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THE FIRST READER in "by TI Hansen

Keys to Well-Adjusted Family Relations iy In Massive New Volume

“SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE." Edited by Morris Fishbein and Ernest| W. Burgess. New York; Doubleday, $6. v

WHAT is a successful family like? Are the smiling faces that a father, mother, sons and daughters show the world when it calls just as smiling when | . they ‘trail down to the breakfast table Monday morning? Does the father tell his sons what to do and the mother dominate her daughters, sifting out their friends and influ- | ‘encing their clothes? | Do they disagree over personal expenses or compromise el

for the good of all? = {the vast importance of “tmowig These questions arise Upon. how to-bring up a- child: I reading a chapter by Muriel] "no. W. Brown, of the U. 8. Office of, FORTY-EIGHT YEARS ago, yh Education, in a remarkably frank | ater the Bpéitish-American war, the|

and useful work called “Successful | Marriage.” a collection of 38 papers| American people swelled out their

by. authorities on courtship, -mar-| chests and absorbed with enthysi-| riage, the rearing of children, fam-| 85m a little pep talk by Elbert Hu} fly life and personal and social bard called “A Message to Garcla.’ health. It is edited by Morris Fish-|It occupied seven pages of his iitule] bein, editar of the Journal of the magazine, The Philistine, and told; American Medical Association and how Capt. Andrew 8: Rowan of the) Ernest W. Burgess, head of the|U. 8. Army carried an important Department of Sociology of the | {letter to the Cuban general, Calixto University of Chicago. Garcia, making much of his cours Pr age, grit, and true-blue spirit ns an

ht ¢ MISS BROWN relates that a example to others who might catry

a “message to Garcia.” It was writ-| ~ ‘study of 82 low-income families liv-| b ew in New York City, completed four ten in an-hour;-it swept the country.

and more than 40 million “opies years ago, showed that in 24 months| yee distributed during Hubbard's these families had 100 serious

lifetime, troubles, but that 14 had np troubles You're never heaid of it?” Wel}

at all. Investigating these 14, the iarch investigators discovered: ste! soda . in the family Dard Hunter, expert on paper- { ONE: Hach person in. making, joified the Hubbard vrintknew his place or role and knew|g,,, yp gast Aurora, N. Y. in 1903. what to expect of every other mem-|y, “ine fret - numberof the New| _per. As ons father put it: “If every- _which-is-the new collec~| body has a job in the family and|isry quarterly by Duschnes CrawGoes it, we get along all right. ford, Inc. carrying on the tradition TWO: Each member of the fam-|of the earlier Colophon of Elmer fly was willing to put the good of Adler; Mr. Hunter tells of the exthe family ahead of his own good.|traordinary later history of “A Mcs- + “THREE: Esch member provided 5age to Garcia.” some means for family members to] Mr. Hunter has Mr. Hubbard's meet their needs and satisfy their own copy of the message, with sev~ interests within the family. eral unpublished letters in ‘hem. FOUR: Each family had a goal One® from Capt. Rowan, shows Mr. before writing about nim. direction of it. ‘Everybody in the ROAD

family wanted this goal and was

helping to reach it. carrying the message except the fun . an of reading Mr. Hubbard's essay. FAMILY LIFE is a compromise Two other letters provide a remarkamong individuals and begins with able anticlimax. individual training. - If the‘ child » gets a sense of co-operation, it is 7 likely to benefit the family he establishes later on. Social scientists studying marriages that end in|. divorce, stress the importance of systematic training in responsibili-

Mr. Hubbard that he got nothing for

. ONE 1S A SOUR NOTE from a lieutenant in Capt. Rowan's cegiment who declares that Capt. Rowan “was always in- Washington or some other nice place holding down some snap job” and getting swelled up

Success which brought Ross Lockridge Jr. $175,000 ini the Metro-Goldwyn=—" Mayer award as well as thie Book-of-the-Month Club's January selection.

pay publication costs on the first 100,000 copies so as to keep the price down to $3.95 (Publishers’ Weekly Dec. 20). in the bookselling business and ald | wide sales in the first weeks.

Hoosler-angle story, which will keep! local readers and writers busy for a| O3I%o0d Jones, “llong time. real Hoosier novel? How closely does Mr. county approximate Henry County, where it seems to be located geographically?

