The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

Harold Bell Wright
Here is Bertrand zadigs draw
ing of Harold Bell Wright, whose
novel, Ma Cinderella" will be
published Monday by Harper 81
Brothers In his new book, Wright
goes back to the Ozarks, the scene
Of his earliest triumphs such as
That Printer of Udells."
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN.
JUST now in the metropolitan
press there is a lot of front
page dope concerning the ousting as
a reporter from the Baltimore Sun
Of Drew Pearson, because he has
been identified as one of the authors
of more Merry Go-Round," COM
panion to Washington Merry-Go-
Round"
The book is so intimate with
members of the cabinet, high rank
ing army officials, Washington boot
leggers, members of the supreme
court, and others who keep the
wheels going in privileged Washing
ton that I had the feeling that
probably each chapter was written
by an individual pretty close to the
fireworks.
l am concerned with More Mer-
ry-Go-Round" as a literary prod
uct. AS far as 1 am concerned, it
amused me greatly, because itsillum-
mated much ground of which l
have been suspicious for a long
, time.
Here is sweeping theater from a
reading standpoint. The cast is
made up of national party leaders
of the day. 1t is so hot that the
front page of many papers now are
printing the denials of Secretary of
War Patrick Jay Hurley that he
was rude to former Secretary of
War Newton D. Baker and also Ba-
ker's denial.
Another point that burned the
present war secretary was the accu-
sation in More Merry Co Round"
that he won his decoration for dis
tinguiShed service during the World
War two hours before the armiStice.
I was interested in the chapter
concerning Hurley because I knew
that it would be connected with
printed denialS in the papers by
both the war secretary and the for
mer war secretary.
And while the merry controversy
goes on, the sale of More Merry
Go-Round" mounts to even more
thousands a day than formerly,
and even some Of my rock-ribbed
Republican friends beg me to loan
} them my copy just for an evening.
1t is the hottest reading I have
encountered in the last ten years
of modern fiction.
In More Merry Go Round" I
was interested how some high au-
thority is brought at certain times
in spectacular action against such
literary masterpieces as 'Decamer-
on" of Boccaccio, Rabelais' Works
and even the recent Lady Chatter
ley's Lover"
The chapter having the most
charm of writing as we'll as literary
value is the one devoted to Nine
Old Men" which to me is an anus
ing story relative to the present
complexion of the United States
supreme court.
l am not saying whether More
Merry Co. Round" is fact or fiction
To me it is the most red FLOODED
and interesting book I have read
in years.
I will admit the subject matter
never made me indignant and I did
not resent the conviction that the
system Of government that More
Merry Co. Round" exposes is the
same system that Norman Thomas
ceIrects in LAS I See It," which
reviewed last week.
Have just received a copy for re-
view of so a Leader Came" by
Frederick Palmer. which will be pub
liShed Sept. % by Ray Long and
Richard R. Smith. AS the title
sounds, it concerns the rise of
leader who was the salvation of his
country.
Brentano'S in New York reports
that More Merry Co. Round" is one
of the non-fiction books which is
in most demand in their New York
stores. They describe the book as
another exhilarating ride through
the nations capitol"
BE Beautiful" is new and sur
prisingly interesting book by Edith
Porter Lapish and Flora G. Orr, on
the advantages Of beauty, and how
to attain it.
1t is a small, easily read volume,
addressing itself not only to women,
rbut to men and children, making of
1t family book. 1t treats the sub
ject intelligently, always emphasiz-
ing the fact that the basis for
beauty is health, and warns against
rather than recommends, the excess
Sive use of cosmetics.
1t is published by d. Appleton and
Co, New York, and retails for $3.50.
(By F. d. d.
If you want to keep up with the
new important fiction 1 will suggest
1.-THE Family Circle" by Andre
Maurois; Keeper of the Keys" by
Earl Derr Biggers; PARKWAY" by
j. b. Priestley, and "A Good Mans
Love-" by E. NJ. Delafield.