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...records had begun to muscle in on the 35? juke-box trade, where Decca had been making hay. By last week U. S. Records (Royale and Varsity) had ended its first six months with an output of 1,500,000. Its biggest hit to date, Johnny Messner's suggestive She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, had sold more than 150,000 copies...
...brand new reader of novels would find anything new on the subject. In the worst of them, Charles Francis Stocking's Out of the Dust (Maestro, Chicago, $2.75), an American in Germany huffs & puffs through an interminable, blowhard melodrama. Frances Parkinson Keyes's The Great Tradition (Messner, $2.50) pictures in drawing room prose the democratic gropings of a German-U. S. aristocrat in Germany and revolutionary Spain. A cut above them is W. Townend's Rescue of Captain Leggatt (Morrow, $2.50), naively melodramatizing the enmity and brotherly reconciliation of a British and a German sea captain...
...Sawdust Caesar, Author George Seldes stuck out his tongue at Benito Mussolini. In Lords of the Press, he thumbed his nose at U. S. journalism. Last week, in The Catholic Crisis (Messner, $3), Author Seldes uttered some hoarse Bronx cheers at the Roman Catholic Church. His thesis is that the Church has dallied too long with Fascism, and his book suggests that his way of fixing things would be to have someone like Oswald Garrison Villard for Pope. He devotes more than 300 pages to accusing Catholic churchmen and laymen of all manner of misdeeds-pressure against the press...
...ENDING OF HEREDITARY AMERICAN FORTUNES-Gustavus Myers - Messner...
Quick to capitalize on all this free publicity was Publisher Julian Messner, who advertised in the New York Times: "For the full, free-spoken, eye-opening account of how the press is failing the public, read the book Secretary Ickes urges every citizen to read, LORDS OF THE PRESS, by George Seldes." The Seldes book was issued last November, has been studied in Washington with much the same interest as Ferdinand Lundberg's sensational America's 60 Families...