Joy Unconfined

JOY IS MY NAME--Sarah Salt--Payson & Clarke ($2.50).

Like the late moderately great Leonard Merrick, but without his mellowness. Author Sarah Salt writes of the disillusions of the stage, under the exceedingly inappropriate (or bitterly ironic) title. Joy Is My Name.

Joy (short for Joyce) is a common, pretty girl with pretty common ambitions. Her widowed mother spoils her, teaches her to be "pure," sentimental, defenseless. Joy wants to be an actress, thinks she is one when she joins Mrs. Rice-Pilkington's third-rate repertory company. She is fired when Mrs. Rice-Pilkington's gigolo makes eyes at her; then she goes to London, tries to get another engagement, loses her good name to get the railway fare home because she thinks her mother is dying. Her mother is well enough to quarrel with her. and Joy goes back to London. gets a job as companion to an old lady in a private asylum. There she does not know how to defend herself from the doctor, is fired again, meets her gigolo, whom she has thought of day and night, and is happy with him for 24 hours. He is the biggest cad in the whole book, which ends appropriately in an unfinished conversation between the gigolo and Joy. in which he is applying all the thumbscrews known to his kind.

Author Sarah Salt, young (24), attractive, dark-haired, vivacious, is an Englishwoman whose real name is Mrs. Harold Hobson. Her husband is the son of Economist J. A. Hobson. Last fortnight Author Salt arrived in the U. S., drank tea with her publishers. She writes with realism, economy and a good deal of satirical insight. Consequently her stories are not very cheerful reading, especially for males. She has also written: A Tiny Seed of Love; Sense and Sensuality.

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