Show First Van Va Vechten N Novel vel in i Two Years on Recommended List Parties Deals With Good Good- Time Good Efforts of Idle Youth By y PAUL W. W WHITE V NE YORK Aug 16 UP Sidecars UP-Sidecars Sidecars nights in Harlem m. m dinners at Rosalie's Rosales Rosale's martinis and more sidecars at Donalds Donald's with wih such ingredients as these thee Carl van Vechten has fashioned Parties his first novel Doni In two tO years ers The desperate attempt of ft moneyed and Idle young oung people In lit Inthis 1 this postwar generation to have ha a good time provides the framework for tor thIs Ihla disillusioned study wherein Van Vechten seems to have ac acquired acquired ac- ac a bit of or the the- Hemingway Hemingway- aY manner Partes Parties Is on the recommended list 1st if ir for no other reason than that the author has evolved a a. character r even cven more delightful than the well well- remembered Tattooed Countess Countess- the Grafin Grafia Adele von und a n sexagenarian at the very l least ast who came to New Now York to get away from her dull dun seniors in Silesia sla and to make what used to be called caled whoopee IThe i iThe The Grafin joins a group roup of ot minor decadents who whose e life UCe is composed o of one drink after but another but another but she he seems to with such an Unaffected un unaffected un- un affected simplicity that she stands stand out as a an Infinitely superior per per- son Parties Partes published by Knopf in is II true to the Van Vechten pattern pattern- paten paten- it is a little more moe and a little litte less than amusing The fo for delineation o of the Chicago g soul that MacKIn MacKinlay lay Kantor Kantor Kan- Kan Cantor tor showed a a. R year or so so o ago in tn Is retained in El EI Goes South Coward McCann Coward Coward- I IThe The earlier dealt largely larely with wilh gangs and gangsters angster The new nev one wih with everyday bourgeois life ure The family becomes real real real-at at i times real and real and when you OU close ose the book you ou feel that you have ha known them perhaps too Inti matel Kantor only 24 years ears old has ha a surprising perception El HEI Go Goes s South wont won't be the best of ot his no novels ls A Pretty Pickle by by Bellamy Partridge Brewer and Warren The amazing career career of George Goorge as asa as a a. fiance J inventor and b burglar A Alight Alight light novel that somehow isn't as U funny as it should be which nevertheless nevertheless never- never the les provides provide a number of di diverting diverting di di- moments moment The Seven Skies Skie by Harry F. F Guggenheim Putnam In which a pr practical and scholarly man of aviation discusses what what h has ha's been done and what rem remains ins to do de in inthe inthe the tho development of the newest newet form of transportation Jockeys Crooks and Kings King by Earl Chapin May Cape and Smith Vinnie OConnor O'Connor r known jockey tills tells the story sory of a a life le wrapped up in the sport of kings I wouldn't be here if I 1 wasn't iron says saYI OConnor O'Connor OConnor O'Connor and youve you've got to believe him The Other Half Hal by Charles Chales Francie Franci Coe Cosmopolitan An Am exciting novel nove of racketeers with wIh amazing exposes of the way the tue underworld operates More Mora or Less Leu Personal Mignon berhardt Eberhardt While the Patient Slept is a writing a a a new one ono in Valentine Neb where seven twisters recently appeared In one week The mystery as to what a husband husband hus bus band Is t for r has been ben solved b by Patricia The Coldstone Coldstone Cold Cold- stone She dictates her novels novel to tu him Loren Carrolls Carroll's Wild Wid Onion derives Its Is title from rm a liberal translation translation trans trans- lation laton of or the word rd Chicago al although although although al- al though oth other r translators think it should be skunk cabbage Probably to show his tors just Just how It Jt should be done Joseph Sh Shaw V editor of ot a detective story magazine has written a de- de novel novel Defel novel Derelict t. t i In these days das of short fiction readers leaders who prefer preter the Dickens ns I typo of or novel may appreciate J J. J B. B J Priestley's Angel Pavement ISO ISO- word word OlO-word month novel to be published next p September 15 Is the date set setto to for or l' l that epochal literary event event the appearance of ot Al AI Capone TIlt Biography of ot a Self Made Man an by Fred I D. D Pasley TI The e only remaining public character concerning whom no bi biographY biography biography bi- bi has been written Is Shipwreck Shipwreck Ship Ship- wreck Kelly |