Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1947 — Page 14

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. mystery” called Devil at Westease. |

--Gonan--Doyle, - Raymond Chandler

\ novel. By Hammond Innes. New York,

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~~ SCHEMING-SKIING—Ham--mond Innes, British novelist, who ~ writes: of Alpine intrigue .in “Fire in the Snow."

matic Thrillers

of Harper has sent word that Fire in the

el of suspense, of a clash between men with ulterior

0 i es, and belongs in the category of The Horizontal Man, / Helen Eustis, which also had more meat in it than the

thor of The Edwardians has iright to play such tricks on us.

By V. Sackville-West. New York,

not to be judged as a thriller, that. It’s an honest-to-good-

® » » THE STORY is told by Roger Lilliard, a flier who has been de-

Lilliard doesn’t like Ryan: he senses something evil in his paint-

the story. i

which neither develops much heat. Memories of “Buried Alive,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and similar books came to mind as 1 read. Finally, didn't- ‘the author try a “Seven Keys to Baldpate” ending on me and wipe out the whole business by pulling it out of Roger Lilliard’s typewriter! It made me protest that the auno

build his characters | men and “women; of good and evil them. But in a novel

the bald statement that one |

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~ » » | EVEN FIRST-RATE novelists are captivated by mystery stories. Vv. lackville-West, who once inspired ope that she might become a Jjgjor - British novelist, has just Written a story of “suspense and

“It fant anything like her bestknown work, The Edwardians, but then it isn't like the writings of A.

or Erle Stanley Gardner either. It is a novel about a mystery, rather than a thriller. “To tell what the aythor (Mrs, Harold Nicolson) has done without

| Fiestas, Dances and Songs of

COYOTE DANCE — Yaqui coyote dancer, one of 100 drawings by Carlos Merida for “A Treasury of Mexican Folkways: The Customs, Myths, Folklore, Traditions, Beliefs,

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reproduction in Herron Art museum).

"MAGIC AND MYTH OF THE MOVIES." By Parker Tyles New| York, Holt, $3.50. LA >) By HENRY BUTLER *

INTERPRETING movies is like interpreting dreams. |

“Magic and Myth of the Movies." Movies are closer to dreams than any~other form of art, if only because of the camera's ability to “appéar” and “disappear” persons, Mr. Tyler says. There's a dreamlike, Wraithlike quality to movies which

Starting with that kind of as.sPeople’s inward fears and desires,

|sumption and applying psychology | Mr« Tyler says. They give a magical |

and anthropology fo his examina- illusion of hope, of temporary freetion of a select list of films, Mr.|dom from nagging worry.

esting, even bizarre, conclusions,

= ” ~ HE REMINDS us that magic is 1 wish he had stated. his views still potent in the modern world, more clearly, Instead,

Mr. Tyler in this, since the attitude rhe author of “The Theory of the of many patients toward the doctor |r eisure Class” did not write for resembles that of savages towards! commuters, as I've heard even the medicine man. The periodical | coljege professors complain. $ » ¥

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. VEBLEN'S IO temnity was, in its-time (1899),

“ lan admirable satire both orn the Magic always has served to dispel|)oic re class and on the stuffiness

anxiety. We laugh at the salt-| , le over-the-shoulder business, but we of oth ” po Tests in} uy %; could complicated rituals. written more simply.

seek release from fear through more | 2's » l- A lot of “Magic and Myih of the | AND SINCE the conditions of Movies” is controversial B modern life multiply anxieties: freeing himself from the shac

Boldly New Action-Picture Series

Tells of World's Children

"WORLD'S CHILDREN PICTURE panied by captions and explanaSTORIES." Text by. Elizabeth K.| tions Shiidren a sily grasp. Solem. Pictures from Encyclo- : ; paedia’ Britannica Films, Inc. ONE Srawhack, apparent. also if

- : "| the “True Nature Series,” is the Chicago, Encyclopaedia Brit-| hasiness of the illustrations resultannica Press, 50 cents each.

{ing from enormous enlargement A NEW set™ of action-picture from the original motion-picture stories with brief and simple text

“frames.” But the new series has in large type has been released by undoubted educational value, bethe Encyclopaedia Britannica Press. | sides sides the merit of low price. Fol i the “True Nature EE Series” released last October, the new series is concerned with daily life of children in foreign countries. ” =» = i TITLES are: “Mateo and the, Mexican Fair,” “Anaghalook, EskiDark Eyes and Her

Dr. Canby Appraises Villa. Cather's Work

Henry Seidel Canby’s. keen and sympathetic appraisal of Willaf Cather (1876-1947) is an important feature of the Saturday Review of

the Mexican People,” by Frances Toor. The 550-page volume also contains 10 color plates and 170 photographs. (Crown Publishers, $5.)

