Variety (Mar 1935)

56 ^; 1^ t it t « A I a 17ec|ne9dair, Marcli 27« 1933 Banhino ,Fr«f Speeches . Authors Leaune haa taken up th0 ■matter of free' specch-ihaklng and public appearances by scribblers. Too many literati squawked recent^ ly tiiat they're beine; stampeded Into making appearances for free liinch^ eons wliere they can't aslc for pay because: of ; Viribus - .elements _lii-. volved, ' Leasiic Gouhell doesn't ftpfiire that" ispribblerti heed be ashamed to ask for coih, but susi'csted to m^ lasl w^jl: that there's; a.\ way out by maklriR. a rcquiBEt for a dbnatlbh to .thp- Loasue Pund in place of pay. ;. Kill Secrecy.Bijl ■ The '. Now:-. ' Y^ Senate Codes, conijuittee has klUed : the -blil. that, would have provided legal prof: tectlou ;for hewspapermeh'a -cori-. •fldehcefi. -■ ;The measure, which had the. sup- port of the.. editors in ■ the state, stipulated tha;t 'neither the pub- lisher- of ■tipewspapei^^ kn editor, reporter -or othfer newspaperman or .newspapei.v.'oman' ■ pt-, any other newspaper -employee could be com- ■pelliecF'ti") ■crrsclose fhe' sburfce' t>£ any Informa tion. The bill was sponsored by Senator Ogderi, J.; iRbSs,: Troy Dehiocrat. " Nlx Copyriflht Reyiiiioh ;Authoi-s IjeagU(B haJ3 Informed the Sopato . I'oreiBn Relations' Cb^ ""^t^e^ 'tha!t'"i t -'l^ ^uA^lterably pppdsed ■ to a. revision of the copyright Yaw ^ as di-afted W committee in :,Washihgtott. . Council of the Aiithprs League ; pointed put that If It becothes law the proposed revision will dlscrlmi- ;nate against American kuthora In lavpr of fbrelghors. .Understood the . committee Is now working on a hew draft of thft proposed Itiw in a«- cordahce .with thla criticism. Scrap Paperr Backs Another attempt to popuIarlze| the paper-bound books in this country has. failed, although lt4 .the.qpm- mohest book fprm in the vEurbpean countries. Latest to And that put Is the Na- tlpnal Homo Library Foundation, whicli has scrapped '-its Jpicket Li^ brary. AVas a series of: IC-centa paper-bound books arid similar, to its European .cbuhterparts, which sell .In grea-t quantities. -. ., • Ho\yqVer, the National Hpnie Llr brary Foundation riot giving up. the , idea of very. loWrpHced books. ,-Is planning a series ,tP be known as the National Hbine Library, to sell at' 26 cents a volume.. But will be Ploth-bound, hiehce the dimb raise in txi'lcc ov'er ■thosp of thb Jackbt Library. First Eierres in the National Home Library will consist of IS ypiumes, 12 reprints and one original work. Liboking for. tha Worst Now that the American Spectator is no more, Idea of its pet'feature, the -'worst book «f thp mpntb/. has been takbn over by. The RPcklrig HoWe, the quarterly issued by Mar- gedarit Peters. .. Peters is undertaking a: ijational contest to discover 'Americans Worst Sonnet.' Cbritest closes May atid. prizes will be a 99-year ubscrlptlpri tp the iriag. . ^ Tuppopy New Post Garden City . Publlshinff : Cp., Which is the reprint affiliate o)r DptJbleday, , Dbran, has taken Har-. mpn "rupper from P. ■ F. Collier & Son to head its iri411-prder, advpr-, tlsing department. Tupper handled book promotlpri for Collier. . '•. N. J.. Scribes' Election ; ■■■ N<jw.: jersey legist pbrre- spondents iicld: their annual busi- ness session .Thursday :'(2i), after- noon^ at the State House In Trentbn •tei*-Teteetipn^o£—plfieers^r-TT^^ tlon .of .regret was adopted -oh the dea,th oif John: Ji McDonough, for many years a correspondent for the N6wa,rk .Evening News. • \J. JPseph Gribbinsi TrentPri teb. -for the -Newark .atar/..Eagle,;; w^ hariied president; George B. Shick, of thp: Trenton "Tl^ vice-president; Chills Messerschmit^^ b^"the State Service-Bureiau.- sec^^ tary-treasurer. Chaaer Carleton Beals to Cuba. Ninth edition for 'Nijlrisky.