The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

VI fAAAA@A ANct
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
DEEN asked to name a novel in
NJ the crime line that is different
from the regulation mine run of this
type of story.
] have found such a story in
~ .carred Hand" by Eliot H.
Robinson, author of Smiles: A
Rose of the Cumberlands," which
is now in it's fifty-fifth thousand.
Not only is the construction of
this book so different from the av-
erage crime story, but the plot it
self has a ring of neWness and
novelty.
Richard Kirby, facing disgrace
of which he was not really guilty
(the money intrusted to him was
stolen from his safe) wanted to
die, but he didn't have the nerve to
pull the trigger of his service re-
volver.
When a burglar entered his room
one night with a pocketknlte
wrapped in handkerchief to look
like a revolver, Kirby decided this
was the man to do the job and the
deed would not look like suicide.
But-the burglar wouldn't do the
lob. Then while Richard covers the
burglar with a revolver, Richard
tells the story of his life and the
rotten deal Fate gave him in an
effort to convince the burglar
should kill him.
The deal is finally made but
maybe Richard changes his mind
and wants to live. That would be
tough after hiring guy to bump
you off.
Read Scared Hands and have
several nights of bully fine reading
if you can lay the book down that
long.
II is published by L. G. Page 81
Company and sells for 50.
Have before me the Hound and
Horn for January and March,
1882, and it is a masterpiece. This
magazine with each new issue is
meaning more and more to me.
In THE Theatre Chronicle" in
this issue, Lincoln KRISTEN, an au-
thority on the stage, writes OF
ONeill's Mourning Becomes Elec-
ira" For not by the widestretch
of a considered imagination can
Mourning Becomes Electra be de-
scribed a great play"
There is a great difference OF
opinion on that
" ATHRYN l.. MASON, 81 North
N Fifteenth avenue, Beech Grove,
is the winner Of the book review
this week and she will have choice
of one of several good books when
she gets in touch with this depart
ment.
Her review of "Sackcloth and
Ashes" by E. w. Saw is as tol-
lows:
.sackcloth and Ashes is a story .S 81
beautiful Daena Reid-Morgan, culturea
Seurhter of artistocratic birth. Although
II NAV be said that the plot is common
one, it Is not 70 be sTes'S Sth one of those
- war.time MARRIAGES, She immediate
l Iy grets her Jolly. but later learns her
ashland was killed in the war. Free 70
start life anew She takes new hope. Here
Fete plays cruel hand ana the Geao
husband returns to the scene. Poor
P Po neoom SHnstt matters She is desperately
IN love with a man OF her own soclety'
one who is willing TO- RISK ms me a9r t w.
TaNraved by her former husband. sne
&c eSenounced by her proud and society
man parents. As an outcast Of ner peop p,d
sns 10 increase her torture, the man
Sne is living with: whom she tnlnks Is
hsr husband, tells her that ne is not ner
husband, but her dead HUSBANDS Twin
0r Win her probe bent she goes back to
her parents. serious itneSs Io, IONS and and
her former society. OF course she marrles
her long and faithful lover. ,,.
This sns re S6SS Is may ggst s% ches Gs action but
a. ~ far from il. as the author tries 60
i've Is t NE readers the impression that
when on iTspep SSd iG ashes" 81 not all
"I believe that in the future,
Mexico will fill an important role
her only important role-as an
esthetic producer" declares Diego
Rivera, Mexican artist whose
murals in New York City are at
tracing much attention. j. B.
Lippincott Company published re-
Gently Mexican Maze" by Garlic
ton Beals, a book which contains
Seventy-five intimate drawings Of
Mexican life by Diego Rivera.
n n
TEFFERY FARNOL has returned
d to the Merrie England he has
made so indisputably his own, in
"A Jade of Destiny" (Little, Brown
a. Coz He has written a glowing
romance of the days of Queen BeSs
Ia romance dealing TO some extent
with one of many plots directed
against the life of Elizabeth.
Two contrasting love stories are
voven throughout swift moving
d. ma in which Farnol again is at
his 'st in the use Of English idiom
which ilas baffled his many inn
itators.
Recommended strongly to those
who reveled in his THE Broad
Highway" and The Amateur Cen
tleman."