The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-01
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

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BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
THIS account of Jan Wells life
4 has been supplied to the Mac
milan Company by the English
publisher Of Welzls story, Thirty
Years in the Golden North"
Jan Well, the son of a shop.
keeper, was born in 1870 in a small
town in Moravia now Czechoslo-
vakiO. After completing his three
years of military service he made
his way on foot to the nearest port
Trieste on the Adriatic. There
he found employment as a deck
hand, and so reached Port Arthur
where he worked for a time in the
arsenal.
Then he moved on to Irkutsk anc
from there launched out upon the
adventurous travels in Arctic re-
gions of which he tells in his book
Thirty Years in the Golden North.
After the World var he Travelled
with a group of Eskimos to Sar
Francisco. On the return trip he
was shipwrecked, and since he came
from the New Siberian islands (that
is, from Russian territory and hac
no passport, he was treated as &
citizen Of the Soviet Union, was
sent by the American authorities
to Ellis island and thence deported
From Hamburg he started to work
his way back to the Arctic, but in
Canada he was overtaken by al
invitation to return home, so he
came back to Czechoslovakia, visit
Ell his birthplace, and had an au-
dience with President Masaryk
While there he dictated his remi-
niscences for publication.
He did not care to remain long
in Europe, however. With the pro-
Ceeds from his book he set out
again, at the age of 60, for the far
north, which has become a second
home to him. The last reports
from him came from Nome. 1t is
apparent from these reports that
Well has resumed his old life in
New Siberia.
7 HAVE before me a copy of cor
l. Going Naked" by Jan Gay, H.
Illustrated by zhenya and published
by Holborn House, Inc, New Yorl
City. 1t sells for So.
The author went to the nudis
colonies in Germany last summer
mot as has other writer's to be mi.
tiated in a daring and unfamiliar
rite, but with long and honorable
record in the private practice o
nakedness before she joined these
public manifestations abroad"
Have received word from Lincoln
MacVeagh that on Aug, the Dia
Press will publish Ballet for Three
Masks by James Cleugh a new
author.
The publisher states that "tht
treatment is largely by the stream
of consciousness method but no
wholly. The elf-revelation of the
characters in their meNal mono.
logues is brilliantly handled"
I suspect that the Eugene O'Neii
method of allowing characters t.
speak their private thought is uSeC
for the first time by novelist.
= ADY ELEANOR SMITH, All
l. thor of Flamenco" and Red
Wagon" has written a new one
"Ballerina." and it will be pub
lished by Bobbs- Merrill on July 5
1t is the story of girl from the
London slumS. who became the most
famous dancer in the days of the
dazzling second empire. Varsovins
is the name of the chief character
Beatrice Curtis Brown arrived
from London last week and viii
spend the summer in America. While
in New York she is making hel
headquarters with a fellow English
novelist, Iris Barry. Houghton Milf
film Company have set July "a as
the publication date for her new
novel, For the Delight of Antonio,
a distinctly modern book about
men and women of today, although
the scene is set back 100 years into
the time when people actually lived
in those lovely and now decayine
villas and PALACES of northern
Italy"
Jonathan Leonard's fourth novel
'Trafton Helen will be published
this summer by Houghton Mifflir
Company. 1t is story of New
England life and character, like his
earlier Back to Stay" The Med
dlers' and Sympathetic to Bare
Feet starkly original novels which
won high praise from Conrad Al
ken, Alfred Kreymborg, Gorham B
Munson, Ford MADDOX Ford, Ber-
trand Russell and others.
Unlike several of his previous
novels, Rafael Sabatini's BLACK
swan is work of pure fiction
The Caribbean conditions" he says,
"are as true as it lay in my power
TO make them, and at the end ]
sought to give plausible portrait
Of Sir Henry Morgan. Beyond that
from beginning to end there is not
a word of truth in the Black
swan"