The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-03
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN


Il of my most exciting and pleas
ant experiences in the theater of
fiction, I would have to state it was
the reading of "Mutiny on the
Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and
James Norman Hall.
Having recently completed read
ing this remarkable story of munity
on an English ship way back around
1888, the charm of the excitement
of the story still fingers.
Here is not dry stuffy sea history.
but yarn as dashing, as strong and
as colorful as anything that Saba
TIM has ever written.
This amazing adventure of Roger
Byam is one that I know Richard
Halliburton would love to have ex-
perienced In all of the 1896 pages
in "Mutiny on the Bounty" no
reader will find any excuse for not
reading every word and that is a
verdict that mighty few modern
novels deserve.
You meet Roger Byam in the
quiet and we'll ordered English home
of his mother in England as he was
approaching manhood. His father
was respected by the highest Off
GERS in the admiralty in England
as the story opens in 1887
Even lads in those days dreamed
of adventure in the South Sea Is
lands and many of them thought of
romance on the island of Tahiti
with an Indian maid.
And so Roger broke out with great
excitement when Captain William
offered to take him as a midship-
man to faraway Tahiti to get bread
fruit trees so that they may be
raised on other lands in an effort
to provide cheap food.
The authors of "Mutiny on the
Bounty have done a magnificent
job of painting the men who made
up the crew of the Bounty.
The chapters devoted 10 the slow
progress of the Bounty under sail
to Tahiti are SO beautifully and hui
manly written that I had the feel
ing l was a member of the crew.
Here is romantic realism if it ever
existed and that quality is to be
found in every page as Roger Byam
learns his lessons of discipline of
the sea.
And when the crew landed in Ia
hiti, then only frequently visited by
white men, you discover the real
character of the Indians as we'll as
the glorious beauty of such a care
free life.
Never have I encountered better
descriptive writing than the chap
ters devoted to the mutiny on the
ship on the way back to England.
Roger was loyal to his captain.
but the rebelhouS men kept him and
several other innocent men on the
Bounty. Then follows years and
years of exile on Tahiti. There
Roger married a lovely native girl.
Then years of bliss on the island.
Birth of their daughter and then
the arrival of an English ship in
search of all those who remained on
the Bounty.
Then the torture of ship prison,
the ship wreck on the way to Eng
land, and court-martial and the con-
viction of Roger and many others.
And then-Wel, by all means if
you love a grand story then read
"Mutiny on the Bounty as pub
lished by Little, Brown and Com
naOv and soils fOY. 60 IN
Charles Scribner's Sons announces
they will publish in March in one
volume three novels by John Gals
worthy who died this week. The
novels are The Dark Flower"
Saints Progress" and Beyond"
The publishers state this book of
700 pages contains the three novels
that established John GalSworlhv
as master interpreter of human
impulses and emotions His latest
novel is "Flowering Wilderness"
What are they reading all over
the country in fiction? Brentanos
announces the following six best
sellers: Ann Vickers," by Sinclair
Lewis; Never Ask the End" bv
Isabel NJ Paterson: The Kennel
Murder Case. by S. S. Van Dine,
THE Provincial Lady in London" bv
E. NJ. Delafield; The Last Adam"
by James Gould Cozzens. and Muir
der at Monte Carlo" by E. Phillips
OppenhSjm.
''Hizzoner. the Mayor" is certainly
getting lot Of attention these days
on the screen and in books. Joel
Sayre, who wrote "Rackety Rax." a
story of a glorifled collegiate gang
ster, has just finished "Hizzoner. the
Mayor" II is another view of the
American merry go-round. John
Day, the publisher. announces.