Evening star., 1932-08-07
~ IDA GILBERT MYER
The Chance Of d Ne70 Party in the Political
Field-A7rue Story of the Sea-FIction
fer Summer Reading.

earlier courtships, matter how perilous and
exciting the pursuit might be, matter how
impregnable in her own integrity the pursued.
Only skin deep all that. This day Is delving
day. deep-digging period when even mental
reactions and passing states OF mind are
quarries to be explored, much as mines of gold
and silver are. 1t Is also day of frank dis
closure And marriage, ut the moment with
its latitudes of free choice and ready release,
provides the best of all fields for an explora-
ton of the mind in its daily reactions TO sit
uation wherein all are or hope to be, actual
partakers
Here is a novel OF marriage. good one
From the beginning its authors have recognized
the partnership existing between themselves
the one hand and the great body of read
ers on the other No new knowledge to be di-
vulged An old case to be restated In fresh
terms A spirited program to be created from
a slightly sagging theme. Interesting people
must carry here. They do love match
opens the program. difference OF tempera-
ment-nothing more-prodnees the rift that cul-
minuates finally, In definite cleavage. Both
are artists the girl a sculptor the man an ar
chiteet. The q worker, the other a play
boy And under the clear charm of this ir-
resistibiy social fellow, the workshop turns into
q wayside Inn at which motor loads stop for the
day, for the night, for any old time ut oil. Ten
mis- and golf take the place Of career In the do
mestic economy Of the pair. No girl could re-
sist Shawn Mallory. Nor could he resist her.
just a good time. Nothing SO very reprehen-
sible about it. Well that's the story. AS ia
milier right now as a bedtime tale. Unusual
In that 1t is outstanding and admirable In scene,
characterization, sequence. In the vital in
eyitability OF it all at this particular moment in
the run of time plueky girl, Diana, besides.
II you must have lesson. here 1t IS. Making
the best of sorry job, even smiling, little,
the mess make of the Sanctihed
institution of marriage.
ICE COLD MARRIAGE BY Christine Jope
Slade indianapolis: The Bobbs-M Merrill &C.
1 lERE is. in effect, a tract whose mission is
to demonstrate that while red hot mar
riage" is bad enough il cannot hold candle
TO that infinitely worse brand, the "ice cold
marriage" Now, looking about, peftuFbed as
must be at the sight, it is natural to fall
into a few mild speeulations the subject of
matrimony Instead of tumbling into it headlong,
for instance, why may not one approach this state
with something of query as to what it invoices
of subsequent procedure by way of a partnership
say in the financial outlook, in the division Of
labor and the sharing of responsibility in forms
of diversion, in essential temporary separations
to obviate the necessity Of later and pefma
nent one? Why not something along this lire
of reasonable query upon vital a matter?
No. by all means, mol Only a cynie Oh other
eold- -blooded creation would put single ques-
ton up to the Sacrosanet institution of matri-
mony. Love! That is the measure and the only
one So defeated, one accepts this simultaneous
and universal pronouncement upon the great
subject But what, after all, Is love? Now
don't be silly about great matters Just read
this book satire and good one on your