Books: Counsel from Hollywood

THE REMARKABLE ANDREW — Dalton Trumbo—Lipplncoff ($2.50).

AMERICA Is WORTH SAVING — Theodore Dreiser—Modern Age ($2.50).

Many books end up in Hollywood. Last week, for a change, two books came out of Hollywood. Both carry identical counsel for the U. S. citizen on identical subjects: Defense, Democracy and World War II. America Is Worth Saving is a spiteful, wretchedly written tract by great, aging Theodore Dreiser (The Titan, An American Tragedy), who lives in Hollywood, lectures to California's women's clubs. The Remarkable Andrew might well be Dreiser's tract scripted into a novel by its author, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Dalton Trumbo is one of the...