Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1949 — Page 8

Lifting of Fa - Good Book From Italy

“IN SICILY." A novel, By Elia Vitterinil New York, New York Direc.

| ig Ea | “THE ARTIST, quite obviously, had to move. with great| caution in Italy during the dark midnight of fascism. That! his voice was not wholly lost has become apparent in the great flood of creative writing to come out of Jtaly since - the war, ’ Another Italian novelist of very introduced to the American « public this week. He is Elio 4 man's shoes are.tattered and]

Vittorini, and the title of his water seeps into them; when his work is “In Sicily.” It is a story heart is no longer captive to any80 deceptively simple that its subtier theme must have escaped Fascist sensibilities. First published in Italy in 1937, it is a severe indictment of materialism, lose . and there and of the political philosophy de- ’ { signed to degrade humanity. |flaughter 1a being perpetrated In| The tale is that of one Sllves- Will the outrages continue? We tro who, after 15 years, 18Arnsig., + gugpect that they will. But that his father has deserted his, coos’ likely there will be a home -in Sicily, So he returns.fe., yoices like that of Vittorini,| there from the north of Italy whose .art. survived fascism, to for a three-day visit with"his enter valid and self-sustaining! mother, What he sees, the people protests against them. he meets on the train and in his 8 = native village, constitute the] YOU WILL FIND “Story: The story, But buried in that story, Fiction of The Forties” edited by! “and not immediately apparent, Whit and Hallie Burnett (Dut-|

Another

By EMERSON PRICE -

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comfortable stature is —— —— — {

longer has a life of his own, when he has accomplished noth-| ing or has nothing to accom- | {plish, nothing to fear, nothing to|

- n ” FOR IN THE short visit to his butions are “Liam ald home, Silvestro has embarked Tennessee Williams, Truman Ca-| upon a voyage in which he ulti- pote, William Faulkner, and a, tals is recited in first pérson and, inence, at the outset, Bllvestro had been For various reasons, “haunted by abstract furles . . some sort of furies concerning the book is a story by Norman Mall- + doomed human race, , , . My life er, young author of the remark-| was like a blank dream, a quiet able war novel, “The Naked and hopelessness.” The Dead.” This near-perfect tale| We learn, as the author pro- was written when. Maller was

have escaped entirely the insidious . social and political

ideas have crept most silently into the world to nearby Strongsville was named. is|

they have been nourished China” (Doubelday, $3). Regarded

ering, those who mistakenly came into power -by believe themselves to be strong Soviet arms, or finances,

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suffering ity and still retain his human im- ing them. She also sees indica-| . pulses? From what other source tions that the Red government!

- Spring genuine pity or the Rapac is national n the sense that the 5 © ity to love unselfishly? interests of Chi will “hacFifced

of Fascism’s |

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that arises on a rainy day, when | :

one in particular, when he nal

from that of all human. and pointing the way to fullfill- they cannot seem to cope.

fieems to me, ex

"The Mule Car."

tHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES dded to Herron Museum. Collection

a humorous Mexican scene made into a lithograph by the: late American beyond him, artist, George Overbury "Pop" Hart, is a recent addition to the Herron Art Museum collection

of graphics. It is-a gift from Dr. Lew Wallace of Brownsburg.

Mature, Understanding Novel of Hill Folks Echoes Spirit of Vanishing American Tradition Of Theater

"EVERYWHERE 1 ROAM." A novel. By Ben Lucien Burman. New trio stop. He knows the Creole)

York, Doubleday, $3.

By STERLING NORTH PUT A CUMBERLAND mountaineer and his three motherless

Lucien “Burman’s finest book. But youp’ total picture of this

mately rediscovers humanity. The great many others of equal prom-|,,vel (op which Mr. Burman has touch a

been laboring for four years) will

foning this story. . »

- . HE IS WRITING a ballad of|

ceed wi is world.only 18. |youth and age, of love and death,| Ba that very few In th ony ‘of sin and salvation.

