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Under the title “Your Most| Originally, I’ suspect, Sansom. real enough. All that socially in- Humble Servant,” the forthcom- had in mind a tragjc denouement “bred New York refinement with ing biography will -be published to this tale. His present ending] rier -itice-cetiophane-in-flanie-when: : -Messmer—in—September—— Be AD fACt, tragedy of another and,

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"A RAGE TO LIVE"

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A ‘novel. By John O'Hara ow York + = Random House, $3.75. : CE "By HENRY BUTLER ~~ ° br

“ovel 1a 11 years, “A Rage Sg — 5 : i — ds £

This 590-page chronicle of Pennsylvania life is remark-r .

ably outspoken, especially in dialog. With that preliminary caution, I hasten to add that Mr § O'Hara has done some of the finest rendering of real. talk|

I've seen in recent years... I her—career—a RS social arbiter—o of +- He has a wonderful ear for! Ft. Penn.

b Like Willa Cather in “A Lost rhythm and idiom. Without, Jo OHA To ! attempting to spell out Pennsyl- hy the theme of the woman who “=i vania- Dutch accent, for example, ishooses freedom and loses caste. he can give you the full flavor of Mr O'Hara's novel, vastly longer . that regional speech. _land more circumstantially earthy

"The Builders,” an oil by Anita Heisterkamp of Indianag is included in the exhibition of senior work “at Herron Art School open, to the pub fe, uti § Sept. Il

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He tells his story as much.as than Miss Cather’s, certainly wh, : ‘long-winded, the more important New Runyon New. Woasfern Novel Is Good 1 Vi tictans, Hn | st wel

_. possible in what participants said.| attract wide. attention. dialog passages have startling vi-/ pent metean sens Volume Out —— Example of Deft Writing

It the result occasionally seems) AL : gee tality. You hear socialites, polia whole community of diverse!

persons talking as they actually! "RUNYON FIRST AND LAST. a "Rest AND BE THANKFUL." A “THE BO A novel: would. xu | By Damon Runyon. Foreword svel. By. Helen Macinnes. liam Sansom. New Yorkr by Clark Kinnaird. Philadelphia. Bos : Little; Brown, $3. gart, Brace, $2.75. -

I STRESS here the convinemg-| | ; ness of Mr. O'Hara's dialog,| LPpincott. $2.75. since I think it’s a very important] DAMON RUNYON factor in his novel's total effect. for story-telling.

By STERLING NORTH

TAKE a group of Eastern writ jealousy for the theme of his|

Hat 3 tus unusual first novel William San-|

As a working

rs, talented and otherwise. Pour For “A Rage to Live” is more Dewspaperman he wrote literally op rg a Wyoming ranch som has, chosen a potent poison. than the tragic story of Grace Millions of words during a career .,jjaq “Rest and ‘Be Thankful.” + a Salica Jeniousy “the in-| . r'd lover's hell”

Dryden added “the jaundice in the soul”;

Caldwel] Tate, member of a that started at the turn of the

wealthy, semi-dynastic family of century.. A Runyon story of a ¥t. Penn, Pa. (not too unlike Prize- -fighfer or a’ horse race Harrisburg, Pa., incidentally). It's| Might run to a full newspaper a story of .a whole section of] page. Most of that vast wordage American society. {has gone the way. of news stories; It could be paralleled in miany|—Preserved only in the dusty another eity “of 80,000 plus, 1t{files of newspaper morgues. concerns not only the social lead-|. When Runyon turned to fiction, | ers, but also the descending hier-| though, the stories he told. dearchy of lesser mortals who make served permanence. And such per-| social eminence pleasant for the /manence, in book form, has just ~joaders. been given. 10. a new collection of,

Add -a bunkhouse full of western cowhoys, Shake well and you have a refreshing summer concoction, perfect for sipping while lying in a hammock. Scornful intellectuals who invariably raise supercilious eye{brows at “hammock fietlon” usually are incapable of writing ft” {themselves and completely dn aware of the high degree Ape ent it takes to entertal e lazy«minded these days.

