Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1949 — Page 8
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‘A TREE OF NIGHT: AND OTHER STORIES.” By Truman Capote. New York, Random House, $2.75. 1 "THE HEAT OF THE DAY." A novel. By Elizabeth Bowen, New 5 1 Yok Knopf, 33. By HENRY BUTLER A GOOD DEAL of current fiction is glorified report-
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de That's not decrying the writer of fiction, on the one hand, or the reporter, on the other, Both have their place, even though a certain few documentary novelists and a certain few spectacular journalists may seem to
poach on each other's pre-|poiney a grass-before-sod widow serves. R whose husband died SHOES: atte ¢ way, beyond their divorce, is. emotionally a an ery in-bound up with Robert Kelway, a
wounded veteran of Dunkirk. cident and logical sequence Of oo 0." . 0 o war job, and Robert, In two such otherwise dis-
la captain, is in military intelli |gence. During the terrible days of similar books as Truman Ca-;p, Battle of Britain,” Stella is
incident serves a minor Harrison, who tells her Robert is purpose. Both books are mainly conveying secret information to concerned with states of mind. the enemy. sl
the Day,”
Both are full: of the drama of
soends the progress of reported” events
n » » MR. CAPOTE created some-| “Other Voices, very curious’ novel. Critics labeled it another Faulkneresque study in Southern decadence. One serious-minded woman
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together, thing of a sensation last your with Stella discovers that Harrison is right. Robert is giving infotmation. He's doing so because Dunkirk, with pleasure Junghos Hse ing up to evacuate ) 2 Sitacked had convinced him that the war should be settled once being a subtly dangerous defense without further argument. Robert . thinks the enemy smacked Mr. Capote Joa ¥|down argument at home, and maybe that's what is needed.
tion. Unfortunately, Miss Brown has chosen to complicate it beyond readers’
a good many American dramas, FIO te. She has included Rob-(than attacks by Indians. ert's domineering mother and sister: and all the apparatus of the heroine’s visit to the hero's
terested about Robert: “But that that was; to have to mean, end of you and me he
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The above drawing, one of 350 illustrations in "Gold Rush Album," breaking hazards of overland travel in 1849, Horses and cattle, as well as human beings, frequently died on the exhausting trip from drinking poisonous water.
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NOT MUCH over 20 years ago, even the best trains to California however,igave you some notion of what the Forty-Niners suffered when they crossed the desert 100 years ago. Nowadays, those who make the trip ably in a green-windowed, air-conditioned club car from which the desert dust, heat and glare seem a remote theatrical illusion.
It's just scenery now. It's been
tamed, like a miniature replica of a desert landscape in a natural history museum.
Even if you cross the country a day-long
. » blast of 110-degree dry heat, you interesting. situa-|Still have no sense of danger, But ng time was when the bone-bleach-ing desert and the rugged mountains were even more lethal
. The best way to recapture both ie on Rwsiagn 40d i] pi voyage to San - Francisco, was country home, without which a/from contemporary accounts and British novel probably couldn't be|pictures.
OO-INCIDENTALLY with Cal-
of |ifornia’s Centennial celebrations, Scribners have brought out a
reading | J novel-fiends conse- Gold Rush Album” with text wi the hut of no. and 352 contemporary illustrakinds technical tions, under the general editorth an J ot “has(ship of Joseph Henry Jackson. in
‘The book certainly is one of
prose./the best in its field. Other picfrom torial dialog. ‘The first is from ajhistory have dealt only in part with the specific gold-rush theme, where Stella is/which is inter-connected with the vaster subject of the opening of told herithe West. ‘, Mr. Jackson and his iates make clear at the outsell whe from|tne discovery of gold on poor, tragic John Sutter's property did to the popular imagination. Eastn papers were full of wild stor-| ov iang trip from the Gulf to
of American
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by train can sit comfort-
desert, where horses and humans died of thirst, or hopelessly rug-
from terrace to terrace in the steep descents. Shakedown in Panama
delphia, it was easy to see on the map that a voyage to Panama, a “short” trip across the 75-mile Isthmus plus another
bother paddling canoe-loads of
fees, For many fortune-seekers, the
clipper, ‘was the easiest, though
dangers, , Whatever route the FortyNiners took, they had troubles] (aplenty. Crudely inscribed grave-| markers multiplied along every trail, from up across the Wyoming country down to Mexico. Mexican War veterans, thinking they knew all about Mexico, sometimes tried the gruelling
the Pacific. John W. Audubon, gon of the great naturalist, accompanied one such party, leav-
non-Indian
it also had its discomforts and, .. wu B.
