Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1949 — Page 8
England Under
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By Robert W.-Minton
New Ful lication Presents on Excellent Analysis of =
Socialism
"SOCIALIST BRITAIN." By Francis Williams. New York, Viking, $3.
"THE GRAND DESIG +. Houghton Mifflin, $3.50,
N."" A novel. By John Dos Passos, Boston,
“CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN." By Frank B. Gilbreth Jr, and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. New York, Crowell, $3.
_. England has had a socialist government for over
three years. Francis Williams, who was Prime Minister
Clement Attlee’s adviser on public relations for two years|
has given Americans a comprehensive report on one of the great revolutions in history in “Socialist Britain,” an excellent examination of the history and the consequences of the socialist movement in;
England.
figure in the book and the scene in which she commits -suicide
Mr. Williams is sanguine|shows that Mr. Dos Passos can
about the ‘labor government's ability to meet the challenge of ‘saving country and empire from collapse. with sobriety and un- . derstatement he presents some pretty convincing facts to show socialism ‘is in England to stay. The extent of the revolution is perhaps more vast than most Americans realize. There are only 45 Britons with a net income of over $25,000, while the number of people making from $12 to $40 a week has jumped from 6,320,000 before the war to 13,175,000. Nationalization has taken place in banking, cdal mining, public utilities, trangport and steel. Even a Tory victory in some future election is not going to reverse this, ; ¥ . » . BUT THE revolution is also milder than one might expect. The economy is a mixed one. Private enterprise flourishes, - profits are permitted, but government ‘controls are still severe, not only be-
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{still write well when his subject \matter has substance. | Somehow Mr, Dos Passos has {managed to drain almost all the color out of his New Deal. {Perhaps it is because he must confine his locale to ‘one city, In “U. 8. A.” he was able to sweep,
across the nation, creating a {variety of characters and situations, » . »
EVER SINCE Clarence Day made such a hit with “Life With Father,” lots of people have been thinking about what funny ducks their old men were, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and his sister. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, are convinced that their father was a character, and there is probably some basis for thinking 80. He was Frank Gilbreth, the originator of time and motion study in industry, and the father of 12 children. . Their book, “Cheaper by the Dozen,” Book of the Month’ Club selection for January, is-a collection of anecdotes concerning this remarkable man, whose whole life was guided by the urge to conseivé human energy. \ For example, he used to shave with two brusies, thereby saving 17 seconds, and he even tried using- two razors, but found that the 44 seconds saved were offset by the extra two minutes needed to.bandage his bleeding visage. Since Gilbreth died in 1924 it can be assumed that his children's been somewhat blurred by time. A good many of the stories about him sound either exaggerated or completely apocryphal, The book is generally pleasant, but seldom hilarious, and a far cry from “Life With ry zal, >
Recalls Old
New Orleans “THE FRIENDS OF JOE GIL.
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{by Lyle Saxon is a posthumous book of reminiscences concerning the colorful Negro servant of one!
of New Orleans’
“Winter Storage” is the fitle of this snow-covered landscape by Dale Nichols included in the Encyclopedia Britannica's collection of contemporary American paintings,
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_ SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1048
"ENGLAND TO ME." By Emily ; Hahn. New York, Doubleday, $3. EMILY HAHN'S new book, “England to Me,” is a serfes of - - sketches of life in post-war England.
With her British major husband and their liftle - daughter Carola, Miss Hahn arrived at Conygar, the major's ancestral country home in Dorset, in August, 1946. «It would not be accurate to say they settled at Conygar. Nothing ever seemed to get set--tled in that large house, with 3 ite faulty plumbing, its disintegrating furniture and the doors that would lock but not open. For- months, their life was a series of crises made worse by the desperate post-war shortage
Picture of Post-War England
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Emily Hahn Writes Revealing (Curious Wine
~ {Jew in the large city.
|dice in “The Curious Wine,” first {novel of a-solid New Englander, ‘Bianca Bradbury. S00 .
