The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-30
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

~ youngsters ike Tom and Betty
right here in indianapolis because
they just love to 60 travelling.
Very modern are John and Betty
because when they started their
world tour not to see people but
animals they got into an airplane
John and Betty are the two chill
dren who go airplaning around the
world in The Animal Map of the
World" by Mary Graham Bonner,
published by the Macauley Com
pany and sells for So.
These two children talk to the
animals they meet in the many
countries %ley visit, and this gives
a chance to millions of other boys
and girls to read what the animals
had to say.
In Australia, John and Peggy
recognized the kangaroos the second
they hoped up. They first tolc
John and Peggy that kangaroo was
their family name, and they be-
longed to The Great Red Kangaroo
family.
One of the gentlemen kangaroos
told the children a secret. And the
secret was - gentlemen in the
Great Red kangaroo family like a
smart red coat best, while the ladies
prefer blush gray-what you might
call a slate color"
Even If you are in your teens or
over fifty, you probably do not know
that rats in Australia have apart
ments' instead of nests. Well, they
do because John and Peggy visited
the Jerboa rats in the bush country
in the eastern part of Australia.
The apartment" for rats that the
children saw resembled IAN enor-
nous beehive. about three feet in
height, and it had branches and
shrubs and sticks all about it which
made it safe from any enemies.
The children found that inside
Of the apartment" the rats had
separate nests for many families
and that these little apartments
we're beautifully lined with grass
and soft material"
And this apartment had regular
Railways which led from one indi-
vidusl nest to another. These rats
are funny looking things with tails
as long as their bodies.
One of the splendid things about
"The Animal Map of the World" is
the illustrations by LUXOR Price.
When you get to the chapter on
Africa, you find a map Of Africa,
showing Just where the various ami
mails are located. These maps
make the reading much more easy
as the children fly from one animal
region to another.
While in Africa. John and Peggy
got quite chummy with the ele-
plants and one took the children a
ride through the jungle on his back.
And the big elephant told the
children about his animal friends
and enemies such as snakes, the
mongoose, the one horned rhinoc-
eros, buffaloes, tigers, leopards and
even panthers.
This is a remarkable book for
children and I got a great kick out
of it even at my age because the
animals talk and become charac-
tiers as they are hosts to the chill
dren on their journeys.
Remember the name of this book
and it's author-Mary Graham
Bonner.
Brentano's list as the best sellers
In fiction in their stores all over the
country as: "Flowering Wilderness"
by Galsworthy: "Munity on the
Bounty" by Nordhoff and Hall, The
Narrow Corner" by Somerset Maug-
ham, Farewell Miss Julie Logan"
by j. M Barrie, Invitation TO the
Waltz" by Rosamond Lehman, and
The Sheltered Life" by Ellen GlaS-
gov.
R.ichard Halliburton'S The Flying
Carpet, published by Bobbs-M Merrill
of this city. is listed all over the
country as one of the best sellers
in nonf1ction. In this book. Dick
retraces his Royal Road" adven-
lures by airplane.
Have received word from Irving
Rubins at the Park Central hotel,
New York City, which will be of
interest to those who want to write
a three-act play or those who have
written one but can not get il
read"
Rubins informs me that Roscoe
Arbuckle, film comedian, now head
liner at the Cocoanut Grove, lis
looking for three-act play, prefer
ably a farce comedy which he in
tends to produce with himself in
the leading role"
He advises me that "all scripts
should be forwarded to Joe Riyking
in care OF the Leo Morrison Office al
1776 Broadway, New York City.