Show Writer Explain Explains Vast Popularity of Western N Novels Oy lS Virile Life of Outdoors Appeals to Anemic City F Folk olk Clai Claims s Radclyffe Hall whose hose Adams Breed was vas awarded the coveted l Femina Vie Heureuse prize for the best English novel of the year written writ writ- ten en by a woman says in The Bookman Bookman Book Book- man that our Western novels have havea a wide ide market In Engl England nd I have no hesitation she writes In putting Western stories a long longway longway longway way ahead of at your other novels novels' in their imm immediate date appeal to the English English English Eng Eng- lish public Why should Western stories appeal to our readers read s. s t to the tho pale city clerk who has neverseen neverseen never neverseen seen a ranch to the overworked I typist who knows nothing of life and e love as such stories portray It it I think because the heart of of the public tired though it is is Is the heart of a child the same child heart that a long time time- ago beat high for Fenimore Cooper You no longer possess Fenimore Cooper You no longer possess possess possess' a Colonel Cody to make Fenimore CO Coopers Cooper's pers per's adventures come come- true before our astonished eyes Th There re are no Wild West shows and certain among among- us undoubtedly nd miss them so that we we gr grasp sp at t tie the e next best thing at your Western romances of today And why apt We Ve are all suffocating In itt cities weare we weare weare are all pretty sick of the noise and the strain and we all for tr the most part get chronic Indigestion through lack of fresh air and enough exercise exer exer- cise else Day after day people sit at their desks writing lists of statistics or 01 balancing ledgers but the evenings are theirs to do with as they please pleas In the evenings they escape to your stretching prairies they love madly madly madly mad mad- ly live madly ride madly madly-b madly bucking broncos and all via the media of i your our ur Vest Western ern romances Surely the writing rUIng of such books Is worth iv h e |