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Art and Business Given Warm Praise

"MUSIC: AN ART AND A BUSINESS.” By Paul S. Carpenter. Nor-|

man, . Old. University of Oklahoma Press, $3.75, By HENRY BU JTLER

WHO'S GOING TO PAY —for music; “now that the patronage system is practically ended? That's pdssibly. the most important question » “Music: An Art'and a Business,” by the late Paul 8: Carpen: ter, former dean of the College of Fine Arts and conductor | of the Symphony at the University of Oklahoma. ;

The question has particular; 5, 2qvice before boarding that urgency here in Indianapolis, New York-bound train. > Mr. Carpenter says forthright, with the Symphony annually oo = intellectually!

teetering on the brink of extine- oid and __red-tap surrounded. ““Yion. 1 may af well §ay Fight now slums of “music education.” H

Mr: Carpenter does not answer it points out that" Toscanini coul fully. With the distrust-all Amerl-'nse ie 1s wanted to, fulfill Okla-| cans are taught to have of gov- homa state hours-and-credits re-. ernmental subsidy, He sees no MU-|oirements. for a high-school or-| sical renaissance ely to come! from federal or state aid. e874 CONQUCLor, » ” ~ BUT IN THE meantime, he has musically semi-literate, needs ‘given “Music: An Art and aonly to go through a teacher's

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"Mountain Condicape.”

prints comprise 4 the exhibition.

a painting in wilh’ on paper moun id as a ool by Kuniyoshi {1800- ; | 1861), has been lent by Robert Laurent, head of the department of sculpture at. Indiana University, Toscanini would be ineligibie.| to the current exhibition at the Herron Art Museum, “The Arts of Old Japan." But-some Joe Zilch, tone-deaf and, iv ories, lacquers, fan cases, sword quards, textiles, costumes and over 100 original color wood block

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Business” a thorough going-over. college verbal meat-grinder and His hook, a fine memorial to anicome out with a master's essay intelligent dnd sharp-witted. eritic'or doctor's dissertation on *“Meth-| of things as they are, deserves the o44 of Teaching Music Apprecia-| widest possible reading by musi-\tion in Primary and Secondary| cians, music students and music School Classroom Situations” in lovers. lorder to get one of the eushiest|

Mr. Carpenter puts into print {jobs any state has. to offer. many things we learn about

through hearsay. He assails busi-| MR. C ARPENTER would like New York, Sheridan House, $5.| ness domination atymusic—in pub- to ‘see and hear something better| By MAXWELL RIDDLE | lishing, in Hollywood, on the air done for American composers. He| and even in the twist given high lists the Indianapolis Symphony school music by eager-beaver as one of the more enterprising ® Nova Scotia sailor, and Nova n paper. alumni who want marching bands orchestras in that respect. Fabien| Scotia sailors are the equal of] and drum majorets rather than Sevitzky has maintained a high any in the worid. Capt. Joshua

Relates Rare Feats at Sea

"CAPT. JOSHUA SLOCUM." A "THE INCREDIBLE CASANOVA. biography. By Victor Slocim.|

GIACOMO CASANOVA

mentality-some of the sharpest business’ executives, - controlling! lived. digs it's. bad since James Trus-| adie, Hollywood and recording, | His ‘history is now recorded in/nOVA'S demise, information low Adams Jublifhed ° ‘Our Busi-|underestimate the public mental-| “Capt. Joshi 81 b ness Civilization” ahout 20 years ity, That's something I think fo Vite a ign i, y Hie 'from sources other than the “ago. He blasts away al radio, Should be sald Jouder and oTteNer. cradible feats at sea told by a coiqre br aimost nil. Scattered ASCAP- (The American Society| He expresses traditional Amer: man who knows the sea as in-| jiheients which Save Jon Ie of Composers, Authorssand Pub- {lean dread of anything approxi-| timately as he knew his father. | p p y by lishers), which he deéms little mating a European ministry of pwo examples will give you | verify the old boy's Tacts, better than a racket, Petrillo, pub- fine arts which might ald music|, idea of Joshua Slocum. He MAIN CLAIM t to fame by Casa1 aching and the and musicians, Yet without some De B “concert uc a Tex diffieutt—to ine) aid his family satted 5000 miles nova ‘was his adeptness h~ scheme, in a homemade canoe. Inspired fairs of the heart, but Biographer touring by virtuosi who piay the: how symphony orchestras, Operaly.,. this, Joshua Stocum built by same: blooming - European reper- companies and serious COMPOSErs pi. care’ a niné:ton yawl and toire year after year. {can survive indefinitely. !sailed alone around the globe. # =» Part of the problem is. in the g; ¢.r a5 is known, no other EVERYWHERE HE sees the|attitude we're to take toward orion has ever accomplished biaitions mind at work ing ie To Re Iead §) 1» 18 not 11% music e process occurs in ra- ’ dio, where the “parasitic” busi. [expected . to..pay for itself, then nes of advertising, as some have well find vars a a escribe , controls program choice. Mr. Carpenter rr ing as something which must com-| mention, and I need only suggest, hele wits movies, _ shows aie certain programs In which pow-|Juke-boxes ear. ol. music

History Traced erful sponsorship has put across definitely will “suffer.

