Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1948 — Page 8

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Cavalcade,” a parade of personalities and goings-on down

i After half = century somebody | aid that “in the national capital he dead are happier than those H nit of office,” but Jessie HAenton ft the drawing... I was in an armchair in hell.

com Of the mation, Today, says 80 1 woke up; but the buzzing

ur. Hurd, Washington is & world put the city is important

| “Of ' course. 100-per cent politician Grover SEE per ont pol wr Beart?

Folsom, gained ‘by her marriage to the “Within a single season by Mrs. Cleveland of the bustle put. it out of fashion.” « . . This is the first time I have encountered this remarkable historic event in a book about our past Such service should not be suppressed. Plagues should be placed to commemorate -it and tosh those who would bring the bustle back, in this year 1948. : :

THERE ARE some other bits-of inside information in “Washington Cavalcade.” For instance; the word that President Taft used to enjoy Hb sneaking out of the White House to BE the National Press Club for a little by game of poker. ' Heretofore only gr President Harding has shouldered Le the blame for patronizing the aver-| x age American's ‘sport. 5 us think better than ever of Pres-

is the second in the Bociety in America series of which “The Proper Bostonians,” by Cleveland Amory, was the first. | . THE BLURB for Henry Kane's “Armchair in Hell” says: “The second appearance of Peter Cham-| Wednesday by Harper.

port, Anderson,

anr Vincennes—Ora ‘are invited to contac “ance, or Fred W. Case, Principal.

HE FIRS READER . . . By Harry Hansen INA h oy Wie Washington Cavalcade’ Bares Fables and Struggles Of Our National Capital "WASHINGTON CAVALCADE." By Charles Hurd. New York, Dutfom $4.5. » A : \ WHEN THE government of the United States moved 3 i into the new city of Washington in 1800, many people | .hought the place-was like a mule, “without pride of ancestry And until the end of the Civil War

} + hey kept wondering whether it would ever become a suitThus writes Charles Hurd in “Washington

the last line. It's unpredictable . ."

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persisted, I lay stiff and supine.

high gear.

get a move on.

Uged sue “Trouble?” “No.”

“Swell.” :

“Yeah?”

“Thanks, precious.” the stairs. Up.”

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talked this way. choppy in print.

hour of my afternoon.

bers will jolt you on Page One and never let you off the hook until tough, last, Bo I, who am supposed w be making out my income tax report, start the book and get this jolt on

The devil was a dentist with a

capital, “the mirror in ly | ata . i is the of 1 joy suit and prone, v . ‘he United States.” , 1 wriggled. $ Washington, its variows| -Resolutely. ; shases, rémains « ; | “sting to authors who respond ‘9! NO, DEAR READER, this is not ! he eysioaity ut the ago “The Mir-|free verse; this is the effect of a ae ie a washington,” pointing up| doorbell - on Peter Chambers, the, : { the foibles of personalities, made anny private detective. Are you jo 1 sensation. Bulky volumes of In=|y51047 This Peter Chambers is

“lon a job for a gambler and pretty announced c,h. Henry Kane (who prefers to be called Hank), has the yarn in

There's no denying that Lhings I -don't want to give the plot away, so I will play

hr aes oc. of Other Voices, Other Rooms’ Expected

and close heard of cannons booming after | that makes most other fictional writing seem pedestrian and uninspired, S°¢nes are partly dreamlike. With economy of words it combines maximum significance, mini-| They are poetic. Poets properly|y...ns New York sees more pa-

& guide. Tt is rather sketchy bOUY| “ugyoq)» he gad, & personalities, but it refers inten-} “Skoal” I said, of % " to the of Wash- Boom. Boyer 8 hu to the wives of Presidents.| “Skoal” he said. gL officials and members of the diplo- “Skoal,” I said, % : matic corps and to the dining and Boom. : wining, as well as dining without| “Skoal,” he said. wining, thet make society in Wash- “Skoal,” I said. : ington picturesque, alluring Boom again, 3 dme-killing. That's the first time I have . 1 ashington ‘is So Be Vente Xt 1a 8 city of drink, but Jt all depends ou the volatile moods. Ie judgment of| TIERS 5. changes easily, too. nay be determined by the number

