nine sugges-
tions submitted so far the publish
ers state they are not going to use
Breads, Bullets and Burgundy"
n II
"Sue Sew-and-Sew," a sewing
book for little girls, by Asia, Delhi
and Flavia Gag Sisters of Wanda
Gag, creator of Millions Of Cats.")
$3.50.
WHEN Pavement Lady was
w suppressed in Canada and
when some Boston booksellers be-
came timid about displaying it, the
publisher, The Macaulay Company,
asked Marguerite Brener, the
author, to prepare frank state
ment of the purpose Of her book.
Her reply, an eloquent defense of
her book against charges Of i'm
morality, says:
1.-THE urge to write Pavement
Lady was inStilled within me by an
earnest desire to warn youth of the
folly of sin; to show by the example
of the heroine's life, the pitiful fall
lacy of the primrose path"
II =
A N authoritative work on the
IN menace of Illicit drugs is Dan
gerous Drugs" by Arthur Woods
(Yale University Press. so. Woods
formerly was police commissioner in
New York. His book should help
arouse public opinion.
If you like brass-knuckle fight
ing, gun play and plenty Of clout-
tngs try "Galanty Cold" by Vic
tor MacClure civilian Morrow g.
Son. So It's a flying tale of
Spanish treasure.
Willard Weiner has produced in
Rafferty," Farrar & Rinehart, Inc
So a work of assured power and
notable Characterization. It is a
Skillful analysis of the bottom-dog
stratum in American life.
Some stimulating criticism Of
Americas economic structure comes
from the pen of Stuart Chase in
1.-THE Nemesis of American Bust
ness" CThe Macmillan Co. so
Chase talks figures and factories in
a vivid manner.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,
" dragon of two continents,
Shaw OF the fierce whiskers and
diabolical eyebrows, is unmasked as
"a true knight without fear and
without reproach" by Sir William
Rothenstein in Men and Memo
ries." "A figure apart" Rothenstein
calls him. brilliant, genial, whole
Some, a great wit, gallant friend.
The best of the new books or
Russia is Making Bolsheviks," by
Samuel N. Harper University Of
Chicago Press. so. Professor Har-
per whites succintly and fairly.
q . q
'Her Body Speaks" by Aaron
Mare Stein (Covici-F riede; $2.50).
It's about what you'd expect from q
book with this title; the study OF
the four-sided catastrophe that
grows out Of a woman's attempt to
ignore the demands of the hor-
mones. If the title attracts you
hop to it.
"Backf1re," by Daniel Chase
(Bobbs- Merrill: ($2). A young in
valid, convalescing in a New Eng
land village, falls in with gang OF
rum runners and is saved by the
love of a good woman. Naive, but
1t moves fairly rapidly.