Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1950 — Page 8

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES’

Sager Wadler Talent in ‘Run Sheep Run, “Reviewer Declares

. Says Effectivness Destroyed by Placing Characters Far Beyond Social Problems ™

"RUN SHEEP RUN." A novel. By Gordon Sager. New York, Vanguard, $3. os By EMERSON PRICE ITIS DIFFICU JLT to understand how a writer so competer as Gordon ‘Sager may waste downrigin talent on such a sordid and lopsided theme as “Run Sheep Run.” This first novel is likely to be described as witty, but it is wit expressing amusement - over circumstances not entirely funny; it is wit grown sick dt its source. | The characters in this book - = : at large, but with this -—and there are many-—exist ,...0q’ in this novel. he largely upon rum. and they help make the m understood.

» n A YOu NG Negro writer this

talent, might

are in possession of over-empha-sized ~ physical appetites of an extremely inconsistent Variety TWeek- brings —us- # _Wuch more Iie place 18 a West Indies Istana Satisfactory novel—He-is-William Mr. Demby, and the titly of his book

resort called--8an Pedro. 5 a “IR Sager Is sometimes capable of id 5 “Bee He creek’ “ x jo he ahs $2.50), However $ ale, toc deep insight; now and again there °= H. a ver, ; ! ” er I. ) r p ( OF CR8OR is a suggestion that he knows 1a8 a number o tkn

though they are technical in na ture. For instance, it nas something of a ghostly quality which

human behavior very well. But thie material he selects to demon-

strate this is "so over-burdened i f " Zi f the with irregularities as to become prohibits full realization o ! unconvincing. author's characters. What Mr. Demby does achieve

THE AUTHOR'S nfactera are 18 a" convincing and cour: ageous people who remain children al- expression of ‘a truth frequently ways, and who are running away overlooked-—that race prejudice from the restraints and obliga- and bigotry are not confined to tions of organized society. For- white Protestants, or to racists tunately, they all seem to have In the American South. These —suffictent funds todo so. Arnon them we find not a single char- ignorance, acter who may be described (with found in every what must always be precarious humanity. judgment) as normal. ~The story is that of an old re The moral lapses of the group cluse, a white man, who has for are not occasional: there are no Many years made hig home in the returns. however brief to emo- NeEro section of a town called tional restraint or stability, The Beetlecreek. He one day emerges story is one of a never-ending from his shell of loneliness to * yum bust. Shotisor his notions of brotherly ove.

and may be of

abysmal segment

” » ” ~NOW_I am mindful-that these, are circumstances which have the “attention of a great many serious and intelligent novelists, But the]

” ” 8 IN THE COURSE of time he holds a picnic for both white and Negro. youngsters, and out of this

wisest among them understand Are CE RG, TREES such circumstances must not be 1 3 While, erage is ‘wholdesigned to carry all the emphasis} ren. al of any story. ly false, he becomes,

3 legge, an immediate object of race These Writers recognize there hatred. This time it is hatred of are many individuals who are :

forced t ke certal sro. | the Negro for a white man. orcec 0 make certain compro- What—the Negroes ask themmises with nature, but who often

make them as judiciously as pos- SER NEAL ELL TAL NAb: gible going on to live useful lives. p . Mr, Sager, on the other hand der similar circ uristances in a places his characters so far be- white neighborhood? And as yond the social problems tor- sentiment against the old man

rises, a group of young Negro menting the majority of humanity that he destroys the effec- hoodlums undertake his punish

tiveness of his novel He first ment, which ‘is accomplished in nes y : ~ a most dreadfwl-manner, describes certain human frailties : § . of a devious nature, and then Despite the fact one feels the mules of then an SECRSIOn for story, at the end, has not been

amusement icompleted, the author's theme ; a mom ue emerges clearly. And we must IN THIS manner, tv deprives share his conviction that race

sympathy; hatred is not less ‘despicable in he deprives 8 Negro than in a white man the reader of a sympathetic re- and that ignorance is a powerful sponse to it. One feels that his evil persistently restraining hucharacters were not very impor- man brotherhood tant at the outset. “tL " ¥ on Nevertheless, Mr. Sager is a GEN. LUCIUS D. CLAY'S "Degenuinely talented writer. Now cision in Germany (Doubleday, —Hving ~in—Europe; we might ask: $450) ts—an-—extremety —difftcutthim to come home and live among book to read, not beeause of the us. I do not believe he will solve complexity of his expression, but

his work of his own by the same token,

the great problems facing society because long sections of the book

Bg treacherous-elements result from.

