The Register from Santa Ana, California • Page 7

SANTA ANA. CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1936 BY ETHEL K. LOCKWOOD BIOGRAPY Cold prose la a poor medium with which to record the colorful career of John Reed, the Portland hoy who hacked bis way through the pages of American 1910 to left a burning trail from the United States to Russia. But Granville Hicks, in the new Macmtlan book, "John Reed, the Making of a has done an excellent Job of the telling. Ok John Reed, grandson of the colorful Charlotte Green, of Portland, wealthy, socially promtnent, was born Into a position of privilege.

Portland at the time was a conservative. sefl-sufficient town, into which your John fitted about as well aa the proverbial round peg In a square hole. Ktrey, romantic, restless, rebellious, he recognized no set order of things, but built hla own future as recklessly as he spent money, time and vitality. Two years at a respectable preparatory school In Morristown. N.

were followed by Harvard, where John was not popular, eith- er with the snobs or the He had already developed an urge to write, and with a not-tno- outstanding ability as a wi'dge, forced hla way into the college publications, and eventually won for himself a certain amount of prestige. John was not an athlete, although his ingenuity at inventing outlandish games and stunts, was amazing. Ills favorite sport was swimming, at which be excelled. His writing took on color and finish, and his poems were among ths best to come out of Harvard that time. He tried his hand at and made fairly decent showing.

Satire was a favorite tool and he used it profusely to lam baste the doings of the crust." His romantic exploits were earthy and took no toll of his real emotions. He graduated from Harvard without distinction. He had made some valuable contacts, but they made no deep imprint upon him with the possible exception of Charles Townsend Copeland, under whom he took English 12 a An abortive trip to Europe on a cattle boat, was followed by his first taste of life as a wartime newspaper correspondent. It was In Mexico during the revolution that his revolutionary tendencies put out real roots, and started real growth. The Mexican experience is probably the most intriguing portion of the book.

The romance of the country went deep into his consciousness, and he wrote as he had never written before, Kudyard Kipling said of him: articles made me see His magazine writings appeared "In Metropolitan, The Masses, Smart Set and the American. Now they were definitely allied with the under dog. becoming more and more daring. The Patterson strike inflamed him, and he took sides with the strikers, winding up in jail with forty pickets. Ludlow, Colorado's striko and bloody slaughter, drew him, and he again set himself definitely against "big a stand that he never deserted so long as he lived.

The European war brought out bitter, denunciations from Reed, wind eventually landed him in Jail again. Russia caught his attention but he was in disfavor in the United States at the time, and could find no periodical to finance him on the proposed trip. Louise Bryant, the woman tie loved and married, was eager to go to Russia with him, and had a press syndicate to back her. The trip became a reality, and John worked enthusiastically rounding out his experience in another field. stormy months later he sailed for Russia.

But mean while he had produced his book "Ten Days That Shook the which later became a text book in the schools of the Soviet union. Famous people flit through the of John Reed including Lincoln Steffens, Eugene O'NeilV Theodore Roosevelt, Pancho Villa. You will not want to miss reading this story of the "American Communist." ANOTHER RUSSIA Soviet Russia, as seen by a Russian who has lived under its regime, is pictured vividly in the new novel "We. the Living," by Ayn Rand, just released by the MacMillan company. Here is lush, passionate picture of three human beings Kira Argounov and the two men who loved her- Andrei, a Communist, and Leo an aristocrat.

Here are Soviet the ories In practice, and what they dp to three people. It Is not a pretty book. It is not a book for the read er. Cold, hunger and dirt haunt its pages. Tragedy, hardships, self Wcriflce, of such things Ayn Kand has fashioned this throbbing story.

If you like realism; if you like word pictures that bring distant scene to you and make it as familiar as the house next door, you will like "We. the But you must be prepared to appreciate tbe continental viewpoint toward sex reiatlonsbips or due for some shocks. PRETTY TALE We all be realists. We can't al live on a red meat diet. And so we have nice, readable stories like "The Bright Hill," released by Little Brown and Company.

Here is a nicely-written book with enough romance to satisfy anybody, and perfectly safe to band over to Qram'ma. Outside of the fact that you get rarin' mad at times be- eniise Kerin is so hopelessly good, and you'd like to brain Carl for his egotism and brutality, find a great deal to entertain and I please you. The author, Clarissa Fairchild Cushman, has turned out a smooth, well-rounded piece of work, with a particularly good beginning. Kerin Kingsbury, Married to the boorish Carl, struggles to build safe, happy home for her son. who is frankly afraid of his father Carl, ruthlessly disregarding his wife, plans to go to Russia (heaven help Russia again!) and Kerin, thrown upon her own resources, finds position in a school in the east and up her own life with her boy in a charming little house that typifies all she has not bad in her home with Carl.

She goes her way happily except for the times Carl bobs up to throw fear Into her because of the boy and eventually to divorce her. Romance In the person of Gregory Leighton comes to her, although she does not recognize it, until the reader is so stewed up; he would like to shake her. "Bright Hill has beauty and charm. like It if you mind having your characters a little impossible. Manchukuo has a ban on child I marriages.

SPEAKS HERE Miss Janet McKay, executive secretary. Foreign Missionary society, who will speak here tomorrow during the World Wide Guild meeting. MISS BARTULE: Nocturnal Rerenade" Rund" over KHJ, It is said that Miss that same quality of tone itii Lily Pons, the and hns thrilled has sung In the churches in Ran Angeles. IN S. A.

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