Show d Novel Ninth Avenue Is IsI I Fascinating Study Slum Life and the Rise of a l Blithe Heroine Is Theme I By HERBERT HUBBARD id jou ou ever notice how many ones ories are written about abott the alft gal gal- arft ft t. t dashing prince and the beau beau- high born damsel and how few abort abot t the i who wo knows equally dashing or the that not the of a And yet et I klayer may be Just as hand- hand oine orne just as noble ot of character nas self sacrificing as the brave night while ever everyone one knows that tha Ji Mack ck k Sennett and J Florenz lorenz lh h pick their man killers from he rank and file Cile of the middle l lass ss At any rate Maxwell Boden- Boden elm urn has proven both his original original- t nd his artistic ability in his hisa a est book Ninth A Avenue venue Hells Hell's Kitchen it has been beena a a Sled l led d that portion of New York v in the neighborhood of Ninth nue and not without reason name applied Ranging in from professional proCessional gun- gun len and their o loves to neap heap cabaret ers and c J ll cheap shysters of all dus dul du- du l ious s trades and professions this t tum of 01 the life of our largest 1 y holds more comedies more lJ gedies and more melodramas 1 lan ian n perhaps all the rest of that ast st potpourri of human emotions nd d possibilities Blanche Palmer one of the hundreds of thou- thou of city girls who brought up I squalor and vulgarity has hasrat rat 1 indefinable something in her which h calls out for something liter something finer Trained in inie ie usual methods of warfare the mere male Blanche ces her blithe way through life ICe aMly realizing and not greatly the poverty around her ep 1 she meets a man who is fond ailing himself intellectual and overs vers that she too has that gue intangible something which Jes es' es to make es genius She Jy If graduates into the company of 1 Greenwich Village lisle he e her artistic proclivities ree re- re Jye e all due encouragement There ie meets a man THE man of and lo 10 and behold Blanche lase Blanche the hard boiled Has herself In love Li-I Li Her er romance its tragic near-tragic de de- and conventionally roPi ending form the motif for Ig tory story which is written with a edom and frankness that is truly The author hesitates j at calling a spade a spade and me of his has episodes will ivill doubtless Ing ng g the austere Mrs Irs Grundy down I 1 lUiis us head but honi honl soil qui mal ense His story is at least to life Ufe disarmingly so It res re- re s rather truly the lives o of a age ar arge r rge ge number of our people and it lIfo To 0 longer the custom to sups sup- sup fJ s or ignore the facts of life erel because they may be risque lIPe e book is undoubtedly well vell wellen I. I cilen ten en the story well told and it ery evident that the author len ien he wrote it it had a story to 11 It a real heart gripping story lOft Joni Liveright New York E L |