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Oil by ‘Grandma Moses' on Display at Museum

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“Grandma Goes to the City,” an oil by Anna ‘Mary Robertson Moses, is included in the cur. : rent exhibition "Contemporary American Paintings’ at ‘Herron Art Museum through Féb. 20. As o | . "Grandma Moses," the 88-year-old, self-taught painter has received wide acclaim for her lively de- ‘New York Vein Great Artist piction of country scenes. 47 Rediscovered erm ——————————— a} . . Mined Thin “PURSUIT OF THE HORIZON."

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Vidal Scores

OF NATURE" A biography.

Knopf, $4. By HENRY BUTLER THEODORE DREISER,

sstatus as a Hoosier author. have been almost as embarras-

Eugene V. Debs was, and for not entirely different reasons. Robert H. Elias in a readable, moderate and evidently careful biography, “Theodore Dreiser: Apostle of Nature,” reveals the

ality, both as man and writer, that undoubtedly deprived Dreiser of the adulation Indiana has acicorded less profound and searching writers.

» ” » ONE ANECDOTE Mr. Ellas tells would have been enough in itself to damn Dreiser, If it had been publicized. Early in ‘his career Dreiser had composed the lyrics of the first stanza and chorus for his brother Paul's “On the Banks of the Wabash.” Paul thought Theodore should continue writing lyrics, but, Mr Elias says, whenever Paul cited “On the Banks of the Wabash” Theodore “replied the verses were ‘slop’ and would write nothing further.”

By Robert H. Elias. New York, =

four . | years after his death, seems to have only a dubious honorary As a nafive son, he seems to

sing to many fellow Hoosiers as ,

life-long stubborn unconvention-

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Henig. varies sae ot me Despite His Leadership as Realistic Writer "THEODORE DREISER: APOSTLE

HIS WEAKNESS was women.

Butterick job, and he had an-| other of the recurrent spells of anxiety which could reduce him to powerlessness as a writer.

& American Trag

4 ject, since there might be some * instructive comparisons between a Dreiser and a Margaret Mitchell or a Kathleen Winsor,

Mr. Elias, however, is concerned ' mainly with Dreiser the man and ~ writer, and not with the social history of his era, Dreiser bei came increasingly articulate on social and international problems in the 1930's. He was generally left-wing, out of sympathy for the downtrodden, and he died a registered member of the Comdore Dreiser in May, 1938, ~~ munist party, although he repeatedly had refused to become a financed by a former high school mere mouthpiece. for the official teacher, was the last chapter of (doctrines. = his formal education. After that,| | # un = jhe was on his own, and it took| AN INCREASING CONCERN months and years of struggling with Nature and a heightened, {with sundry jobs, from collecting mystical feeling that selfless love {laundry to collecting instalments, is the answer to human problems for him to decide in favor of geem to have occupied Dreiser in newspaper work. his last years. Through sheer good luck, helcreativity of earlier life no longer) helped the old Chicago Globe get/was apparent in “The Bulwark,” {a scoop on Grover Cleveland's pleted from chapters started (nomination. And though later, on|long before, Nearly all critical

“Apostle of nature” . ., Theo-

’ py Threat of scandal lost him the recently to have mined the New they have been introduced to a

Financial rewards from “An|and all the inter2 ,” published in| connections be- © 1925, were far less than American tween those cawriters of greatly inferior ability reer fields, . have enjoyed. And I'm sorry Mr, they've written Elias has not gone into that sub- the city to death.

The | vigo | ike Larry Holland, scion of} Rothenberg. New York, Staples

New York, Sloane, $3.50. Those who read Lloyd Haber-

1y’s “Pursuit. of the Horizon” will INDUSTRIOUS novelists seem |. ‘te hook in the knowledge York vein pretty thin. What with novels about New York publishing houses, advertising agencies, broadcasting studios

great American. The book is mbout an almost forgotten American painter, lecturer and explorer named George Catlin. Beginning around 1828 Catlin began to visit the lands béyond the Mississippi River, painting and| writing about . Indians. | Before his death he had visited and painted Indians and Eskimos from the Aluetians and Siberia, through the jungles of the Orinoco and the Amazon, and on south to Cape Horn. Probably no man {ever lived with his knowledge of the New World primitives. . Catlin painted about 2000 portraits of Indians, camp scenes, etc. ‘The best of these rank as great paintings, but they are forgotten, buried in attics and basements in historical museums. Haberly has done a good job

And so Ed- 8 ward Newhouse #4 may seem to have arrived too late with too little in “The Hollow of the Wave,” a new novel about a Edw. Newhouse publishing firm. Even generous dashes of the sweet vermouth and bitters of sex fail to make Mr. Newhouse’s literary Meanhattan more than mildly stimulating. Neil Miller, narrator and pro- : tagonist of the novel, is raat Many of Catlin’s paintings illusout of Hemingway of “The Sun trate the book. Also Rises” era. Like Hemingway's hero with his physical wound, Neil has a psychic nyse SU rveys Laws

