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Av 18 DAILY NEWS. Lm Aageles MIDAT JUNE 12. IfS) a J'w I' A91 JLl 1 Books in tlie News: five collections of jstoric edited Charles I. Gllckaberg of the country, but the people who Inhabit It or did, such as Tamarack Jack, one of the best freighters of the old West, who caught hit teams straight -out of the wild brush on the range, The only book that sella less than a book of poems, according to those who keep track of such -matter -Is- -book of short, stories. Some years youll find that lts he tf?" iJJJJJJ: York, as well as sketches, poet-but whether last or Just runner.

gIMj ita from novels In up they're still poison. uroeress. PwP1 hminioVood11 There's IL ctlIed 4Tn Bells bad or Woke" 13.50), seem to matter. Between covers, experts dont seem the answer, least of au the to matter. however; they'll not.

Tne by and Brom Weber (Dial: $1), Is a collection of short stories by young writers from the Writers TWorkshop Of the-New School for Social Research In New which has in It some of the best tutf gbout ind Ur- rounding country you are ever, apt to read," And not only the feel and look which fhowqh concerned, Will Month of May sees bigger and better murders says critic 1 hushes the best yet under the pall of murder. "Murder Must Waif (Crime publishers, which probably explains why it is that season after season they hopefully publish a few books1 of short stories. This year they hvt been more wiSf1.1 them' good and some excellent uDD senuuEKa a lot of the territory of the first book, the phonies of Hollywood, plus several dozen phonies from -other sections of the country whom he has recently, corraled. His effects are sometimes obvl-ously arrived at, but the best have bite and pace and originality. American Short Stories," edited by A.

Grove Day (McGraw-Hill: $150) Is one mans Idea of the best since Hawthorne and Poe, Including Thurber, Steinbeck, Faulkner and a few surprises. Daphne Du Maurier Is represented by "Klss Me Again, Stranger" (Doubleday: $350), which Just to cross up the theory is a national best-seller. Written In style that made "Rebecca" and "My Cousin Rachel quick and eerie reading, these eight stories deal with various and -brfke. them work dragging them into harness. Jack wore a blacksnake whip around his neck, but it was only a badge 'of office; he -never whipped his their gaits required correction, hf simply threw, rocks at.

them, being so accomplished that he Could hit as many as three with one1 rock. 1 problem posed Inspector Bony In another of the grea Australian mystery writers stories, backed with aboriginal culture and mores. since By FAITH HOLMES HYERS THE DARK ANGEL By Mika Waltari. Putnam: $3.75. -A strangely, fascinating; tale of doom, end the death of a civilization which had endured for 1000 years, la told In a skillful, complex pattern by Mika 'Waltari, noted Finnish author of "The Egyptian and "The Vn-deret This vivid, dramatic portrayal 'Ushers on the 500th anniversary of this event Is given through the dluy of the mysterious, erudite and much traveled John Angelos also known aa Jean Ange and "the Dark AngeL" Not up- til tho final scene la the "true identity of John Angelos Alfred Noyes i By RICHARD ARMOUR TWO WORLDS FOR MEMORY.

By Alfred Noyes. Llpplncott: -15. The two- worlds of Alfred Noyes, the widely-read English -poet; are England and -America, In which he has divided a life now hi Its 73rd yearrThe-mem- ory, to which he also of English 1 mt Ur. 'Armour Ui fust published cocktytd history of America edited "It AU Blorltd With Columbus.) In the title of his autobiography. Is a long and retentive one, stretching back to a golden boy-, hood In England, the compod-tlon of his first youthful poems, and a dinner, as a young man, with 1 Swinburne and Watta-Dunton.

HIS FRIENDS, among, writ-; ers and statesmen and scien-. tlsts and religious leaders make an Imposing list which runs from Barrie to J. B. from Thomas Hardy TUrks converge upon the city to Alice Meynell from Dean from- sea and land, 100,000 Inge to Frank Capra and Charles May developed as ipirblf trtttr the field publishing therein. The leaders In order publics-' tlon Include: "The Scarlet (Little Brown), Ellery Queen; Ellerys attempts to prevent a wifes murder take him from Battery to Bronx following guide book clues; topnotch Queen.

