Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1946 — Page 14

(A Regular Weekly Feature of The Times)

; THE FIRST READER . , . By Harry Hansen Educated Indian and His Conscience Are Topic of

Exciting Historical Novel “HOLDFAST GAINES. A novel. By Odell and Wiliam Shepard.

New York, Macmillan, $3,

IF YOU HAVE been nurtured on stories that made Indians say. and “hunk-hunk” for conversation and generally fools you are going to have a delightful surprise

“glug-glug” them as half-witted

treated

when you open a new romance of the early American republic, “Holdfast

For the leading character, after whom the book is named, is a

Mohegan stalwart who has grown up in a New London, Conn., household, and who speaks the best English In the story. The other New Englanders speak in their dialect and not even Andy Jackson, who stops the redcoats at New Orleans, can talk as well or think as profoundly as Holdfast Gaines,

. . . THIS MIGHT lead to skepticism, did I not have great respect for the Jearning of at least one of the book's two authors, Odell Shepard, who has written this novel with his son, Willard Shepard. Odell Shepard won the Pulitzer prise for his biography of Bronson Alcott, “Pediar’s Progress” and I would not care to tangle with either of the authors on historical back-

scribed. And Nathan Male, the Connecticut sehoolmaster, might have helped, too.

scterimtion and action, written to be enjoyed.

The captain was an old cam-

and had fought at Bunker

don's vessels was beaten off and in the battle a British navy lieutenant, John Reid, was added to the Ches-

“'You Find Melod

Holdfast Gaines had been; converter the captain was a genius, but possibly Rebecca's helped, . » ¥

THE LOVE STORY is not overpowering, for this is a book of many characters, many scenes. It moves to Salisbury, N. 0, and includes An-

drew Jackson, who was expected to

rise to become district attorney on Benedict Arnold's burning of New London and the destruction of Washington by the British in the war of 1813. It treats of Tecumseh's campaign to exterminate the whites, which ended on Indiana's Tippecanoe river with the extermination of Tecumseh’'s Indians by Willlam Henry Harrison. It makes Holdfast Gaines the fleet runner who warns Jackson of Pakenham's imminent arrival at New Orleans. It embraces action by land and sea, and in the later years there is an American naval captain named Reid, son of the British lieutenant, in charge of an American privateer.

» . » PERHAPS you will find more than action in the story. For the struggle of Holdfast Gaines is of the spirit, too. Can he be a Christian when the Christians massacre not only his Mohegans but their own kin, and even kill men who have surrendered? y How can he justify the confusing cross-purposes of human beings who should be at peace? Why was Holdfast, a man with love in his heart, condemned all his life to man guns and slay? There is no easy solution in this story. » » rv DON'T LET ME surprise rou, but Jules Romains’ Men of Goodwill series ends with the publication today of the 14th volume in the English translation, “The Seventh of October.” Has the author run out of conversation or customers? Within the last few years the

. | weaving back and forth of Jer-

phanion and Jallez has been interminable, even though the author kept the books pepped up with boudoir scenes. Now only Upton Sinclair is left to pace his Lanny Budd through

presence

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“THE STARDUST ROAD." By Rinehart, $2. By HENRY “I WANTED. to describe an ora

Thus Hoagy Carmichael explains his book of reminiscences published

maybe couldn't be expressed.”

ies, Says Hoagy

“You don’t,write melodies. You find them.” .,, Hoagy Carmichael |

Indianapolis yesterday, » - »

Composer Relives Jazz Era In Book of Reminiscences

Hoagy Carmichael. New -York,

BUTLER

Book Reporter in jazz”

the birth of “The Stardust Road,” today.