|her Jewish husband, Luke, from,
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problem of anti-semitism in this country has occasioned several novels both serious and super-| ficial dealing particularly with the
| . The small New England town! which is so hostile even to the vacationist from whom it often) makes its living is now the back-| ground for a study of race preju-|
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I LL ht = MARTY BELOFF has broug Copt. Dod Orsborne, oliss Ls
Capitaine Solitaire, who relates his adventures as a dare-devil British agent in his autobiog-
New York to her small Connecticut home town to practice medicine with the encouragement of her father, the local doctor. She loves the little town, where
of building and mending materials in England, :
- - ” THERE WERE human problems also. The conservative, politely determined caok, Mrs. Clifton, who resisted all innovations,
all suggestions for improving the meals with what meager variety of food was available. The two maids, one efficient, the other in-
MORE." By Lyle Saxon. New efficient, who, though unmarried,
‘both became mothers within a
Keen observer . . , Emily Hahn.
Book Title
she knows the intimate lives of [all the people as she never did in
also strongly attached to her mother, the town’s social arbiter.
The mother is so emotionally
: | WwW 1 ell Chosen unstable she cannot accept her "AN ACT OF LOVE." A novel daughter's marriage and the more By Ira Wolfert. New York, 5° because itis to a Jew.
+ The mother's influence, Simon & Schuster, $3.95. |Marty’s casual way of living, By HENRY BUTLER gradually causes the couple to be, “AN ACT OF LOVE” may seem ostracized. Marty is unable to op-| a strange title for a novel about pose her mother successfully until]
raphy, "Master of the Girl Pat," edited by Joe McCarthy and
(the anonymity of the city. She is just published by Doubleday.
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Writer Finds
+ New Utopia
“THE GREEN CHILD.": A novel. By Herbert Read. New York, ‘New Directions, $2.75.
“The Friends of Joe Gilmore” [€W Weeks of each other.
{the war. Louise, the intelligent Chinese! girl who did Miss Hahn's typing his second novel. The climax of while Louise's Polish husband, his hook is when Lt. Harry BrunJan, worked in
the third-term controversy and writers and bom vivants. Joe and helpful though they tould be, plete stranger's. the 4 "the colorful events forced himself wu “Mr. had a spo led infant t even-| Through that denial of the selfthe It. years. | during the depression and Bécame tually “a frightful nul-/saving urge that makes us tremBut Mr..Dos Passos has writ-|" a sance. bling cowards before peril, tin a book_about the New Deal OTe Of his best friends. Hewwps a
innovator—tho camera's eye and the news reel--have been reduced . to sentimental vestiges. _The only fun there is here is in guessing who some of the characters are . (they include Tommy Corcoran, Felix Frankfurter, Jesse Jones, .Henry Wallace. and Harry Hopkins. Presi-
dent Roosevelt does not appear.)|
“The purely fictional characters around whom a ragged plot is built are Millard Carroll and Paul Graves, a couple of bright young men in the Department of Agriculture who arrive in Washington ‘some time after the 100 days. Besides working out a program for putting the farmer back on his feet, they attend numberless parties where = the conversation is far from stimulating, Their bosf, Walker Watson, is
a thinly disguised Henry Wallace # who has some of the character. | istics of Harry Hopkins, Millard’s|
ambition is to become Becretary of Agriculture when Watson be- . Comes President. Watson, course, gets the business from
Mr. Big at the Chicago conven-|i
tion of 1940—instead of 1044. : Paul Graves engages
rather unromantic love affair
with his secretary, whom he
addresses. by the annoying a ppellation of Facts and F She is the one ures.
Big|born raconteur and a man in love
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fast man with an absinthe and was always mixing exotic ¢ocktalls like. the Pullman Porter's Wife Special, which invariably turned out to be bourbon and soda. In telling stories about Joe, Mr. reveals a lot about himself. His style has the ease of a
with life. Because Mr. Saxon died in 1946 before finishing the book, his friend, Edward Dreyer, has
vations of British society, town discovers the truth of all the and country. She notes the stub-|great ethical teachings. born courage of the British in
» - n facing their miserably skimpy| THIS MAY sound a bit preachy, post-war existence. Like Christo-
pher Morley, writing some months|
Literature,.she comments on the recorded about the war. Men in| appalling contrast between the
liners and the English markets ill supplied with rationed food.
completed it, with some reminiscenses of Mr, Saxon. Enough) photographs have been included! to make the reader wish he had been in New Orleans when Mr.
