The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-06
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

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BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
WEARS before I made my first
i trip to New York 1 had the
nutty idea that I wouldn't see the
kindly. cruel human and interest
ing New York.
In other words, wanted to get
out of the beaten track and not just
take a tour of the city. 1 was lucky
because my pilots on my many trips
to New York we're such friends as
newspaper men, actors, press agents
and even song writer's and piano
players.
And I know I have seen quite a
slice of New York life as recorded
by Helen Worden in THE Real New
York" just published by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company and sells for $3.50
If you have never been to the big
city, get hold of this book, because
the author is a newspaper woman
and very wise as to the goings-on
both day and night.
1t is the most human guide book
og New York I have ever read. Quite
wisely, she starts out with your
stomach. I hope I am not trying to
be too familiar, but she lists places
to eat where food is served that
cleopatra would call honle-com-
ing"
If you want to slop coffee with
the big names on the stage as we'll
as those that appear on the front
page of the dailies, then take Miss
Worden's tips and you will see the
mighty dine and sip. And she lists
the prices for two.
She tells you where you can get
the best frog legs in New York and
the two places where you can buy
green cheese and she even tips you
: how to prepare it. My lips are
watering as 1 write this.
Where to eat-the different
places, including the speaks"
where good food is cooked while
on not meaning you, of course)
drains an old-fashioned and the
like. The food is cheap in price
but the refreshments? Oh, what a
headache.
The trip that she takes you on III
the Bowery is the most human OF
all. And she will not let you miss
Kennedy's restaurant and the One
Mile House, one Of the largest flop
houses in the Bowery.
This book gives you the real
Chinatown of New York. And 1t
is not so mysterious as the subject
matter suggests.
And in the same chapter the au-
thor tells you where you may buy
red wine and plaster saints. Quite
combination.
Whether you 60 to New York or
rot, read THE Real New York, .
because it Is great literary theater.
Best sellers in non-fiction over the
country includes: Farewell, Miss
Julie Logan" by James M. Barrie;
"Flowering Wilderness by John
Galsworthy; "Mutiny on the
Bounty" by Hall and Nordhoff; en-
vitation to the Waltz" by Rosamond
lehman. and Bachelors Bounty, y
by Grace Richardson.
The j. B. Lippincott Company in
forms me that their spring publica-
tionS in fiction will include Encore
the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph
Vance. In this story. the famous
DucloS pearls and the Duclos for
tune are the prizes for which the
Lone Wolf and his son and daugh-
ter-in-law engage with the denizens
of the New York underworld in a
series of thrilling encounters,
NV mail the last few days con-
tanned a letter that made me want
10 shout. You recll how I loved the
best children'S book of the last ten
-"Funday," by lilo Orleans.
Well, the author has written me
a letter. and he is going to make
me "a belated Santa Claus
Here is the letter. which is one OF
the finest I have received:
There has come TO my desk a
copy of the very delightful review
of my book 'Funday which ap-
peared in your column of Dec. ?,
1882.
while many reviewers, to my
great amazement. INDUCED them
selves in SuperlativeS with regard
to my very humble effort, I was
particularly touched by the extent
OF your enthusiasm in your SuggeS-
ton that if you had money, mean
ing gobs of it,, you would set up
funds for a wider distribution of
my book.
Il haven't 'gobS Of it. either, but
/ can send to you dozen copies of
'Funday with my compliments if
YOU know of twelve youngsters who
would find some delight in its pages.
Do you care to be a somewhat he
lated Santa Claus? Let me know.
and I will see that the books are
shipped out to you.
With all good wishes for a year
brimful Of Fundays and with deep
appreciation for your kindly words
of commentator, I am
Sincerely yours,
lilo ORLEANS"
And I have written the author,
and I am wild to be Santa Claus
even in January.