*. ; Alfred A.' Kriopf back from Eu- rope. \ - Archibald AlacLeish has gone .brPad, • " -■ - ' ' ■■' Golf Mag Chanaaa Hand .New publishing company-formed by Alvln : E. Hewitt, B. Harrison Cassel and Henry S, : Thompson, Hewitt Publishing Co., has taken over Golf Illustrated, the monthly - ffolf -mat;.— Remalna-in- Its, former quarters, and with A. W. Tilling- hast continuing as eidltor. Asso date editora will be Cteorge Trevor, Mary B. Ford and E. H. Hehdrlck ■on* : Hewitt formerly with Conde Nast's and other mags. Cassel, a former newspaper. exec, and Thompson -prpviousiy an advertia . Ing man.' - More Contests Dpubleday, Doran has tied up on one with Haihish H{).mllton, Ltd., the British publishing house, for the best book with aviation as a theme. May be Action', biog or any other-lUerary form. Prize is |2,500 in advance foyaliy; Bbbka "niay The submitted until Dec. 31. Tale University Press will con- sider-a book of poems for Its Tale Series of Tounger.Poets. Open only tw poets under. 30, and who have, not had a bpok of poerins published be fore. Scrips may be submitted only between April 1 and May 1; No jrlza- money, -but author will get royalty on sales. Louis Zara, when not scribbling, is a linotyper. ■■' Angela, ThlrkeU la a cousin of Rudyard 'Kipling. >■ Second printing for; ■ Virginia Faulkner's 'BarbarlahB.' Rita Welman will' speech for the A,M.PA.. 'Thuraday (28). ■ . Alan -Hartj— who wrote "Doctpr Maliory,* la a medico hlmaelf. John LPhg haS" taken 'British rights to 'Dumb Bellea Lettres.' Lloyd C. Doaglaa ' due back to Massachusetts from the Coast soon. Kathleen Sprout bacic from Flor- ida,: and with a new novel under way.. ':" There-itiay be-a- new ■ drabia critic on one of the national monthlies soon. • Susan Mllea spent 14 years doing that novel, 'Blind Men Crossing a Bridge/ William Helneman will publish Louis Paul's 'Pumpkin Coach' In England Mayhe^£arclsh::-and^harles-^in'4-ai U. S. and will return to the States for riiore lectures in. May. He will stay in London for a week tP'sell the British rlghta,. of 'Jew Boy,* .which-Harpers has bought for Supplied the Art . Harold Setpn supplied the photo- grapiis for the January Harper's Bazaar, story, 'Juliets of the Past, arid is also furnishing the art for Mrs. Harry Lehr's ■ memoirs, which began in the March issue of Town and Country. All taken from his collection of photographs of play- ers and other public personages; one of the most, complete in the country. { Hoffman (fonaolidatas Mags . Lincoln Hoffman, interested in a . number of pulp maw. issued under various ' ausplcesi haa taken them under his own wing and publishing them under hla own name.' Gang • World, formerly published by Spencer Publications, renamed " Gang Magazine. Hoffman also has Greater. Western Magazine. arid Masked Rider Western^: formerly ..sponsored by. :Ranger .Pubilcatlons, and a hew one called Black Book Detective Magazine. French rights, before going to the Riviera to actually write the trebly commissioned boolc. - Confusion On Tags Some confusion resulting from the concurrent reorganization of Tomorrow, Publishers, and publica- tion plans of a new- mag to ; be called Tomorrow: Tomorrow, Publishers, Is a book ^publishihg-houser^ormant-for-some time, and now reorganized. Revived firm has taken quarters In the cfh avenue, N. T.,lhpbk ; Puh=, llshlng center and witt issue a va- ried lino of books, including flctionJ Tomorrow, the mag, ivill cover political arid social trends,. Pub- lisher is Hammond Mitchell. Pirat issue will appear next week. Mcfadden Weekly Scrams Recently-instituted ■ Maqfa ci'd eh Weekly, vvlth which Bernarr Mac- —fadden-jioped to bring hi to sway on' national events, has ceased publication. Was. published away from the Macfaddcn publications, and In charge oi a numljer of ex-Graiihic men, Including Howard A. Swain and Joseph Applegate. Liberty now remains tl\e' sole'Macfa.ddcTi mouth- piece. .