The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
William McFee


ship captain and his heroine is a
wafe whom the captain rescues
from a sinking liner.
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
Il YER hear of girl announcing
Il her own marriage after plan
ming her own courtship and all the
time there was no man in the case?
You will meet such a woman in
weep No More" by Ward Greene,
published by Harrison Smith, Inc.
Eppy Spurlock is the name of this
strange miss who builds up an
imaginary romance around her
coIorless life. When l read this
story ] was afraid that Eppy would
kill herself after she arrived in New
York to marry her imaginary lover
by the name Of Jocelyn Randolph.
Not so with Eppy. She simply
had to find a way out and she did.
She went to the city morgue and
there identified the CORPSE of a man
as that of her lover.
Eppy then had the body cremated,
took the ashes back to her home
town at Cornish, way down south,
and had a grand funeral.
Weep No More" shows the deadly
effect that kitchen drinking of booze
has on the lives of men and women
of the modern south.
There is more drinking in this
story than I have encountered in
any recent novel. AS you meet the
victims of the bootlegger, one be-
comes acquainted with some inter
esting characters.
Poor Eppy was one Of the nom
drinkers but she had one grand time
with her romance. Death comes to
one of the kitchen drinkers because
the booze had weakened her desire
to live a normal life.
Weep No More" is startling but
It will hold your attention.
TINE winner of this weeks book
il review is Barbara Blatt of 2502
West Michigan street, who reviewed
JOB" by Joseph Roth. translated
by Dorothy Thompson.
Her review is as follows:
job by Joseph Roth, the November
choice of the Book the Month Club, is
OF unsual interest to those who OCCASION
ally desire something more than the usual
mediocrity that crowds the fiction shelves
These renders will find the simplicity OF
the book and its quiet perfection very
welcome.
The framework of the story is the Bibli-
cal tale OF job. Jobs modern prototype
is Mende Singer, a poor teacher living IN
little Russian village with MS VIE MS
two sons, and a daughter.
Mendel accepts his poverty uncomplain-
ingly and meets with the same unfailins
resignation the birth OF third son
Menuchim apparently both an imbecilt
and an epileptic.
Although both health and greatness have
been foretold for him, Menuchim shows nc
sign of fulfilling the prophecy and. on &C
count OF his physical disabilities, must be
left behind when Mendel and his family
migrate to America.
After the World war intervenes, all trace
OF Menuchim disappears. Nor Is Mendel
children. One son is reported missing
the other dies In the war.
His wife is killed by the shock of this
And his daughter. always regrettaoiy pro-
miscuous in sexual relations, developes
dementa praecoX.
At last. pitifully alone and overwhelmed
with tragedy Mendel turns from God be-
cause of His cruelty and refuses to con-
tinue the beliefs and practices that had
formerly consoled him in all distress. But,
Ike JOD, ne mas the latter enQ OF MS lie
more blessed than his beginning.
Menuchim, wholly cured, famous and
rich, comes seeking his father and brings
Mendel more comfort and JOY than he has
ever before experienced.
AS soon as she gets in touch with
this department, Miss Blatt will
have the choice of one of several
good books.
Bruce Cation, NEA Service writer
of books, lists the following as good
mystery yarns:
From This Dark Stairway" by
M. G Eberhart Crime Club: so
This happens in a hospital where q
corpse, neatly stabbed, is found in
an elevator. Then it vanishes, anc
there's the deuce to pay. You'll fine
this one of the most exciting, credi-
BILE and neatly told mystery yarns
of the winter.
THE Murder of Christine Will
merding." by w. B. NJ Ferguson
Oiveright: so. Mrs. Wilmerdine
goes on a trip and doesn't return
and her mother-in-law goe:
dotty and starts singing song
about putting her down well. YoJ
may guess the murderer, but you'll
never guess how he did it. Put this
in Grade A.
THE Sweepstakes Murders" BY
j. j. Connington Gittle-B Brown: so
Some Englishmen make up a poo
on the Derby and win fortune, anC
then one by one get bumped of
This is another exceptionally we'll
done and mystifying thriller.
The Fatal Five Minutes" by r
A, j. Walling Morrow: so. Still
another good one; it's about {
house party at which the host il
dubbed to death, and there's &
shady butler, a shadier -with-a.
past, and an overtone of blackmail
You won't guess the answer to thi,
one without some real thinking.
A MOTHER current novel Vol
"A should enjoy is Brave New
World" by Aldous Huxley Double,
day Doran). It is a broad, pungen
satire in which the world of "A. F
$50" is pictured as Huxley. in I
whimsical mood, has envisioned it.
The "A. p" means After Ford,
for by that date Henry Ford will b,
revered. Mass production ha
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