Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1952 — Page 30
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PAGE-30 re Indianapolis Author Has 19 Books ‘in Print
By Henry Butler Not many authors can boast of having written 19 books, all readily available in print. Mabel Leigh Hunt, Indianapolis writer, whose newest book for young readers, LADYCAKE FARM, will be brought out next Wednesday by Lippin-, ; cott, says even her first book, (friends, and the friends placate LUCINDA, published in 1934, “Is the initially prejudiced enemies.
. “It your book] J, you count! White, executive secretary of the
on at least three generations of National Association for the Adyoungsters growing up to it.” |vancement of Colored People, has ancial re- described the book as “one of the
CAKE FARM, a new book for readers aged 8 to 12, which Lippincott will publish next Wednesday. -
Chaplin
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such and such characters were tive of Princeton and former stu-| age House, $3.75. |
i is . THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES : Le A Little Neurosis Goes a Long Way
THE CASE AGAINST PSYCHO.ANALYSIS. By Andréw Salter. New!
tf Andrew Salter, author of the Ph.D, not an M. D.; his specialty |f best-selling CONDITIONED RE- is psychology, and he seeks to FLEX THERAPY of a couple of seasons ago, now comes forth! with a blast at Freud and his conditioned reflexes), disciples, { THE CASE AGAINST P8Y- 50g CHO - ANALY- § 8I8 will greatly =
still going strong.” | True to ner Quaker ancestry, 9. gr “ annoy those psy- theory, Dr. Salter performs a Yuen Lait from ‘Elevator - “That's why writing for chil-| Miss Hunt has a high regard for {chiatrists who service. It's high time somebody! Diet hair? dren is financially more reward-y .n Lindness and common TEAM—Mabel Leigh Hunt, Indianapolis author (left) and. |still pursue the § ridiculed all the sexual demon- Na eu Y BE A ing than writing fof adults, MUS nse iu: such problems, Walter Clotilde Embree Funk, local artist, have collaborated on LADY. (tedious but ology of Freud: Oedipus com- gp ary
{profitable Freud-
wr lanalysis, “Profit able” 1s a mild (term, since,
’ fin i 0 “And it mt gn “You get most exciting,” fascinating, heart-| {Dr. Balter re- Dr. Salter minds. And he quotes an eminent|§ so much more response from warming stories I. have ever . . {minds us, the Freudian psychiatrist as saying ters than from adults. Iiread.” ; R t oh {process of psycho-analyiss seldom off the record that “if the patient To, hundreds of letters from) Clotilde Embree Funk, Indian-| evisi € | occupies leas than two years, (were not neurotic at the beginning : children wanting me to writeiapolis artist, has done the draw- THE GREAT GOD PAN, By Rob- {unless the patient abandons it of the analysis, he would be at sequels to stories, asking me if/ings for LADYCAKE FARM. Na- ert Payne, New York, Hermit. earlier. |the end of it. : At a fairly standard minimum| A ‘very good case could be
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In attacking the technique of | Freudian psycho-analysis and di-|} recting attention to the super- K stitions, sex obsessions and logical muddles at the core of Freudian
plex, castration complex, genital K preoccupation, Dr. Salter accuses} the Freudian practitioners of deliberately introducing all this | demonology into their patients’ i
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real, and so on.” . Most of her books have been written for what she calls “mid-dle-aged” children—the 7-11, 8-12 group, An exception was BETTER KNOWN AS JOHNNY APPLESEED, written for teenagers, which almost got the Newberry Award for 1850, (It was the fourth of her books that came close to that coveted prize), The Johnny Appleseed story, hardest to write and, Miss Hunt thinks, the best of her books so far, exemplifies her interest in unusual characters, as Earlier she had written “HAVE YOU SEEN TOM THUMB?” whose title derived from the ballyhoo phrase 'P, T. Barnum used in promoting the celebrated midget. LADYCAKE FARM has an unusual’ theme, It's the story of a Negro family who moved to a farm in a hitherto all-white area. A
dent at Herron Art New York's Cooper Unlon and Art Btudents’ League, Mrs. Funk, who resides at 555 8, Central Ct, has illustrated 15 children’s books.