In another letter Capt. Rowan t~llsi

out Monday. to evaluate “Raintree County” on its own merits. ’

wood has applied even “horse of the story would be that the story TiC

ties when young. Miss Brown sug~ gests that American schools can

after Publication of the letter. The

The to buy wisely within the limits of the family income. : ja “He didn't do worthy TWO: - To resist high-pressure/at all. He received the praise “of salesmanship, which keeps families|the general of the Army and got to

in debt. be made a lieutenant colonel ‘or a THREE: To understand how to|feat which about 40 newspaper cormanage a house; respondents had already performed

‘Premarital education is an urgent necessity from the point of and view of social counsellors and vhysicians, but how to get it done is/ Yachting cap as part of his uni-

“& tough Problem.” Yet “thI§ AooK form; -which ‘was-damnable. When

shows what, vast strides have been|YOU Want to monkey with some " __made in our generation 0 get Jeople|OUr national heroes you had be

TT to tace the truth No- longer Is it #sk-me-because-1: I a ~-4mposstbie-to-write—frankly- about} Perspective .is-almogt out-of sight.” y+

sexual adjustment, the dangers of

Elbert Hubbard never printed the

IN OHIO EXHIBIT—"Gas and Oil," a painting by Malcolm Dashiell of Indianapolis, senior student at Herron Art School, which is one of the outstanding oil paintings -accepted for the 13th annual New Year show at Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, O. Eight other Indianapolis artisfs are represented in the exhibit, which opened -last Thursday and will continue through Jan. 25. They are: Garo Antreasian, who recently won the $1000 first prize in'L. S. Ayres’ 75th Anniversary art show: Robert Gardner, William Kennedy. Patricia Montgomery, Thomas O'Loughlin, Leon R. Walker, Martha Ratcliffe and Norman Wilson. Wilbur D. Peat, Herron Art Museum director, was one of the judges.

‘Raintree County,’ 1060-Page Prose Poem,

Rich First-Novel Success, Out Monday

RAINTREE COUNTY." A riovel: By Ross tockridgeJr:Boston; -

Houghton Mifflin, $3.95. . By HENRY BUTLER THERE 18 more-than “Raintree County.” “Thére's the story of. the book as an almost unprecedented first: novel

There's also the story of how M-G-M.is helping. Houghton Mifflin

That will minimize iter hetical material essential to the plan but not-to. the story. - Lengthy dialogs’ between Hero Jo hnny, the idealist; Prof. Jeru{salem Webster Stiles, the cynic; political realist, and “Cash” Carney, rising capital|ist, all f{lluminate Mr. Lockridge's picture of -an-era. But those inter. |ludes, like the tontinual flashbacks, {the frequent “quotations” from mythical contemporary newspapers and the somewhat surrealist dream Meanwhile, the book -is coming qramas — reminiscent of Joyce's - It's high time tw try “Ulysses,” do retard the action. "8 0» IF I READ HIM ‘correctly, Mr. | Lockridge's objection “to further cutting of the book in the interests

And there's the complica

Is “Raintree County” a

Lockridge's ' mythical

Lock:

~ PROSE ~POET—Ross ridge Jr., formetly of Blooming-

ton, whose monumental first novel, "Raintree County," prose poem of epic proporions.

" » = THE TERM “EPIC,” which Holly-

operas, is shopworh:. Butt in 1!s|jtselr is only part of his scheme. ced hole ation ; classical ‘sense of a Jong and The story is symbolic, rather than An 4 ee Apia She tise Rainire elaborate trea that ha ed , Mr

of a great $

ore than just tier historic al i a ig town, falls in love wo individu

goes to war, s 2 =

its meandering Shawthe

American ‘idealism. He is young mounds, The book, we are told, has been America of his time. mucky River and

will wish it had been cut moré. Johnny — having him present, for

a ’ < — | propriately enough In & story of im=

| sponsible manhood.

“INSIDE on By George L.

\ [formed them and under what cir-

is a!

; es as Terwined novel, “Raintree County” is a 1060- a girl he never- wins, marries ‘a ‘with the national life. The two ar

page prose poem about a Hoosier | |Southern belle of mixed blood and] inseparable, hero, Johnny Shawnessy, his ex- {deranged mind, periences in a gredt era (1839-1892) | marches with Sherman, and so on, of American history, hig dreams and! finally returning to Raintree Counhis speculations concerning the ty—Johnny is a symbol of youthful] trée County, with its ancient Indian mysteries of life, Jove and death.

THE VERY. CONTOUR of Rain-|

hidden cut considerably from its original Mr. Lockridge makes a sort of marshes around Paradise Lake | manuscript length. Some FTeaders Upton Sinclair Lanny Budd out of where the golden-blossomed Lake) Collect Music Criticisms. jie grows, becomes symbolic of life For-Mr:-Lockridge;-to-compiete ‘his example; atthe —essassination—of and “Jove; Mr. Lockridge “weaves selection of “Virgil Thomson's i, tremendously comprehensive plan, Lincoln. But that terrible event it- much pagan erotic significance into cal criticisms 1944-47, is announced | has included a great | deal of paren-'self Immediately became a symbol the early portions of his book—ap-{for publication ‘next month by! ts—youth—developing-into~re=tbook; “The Musical Scene; was"

HOW IT's DONE— Rope Trick Rated Best In Mag ic 3

Boston, as told to Robert Parris. New York, Beechhurst Press,

magic is the Indian rope

|denied that it has been performed ras advertised. But George L. Boston, |who has been first assistant to al

‘[humber of well-known magicians,!

| declares that the great Nicola, whose| {real name was William Nicol, actu[ally performed it. 1 Mr; Boston has imparted his al-| | ways interesting reminiscences ot | {work with Howard Thurston, Charles| | Carter, Harry Kellar and other

--t magicians to Robert Parris for “In-/ - ~ side Magic.”