WHEN TWO persons talk togeth- | when best sellers tend to approxi- ond Baty us own utues; ) Phy than have prosaic reporters Mr. votes that put a man ii utiges| eh IF HUEY DO; aey Safe hi Fats the propor tions of metropoli-1 1" by tossing a Yed tennis ball of po Pale 64% Sula a poetic-structure fa . NF brilliant Splash ning with Peter, who has just " 7 |dodged the cop whose drinks were

“I've been looking for you, too.”

commotion down strange assortment of characters: control, will not be another Jack cannot qualify as lusty, red-blooded

“I told him you'd beat it. I told th him I saw you taking the elevator down.”

“But I didn't. I saw you taking

sours»..me- Likened to Soap Opera

I DON'T doubt Peter and Dolores It simply looks Here's where] ADMIRERS of Ludwig Lewisohn °° teachers of English get the jolt.are likely to find his new novel, .|They will probably picket the book. “Anniversary,” disappointing. ~ T learn that Henry Kane Is doing} The book scarcely measures up to very well, selling lots’ of stories. Mr. Lewisohn's earlier work. CerAnd as for “Armchair in Hell" it/tainly it cannot compare with “The “he [kept the on” thie Book till the Jast[Case of Mr. Crimp,” that grim = Cléveland's - bride page. and used up a whole hallichronicle of a hideously ili-advised social .

NOW AT HERRON—""Fatherless," an oil painting by Stephen Csoka, one of 50 canvases: selected for exhibit here from the Carnegie Institute's 1947 exhibition of American painting. The exhibition will remain at Herron Art Museum through this month.

To Win High Praise of Critics

"OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS." ‘A novel. New. York, Random House, $2.75. n By HENRY BUTLER lights go out in a thunder storm TRUMAN CAPOTE'S first novel, “Other Voices, Other Rooms," |" the Cloud Hotel, one-time glitters

; ing resort and now jihsed™.na .® which Random Housé is bringing out Monday, will certainly win h o {critical praise. 5 3 y PBR! sorted, save for the Negro hermit,

It is a book of extraordinary literary virtuosity—the kind of thing | Little Sunshine—the incidents and

mum editorializing. “And that's a, —— =~ have enjoyed a great.deal more

genuine achievement -at a time Practicing grandfather, Jesus Fever, jioanse in describing experience

and evil whi x [through the open door of his room compelling reality. Sh has ts own MR. CAPOTE'S STORY. sim 1 to bounce. down the staircase. Tr + SIMPIE 506] also meets Idabel Thompkins,

{enough in mere inciderit, at every yng red-headed tomboy, Who kills

tan telephone books.

summoned from a foster-home in viciously when, in a moment of gattable If New Orleans to backwoods Skully’s tenderness, he kisses her. . the total slfect 1s what Landing, Miss; by a letter ostensibly from his father. i In a ruinous mansion surrounded at the conclusion that Joel, owing tention. . is {by jungle-like garden, Joel finds a to a sequence of events beyond his “Other Voices, Other Rooms” Miss Amy, partly deiftented; cousin’ Armstrong. But Mr. Capote con-| writing about the phonily energetic Randolph, strangest of all the char- trives to weave disturbing and people Hollywood can readily And

thete with magnetic charm; Zoo prose-poem pattern. Fever, the cook, and her voodoo-, * Whether it's the ugly cottonmouth|it’s a masterpiece.

' Anniversary’ by Lewisohn

|Bantam to Publish 'Hiroshima' Story

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"ANNIVERSARY." A novel. By rok

New York,

Ludwig Lewisohn. Farrar, Straus, $3.

recounted by Babe Ruth, Leo _ | celebrities, and a collection of Mil- . {ton Berle’s best ‘jokes. “John. Steinbeck’s. - latest book; |

|marriage. “The Pearl,” heads the January list

It makes

tility," . discusses

avert disaster,

WORLD'S NEED — Dr. Elton Trueblood, professor of philosophy at Earlham College, whose latest book, "Alternative to Fu-

the world's need of an ethical revival to "Alternative to Futility" will be’ published next

t And from a man of Mr. Lewisohn'’s enlightenment and erudition, “Anniversary” seems. almost as trivial ° aS A SOAp opera. + “The Story concerns Joy Munson, daughter of a wealthy New England merchant and a self-willed, some- §, what rebellious girl who starts de-« fying convention when she’s still in : her teens. : The boys are all fascinated by her beauty, piqued hy her indifference to thelr attention. “At college, her non conformity. results in her being re-

