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. tune detective and writer
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._ Stem in the days when whistling A ~|tather, who once wrote a best-|
Probes Popular In a Historical
"A HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA." By Sigmund Spaeth. New York, Random House, $5. “THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM." A novel. By Sylvia Townsend
Warner. New York, Viking, $3. *| CAPTURE THE CASTLE." A n lantic-Little, Brown, $3.
AFTER putting in a lifetime bending an ear to all the
popular songs that were ever
FIRST READER—By Harry Hansen
A Learned Philosopher
Music
Study
ovel. By Dodie Smith, Boston, At-
sung, Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, a
ned, doctor of philosophy from Princeton, concluded
that the last few decades, from the days of Victor Herbert,
to those of George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers
“and Irving-Berlin, have-seen-a great improvement, in the gongs we like to sing. icles |
provided: Sir Ralph with a hawk,
This in spite of the fact for falconry and tolerated his “America’s song writers have vagaries.
We follow the fortunes of the|
written. some incredibly banal, , i. tion through 40 years of
absurd, - bathetic stuff, badly with cheap obvious commonplace tunes” and have had this stuff promoted in ways “often involv-|
even downright! bribery.”
That's a tough verdict on melodies that are supposed to spring
How can we tell, when we whistle tunes, what’ evil, men have con-
spired to put the darn thing over
, often ungrammatical, |'* history, often forgetting that
t is a house of prayer, or that} the setting is historical. {
. . . DODIE SMITH, English-born, playwright now living in the United States (with her hus-| band), has written a novel, “I
from the joyful hearts of men, Capture the Castle” that is going|
(to have a crucial effect on her career, If it proves a great suc-| cess she will write novels here|after, instead of plays. If fit {doesn't she presumably will go
DR. SPAETH says this and back to playwriting. I
much else in a book that seems to|
However, this should -not be al
me 10" top his long career, as a/hardship, for one of her plays,
of al dozen books about ballads, - harmonizing, teatejei | ers, torch: songs, folk songs and just plain trash from Tin Pan Al-] ley. He calls it ‘A History of Music in America.” He lists songs since 1770, many happily forgotten, but his valuable record fs not as dramatic as Douglas Gilbert's “Lost Chords, gives the verses of many
expected revival of old songs.| “Peg 0’ My Heart,” of the vintage of 1913, blossomed forth anew in Geo! Cohan
briefly the vogue of harem songs, ‘which, “it seemed, would never end. ‘As for songs of lost love, or
blame for a broken heart, they|ly. which have run all the way from “She publishers( are agreed that this) fall ‘the public distaste for war|novel, will be published by Wil-|
YOU WOULD HARDLY expect a novelist to write an entertaining and often amusing story about a 14th Century nunnery in provincial England, but that is exactly what the unpredictable Sylvia Townsend Warner has done in “The Corner That Held Them.” Miss Warner is both original in her themes and subtle in her sa-
tirical fantasy. Admirers of her expected to have a good sale this,
bar-| In New York. Katharine Cornell s
./with the old ruin of an English!
meet and furniture has a of disa; ay
manage he exciting life. This is fun.
- Novels About War
“Call It a Day,” ran 15 months was _the star of ‘another, and “Autumn Crocus” and “Dear Oc-| us’ made her: lots of friends. But Dodie Smith need have nho| ears about her novel, for it tells a story in that light ‘and happy| manner that is always welcomed y readers eager to be amused.| It is set down in the bright] language of Cassandra Mortmain, | 4 young woman with an opti-| mistic disposition, despite the 9
,/terlal. handicaps at her doors.
CASSANDRA is enchanted)
castle in which the Mortmains| live, without benefit of modern plumbing, ! Her sister, Rose, isn't. Her|
| i |
DESIGN FOR MEMORIAL—This design for a war memorial has been com- |
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pleted by Aldo Pitassi, fifth-year student at Herron Art School, for the Donatelli Granite Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Commissioned by a Pittsburgh American Legion post,
the design will be used as a plaque carved: on the granite shaft of a memorial to the men of Pittsburgh's 28th ward killed during World War II.