“1 wanted to convey the feeling and the attitude a bunch of us kids had back in the 20's when we were trying to express in music what Seated in his compartment aboard the

“Sunshine Special” on the way to Indianapolis yesterday morning, Hoagy was putting finishing touches on the script for his WFBM broadcast at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow, What originally prompted Hoagy to write “The Stardust Road” was the news of Bix Beiderbecke's death at the beginning of the 1930's. For with the passing of that greatest of all trumpet-improvisers, a period in musical history passed. » v » DURING Bix’s brief and tragic career, the musical language of solo instruments in dance bands was developed and perfected. That language, as Hoagy explained yesterday, has become the basis of modern “solid” orchestrations, in which whole groups of instruments try to do what soloists experimented with earlier.

“The Stardust Road” begins and ends with Bix's death. It thus omits mention of Hoagy's more recent successes, which are= briefly described in an appended letter from Howard (“Wad”) Allen, one of the “Bent Eagles” of Hoagy's

Hlustrator

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Knowledge of

Norman Rockwell, illustrator, is the subject of a new biography by Arthur L. GuptilL. With more

ter household as a prize. He was, from then on, as amenable to New England arguments as | Will series as a whole soon.

Former Local Man Reveals

Recovery of Priceless Loot

“SALT MINES AND CASTLES: THE DISCOVERY AND REST]. TUTION OF LOOTED EURO.| PEAN ART." By Thomas Carr| Howe Jr. Indianapolis, BobbsMerrill, $3.50.

MOST OF US know vaguely that the Nazis systematically stole art treasures from conquered countries. “Salt Mines and Castles,” by In-dianapolis-born Thomas Carr Howe Jr. (Howe high school was named after his father), presents the inside story of the recovery by Amerjean occupying forces of tons of priceless loot. To protect stolen masterpieces from air-raids, the Nasis stored them carefully in salt mines or in fsolated buildings like Ludwig of Bavaria’s fantastic Neusshwanstein castle. WITH Yieutenant, Mr. Howe, in civilian life director of San Francisco's municipal art museum, was appointed to the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section of SHAEF to assist in|meD alike. extraordinarily difficult task of discovering, identifying, salvaging and

the events of the day.

We'll be writing about the Men of Good

Thomas Carr Howe Jr.

7 European heritage of art within the THE naval-reserve rank of much-vaunted “Festung Europa.” With 22 {llustrations and endpaper maps, the book should prove interesting to connoisseurs and lay-

Book Unexpurgated,

2 ultimate restoring to rightful B owners of countless paintings and

other objets d'art.

Vermeers, Van Dycks, Titlans,|ing,” weekly mimeographed sheet Rembrandts, together’ with lavish of Columbia University Press, comes

Well—Almost

From “The Pleasures of Publish

crown jewels, altarpieces and sculp- [the following rare-book note:

tural works, had to be carefully catalogued, packed and shipped edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

repositories,

“Our note about the

reminds Harry C. Bauer, associate

Penguin

Bloomington days. - ® » YOU READ of the composition of “Stardust” and what Hoagy thoughtof the song afterward (“And then it happened—that horrible thought:

than 500 illustrations from Mr. Rockwell's magazine covers, posters, advertising pictures, murals and other works, “Norman Rockwell: Illustrator” is being published by Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc. ($10).

Self May Be

Last Frontier

"THE HUMAN FRONTIER." By Roger J. Williams. New York, Harcourt, ‘Brace, $3.

