The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-24


when Cradd had been tormented
for money by his wife and three
children for years. Things begin
to happen when the money sud-
denly arrives. Published by
Little, Brown 81 Co.
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
TNTHEN a little German house
w wife decided she was going to
write, she began turning out hits at
the very start. Her name is Vicki
Baum, and she is the author OF
"Grand Hotel" which is credited
with being the biggest hit on Broad
way.
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
announces that one of their ace Au-
gust releases will be 'Marin's Sum-
mer," by this German housewife.
The advance tip on the story is
that it concerns one Martin He'll,
who is forced to leave his beloved
laboratory to find job that will
pay his rent.
The Job he discovers is that of
? lifeguard at a. fashionable bathing
beach which is patronized chiefly
by fashionable women.
What are they reading in fiction
In New York City? Brentano's
answers the question as follows:
'Dwarf's Blood" by Edith Oliver;
''The Shortest Night" by G. B.
Stern; THE Sixth Journey" by
Alice Grant BOSNIAN; Father" by
Elizabeth; "Ships of Youth" by
Maud Diver, and 1.-THE Good
Earth" by Pearl S. Buck.
E. P. Dutton & Co. has its own
boner department. They report that
they received an order from Chi
cago for a copy of Culture and
Diseases of the Union" by J. j..
Taubenhaus, Texas horticulturist.
"Union' should be Onion. Some
difference.
A FTER flying business trip to
IN New York, General Charles H.
Sheriff. has returned to his home
in the heart of Paris, where work
on a new book awaits his immedi-
ate attention. General Sheriff.
does not have to retire to the coun-
try to see what the trees look like,
as his garden walls incloSe a stately
grove OF chestnuts, exceeded in
luxuriance and number only by their
venerable brothers in the Bots. For
the number of volumes on the
shelves, his study might be taken
for a public library were it not for
the signed photographs of kings and
queens. military leaders and states
men which cover the walls. In his
bismarck and MuSsolini,' just pub
lished by Houghton Mifflin Com
pany, General Sheriff. draws a
striking parallel between II Duce
and the famous German whose
name has now taken its place in
the annals of European history. The
book is soon to appear in an Italian
translation.
1.-THE Little Shepherd of Kingdom
Come" by John Fox Jr., is one OF
Americas favorite books. 1t has
sold many more than a million
copies since publication on Sept.
70. 1903. and still sells slightly less
than 1000 copies annually. But
when a traveller for Charles Serb
ner's Sons showed a New York book
seller an advance copy of the new
gift edition with color illustrations
by N. c. Wyeth, which the Serb
ners will publish about Oct. /. the
bookseller pushed it away, saying
eve can't use any, we don't carry
religious books"
Harold S. Vanderbilt has just de-
livered to Charles Scribner's Sons
the manuscript of his book on the
greatest of all sailing yachts, En-
terprise." His book takes that name
for it's title. and consists of the story
of the building of Enterprise" OF
all the new knowledge gained from
its many innovations, of her opera
ton. and full accounts of the pre-
liminary and the Americas cup
races. This is Vanderbilt's second
book. The first was on another sub
ject about which Vanderbilt is an
authority. and was entitled THE
New Contract Bridge"