In This Roundup of Days of Forty-Niners
journey, their troubles began all over again. San Francisco, Sacramento and the gold regions Ware Jujoying , inflation. Break- "DOLLY MADISON: HER “LIFE ast In a crude, shanty restaurant in San Francigco was $1. Claim-stakers sometimes had to pay $1 each for eggs, $100 a barrel for flour. pa ae battle tor gold went to the those figures in history who were| led through impossible terrain— strong. What the industrious gold: | ramous in their day for qualities'§ murderous attacks by rivals he/that- are almost impossible to ged mountain passes, where even|Often spent on women and liquor make known once the people are mules had to be lowered by rope|in_the boisterous towns. It's not surprising that most of the 200,000 who Awelies oe and a woman of “icharm. But beyond that what is| fornia from the end of 1848 to In Boston, New York Phila-spe 1atter part of 1852 stayed on there to say? We cannot observe because they found opportunities in busthess, agriculture and the beginnings of industry.
of that historical period
Facts on Bees Hold Interest
House, $3. A CURIOUSLY
canvas-topped
to |successful.
“CITY OF THE BEES." By Frank S. Stuart. New York, Whittlesey 2 pried a well wy
Dolly Madison Book Drags
AND TIMES." By Katherin Anthony. New York, Double day, $4.50.
DOLLY MADISON is one of}
dead. We say of this gracious
inestimable
her entertaining in the White
of warmth which her contempo-
Katherine Anthony tries to make more of Dolly in her biography, “Dolly Madison, Her .ife
ing scholarship she fails to bring her to life. Dolly may have had
uneventful existence and the attempt to prove otherwise is not
. » 8 BORN IN North Carolina in 1768 to a prosperous Quaker family, Dolly Payne might never have been heard of if her father] had not moved to Philadelphia to go into business. proved disastrous for him, but it
put Dolly into society and she soon made the most of it. She
|named John Todd when she vas
fascinating 21, following her father's dea‘h book, “City of the Bees” byifrom heartbreak over his ban Frank S. Stuart, combines scien- ruptey. '
lady that she was a great hostess|
House, we cannot feel the effusion |;
, {raries constantly remark. -So she |S It's a tremendous job to get al es simply the A Joan
. good pictorial and textual sum-| the most practical route, But mary of all this into one volume. symbol for stately hospitality.
Panamanian natives—no dopes—iag “Jackson and his associates quickly caught on. They wouldn'ti} ove done that. They would be the first to sa prospectors up the Chagres andy book should be part of a ooL.|and Times,” but despite painstakthen guiding the parties throughii. tion If you're keenly interestmountainous jungle to Panamal.q jy, the American West, which | City without extorting ruinous, haply has done more than charm, but she led a relatively anything else to give us a ‘continued sense of freedom, you'll trip around Cape Horn, some- want “Gold Rush Album” times made in 100 days by fast|y,. joment whatever other items you!
Cid Ricketts Sumner, suthor of "Quality," has written a new novel, "But the Morning Will Come," to be publi Mar, 21 by. Bobbs-Merrill. It is described as telling “the deeply moving experience of a white girl who discovers that the child she is fo bear has Negro blood."
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Grandson Authors Tennyson Biography
“Alfred Tennyson,” a new biog raphy of the Victorian poets laureate by his grandson, Sir Charles Tennyson, will be pub lished in May by Macmillan,
'The Big Secret’ Guild Choice
The Literary Guild's June
According to the publisher, Sir Charles draws on hitherto inace cessible family letters which, “to gether with the aid of recent psychiatric studies, have enabled
selection will be “The Big Secret,” by Merle Colby, a novel about a
The venture YOUNg scientist's fight in Wash-
|ington to keep atomic power in
the realm of pure science.
Viking Press, the novel is described as a kind of “Mr. Deeds
ling atom secrets.
To be published in May by,
Goes to Town” story of one man’s gle to prevent private awe EE of the theater, later this E ARAGPOME fiom contra id!
him to throw new light on ‘he [poet's life, character and mental development.”
