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they love it. Mrs. Foldes’ book, “Two on a Continent,” outdoes the roseate pictures painted by chamber of commerce boosters. With hearts “filled warmth and pride” the Foldes the map of their America. ‘
have looked down from Pikes Peak, driven through the Nevada desert in a thunderstorm and seen a hurricane on Riverside dr. » s ” THEY HAVE eaten baked grapefruit with honey and southern fried chicken in Savannah, picked red, apples from trees in Wenatchee. They know that Roanoke, Va. has “one of the nicest hotels in a small American town,” and that
“the best Swedish smorgasbord in America is served in a restaurant on Hollywood's Strip; the tastiest Greek specialties are on the bill in San Francisco's Market st., and
Radisson in Minneapolis.” Let me add that the Foldes’ got the best America has to give and didn't mess around in those drab factory towns in Pennsylvania that you see from train windows, and those migrant berry-pickers’ camps in California. Andor Foldes has magic in his fingers and Lili writes, and talks on the air. The pessimistic reports relate to jobs we still have to do to make all of America like the! part Andor and Lili praise. | But it's good to read a happy, ! cheerful book once in a while and
appreciate the land that our fore-
POOCH—lllustration by Nils Hogner for "The Satirical Pooch,” Section VI of "All the Best Dog Poems: An Anthology of Poetry About Dogs," col- | lected by Edwin Burtis (Crowell, $3.50).
from wild enlisted men one night | and who accepted an offer of | mariage from a French plantation owner, who. had a lovely family by Japanese, Tonkinese and Polynesian mistresses. Nothing so humdrum in Arkansas. : There is the story of the tempestuous love affair of Lt. Joe Cable of the marines, who wouldn't marry Liat, the Tonkinese girl, and won the undying enmity of Bloody Mary, who sold dried human heads, grass skirts . . . and little girls, and had a terrible vocabulary. There's the tale of the Seabees, who muscled in on the grass-skirt business; of the medic who pushed atrabine pills down the throats of natives lest they use them for dyes; of the marine who married a native girl with Buddhist ceremonies, There is a tale of the ammunition ship that blew up and a blow-
| by-blow report of an amphibious |attack in which many died. Tough, amusing, romantic and always interesting, this book pulls no | punches.
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now and then Europeans who eat much better here than anywhere concert pianist, are two Hungarian-born Americans who restore rhapsody They have been virtually everywhere in the United States and
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WHAT FASCINATES FOREIGNERS— "Fourth of July," typical western-scene,
Lili and Andor Foldes. New York,
pessimistically about America, and Foldes, writer” and ‘Andor Foldes,
hidden the virtues of the world's finest democracy,” writes Lili Foldes. She Europeans will see through it, for “they will find, instead of a sensational show, a hu-
to rob the poor.
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Hungarian Writers’ Book About U. S. Is Thick With Praise for America They Love
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car, not even in America, but there is still such a thing as opportunity.
» » . AS MRS. FOLDES describes their triumphant journey = across the United States, and Andor’s many fine concerts, she characterizes the men and women she meets frankly and without malice, In Provo, Utah, where Andor Foldes played at the university for a season, she was startied by two matters—the way Mormon men ignore women when they are together and the way the women work long and hard. She marveled at their many children, their hard domestic tasks, and their ability to find time for poetry and cultural activities. “Male absolutism still flourished in Provo.” As for the women, “their lips were sealed when men were present.” Yet they enjoyed
She asked Rachel Heninger, granddaughter of a former head of the Mormon church, “Why do you work yourself to death?” “I don't want to get lazy,” replied Mrs. Heninger. “You never know what life keeps in store for you. One day I may even have to
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Percival Wilde Gumshoe Who
“P. MORAN, OPERATIVE" By Percival Wilde. New York. Random House. $2.50,
"OVERDUE FOR DEATH.” By Z. H. Ross. Indianapolis. BobbsMerrill. $2.50.
By DONNA MIKELS FOR A JOKE Percival Wilde, writer of mysteries extraordinary,| once enrolled in a correspondence course in detecting under an assumed name, { He gave the “best answers he!
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til the late Erno Rapee invited her | The fruit {to hear him on the air in January, | gq. y
1940. Both were Hungarians; his | uncle had helped found the orig-! inal Budapest string quartet. Lili had come in 1939 to write about the World's Fair for a Budapest paper. they were married in July, 1940. Both had ideas about a “prefabricated America,” inspired by the hurrying tourists, the big tippers in pre-war Europe. “Behind the American facade are
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Describes Is Never Right
TONGUE IN CHEEK—Percival Wilde, playwright, shortstory writer and novelist, satirizes whodunits in "'P, Moran, Operative."
‘A Tree Grows' To Be Reprinted
Betty Smith's best-selling novel, “A Tree Grows jin Brooklyn,” is among four new Bantam Book titles scheduled for publication next Friday. y The unabridged reprint of Miss Smith's novel runs to 502 pages in the 25-cent series, Other forthcoming volumes are: “Puzzles, Quizzes and Games,” by Phyllis Fraser and Edith ' Young; “False to Any Man,” a mystery, by Leslie ‘Ford; and “Ride the Man Down,” - a Luke Short western,
Publish Burned Book
Hermann Kesten’s novel, “Happy Man,” an outstanding German inter-war . work, will be published March 17 by A. A. Wyn, Inc, First published in Germany, was burned by the Nazis before a single copy could be sold. '
almost exhausted, not to mention] the supply of razor cords, the villain is found. ~ . ‘ A cryptic message from one mur- | dered man, details about some involved fraud and a raft of people with motives make “Overdue. for
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Szigeti Writes Memoirs
“With Strings Attached,” an informal ' autobiography by Joseph Szigeti, celebrated violinist, is announced for Feb, 20 publication by Knopf.