■■•■■■,'■''■■•■.'■;;;■"■.■■ r On Rsadin' 'h' Writin' New educational publishing con cerh called the Empire State Pub lishing Co. haa been organized by Glendale O. Scott. . Empire has taken quarters with David Kemp, the book publisher No connection between the two other than the. office- sharing at' rangement. Guild's Double Toms. Literary Guild will publish two books In one for its May selection. Books are 'Not for Heaven,' by Dorothy McCleary, and 'Hungry Men,' by Edward Anderson. Both won the Doubleday-Doran Story Magazine contest and are being published by D-D separately. . Contest was for former cpntrlbu tors to the mag who offered first novels ifor publication. Louis Wiley Dead Louis Wiley, 65, for many years business manager of: the N.. T. Times,. died March 20, following an operation.. He had been with the Times for abo\it 40 .years, com ing from a Rochester paper on whic h he h ad- worked up from re porter to business manager Wiley inaugurated on the Tiriles the policy of refusing advertising of questionable—reHabllityr~~aMd^'^hff largely .built the Times advertising on the strength of this atahd, which has rigorously been maintained. To be in the Times is a cachet of re has rigorously been maintained Funeral services . In Temple ISmanu'-el were attended by most of the newspaper notables, as well as by scores of distinguished New Yorkers. Wiley was widely known Liepman's Book Heinz Liepman is back in Lon dou affei ' glvliiB CO-lectures-lp-Hbe I '6ailor-Town;i'-before it will appear solving have formed a partnership for p.a. work. Paul Hervey Fox, fllni acenarist, got British publication for hla novel. here. The Aleya, Maxwell and Ruth, continue to eritertain for more of the literati than any others in town. America; " Then to Parla to ^eir -Helen -Ahem, former publicist, makes her bow ait a novelist with 'Love Must Be Gay* through Ma caulay. . Diitton has acquired the American pubUcatloh rights to Jessie Con rad's biog of her husband, Joseph Conrad Clemerice Dane, dramatist, will have a book of short stories pub Itshed by Doubleday-Doran this spring.. John Steinbeck has sent his pub- lisher the script of a ne^v novel be for the previous one could get oft the press. Stephen Leacock la now to tell alL The humorist has .written book called 'Humor: Ita Theory and Technique.'. Henry Goddard Leach, who is president of the Poetry ■ Society .of America, joins Forum Magazine as poetry editor Raymond Gram Swing; who writes on. Washington for the Nation, do ing. a. book, oil American politlca for Julian Messner. Mrs. Belloc Lowndes to come over next month, coincident with the publication of her new novel, "Who Ridea on a Tiger.' Gotham Book Mart says current publications aren*t selling very well now, but the market In' flrst editions is unusually snappy. Joan Lowell, authoress and globe _t.riitte.r.,_l»,_n.pjK-.asaQciatfid_wlth_lhe General Press Bureau, ^ill do fea tures pn shipping and travel news .High for .a book writ er's output 'in a dingle seaiaoh is that of "Paul Elnzlg. Macinlllan has four of his books skedded for spring, publica- tion. George Crbnyn, who quit as busi- ness manager of Story,, the mag, to devote himself to .scribbling, has completed; a new" jiTover irid sold it to Covici, Friede. Frank Sctilly celebrated St. Pat rick's Day in Berkeley, Cal., by ne;\v»paper^relesf7arid-|-gat-herinjr—George—^okolakyr—Jinr- was highly regarded His funeral services Iri Tempi Emanu-el were attend by most of the newspaper notables, as well as by scores of distinguished iri other walks, of life. The dead man had made him self som cthlng more than merely the buslri'p.vg .mariager of a newspaper. TuUy, Mannle SefT, Morrip Rysklnd and Arthur Ripley together for 'a gabfest Author of 'The Brain Trust Mur- der,' listed simply as Diplomat, is really Jay Franklin Carter. And the real name of Richard Kevertie, au thbr of 'He Laughed at Murder,' Is Clifford J. Hasken. Best Sellers .' Best Ssllers for the Week ending March 29, «■ roportsd by the Arifioriean Newa Co.