The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
TN "A Family Affair" by Lillian
Il Gill, I found an unusual tri-
angela young wife discovers that
her friendship with her father-in-
law has developed into love.
In this story, the love is mental
and of deep understanding for the
troubles that both experience. Here
is not lust or love of physical pos
session but the fine mental under
standing and desire of two people
for their own friendship
You are chiefly concerned with
Amelia de Lorme, daughter of
poor French baron of the old school
who tries to keep up the splendor of
his past with an empty pocketbook
and the thought that his daughter
would marry a rich Frenchman.
Amelie violates all rules of her
family circle by clipping with Vernon
Hole, a young rich American who
was in France trying to write a
novel,
Young Holt is very wealthy but
his father Ledyard Holt, many times
a millionaire finds it difficult to per-
suade his son to prepare himself to
step into his fathers shoes in vast
rubber business.
That is the horrible conflict be-
tween father and son. Holt, senior,
had another problem and that was
his daughter, Marietta, who hiked
of to Chicago, and started a trial
marriage with an anarchist.
When you first meet Marietta on
her return to the home of her father
she arrived for one purpose-one to
tell her father that sic hated him."
only to discover by telegram that
her anarchist husband" had been
jailed by the Chicago police. She
then decides she needs $4,000.
1t seems that even an anarchist,
even in story books, do not hesitate
to turn to the rich, the target for
their abuse and even their bullets
speaking Of this story for money.
Into this warning family of the
Hollis, Amelie becomes the center
around which the family battle was
waged. You see the fine and sensible
friendship develop between Holt,
senior, whose wife is dead, and his
daughter in-law.
The background becomes dramatic
because a bitter labor war (and you
can see that the family would be
divided even on that starts against
Holt and his rubber plantations and
factories.
Old man Holt and Amelie discover
their deep love for each other when
an attempt is made to kill the mil
lionaire during the labor war.
That is the problem-Wha did
Amelie do? What did all the Hollis
do?
Must ask you to read "a Family
Affair" published by Macaulay, New
York, and sells for 81.
Here is an intelligently and a we'll
written book. The characters seem
to live. That is good test.
n n
Am informed by the Business
Branch Library of the indianapolis
Public Library that the following
new business books have been placed
for circulation-"Fi Fighting the De-
preston" by Babson; Fashion
Merchandising by Nustrom; "Busi-
ness and Public Interests" by JavitS;
Duties of the Senior Accountant"
by Thornton, and, Working With
Men," by Beasley.
1t seems that several late book
shoppers for Christmas want some
help from this department. They
want list ranging from three to
seven books suitable for adult read
ing as gifts for both men and wo-
men. My list is as follows: state
Fair" by Phil Stong; Sons" by
Pearl S. Buck; "Mutiny On The
Bounty" by Nordhoff and Hall; IN
vitation To The Waltz" by Rosa
mind Lehman; The Sheltered
Life" by Ellen Glasgow; "Lances
Down." by Boleslavski, and, Life
Begins at Forty" by Walter B. Pit
kin. I am sure that am safe on
that list.
buttons announce their prize book
for January as 'Sardinian Sideshow"
by Amelie Posse Brazdova. It is
said to posses "humor, romance and
color"
n r
Yes, the present successful play
Dinner AT Eight" by George S.
kaufman and Edna Ferber has been
published. 1t has been published
by Doubleday, Doran and sells for
So.
You still want to know my favor
tie novel of the year? Here is it,
Estate Fair" by Stong. And a
Merry Christmas TO you.