Miss Hunt, meanwhile, about to|
give a series of lectures at Central Michigan College of Education, continues. “I have nc set schedule” she sald in her apartment at 2933 N, Meridian St. “I write when I'm fr. the mood.” ‘The mood,” it seems, can tusn out a book in
anywhere from the three to four ®
School and
months of solid writing that went | Gs
into the Johnny Appleseed book
down to the six weeks LADY-|
CAKE FARM took. For LADYCAKE FARM “the words just poured out,” Miss Hunt mitted. But she'd béen thinking of the story for a long time, ever since a visit to Greensboro,
N. C., where she found Quaker in-|
fluence at work promoting good
DISCOVERY—One of the
many illustrations by Steele Savage for the Anniversary Edition of Hurlbut's STORY OF THE BIBLE shows the discovery of
Moses in
Mr. Payna herewith turns In| {such an interesting, entertaining {and intellectually satisfying num-| Iper that I forgot my business of {reading books by the clock. In| taking this leisurely, because of the sheer delight it afforded, I am now six novels and five biogra-| phies behind in my work and, like] the bartender who finally sam[pled his own wares, I'm drunk with enthuslasm. This is: a biography of the tramp played by Charles Chaplin, “half god, half man, and always a vagabond, brother to 8t. Fram cis and the moon, the loveliest thing that ever graced the screen.” The life story of Charles Spencer Chaplin does not enter into Mr. Payne's book except when autobiographical details have Some-
ion the Pavlov theory of condi- ever observed them, such changes,
per session of $10 (one ‘famed made out against Freud as being New York practitioner was re- almost as pernicious an influence} puted to charge $100, adding in modern thought as Karl Marx. gratis whatever sex initigtion his| Dr. Salter misses the best point, inhibited female patients seemed 1 think, The psycho-analyst to require), and with the number . axes the patient into long treatof sessions per week increasing | ment costing, we'll say, upwards as treatment proceeds, a two-|,s 85000. (It can cost much more, year analysis can run into money. as in the case of an 18-years’| Dr.’ Salter does not go Into analysis, still continuing, I just| figures, possibly because he him- heard of.) Object of “treatment” self is engaged in a different kind is to achieve some changes in paof therapy (the famed CRT, based tient's personality. (So far as I've
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floned es ) which he: says if any, are not for the better.) 8 q er and more effective than| why not simply urge the pa-psycho-analysis. It might seemliyjont to blow in the same sum on indelicate for him to introduce having a good time? That precost comparisons. [scription certainly should relieve His case against Freud and the| tension in the patient. It would Freudian system is, I think, some- also prevent the practitioner's acwhat weakened by his own pro-{quiring a spinal curvature from fessional involvement with a com-|habitually carrying a heavy wal-
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(thing to do with the conception {of Charlie the tramp, Charlie the tramp has a note-
peting system. (Dr, Balter is a'let.—H. B.
the bulryshes |worthy ancestry, Mr. Payne Pharoah's daughter. This new shows, stemming from Pan who, w . 1, [took delight in all things, Plerrot,| T've Boon th | edition of an American family a A ce ag: reatening for a long ooo has just been published time to bring out,” is her provo- favorite has just been p
other clown conceptions that benewcomers make|cative conclusion. | by John C. Winston Co. ($4.95).
bud long to the ages. (tramp, the last of the great panthat Mr. Payne makes. ‘More ter-
couple of nasty warning signc and some overt hostility at first are discauraging to them. But as the story progresses, the problem becomes one of community relations. The
race relations. |
She merely hints at future plans. “I have an adult novel
Here we have profiles of the ; great interpreters of clowns most | EW i ! : E of whom were really tragic fig-| AS TION IATIIS ® . {tominists, & work of creative art. n iS Amazin | To lapse into the Hollywood a 4 {vernacular, Mr, Payne is nothing {less than terrific in his analyses,
lures in real life such as Grimaldi {his insights, and when he. soars \ WITH A 5-YEAR PROTECTION PLAN
|sad, rebellious, irreverent, mock'ing and often vulgar Charlie the {always lurks, And the pointed observations rible than war is the end of {laughter,” he opines. And, in our
lera, laughter, full-bodied, redblooded boisterous laughter has
j all but vanished, giving way to x ‘the glinty wisecrack, and worse, | - ‘an assembly line product. Mr.
[Payne is devastating when he (Regardless of Condition)
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