Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1950 — Page 8

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Romance, Adventures

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"THE LEGACY." A novel. By Nevil Shute. New York, Morrow, $3. "SCOTTSBORO BOY." By Haywood Patterson and Earl Conrad

New York, Doubleday, $3.

By EMERSON PRICE AS WE SLIP. gratefully toward the summer season,! _the quality of new fiction seems to decline, and it is neces-| sary to make a diligent search in order to find a rewarding

novel. While the summeér

-. Shute's “Fhe Legacy.” Shute is a finished craftsman and usually may be depended upon to sustain the reader's interest, as he does here, He generally concerns himself with matters that make their own suggestions to our notions of adventure; his plots are neat, more or less orthodox, and fully developed. i" ene ih the reader inclined, quire a full exploration

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man experiences in novels; one!rice fields.

who wishes to understand the impact of tragedy upon a number of personalities, each differing from the other In emotional depth and responsiveness, wil find several disappointments ere,

. » ~ THERE ARE sufficient tragic Circumstances in .this work to “yield material for hall a dozen novels. All too often they become, in Shute's hands, an engaging recitation of events, rather than a dramatic and deeply felt record of human experience. In short, he declines, tactfully enough, to inflict tender sensibilities; he does not wish to thrust upon his readers toe much need for vicarious travail, or to awaken and expend their emotions. This, ‘I think, is one of the larger differences between a good novelist and a great one,

story of the war; a story of a young woman, Jean Paget. The scenes, for the most part, are Malaya and Australia, and much of the tale is recited in flashbacks, since the novel opens after the war, with Jean Paget in England. But at the time of the Japanese invasion of Malaya she had. been working there, and had . heen captured along with a number of Englishmen and their

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“AT THE TIME of their capture, the men are separated from their families and taken to Singapore, But there are no* prison eamps for women in Malaya, and so the

0 ' Aeinding children, sicken and When at last the J

dier, and when he becomes {ll with fever and dies, they attach themselves to a small village and work in the rice fields until the end of the war. Meantime, they had encountered on their march two Australian soldiers—prisoners of the Japanese—who were forced to drive trucks for the enemy. One of them, Joe Harman, had risked his life to provide the destitute

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iwomen with necessary drugs, soap and food. Apprehended in! {the theft of chickens from a {Japanese officer, he had beén| ierucified —nailed to a tree and,|

{so Jean believed, beaten to death. |

[A | AFTER the war, Jean returns {to England to discover that she ° {has inherited a large sum of {money. Bhe then determines to

{worked as a native woman in the —. ! There she learns that Joe Har- J / {man did not die at the hands of e y ithe Japanese; that he recovered] {and returned to Australia to be{come the manager of a large cattle station. So she goes on to Australia to find him, She learns that Joe, with a similar notion in mind, is in England searching for. her. She waits and he re-| turns and they are married. Thus ‘ends a tale of war, romance and {adventure, happily conceived and {not unhappily executed. But,. as I say, it has not much depth. The most rewarding sections of the book are devoted to de-

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on, How He Invented Jazz and Was Its Greatest Pianist

"MISTER JELLY ROLL." A biography. By Alan Lomax.

Roll Mort

By H. D. QUIGG, United Press Staff Correspondent MISTER JELLY ROLL MORTON, he rambled till the

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graduate at the Herron Art School, is included in to teach modeling in the Evening Adult

He was a proud and jealous man, all the days of his RE a musical background, life, for he was the greatest jazz pianist who ever lived. In 1938, three years before the butcher got him at the 2%. {

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| . . Action Against 4: isin aR eas isd 2 ‘Sheriff Legal Impeachment proceedings against Putnam County Sheriff John Sutherlin are legal, an In|diana Supreme Court decision | said yesterday.

{| Sheriff Sutherlin was Im-

New York: Lomax was assistant curator of|neached last April by a grand the Holisong Archive Re y Lio which Ari him of mak went to the oolidge amber-: he rerie auditorium, sot up a little] Fadance In office because lie crystal microphone by..a. plane, ‘and Morton began: “Well,

Fand other gambling apparatus in Putnam County. Hendricks circuit judge Horace Hanna, hearing the case on a change of judge, quashed the impeachment saying the grand jury’s charge was not sufficient

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fused to remove slot machines;

injury -upon!geeintions of life in back coun-|

“Courtroom” (Farrar, Straus, says. 40 years, a-playing the $3.75), a biography of a famous ®st polyphonic counterpoint ever.

~ » ~ MAYBE HE DIDNT in jazz, his biographer said, but he That's why the old boys said: certainly attended its birth. He! record of the case, the reader 18iw.q the “first true composer of Roll at his best, you ain't never jazz,” the “first longhair in jazz,” heard jazz plano.” However, for a record of bru-ianq the greatest influence in the! tality as practiced, it is chargedifirst generation of a medium in Alabama prisons, “Scottsboroiwhich swept the world for 30

try Australia,

light, pleasant, “summer reading,” this is such a book.

