davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-29

clothes and things, Gayle thought
of a million dangers or embarrass-
ments which she would ultimately
face. She wanted to talk over
things carefully with this amazing
Bill Bailey who had CHANGED along.
But, in the car, Bill was in no
mood for business at the moment.
Great business, Gayle!" he
spoke expansively. rags to riches
in three short hours. 10-cent bus
ride out, a $40 limousine ride
back. Wait till I get my"
"Hush, Bill! We still have plan
ming to do"
"Sure! But don't you want your
mother to see you drive up in
this car? It's half a block long.
With a chauffeur. l bet a red hat
he pops out to open the door,"
Bill won his hat, fguratively.
The w~ell-trained Mortified
chauffeur not only got out to open
the door, he also waited respect
fully to carry Gayle's bags when
they should be ready. But Gayle
knew she would be quite a while.
There was mother to tell, packing
to do, thinking to do. She sent
the a on with Bill, who admitted
ly could pack more rapidly.
"Pick you up in an hour" Bill
said in departing. 3
Still in a veritable daze, Gayle
spent 20 minutes trying to make
the matter clear to Mrs. Dixon.
She talked incoherently, excitedly.
If she wasn't very lucid it was be-
cause she didn't yet know much
about her strange new job herself.
Il don't understand it, honey
Mrs. Dixon finally said, but
if your good judgment says it's all
right, why then"
"Oh, mother, it is! Mr.. Merri-
field is grand, really. And I'll be
off your hands-no expense to you
and if 1 make good I'll have"
rs the young man attractive?"
Yes! I'll ask him in to meet
you when he comes back for me-"
mo, no, dear. I mean the grand
son. The n you r to draw out,
or whatever. You must be ever so
kind to him for Mr.. Merrifield's
sake. but 1 couldn't let you become
Evening star., 1940-09-15

stories with swing to them, such as
"Rabble in Arms" which tells of
Benedict Arnold and Burgoyne.
There are also true stories by and
about men whose lives are more
unbelievably exciting and exotic
than and novel. The British Army
officer Yeats-Brown, in his auto
biography, Lives Of a Bengal
Lancer" tells his store of polo.
pig-sticking and Yoga with both
calmness and dash. In reading
Bruce Lockhart's British Agent, "
one is reminded of Kipling's line
II you can keep your head when all
about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on
For in his account of his life in
Russia during the revolution. one
sees him with the world tumbling
about his ears and still with his
diplomatic calm. Two stories of
German dare-devils are Gibbon' S
Red Knight of Germany" and
Lowell Thomas Count Luckner,
Sea-Devil.' Ellsbergs Men Under
the Sea" is a first-hand story of
deep-sea divers. And. finally, there
is one of the most fabulous heroes
of our age. Lawrence of Arabia. His
Revolt in the Desert" tells of a
man who accomplished the impos-
sible: Lawrence, an infdel, lived as
blood brother with the chieftains Of
Arabia and helped hold the East for
England.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Stories of Adventure Are
Commended by Library

To the young, adventure is the
salt of life, adventure either in
actuality or in books. Now that
the school year is getting under way
and classroom routine is replacing
summer freedom, there is both
solace and instruction to be found
in books. The Public Library,
Eighth and X streets NV, and
it's branches offer adventure stories
both true and f1ctional, full of thrills
and color.
In fiction, some of the most ex-
citing stories are the now almost
classic ones. Sir Haggard's She" and
King Solomons Mines" along with
Rafau Sabatini's "Scaramouche" and
The Sea Hawk" can thrill even the
most phlegmatic young reader. John
Buchan has created a hero who is
glamorous, courageous and capable
in the person of Richard Hannay, a
gentleman spy during the World
War The four books in which he
chiefly figures are The Thirty
nine Steps," "Greenmantle, Mr..
Standfast" and The Three Hos
tages." Daphne Du Maurier has
written a thriller which borders on
the supernatural in her Jamaica
Inn"
For those who prefer robust stories
of our own America, there are the
Westerns of Zane Grey, notably
THE U. p Trail" which takes place
in the days of the building of the
transcontinental railroad; and then
there is Kenneth Roberts, who writes
Evening star., 1940-09-15

By iward ShankS. NeU York: Doubleday Dordn.
critical
which the Kpng a
and with emotion rather with
for picked present with determination
fairly also the began
pulling of that shopworn mpeisc stuff would
That the Kpng always affected his
writing
shall neSs body simply
who
10
touched writing implement (And souch
eiher) So there!
Well. Shank has proper attitude He
not?Kphng faults
cynical admits all
edtha incidents really
utterly the idea Kpngs imperialism
family similar that Of the dctators he sdas
realism
British influence
the Kplrg with
paint what inside And
who has his works knows lay
e praised.
This Mr. Shanks point of dealing with his political ideas
he kplng advanced thinker
of his times He writing
empire whole ntoxication
knew says Shanks
English
before 1914
And after that shank plng attitude
1914 his heavier
not destroyed he older but became of
painting
thing
his laborS
Mr. Shank simply all this by letter and chapter 1t did
need proving but is good that the proof done NC
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Witchcroft
Bu William Seabrook. Ne1D
York: Hdrcourt, Brace.