He's the illegitimate son of a| one-time radical labor leader. | Ab P - Having no family has made out ress

Neil inwardly sensitive, outward-| ype " ly tough. Neil views characters THE NEWSPAPER." By Ignaz

wealth and president of Holland| Press, $5.50. House, publishers, with mingled | “THE NEWSPAPER,” by’ Igenvy and scorn. {naz Rothenberg is an unexpect-

with his biography of Catlin.|-

chestra selections of clossical music. . . . WISH 4:15 p. m,

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Nazi's Memoirs

To Be Published

‘The memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg, written in prison by the ine

‘|tellectual leader of Naziism whe

was hanged at Nuernberg, will be published Feb. 15 by Davis, According to the publisher, “these memoirs were written as a defense; actually they serve to the

ithe St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he!opinion found the posthumously AE THE NT obit made the mistaké one night of published novel a disappointment, dren, Theodore experienced a WHting a play review from ad, Out of maddening frustration "THE SEASON OF COMFORT Mi Sroat on Sunration. Bs day that the traveling troupe had yao strong for the public (and Ia Hemingway-cynical attitude. } : PRS YT * - stro or the an ] A navel, By Gore Videl." New|Germun im rant of intelligence |been stalled by railroad Washouts on ati Eins heduiiscussed the] As their clandestine’ affair], The author's purpose is to in-|coteris of men who led‘Germany York, Dutton, $3. and mechanical skill, underwent [ar to the west, his newspaper ex- best-sellers of the same years as/ progresses, however, he falls in (l0Fpiet and compare the profes-|to destruction. “I'he Season of Comfort,” fourth misfortunes after a good start. perience gave him important «gjster Carrie,’ “Jennie Gerhardt” love with Linda, only to become (8 en, A ties ol 8 hood : . novel by 24-year-old Gore Vidal, Possibly the responsibilities of [training in writing. and the others). They lacked jealously disillusioned when she t tL "Cnn 00 0 = S is further evidence that this re-® large family, possibly also the| Oddly enough—such are the re-istyle in the usual sense—a- fact reports her interest in other men | ar 4 Ci Bn il d 1a Inideous impersonality, of persist- wards of creative genius—Dreiser critics repeatedly have observed. during her Reno interlude and Newspaper codes developed. aliroaamen's

mark A air Te remy ent bad luck, made the elder enjoyed greatest security in the! Orville Prescott, reviewing Mr. subsequent California visit. { The subject is specialized and

nn iedly readable survey of the press WHEN" Linda, Larry's dissatis-| jaws of Europe, the United States;

fied wife, all but throws herself 1atin America and ther Into Neil's arms; Neil at first has | countries. vaziow 9

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succeeding in splitting half politically but suffersetback in municipal elec-

“The Seaso » 1.ldaughters got into difficult the but reading af Somiort = now describe as juvenile abiin- [the Delineator. : Dreiser seems to have been a partly balanced, however,

will not have the appeal of last because it lacks dramatic impact, |

form and its characterizations. (quency, the father would lecture

For the convenience of the

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THE SCIENCE review,

The story is commonplace. Charlotte Giraud, daughter of former Vice President from the understanding. South, 1s a neurotic Washington Theodore apparently had a socialite with a violent attach. childhood ment to her son, Bill, which takes

ugh he does not Scribes as Eugene Witla's, in

| o“ » Grif-| realize it until he gets out of the| The Genius” and Clyde Army, is constantly strugglingMth’s in “An American Tragedy.” |

on the progress made during the. ioe himself from her vicious DAYdreams of wealth, distinction

year in the fields of atomic energy... It! tells of the use of rddioactive iso-| topes in the study and treatment|, y..4 of cancer. Developments in aero-| . nautics, chemistry, physics, bioalso are covered in this ar-

and nuclear physics research.

ticle, as well as new inventions.

The section devoted to sports is

land sexual success had to sub-|

writing does not come to more of nretty miserable reality.

in Bloomington, generously

Biography Due

| mie “Sweeper in the Sky,” by Helen (il. Vi wee ace, wm Ql Vital Iran |

‘more comprehensive than. in for- publish Feb. 8 is the first’ biog-| ' . mer-years. It includes a complete raphy of Maria Mitchell, ot Book $ To Ic

summary of the 1948 Olympiclica’'s first woman astronomer,

“IRAN, PAST AND PRESENT."

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

By Donald N. Wilber. Prince-

In the Deep

Press, $3.

