Show Usual Banality in Latest View of pi American Scene Soene Y Young ung Mrs Greek Greeley Portrays Singularly Singularly ary Boring Type By HORTENSE SAUNDERS AUNDERS To an Incredible ible list of at novel novels most of at them best sellers and popular popular popular lar successes Booth T has added another Young Mrs Greeley Greeley Gree- Gree ley Icy Doubleday Doran and Incidentally Inci mci- dentally this Is Js the only one that did not start as a pencil written manuscript Most Moat novelists today hire secretarIes secretaries secre secre- taxies or or- at least employ the mechanical mechanical me me- aid of ot the typewriter to get their ide ideas s n paper ton never has He always started his Cay ay sharpening a gross of ot hard lead pencils and shutting the door of ot his study However recently has has' been beep almost sightless and obliged to resort to dictation His next manuscript will happily for tor him probably be in In i pencil again for fOt his eyesight has been saved and his health restored Young Mrs Greeley beautiful but dumb minded her husbands husband's business for him for tor tora fora a while and did such a bad job of ot it that she all but wrecked his Ills career She was aided and nd abetted by a married friend who was was just a little worse than she as an individual because she had more ideas ideas bad bad ones and ones and much more initiative in making trouble HAS GOOD START The he book gets away to a a. good start the start the scene e where tIm the new executive of ot the kitchen hen utensil company is Is' given a 30 banquet by his bosses and his fellow v workers is excellent The ghosts of ot many speeches that have been haunting business banquets for tor ye years rs are present present ghosts ghosts of at the Good Rotarians Rota- Rota nazis rians Who have gone before Beneath Beneath Be Be- neath the fine tIne reporting is a subtle Irony n not t unlike th that t of Ring Lardner Lard Lard- nero ncr I nerThe The psychology of or th the new executive executives executive's tive tives s wife Mrs Greeley seated next nett to the big boss w wearing orchids for forthe the first time and arid taking the speeches made by his associates se seriously se- se when when they address her a as the inspiration that has made his bis career possible possible possible-Is is most interesting interest interest- ing Ig S She reminds you ou of ot the st star r who hires a press agent to concoct In Interesting int in- in t stories abo about t her here and becomes becomes be be- comes so sold in his fiction that she she- firmly believes she is the glorified cr creature she wanted to be Often she topples from her in the Same ame manner manner Mrs Mis Greeley did mistaking merely a a rickety scat scaffolding for tor an h honestly built bunt tower S PHILOSOPHY REDEEMS The story stor became less convincing to this reviewer revIew r as It t proceeded When Mrs Greeley was thoroughly thoroughly- defeated by her husbands husband's s secretary whom she high so high wide and handsomely at the tIne start the plot recalled the current advertisements advertisements advertise advertise- ments that urge you to master the encyclopedia in six siz volumes in or- or or order der tier to to be toe the life lite of ot the party or take French in ten lessons and bethe bethe be the the Intellectual equal of ot your waiter However the book is interesting lively full ful o of human situations backed up by s kindly philosophy Jt it i is by no means 80 so important as some of his previous works not so ambitious in scope Cope or volume but it is meat and satisfyIng satisfying satisfy satisfy- ing and you can recognize your neighbors there NEA NEA |