{of Bantam Books. Other new reprints in the 25¢ cent series include: “Mama’s Bank Account, hy-Kathryn-Forbes; “The Scandals Clochemerle,” by Gabriel Cheviler ‘ ‘Murder Cheats the Bride, by Anthony Gilbert; * | “Wings of Fear,” by Mignon G. [Eberhart, and’ “Coroner Creek” ‘and g ¥ + | “Station West,” both by Luke Short. NOVELIST — Ludwig Lewis- a

ohm; novelist; critic and literary "Dal Palma’ Out Friday historian, whose latest novel, |. Palo Tovey BY" Pam

CARNIVAL TIME— Mardi Gras | Puts Grip on New Orleans

“MARDI GRAS DAY." By Caroline Durieux, John McCrady and

{"NEW ORLEANS HOLIDAY." By Eleanor Early. New York, Rine- £

Raloh Wickiser, New York,

Holt, $3.

hart, $3.75.

VERY SOON, suh, you'll be heats) ing about N‘Orleans and the Mardi Gras

For carnival has begun at New

Orleans. It opened on Twelfthnight, which was Jan. 6, and will close on Shrove ‘Tuesday, which 1s Mardi Gras. At midnight comes Ash Wednesday and all funmaking and excessive wining and dining is off, for then Lent begins. .

To get -us interested, booksellers

are displaying a tome with a purple jacket called “Mardi Gras Day," with 30 drawings, lithographs and text by Caroline Durieux, John McCrady and: Ralph Wickiser. I don’t recall any book that makes the whole rigmarole so- clear to foreigners.

We are told that Mardi Gras is

a Prench term for fat Tuesday, and that the discoverer, Jberville, gave this name to a spit 12 miles up the Mississippi when he took possession for France. It's been going on for well over 150 years, getting noisier and more elaborate and today is the most picturesque of all dress-up parties. ~~ . |

. wv» THE OLD Creole families had

dinners and balls on Twelfth night, the Quadroom ball became famous in the 19th Century and pageants began in 1838.

The Comus parade started in 1857

and the Rex Bnd’ Momus parade was organized in 1872. After the first World War a Negro social forganization started the: Zulus. Mr. Wickiser writes:

“Zulu finally acquired a small

yacht for his flagship. The climax of Zulu's day comes when the

By Truman Capote. rearing its spade-shaped head to| "U8 SOFC (RIT iil On Jack

strike, or a tawdry carnival whose son Ave. where a toast is drunk to

stops before the mortuary

his majesty and where the

{proprietor plays host to the king

at dinner.” . Dressing up for parades comes from the middle ages and has its best American expression in New

rades than any other American city, but few of them are costume affairs, and then only in part.

GENERAL USE of masks by the population would not be tolerated in New York City, where election

AND HE CAN-make each inel- ions crowds are sufficient” to tax point has overtones of meaning. a huge cottonmouth Joel has almost dent, each aspect of external rLa-|the resources of the police departMotherless Joel Knox, age 13, is stepped on, and who fights Joel ture seem important and unfor- ment. :

New Orleans hostesses entertained

some I term 1c |Mark Twain at the Mardi Gras and i th . Joaiefs ay DEUrole, | o went- home and wrote that it THERE IS MORE than a suspicion |that is evidently Mr. Capote’s in-|y.. cirly-girly romance and a commercial affair

bers’ firm will bring out next fall “The Cup and the Sword” and ' three of six novels by Mrs, Ho Indianapolis firm, hh

“I BELIEVE the function of the

Chambers; Bobbs Merrill president:

Indianapolis firm, beginning with “Oil for the Lamps of China,” deplores current author's tendency to write more. and more historical novels. . The writer who delves into- the past for his material dodges complex problems novelists ought to face, Mrs. Hobart belleves. “In writing a historical novel, you avoid many controversial issues,” she says. “But fiction carries increasing responsibility today. I do think we

life which we writers have not always met.” Wane - lll nlf eran AND SO Mrs. Hobart has set her latest novel in the period 1921-1947, a period full of domestic conflict which, in" other countries, has resulted in revolution. “I wanted to show how the United States, through democratic processes, has been able to avoid the worst crisis other countries have had,” she says. The location of her new novel is California, which she considers “a

They didn't like that, for to them it was a joyous, exuberant, carefree event. Thus writes Eleanor Early in “New Orleans Holiday,” a

acters, an alcoholic, decadent es- morbid threads into an intricate/for a movie version of a story. book that ought to be good reading Judged by and for itself, however, /for anyone interested. Miss Early , |says that the Mardi Gras “is not a calculated tourist attraction.”

su.» MISS EARLY relates that, what-

ever may g0 on in the streets, the queen of the carnival and her court John Hersey's “Hiroshima” will!are- dignified ladies. "Tis—said that be released early this year in the|a national weekly (unnamed) sent J (Bantam Books 25 -cent reprint/d Photogrepties from New-York to series. The same series also will “Everything was progressing. nicely |issue two anthologies shortly: “My until the assistant, his mind on

exclusive pictures. of her.

_ |Great Day in Baseball,” anecdotes|cheesecake, addressed the -queen.”

Everyone was: appalled. “The man

Durocher - and 44 other diamond {rom . New . York had -asked- the

queen to cross her knees.” Somehow, we are thankful that

~ithere isa place where reticence

survives, but we wouldn't have guessed it was New Orleans.—H. H.

Expose of Asylums To Be Published Feb. 7

“Stubborn-Wood,” by Emily Harvin, an expose of private asylums which the author describes as “our American private concentration camps,” “will ‘be published Feb. 7 by Ziff-Davis. : Written under a pen name, the book describes the "author's two Years.-in. private-asylums-and her eventual “cure” fn & public asylum,

very good laboratory” for studying democracy in action, and where she land Mr. Hobart now reside. “I seem always to write about where I am living at the time,” she adds, alluding to previous novels written during her stay in China and Mexico.

#” o » WHILE IT JS STILL too early to

New and Former Ample H

Feb. 10-11: Registrat

quested to leave, . » "ow TWO UNSUCCESSFUL marriages {in a fairly short-time make her the subject of gossip in the small city, - = That gossip reaches a new high servations of the town gossips in , 1 when Joy comes home for her fa-|their monologs fail to redeem “An- pears on it, according to the pubther's birthday celebration accom- niversary” from a lushness, a cloy- . panied by another suitor, one An- ing sentimentality despite the -80=! a | [thony Foulk (even that name n;iication Mr. Lewisohn attributes 00th Year Print Date

sounds’ like something out of “Her yo jou and Anth | {8econd Husband's First Wife.) An-/ y nthony. [ “It's an Old California Custom,” |

|thony, It appears, is the real McCoy! The man who has written so vig- by Lee Shippey, columnist: on the at last—the others were” just errors CTOUSly-and pehetratingly in earlier Los Angeles Times, will be pubof judgment. fiction, criticism and autobiography lished by Vanguard next Saturday, Mr. Lewisohn tells his story S¢¢™MS this time to be just- coasting the 100th anniversary of the disthrough a series of monologs by along. covery of gold in California.

| seven’ characters, including Joy her-| " x2

"Anniversary," is set in a New {Kellino, wife of James Mason, the England” small city.” (From a |actor, will be published next Fri-| trai h Te } {day by Dutton. Mr. Mason has depor rait by Joseph Tepper) = | signed the “jacket pf the book and] painted the illustration which ap-|

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. "Oil For the Lamps of China," ‘The Peacock Sheds His Tail” are bart. previously published by the

Novelist Says Books Should Deal With Present Issues -

novelist is to deal with thé present.” That's how Alice Tisdale Hobart explains-her choice of theme for her forthcoming novel, which Bobbs-Merrill will publish -some time next fall. She was in Indianapolis today to consult with David Laurance —

......Mrs. Hobart, who. has had six previous novels publiched- by. the

new book, Mrs. Hobart says it deals

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