» eas conceived] ANNA LOUISE STRONG, a| A ballad of the little man strug-

: : i other totalitarian 8raduate of Oberlin College and aging against great industries and T tase tang on “hive crept al- Membr of the family - whom social forces.

Of mountaineers burned-out,

= . and by cunning innu-'the author of a history of the/smoked-out -and elbowed-out by lake:roat, and by cunning Communist movement in China./the goons of the coal and iron It is titled “The Chinese Conquer industries. :

Of tradition ‘being smashed by

as a pro-Communist writer, she/the onrushing era of juke boxes, was nevertheless expelled recently chieap dance halls, jalopies and) from Russia. In her present work radios. ! she denies that the Chinese Reds Of bewildered, ~-Aemiliterate, means of {Scotch-Irish and Anglo-

De ture upon the dearth-of artistry-in-

modern American writing : ol

are_addit : TERT of WE OWN Bu

Jibs k ting # coli Too many best-sellers these sym “ldays are overwritten and underividu does bres" Sampath mith the vigtort ned. They are hacked out by! Aloe. but gerong thal Miss plotsmiths with a tin ear for the out nuances of speech and the com-

B Out- American government recognize You can tell it to your|ond 40 business with them. It

: this is done, in a spirit of honfriend; Tell him that I spend my days like an ancient hermit est friendship, she believes, it will

; prove more advan than these papers, Milling a history any other policy that might be but 1-go.on writin "adopted. Otherwise, she thinks we : go. on 8 imay place ourselves in a difficult t 1 te about al he out’ situation. : : rages one by one, about all; «por gne concluded; * | _ the outrageous faces that laugh iq (50 000,000 people. heir on! At the outrages they have in<'(or u hundred years was deterflicted and are going to inflict.” yineq by every other nation. | Out of these discoveries $OMeS But now they have conquered. . the author's observation” that!i,.ir country. China's future whl! Perhaps every man 18 not a pe determined by the Chinese.” | man; and the entire human race, ® nn I is not human. That is a doubti A GOOD all-around picture of | —— ' {what the Vatican consists of Iphysically and of what goes on lin the Vatican is presented in | “The Vatican” by Ann Carnahan | (Farrar, “Strauss $4). There are {150 photographs by David Sey-. | mour. i Mrs. Carcahan has organized) {her material well and told her, | story directly so the reader is| {given a clear understanding of what the Vatican is,

han describes the art treasures and those in the five libraries. There is a’ description of the buildings and the modern additions of tire department, radio station and the like; and of the people who live and work in the Vatican. The administrative setup is explained, giving the functions of the church and lay officials. The Pope is presented in two phases, as he appears in audiences and how he lives In his | private life

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Softens Sorrow

“Tasty real fruit between two layers of fine quality

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plex music of the English language. And they are wordy. With the exception of “Everywhere I Roam” I can think of only three other novels I have read this year which would not have been twice as effective at] half the length. We seem to be combining Victorian verbosity with atomic-age vulgarity, Hav-| ing achieved the gift of license, we have forgotten its only excuse] —to express a deeper, truer, less tettered understanding of human nature, on : - s . | VERY FEW of our young slig-| gers of American lelters can

Pick Notable | Books of 1949

Library Staff | Selects 50 Titles |

Completing its selection of the

Starting out with a brief his-'50 most notable books of 1949, tory of the Vatican, Mrs. Carna- a committee of six staff members,

lot the Indianapolis Public Library |

{has sent the titles of its choice to the American Library Association. | | The local selections will be co-| {ordinated with similar lists from {other libraries ih thé country and| |g combined list of 50 national choices will be announced in | February. | Local library -book committee {members are: Miss Mary Wilson, | head of the circulation department, chairman; Miss Marie Peters. reference department; Mrs. Margaret Cobb, librarian of ithe Haughville branch; Mrs. Leanna Moore, library assistant, Dunbar branch; Miss Janet Jar, library assistant, Irvington (branch, and Miss Pauline French adult activities librarian. A new novel, “The Sunset Tree”

