The Voice at Johnnywater

vi, 300 pp. "Patricia Connolly did not like the idea of her handsome lover, Gary Marshall being a movie star, which she considered quite beneath the dignity of a "regular, red-blooded" man; so she bought a ranch and drew up a power of attorney and calmly handed the papers over to Gary with the demand that he go out and manage it. Gary--on the eve of securing a first-class movie contract, flatly refused; whereupon the two had a pretty quarrel and Gary stalked angrily off with teh papers, stung by Patricia's caustic comments on the value of his "beautiul features" and the "flabbiness of his soul." He went to Johnnywater ranch--not to manage it but to sell it--and found himself involved in a series of weird and unexpected events which called forth not only all those forces of manhood which Patricia had so scornfully denied him but all those abilities as an actor which had made him screen-famous."