"THE CAVALIERS CUPT-(Morrow), Carter Dickson; IL the "Old Man," engages In a country house locked room game, with British vs. American pointed commentary enhancing the story." The Corpse Who Had Too Many Friends" (Simon and Schuster," Hampton Stone; a more recent name man who rates with the best, writes another of his unbeatable New York yarns, this concerning, murder at a bank employes an-nual celebration. "One Night With Nora" (Dodd Usual, wht with Shayna framed Jophln. Mlaa TOa last book, published noathumously. will be treated posthumously, will be treated 4 separately at a future day; suffice to say it Is as fine ss any Tey, th story telling of an Inspectors curiosity about a young mans accidental death.

"The Frightened Wife (Rinehart), Mary Roberta Rinehart; collection of short and long storlea with Mrs. Rineharts enviable gift of showing normal deereea of terror from the Mead), Brett Halllday; the new of the siege and fall of Constan-v of bird to de- Michael Shayne, aa lively as tlnople, brought out by the pub- fitrincf union stray man to the young me- chanlc who in one evening falls In love with a movie usher and misses death by Inches when Mul, tar curtou. sion on another. AMERICAN Vanguard M5S," book or coHaforal reading in our schools or universities. (Utile, 1 Brown; $1.25.) California attractspoet Boyer.

With an occasional ex, ceptlon, auch as Hugh Walpole, he writes with affection and praise of the people he has known. In this autobiography of a bookish, friendly man, the central fact Is his conversion to "the perennial philosophy, his becoming a Catholic In 3927. In he aees that he was on the road to Catholicism very -early, and that his arrival there, with all that it meant to hla poetry and to his attitude toward life, wai inevitable. Closely related to this Is his Interest in science, notably astronomy, awakened by hla friendship with George Ellery Hale and hla visit to the Mount Wilson Observatory, and memorialized In his famous epic of world vision, "The Torch-Bearers. to OF CONTEMPORARY and local interest are two other his.

amusing clash with Edith SitweU and the modern school of poetry, and his moving tribute to the "happy valleys, vine-clad slopes, and palm-fringed coast" of California. living In many beautiful and celebrated parts of the world, Alfred Noyes chose Santa Barbara and the "radiant coastline" of California for his home during his remaining years. strong. They bring the latest and greatest In they erect a gun-tower to pre. vent repairs to the great wall; they tunnel under the ground, and though they fall by the thousands under a heroic defense, the hordes keep coming.

Many will find this the most powerful and skillful of tho historical novels of Mika Waltari, the excellent translation, as Usual, done by Naomi Wal-ford. aa Swift discovered, "nils book (Is Its tongue In has chapters devoted to: Dress designing In a studio story selling, producers- Jobs; stunt men or girls and stand-ins. AU this for a world, like the Emperors New Clothes that no longer exist I think Mervyn LeRoy hlm- self win admit that Milt Gross has the right Idea: He Is trying to buy up the studio sound stages to grow mushrooms, and to turn the production offices Into laundromats; "It Takes More Than Talent should have been 'written 20 years ago. There la an Introduction by a Mr. Louis B.

Mayer, himself at one time active In the -film world. tan and hla stories of the young Moltammeds power and purpose to capture Constantinople were, not believed. He was ridiculed when he told the Greeks In high places: "Your city will fall: All the beauty of it, all its fading glory -are already shadows without substance." He claimed his right "to die on the walls of Constantinople to die for all that Is past" He saw the coming struggle as the death of an. era and he had no desire to see the new times under the ruthless cruelty of Mohammed who recognized no laws of God or man. -POLITICAL and lous struggle for power, the treachery beneath the veneer of soft living, luxury and learning, the superstitions which -still bound mens minds, are made real through Angelos attempts to reach those dose to Constantinople, encountering fanatical religious hatred, and the -desire to win favor with the Turkish sultan undermining loyalty to Constantine.

