Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1952 — Page 26

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Making Much of A Talking Mongoose

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wars Ay i ard Nand . around: the ar home of-J. 13 . rn Irving in the Isle of Man, In Brttom-§3:50 Po went With libations these days flow- and stayed a week. The mor ing .& little more freely than B0OSe reportedly chatted to mem usual, which is saying a lot, fear that a few of the more sus picious readers may raise an eye brow" when they find that the ©ld atheist subject of this essay is a talking Will swear in a minute mongoose, a spook that tormented On another occasion the mon a fellow in Tennessee for seven 800%, Who said. his vears and then finished him off Gef, yelled at Irving as he was with poison, and other wondrous reading agletter, “Read it out. vou

fat >y I n things that are certainly out of 'a!:-hended gnome thiz world.

To .protect the integrity of this :pook that, about a century ago department, however, on affl- created havoe and later compiit davit, attésjlig to my sobriety eq murder in Robertson County at the time of writing this re- Tenn. Then there are several hun view, 1s on fille in_this office, dred cases handled briefly The book concerns poltergeist The authors note, in surveying (angry spirit) cases, the phe- the field, that the poltergeist man nomena which are not altogether ifestations usually take place in unfamiliar to newspaper readers. households in which live young The most recent one 1 recall was Rirls nearing puberty. (Such was that concerning the parsonage the situation involving the talking in England in which anti-social Mongoose &and the Tennessee and unseen spooks clanked their Spook.) The authors also theorize chains, tossed rocks about on the that the poltergelst 1s the “aplitinside of the house and raised Off’ of the unconscious mind of ell in general that the #8 member of a bedeviled housen hold—C.V. 1.

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Charm, Warmth And Wit: Its All In Agnes’ Book.

By HENRY BUTLER AGNES. DE MILLE'S DANCE TO rare. combination of merits. a book of charming and witty reminiscence. the ideal book about ballet for us ill in-

THE PIPER thas ia‘very It's not just It's not just formed lavmen

Much more sible presen ion of art and the tradi

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iri 3 fe Jor a nation tionally an piritually dedicated to J \ n't often shout hallelujahs over book-club selec On this occasion I' feel 1 mal debt of gratitude Guild for making Mille's hook a February selection Coming right now, DANCE TO THE PIPER may do ist good No other book I've

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<= buving tax pH at goes into the stage ° tertainment we all enjoy but remunerate, Not to prolong suspense, Miss de Mille is ymazing gal who _desigmed the dances for “Okland homa'” “Carousel.” “Brigadoon” ind a4 slew of other hits These helped’ repay her of literal near nowhere

y not adequately

Vii nes M ey came 1 irding her for years of . and effort What Brow d for, but pienty Theater gave. “Rodeo” a couple of whirls last week at Purdue and Indiana Universities. And that might seem a reasonable and understandable sort of vou see through her career, in terms of our rockybelow the se: rid the pyes and memory. And when she road-to-glory folklore, But what childhood recollec- we don’t understand, in our wonapplause. from the great army of tions of He ollvwood in the World derful charting and graphing of (father is William (. success patterns, is ‘that artists M Frison-Roch é Mille:suncle is Cecil B.), she operate independently of econom-tory-teller and an artist in build-'opens an album of addenda to ics. Ing up an exciting sequence omething fike “Kun=et Boule ‘x om dramatic climax, makes vou grunt vard MISS DE MILLE'S chapter on and groan with his Alps climber She “brin alive a era touring conditions for ballet, as makes you dizzy N.that see red ieaven to us who are ,¢ g40 with him from the Ice-capped more or less of her generation. J heights and makes you fidget She conveys the sight, the soundtProved much) Is essential reading nervously at the ominous rumble and the feel of Hollywood in the for all of us. After the years of in the Farifed am which you flicker days As of summer, inhuman discipline and daily selfKron may be followed by a land 1924, I was learning to drive a destroying practice, a -ballet en119 Maxwell in the back hilly Into his story of maountain- gireets of Hollywood. climbing, M. Frison-Roche has Mille's book recreates all the sen woven the romance of Zian, the sations but the Maxwell.) mountain man and guide, uneducated and with simple tastes i true man of the and Brigitte, a Parisiehne vacationer, wealthy

n "

HER BOOR has a nice pattern

ing is fluent

4 high ~0 has her stvle, whieh rs ether it tukes i e in keen and economical 4 plane, on a mot iin 1 =i) She makes eagles current thrilling tal ld bring starts with

escapists i War era

whole

as vou look dow (and they haven't im-

week on tour, union scale at that time for stage » Characters like Chaplin and hands was $121 a week, for pit fairbank Sr. (ir OVis , - 3 Fairbanks St Nprovising one- ,. .ians £140. I make no comact dramas in fake language) though the abuses continue

and Elinor Glvn spent evenings and beautiful. 4+ the de Mille home. A favoriteland eat into the very heart of

