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This is the first novel since Chad Hanna by one of America's better historical novelists, Walter D. Edmonds. In it he puts that immortal American, the Horatio Alger hero, into period pants. The period: the 1830s, in Manhattan...
Heretofore Edmonds' novels have rambled through the past of his native upstate New York, chiefly along the towpaths of the Erie Canal. He put the canal and its folkways into Rome Haul, Erie Water, Chad Hanna. He deserted the ditch only long enough to write his most successful novel, Drums Along the Mohawk. New York State's No. 1 regional historical novelist, he has an ability to bathe his restorations in a bright, bucolic, pre-New York Central freshness...
...such methods Edmonds has secured a following of some 250,000 devoted readers ; a successful Marc Connelly dramatization of Rome Haul (The Farmer Takes a Wife, with Henry Fonda); three Henry Fonda movies (The Farmer Takes a Wife, Chad Hanna, Drums Along the Mohawk). Young Ames, too, looks as if he might some day find himself metamorphosed into Young Fonda. Author Edmonds hopes not. He is worried about the recurrence of Fonda in cinematizations of Edmonds books. "One more," says he, "might make him think he had written them...
Ruth Elizabeth McCormick Miller, daughter of ex-Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and Husband Maxwell Miller bought three acres of Illinois cornfield and two refrigerator cars, planned to set the cars in the cornfields and move in by Christmas...
Born. To Cinemactress Virginia Bruce and husband J. Walter Ruben, film director: a son, 6 Ib. 11 oz., their first child, her second; in Los Angeles. Her first, Susan Ann Gilbert, 8, is the daughter of the late John Gilbert. Married. Ruth Elizabeth McCormick, daughter of onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and the late Senator Medill McCormick, granddaughter of the late President-maker Mark Hanna; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr. of Rockford, Ill.; near Rockford...