BIZ William Seabrook. Ne1D
York: Harcourt, Brace.
Back in the '2Os Mr.. Seabrook per-
formed the service for American let
ters of making the confession story
an art. He perceived, as most OF the
practitioners of the form apparently
never had, that in order to make a
confession interesting, you must have
done something worth confessing In
the first place. And so he went forth
to the strange places of the earth and
engaged there in strange doings.
He went to Africa and joined the
cannibals at table, the chief meat
dish being, as he records. "stewed
young man" He Went to Haiti and
got himself initiated with curious
rites into the priesthood OF voodoo.
He did still other things OF a like
esoteric nature, and after each per-
formance he wrote book. And 10,
the public loved it. There never was,
in the public's estimation, such de-
lightful, delicious. shocking fellow as
MI. SCdUTOOk. I Uu WCIC ouAC, wAASA
you bought a book with his name
on it, that you were going to get
something to make your hair stand
right up on end.
And then Mr.. Seabrook had an
other experience, and this was one
which he did not 60 forth to seek.
He found himself i'll Of alcoholism
and not getting any better. He put
himself voluntarily in hospital for
the mentally i'll and remained there,
If the reviewers memory serves, for
two years. When he emerged, he
indefatigably wrote another per-
sonal confession, Asylum" which
was certainly the best thing he has
done to date. But with that behind
him, he felt, apparently, that he was
through with making confessions,
and he gave his gifted pen to work
of the kind then most approved in
the literary fashions sociological
study called These Foreigners"
Alas, 1t was not Q very good book. It
Evening star., 1940-09-15
The Dream We Lost: Soviet Russia Then and Now
BIZ Freda Utley. Ne1U York: John Day.


of personal dsilusonment. sensitive
intelligent Uley thought the
fmen ageong struggle freedom and
the British Communist She Russia
the ideal before ruthless dictatorship the world known
including the famine of the
delusion
before the Ogu struck her home she began
that fed clothed the
She found equality of opportunity in the supposedly Socialist paradise
Millions housed little
while Others could weede favor privilege lived comparative
luxury So disappointing her experience that she transferred
her membership to the Communist in Russia.
Stain the author blames the breakdown of the workers
though followed inevitably
premise which he started and that Lnn Toky probably could
better Stain has dvesed Socialism of its
nobility
social order than the capitalist
Ogpu arrested husband Without trial formal
Arctic
Now that hope her husband she tells
interesting part
life the Russian Likewise interesting noma-
living
and dangers OF Communism CECIL
Evening star., 1940-09-15

To be sure, Mr.. Seabrook keeps up
his claim to have made a real study
pretty presentably. He has an ap-
pendix, for one thing-and what
gives book a serious tone so well
as a good appendix, full of support
ing statements? The large part of
the material, however, comes ad-
mittedly out of Mr.. Seabrook's per-
sonal experience, and, by its nature,
the persons involved must be anony-
nous. And so when he tells us
that he knew Russian lady who,
under certain conditions, reverted
to animalism and tried to bite her
friends, we just have his word for
it. Similarly when he assures us,
with perfectly dead pan, that he
used to hang a sweetheart up by her
wrists for as long as four hours at
a time in order to see If in exhaus-
ture events, and that she just loved
the exercise, we turn to the appen-
dix in vain for corroboration. And
there is lot more of it presented
in the same manner. But, no
matter how preposterous the stuff,
it is all presented with a most dis
arming manner of detached SCI
entific interest in an important as
pect of human life.
The reviewer, as said, does not
60 for it exactly 100 per cent. It
seems to her that Mr.. Seabrook
has made a grab into the past for
a kind of thing which was once
popular, and that he has either
underrated public credulity to a
serious degree or else decided on
general principles to step up the
dose. The most one can say Is that
nine-tenths of his book is such
stuff as makes the horror maga.
zines sell, and that the slender
thread Of scientific interest which
makes up the other tenth is not
sufncient justification. 1t is hard
to hit O book by a man of Mr.. Sea-
brooks past brilliance, but he has
certainly put himself in the way
Of It. NC. r.
Evening star., 1940-09-15

