Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1946 — Page 14

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THE FIRST READER .. . By Harry Hansen Arturo Barea, Exile, Writes Impassioned Story Of Spanish Civil War “THE FORGING OF A REBEL" By Arturo Barea. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, $5. * ;

Arturo Barea’s father died when he was 4 months old. His mother, with four children to support, went down to the river at Madrid. as a washerwoman, and when she wasn't washing she cooked rnd cleaned house for his Uncle Jose and Aunt Baldomera. He lived in the attic with his mother but went to a good chrch school; that's how he could straddle the line between poverty and riches and become Don Arturo

d a member of the/ bo une or union, to the started with the Pebple's* House and

other : the labor confederation and In ihe All this happened in Spain 40 fight against the landlords he sup~ vears ago, and here, in “The Forging ported the Popular Front. of a Rebel” we get an impassioned, His picture of the confusion of brilliant and highly dramatic ac-|OPinions among Socialists, Republi count of how this boy grew up to cans, Communists and Anarchists, becom \dier of the king in|together with the conversion of ih , mpaigns against various pen to the Fascist doctrines M . a of the Popu- of Hitler and the organization of the the RI, 8 Suppories Falange, is a master-piece, He lar Front and the Jpanish Repub- 4 director of press censorship|S¢ems to have been leftist without Madrid during the siege and an|/ining the Communist party and nM i i nd ge and &15¢ the height of the republics fight

against Franco resented the brusqueAs George Orwell has pointed out, ness of the Russian commissars, The

this is one of: the few reports of, streets after bombings made the Spanish Civil war by *T im tet fard. It is also an a ography that makes the war comprehensible. Authority Resented

Describes Spe.ific Acts Eventually he suffered from the Yor though great upheavals of favoritism, splinter groups and der ough ¢ Pp viations that always accompany a society are described in terms of ijlent radical movement. He was masses and trends, only the inti-|arrested and released again and mate personal testimony of indi- again 98 VOgUE Bocusmiont. Some viduals who work, fight and suffer resented his authority in tae cenin them brings them home to tor Utliess siti his mesBare t deal in . Astife ares rons a describes His association with Ilse became ai acts and pA until | ® liability when attempts were made the whole becomes a brilliant spec- | 10 paint her as a vague Trotzkyite. tacle of disorganized humanity — In Paris, on the eve of the world ragpickers who gathered cigaret WaT Robody welcomed the Spanstubs from the gutters; landlords 'S7.1¢ Ug, A 4 who controlled villages by with-| Here, for the first time we see holding work; church attendants American journalists as a Spanish who fished coins out of poor- writer saw them. Mr. Hemingway boxes; washerwomen who washed

jremained a firm friend through 200 pairs of white breeches for thick and thin. “The humorist Dorothe soldiers of the royal guard; |

{thy Parker” sticks in his memory ded | 85 & woman “in a cyclamen-colored Sa) bred ad Hiajers Who Jad out | hat shaped like a sugar-loaf, surely false vouchers: Germans who | the only hat worn in Madrid that bought “worthless” land that held |98Y.” A waiter wondered why she bauxite: banking officials who | couldn’t take “that thing” off. “Persweated their badly paid help. «7 !haps her head is shaped like a cuhated that terrible shame-faced | cumber.” It was a typically foreign hunger of the office workers » comment on a representative Ameriwrites Mr. Barea * osu hat, Women's Position in Spain The 1 story of Arturo] Barea is intensely interesting as a human record; it also is a com- | mentary on the changing ways in| Spain. Looking back at his youth| . » Barea recalls the dilemma of the) "THE AMBOY DUKES" first Spanish girl, who was supposed to published novel of Irving Shulman, keep men aloof until married and|is one of the abridgments in the then was thought fit only to bear January issue of Book-Reader, an Ae a hessell Tad > Omnibook publication. when he married. He could not| Scheduled by Doubleday for apmake his wife an associate in his Pearance in book form early next intellectual activities, Her father month, “The Amboy Dukes” is concerned with juvenile delinquency in

advised him: a large city. Mr. Shulman is im-

“A woman is either married, and in that case she's got to keep the patient with most suggested solutions to the delinquency problem.