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in the past somewhat like the backwoods housewife, who marova that her city cousins “don't

[ical background, and text-book style reviews of the people, their |customs, their resources, and) (their land,

Book-of-Month Club Selects London Novel

“Elephant and Castle,” R. C.| {Hutchinson's ninth novel, is the | Book-of -the-Month Club , pelec-| {tion for February. { The new novel of London life is described as resembling In |scope and vividness the work of Dickens and Dostolevsky.

Beauty

Answer te Previous Pussle LIBIDO IPIAIRIDI 18IPIOITIS] EMIPIOIRILIALIEISIS [EIN GIOIS ISIE) NERO TIMER) [8 [BRIA IT] Rl HAE IN LT ter comes from.” Lid tl | “Iran, Past and Present” by| OTL EATIVILILIEF BI] 4 Donald N. Wilber, is a brief but ON IFIETICIRIBIAIDL ABE] fact-filled book that will help| AVIRIRITIEID] |Americans to get a .well-iounded [SIRINIDIEIRIS] idea of ond of the ‘world's prin43 An (Scot.) {cipal sources of ofl, It Is ¢onven-| 44 Vehicles 45 Waste allowance 48 Sped 49 Footlike part 50 Compass point 51 Mountain pass 38 Make a speech 52 Road (ab.) 40 Idolize 33 Symbol for 41 Drunkard tantalum

Softens Sorrow

Dreiser increasingly pious and|years 1907-1910 year's “The »|less provident as years went by. tor of the Butter . City and the Pillar When some of the sons and/Co. and gave a large group of that the we |new writers their first chance in timate of Dreiser's work.

and adolescence, in . . Terre Haute and alescenes. vn Jacket for Philadelphia Novel pre- |cThsely similar to what he de-| pared by Watson Davis, director| rues Bin. (hh he con pat of Bcience Service, a Scripps-| : . Howard Newspapers unit, reports

Tis too bad that such good stitute for what generally was |

” ~ » A YEAR at Indiana University |

even know where their fresh wa-|

tionally done, with ample histor-|

In those years,

them indignantly, while the moth- hard-driving idea-man who de-| aler extended some sympathy and manded results’from his editorial {staff and from contributors.

when he was edl- Elias’ biography in the New York | tek Publishing Times last Monday, complained | rated by Neil in a strong-silenit-| paper reader who is curious about

book lacks a critical es-

lack 1s by Mr. Elias’ effort to write a clear, connected and sympathetic account of Dreiser, the man.

That rather serious

All these proceedings are nar- technical. Nevertheless, any news{laconic style, one step removed, the legal framework within which from despair, but always rugged, his free press has grown and which 1s the 1949 version of Hem- |operates today will find a clear ingway’s version of Byronism. and comprehensive answer in ‘Modern - Byronic heroes seem | Rothenberg’s book. more ingrown, as they are also|————~ less lyrical, than Lord Byron's

ton, N.J., Princeton University] ol

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A typical old Philadelphia house front is the background of

the jacket Jesian for "Queen Street ia in the 1880's, published last Thursday by |

about Philade

Doubleday.

Story," Anne Paterson's novel

gallery of self-dramatizers. Mr. Newhouse has included the| customary outspoken bedroom in-| terludes which, in many novels of | | this type, seem to have no greater | {coefficient of emotion or passion than what the Kinsey report might term “frequency of outlet.” | —H.B.

Publishes 2d Novel

“The Fires of Spring,” a sec-| ond novel by James A. Michener, who won a 1947 Pulitzer Prize)

| James A. Michener | |

for his “Tales of the South! Pacific,” will be published Feb, 7 by Random House. i Mn Michener's 1947 prize-win-| ner has been made into a musieal| comedy, “South Pacific,” sch

uled to open early this year.

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Plan now to enroll in Butler University's second semester Day or Evening Divisions.

A complete orientation program has been organized for new freshman students and will start January 31, Courses are available in liberal arts, education, business, pharmacy, religion, and pre-professional subjects,

Butler's student advisory program assists students in _ selecting a course of study best suited to their individual needs, :

The Evening Division offers business and professional men and women: and others an opportunity for advance studies at convenient evening hours. Instruction is offered

noon Saturday and Monday inquiry and registration.

ment Service. This is the Indiana Busi

attend, or Fred W. Case,

Special Entrance Week

January 31 to February 7 Offices open 8:30 to 4:30 Monday through Friday, until

High school graduates, veterans, and ex-college students appreciate the definite, specific, effective courses offered here; also the resultful record of the school's Free Place-

of Indianapolis, The others are at Marion, Muncie, Logansport, Anderson, Kokomo, Lafayette, Richmond and Vincennes—Ora E. Buts, fully approved for G. I. Training. For Bulletin giving d sunplete, information. contact the school. yud: wish 1o 1

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