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the grave.” speare, of course, who wrote: O! ‘beware, my lord, of jealousy:| It is. the green-eyed monster | which doth mock The meat it feeds on... . Othello, as you remember, did not beware. Once Iago had ¢ (planted the seed of doubt concernA Cassio, the tragic fate of in-

Tate, rhs ‘short stories and sketches,

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novel. By Nigel Balchin. Bos- Tadlp as the t panelist. He is ton, Houahior Mifflin, $3. the Sather of Pe er

: NIGEL BALCHIN has written _ lan exciting version of the oft- fessional te told Borgia story in “The Borgia! Riggs a 18 be the guest ~{ Testament.” for the radio version of the “ani«. Primarily it is a novel about {mal, mineral or vegetable” game |Cesarre of the famous medieval] = ‘WIBC—7 p. m.

Ttaltan family and it is told in the{ B ASEBALL Luké Walton will form of Cesare’'s memoirs after] I his jes h describe the play-by-play of the 1 enemies have shorn him of his |game between the Indians and

x | power. However, all of the others sy. Agsociation leading Saints prominently; especially the WISH-=9:30 p. m.

tiful Lucrezia and their fa-| ‘West Lafayette Firm's 'Workers Get Overtime

Twenty-three employees of the Lafayette Motor Parts Co. West Lafayette, have received checks

Py Bracks, author of “A Street in Bronzeville" and jor holder of two successive Gug- | genheim fellowships, has written

Tue been blamed for mo _ghare of crimes or that

Grace “Caldwell 8,1 egarious” novelists. oat ohn and 40 nt Desaémona Wak aEstired: oT veh: of povtry; Amie {1 3€. for. unpaid .overtinie..amounting........ " blic is not intforaied on extenu-1; ; O'Hara's: “Bunyon First and Last... San] ~Swiour svi oun gl. ne no_ Shakespeare and| Allen," which Harper wil : prey in. certain $2, "Was gtiiounced tothe Tuck tobe rhe a an = : h,-soap-b6x_and agonize. But mailing saa his first novel is no “Othello.”| Jick 4, The portrait 2x] ” - day” George Brickley, nvestis— Ca $ Aug. 24 portr cases. y ge Ey, ldwell. In Ft. Penn the Cald-|' IT INCLU DES, as thé title the hammock fictioner must com- Helen Maclnnes . . . writes: 'But in Is own curious way he has in is by Ernest Alexander tion r of the wage wells, not' the * richest, | Suggests, some of the last storiés pete with radio, television, the wemooth, painless” fick written a parallel tragedy set in| 9 . i . x i= th were the most distinguished fam- he wrote before the died, in 1946, movies and the tabloid headlines Smooth, . painless on. lower middle-class England (a The Van Gogh Album and ‘hour df n of the U. 8,

lly. They had elegance without|and some of those he Wroté as far to hold his fickle audience: He the replistic values of the hard- bracket of English, socletyl pretentiousness. And since they back as 1911. ‘Among the early! sr usually she) must be sophis-/riding, straight-shooting west, strangely neglected by the es watched their sound real estate stories the present-day reader ticated, witty, deft in sketching where men are men and women) sentially snobbish literati of so-| and coal investments carefully, will find “Runyonese” phrases character, ingenious in contriving are glad of it. |cialized Albion.)

without Dting nervously penny-|that will not be as easily tFans-/ plot. ‘Meanwhile Miss MacInnes does| His Othello is a middle-aged ter days. ~ A PERFECT example of the| ONE: American ‘Communists in |Henry Bishop; until recedtly ut-|