Mr. Carpenter's conclusions are Early American mediocre compositions by mem-| tt timistic. But least Communities differed fundamenbers of the sponsoring family, (0! too optimistic. But at leas misspent life, He omits discussion of the roal- | he does a great service by point- tally in idea and purpose from At different times in his life -Jy-racketeering phases of the mu-| Ing out some. of the principal present-day communism, -accord='ye wis a Flere soldier, Anancier; sic business, In town right now, factors now inhibiting the. de-/ing to Dr. Arthur F. Bestor Jr., professional gambler, professional thanks to the Symphony and Jor- velopment of a rich American author of an historical study en- spy, and a man of letters. dan College of Music, there are Musical tradition His book titled “Backwoods Utopias,” pub-| = Contradictions in his character professional musicians who have merits the widest possible re reading. ished yesterday by the University include his receipt of the Papal heen through the New. York mill. | of Pennsylvania Press. {Order of the Golden Spur and a MC

merits and faults. In Casanova's own words: “My mother brought me into ‘this world at Venice on the sec-

of the year 1725. She had, the night before, a strong desire for crawfish. I am very fond of them. I was an idiot until I was 815 years old.”

Early Co-ops’

EE -operative | | Europe. By our modern social standards, his was a completely

They can tell you things I soulgnt) The author is an associate pro-| his later imprisonment by The "(in print) about the bribery a fessor of history in the University Inquisition for heresy. And still corruption involved in a young of Illinois. His work received the later he served as a spy for The ‘ artist's getting a career start.| Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fel- |In4uisition, turning in his former Managers, a bunch of wolves in| lowship of the American Histori-|friends for a meager remunerachic clothing, demand and get cal Association, under whose aus-|tion,

fantastic percentages, kickbacks | pices it is now published. x > —==Pr—=Bestor—traces—the history

of the various experimental communities that have sought to build a new social order in America, beginning with a colony established in 1663 and carrying the story through the time of the New Harmony community, found- % led in 1825 in Indiana by the Brit- ; ish socialist, Robert Owen.

IRONICALLY, et in his ola! age, Casanova never repented his

IN THAT LINE, I've heard) myriad “sins.

some grim anecdotes, with! names named and no holds barred. And I'm told that Laur-| itz Melchior and Helen Traubel,| after their “Tristan” concert ap-| pearance with Ernst Hoffman and the IU Symphony down in Bloomington last January, gave

his cleric’'s cassock, brazenly called for the last rites of his church as he lay on his death-| bed.

a “neat trick in this ‘writing of

symphony orchestras, That point precentage of new American y.it them one better. howeve er, | needs no elaboration in Thdiana. (Works played. Ihe was the greatest in the world. | [18th Century scoundrel’s own He gives the businessman's’ Mr, Carpenter ‘charges that! {perhaps the greatest who ever|

Now, 152 years after Casa-

Montgomery emphasizes the other

ond day of April, Easter Sunday

His life led him through every : {city and. every. walk. of -life-in—ccoos

He, who in hisjout a literary treat in spite of the youth had defiled the sanctity of|low character of his subject.

> [Story of Casanova a Treat Despite His Low Character

" A biography. By James Stuart, Montgomery, New York, Doubleday, $3.95. By R. K. SHULL

was either the gréatest lover

CAPT. JOSHUA SLOCUM was on earth or else the most prolific liar ever to set a pen | Oedipus phase passes.

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Son's Fixation

Basis of Novel

"SON OF THE GIANT." ‘A novel. By Stuart Engstrand. New York, Creative Age, $3. By FERN RICH PSYCHOLOGISTS tell us that at about the age of four, many little boys are greatly attached to their mothers and jealous of their fathers. But with time this

Stuart Engstrand’s “Son of the

This biographical portrait, like earlier works, draws Giant” is the story of the tragic from Casanova's own writings for its facts, thus taking the

Seeption in which this excessive ove of mother and hatred of father is carried over into adolesjcence and young adulthood. Cliff Kent at four knew his mother was the most wonderful creature in the world. He could

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sight. He was jealous of his father; heartbroken - and bewilered.

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blamed his father for her death.

i [Cliff was terrified of his father,

Willis Kent, a respected and respectable banker. As long as this man lived, Cliff felt, he would be a shadow, never a -man. ... The unbearable situation in this womanless home is brought to a head when father and son fall in love with the same woman. Willis marries her and Cliff's struggle for independence of soul

Casanova as a violinist, one of his many vocations, as chronicled by James Stuart Montgomery in “The Incredible Cas- | _anova.'

{Casanova. Holding an objective |View, Mr. Montgomery has milled

His treatment of Casanova's life is admirable, considering|‘

psychological strife ~ to

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Novel of Revolution

‘On Midwest Frontier On Mar. 20 Julian Messner will | publish * ‘Bridal Journey,” a new {novel by Dale Van Every. Mr.|

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Author Montgomery has turned realism, especially irf the affaires life of John Hunt Morgan, and.

Van Every describes the Penn-| frontier

Knopf. Entitled “The Hell Bomb,” the work includes a comprehensive treatment of what “the bom means in intefnational relations. Laurence is also author of “Dawn Over Zero,” and “The Story of the Atomic Bomb.” He was awarded the Pulitzer prize for

about the hydrogen bomb in a Book to ~ be published soon byl

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