HUMAN, BEINGS are the most exciting, bafling, obstinate and de- | pressing objects on this earth, Decent as individuals, they often gp completely beserk in the mass. They become suspicious of other human beings who live in remote regions and talk different languages. They attend the best universities and commit the most heinous crimes. They are, in the mass, suitablg objects for clinical investigation. Human society always has baffled the social scientists, who have generalized about it and tried to define its laws of behavior. Now they are arguing that the way society acts means that we must know the individual better. We reach a lot of general conclusions, only to find that the next boy in school, or the next man in office, doesn’t conform to any one of them. » » ” SO WE have to develop a method that frees individuals, by knowing more about them. Only thus can we apply the study of humanics, an easy word meaning study of human nature, that can be used similarly to mechanics, dynamics |and $0 on. The concern of those trying to find out what makes society such a difficult business, is stated pretty clearly for us outsiders by Roger J. Williams, director of the Biochemical Institute of the University of Texas, in a book called “The Human Frontier.” Here the argument is made that we have dealt with man in the abstract, but never in the individual person. We have discovered all sorts of rules of behavior, and yet members of human society are constantly going contrary to all of them. ? » ” » THEREFORE, say the social scienitists, if we realize that every individual differs from every other in the human pattern, we must study each man’s problems as a separate affair. Only in this way can we save society from the frustrated gents who run amok making decent people miserable. Nothing easy about this job. No atomic bomb is going to destroy us if we are sound, nor is | civilization going to disintegrate | because of some attack from out|side, says Dr. Williams. The dislease has its origin inside man, for

we are our worst enemies. » » »

AS 1 understand the argument, experts in humanics having built up an immense amount of information from studying individual cases, will work closely with students, criminals, frustrated citizens to put them in a groove where they will do no harm to society, but will even aid it. For instance,

early in life,

intimidating his neighbors. » » ”

if a young man gets into the proper profession he may be saved v from riding around in a nightgown with a lot of yelling blackguards,

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One such time is when you t

you feel it's impertinent to add your

involved in the war—his instant grasp of character and human val- | ues made his Seripps-Howard columns possibly the most moving description of the great tragedy.

w s = OTHERS MAY have written more sensationally dr more brilliantly in a narrow technical sense of war as a confligt of strategies. But Ernie brought home to all of us {what the war was doing to our friends and relatives overseas. To the growing literature about Ernie, his friend, Lee G. Miller, also a Hoosier, from Seymour, and former managing editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, has added 157 pages of biographical photos. With brief, expressive captions, the photographs span Ernie's career from the age of 10 months (1901) to Te Shima on the tragic day of April 18, 1945. # » w THROUGH the camera eye, you see Ernie as a high school boy, as an undergraduate at Bloomington,

Marjorie Main Joins ‘The Egg and I' Cast

Picture Album Spans Pyle's Career

Vowel as

i , AR SORA, i} 7 STARS

Ernie Pyle, from the drawing made by George Biddle at Zeralda, June 15, 1943.

Photos Tell Better Than Words How Stress Affected Ernie

"AN ERNIE PYLE ALBUM: INDIANA TO IE SHIMA."

THERE ARE TIMES when words fail even a newspaper writer.

and written more eloquently by those who did know him as a friend. Ernie’s simplicity, generosity, understanding of the little people

That queer sensation that this melody was bigger than I. It didn't seem to be a part of me. I hadn't written it at all, , , . I wanted to shout back at it, ‘Maybe I didn't write you, but I found

you'”).. But the book ends just when “Stardust” begins to grow | popular.

{ The modesty is, you gather from the book and from talking with Hoagy, sincere. Just as “The Star{dust Road” expresses affectionate {admiration for the gifted, creative |music-makers Hoagy knew as an {Indiana university undergrdduate, Hongy's personality seems unusually appreciative, * = = | HE'S INTERESTED in - people. That gives “The Stardust Road” an atmosphere both humorous and melancholy. ‘Some of the finest tributes in the book are tributes to the dead.

Hoagy finished the original

manuscript of. “The Stardust Road” |

back in 1031, he said yesterday. He had intended to call it “Jazz; banders.” “I got to thinking about the book and the title, and decided that nobody would be “Interested in it just then. So I said to myself I'd Jaw it away for 15 years, and then see what could be done with Last year, he lent the manuscript to a writer friend in Hollywood, who “said he would protect it with his life.” “He lost it. We looked all over; We even tore his car apart trying Yo find it, since I knew I could never re-write 65,000 words.”