house clean and feed the kids, or LQ else she's a street walker. So don't! “It's Tidiculous to recommend set your mind on something dif-|that wayward boys be taught to build bird-cages or join song-fests

ferent.” as d cure-all. The principal thing

“What I want is that my wife ; should be my best friend, besides required is to provide them a room of their own, or at least a home

being my bedfellow,” protested Mr. with light and air. When a kid

Barea. sleeps in a room with three or four

Marital Experience “Pooh, that's just romantic non of the family and has no corner to call his own he is apt to stay on

sense,” ‘replied his father-in-law. pL is: tauher-in-law the streets, join a gang and get

“A man marries to have' a h v ave 3 home into trouble,” Mr. Shulman declares.

of his own and a woman to nurse Th . him when he's ill and to look after e most constructive thing that could be done for bays would be to

his children. And everything else 1s Just modern claptrap.” eliminate all slums, not only in Mr. Barea's ‘marital experience cities. but in every town in the was unlucky, but His attitude to- country, he adds. ward the responsibility he assumed does mot seem adequate. When, during the siege of Madrid, he became head of press censorship for the republic, he was carried away by a passionate regard for his assistant, Ilse, an Austrian woman | who had fled from the Nazis. He also had a mistress, a stenographer whom he wished to discard. His violent attachment to Ilse broke up her marriage. On his side he was able to discard his wife and four children, and his mistress, in order to marry Ise and flee with her to Paris. Neither of them had any money to support themselves at the time. While this, too, is a form of rebellion, it seems to justify individual irresponsibility and put an unjust burden on society.

Madrid in Turmoil

Eliminate Slums, Author Says

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The political and militar : . | BY JObD- FOX JF +..0ocrasres 1.00 y ex- 3 3 , ver's periences of Barea make this 2 the pen-and-ink animal sketches dénced by the dancer 8 habit of | A" CHRISTMAS CAROL, portant wind an Im-| readers of the old Life magazine | Picking at the skin of his thumbs, By Charles Dickens ..:.i..:. 1.00 tra ndow on the Spanish yy recan, leaving them raw and red. GOING ON SIXTEEN, ages, The Stat in Morocco was —————————————— Mr, Jones and Nijinsky worked By Betty Cavanna .......vi.. 2.00 only by commercialism in . togeth “Til lens " Spain. Mr, Barea became an ac- Plan ‘Nuremberg Diary’ Pol Fi out NON-FICTION: Suniant and for 15 years a patent! “Nuremberg Diary” by G. M. fits of bad temper, ugly peevish-| DANIEL BOONE, WILDERNESS BE Bring Which he saw how Gilbert, pridgn psychologist through- EE = | By Stewart Edward White. . $1.00 ® Germans connived with Spanish |out the Nuernberg trials, will be | PUZZLE PARADISE (150 new owners to get valauble concessions|published in England by Eyre and putsiesl, By, J: MEVEL.«+sxs iss from a nation of poor, star ’ THE MAKE IT YOURSELF peasants and Yorkers. + slarved Spottiswood. The American edition BOOK OF HANDICRAFT..... 1.00

Mr. Barea’s political activity Parrar, Straus

"NEW YEAR'S SHOOTER" — Painting by George Benjamin Luks (American, 1867-1933) of a New York urchin who was celebrating New Year's with a group of maskers when Mr. Luks saw her and engaged her as a model. (From the permanent collection of Herron art museum.)