Rice Novel Due | Elmer Rice has signed a conpublication of his new novel, a
»The forthcoming novel will Mr. Rice's first since “Ime
tract with the Viking Press for -
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, often with disastrous re-
.|ing a pictorial d forms an especially interesting part of “Gold Rush Album.” When the prospecto arrived in California, often minus
record which
’ with an exquisite,] Four years later she was a tle pa q {widow as a result of a plague of This is the story of a colony of Jono% Jey. wat Sy yome hutw she wo not remain one long wild bees and one year of its life. 4 4 year after her husband's
though Stella— : what 8|cal and easy on the inaccurate|costly equipment lost, stolen or|The author in a foreword admils|y,,p, jhe married one of the foreStink for you all!” maps of the period, sometimesinecessarily abandoned in their that it is a fantasy, but the reader statesmen of America, Like the words of the china- age that it 1s an entirely|y,p\.y Madison, a man 17 years - po shop, sitting-and-sewing Sarah » jevable one. her senior. ' Caldwell South. He can writelof the famous song, both ano Self-Portrait Among Reproductions When overloaded bees “crash Tea a biter, stabbing imagery about excerpts strike me as needless - u i _ {land” near their home, ants use a NL city-in “A Tree of Night” just as tongue-twisters. i 0 : Er ott power 0 steal the honey|, FROM that day until Madison he wrote more languorous imag- wv Fit : from the bees’ tongues Wasps retired from politics in 1816 Dolly ay about the South in “Other [ paralyze bees and store the ty-|VaS the most prominent hostess olces, Other Rooms.” Book Throws ing, helpless victims in wasp|in Americ She played the part His work is amazing. It may larders. fof first lady for the widowed Jefnot be true, in the sense of after- The ‘wedding of the queen beeiferson and when her husband be-
Light on Polk
and fugues on improbable themes, it has few contemporary equals. | YOUNG HICKORY: THE LIFE 1 personally find of Mr. AND TIMES OF PRESIDENT Spote's Stites a frritating.] JAMES K. POLK." By Martha gon ike rowed and Zeset some McBride Morrel. New York, - Dytton, $4.50. hes has a fine audacity (... "it was as y \ if the sky were a thunder-cracked] OVERSHADOWED by his fa-
mirror, for the rain fell between mous predecessor and mentor and them like a curtain of splintered the onrushing controversy that glass”) was to lead to the Civil War, © And there's enough -perception/James K. Polk has received little and kindness and wisdom in his attention as a President. Until Allan Nevins wrote “Ordeal of the Union,” Mr. Polk, called “Young Hickory” to distinhim from Andrew Jackson, Hickory,” was neglected. Martha McBride Morrel has “Young Hickory,” titled “The Life and Times of President James K. Polk.”
Her biography is thorough and is
do as he grows olde
r. Let's hope he won't get stuffy. - ”
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mysteriously selected came President her dinners and within parties took on a regal air with her body 25 million spermatozoa out the heavy atmosphere of Fedover which she exercises control eralist functions. later to produce drones, workers, But beyond being a hostess soldiers and queens like herself. Dolly was not an important wom+ « =» lan of her day. She had no inBEES, which will attack a fluence upon her husband or other man, and ox or an elephant, are statesmen as far as politics was strangely afraid of mice. When a concerned. Her only positive act mouse invades their colony, the of note was to rescue Gilbert Stubees most often will desert it tojart's portrait of Washington durdie on empty combs, eisewhere.|/ing the sacking of the capital in Sometimes—but rarely—they will 1813. . strike back and kill the invader. rw = Unable to remove the body, they will cover it with wax. - [pleasant to contemplate. For 20 .| All these and other facts are|years after leaving Washington given by the author as a result of [she never journeyed from the his—study of a soclety that isiMadison country home, Montolder than man. A Scotsman, pelier, Va. She was burdened with Stuart worked for seven yearsithe care of his ancient mother as a bee-keéper. His book will|yho died at the age of 98 and delight nature lovers of all ages. following Madison's death she
with a
HER declining days are not
perial City,” published in 1937, LISTEN TO MUSICAL MANHUNT
Every Sunday 1:30 fo 2:00 P. M.