proving of his arbitrary PROPOSE
ton a mind and talent we'll above
the ordinary. In respect for that
talent We can only consider his
story as he asks us to-that Is, as
the typical conduct Of the male and
female of our species viewed as
generalities.
This makes it necessary to ask
if his archtypal man and woman
are true presentations. And there,
1t would seem, lies the weakness
of his literary structure. For he
has made Costals an artist, and
the artist is certainly not the type
of the race but, male or female, Is,
on the contrary. the extreme indi-
vidualist. Solange, on the other
hand, has been drawn as a COM
plete bourgeoisie-dull. materialistic,
sentimental, calculating, devoid Of
culture and ignorant of all the
world except her own petty circle.
She is a fine picture of her class
one can admit that. But in max
ing her so perfect class creature
NJ. de Montherlant has fallen
away from his purpose Of max
ing her a typical woman. She Is
vastly more middle class than femi-
nine. We are forced, then, to con-
clude that the book would tell us
that the artistic-creative- genius
of the race is typically male, while
the antithesis of that genius is
typically female This obviously
can be left to its own merit. as can
all huge generalities too large to be
proven.
The memorable thing about the
book, however. is the downright
rage in which it obviously has been
written. 1t is document of woman
hatred or woman fear-one hesi-
tates to say which. Perhaps, after
all, the two are synonymous. The
work repeats itself uncountable
times on every point of woman's
despicableness. And the freshness
of its emotion does not flag with
the repetitions, either. One Won
ders If M. de Montherlant ever
heard of Shakespeare queen. who
said; The lady doth protest too
much"
Evening star., 1940-09-15
The Defenders
By Franz Hoellering. Bosto
Little, BrOlCn.

LtLtLC, of OOts
The world has been waiting for
some six years now for a fiction
writer to put into masterful transla-
ton the terror that map-changer
Adolf Hitler has wrought in the
hearts Of the people Of Europe With
the terrible physical and emotional
upheavals which have attended the
Fuehrer's reign. one would suppose
that truly great novels would not
have been long in coming out of the
Old World.
Oddly enough. first-class express
sion in fiction has not yet been
found. The reviewer had hoped
that The Defenders" by former
Austrian newspaperman. would be
the first such novel, but he was
disappointed.
The book is the story of the dying
days of Vienna and the whole of
Austria which began in 1884.
Throughout its nearly 500 pages, the
death gasps of a nation are pre-
sented by the medium of the in
dividual lives of a host of charac-
ters. in varying walks and stations
of life, who dwelt in Vienna.
On the whole. however, Mr.. Hoel-
lering has not given us any greater
insight into the terrible days of
Vienna than other writings. fiction
and Journalistic, already have re-
vealed. Perhaps it is because he
has attempted to paint too vast a
picture of people and incidents, and
has sacrificed the power which comes
with singleneSs and simplicity.
Comparisons admittedly should be
avoided, but this novel impressed the
reviewer as being Tolstoi type work
in subject-matter and treatment
which, however, lacked the Tolstoi
touch. A. A. HOEHLING.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
CostoIs and the Hippogriff

By Henry Montheant Translated from the French by John
Rodker. Ne10 York: Alfred A. Knopf.
as of the
of clinical literary You simply
perfect of the last two lines OF
rhyme
And he UondrouS
He jumped into q brdnble bush
both
And Uhen he his out
With all his might and MAN,
jumped another
To scratch them
Monhernts eyes to have
been scratched particular subject and in his book he apparently
creative fury possesses.
The subject in question the neroy OF woman to man. That
M de Montherlants of view selfeviden
established of but provide fresh proof OF
Nevertheless the has felt write furious book
pages himself his
the effect of arguing point in which he
finds 1t necessary to believe
Characters Are
Humanity.
ostensibly Montherlans
on It's two characters not meant be human beings In me
sne of I h M m = hs scton ina
the contained question Shall Coa marry Soange?
sordidne disturb
reader who will of keep firmly in mind that the conduct
which witnessing the conduct Of two individuals
sedung Solange heretofore
with the world She allows the seduction
told because offers her only hope of eventually marrying him. Once
mistress begins drive him
toward being in his mind monster the Hippo
Grif. A tortuous pursuit takes place.
withdrawal tries pining
everything which the author evidently wishes
neither self
opportunities He finally his flight M de Month
eant Costa while believe
In Solange tells her of the
disease she him oohe his approaching
his fear Of horrible end the marriage
Ten he discovers that he does not have after all
movement that is all there is
the point which critic must make IN relation to the thing Is
that de Monhernt writer Of some genius He brings the
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Brief Reviews