Saxon held it captive, |
Writes On Japan. |
“Popcorn on the Ginza,” an in-
be published next Wednesday by
Red Cross worker, Miss Crockeft/ spent 18 months in Japan and Korea during the occupation.
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{Bernard Carr in the new book problems, makes the romance
morally uplifting-—which fact, in-| is that ‘of the major, almost/tary on our civilization. monumentally British -in his reti<| There's no doubt that even
; ;her mother attempts to ruin Luke’ Ira Wolfert chooses it well for professionally, re
the garden. That ner, his hero, conquers fear andii8 vindicated, the coup best - known young-expatriate couple; charming risks his own life = save a com. cially accepted, and the villainous!
England village she will attempttake his place in this list. to rule.
bition is to write New England in hag finally reached America. Al- | ction as Robert Frost has writ-\though it probably will never ap{ten it in poetry.
‘Miss Hahn records keen obser-/through that “act of love,” rs i intélligent writer, whose am-/years ago amid critical huzzahs
in a book review, but the essence she uriderstands the small tOWN.ig¢ter most best sellers have been of Mr. Wolfert’s admirable novel Whither She Jug pnderstands torgotten. - . : {is what other writers also have &nti-semitism is doubtful. | ago in the Saturday Review of Luke not been a Jew, he still common danger and suffering dis-| would re hea an oS | .| posed alike own and motherstuffed larders of British tuxury| OVrel 3he meaning S rote aw. vid : (time, War can be unifying and| The social problem of Luke “is
2 = = |gener PERHAPS HE lcidentally, i ironic commen- Problem that makes the book] PS HER. best portrait a mmen {worth reading.—R. W. M.
cence. Only alcohol loosened the civilians here in Indianapolis five
major's tongue, and then for years ago, donating blood, doing brief, not-too-communicative talk. volunteer work, getting along
The major, whose hobby -was without steaks and gadgets, felt Kk it f the H {18th Century Portuguese history, better in the ethical ‘sense than| De" Brucker. egHor of the Ha
took her by plane for a short they do now. And the question most brilliantly written episodes tinue to manufacture the wars (that temporarily make them betHe had typically refused to/ter men? That question is beyond the Wolfert’'s novel, which covers some months in the His Lt.
or the people they would meet, (scope of Mr. leaving . her to discover for
herself a delightful Ohio girl South Pacific campaign.
{married to a Portuguese general, | Brunner, a Jew, and hence some-
{old friend of the major, and im-/what discriminated against in mersed in ultra-conservative andthe notoriously snobbish. Navy, conventional Portuguese society.|pilots a fighter plane attached to Miss Hahn writes with great|the cruiser “Minot"—a lonely asperception and ‘with quiet humor ®ignment, When the “Minot” gdes —the kind of humor that grasps Into battle, its captain, an old salt the fundamental sadness of Tifes| With little. respect for radar and Some of the material in her book [Such innovations, orders the
\i|previously las appeared in dif-|Searchlights turned on. That's !|ferent form in the New Yorker. the beginning .of 11 minutes of Sn { (I [nected sketches are well organ3 ized into a sequence of episodes, ||éach with its dramatic or humor
“England to Me,” the con-/No
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Pulitzer ‘prize’ for his combatous climax. , correspondent dispatches from The book certainly should de- Guadalcanal, knows how to readérs of her earlier translate explosions and screams
~—H. B,
‘The Road Between’
“Minot's” sinking, like the later descriptions of island warfare, is unforgettable, . 80 is the temporary idyl on the , |island, after Brunner, washed The title of James T. Farrell's ashore, is revived by kindly nanew novel, to be pyblished in the tives. He meets the Andersens, spring by *Variguard, will bean -American copra-planting “The Road Between.” ‘ amily, stave pi The ud tals o \ in love w ulia, the da er. Bernard Clare, hero of an mie impact of the “Minot” experearlier novel, has been renamed jence, ‘plus his own personality
as the result of a lawsuit brought troubled one, against Mr. Farrell by a Min+| Besides the tremendous-action, neapolis newspaperman. Though the riovel contains much analysis the. suit was thrown out of court,of persons and motives—all excelMr. Farrell decided to rename|lently done. There can be no the character rather than risk doubt that “An Act of Love” will to the publisher, II novels —H.B.
