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...ENGLAND: INDIAN SUMMER-Van Wyck Brooks-Dutton...
TREES OF HEAVEN-Jesse Stuart- Dutton...
SABOTAGE -Cleve F. Adams-Dutton ($2). Irishman McBride, who has practically no morals, gets interested in the repeated accidents at the Palos Verde Dam project. McBride robustly progresses through a tough town teeming with blondes, brunettes, fist fights, murders...
TITANIC - Robert Prechtl - Dutton ($2.50). The story of S. S. Titanic, is one long frenzy of symbolic possibilities. No Melville but murderously in earnest, Prechtl makes a sort of Tamburlaine of John Jacob Astor, constructs a magnificent tear-jerker about the aged Isidore Straus. To these creatures of fact he adds tons of Sunday-Supplement material (melodrama, pseudoscience, a malign diamond), a few moments of near-grandeur...
HELL ON TRIAL-René Belbenoif-Dutton ($3). No Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their...