Native Son
Book Is Revealing Study Raps Vermont (Of Hawthorne's Early Years
seller, is trying desperately to “ESCAPE FROM VERMONT." By “NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: THE AMERICAN YEARS." By Rob-
finish another novel, and can’t. nicknamed.
nude sitting on a horsehair sofa, which was very prickly. There are several other relatives and there are the two Americans, Simon.and Neil Cotton. There is the question who is
$275 Gordon.’ New York, Holt,| 75:
farms and rock-ribbed Republi-| cans, utterly delightful to the! summer folks and a mess to at) least one native son. 3 James Gordon didn’t like Ver-| mont or Vermonters when he was; growing up there, as he makes it
to marry Dear Simon, and Cas-|clear in “Escape From Vermont.”
sandra is determined it shall not be Rose.
a rr ee when they need romance in & draughty castle, Cassandra s to live an
Maybe he would have liked the place better if it hadn’t been for! Grandpa, the central character, 's doubtful,
DPA Was a. ary old eon “Who alwa sang
foreclosed a mortgage or cheated a neighbor. ; He was an incorrigible bully in or out of the house. He hadn't spoken to Grandma in years ‘and didn't get a kind word from his neighbors until he was dead. * Grandpa lot only one battle on Irecord—the time he tried to replace the town’s Civil War memo-
ert Cantwell. New York, Rinehart
, $6.
; ROBERT CANTWELL relates that he was writing foreign news VERMONT is a land of rocky | for Time in London during the bombings when he again picked
up the book Nathaniel Hawthorne Old Home.”
grew and in 1945 he gave up his the most detailed account of the author's early experiences in “Na-
{thanjel Hawthorne: The Ameri-
can Years.” ' Mr. Cantwell - declares that Americans cherish a portrait of a
{brooding Hawthorne, a man- of| : based Mr. Hawthorne's mother mourned
seclusion and despondency, in part on the writing of his son, Julian Hawthorne, and that we think of him Iiving out a morbid youth in Salem, “obsessed, with the puritan sense of guilt and haunted by a family curse.” He says this is a distortion, that Mr. Hawthorne led an active, vigorous life, was a skillful journalist and busy politician. i But there is plenty of testimony to the activities of Mr. Hawthorne, as a young man, and Henry| James, examining the six volumes
rial with a statue of himself. This
Regaining Favor
lie, according to Publishers’ Week-
novels has finally’ been overcome.” This has been brought about chiefly by the popularity of “The Naked and the Dead” {which has sold over 85,000 copies, land two more nt, “The Crusaders” and “The Young Lions.” The last two were the objects of intensive promotion campaigns {among booksellérs. Publishers’ Weekly says there are 70,000 copies of “The Young Lions” in print, but gives no figures for “The Crusaders,” save a fifth printing is on the press and paper has been ordered for a sixth. |“Guard. of Honor,” by James |Gould Cozzens, sold 9000 copies in the first three weeks. “The Sky {Is Red,” by Giuseppe Berto, is
writings will recall how well sheifa]],
managed “Mr. Fortune's Maggot.” In her new story she has a man
| None of the major book clubs |
(distributed thése war novels,
in a similar predicament, the prey|though one has issued war me-
of anxieties created by his own -going ways.
/molrs. Publishers’ plans for early [1949 include about a dozen novels
Ralph Kello arrives at the ObY dealing with campaigns or af-
nunnery at the moment when its/tected by the war. has deserted it, and when cates they are not as wary of the
This indi-
Be wn wea Peso 48 Gey we 4 A ’ |year 0. and he enters “a quiet|” ®
tunist who lets things slide.
anteroom to hell’ st an oppor. UN Book Widely. Used
“The United Natidbns -Handbook,” edited by Louis Dolivet,
. THE AUTHOR who tackles has gone into its fourth printing, this story of a house of women |it has been announced by Farrar,
‘in Chaucer's century is not writing a religious novel, but one about the very human, feminine, domestic and trivial concerns of
HE was never dh dua bert To ress and her es. any pri founded in the 12th a landed nobleman,
Straus. Originally published in 1946, this volume is now widely used as a textbook in schools and colleges.
ys: “Booksellers and
become’ a memorable figure
War novels are back ip the Vermont letters. good graces of the reading pub-|
Novelist Returns “The Island,” new Nard Jones
(tam Sloane Associates in No(vember. It is his first contemporary novel since “Oregon De|tour,” published in 1929 and “discovered” by William Rose Benet. {
‘A Story of Time Noel Busch, senior editor of {Life magazine, is working on a {biography of Briton Hadden, cofounder, with Henry Luce, of Time. The volume also will cover in detail the founding of Time.
in anger than in sorrow, should thought his dark side exaggernl jated. Mr. Cantwell has drawn heavily finished you have walked and group, Comet Books will sell for |
of his notebooks, found no pessi-|
on the American many of his passages are paraphrases of Mr. Hawthorne's own entries, especially when he describes his life in Salem and his journeys in New England. | But Mr. Cantwell has ampli-| fled them considerably by wide re-| search and connected actual inci-!
had written about England, “Our
What Hawthorne wrcte had such relevance that Mr. Cantwell began an essay about Mr. Hawthorne.