This is ‘the way -he; - {describes Nicola's version of the| |Indian rope trick. performed on a| | bare stage under brillant light: | | “A coil of rope was brought out

and. thrown ‘into the air. There it|

remained, still and upright. A girl {climbed three-fourths of the way up the rope. : = . . “THERE WAS a small puff of smoke and the ‘girl disappeared. [Nicola clapped his hands. The rope /fell to the floor and was carried off. There was no -change ‘of lighting (throughout the illusion and after (1 was over the curtains were not closed —= the show went right on Many other illusionists are still unwilling to admit that Nicola could have done it.” Here you wili ask, as I did: “How's Ht-done?” "But Mr, Boston isnot giving away any of the tricks of { his business. He would find himself

+hex-on-him. That is why his title! does not mean that he is explaining any illusions. He is merely telling you about the men who per-

cumstances. Did Nicola do the

to challenge don’t think he will rise to the challenge. » . » IF HE SAW the trick done, and assisted at it, possibly he can stage (one for us. But Mr. Boston does (not seem to be an originator of magic. He is thé indispensable man on whom the magician depends. He knows all about sawing ia woman in two and escapes from cabinets, - but he doesn't give us enough facts fo make us competi- | tors,

o BiVve it a surprising turn. “I have ® heard magicians complain that Vir-', gil violates all the principles of magic,” he writes. “What they

That makes us all even. Nala -H. H.

“The. Art of Judging Music,”

Knopf. Mi. Thomson's

{sembled from his music columns

‘THE BEST publicized trick in neg, © 3 "There is no end of talk about it, but’ "nobody, apparently, has ever done it.| |At least authorities in magic have

EDITS 'FEDERALIST'—Charles. A: ‘Beard, di stinguished Hoos.

ier-born historian, whose riew volurde, "The Enduring Federalist," will be published next Thursday by Doubleday. It is a selection of 85 of the. most significant of the Federalist Papers, with introduction and a foreword to each. Dr, Beard, who hails, from Knightstown, isthe husband of Mar Ritter Beard, formerly of In dianapolis and his collaborator .in tion."

a general

"The Rise of American Civiliza-

Reynal and Hitchcock,

Harcourt, Brace Unite The firms of Harcourt, Brace & Co. and Reynal & Hitchcock have effected -a combination; - ‘Vo—Donald~ G.—Braee,—president—of Harcourt,” Brace, and Eugene Reynal, president of Reynal & Hitch-

According to the publisher's release, the new firm will continue Indian rope trick? To Goubt it is/the Reynal & Hitchcock mpeing on George L. Boston: I sonie of its books.

New ‘Series’ Volare “Washington Cavalcade” by| Charles Hurd, a_second volume in| Dutton’s Society in America series, | will be published Jan. 12. It fol- W'S lows the series’ first volume, Cleveland. Amory’s “The Proper Bostonians,” published last October. |

Stravinsky Writes Play

Igor Stravinsky is completing a |three-dct opera, his first in 20 years, Magicians are constantly observ- based on Hogarth's picture-sequence, ing other magicians, attending con- “A - Rake's Progress.” A |veritions and carrying on an ex- ography of the composer, by Eric change of devices. But some magi-, Walter White, will be published clans are more ‘expert than others. {March 10 _by the Philosophical > « | by

Dale Carnegie, author of To Win Friends and Influence: Peo- |

“How To Stop Worrying.”

¥ | tentatively scheduled for May pub- | ead - 15. that be fooled them, 100, | lication by Simon & Schuster,

“North Meridian Street (St. Clair éfitrance). “Central 1s the

premarital relations, the problems

Crane letter.

of miscarriages and abortions and tour at $3000 a wyeek.

Instead, he went on

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| What the great reading public| 1040-44. will think of so philosophic a prose {poem #8 “Raintree . County” and i® what Hollywood will do with it are : ‘questions better postponed: for the| -AS-a-result-of recent third-party, /moment. But since it is possible to|#8itation, Dwight Macdonald has’ skip through the book just for the added a postscript to his “objec- | |story and action here and there, it | (tively critical” book on Henry Wal|should also be possible to make a lace, according to Vanguard, the : |movie out of it. The already publi- Publisher. i |cized foot-race episode and many | Wallace: The Man and the Myth,” | : 5 lothers will be screen~ogenic. jhe Book will appear Feb. 18,

| But I can't help thinking that! filming, like careless reading, of Collaborate on Book i woodcuts ith WX URGESHR TolrhaT > Jofrit “Work ™ the book's best. Whitmanesque of author John Steinbeck and | poetic intensity.

Mr. Lockridge, assisted by his wife, collaborators have been working on put into writing “Raintree County" the volume since their return from |have certainly produced an Ameri- Russia last fall, ican classic, publisher.

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