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into prose. His description of the .
{English- literature. More, Bacon, Swift and Butler are a few names {that come at once to mind In this
» ” -” IN A melodramatic finish, Luke le is so-
mother strides off to another New/connection. Herbert Read should
) | His novel “The Green Child,” Miss Bradbury is a semsitive/published in England several
. " pear on a best seller list, it is a The Curious Wine” shows that hook which will be read long
Had It is perhaps extravagant of
| Kenneth Rexroth to say in His introduction that it is the equal of
smokes too many cigars, is in love both with his wife and the widow of his best friend, and lives for the number of minutes he keeps the _ bulletins on Consolidated’s
wires ahead of the opposition. Hammill broods, between dispatches, over the coming of World War III with the painful" anxiety of those who imagine teat they alone, or almost alone, see it threatening. 3 At 42, he has the naive ideals of 22 and a bluster that should, In one of his experience, have been long seasoned inte toughness. Also, an innocence of women’ of which he seems unaware. a ra m= BUT SO FAR as this novel goes, “An Edge of Light,” by Frank K. Kelly, these are not deficiencies, If there is a chance to get in a jam, Hammill will do it and you will enjoy it. : Hammill devotes to his love-life such hours as he can snatch from the desk, his boss and the telephone. He doesn’t do too badly until he tries to have two women live under one roof together. The author does a good job, one of the few .in fiction, of dramatiz-
UTOPIA is a recurrent theme in| ing some of the mysteries of news
agency operation. He knows the tensions and pressures that surge in urgent seconds, around a wire service desk and he portrays them well. : Aspiring newspapermen, and women who aspire to marry newspapermen may learn much from this novel—but they should not be scared off by it.
‘Constant Nymph' The first new novel in 10 years by Margaret Kennedy, author of the 1925 best-seller, “The Constant Nymph,” will be published in June by Random House:
any ‘English novel since “Uly ,” but it is a superb and
superior
contrived. It is Marty's personal
{because although it is fiction, it is philosophy and political science and aesthetics as well.
_The: fiction could very well
Book on Journalism “Freedom of Information,” new book on journalism by Her-istory of the little green girl who rt-'wanders into an English village ford Courant, will be published | from no one knew where around in March by Macmillan. The book|1830. Her “skin ‘was not white, is described as “a vigorous put a faint green shade, the color answer to the many critics who|of a duck’s egg.” Raised by a have recently attacked the morals widow and. married to a coarse insensitive man, she remains mute and mysterious as if she were in another world. -" . =» OLIVERO, the former schoolmaster returning to his village! after many years as dictator of a,
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"MARY WAKEFIELD." A novel, _ By Mazo de la Roche. Boston, Little, Brown, $3.
Here is another “Jalna” novel by Mazo de la Roche—"Mary
lection.
The latest in this drawn-out series of family life in Canada would seem to be more interesting to those who know nothing about the Jalna books than to those who have read them all. The author fills in a section of the lives of her fictional family, telling of the conflict between Adeline Whiteoak and Mary Wakefield. Mary is hired as a tutor for Philip. White-
comes Philip's wife.
Stories of States
Martha Foley and Abraham Rothberg have assembled a.book of 49 short stories—one dealing with each state, and one. about the District of Columbia. Under the title “U. 8. Stories, Original Stories From the 48 States,” the volume is scheduled for Apr. 11 publication by Farrar, Straus.
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