Nijinsky Iflustrations Give

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"NIJINSKY: AN ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH." Magriel. New York, Holt, $3. By HENRY BUTLER “I HAVE NEVER seen any other artist so varied in his compulsion, | Bumarous. stories, so absorbing in his variety, so glamorous in his stage presence as was Nijinsky.” co | Thus Stark Young, in his “Note on Nijinsky and Robert Edmonl Jones” in the appendices of Paul Magriel's “Nijinsky,” sums up his impression of the legendary dancer. The Magriel book, first of a series |

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Harry Hansen's “First Reader” on | lets: “L'Apres-midi” and “Jeux,” The Times Book Page Nov. 16, has (with music by Debussy; “Le Sacre sale of half the, a . : original printing of 15000 copies,| Til Eulenspiegel,” on Strauss’ great according to Lippincotts, the 'pub- |*Y™MPhonic poem.

will be brought out in April by|

on the ballet to be published by | ness, alternated with moments of |

.|books is evidenced locally by the their terms.

. Je " ! Lif | Pive new titles are among the Sidelights on Dancer's Life |i i's iw eos sons popin . . : | 25-cent reprint series received by|

an an- | thology of 34 of Stephen Leacock’s heads the - list, | with John Russell's “The Lost God spring list. Stories,” Richard Hull's “The Murder of My|the illustrations for the book, has Aunt,” Erle Stanley Gardner's “The | culled her volume from thousands | Case of the Baited Hook” and “Pat- | cf stories about vampires, the super-| irick Quentin's “Puzzle for Puppets”

GREAT BOOKS— Masterworks Briefed in Volume

"MASTERWORKS OF AUTO. BIOGRAPHY: DIGEST OF 10] is appropriate for the majority of GREAT CLASSICS." Edited

you get out into the world . , .»

by Richard D. Mallery. New| often baffled, and this aceounts for York, Doubleday, $4. cation often has no useful result. | Some lads, however, work before WIDESPREAD interest in great|going to college, and some during The furnace-tending Great Books classes sponsored by student and the amateur waiter Butler university, the "dianapolis are familiar examples.

tions. {time and attend evening classes. Publishers, aware of increasing put their work a: 1 studly is rarely demand for texts not easily avail-|co-ordinated. That is what makes able in quantity, are turning out|the “co-operative plan” of Antioch

' | bigger and better anthologies in a| college worth attention.

variety of fields. Antioch, standing amid the elms One such series 1s Doubleday’s and maples of Yellow Springs, Ohio, “Masterworks,” of which “Master- | since 1853, has been exposing its works of Autobiography” is the students to work, during the school [third published volume. The other year, and in “Antioch College: Its two deal with economics and phi-| Design for Liberal Education,” its losophy. | president, Algo D. Henderson, and a 8 .u | editor, Dorothy Hall, published some THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY an- of the results, thology presents digests, in the au- | Practical Start thor's own word ot summaries, | i of St. Augustin’e “Confessions,” and pie on the Program ot Ar ee] . » Its president for the famous autobiographical works .e years, Antioch has made a pracof Cellini, Pepys, Franklin, ROUS~"| {ical start toward dra in

seau, Goethe, Hans Christian An- ' ¥ education that seems much close: dersen, Cardinal Newman, TolstOY |i, ‘the needs of American life than

and Henry Adams, ) the ex For readers who lack the teisure | Sggersied gEphasis on the best books of the’ ages. plow through the Spten-buiky | Antioch does not deny the soundgriginale, Rick a Pp a ery's col- ness of the fundamentals of cul- . | ture, but wants iy Together with the projected vol- ve, ue of R20 ne umes on science, government and! ork ” history, the Doubleday series will| The Antioch ’ " v > *h plan starts inside Sndonbiedly Bld neers Dlvghen}- the college, where democratic methDoS Sion oR Rupe. a o ny {ods make the student aware of his TD oo ent hy bal responsi'ilities and opportunities. 3 -a, 2 ¥ - small type. :

Translated Freud Volume Readied

Random House will issue early next year Dr. Sigmund Freud's most famous single analysis: “Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality.” Unobtainable in English for the past 15 years, the forthcoming volume is edited and translated by Dr. A. A. Brill, American editor of all of Freud's works,

Anthology Scheduled for Spring

| An anthology of horror stories, |

| “Tales of the Undead,” collected by | Flinore Blaisdell, will be on Crowell's!

