Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 4 | Melodrama Stalks Pages of Newest Vance Thriller

I Melodrama Stalks Pages of Newest Vance Thriller The Dead Ride lard a ard d P Pictures Pic Plc tures Terrorism in Its Most Vicious jl I. I Form l g 1 By HELEN GARRITY GARRITT All AU the hideous brutality of the lower class peasant dogs of or Hungary Hungar hungary Hun Hun- gar gary who dared to rise a against the God-given God authority of or decadent decadent kings Js s graphically revealed re In InLo Lo Louis Joseph Vances Vance's new no noel I. I The Dead Ride Hard The reader is entertained by a a. toad toad-irke villain who pursues the the queens queen's lady lad Denies Denle Va Vay a traditional 1 aristocrat from one ugly scene to another This revolution re t takes kes place immediately after the armistice is signed and ad the hectored Russians Russians are made maje the sinister originators of ot every form of slaughter When Philip Gibbe described the Russian revolution re the air of ot star stark tragedy the pallid crystal silence of ot t the e sno snows sno's s 's all an deeply Impressed the readers readers but Vances Vance's storm scenes with Down With the Aristocrats Aristocrats Aristocrats Aris Aris- a word by-word possesses posseS an an eerie and fictitious unreality There is of ot course an American newspaper man who strange stranger enough is never around when the heroine is most in need of or him When Countess Vay the mother drops dead after being tortured be before before before be- be fore the daughters daughter's e eyes es and the count is branded with hot Irons un until until un- un til ill he he too dies dice then only o does Denise throw a lamp burn th house down and as we ye learn after many pages of ot melodrama escape tro he appears again in Vienna emotionless emotionless emo emo- and intent upon revenge Nothing spectacular occurs how how- ever evel She merel merely leads the villain into a mob now noi against the red government go and the book closes with the description o of a shallow grave and a slab which reads Here Lies a Dog The villain somehow does doe not seem scent as bad as QS the constant of or his physical infirmities would have him In fact the Unhappy un unhappy unhappy un- un happy faced ashen-faced hunchback arouses a certain pity It is un unnecessary unnecessary uri un- necessary for a subtle writer to depict de de- villainy by a misshapen body which is no indication of ot goul- goul corruption J. J. J B. B com com- pan nany pany Philadelphia Pa