In thanking the French author was Geraldine Farrar. for a stirring fictional piece, it starred in a picture Miss de Mille on the would be ungracious to ove mis-names “Joan of Arc. (The Janet Adam Smith, the trans correct title was ‘Joan the Wom- ful book by who makes the novel “sing out” an” I know because I saw it in personality is this: Art is NOT as ‘If it were an ‘original’ in Atlantic City in 1917. the spring commerce. Greedy New York English--C. V, 1, f bad headaches and first need managers may try to make it seem so, and Miss de Mille names Miss de Mille’s mother, Anna Some of them, including those George, was a daughter of the Who have groped an ugly lupine great single-tax advocate Henry paw into local cash registers. Anna had a lot to do Nobody in his right mind would She! choose to be an artist, if money and 13 the only applauded reward life offers. Art is more than life, or at least coexistent with life, The artist needs only to eat and

people of his

village ment,

American stage. riook

lator

a lively and lovable for glasses.)

George with shaping Agnes’ career, started by styling Agnes younger daughter Margaret identically, so as to prevent envy And she provided throughout her life as mother a tireless zeal. On sleep. Otherwise, we'd have no one ‘occasion, for example, Anna, Symphony in Indianapolis (“the ready weak of heart, puttied up best orchestra outside the big the cracks in a miserable West- six,” a top New York musician ern stage floor so Agnes wouldn't told me recently). Even semi{rip while dancing starvation is okay, if the artist can go on producing, : : Do we understand that truth? T'HE devotion that helped shape I don't know, but certainly Agnes

her life also was a trial to Agnes. go Mille 1s the best explainer I how of few hooks that make thereof to date.

such a point clear, without sen timentality, excuse or blurring Father William,'alwayvs the lesser

light beside Undle Cecil though Poetry. out” hailed by such great flicker crit-

ica as Bob Benchlev and Bob N L % ti Sherwood, opposed her going on Oo Oo ! ICS the stage, He ss age He a Na THE LETTERS OF Ezra POUND. somewhat different reasons. The how York, Harcourt, Brace, $5. stage, she thought, was immoral

One had to be intelligent; and 1," 1908 Erza Pound, a practhe daughter of Henry (PROG- ticing poet, discarded America RESS AND POVERTY) George ay a place to live. He went to was moral for intellectual rea- Furope and there set himself the

sons. Once when she knew Agnes task of raising American. poetry was smitten with an English prof in. his opinion.

at UCLA, she enrolled in the to that of the same course, not to snoop, but : rest of the world. rather to protect And he worked Agnes tells all this beautifully, at is as long as without a single error in tact, She he could. is completely honest and credible, Pound immed|N CREPE 12 in describing the tragic divorce -atelv became a yf het Hohe and father, She friend and tutor knows the texture of life. oe : to But Agnes felt-herself “a dedi- :

countless young Ameriited spirit, else sinning greatly,” cans who wanted 18 | believe Wordsworth said, She dance, wh h an un-

to write poetry. g He studied their physique (she says she was large in the wrong places,

offerings line by example) she still craved doing ing, As the force behind many

for jine, suggesting, planning, correctballet, After seeing Pavlova and magazines that printed poetry, being kissed by that wonderful pound gained publication for gal (whose dancing was eons writers he thought deserved it, ahead of her corny taste in Ajd now his correspondence choreography), Agnes knew bal- hag heen collected in THE LETlet: was it, or else. ERS OF EZRA POUND (Har2 a & court, Brace, $5). Letters date YOU MIGHT NOT think a from 1907 to on they ange niece of Cecil B. or daughter of N m merry. caaltep 10 ha William C. de Mille would have fencken to tips to T. S. Eliot

trouble getting along. Agnes did, 2" writing The Wast Land. There

mainly because she stubbornly

afuck to something like ideals. little mention of { poetry.

Pound's’ Bumor and torrent of ideas were never exhausted. His auditioning female talent, All €mper, and perhaps his good

K th b sense, was. ing of Ying 2nd do bu. the scope of the book: cern is ‘poetry arid there Ezra Pound 1 a distinguished Amer. ican,

n ” n

By RICHARD CAMPBELL

vanted to Ezra Pound

Pound's own

Many styles to Ane of its lowest points, when producers had reclining "couches: that you wouldn't believe it camse this book always has the ring of truth. It took 14 years of" hard work, endurance and self-sacrifice by 7 her mother and ‘Agnes herself to get her into the “Oklahoma” success. Previously ‘she had done “Rodeo” for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with herself as the Cowgirl in’ 1942. (The Ballet

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