LITERARY COMMUTER — Alice Beal Parsons, whose new book on small town and city life, "The World Around the Mountain," will bg published Jan. 29

Miss Blaisdell, who has also done

book reflects her zestful enjoyment of the contrasts i larities between Nyack, N. Y., and New York City.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 2%, 1946 Book on Antioch College Explains Unique Education

"ANTIOCH COLLEGE: ITS DESIGN FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION." By Algo D..Henderson and Dorothy Hall. New York, Harper, $3. TEACHERS IN college classrooms sometimes use the phrase: “When

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students, who enter college as immature youngsters. When, after graduation, they “go to work,” they are

In New || Public library and other institu-|york many students work part-|

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They imply that hard knocks wait y with books. No doubt this warning

the general belief that college edu-

CAT MEETS DOG-—One of the drawings by Rod Ruth for "Golden Book of Cat Stories," edited by Era Zistel. The new anthology contains 32 stories from various nations. Designed primarily for cat-fanciers, the volume has selections from such writers as Maxim Gorky, Emile. Zola, Damgn Runyon, J.-K. Huysmans and Heywood Broun. (Ziff-Davis, $3).

When he is ready for a job his preferences and abilities ape carefully gone over and he is sent to a “co-operating” employer. Interesting Results He has studied courses in general cultural and in specific vocations {end “work on the job” gives hm a chance to see his fitness among) his fellows. An advantage comes in his return to college to analyze kis experiences. The result are intensely inter esting. A pre-medical student, lining) the inside of boxcars with steel for] shipping purposes, found out tha “restriction of output” was a ve vital thing to men who feared lay. offs: “to us married men with kids and bills the layoff is bad.” The men were not shiftless but ine secure. A girl doing research: re ported: “I was forced into in tellectual dishonesty, fixing the re sults of research experiments about] individual case histories to save the face of the organization.” This book describes all sides of] Antioch life, explaining why its teachers believe that Antioch 1s not] provincial but part of the nation af] large, building individual and social responsibility and making a college ccurse contribute to a well-rounded, useful and satisfying life.—(H. H.) ———————————————————

‘Book Club Selection

“Stendhal: or The Pursuit of Hap | piness,” Matthew Josephson’s biog {raphy of the great French novelis | has been chosen December selection {of the Book Find club.

approval, or artistic satisfaction, as | jinsky's career with critical and) after the premier of “Til” at New| | appreciative essays by Carl Van | York's old Manhattan Opera house | Vechten, Edwin Denby, Mr. Jones,| Oct. 23, 1916. . y s » H. T. Parker, Mr. Young and Mars- THE BOOK indirectly gies

Lo Hartley. —— {glimpses of the lavish, upper-crust | IT CONTAINS 2 ole than 65 pho- | Society that lionized the dancer and | tographs—some hitherto unpub- his entourage. 'It was the kind of | lished—of the great dancer in the society Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd | numerous roles he made famous. might guide the reader through in| | And it gives, especially in Mr. Jones'|# Volume of Mr. Sinclair's endless essay (Mr. Jones was just beginning HOF. 2 (his stage-designer's career in 1916| Photography being better than it was 30 years ago, many of the fllustrations will seem disappointing. Reproduction of the old photos, some of them doubtless faded, many ~ of them necessarily posed and hence * “wooden,” is a difficult technical problem. But balletomanes will find “NiJinsky” a valuable addition to the growing literature about the enigmatic dancer, An excellent feature of the book is the bibliography, which includes recent as well as contemporary items.

i | following. Holt, is a pictorial record of Ni-|

Tarkington Novel Due “The Show Piece,” Booth Tarkington's last novel, which he was finishing at the time of his death, will be published Jan. 23 by Doubleday. With an introduction by Mrs. Tarkington, the novel concerns precocious Irving Pease, spoiled by too much adulation.

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