thin Hmi! | Yoishied, 3 felt no mi oes The foreward, by Clark Kin- smooth, painless and completelyiine person of Karl thin, |terly satisfied to putter about his| be either conspicuously virtuous! naird, includes ofie of Runyon's entertaining “light” novel comes dark, intensely critical and bitter. |garden, collect moths and “enjoy or noisily bohemian. y last newspaper “columns, written'to us from Helen Maclnnes, Karl wants every cowboy to have his privacy ng his wie. With such a background, Gr |when he knew he was to die. The Scotch-born American writer al-|24 acres (enough to feed one steer : could entertain the fri ace | column, ~alied “Why Me?™, 18 ready widely known for her pre- and one-fifth). | THE INN CIT Desdémona, freed n 1 it usion of em “by Kinnaird “one of ‘the vious best sellers: “Above Susplst TWO: Embarrassingly rich. of this tate of Madge, the com-| . om. Immunity from want modern essays.” It can bel jon” “Assignment in Brittany,” would-be writers in the person of ¢ tape sensible, rather unro-| and superiority to most -social! réad with profit by anyone over- «yyhile Still We Live,” “Horizon” neurotic; gun-toting, ego- -mamiac, | otto suburban housewife, who Preauire, Hide Pe du a rifieltaken by physical disaster. |and“Friends and Lovers” Esther Park, who gets her lege... ome strange reason has been og ed restraint. | Mactnnes Gn private life Drojkes trying to attract atten-| contented with Henry and never e wife Highe fii eof Glibert_Iughet, p ro! THREE: Intellectual snobs {| 2nee -been-guilty-of-& wandering) |Columbia) took her M.A. at Glas-|the person of Prender Atherton gow Ui TR ‘Jones, who spouts Kafka, writes niversity, spent the frst f ‘New Dimensions,” lives para-| [rears of her married life at Ox-| on. T€ . P

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ping he Te Arm bor of 2 : h and sparkling level. a 12-month (he should have Eh her complicated . story daily book columnist’s job writing} of criticsims a|

AL SIH dg Or Story’ : Of Scientist

the tragic flaw in Grace's char-| acter, but not until after a dozen Or more years of happy | E Tate, New York socialite of mod- YBRAIN - By Dorothy E erate’ (three - quarter - million) . Néw York, 'Schuman, $4.

wealth. ‘The description of that! USUALLY lives of scientists concerns the strange adventure: 250,000. words are limited in appeal, but the life Of Mrs, Margaret Peel and’ Miss year).

eye. And then there is a Cassio, In| {this instance a jovial extrovert| named Charles Suffolk Diyas whose Barden adjoins-the Bishops. a*-Car: salesman, a. player, Fo Fe Practica Jones: Alover Gf beer {and gaudy knicknacks, who has, - the misfortune to see Madge in| deshabille at her window and] later invite the Bishops to dinner.

the novel, is a fine job of recon- + Sarah Bly, salonists, patrons of) a # a ¥ v {of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, ah bly, sD ; ——Struetion: Mr. O'Hara ev : a TEST BCIETISE, Mas ex. Lhe arts-and-erstwhile heroines ND-THERE are The reader is fully aware that| has captured the look, the feel, PRIS FTONLESE SCIQHT he thing is brewing between Madge]

4/the Paris underground who take vignettes etched in mild acid! Joc

the wrong road in Wyoming and ranging from the Hungarian well-rounded picture of Cajal in end Up at a ranch belonging to chauffeur turned west- arian Henry Bishop is imisediately n'ai Jim Brent. cowboy, to the thoroughly like- Complete tzzy. &

Xplore: of the Human Brain.” |" satisfied with enjoying thelable ranch owner, Jim Brent, who dotes, yet. doubts, ‘suspects, | Author of the neuron doctrine conery and western males in worth any half-dozen novitiate yet strongly loves,” he begins to lused in nervous physiology, dal lisolated splendor, they ‘import a scribblers in the story. search for clews. A cigaret butt won the Nobel Prize in‘1006. rare collection of striving writers. Clever, fast-moving, fairly su- unlike the sort his wife smokes, Tate farm outside Ft. Penn, Grace th® man had a spirit too o, to Prender Atherton Jones, a poison- perficial story-telling headed for three pitiful little entries in ge suddenly realizes “Sidney knows D¢ cenfined-to-the laboratory. He nus and handsome “critic,” and a place high on the best-seller Secret diary, a telephone’ number

3 lained moments in her life she's been unfaithful to him. {won a prize in literature from the | (quite inadvertently) Dewey list. unexp This ominous note at the start French Sorbonne, he was a phil-'scnmetterling, who deserves noth- jall-add up inthe crazed brain. of,

traordinary human warmth, An

‘Dorothy. F. Cannon has given & and Charley Diver, But little

the ‘atmosphere of the eras hey describes. The wedding scene occurs well “pg along in the book, since Mr. O'Hara has chosen to open his! story in 1917. After a day-long Red Cross-benefit festival on the

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“Shakespeare "SHAKESPEARE." By Ivor Brown.