THE SNATCH. BY R. L. Goldman.
New York: Coward, McCann.
The young reporter solves another,
this time crime involving a movie
star; Hollywood thrown in for good
measure.
B AS IN BANsHEE. BY Lawrence
Treat. New York: Duell, Sloan
g. Pearce.
Murder at a Fourth Of July cele-
bration, when giant Roman candle
turns out to have been a man.
Lively thriller.
GLASS TRIANGLE. BY George
Harmon Coke. New York: Knopf
Another newspaper man - this
time a photographer-solves another
crime involving movie people. Still,
not bad.
MURDER WITHOUT MAKEUP.
BY Edle Benjamin. New York !:
Random House
Murder at a Br ,adway first night,
involving practically all the props.
And not bad, either.
DEATH RIDES THE PECOS. BY
David Dresser. New York: Nor
row.
Western thriller complicated by
crime. Average.
ACCOUNT RENDERED. BY Pa
tricia Wentworth. Philadelphia ::
Lippincott.
Murder involving jewels: scene. an
English village. love story accom-
paniment. Dullish.
THE CORPSE GROWS A BEARD.
BY Margaret Scherf New York:
Putnams
Murder of the old-fashioned sort.
good and CORY. Smart aleck style Of
writing.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Best Sellers

The following list of best
sellers is compiled weekly from
information obtained in WASH
ington by The Star an1 In New
York, Boston. Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
STARS on the Sea-" F. Van
Wyck Mason: How Green Was
My Valley" Richard Llewellyn;
The Beloved Returns" Thom-
as Mann; ITO the Indies" c. S.
Forester; worlds End" Upton
Sinclair; THE Mixture as Be-
fore" w. Somerset Maugham;
Might in Bombay" Louis
Bromf1eld; Quietly My Cap
tain Waits" Evelyn Eaton:
Tree of Liberty" Elizabeth
Page; Kings Row." Henry
Bellamann.
Non-Fiction.
Mrs. Miniver," Jan Struther;
New England: Indian Sum-
mer," Van Wyck Brooks;
Country Squire in the White
House." John T. Flynn: LAS I
Remember Him." Hans Zins-
ser; Country Editor" Henry
Beetle Hough; Bet It's a Boy"
Betty Bacon Blunt. They
Wanted War" Otto D. Tolls
chus: why England Slept"
John F. Kennedy: This Is
Wendell Willkie," Wendell Will
kie; Richard Halliburton" his
life story In letters.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Seabrook Examines Modern Witches and Their Ways

practice of witchcraft in the world
today-for, says Mr.. Seabrook, over
half the population still believes in
witches and not small proportion
still practices the black art. So,
under nice, scientific looking head
ings, he takes up the various kinds
of witchcraf1ng which he has found
to be modernly extant-sympathetic
magic, werewolfing, vampiring, fu-
ture gazing, spell oas;lng and yet
other dire forbidden practices. You
can take it or leave it-and. per-
sonally, the reviewer leaves it with
q big [
Evening star., 1940-09-15

was full of information, and it was,
no doubt, quite accurate, but it was
was just not Mr.. Seabrook's style.
The old shine which used to make
his most appalling revelations ac-
ceptable to little groups of serious
thinkers all over the country simply
was not there. And Mr.. Seabrook
apparently saw the writing on the
wall. For, in his present offering,
he has gone back to shocking and, to
some degree at least, to making per-
sonal confessions.
He gives us here what purports to
be a serious study of the extent and
Evening star., 1940-09-15
The Literary WodReews of Current Publications Various Fields
D. C. Woman Shows Skill
At Character Portrayal
In Novel of Old South
Leila Warren's Story of Life
In Alabama Is Worthy of
Her IL Years of Effort
By Edvin Tribble
By Edwin Tribble
Stone

BY Leila Warren New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
long Old South Washington
a a
careful
and the thoughtful ure writing that Its IL the making
would indicate.
history left security
South Carolina the 1820 home the Indian
family Yarbrough
had solid qualities
practical but he also Gda appreciated his
him reality;
happiness the
brought difficulties lives
ALL them
booded
est widest emotions Of which could interpreted ngent
only after
parts Of this
almost unbievaby due novel, Indeed plots
big and little
cerda friendly face full
daughter who condemned others lightly
without She that could emotional
end hers the that
all but defeated the end of the civil
Lucinda by far the vital Of Miss
Gerdas
adrot
happier spin
sers LucdS second husband Dany appealing fge-a
In the telling OF long Foundation Stone"
fiction employed
purely meodamatic and that merely tender and telling
They all handled eXperty.
There much fine detailed description plantation Funda
Stone
of the times 1t has bgness beyond physical
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Thurman Arnold Examines
Antitrust Law in Relation
To Business Situation
Sherman Act Is Defended by
Assistant Attorney General;
Greater Use Promised
BottIeneeks of Business
By Mary.Carter Roberts.

