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* ~ Racial Problems : “KILLERS OF THE DREAM." By Lillian Smith. New York, Norton, $3. By HENRY BUTLER | The ugly paradox of racial segregation is Lillian Smith's subject in her new book, “Killers of the Dream.” | What caused this systematic violation of our democratic jdeals? Why do Southern, and in some ways Northern, states force Negroes into what has been called “second-class citi-| om In her home town of Clay-

+ 3 : 1 , ton, Ga., Miss Smith has puz- Rice Writes | zled over this question for a | ' ; the: sgt b | number of years Lis ot the ak On Theater concluded that! Behl Of Atue THT SHOW MUST GO ON." } segregation 2 2al A novel. By Emer Rice. New York, Viking, $3.50. |

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ing alterations in the spaci war days. It is one of 24 illustrati Sir Muirhead Bone f . ‘'y ' his or James Bone s Root - posh "London Echoing." Ga i of nearly half / t's Al / mn F awn | O th e ; YN he Air TWENTY QUESTIONS —

a century of London Life. (Dutton, $5.) Screen star Jeffrey Lynn will try experts

his luck with ‘the panel of

write a novel about the field he knows best-—the theater.

“me ow wut G0 ou « Margaret Mead Writes a Penetrating

has story of very ordinary mold, yet Mr. Rice has packed his pedesnd trian plot with minute and often lurid detail of what goes on behind the asbestos curtain. In following the series of adventures and entureés that accompany the production of a young man's play, Mr. Rice acquaints you with everyone conound (cerned in the process, from a Holstar who exists on sleeping pills and Benzedrine to a bit player who is seduced by the producer. Much of the story is an indictment of a system of com-

individuals. . . 1 OTHER NEW books on the the-

mercial theater that is often con-| * trolled by a few money-grubbing|

“Matinee Tomorrow” (Whittle |’

Study of Men,

"MALE AND FEMALE: A'STUDY OF THE SEXES IN A CHANGING WORLD." By Margaret Mead. New York, Morrow, $5.

MARGARET MEAD'S new study of sex patterns in our own and other societies is just about tops in popular scientific writing. That statement needs one gualification: The phrase “popular : . +» scientific” is in ~~ bad odor with . many scientists, especially physlcists and mathematicians, whose work

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Women in Modern World

sexes is a fantastic combination really is healthier than some of of Hollywood and gridiron, with|us gloomsters think-—that most all sorts of subtle and disturbing kids behave as well as they do in suggestions from advertisementsithe really tormenting business of of hair-dos, hair-oils, deodorants growing up. and iptimate personal-hygiene ac- "on

cessories, A FINAL POINT which struck Besides this brassy-classy com-\mg js Miss Mead's admirable deplex of artificially stimulated at- scription of how love and praise titudes, with all the private trage-3rq “contemporary and conditiondies it produces (gals buyingis)» The kid growing up wins falsies and guys padded shoulders)i ve and praise from family and in a desperate effort to compete). |rrionds when he or she is sucthere's the continual forcing of|..garul (basketball letter, “A” in mature patterns on immature mnoiish sorority bid, class prespersons. . idency). But the praise and love are rigged in a rhythm demandTHAT LAST point is, 1 think, ing more success of the same sort all the way up the line to middle

Six Tell Why They

Spurned Communism . “Why I Changed My Mind About Communism” is the title of a new anthology by six worldfamous writers and edited by Richard Crossman, Labor M.P.

when he sits in as honored guest for a session of the “ani-

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vi , Tp. ma. CONGRESSMAN JACOBS {Rep. Andrew Jacobs will give a talk to his constituents on the af(fairs of the nation . . . WISH, 18:30 p. m. | DENNIS DAY—When the par{ents of Dennis Day's fiancee de{cided to split, their daughter, Mil{dred, and Dennis take matters in "Some fawn, eh, kid?" is the [their own hands to arrange a recaption for this drawing by {conciliation . ... WIRE-WLW,

— ) [8:30 p. m. Barye Phillips, one of many’in | MEET THE PRESS—Sen. John "Jest What the Doctor Or-

Foster Dulles (R. N, Y:) will be " . interviewed by four outstanding dered," Dr. Francis Leo Golden's | on riers. Sen. Dulles was a collection of jokes designed to |former delegate to the U.N. and amuse both the healthy and the [30 official observer for the bi

lated easily into|Mead makes. We've all seen it in| 00 majlyre may bring sympathy, and author of “Palestine Mispopular idiom. action. It isn't just the cuttingi,.;i' ynat's cold gravy on cold|sion,” to be published by Harper ; Fortun -/down the age-limit for long pants, potatoes. in January.

