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"THE FIRST READER... By

Harcourt, Brace, $3. “THE LAST BILLIONAIRE." Scribner, $3.75. © BEFORE 1 BEGAN stalking

Harry Hansen

Ingersoll Novel Hollow Recital of Commonplace

“THE GREAT ONES." A novel,

By Ralph Ingersoll. New York,

By William C. Richards, New York,

authors, I used to stalk politicians, }

of whom the woods were full. Among them was that tall,

Reoublican stalwart

, Charles Warren Fairbanks, Senator and Vice

President, who nursed a Presidential bee for a long time. One day he was asked about some adverse comment on his candidacy. I don’t recall the exact question, but this was his answer:

“It isn't what people say about a man that should bother him; it's what comes out of his own mouth that ought to scare him ‘to death.” i This observation

love without heat, suffer without (pain, If we assume that they get {fun out of their money or torment out of spiritual frustration, we as-

recurred to sume what is not disclosed in the

me while I was reading Ralph In- story.

gersoll's. tongue-in-cheek . novel,

Many executives of New York's

“The Great Ones,” which is likely publishing world are mentioned

to be an eight-day sensation in/by name and some of the fictional | and advertising|characters bear the names of

the editorial

circles of New York. Although actual persons. Even the author

labeled “the love story of two

very Important people,” it reads still

appears briefly as a character! 1 think Mr. Ingersoll has

like a distorted paraphrase of the talked too much — but this re-news-magazine making of the last mark is not original with me,

25 “years, In which Mr. Ingersoll

was immersed up to his chin, |!

While I was trying to figure out how the author had turndd fact into fiction I discovered that the novel does not carry the usual disclaimer that all this is imaginary and that any resemblance to persons living or dead is un-

1 do not expect Mr. Ingersoll to

| violin,

: : lp . A VERY different type of rich man occupies the stage in the biography called “The Last Billionaire.” It is Henry Ford. William C. Richards, who wrote It, is an associate editor of the Detroit Free Press and knew Mr. Ford since 1917, He seems to have sized him up better than any earlier author. The Henry Ford of this vastly entertaining chron-

est, helpful—in short, unpredictable, as the book says. x There is something of a little boy in all adults. The little boy in Henry Ford was closer to the

Ar urface than in mest of us. It

made him dance jigs, collect rare make unexpected decisions. He didn’t take on a veneer because he made a lot of money. He was the sort of man who could visit the Edward T. Stotesbury house near Philadelphia—an establishment. of - 145 rooms, 14 elevators and 45 baths—and say: “It's a great experience to see how the rich live.” In comparison the Ford home “was a lean-to on the other side of the tracks,” but Henry could have bought the Stotesburys many times over, ~ » »

THIS BOOK Is packed with

‘| stories, many new, all told with a

most competent executive, a wellliberal ideas than his father, but

Yorker. Edsel Foard never fought his He had his own ideas

often right. Ford and

icle is-a real human being—able, |

educated man who had more

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Miss

Fails to Equal Excellence of 'The Snake Pit Gisuricu. mn rie

“THE PROFESSOR'S UMBRELLA.

{ Professor's Umbrella,” stirred up

with anti-Semitism among other

a powerful novel about campus

a powerful novel about a psychiatric hospital. I'm sorry to say I found “The Professor's Umbrella” disappointing. Despite the virtues of Miss Ward's writing—compression, imagination, humor and occasional startling clarity of insight, her new novel is more like a sequence of short stories than a novel, It doesn’t bufld up to climaxes in the way such a novel should.

” » » THE STORY concerns. Gregory | Kitner, an English instructor in| {Tamarack University, who is de{voted to teaching as a career. | Gregory's part-Jewish ancestry is a hindrance to his being promoted. When Gregory rebulls a love-smitten. coed who has set. her cap for him, she circulates a rumor asgailing his morals. The president of the university fires him without granting him the usual hearing by the faculty council. & Gregory turns down an $8000 offer to become chief editor of

ory’s determination to stay in teaching despite poor rewards, The inference is that Harriet and Gregory will. marry and share

Ford dealers wanted a sixcylinder car long before the father yielded; in fact, it took! Edsel 13 years to get one. The elder Ford thought better of his

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rk together now headed by the phenomenally successful Fantasy, a sort

of super-Life, but this peters out. | of the ill-fated Catherine Howard, |

original four and the eight—the| Lincoln. RT ?

ur. Biography of King's

Wife Out Next Month

“Henry VIII's Fifth Wife” described ‘as the first blography

Imstéad Letia furns to politics. Will be published next month by As one of her friends said, she|McBride's.