* Ine. ^ - Fiction ■ ■ 'Green Light' (|2.E0) . i...........By Lloyd C. Douglaa- •Of.Time and-Kiver* ($3.06) «....,.>»...i• ♦..*.By Thomas Wolfe 'Come and Get It' ($2.60) ................. .By Edna Forber •A House DlyldedV ($2.50) .......By Pearl S. Buck fHeaveri's Sly Destinatipn*. ($2i6p) .....,.i...By Thornton Wilder 'Forty Days of Musa Dagh' ($3.00,) , By Franz Werf el .■v;-.Nori-Fiction '. 'Personal History*. ($3,00)...................... ...Vincent Sbeean. ••Francis the First' ($3.00) ..................;,. .By Frances Hackett 'Skin Deep' ($2.00) ,......'........<...... ^........ By M. C. Phlllipa 'While Rome Burns' ($2.75) ;...............By Alexa.hder,yrbollcbtt 'Robert E. Lee (Vols. 8 and 4) ($7.50 per set) By Douglas S. Freeman 'Rats, Lice and History' ($2.76) ........By Hans Zlssner Book Reviews Faulkner's Excitement Probably no one writing in Eng- lish can get such a definite quality Pf excitement" and" Sheer terrer Into his books aa does William Faulk- ner. His newest .book "Pylon' (Smith and .Haas; $2,60), is, frbni that standpoint, his beat yet. It is strorigi powerfuL 'Pylon' ia an aviation ■ story and- Is away from Faulkner's usual haunts in the Tennessee mountains. Tells of the life of aT liohdeSTsrlpt group of air carnival followers and what happened to them. Some of it is difncult to follow and,, scraped off,' most of It Is not aa astonishing as it. flrst seems, nor so shocking, but the' manner of telling makes every page chill-tingling. ; If the Hays' riaoral code can be pacified it should make a. strong film. ■ .^-■.■^ ■ ■'■ Biiih'a Soliloquy Tom Kromer is understood to have written his book "Waiting for Nothing* (Knopf ; $2) on scraps of paper, backs of envelopes, etc., while hanging around mission flop houses and parks. . It reads very much aa though It may be true. It's -ob servation: and writing. of a nobe' too happy portion of life. ;.■ No sentimentality here, Just the blank facts of life as a bum flnda themr--He--triea--to-stage a holdrup and haan't nerve enough to carry it through. He tries to kill a man but flops. Most of the time all be has energy -enough to do Is ask for ia handout arid figure'how to make the best pf it when he does get a dlriie or a quarter. Not for fllms.' Parade of Wisecracks Virginia Faulkner la a young woinah,\ very y'pung^ crashed through with a first novel, 'Friends and Romans,' which igot considerable chatter. Now here's her second bopk, 'The Barbarians' (Simon & Schuster; $2), which sounds very much like, it was writr < ten first. Has the same set of char- acters, though a completely sepa- r ate novel ai>d Id. .no way a sequel. . 3iiBS Faulkner is a sort of female Carl Van Vechten. She loves wlse- creicks and her bpok la - so over- crowded with epigrams that there is very little real life or honest o b- servatloh. Such books make pleasant light reading for: a while, but are likely to annoy if read conslBtently. And. yet- she does . know her Latin Quarter In Patis' and som*'i>t the inhabitants, Not foir films," " Out of the But Somewhat out of the rut Is 'Walls Against the Wind,' (Hough- ton-Mlftlin; $2)1 In which Frances Park tella the story of three Ariierl- cans In Pairis. Novelty is that the riomlrial heroine haa to fight a de- generate for her beat beloved, but she gets him, thpugh she loses his sister to a Don Juan. Interestingly told, but somehow It's heavy read Ing Not a picture. - ; Omnibiis. of Crime Some years ago, when James Hil tori was just a novelist trying to get along, he wrote a whodunit un der the pseudonym of Glen Trevor. Now he has two books on