The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
RY WALTER D. HICKMAN


BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
of the chief reasons that I
~ like Richard Boleslavski's Way
of The Lancer" written in collab-
oration with Helen Woodward, is
that he made me feel that he &C
tually saw and experienced every
thing Of which he writes.
Boleslavski, who is quite a person
in the modern theater. served for
9 number of years as a Polish Lam
Ger in the army of the Car
( His position was different than
the regular Russian soldier as the
( Polish soldier believed that he was
volunteer in the services of
{ Poland.
The author is not so much con-
cerned with the movements of the
armies of Russia or the enemy as
. OF the personal actions of the gen.
f. erals, the men, women. prisoners
Z and others with whom he came in
contact
Z In my own little way I have tried
TO picture Just how an arrogant,
cruel and big headed officer of the
< Russian army felt when he was adj
T. dressed as citizen" by the leaders
of the first government following
Z the abdication of the Gar.
Boleslsvski was so close to certain
officers and men and was such a
good Snowman himself that he
caught the drama of this tragedy
in the lives of millions of Russians
who we're part of the army and
civil life of old Russia.
He has drawn a picture OF the
terrible confusion, the insane &C
tions on part of the Revolutionists
as we'll as the Russian officer and
aristocrat that I will never forget.
I got more intimate detail and
experiences out of this book than
any other five books of the World
war that I have read.
"Way of the Lancer" is published
by Bobbs-M Merrill of this city and
is the Literary Guild selection for
March. Be sure and read this one.
AS predicted in this department,
Thirteen Women" by Tiffany
Thayer is one of the six best sellers
in fiction all over the country, ac-
cording to the American News
Company which basis its report on
the sales of the entire country.
Julia Peterkin, author OF Bright
Skin" published by Bobbs-Merrill,
has this to say of herself; Il am
really not writer. 1 am house
keeper, a mother I like to work
with my hands, in the kitchen, in
my garden. like to ride and hunt.
like to play poker, like to talk. .
K sTONIGHT WE IMPROVISE,'
i Luigi Pirandellos new play
Is a satiric tragedy in which the
actors evolve into characters, the
characters into living persons, low
ing, hating, fighting, dying, a play
In which the drama. as We know it
in the theater evolves into life.
In short Pirandello's characters
in Tonight We Improvise" get
away from the playwright, step out
of his play and 60 off on their own
search of life.
Samuel Putnam, Pirandello's
translator, regards Tonight We
Improvise," as Luigi Pirandello's
3 "most important play" Mr.. Put
= nam says. Tonight We Improvise,
has the Importance of summing up
in creative form what Pirandello
has to say on the subject of life
and art, as viewed through the art
that is his own, the theater."
Detective" Mr.. Vance'S latest
adventure story, Francis I: Prince
of the Renaissance a biography by
Jehanne d'Orliac, and THE Z-Ray,
a story full of romance and thrills
by Edmund Smell, will be published
the last of March and early in April
by the J. B. Lippincott company.
s Robert w. Chambers has written
a new book, "Whistling Cat" which
is a story of the Civil war. 1t is an
Appleton book and sells for $3.50.
WHETHER inspired by the de-
w preston. or an urge to pop
ulariZe many books hitherto obtain
able only in expensive bindings and
sets, few publishers have been is
suing well-known works in excellent
bindings and type at 81 volume.
Included in these lists Is a re-
vised single volume edition of H
c.. Wells Outline of History" with
concluding chapters rewritten to in
clude such recent events as the abo-
lition Of the gold standard by Great
Britain and the rise Of the Spanish
Republican government over the
monarchy.
Some recent best-seller titles. as
well as several classical works
are being reprinted in these dollar
editions. Titles like Anna Kare-
!. Nina by Tolstoy; Penguin Island,
by France; "Of Human Bondage,
by Vaughan, and The oxford Book
OF American Verse" are examples OF
rn,~.n NJ tha haffav he0kR