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FDR's 1925-28 Writings Published
A collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt's now-forgotten newspaper columns (1925-1928), edited by Donald Scott Carmichael, will be published April 12 by Pellegrini & Cudahy. Founded in January, 1946, by George Pellegrini and . Sheila Cudahy Pellegrini, the new Chicago house announces®four other titles on its first list of books: “Village Daybook,” by August Derleth (March 31); “Parents Can't Win,” a satire on child psychology by Jim and Dorothy McGuinn (March 31); “Afterglow,” a novel by Elizabeth Wood (April 7) and “The Unquiet Seed,’ 'by Jane Cudeback (April 7). .
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Hence, if a reporte: wants to get something off his chest about soclety as he sees it, one way to do 50 is to write a novel. He can call his town ‘Jericho, as ex-Reporter Paul Wellman does in “The Walls of Jericho” (probably a. composite of several western Kansas towns), And he can disclaim intent to lamBoon any actual persons, living or
. ~ . ¥ “THE WALLS of Jericho,” February Literary guild selection, at its best, is a reporter’s-eye-view of a small but growing town in the arid western part of Kansas. There Populism, co-operatives and other pre-world war I “subversive” political activities reflected farmers’ struggles. . Dave Constable, lawyer and born leader, and Tucker Wedge, pub. lisher of the Clarion, are close friends until Tucker marries a well-to-do .widow from Peoria, IIL Algeria Wedge, who seems always to have majored in designing, sees in Dave a threat to Tucker's adtvancement. Algeria prompts Tucker to run for congress, simultaneously antagonizing Dave's stupid and malicious wife, Belle. The erstwhile friends betome political rivals,
» ” - IN WASHINGTON, Algeria with a flair for publicity, is quick to take up new fashions. She returns to amase and shock Jericho with the then daring hobble-skirt, slit on the sides.
Not content with being social ar< biter, she contrives to make political capital of every loca! scandal (and there are a couple of fairly lurid ones) for Tucker's benefit. One scandal involves Dave. Long since estranged from Belle, who has brought her obese and dreadful mother to live with them, Dave falls in love with Julia Norman, daughter of Jericho's one-time most distinguished drunk, and now returned to the home town to practice law, A melodramatic conclusion has Belle shoot Dave, not fatally, in a rapid, movie-like sequence of events which exposes Algeria's wicked intrigues. Together with plenty of other cinematic material, the conclusion makes the novel highly eligible for translation from paper to celluloid. :
» » ” AS A STUDY of Kansas psychology, including the drink-wet-and-vote-dry sort of attitude other states have smugly laughed at, “The Walls
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: | of Jericho" has. considerable intere est. Like “Kings Row,” the novel is an uncensored fictional picture of a community, t Mr. Well’ man has less literary skill than the | late Henry Bellamann. : ; But any honest and credible ace count of an American town can be | instructive. Freed from editorial | trammels, the reporter-turned-nove | elist can reeord observations thas may open readers’ eyes to things in | | their own communities, : ;
Brotherhood Week | Books Selected
A NEW selection of books te promote fellowship has been ane | nounced by the National Conference of Christians and Jews in celebrae tion of American Brotherhood week, Feb. 16 to 23. j Under the honorary chairman« | ship of President Truman, the | Brotherhood .Week committee has prepared a list of 19 titles suggested for adult readers, four itles fog | children. * i Books selected for adults include: “The Glass House of Prejudice,” by | Dorothy Baruch (Morrow, $2.50); | “The Miracle of the Bells,” by | Russell Janney (Prentice-Hall, $3); “A Negros Faith in America,” by Spencer Logan (Macmillan, $1.75); | “Color and Conscience,” by Buell G. Gallagher (Harper, $250); “Our | Own Kind," by Edward McSorley | (Harper, $250); “One Nation,” by | Wallace Stegner and the editors of Look (Houghton, Mifin, 1945, $3.75), and “Color Blind,” by Mare garet Halsey (Simon & Schuster, $2.50). i EY ‘The children’s list comprises | “Tiger at City High” by Joseph Gollomb (Harcourt, Brace, $2); “Tradition,” by Anne Emery (Vane guard, $250); “Willow Hill” by | Phyllis Whitney (Reynal & Hitch« | cock, $2), and “One God—The Ways We Worship Him,” by Florence Mary Fitch (Lothrop, Lee & Shep. | herd, 1044, $2). :
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Clergyman's Diary To Be Published
“Kilvert's Diary,” edited by Wile |} liam Plomer and acclaimed as & literary discovery, is announced for | Feb. 18 publication by Macmillan. |[§ From 22 notebooks kept by the | Rev. Francis Kilvert, a Vietorian | clergyman, the editor has put toe | gether a diary termed by A. L, | Rowse in his introduction “among '} the best half-dozen or dozen ever |} written in England,” according to | the publisher,
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