5 shouiq have beer a five-star gen-

oo. GREAT ONES

Written by Michael Glenne, the

"| book is termed “the dramatic and| TTTT{oliehRng story of a beautiful” proves indiscreet queen and a colorful,

wut

the frugal living but intellectual stimulation of academic life,

‘Best of Art’ Will Sharpen

Your Aesthetic “BEST OF ART." By nly Genauer. New York, Doubleday, $7.50.

IF I WERE a painter, hoping it.” {somebody would appreciate and symbolic expression of social conunderstand what I was trying to cepts, “a new religious aware- | put on canvas, I could ask for no ness,” dealing’ with humane and | better ambassador to the public! spiritual values as opposed +

than Emily Genauer.

| fers expression in words to e

that it takes more than bank bal-| ruthléss court dominated by a Pression in crayon or brushwork ances and circulation figures to!powerful, self-willed monarch.”

make a novel. Just as these lives are lived wholly for externals, so this novel is. full of movement without meaning. The story is heaped with details, often

“researchers” at his elbow, with March 4. the usual results—the glorifica-| lisher, the new poems tion of the insignificant and the,author of “Blood for a Sf

Sturges and Letia

their wealth without excitement,

3d Jarrell Volume Ready for Press

Randall Jarrell's third volume

sensibility.”

“CROSSWORD PUZZLE Answer te Previous Pussle - RIOISWIRILILT IMAG] IL] Lough-Maker ARIE IO AE LIAR IAN] 1A PRR HORIZONTAL VERTICAL [iii Tks (1.5 Pictured 1 Boring INE LAIRIE IROSWELLISITIAIRY , entertainer instruments me TR] MAGILL (AIR TT 12 Type of 2 Indonesian FIO] a [SIME INERM IR IATTEROIS 18 A] melding tribal group FTIR IRL (MBL) IAG IO [RIB] 13 Hospital 3 French article TrPIANITISITINTIRIRINIE resident 4 Diminutive of ASSIS) SY REIENS) physician Lemuel 14 Entreaty 36 Territorialism 14 Golf teacher . § Liquid 16 Exists 37 Hops’ kilns 15 Boy's name measure 18 Dregs 4 Dry i 17 United States 6 Preposition 23 Station 42 Monkey Legation (ab) 24 Expunge 43 Hauls A 7 Indian 25 Traduces 44 Steamship 10 0rish sea god § Low haunt 26 Complete — (ab) 20Wild plum 9 Western 31 Expires *47 Man's name 21 Route (ab) Reserve (ab.) 32 Mistakes" 48 Abstract being 22Wear away: 10 Habituates 33 Subjugaté 3 PuSel AY a i at thing 23 Greek 11 Cuddle 35 Bestow gravestone

27 Flower 28 Fails to win 29 Parent

30 Note in , Guido's scale

41 Amounts (ab) 45 Negative word i

| .RELIC—"Forgotten Things,’

New York, Random House, $3. By HENRY BUTLER ADVANCE PUBLICITY on Mary Jane Ward's new novel, “The

The author of “The Snake Pit” this time was writing about a shrewd, mistaken, arrogant, mod-| Midwestern university campus. What's more, she was going to deal

It all sounded as if “The Professor's Umbrella” was going to be

life, just as “The Snaké Pit” was

le -

| conscience rather than toward

a wood engraving by the contemporary American printmaker Grace Albee, is included in the exhibition of 100 Best Prints from the | Library of Congress collection lent to Herron Art Museum for display through March 7. Miss Albee's technique follows the engraving methods gf such old masters | as Albrecht Duerer and Hans Holbein.

KEY TECHNIQUE— Book Offers Piano Pupils Vital Hints

Indeed, not merely piano stu-| dents may benefit from Mr.

Mr. Foldes’ opening chapter on “Getting the Right Start.” It's a mistake to start children too young; Mr. Foldés believes.

push them too hard too early in ife. : 3

vb» » - “I HEARTILY agree with the words of the great Hungarian composer, Zoltan Kodaly, who, in an interview some years ago, stated bluntly that nothing a musical child produces before the age of 18 really counts. What mat-

Ward's New Novel of Campus Life [arom sevsie

" A novel. By Mary Jane Ward.

my interest,

themes.