Attorney General of the United States in this book
question which has
Roosevelt administration That question is
relied on hastily devised emergency legislation combat
Ills when there time
remedial designed
be the Sherman Antitrust
strengthened amendments several times Its specific
pointed
has INVOKED dns his A' up 10 '
thorough he he
of business What amounts to sturdy defense the act
Certainly this impressive position taken of Mr.
Dese s es man CONSIDERED TO be one the foremost Ne"
Ms,, ,sss' fsoso%;e esss ,o5 u,
Taking up question why
seh M spRhea he'd during @ the % M Mr. points
5 ns @ s the % rG shf Dn the G
Justice which is the mpentng body Of the act has been under
division
fs'a
snd which have
provisions the criminal actions which might have been brought by
the antitrust have & failed to develop simply because @ men and
Our great difficulty he says the distribution the
sf Tse asss IN @ Rns @ 4as
profits expense fair competition BY
invoking the Sherman Act the Government break such combinations
up and trade moving freely again so he
Every Results Favorably
number where this has occurred M they %
with direct benefit the Milk dealers automobile manu-
makers optical instruments makers glassware still
antitrust months tells
simple Mr. Arnold Let all combinations re-
consumer Will achieve
standard OF purchasing Of goods which means
Will soon be mere II connrmaon OF
but wonder the of
entirely ASSOCIATED from Mr.
Roosevels desire to be elected for a third term
significant
Act
of trust busting when the typical aevoent business combination
thought of of sentimental attitude toward the
he continues has prevented Americans from calling
his
combination whether free
criterion that efficiency service.
in Doubt
Have Been Clarified
the suddenly activity of anti
1910 clarified number
follows
decision that agricultural products exempt from the
Sherman Act
organization patent
n destroy fair competition.
decision that fixing be justified when nterferes
competition.
organizations from the
the
and according like light
of Justice
he points that this instance where Government ap
preparation itself.
highly Informative
political
Costos and the HippogriH
Henry Monerlan Translated from the French by John
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-11-28
MOVIE NEWS
Previews of Features
At Both Theatres . /.
MAIN STREET THEATRE

Revealing the entire story of the
thrilling drama Of oil for the first
time, with story that Is entirely
one Of action and with a star group
that includes Clark Gable, Spencer
Tracy, Claudette Colbert and Hedy
Lamar, Boom Town" will open at
the Main Street Theatre next Sun
day for an engagement Of three
days.
Boom Town" is a cavalcade of
oildom as "Test Pilot" covered the
dramatic story Of testing thrills in
the skies. 1t is. a dramatic story of
two friends who carry on through
reversals and successes even when
one marries the sweetheart Of the
other. The friendship breaks dra-
matically and is renewed just as
dramatically when the unmarried
friend breaks up an affair between
his former sweetheart's husband
and an adventures.
Through this story run scenes
of roaring gushers, flaming oil
fires whitfield out with TINT, Bills
tering fist fights, head-first dive
into a street Of mud to escape a
rain of bullets, the hero on a buck
ing mule, a thrilling hold-up, a
scrap between two dance hall girls
and thousands Of other fast-action
sequences.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-11-28
PAGE THREE

County Historical Society, has is
sued call for the society's annual
meeting for Saturday afternoon,
November 30, at three o'clock. This
meeting will be held in Teachers
College auditorium, st. Cloud.
Main feature of this meeting will
be an illustrated talk entitled: "A
Ramble Through Minnesota His
tory" by w. M. Babcock, curator
Of the State Historical Society and
Museum. This lecture will be en-
HANGED by lantern slides. There
will also be comments by Mr.. Pet
erson, curator Of the st. Cloud
museum, and Ed Stockinger, secre-
tary Of the st. Cloud Chamber Of
Commerce. There will also be cleo
ton of officers.
All interested in preserving the
history Of our county are welcome,
whether members of the society or
not.