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE Flightless Bird
Rl gi well done, the research is good| * had to cope with the. vagaries of Fe ahd she has spiced the book with| Heartbreak her worthless, alcoholic son, BSR EI ' “many homely human interest # [Payne Todd. “Finally, plagued by . Wi ——— é ahh HE stories about the Mexican War In Mailbox the steady decline of the Madison] HORIZONTAL 2 Continued 1 te pelt oH 1 BE SERVICE BY Presjaent. Nancy Bruff, author of the exchequer, she was forced to de-|. - 1Depicted bird stories RIA ID] ATIC ; Mr. Polk, the author writes,| & controversial best-seller of some pend on the sale of his papers to| 8It is — 3 Former BIE BN INTERFLORA Illed Nims in Jitter, Never al! years back, “The Manatee,” has jurvive. 13 Replace ‘ o Sussiap ruler YY, | ’ e a new novel which Julian Mess- 14 Musical dr Right (ab.) - *Bertermann Bros, emilee has Ae ingleness ner will publish April 20. wn oar Doirs 15 Age —") 3 Electrined AEINITI CELE] . Are Members of purpose 3 Sngleness Entitled “The Beloved Wom-|life it would be practically un-| 16 Approaches ' particles &15IN Po [RITE [A POR: cr un an.” the forthcoming novel isreadable, but Miss Anthony with 19 fake an 3 Jian LHIARM ALL ! escribed as the story of a mall- [good sense uses Dolly frequently’ ‘ NED i es day, the President was) : ; ? box fomance between a lovely us a background figure to fllumi-| 19 Atmosphere 8 Misplace India (comb. form), Citizen whe Visited the Whity| THibw Joumieis i: [Wik me Cla : girl and the man she didn't uu rate the history of the times. 80 peigties int10 Apud (ab.) 3 Siveat 44 Young salmon 1 as a e N ng —-— ) House, Thousands took advan- This self-portrait by Pieter Bruegel, the Eider (1525-1569), is = - RWM | 22 Ambary P11 Clutches 7 Diatribe oe © Semis o [sys he waa le to work du! one of 64 gravure reproductions of great art works in “The. Pocket TID 23 Pair (ab.) 33 Diners 35 Draw the 46 Lighting na the day ‘became’ of vistors! Book of Old Masters.” With fext by such writers as W., Somerset \RZRLY Low hl ry Vora in do and then had to sit up until near-| Maugham, Walter Pater, Thomas Craven, Hendrik W. Van Loon \ 29 Mineral spring 28 Not Sioned 31 Burme ly dawn to finish his stint. | and other connoisseurs and critics of art, the volume, edited by | BB J F/I 30 Mystic "26 Scottish caps a Pla pnt Elected on a one-term platform,| Herman J. Wechiler, will be added next Monday to Pio 25.cont 4 wien oan syllable 27 of he retired after the election of reprint series. 5 ' 31" Measure of Zachary Taylor, a Whig general = ib I TTITIIII ITI, type he bad proacted, He died, prob- " \ 6) 32 Hawaiian 0 olera, soon after he reached his Tennessee home fresh | . JOB-OBJECTIVE COURSES ke (ream is a wreath South, | ruel swing of the Day and Evening Sessions h ) reel food . . . 39Cyafts Next to Jefferson, Mr. Polk Offices open 8:30 to 4:30 Monday through Friday, BO de added the largest amount of ter-| until ‘noon Saturday, and Monday and Thursday eve- 39 Exclamation ritory te the continental United| nings for inquiry and registration. » h¥ 40 Royal States. California and the West High school graduates, veterans and ex-college studen Histotica} were ceded by Mexico after the appreciate the definite, specific, effective courses offered . Society (ab.) war and Oregon came in on a here; also the resultful record of the school's Free Place- 42 leaf compromise with Britain, : ment Service. This is the 47 Winglike part New Kay Boyle Indiana Business College : 48Dine . 4 of Indianapolis. The others are at Marion, Muncie, 49Kind of Dear - ||Novel Awaited Logansport, Anderson, Kokomo, Lafayette, Columbus, 30 Clamp RL “His Human Majesty,” a new Richmond and B. President. All 81 Fragrant 2333 | [novel by Kay Boyle, will be pub- fully approved for Training. For bulletin giving, : Oleoresin lished In April by Whittlesey "complete information, contact the school you wish to 53 Fantasy a attend, or Fred W, Case, Principul. i 55 Satan hh hag Central Business College . — a af men undergoing si A — h4 Poo | VERTICAL to the publisher, | Ee — ; ¢ { ’ ! bo : ’