Show Hamby Novel NovelS S Replete te With Tense Action Entertainment Abounds in the Book but Art Is SomeS Some Some- S where here Else r ByR A. A HENDERSON William H II Hamby took a young oung I Iman man away from his home in Missouri and and eat him down In a like cinema I bit of ot Mexico Then he gave his hero everything that a hero should have havea have have- a masculine determination to succeed have I a physique and an entirely tolerable tol penchant for colorful atmospheres atmos i and romance After Arter the hero was made and pronounced perfect Hamby gave him the he proverbial Sonora Sonora Sonora So- So nora estate and then Invented two rogues who wIno who were to make the stor story of ot the book ook The Ranch of the tho Thorn by trying In all manner mannet man nun ner net of or wild West est means to drive the perfect hero from the scenes The Tho introduction tion of ot the heroine came next This was done I by a glance from her eyes to his which left never a doubt as to the substance of ot the last last chapter Qt Of course the first lady of ot the story had hada hadi a rich old ld father tather who became a fine typo of ot indignant and prejudiced parent parent parent pa pa- rent as a result of ot villainous devices of ot the deep dyed plotters But no reader could have been convinced that the aristocratic parent Intended to remain Irate throughout the book In consequence of the Introduction o 0 of a a. comic element In the form of ofa ofa ofa a devoted American negro the story has its periods of vapidity But the whizzing speed with which the characters characters characters char char- chari i live no time for dullness and quite antidotes the negro's negros gib gib- I berish I Mexican atmosphere is splashed abo t the book so plentifully that a fair degree of ot homogeneous saturation Is a attained l Atmosphere s t there must st Y be for the a author resorts s r s to revolutions revolutions and ambushes and a for good measure In fact all 1111 the settings are custom built and easy to to recognize for almost almos any south of or the HIo Hlo Grande moving picture shows them until they become old old- familiar places It is indisputable that the entertainment entertainment enter enter- value alue is In the book The Theare Theare Theare are is somewhere else Chelsea House New York |