used itia- | ately, Miss Mead, ich Bed 10, be 8 out 16. It| Miss Mead writes: “This is the| The six writers, who tell why Miss Mead as an anthropol-lisn't even the absurdity of tuxedos background of those Americanjand how they briefly embraced _ logist, has studied people. And|for 13-year-olds, or formals for attitudes—failure to admit im-/the Communist ideal and subseCalls (Dodd, Mead, though, in “Male and Female," their “dates” at expensive prep- ts, ungenerous state laws|quently renounced it, are: Arthur $3.50)—By Jack Gaver, Broadway|o spares her reader the often School proms. It carries into such (about welfare settlements for in- Koestler, Andre Gide, Ignazio columnist for the United Press, jargon of professional- dreadful and vulgar exploitation|digent families—that contrast so|Silone, Stephen Spender, Louis this is an account of the Broad. Pussling of children as the business of get-|sharply with American willing- Fischer and Richard Wright. WAY thater of today, oud In ance. Journal i og Region pi ting a 5-year-old gir] to imitate ness to help others, to give freely Te For Dist {ntetviews. BAEK ST ong oh or Tnaight, Mae West or do a hula In grass of time and goods and services.” Describes Racial Rift about stage persogalities. Her new book has been out for|" ve seen Tt kind of thing here! Miss Mead’s book should stir a| Hallett Abend's “Half Slave, “A Woman of Parts” (Long- 10 days now. All the reviews I've|;, Indianapolis, as elsewhere. My Rreat many readers. It should Half Free, which ‘describes the mans, Green, $3.50)—Sarah Tru-|Seen of it have been enthusiasti-iophjection to it is not on pious Rive aid and comfort to those who growing rift between the peoples ax has written some of her most|cally favorable. And since no re-lgrounds. But I do think Miss believe America has had a little of the East and the West, will memorable nces as one of view can cover the book adequate- Mead is correct in saying we too much salesmanship for every- be published Nov. 4 by BobbsAmerica’s best-known actresses|ly (nothing short of a Macaulay- elders have no right to compel body's good. —H.B. Merrill, during the era when the stock sized job in a ponderous, early-/youngsters to assume female-se-companies hed. Victorian magazine could do so),/ductive or male-aggressive roles “Curtain Time” (Houghton 1'd like to mention some points/before the kids are ready for it. | Mifflin, $3)—Ruth Harvey Ufts|] think may have been neglected] There's no way for a newspaper the curtain of memory on the gs sewhere. review to give Miss Mead due times when “the road” was in its credit for this department of her

, and when t stars like book. This much a reporte Evi i ony na} Dlcyels girls Isay, since he occasionally reads

r can 4 . acrobats played her father's, ."; 4... Home Journal, the/the dally papers himself: Every theater in Winnipeg. plan and purpose of it may be fa- big, sensational story about teen-

es —————————————— : “sex orgies” is an indictment miliar. Miss Mead asks the simple| “5° " eh Mindszenty Stery question: What does ft mean 10 sere Toe exactly hy a An introductory chapter by Cat. BA a0 Notan ei expect from the kids who are Spellman included % “high-| ” from so man dinal oy here in the same detached yet ign-pi angles, t sympathetic way she asked itjit during het Joni of field work in the Pac ds. The first three divisions of ner F1ANgover Cartoon tensions by|plete stenographic minutes of hisinew book treat that question as what he/trial and a discussion of the po-/the professional investigator sees so doing, |litical and .legal aspects of ,theit. Out in the Pacific, where societies may be enormously different . one from another, patterns $ change slowly. Here in the United ‘Women of Bible | States, patterns are changing alTwenty women of the Old Tes- most too fast for people to keep tament have been singled out for up with them. np¢ |ptories by Norah Lofts in “Wom-| Part IV of the book, “The Two en in the Old Testament,” to be! Sexes in Contemporary America,” issued by Macmillan Nov. 1. The|seems to me the best, the most edi- 20 include desert nomads, prin- thorough and keenly imaginative cesses, harlots, prudes, discussion of this subject I've . seen, I might add here that Miss) Mead, in private life, is a wife

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