Hoagy found the carefully-bound

Maybe |

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librarian at the University of Wash- ! “SALT MINES and Castles” has|ington, of a poster he once saw in 3 some of the Oppenheim-thriller al-|a book store. It read: ‘Lady OhatUnexpurgated exobjectionable pas-

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volume, by some unexplained route,

Hollywood studio.

In his revision, Hoagy cut down the book to some 40,000 words and did away with the chronological

sequence. “I thought a series of ‘vigmettes

in those days.” The result is a book of remark able charm. narrative, character-sketches, quo tations from witty and crazy under graduates, and moments of pathos.

the book.

had been placed in the library of a

you might call them, would convey better the way we thought and felt |

It's a compound of

A lot of us who tried making jazz in the “Stardust Road” days are going to feel homesick on reading

’

BUT THE whole area of education, and a great deal more, must be enlisted in a general campaign to liberate human beings from their inherited tendencies, and mistakes if the science of humanics is to show results. Dr. Williams recognizes the scope of {the work and the meager tdols. A start has been made in vocational guidance and in industry in which employees are “screened.” Says Dr, Williams: having a job which suits one’s aptitudes is of paramount imporNo one could be expected to be really well mentally unless he has an occupation which allows him use of his aptitudes.” too, is involved in humanics. Let us hope his plans - prosper. For even a professor of biochemistry can’t be completely happy and socially useful unless he, too, meets with success in the method he has proposed.

tance.

In the International Pictures screen version of “The Egg and 1,” Betty MacDonald's non-fiction best-seller, Marjorie Main has just been added to the cast, according to Lippincott, the book's publishers. Other members of the cast of the new film, scheduled for release next year, include Claudette Colbert, Pred MacMurray and Ann MacDonald, the author's eldest daughter.

New 'Walden' to Be Published Monday

A new illustrated edition of Thoreau’s “Walden” by Edwin Way Teale will be published Monday by Dodd, Mead & Co. Mr. Teale, a distinguished naturalist, author and photographer, has illustrated the volume with 142 photographs he visits to Concord, the Thoreau background.

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as cub reporter, copy-desk man, roving writer and increasingly successful columnist. Candid shots reveal increasing strain of anxiety as his work became harder and his wife developed the melancholia that gradually took possession of her personality. War-weariness and the depressing effect of numberless personal tragedies among the soldiers he knew and described so well added to his combined homesickness and marital worries. As everyone now knows, he dreaded making the last trip to the Pacific, yet he felt he had to go. w » » . DESPITE soft focus resulting from enlargements, the photos re-

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_ SATURDAY, NOV. 23, 1948 Book of Humor

Described as One of Best

“A TREASURY OF LAUGHTER: Consisting of Humorous Stories, Poems, Essays, Tall Tales, Jokes, Boners, Epigrams,- Memorable Quips and Devastating Crush ers.” Selected and edited, with an introduction by Louis Un. termeyer. Illustrated by. Lue cille Corcos. New York, Simon & Schuster, $3.95.

THE SUBTITLE of this 700-page anthology gives a good notion of the kinds of selections included. It does not adequately convey, however, the admirable discrimina= tion and sense of proportion Mr, Untermeyer has shown in his choices, He has included enough in each kind, not too much of any, with the result that “A Treasury of Laughter” is one of the more satisfactory humorous anthologies. His book is big enough to contain almost a directory of modern humor= ists, from “F. P. A” to Alexander Woollcott, with a few flashbacks to the 19th century, such as the selec tions from Thackeray and Lewis Carroll. . w s » SECTIONS devoted to jokes ine clude “A Bit of Scotch” and “Jewish

Logic,” full of the salty, characters istic remarks of people like Angus McTavish or Mrs. Feitlebaum. Varied arrangement obviates boredom and also makes the book ideal for bedtime reading. The often fantastic drawings by Lucille Corcos liven up the pages, as do the brief biographical notes on authors represented. Perhaps the best editorial feature is the absence of the kind of analytical comment which has made some other anthologies of the sort a bit heavy.

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