The essay editorial work in order to finish
Mr. Cantwell's admirations, an adventure,
It is a complete account of the emergence of a great author from a family of shipmasters and jurists in old Sal “1, where
for her husband by never leaving her upstairs room for 40 years. > Ty Here are his college experiences at Bowdoin, his courtship ang marriage, his first writings, the strange tragedy of his friend Cilley, killed in a duel, for which Mr. Hawthorne felt responsible. Here are his political associations, his writing friends, the members of his family, This is documented biography, which furns light on every movement he makes.
readable, and when you have
tions of a society that has been gone 100 years. —H. H Ike's Story of War Seen As Best Seller
The largest nonfiction book
dents with Mr. Hawthorns use of PuPlishing venture in history will
them in stories.
venture in life and. letters,
{Van Wyck Brooks’ “The Flower-'
In a number of{Pegin when Doubleday publishes Can ‘|cases the author transcribed his|General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Howard Thurston, “Peggy Covers impressions directly into fiction. personal story of the war, “Cru- the
sade in Europe,” on Nov, 22, ac-
[tng of New England,” one: of|/has ordered will be 150,000 copies,
ing and Hunting Answer Book,’ 8345) |
‘a series 0
DOPEY—Two incorrect ways of hardfhg a gun ‘while hunt- | ing are illustrated in drawings by David M. Newell for his "Fish-
" a recent Doubleday publication
ou are cordially ihvited to hear
f six sermons on the
{more than two-thirds of which will already have been purchased {by the November publication date. | As a December selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, “Crus isade in Europe” will be offered to the club’s "750,000 members.
Release ‘Book Finds’ | |
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SATURDAY, OCT. 30, 1948
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Is Pictured
“EAIR HARVARD." Photographs "RENAISSANCE IN HAITL" By
by Samuel Chamiedain Text, by Donald Moffat.
Hastings House, $4.
NEVER will the sons of Harvard find stronger fabric for their nostalgic dteams than in. thé sunIt photographs of Samuel Cham-| berlain, reproduced in “Fair Harvard,” with text by Denald Moffat. Patiently Mr. Chamberlain
diversified piles of college archi-|
Here, as Mr, Moffat says, is the remarkable demonstration. beauty, “not qf formdl design but have been encouraged by Dewitt Architects may criticize, Peters, who established his Centre primitive painting and the relabut .for the men who lived here d'Art and gave them free rein.
of age.”
everything visible fits into a!
{harmonious plan. {promises between the ideal characteristic of Harvard {through the ypars.
who remember it before 1910,}
year-old elms, know how much Bainer,” those towering trees contributed, ‘could have known that a vaguely and how much their junior fellows ambitious cobbler was sketchin
are beginning to help today.
here in the Yard, Harvard shows
her true face. It has the spiritual} DEWITT PETERS went to ts grace of a handsome old New Haiti for the United States BuEngland lady, the kind who likes reau of Education to teach Eng-
to take up Greek or physics at 80 to keep her mind alert, scarce-| ly aware of how beautifully her character shines. through the marks and wrinkles, as she looks back with few regrets, gazes for ward with calm courage.” s = = | THESE pictures show Harvard in its ‘finest outdoor manifesta-| tions, the old and the new houses sheltering the intellectual pur-
suits of a igreat- university.|
(H. H.)
Pocket Books Plan
‘Juvenile Reprints Pocket Books, Inc,
| |nounced the inauguration in Nov- | small town Scrooge, recalled more |mism or despair in them and Despite these heaps of intimate ember of a new juvenile reprint details, every page is immensely geries to be called Comet Books. |
has an-|
Fair Harvard Primitive Folk Art of Haiti: Is Brought Vividly to Life
|lish. He was an experienced arte
Selden Rodman. New York, Pel-|Ist; able to appreciate the beauty
ew York, legrini and Cudahy, $4.50.
of the primitive work he saw. He
|organized the first exhibit and
YOU CAN almost see a primi-raised money for the school, lo-
[tive folk art come to life in Haiti cating the first patrons of art
in Selden Rodman’'s enthusiastic since the days of Christophe.
pioneer history, “Renaissance in
Haiti.”
artists wi
In less han 10 years, says he, and what they represent. hout any knowledge of publishes |foreign influences or prevailing some in color, all sufficient to give !fashions-have developed a move- thé reader an understanding of
Mr. Rodman describes the life and personality of the painters He
many. - illustrations,
ment “rivaled in our time only by the movement.