New Book on Indiana

Will Be Published

“Moonlight’s Fair Tonight: Interpretation of Indiana,” by John | Bartlow Martin, formerly of The Times (1937-38), is tentatively an-| nounced for November publication | by Alfred A. Knopf. Divided into’ three sections: One, “Crossroads, U. S. A”; Two, “The Best Years, the Best Place,” and! Three, “The Best and the Worst,” the book will recount Hoosier history and describe present Indiana | conditions. i It is said to combine appreciation of the virtues with keen criticism of the failings of the “geographical

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giving the plot away js a hard Job for this reviewer, .

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“Shiu - Ming, |p jterature for May 10. Dr. Canby, noting that Miss Cather’s art “is not a big art,” con- - cludes his study of the late author of “Death Comes for the Archbishop” with the statement, “The spiritual energy of our frontier, and passion nobly interpreted were her themes.” {

| 'Kitty' Heads New List ¢ | Of Pocket Publications

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Z- | “Kitty,” by Rosamond Marshall, 2 - - heads the Pocket Book 25-cent re-| Cis S print list for this month. Zoikat T= Other new titles in the series are!

; “The Sea of Grass,” by Conrad| LITTLE ESKIMO -—- Frontis—| Richter; “North of 36, by Emerson | |

piece drawing from ‘Anagha- {Hough; “Private Duty,” by Faith

look, Eskimo Girl" in the |Baldwin, and two mysteries: “Death | "World's Children Picture /and the Dancing Footman,” by | Stories” series. {Ngaio Marsh, and “The Lost Gal-

lows,” by John Dickson Carr.

Chinese Boy Scout,” “French- . A Canadian Children,” “A Day with Print ‘Helen of Troy’ Dutch Children,” “Hans, of they A » Edi . Swiss Alps,” “Pedro Picks Coffee in IN AANNIversary Edition -Brazil;” “Yukiko and a Japanese, “The Private Life of Helen of Carnival,” “Children on England's: Troy,” John Erskine's best-selling | Canals,” “Kana, Prince of Dark-| novel first published in 1925, willl est Africa” and “Pauli and His appear June 9 in a 20th anniversary Hawaiian Feast.” edition under. Bobbs-Merrill's imThe laminated, glossy covers are print. decorated with full-color photos, ‘The reissue contains a new introand the stories themselves are told

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LURE OF CELLULOID DREAMS—'"Main st.—-25-cent Movie," a pain

Reginald Marsh, in the Whitney museum of American art, New. York~ (From a

Movies the Nearest Thing fo Your Dreams, | ‘Reflect Fears and Desires, Author Asserts

{perts will question. From the lay-

|plaining such a film as “Mildred

| genious enough, but I can’t help

makes them, in a way, the human { ‘mind turned inside out and greatly (about sex and security, to name, only two), movies tend to reflect!

f isn't enough to read about them

Tyler is able to reach some inter-| This is, of course, simplifying i | Mr. Tyler's thesis. For the book's | success and for. public information, | be Sy mumenon is, rather than a croon, { despite scientific skepticism. Any written in a style often resembling | candid physician would corroborate that of the great Thorstein Veblen. |

| Readérs unterrified by long sen- | tences will find amusingly keen obpretended so-

kles |

duction especially written by the!

TAY BY TAXES |Free Food [Proposed by {Two Authors "TOMORROW'S = FOOD: THE NUTRITION." By James Rorty

Foreword by Stuart ' Chase. New York, Prentice-Hall, $3.50. “HOW ABOUT free food?” Maybe the question sounds fantastic, but James Rorty and N. ~4Philip Norman M. D. use it as their | next-to-final ShiRpLer heading in |*Tomorrow's i» The authors propose the addition of. subsidized food to the list » supported seryjcés already existing: education, sanitation and the rest. ‘1 Their su follows a long account of nutrition and. malnutritiori and the consequences of both, _JAnd since the social cost of mal- * |nutrition is witness national health findings in world wars I and II-—the point deserves emphasis.

