The screen writer (Apr-Oct 1948)

HORACE MCCOY'S Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is the Number One Thriller. His first novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They1? is being reprinted by Penguin and he has signed to do six cooking essays for Esquire. Triangle is bringing out pocket editions of Val Lewton's No Bed Of Her Own and Vicki Baum's Mortgage On Life. Robert Wilder, author of Flamingo Road, has an August entry by Putnam in The Bright Feather, an historical novel concerning Osceola and the Seminole War. Millard Lampell's first novel, The Hero, is a Messner offering for late October. Hang On To Love, a play in two acts, by Lynn Riggs, has just come off the Samuel French presses. Stanley Richards will have his play, The Proud Age, tried out at Peak's Island, Maine, on August 10th, and he has just sold a one-act play, Once To Every Boy, to the Banner Play Bureau in San Francisco for publication. A short story, The Sale, by Martin Field, was featured in the July Woman's Home Companion. John Jennings, author of The Salem Frigate, which went to a printing of 80,000 copies, is on Doubleday's fall list with River To The West. This is the story of Rory O'Rourke, confidential agent to John Jacob Astor, and key figure in Astor's great bid for control of the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the 19th century. Don Stanford's story, No Imagination, appeared in the American Magazine for July. He announces a story in the August 7th issue of the Saturday Evening Post and a complete novel in the September Red Book. Harcourt, Brace & Co., have compiled The Saroyan Special, featuring the best of William Saroyan's stories. His Human Comedy sold 868,000 copies. Westward The Dream, by Frances Marion is another August publication by Doubleday. It is a novel of early California, painted on a broad canvas and covering several generations. Man's florid burial customs are the themes of two books — The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh and Abide With Me by Cedric Belfrage. The Broken Gate by Charles Grayson is also on the current "popular list." Charles Jackson's newest novel, The Outer Edges, is on the stands. It shows the psychological effect of a brutal murder upon a widely scattered group of bystanders and newspaper readers. Harper's has scheduled Betty Smith's novel, Tomorrow Will Be Better for September release. Thames Williamson uses Nero's Rome for The Gladiator, a CowardMcCann novel coming in October. Mr. Williamson has made three trips to Italy for research material. T RVING STONE turns from Vin-^-cent Gogh and Eugene Debs to Governor Earl Warren of California in his new Prentice-Hall biography. Meet Earl Warren, contracted for "on July 6th by telephone, was delivered to the publishers on August 1st for bookstore debut on August 16th. Mr. Stone completed the biography of the Republican vice presidential nominee, the first ever published, while participating in the Indiana Writers' Conference at the University of Indiana between July 19th and July 25th." Walk In Darkness by Hans Habe will be published by Putnam's in September. This novel is described as "a compassionate re-statement of the world's responsibilities toward its minorities." The Personal Book Shop in San Francisco celebrated its fifth birthday with an autograph party for Jesse Lasky, Jr.'s Spindrift, published by Prentice-Hall. Pocket Books has just reprinted Roy Huggins' The Double Take. Silent Witness, a story by Harold Goldman, will reveal the technique of a "perfect murder" in a September issue of Collier's. October will see the Random House publication of The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw. It is a story of three men at war and their fight for human dignity and decency. The Moore Company 7057-59 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood 28, California . . . Since 1921 . . . Hollywood's Leading Dry Cleaning Stylists ER MULTI-COPY SERVICE Specializing in TYPING AND MIMEOGRAPHING TREATMENTS SCREEN PLAYS MANUSCRIPTS RADIO' SCRIPTS Your Rough Draft Put in Presentation Form By Experienced Personnel Speed • Accuracy Courteous Service * 13471/2 NO. HIGHLAND AVE. HUdson 2-1341 CUSTOM TAILORED FORSTMANN Flannels, Worsteds, Gabardines $115.00 fro $135.00 4 Week Delivery (Slntpm-fers AT PARAMOUNT STUDIO — HI. 6197 COLUMBIA SQUARE — HI. 9005 HOLLYWOOD & VINE— HU. 2-9660 Free Parking The Screen Writer, August, 194 29