| ~ » » THAT'S ALL very nice and praiseworthy, and I think with somewhat different treatment, Miss Ward might have made the theme seem more credible than it does to me. For just one point, she never convinces me that Gregory is a better-than-averayxe English teacher. > . Gregory's research-—that inev-'. ifable requirement of university teaching whereby promotions and tenure are ted-—has consisted mainly of work in problems of composition. In fact, his published books are “comp” texts. Miss Ward certainly must know that, with few exceptions, ‘English composition texts are not taken very seriously by members of English departme

dreary volumes are among the

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with whom Gregory has boarded

had had an more credible and

nts. All too conflicts which-reveal Miss wares ‘Kinsey Report’

often, the compilers of ‘ those very considerable talent:

dullest people on the faculty. And I had expected to receive a strong ; , pat While nis Said d Gregory bs nut and Snsisten; treatment in ihe pared by Albert Deutsch, science, susceptible of successful treat-| THE AUTHORS #xplain hypnoas being intensely fascinating. Grego!

TOM AND MARY DAWSON, fuses to co-operate with those ini|surgent, outraged faculty mem- education and the social sciences for some years, are much more!Dbers convincing people. Tom is the behalf itypical faculty -who ! dent Nor-|forbearance on Gregory's ton’s mannerisms, grooming him- may seem admirable. i self for possible future elevation.|is a much larger issue involved. 3880ciates of Indiana University. Amy Prentiss, the town’s 1ich-| The only way to get rid of such > est woman, with whom Gregory|injustice as Gregory has suffered opihon, tentatively entitled “Sex| affair, also seems|is to organize against each and the American Male,” will be interesting | every instance of it. ) than Gregory himself. And there should fight, you feel, not just for| **amining each book of the Kinare numerous sharp-witted vi-|himself, but for everyone whose|¢Y Report as it appears. gnettes of personalities and their|religion may jeopardize his job.!

—— ters is a person's work between

He deplores the pressure on

“If they are to appear in public, d even for a student's recital, the significance of such a concert should be minimized by the par-| ents and teacher.” 4 FE Se 1. MR. FOLDES stresses the importance of starting with simple ‘ icompositions the child can master and postponing the learning of difficult works until the student has acquired sufficient technique and maturity. Ee : Other chapters in the first section of his book deal with the arrangement of practice hours for the best results, matters of reading, listening, technique, memorizing and, finally, “Getting Ready to Play in Public.” A ‘chapter of ‘questions and answers is followed by a ‘brief hst of not-too-difficult contemporary music suitable for teaching purposes. - Mr. Foldes has small respect for the sentimental “morceau de salon” kind of thing too| often heard on young student‘recital program, H. B.

CAMPUS STORY — Mary Jane Ward, whose new novel, “The Professor's Umbrella,” is a story of campus conflict and intrigue in a large Midwestern university.

Deutsch Prepares

The anti-semitism theme, which?’ A symposium of comment on : the “Kinsey Report” is being preseems only incidental. editor of the New York newsry shrugs off the insulting| Paper PM, for early publication reatment he gets. He even we-|DY Prentice-Hall. Leading authorities in religion,

who are organizing in his| Will examine the findings of “Sex- . i Behavior - in the Human From one point ‘of vidw, such Male.” the first: volume of the part Dr But there|

The forthcoming anthology of

Gregory the first of a series of volumes

Appreciation

Rot only an intense concern with present-day moral cowardice and but also a con-

social chaos, | acto

She sees in modern art a

| materialistic ones, and a trend!

ven. as-a-bookman,. who. pre-. toward individual expression andi... oo was toSKed + AR ReCoUnt-of-24-hours fir-the life

the functioning of the individual]

{1 can read Emily's comment on! collective collectivism.”

what a painter is driving at and) = e for the| yp IS Miss Genauer's business, | { time. And my prejudices against, an art critic, to keep abreast|Bartolome, was marching past. | what many American painterso¢ new work; therefore she can! Luz, and the child she bears]

put my prejudices

are

she has explained

intention and social

questions, now so

within the limitations he ‘has se for himself,

Miss Genauer says the woes of have a meaning or not; I enjoy ruthless as the fighting.

the world have invaded the paint

er's atelier, confused his mind|them. And if by primitivism .Miss| vidual stamp on his writing and

: temperament. Genauer “The art of many of them reflects Grandma

and affected. his

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the| American per-isees a decrease in paintings called and there Ciriaco received his informance; his attitude toward primitivism, “the childlike picture spiration to fight for the lowly. im-!postcard paintings by amateurs.” | portant; —his convictions about, yyere 1 part company with the(in-full, but the author describes art, and his. accomplishments, 's 4 just as I do so often in the war always in terms of the