Hs cream that's by Martha Ostenso; Maristan, Kili : Chapman's latest, “Rogue's 4 & March;” “Venus, the Lonely God-| IGE) 5 Id Ld [dess,” by John Erskine and “The H {Bright Coin” by Elizabeth Seifert 43 Why nor fave and Sym. |are a few of the 21 new fiction| ! fy Undersiandasls. Wer titles now on the seven-day {3} HS OTL “4% ALLIED shelves of the Indianapolis Public FLORISTS Liewry,

of Inatanapolis Ine.

Theill to a winter vacation in the pleasure paradise of two worlds. C&S all.axpense air cruises offer you a millionaire's travel idven- 1 ture at a price anyone can afford, { Ask vour travel agent or CAS ticket office, |

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Fifty-two other titles, including seven illustrated juvenile books, | also have. been made available] | this week.

nity a

lern demagogues, the convicts, car-| Literary Sleuthing

are some philosophical observa- ton, $3.05), one of the very bestichildren in a trailer. Let them wander down the Mississippi and tions of thie most profound sort.|collections of short stories to ap- across into Texas, up to St. Louis and back top the Cumberland. pear this. year. Among contri- Relate their small joys and large sorrows everywhere they roam. O'Flaherty, you will ‘thén have plotted part of the wistful Odyssey which is Ben

man like Mr. Burman.

They are too callow, too ignorant,

however, he sadly incomplete if you do pot! too brutal. Tney hate humanity. the most unusual piece in the|,saiize that he has accomplished They have the adolescent's fear

lseveral additional aims in fash- Of seeming compassionate, They,

lack the Tolstoyan humility which!

| présages universal understanding. | Mr. Burman has many qualities the South® which is rare, being patter does some expert literary which come only with maturity.|both sympathetic and starkly re-| sleuthing to prove that the Ghost He has, therefore, been able to|alistic. Outlanders whose only iq “not only Hamlet's father. but avoid several of the most glaring knowledge of hillbillies like Asalire father of the play,” setting

flaws of current fiction.

His. novels. are. never. oyerwrit- and the comic strip will be. sur-| gy achieving a victory of justice ten. They . are thoroughly and|prised to find haunting echoes oa Over secret evil: i deeply imagined. He has one of Elizabethan and even Chaucerian | the keenest ears for the poetry of English in this ungrammatical;

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‘Hamlet's Father’

shrimp fishers, the cheap South-|

nival troupers, cotton pickers and Dixie sheriffs he describes. By OMAR RANNEY In short he has distilled in his, - SEVERAL new books on the novel the essence of years of re- ¢heater and movies have oeen| search-—thousands of miles of ob- worthy of inservation. For Mr. Burman, travel.| Published that are a Fle ter, a ing with his mandolin, plays duets| spection. Richar atter, with mountain fiddlers, chimes irr; Shakespearean scholar, seek to with “banjers’” on the levee, chins! gglve an enigma of long standing with the captain and the crew on In “Hamlet's Father” (Yale Unibarges and on the rare side-wheel- verity Press, $3.75). ers along his beloved Mississippi. In a painstaking search of the "hE {“Hamlet” text for finely shaded THE RESULT is a picture ofl meanings and implications, Mr.

has been derived from the radio te action in motion and eventu-

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common speech since Elizabeth common talk, just as the earlier| MANY books have been written|

Mador Roberts. He is a master of versions of some of the ballads| on theories and techniques of the vanishing art of understate they sing may go back 300 years , ting. But: what the actors. ment. He is poetic without being to Scotch or English originals. cloying. Brief-without being bru-| a ol [tally terse. And he is & member of | “feed-back” process the perverted tained in “Actors om Acting” |

v » EVERYMNCH of ‘described in this novel was cov- mountaineers who wouldn't know tion is edited by Toby Cole-and ered by the author in an old Ford. a p MR. BURMAN'S recent attacks Thus when he describes the fish. fiddle. Nature, alas. once again {in the Saturday Review of Litera- ing, } |

Hing whout

has Hved: He has visited”

he nightmarish,

One of Simon & Schuster's novelties in children's books for Christmas is "Let's Go Fishing," The brightly colored little book combines story, pictures and rod-

trapping and haphazard he AE

" the territory

oil boomtowns

urman fs fully where Capt. Asa and his teen-age M cing what hé| ————— -

Fishing Game Book.