neverthe-

Art Institute Shows Photos of Breve; W ork

This house in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, was designed and built in 1949 by Marcel Breuer, Franco-American architect, as a permanent display setting for contemporary

decorative arts. The museum has

lent to the John Herron Art Institute through Feb. 26 a collection

of photographs of Breuer's work in. industrial and architectural design in America and Europe.

are downrignt dull. Neverthéles it is. an important book and one future historians must freely consult if they expect to understand the nature of the mid-20th Cen

Book Is About Columnists

"THE FIRST PERSON: A novel

Ri} IN

columnists lowdown on their

syndicated the

Broadway and gives

tury Cold War, . 1 By 2 1 Mealana. New i feuds Flere is the complete: story of Doubled } Luke Peters, the columnist hero the Berlin blockade and of the By IRVING LEIBOWITZ of the novel, is a likablé he-man airttt witch fimatty broke rand - = ; . IF YOU want to know the “sort of guy. You might find his of the innumerable conferences Want to know the inner..." 2nd ner lity simil: : } r of thelr purpose. led workings of a bigtime New York ing and personality similar to which, failing of their purpose, led Ww gs of : gti h Robert Ruark

to these East-West tensions, While much of ‘the information contained in the volume previously has appeared in the nation's press, this is - the personalized story of the man closest to events

during the critical years after the German surrender. And a good deal of the information. in the

book may not be found elsewhere. n " = THE GENERAL obviously be lieves that (Germany must become a united nation, and in this manner she may achieve democratic government. He fully supports American policy as a means of achieving his aim. However, the problems under Gen. Clay's analysis are =o complex that most readers will not wish to accept his observations as entirely .conclusive _ The author's integrity esty may not at any time be brought into question, -but he is by training and disposition a military man one whose record merits the respect and gratitude of his countrymen. Thus his work should be studied not alone, but together with the work of other trained observers if one wishes to form opinions concerning the very great problem of Germany.

and hon-

= ou ” WILL WHARTON, a St. Luis poet, is the author of a little volume of poergs which may earn him the tigle of “The Modern Ambrose Bierce.” It may also earn him a number of other titles in quarters where literary tastes

are-fixed ina ~mitd;or-tepid-clt= mate. Mr. blunt

is celehrated

Wharton

than the Am-

even more.

Indianapolis Times

newspaper columnist how he columnist. Hyves, loves and liquors read ” ” ” The First Person” by Richard gigH point .comes in a squabMealand " ble between Peters and Harry "The book will take vou to the Bannock: rival col t wh ( night club haunts of the top . 8 iungist Who

in some ways is similar to Walter Winchell, the peep hole crusader. Mealand’'s book has even he probably doesn’t realize.

brose in expressing his own distaste for modern society, and this ffen leads him to select words

sometimes held socially impolite. That the big by-line columnists They are nevertheless in keeping are big time only because of the with his temper, as a study of medium--the newspaper—not behis. “Graphiti. from - Elsinore” cause they are such great per(Decker Press, $2500 seems to sonalities. Mealand points out indicate { that without the newspaper the

Mr. W harton' 5 investigation of columnist is: just another guy.

the many absurdities in modern And he's right. Few .people life together with his characteri- realize this, especially columnists. zation of many types of pegple,. The book is easy reading but

reveals him a&.an interesting poet who, despite his dour glances, is not always unwilling to laugh at what he sees about him.

far from excellent. ‘It all boils down to whether or not you want to read about the prima donnas of the newspaper world,

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RAYBURN AND FINCH—The| two New York comedians wiii present a full hour of banter and variety . .. WISH 8 p.m.

CAVALCADE OF STARS Andy Russell and his wife, Della, are the featured guests on Jack Carter's television show , . -. WFBM-TV 9 p.m.

similar to Thomas series, “A Pag -ant

Doubleday

Narrative History. . Of U.S. Projected

Doubleday is _plannjng a series of several volumes comprising a WITV Programs rarrative nistory of this country, B. Costain’s -

PRESS — Joseph A. Bierne, presifient of the Com-| rkers of America,| . will be interyiewed by a panel of] VIBC 10:15 P m.

of England.”

The American series will probably run to five or more volumes. is not ready to an|nounce the author ‘of this work.

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Miss Mabel Hunt

Completes New Book Mabel Leigh Hunt, Indianapolis author of children’s books, has written another in her child's se-|

ries -entitied “The Wonderful Baker,” to be published by Lippin-|

Miss Hunt, after graduating from DePauw University, was for several years a librarian in the Indianapolis Public Library. She is currently working on an-/ nther children’s book, “Johnny Appleseed.”

Speaks on “Immortality and the Modern Mind”

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