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doing "now are very strong. |gneak about influences and trends.|Ciriaco, are the principal actors) routine, Mr, Ingersoll seems totaf poetry, “Losses,” will be pub-| Perhaps Emily Genauer has She finds that regional influences in this tale of passionate encoun-| have had half a dozen of his! lished by Harcourt, Brace on written her book, “Best of Art,” are diminishing and she approves. ters. According to the pub-| for people like me. She has|For regional painting was, to her, by the chosen 52 paintings out of 50,-|provincial and chauvinist—it led|tion led by the Padre Hidalgo, | r”| 000 to show “the outstanding/many artists ‘“meaninglessly to|and it is in his house in Dolores elaboration of the commonplace. and “Little Friend, Little Friend” paintings of the year in America.” illustrate over and over again the that Luz bears her child. She beremain! are “a record of the impact of | Then : wooden. effigies. They -compound| the war upon ® truly modern painter's

landscape.” she also

t considering new books. I don't] care whether regional paintings

them, and hope to see more of

means the work of Moses, I'm for it. {Grandma Moses is an individual, doing what comes naturally, and

A Religious Center With a \f she remains outside the art his-

tories it’s o. k. with me. » » »

WITH CONSIDERABLE patience Miss Genauer discusses the attitude of the public to the | subjective, non:representative art reproduced in her book. She mentions that the public does not | ask complete literalness of a poem or a piece of music. Yet| it does not accept paintings on| the same terms. This merely proves that pant: | Ing is the most difficult and) recoridite of all idioms of ex-| pression. -Much painting of today | is related to traditional art as Gertrude . Stein's’ words are related to writing that makes sense. When: o ‘painting violates the visual patterns to which we are accustomed, we have nothing to measure it by. Its effect is bewilderment and chaos. We are then asked to make an unusual

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effort to change our thinking in

groping of the artist himself. In many instances this is just’ a waste of time,

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.| 1 feel a kinship with Emily | Genauer,

[UNITARIAN CHURCH [some terrible. pictures and I have

‘She has to look at to read some awful books. Then we have to explaia them to the customers. vo |

Mexican Epic

“CRY OF DOLORES." A novel. | Punt. * cartoonist and" frequent’

ness of responsibility fori, . fered during. the wars drawings “The Last Lath” a! and oppressions. Their cries have Satirical died on the winds.

{more their {against abuse.

order to understand the mental}!

"East of Fifth’ Book Due March 8

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It's a still greater mistake tol}

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“WHAT IS perhaps the unique natures are best hypnotic treatment,” | what the after-effects are. The they write, “is the swiftness with writing is unsensational

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"HYPNOTISM COMES OF which significant facts are un. AGE." By Bernard Wolfe and|earthed, and the relative rapidity Raymond Rosenthal. Indianapalis, Bobbs-Merrill, $3.

ONE OF the methods used dur-| @mnesia, all may be cured by the ing the war to combat-fatigue was hypnotism. Men ‘who had been trapped in who had been shelled for days by planes and of Topeka, Kas., the work of Dr. artillery, or who had crashed in Milton H. Erickson of Michigan planes themselves, often became victims of neurotic collapse. To speed up the remedies provided by psychoanalysis, psychiatrists applied hypnotism. . - LB

with which cures often take place, Neurosis and psychosis, psychosomatic disturbances, hysteria and

new technique.” The authors are especially interested in the word of Dr. Lawrence Kubie, the Menninger clinic

and of Dr. 8. Margol d place much emphasis on ‘the books “Men Under Stress” by Roy R. Grinker and John P. Spiegel, and “Hypnoanalysis,” by Dr. Lewis Wolberg.'

ALTHOUGH THE subject is * x = still controversial, the tw:

THE OBJECT of analysis of a

Comes. of Age,” neurotic case is to release the sup-

of “Hypnotism Betn ard Wolf and Ra

ism.”

ymond Ros-| Pressed memory, bring it to the enthal, contend that its. usefulnes' Surface of consciousness, and thus

remove the anxiety that deranges

Both studied the application of] the normal life of the patient, hypnotism at the front, where Mr.| Wolfe was a correspondent for a|the scientific journal and Mr. Rosenthal an inmate of ‘hospitals in doctor. In Italy and North Africa. , They declare that many doc-| the. patient and “reinforces his tors gave up the hypnotic method|80.” That is, he will fight down after the war, but argue that “all the memory that plagues him. kinds of psychological difficulties :

alysis, according to in technique, is a matter of slow questioning by the using hynotism the

| doctor applies a drug that soothes

ay.

pens during. Rypnosis,

| and

and the

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