‘|tecture that represent the taste!ip. lof many generations.
has trained his cameras on thei inat of Mexico.” Ordinary men, too poor to b and brushes
paints
£7] Mr. Rodman describes the peruy sonalities of fhe painters and the they character of their work without
needed, are responsible for this recourse to the jargon of the gal-
80d bookkeeper in Cap-
Aimed at the 10 to 16-year age-|
notebooks; talked and shared the preoccupa- 25¢.
The first 12 books in the*Comet Book series are: “Wagons West-
ward” (John C. Winston) by | Armstrong Sperry, “Batter Up” (William Morrow) by Jackson
Scholz, “Star Spangled Summer” (E. P. Dutton) by Janet Lambert, “Tawny” (Willlam Morrow) by Thomas Hinkle, “300 Tricks You .Do” (George Sully): by
News” (Dodd, Mead) by Emma Bugbee, “Winged Mystery”
THIS BOOK is a capital ad-|cording to Douglas M. Black, (Doubleday) “by Alan Gregg, as|president of the New York firm. “Your Own Joke Book” by GerThe first printing Doubleday trude
Crampton, “Sue. Barton, Student Nurse” (Little, Brown)
by Helen Dore Boylston, “The Tattooed Man” (Doubleday) by Howard Pease, “Skycruiser”
(Random House) by Howard M. Brier and “The Spanish Cave” (Little, Brown) by ‘Geoffrey Household.
A Guide for Citizens
|" ‘Next Wednesday, Knopf will
The Book Find, Club selection publish Edgar A. Mowrer's “The
{for Nov. is “Cry, The Beloved Nightmare of American Foreign
Country,” by Alan Paton (Scribner); for Dec., “The Crusaders,” scribes as
Policy,” which Mr. Mowrer de“a clear and simple
{by Stefan Heym (Little, Brown). guide for the perplexed citizen.” | -
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Chevrolet Dealers
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They |leries.
He describes the meaning of
{tion of the Haitian painters to {simple and complex primitivism,
MR. RODMAN describes the Some painters are illiterate and
| Mr. Moffat speaks of the com-! growth of the movement when a largely intuitive; others absorb | itien spent some of the elements of painting, {the practical that have been pio nights painting scenes from without its sophistication. life Haitian history for a dark vesti-| s = =» bule of a Masonic temple; when’ THE PAINTERS differ greatly in Port-au-Prince an overworked among themselves. |. “THE wonder is that the “Yard|taxicab driver modeled Chinese Hyppolite, {remains as comely as it is. They roses on a cracked tooth-mud. |
E. Hector has become {known abroad in the last three
who
“Nobody but a Standard Oil years, used to be a voodoo (vaue when the beetles killed the 100- salesman on his yearly stop at'iou) priest and has strong mys-
Rodman, tical leanings, explained that his
writes Mr.
BALLAD SINGER—Burl Ive,
| famed collector and singer of
American ballads, whose remWayfaring Stranger,” will be published next
iniscences, called
spirits have consented to suspend is work for a time because of
{chickens and palm trees on dis- his painting. “Not in the laboratories but carded Esso calendars.”
“I've always been a priest, just like my father and grandfather” he says, “but now I'm more an {artist than a priest. Love pic{tures inspire me. Love is very {important to an artist. You iknow the way one caresses a beautiful young girl? That's the way I caress a tableau.”—H. H,
‘New Book Covers 6 Major Sports A new kind of sports book, “Giant Book of Sports,” has been added to Garden City’s list of joriginal publications for Nov. 1. { Edited by Gene Schoor, Sports {Club of the Air Director, the book contains instructions, methods |and histories of six major sports. |The book also contains sections jon sports heroes and oddities.
Comment on Election
| Louis H. Bean, author of “How {to: Predict Elections,” published by Alfred A. Knopf, will comment on the election returns over the Mutual Broadcasting system next Tuesday. Using the statistical approach, ‘he will interpret trends as the returns are re-
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