The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-10
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BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

CAROLYN Wells just has selected
~ the best American mystery
stories of the year in 5oO-page
book announced by the John Day
Company, "The Best American
Mystery Stories Of the Year"
Miss Wells has made the selection
Of her best" mysteries from such
writer's as Dashiell Halamett, Mel
vile DAWSON Post, Arthur Somers
Roche. Gelett Burgess, Clarence
Buddington Kelland, Ben Hecht.
James Warner Bellah, Mrs. Wilson
Woodrow, Mackinlay Kantor and
others.
This book is announced as one OF
Day spring features.
Il II
MYTH Chicago cleaning house
w politically, civic reform is de-
handing the attention of the pub
Hshers' especially Longmans, Green
& Company.
The publisher contends that
No reform administration in New
York City ever has succeeded itself,
and Lothrop Stoddard, whose new
biography Of Richard Croker,
Master Of Manhattan Oonglnans),
looks back to the days when Croker
was Master of Manhattan, thinks
ne knows why. He says, In 1897,
the reformers had been in power
three years, under Mayor Strong,
who gave New York a model admin
istration. And yet, before it was a
year old, it was tremendously IN
popular, and at the next mayoralty
election, it was repudiated and
Richard Croker put back into con-
troll Of the city"
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TINE strangest Of the moderns, I
4 have discovered in "Binny's
Women" by Gladys Knight, pub
lished by the Century Company,
Joel McElroy brought jealousy,
tumult, and death into her own
fathers home when he married the
second time, his first wife having
died when Joel was a baby.
Joel did not bring destruction and
unhappiness into Binn McElroy's
home by the gin route or fast COM
panions. She just simply hated"
her stepmother into a commanding
position in the household.
At times I became SO peeved at
Joel and her morbid moments as
well as bad judgment that I wanted
to administer a good spanking.
But fate gave poor Joel probably
more than she deserved. Her great
est attainment was to lose every
friend she had.
T AM eager to get hold of the May
4 College Humor since H. N.
Swanson sent me the following tip:
IF you are over 80 and planning
a trip to Paris this summer then
don't read o. O. McIntyre's reasons
why you must see Paris before 80, in.
the May issue of College Humor.
For Paris is only for youths, says
Mcintyre, and tells you a lot of
things that you may try to do in
Paris at 80 and your failure to &C
complish them only makes you
irritated at the city at first and then
really angry.
But if you are a youth, what a
kick! Everything is a thrill, says
Mcintyre. The honking taxis; the
narrow cobbled, echoing streets; the
madly pedaled bread tricycles; the
capped and detached little gen.
darmes; the outside cafe tables
dotted with blue settler bottles; the
laughing eyed midinettes."
A CCORDING to j. B. Lippincott
IN Company, the trouble in Eng
land over a short story, Happy
findings" in Osbert Sitwell's new
book, Dumb Animal" will have no
effect in this country.
Lippincott's state:
"Osbert SitWell's new book of
short stories, Dumb Animal has
been withdrawn from publication
in England because of a too reais-
tic Characterization. Duckworth and
Company, his publishers abroad,
have paid damages of 81, $50 to Mrs.
A. Coutenay WEIGH, whose husband
conducts the military college at
Aldershot, the scene of the story,
Happy Endings' She believes it
contains caricatures of herself and
her son, who was killed in the war"
FRANK. open and helpful are
4 words that aptly describe the
vivid personal record set down by
Marian King in THE Recovery of
Myself" This book tells how a
young woman conquered the drug
hahi' and regained full control of
hers in a hospital for mental ill
ness. Yale University Press, 50.
According to Thomas" by Ivan
Nazhivin CHarper & Bros, So, is
the story of Joshua, known to the
later world as Jesus, as it might
have been written by Thomas, the
doubling disciple, a searcher after
truth, but one whose mind was I'M
able to deceive itself or take ref
uge In illusion.
q
"Voodood," by Kenneth Per-
kins (Harper & Bros) Mr.. Per-
kins has chosen New Orleans for a
tale that is grewsone, but we'll told
Innocence Abroad" by Emily
Clark. If you admire, read or coll
lect the work of Joseph Herge-