Through certainty of the coming death well beyond, the record of Dickens, Balzac and Mark Twain, But then "they never, had the energy found In California fruit Juices) This Is a book that Is Stephen Longetreet to the 'author of "Tho World a recently published travel book .) well worth reading. Few men in LeRoys position, with the world as doormat and money In the bank, would be as frank, ONE MEETS FIRST of all tho interrelated world of producers and directors and sons-ln-law that run the town, see how they 1 marry -and butter-each-other, -and manage to-keep it away from -the hungry stockholders '(there Is the famous story of the Epstein brothers who were shown a picture by a relative at -a valley lot and when asked what they thought' of. It said, "Its set the son-in-law business back 10 The book is also good reading on the complex' Intermixed hassle that is casting, writing, and -editing. And txrr plains why Hollywood falls to make great art The great mo- tIoniIctiire Is made' by: a director and cutter and a wrlter who make something live and struggling to be bom. the Hollywood studios, as LeRoy hows, the man attack of a mob of half-wits in sport shirts and $50 shoes stomps any real Idea to death before It leaves, the studio.

IRONY IS 'a wonderful thing rellg fabulous story of the oldest profession i 1 i is the history of era JOHN COULD speak and write like a philosopher and poet but had the courage of a man whik has a reason for welcoming dmh and the knowledge of aflalrlOn all parts of the 15th Century world possessed by few. He. was suspected as a Ish spy because he had escaped from Imprisonment by the Sul- By STEPHEN LONGSTREET IT TAKES MORE THAN TALENT. By Mervyri LeRoy, as told to Alyce Canfield. Knopf: 13.95.

'Those of us who remember motion pictures, may well wonder why they faded so fast and now belong the dodo bird and the nickel beer. Mervyn LeRoy, who would be the last man In 'the world to claim he was a director In the class of Griffith or Chaplin or Houston, has iq-flair for popular appeal and he. has written. a very interesting little book, in which he shows what happened, how It" happened," and how "It couldnt avoid falling on iti kisser In the end. '-V LeRoy grew up with the mov- les and from "Little Caesar to "Quo Vadis" he turned out th popular smalts until people couldnt take It any more.

He has no false values, Ms book Is honest I am grateful I made money for every studio I. ever worked for I didn't even finish grammar school! LeRoy as a- craftsman la honest as a writer he has little talent- puts down Lit with the help of a Miss Canfield writes and sells about 500,090 words a year. thi i URGE STOCK OP Hen Used Books Pickwick Bookshop OF HOUTWOOl Opw Nto na it Pint Bft Mill ILke Jimmy Walker and Texts Guinaa sad Peggy Joyce sad Scon Fitzgerald, 1 played a conspicuous rale ia the comedy-melodrama of an already legendary decade; the Golden Twenties in maoy respects was creation of the abacs -i and my itory is inseparable from the story of the Twenties. Tram the parlor of my bouse 1 had a backstage, three-way view. I could look into the underworld, the half-world, and the high.

It was there to he teen, and belongs on the record." The Top Ten A FICTION Desiree Sellnko The Silver Chalice B. Costsln 3. The High and the Mighty Ernest K. Gann 4. The Dark Waltari The Angry Angel Zilahy Battle Ory, Leon Uris Zorba the MSfSStMUtYSBt Nlkoa Kazantzakls The Golden Van Wyck Mason 9.

Prince Jay Kennedy JO. In the jShutc non-fiction The Power of Positive Thinking, Normal Vincent Peale 2L. The- Silent World. and Du max 3, This I Believe. Edward R.

Murrow 4. Herzog A Man Peter. Catherine -Marshall 6. Man Alone, William Doyle end Scott ODell. 7.

It Takes More Than Talent Mervyn LeRoy 3. The World and the Arnold J. Toynbee 9. Poor Mans Guide to Europe. David Dodge la It All Started With.

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