all best seller lists, so Harper's digs up 'Was It Murder?' (Harpers; $2), and re publishes It under Hilton's real monicker. As far aa Hilton'a fame and name ia concerned. It might as well have'remained under wraipa. As far as the pocketbook ia concerned, it's a smart move. It's Just a roa tine murder mystery yarn, but as good aiB most of the author's and has the advantage of name author pull now. Not for films. Two current releases prove what a strange thing is co-incident Same plot in both, although both 'oh dif- ferent lists, by different authors and (Crime Club; $2), arid. 'Death Fol lows: a Formula,' by Newton. Qayle (Scrlbnera; $2). In both there la an Inventor who has discovered a substitute for gasoline. In both the inventor is. killed and. the formula -Stolen... Jn.,bolh-.anjnfluentldLpuh 11c man Is involved. In both there are- Interhatlpnal complications. Both make fairly exciting reading. Neither has the makings of a film. -^Fi rea at F itchVFolly $2), by Kenneth Whipple, Is a bit oft' the beaten track. It has sev eral new tangents and some fine ideas. ■ Unfortunately, it is pretty obvious almost from the beginning who is the culprit but nevertheless exciting. Could b»: tutved Into ..a film, but would , have to be tightened up som*. Missionary Work It would seerin that Marguerite Moores Marshall Is trying to do for New Hampshire what the Teariier" novels of Joseph C. Lincoln did for Cape Cod. Her 'Salt of the Earth?': (Doubleday-Dpran; $2) is laid In Belltowh, where her earjier 'Npno But; the Brave' was located. -But-It'a .not a sequel. • A few characters from the earlier work reappear, but they do. not figure proriilnently :ln"the affairs bf- Mlrffi Dakle," a : young '• adolescent who' makes rather a mess of her affairs for a.'time but who comes through all' right In the end; The author captures the spirit of the New Eng- land town and makes her people real—and Interesting^ Vivid Westerns Those who like an oocaslohal western: to vary their steady diet of whodunits V 111 appreciate Will Jenkins' 'Kid Deputy' (King; $2). The youngster who gives title to the yarn Is almost unbelievably aiidacl- ous, biit he's Vivid and active ] and Jenkins has spun a lot of compli- cations without getting the threads knotted^ And It's off the beaten track; a group of outlaw hlghgrad- ers who headquarter in an aban- doned mine with a lovely girl for a prisoner. - Capitol Hill Mrs. Isa Glenn's newest booic 'The Little Candle's Beam' (Doubleday, Doran; $2.60), .has ■ its locale ..in Washington circles and offers for protagonist the widow of a minor diplomatic officer, who's dominated by her small son.. Kid keeps her from a second marriage and gen- erally glims up her life. ' 'The Bonus Drive Is used to Jazz things up a bit, but, in spite of clever character drawing, the book holds but limited interest. Not for filming. .:. fluelaihsd'Tempo : Frank Spearman starts his "Gun- look Ranch' (Doubleday-Doran; $2) at express speed with a; vivid pic- ture of a rodeo. From there on he handled-difterentlyrriTust mn-^ci'r-l^bWs-hls-pgce .. f or more'^han-tOO— (lent, one of those accidents that drive editors . gray. Books are j]3ctfihjeji:jtiao,jeme/-Jiy^^^ pages without pause for breath. Well knitted plot, not original, but Idl^ moments for those who like westerns. Casty and How (Continued from page i) of Hitler, Stalin, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce: and Musso-: linl. But, as held, down by Mies: "Townsend's script, these boys are. ly walkthroughs. '~~ Miss, Townsend registered her play by; process of filing an affida-vit of authorship with the> Secretary of State. Such , registration lays a foupdatlPn for civil suits If any ..stu- dio should want the Idea ifpr pic- tures. Miss Towntiehd' want's 'to thoroughly protect the Great Am**'-" lean Drama. Ci^'