Word: salten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tryout of Pocket Books-10,000 copies of each title-was confined to the New York area. At first week's end they were a sellout. (First to go were Wuthering Heights and Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope, with The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Felix Salten's Bambi bringing up the rear.) Macy's sold 4,100 copies in six days. Booksellers said they brought new faces into their stores. Newsstands did an arm-aching business, as did Grand Central Terminal "train butchers...
Interned as a dangerous non-Aryan in a Nazi concentration camp was mild little Felix Salten, 68-year-old Viennese author (Bambi, The Hound of Florence) of mild little books about animals, who once said: "If you would keep men from becoming as animals, strive ever to see animals...
FLORIAN-Felix Salten-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The career of a prize Austrian stallion parallels the last years of the Habsburg Empire. A sentimental but appealing story...
...what some readers will consider the slightly mawkish accents of gratuitous pity Author Salten tells delicate stories of the zoo's inhabitants. To the orangutans Lily and Bobby (their names in the jungle were Yppa & Zato) is born their first child, a male whom they name Tikki. Lily begins to find captivity bearable, but Bobby wants to hold the baby too. When he gets hold of him he will not let him go, plays with him until he begins to starve for mother's milk. Only after Bobby has been drugged with bananas loaded with veronal can Tikki be taken...
...Author. His father cowed by business disaster, himself bullied as a school child. Author Salten learned young to pity both men and animals. Born in Ofenpest, Austria, in 1869, he had to make a living out of family charity until his writing began to pay. Thereafter, besides practicing journalism in Vienna, he has written some 20 books. Bambi, his first book published in America, telling the life story of a buck in the Wienerwald, was a great success. Others: The Hound of Florence, Fifteen Rabbits, Samson & Delilah...