» » AS THE authors point out, it takes no exhaustive research to find that children cannot learn if they're continually hungry. “If we permit malnutrition in the school population while compelling ' school attendance, we thereby reduce the whole idea of compulsory education to an absurdity,” they comment. That's right up Stuart Chase's alley. Indeed, Mr. Chase begins his brief foreword with the statement: “Sometimes when people ask me what I mean by economics, I reply that economics tries to answer the question: When do we eat?”

w " - THE CURRENT plight of Germany, the age-old and, some think, incurable plight of Oriental counyn.» |tries, the near-starvation that exMR. TYLER turns some neatists almost everywhere in the warphrases. Of Hedy Lamarr’'s accent, |torn countries—these are problems he says it. “makes her speech a demanding immediate action. It

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of the professional scientist, Mr, Tyler makes statements many ex-

Pierce.” The explanation is in-

thinking it's only one of numerous possibilities:

sublime sort of baby talk, as though she had just caused a marshmallow successfully to melt in her mouth.” Of Sinatra: “That the vocal phe-

and pass resolutions deploring them. Briefly, the problem Mr. Rorty and Dr. Norman set before us is one of those “either or” riddles. Either we feed the hungry, or society itself—not just administra tions or political systems .- falls apart. 3

= » » ON THE hopeful side are the {improvements in agriculture and the processing and distribution of food, which the authors describe in considerable detail. ' They take some cracks, incidentally, at fads such as the vitamin pill’ as’ substitute.’ The techniques of food, from soil to table, are better known than ever before in history. The possibilities are limitless. All that stands between us and reasonably rapid solution of the starvation problem is ignorance, prejudice, habit. Maybe books like “Tomorrow's Food” will help rouse us from our lazy smugness. Something better had, but quick.

McHugh's Poems Likely to Sell

“IT LOOKS as if for the first time in two years a book of poetry would sell.” So said Bennett Cerf of Random House, commenting on recent legal action in New York against “The Blue Hen's Chickens,” a volume of 65 poems by Vincent McHugh, published last month by Mr. Cert’s firm. Mr. Cerf’s ri made to the New York Herald Tribune and quoted in Publishers Weekly for May 10, followed raids April 20 and 30 on the Random ‘House office and warehouse by John 8S. Sumner, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Mr. Sumner and his detective assistants confiscated more than 900 copies of the [slender volume, evidently on the ground that the final eight poems, in {the manner of the free-spoken | Latin poet Catullus, are indecent, | according to Publishers Weekly,

Story of Group Medicine | The vexing problems of group medicine are involved in the story (of “High Places,” a novel by Helen | Todd scheduled for May 28 publi- { cation by Lippincott.

actually a beatified groan lying precariously in the upper register is not precisely an accident. Anyone born with an adagio epiglottis like Frank's has a rendezvous with destiny.”

servation in Mr. Tyler's descriptions of people like Danny Kaye, Charlie Chaplin, Betty Hutton and a number of other screen entertainers. He treats them as creatures in a dream world. This critical approach to filmdom could be expanded. But Mr. Tyler might make more concessions to his reading public. i

SCOT—James Barke, Scottish writer, whose novel on the life of Robert Burns, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” was published May 6 by Macmillan ($3). A record of noble striving in the midst of privations, she novel affords new insights into the great poet's career.

CITY MYTH — Some city folks’ notion of the rich, independent farmer, as visualized by Jack Markow for Col. Stoopnagle's latest essay, ''My Back

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originally appeared in the Ladies’ With Grandfather.”

Clarence Day Jr. permitted himself. 3 Clarence Day, one may. surmise, was more repressed. At any rate, though he wrote with wit smd humor, he avoided display of feelings. There's little, if any, pathos in “Life With Father.”

- ¥ ” MR. LESLIE, on the other hand, mingles tears with his laughter. Moments in “There's a Spot in My Heart” give your feelings the same tug they get from Irish folk tunes. .

- Maybe the Irish background explains that. “Life With Father” is an account of a Protestant Episcopal boyhood. “There's a Spot in My Heart” is both Irish and Roman Catholic. Readers will note the difference in attitudes. Mr. Leslie's chronicle begins

in New York's West 70's. . His 8-year-old hero, burdened with the name Esmaux Loyola Van Woort, is devoted to Grandfather, who in turn treats the child with kindness and courtesy. » » ~ GRANDFATHER is far and away the best character in the book.

from Esmaux’ father’s side), the old man defends his unconvention+ al views on national and international politics with quiet dignity. His invariable patience with Esmaux’ questions (“Could Jesus lick Jim Jeffries, leaving out miracles?” or “If God is good, why does he ever let the Chicago Cubs win a ball game?”) wins the child's complete confidence. Mother (her husband, a West Pointer, died of “tropic fever” in the Philippines) is a far less sympathetic personality. Even though Mr. Leslie represents her as ami-

absent-minded, she seems to have

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