.and-line fishing game ($1).

‘sheer writing

* Unfortunately through a sort of themselves have to say is con-|

“the-dwindting company of story- and commercialized outland bur- (Crown, $5), a remarkable col8axon|ycllers who are not ashamed of lesques of hill culture i : jcabin-dwellers yearning nostalgi- their tender re f of him as a vic-| They won leadership, she tells cally for a past which they can joy humans... fim of “self pity.” Yet how may us, by making the Chinese peo- never recapture while viewing 7 the individual disassociate his own ple aware of their own needs, with terror a future with which!

are begin-| o.tion of writings by great actors

gard for their fel- ning to affect the original product. 4p rough the ages, from the time

Thus Capt. Asa and his children. pojus, the Greek actor, right! are greedy to buy hillbilly records ,,,, yo Walter Huston. Stella Adler doubtless - produced by asphalt ,.4 Charies Chaplin. The collec-!

"Boy whose mother bought a cereal with no premium on it" is the caption of this photo from "Home Sweet Zoo," new

book of animal portraits. with

all-too-human _ explanations by Clare Barnes Jr., author of the Best seller, "White Collar Zoo." The new volume was issued yes-

terday by Doubleday ($1).

| NOTRE DAME-SMU — Come ‘pletion of t': tilt between Notre Dame and Southefn Methodist,

by-play. . .. WFBM, 4 p. m. METROPOLITAN Conclusion of Richard Strauss’ opera, “Der Rosenkavalier.,” The | broadcast began at 1 p.m. ,. , I WISH. WHO SAID THAT? — Times’ Columnist Earl Wilson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who has been knighted for his achievements in the theater, and tennis star Alice Marble match their memories {with regular panelist John Camleron Swayze . . . WFBM-TV, 8 (p.m. : MEET THE PRESS — Capt, John Crommelin, center of the recent Navy-Rir Force squabble, will be interviewed by Ernest K. Lindley, Newsweek Magazine; Ruth —~ Montgomery, “Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News; Phelps Adams, of the New ork Sun, and radio commenta-

T . .WIBC,

tor' Albert L. Warner. . 9:30 p. m.

(CENTRAL STANDARD TIME) Saturday, Dec. 3, 1949

dulcimer from a cornstalk Helen Krich Chinoy.

How the art of movie-making

begins to imitate “ ato] "i Fiom The pein AoE view of story AUST.

tof the ton and. , eslan— Vardar in “Stage to; Screen” (Harvard University] Press, $6). a fascinating treat-

this ts Mr Burman's. best novel. Bul I hope that he will ire

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for Children

5 1the cinema's beginnings.

Humoreski “Out of the Crocodile’s Mouth,” a remarkable series of Russian cartoons anout the United States reproduced from “Krokodil,” Moacow's humor magazine,. will oe published Dec. § by the Public Affairs Press, Washington, D. C. Edited by William Nelson, the album of cartoons will represent a |cross-section of Moscow's humor{ous propaganda jibes from 1346

by Kathryn and Byron Jackson.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE |

Answer to Previous Puzzle | i SE IN] ITIHIRIEIE |

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29 Symbol for selenium 30 Area measure 31 Period 32 Footlike part “34 Transgressions 35 Famous English school | 37 While 38 Rich fabric 43 Symbol for . neon . 44 Frozen water 46 Papal triple crown 47 Knock 48 Habit 50 Printing mistakes (92 It grows on a (53 It-is the state flower of wee

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