" # - { A SHORT TIME ago on this page mention of the case of the; Scottsboro boys was madc ir con~

criminal lawyer, Samuel 8. Laibowitz. Leibowitz defended the Scottsboro boys, and for a full

referred to “Courtroom.”

| “It is evidently known, beIf there is such a thing as yond contradiction, that New published. {Orleans is the cradle of jazz, {and I, myself, happened to be the| creator in the year 1802," Mister Jelly Roll rambled all {around

\age of 55, Mister Jelly Roll stood up and allowed:

{months and thought out how jazz

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ography of Morton has been

“The old-timers say they can remember him playing things like ‘Jelly Roll Blues’ and ‘Wol|verine Blues’ in 1908,” sald. “From 1900 to 1920 he was Now ; .songC0TIPOSING, and playing the tunes Old Now-Orleans-funeral song: ¢ cl par EB the golden decade of jazz. He composed ~~ ’|all the time he played. He hardly vent ever played other people’s tunes.

“If you ain't never heard Jelly

er Jelly Roll felt ‘the urge of history in his last

Lomax

{was born,” Mr. Lomax said. “As he spilled it, the origin of jazz came to this: It was Negro; it happeried around 1900; it was in the Storyville section of Ner Orleans when uptown and downtown got together. The blacks come from the river and the

“HE SHOWED that jazz is the child born of the misery of the black and the pride of the Creole Negroes. Jazz is not necessarily the black man's tearing up of the ground. New Orleans jazz also has high feeling, joy, the BugleCall Rag ebullience that made

Orleans was ‘Heaven on earth.’

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the Creole half castes feel New

to remove him from office. But Chief Justice James A. Emmert of Shelbyville, writing the high .court decision, said a charge that Sutherlin attempted to force the Greencastle Elks Lodge to install a slot machine would be a sufficient cause for removal if it were proved.

In Bus-Car Collision

COLUMBUS, Ind., June 17 (UP) —Nine person still were recovering from minor injuries today following a residential street intersection collision between a city bus and a car, Police said the bus, hit broad-

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'Boy.” by Haywood Patterson and years, {Karl Conrad will find no equal today. Only the

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. ® » | PATTERSON was among nine | defendents, all Negroes, accused of rape. He was tried four 31 eh and three times senten 0 BY RO T MUSEL death; the: fourth t he was! ome SOBEEY pondent sentenced fo 75 years in prison.| In 1948 he escaped and Is now in hiding. This is his story as told to Conrad. Innumerable and unspeakable

his best writing when he’s out]

of his mind.

INOGPO/ prisoners are fully described In this book. Patterson informs us they were frequently forced to swallow a pint of castor oil; they were made often enough, drink a half gallon of sorghunt, time and time again they were

novel, dictating the

ing delirium, “It's a sad commentary on us authors,” Mf, Kersh sald, tug-|

Patterson's body Is now sald to be literally covered with scars. No one familiar with the Scottsboro case can possibly be|lleve that the defendants were Iguilty of rape. or, for that matiter, of any other crime. This a : : [book 1s 2 ing evidence that Tub. I don’t think I would have | Alabama regards a dark skin as done as well. | unmistakable indication of crime. ”

sider the book a masterpiece.

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“TOO LITTLE LOVE" A novel.

{metal caps | {his fingers, is here for the pre-|

film “Night and the City.” Itis

(years. He got about 20,000 words | That is the opinion of Alan Lo- of his autobiography in his head) And as i Nazis have been max, a distinguished collector of and walked into the i American folk music, whose bi-' Congress

New Twist In Writing : jeoldly calculated about the way | ’ oes Mr. Kersh hit the big time, It | LONDON, June 16—Novelist all began when a German bomb. Gerald Kersh said today he does fell on him in 1940.

|years of work.

ng moodily at his fierce black pe brutally lashed with a bull whip.[§as Dyke beard, “That the Pub-| wide: ot Sioly, It teveived {lishers, Doubleday, should cOn=l,.. jens of his—first— best-seller, |“They Died With Their Boots “You might say, “Ah, what a Clean,” a saga of the Coldstream novel it would have been if Mr. Guards. Then came more novels Kersh had been in full possession and a torrent of short stories, at of his faculties.’ But there's the least two of which became films. Mr. Kersh was in.

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cane, since he recovered only re- . Mr. KERSH, 40, a writer of cently from the double attack | pest-sellers who used to be ajof malaria and pneumonia. The professional wrestler and strong|ilinesses struck after he had! an, and who still likes to pry|written 100,000 words of “The! off beer bottles with| Thousand Deaths of Mr. Small” |

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Viking, $3.75. By TOM BOARDMAN: THE SLOW disintegration of] {England's landed aristocracy Is {the theme of a new and dramatic)

inovel b obert Henriques, “Too| - Title Love. aes. “Too Translation Begun { The novel tells the story. of| {England's changing social order|novel, “The Watch,” has been re{by recording its impact on :the|seived by his American publishers, {lives of the men and women who|farrar, Straus, and is being trans{live and work at Neapcaster, the ated by Frances Frenaye. ~ sprawling, beautiful and finally] pt wy) pe published in the late

Meredith. | py AREA ; ; has come from Italy that Levi will te td Ved 1 ue TT the! ollaborate with Sergio Amidei on rst describing life at Neapcasteri pn, goript for the Italian film ver-

{second the depression-riddenearly| 11 js not certain yet whether {30’s, the third in the worrisome|p arto Rossellini will be the diidays just preceding the second | antor, with the assistance of LuWorld: War. lclano Emmer (known -fer his The final part describes the documentaries on famous paintpostwar years, the ‘era that ha i will {brought the final collapse of the 88). or whether Rosseliinl w

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caster. This part is, as well, a! sharp and Informative description ‘of contemporary life in England. The author atternpts to draw nd moral. He simply reports, ac“curately and beautifully, the effect of recent events on one level of British,society.

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