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The Heritage Press has assem{bled an elobarate collection of {Van reproductions fof re-FCohen, i business a the L Janse this fall under the title, “The; fayette Motor Parts Co, were New York, Doubleday. $4. | gh Album.” ‘With more fined $1400 by Federal Judge Any biography of william gy 40 plates, including a full-| Luther Swygert after they plead. /Shakespeare is an adventure im! color reproduction on canvas, the ed guilty to wage and hour law

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raphy and interpretation in “SHAKESPEARE.” The full flavor of Shakespeare's genius is presented, with no pe-| dantry to spoil the taste. No writer ever has had the {universal fame and popularity of ‘Shakespeare, yet he remains a man of mystery as far as most of his life is concerned. Brown takes all of the Svidence and eval'wates it in a reasonable manner; pointing out the prevaniies but Hot claliping © 3

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of the book is part of Mr. O'Hara's osopher as well as a medical 8Cl- jo better than the $2000 a week ; Henry to. infidelity. design. - The rest of the novel is entist, he was a political reformer, na" often makes in. Hollywood Pens Story eo) : . yo” iy . largely concerned with explaining *" educator, an intense patriot.|zjargaret also buys the rancn FEED 4 UPON this jealousy Grace and making clear why she| . 8 8 5 house, Negro Inventor

pd what she did. I'm not-too sure! YET IN his school days, he was lm Shirley Graham, winner.of the ol FET ‘O'Hara has succeeded in clar- a hellion. led, he w YR PURPOSES of boo } ! I on... Expelled, he was ap-| FOR PURPOSES of book club oo gna Mescner Award: for Making: the landlady . slightly:

ifying Grace's motives in a way prenticed to a barber and then a that would satisfy. soap-opera cobbler. Later, he séemed: to setlisteners, What he’s done is amass tle down as a laboratory worker, a tremendous amount of talk, but suddenly dashed off to Cuba mich of it between Grace and her to fight for his country. Upon his close friend, Connie Schoffstal. return, he mariied on $25 a month From ‘that talk, and from what and® started the brilliant .career you know of Sidney -- nice guy, which ‘impressed all the world sensitive, but also capable of im-/with the exc option of Cajal, mediate and final rejection of his’ -- wife the moment he gets a nasty anonymous letter — you have to draw your-own conclusions. sii

.. n= ! MR. O'HARA makes. Sidney

distribution and the inevitable’ movie to be made from this book, romance biooms like the sage in every chapter. [Eastern female literary hopefuls start falling in love with rowboys and vice versa. Five-foot-four-inch Schmetterling woos a gal rodeo star, The assorted literati are tested against

drunk). He .offers—an enamelled her biography of Frederick Doug=hiond who lives in Diver's buildlass entitled “There Was Once a/ing a free hairdo at his. emporium Slave,” has written the life story tand phen, wickedly, takes her of Benjamin Banneker, American] a ane quires the habit of drinkNegro scientist, inventor and city ing one pint after another at the planner, who was a contemporary local pub, hoping .to overlrear and correspondénit of Thomas gossip about the pair. He. even Jefferson, stages a party on the river to Grandson of an African prince throw his Wife into Diver's com{and an English serving maid, pany so that he can spy on them. | {Banneker was born free in Mary- In short, with no need of an Iago | Tan, yet &11 his Tite wis hounded f0 nurse his suspicions, he "beby slavers. {comes quite as mad as Othello.

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Sidney learns of Grace's brief af- I fair with the tough Irish Bannon. Sidney can’t take that. So far as he's concerned, he tells her, she's dead. After all, he had chances and temptations too, but he didn’t YH yield. - Turned down by Navy doctors,

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Sidney is stricken in the 1917 well, ploneer Amer " ' ) ican woman lished Bept. 12° by Cowardpole slic ane dia, Shoriy R SS J vivian sna surgeon McCann. child, also dies of the same dread ; - 5 ; disease, Grace now Is left with

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her daughter and older son to rebuild her life } Gossip, bubbling and percolat ing through Ft. Penn, still makes variations on the Grace-Bannon| theme, long since pakt, When Bannon rd&ther fhsolently at

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ill-fated . intimacy, Grace .com- by Bobbs-Merrill ($3.75 plains. to her brother Brock. y =O ($3.75). ’

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