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O'Neill play available to the public this month but you won't find it in any playhouse, “A Moon for the Misbegotten” is the title and it has

just been published hy Randolph House, which has had the script for. nine years This is the first O'Neill play made available hy publication he fore a New York production. As the author explains in a prefatory note: “A MOON FOR THE MISBE GOTTEN is published herewith with no revigions or deletions, It is an exact reproduction of the original manuscript -which 1 delivered to Random House, Ine, on completing the play in 1943. “It has never heen presented on the New York stage nor are there outstanding rights or plank for its production. Since I cannot pres ently give it the attention re quired for appropriate presenta tion, I have decided to make It available in hook form.” That last paragraph cloaks in generalities several important circumstances concerning the fore most American playwright. » " » THE REFERENCE to no rights or plans concerns the fact that Mr. O'Neill and the Theater Guild, which sponsored all of his plays after his first few years, no longer see eye to eye; that, In fact, Mr. O'Neill has taken this very play away from the Guild, which gave it a tryout early In 1947. That was the same season 1946-47—that . O'Neill came back to Broadway after a i2-year absence with his long drama, “The Iceman Cometh,” which the Guild produced. The Guild cast “Moon,” opened it in Columbus, O., Feb. 20, 1947, for the customary shakedown tour prior to Broadway and closed it nine weeks later in St. Louls. The “word” .was that the casting was not quite right. It was an unhappy experience for O'Neill. O'Neill's preface refers obliquely to his illness. He had not completely recovered from a long period of sickness when he put on "The Iceman Cometh” and his condition grew worse after 1947. Since then he has not heen ahle to write any of the many ambitious dramas he has outlined, nor has he been able to give personal supervision to any production, on which he has always insisted. He did permit two of his past successes to be revived here last season without being on hand to guide them.

s rw» A MOON FOR THE: MISBEis & wry minor tragedy! of warped lives with a 1923 New England background. It is good O'Neill, although not his and he has provided a woman's vole that any actress would give her eyeteeth to play. The trouble is that there are very few who measure up to it as O'Neill has insisted the character must be—a huge, Amazon-like creature of Irish ancestry, albeit definitely feminine and with a pleasing face. Mary Welch was O'Neill's selection to play the part in the 1947 tryout. She fs tall but only of average weight, so she had to eat constantly for weeks to put on some 40 pounds. Even then she didn’t measure up completely to O'Neill's specifications, which will give you an idea of the problem. The play is overlong, although not one of the author's marathon dramas. With proper cutting, it could be highly effective on the stage.

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There i8 a ‘new’ Eugene

It is between book covers.

Some Poems

Of Colorado

NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.

By Ferril,

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tered enough disclaimers here to

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A 47 23.) One time and another

disqualify myself thoroughly as’

a reviewer of hpoks and poems.

As it must to all who burn their bridges publicly, the time has arrived when I'd now like to take at least part of it back. Be- 5 cise 1 would-verv. much Hie to : 'HOUSEBOAT'—This temper have you read and enjoy NEW paintings that won John Cooley, Jo AND BELECTED POEMS hv The young artist was represented Thomas Horashy. Ferri other large shows last year. I'll leave the professional eval

ation of Tom Ferril in competent hands and stick here to apprecia tion, of which 1 have a considerable stock on hand where Tom's concerned, : {

Hoosier Poet's

Book Is Out |

I'm madrally convinced Denver Mrs. Frances Richmond, Costands taller because Tom Ferril lumbus, whose poems over the lives'in an old house out on Down- last 25 years have appeared dn

Ing 8t. 1 know what the com- The’Indianapolis Times and other petent poetry critics are going to publications,..has: had. her first say about this new book of his. volume of verse published. They're going to say again, in The collection, entitled .“Windwords Jess trite, that he is the ing .Roads,” was published by the West's first voice, that he is one Story Book Press, Dallas, Tex. of the not more than a half-dozen Its 72 poems contain the Hoo-most-significant poets—in- America ster poetess' reflections on nature, today. But coming from me any religion, war, home and many

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a painting of a river scene near his New Albany home is one of the

n Herron art student, a scholarship for the coming winter term. in the Butler Art Institute New Year Show at Springfield, O., and

A New. Groom in An Elderly Plot

THE VIXEN'S CUB, By Katharine Morris. (Dutton, $3).

Love —plain love, fancy love, The story is laid in the Nottingrequited love, unrequited love— hamshire country of England and is The Taw material of many a

Tod SUNDAY, AUG. 51052,

Record Review—

Pops Items for Your Back Yard

Albums by the Boston Pops gretably, that Indianapolis has Gay Nineties” with the RCA VieOrchestra and Minneapolis Sym- to offer in the way of summer tor orchestra conducted, by Are music, you,can try.this record thur Fieldler, This may be had phony, by the pianist Alexander on your portable player under on one 10-inch 33%-rpm. record, Brailowsky and by Soprano Helen the stars in the back yard. So LM-7005, or on four 45-rpm. rec= Traubel are the features of the far as the music is toncerned: ords, WDM-7005. you couldn't hear any better if pont old-time favorites are inROCA Niner red seal release for you were in Boston or Minneapo- a5 in Miss Traubel's “Gay 8 Be : 8h wm. lis 4 on the an In Central nineties” collection. Some of MUSIC of Johann Strauss is © 0 Lor them have ‘become steréotyped found on the two sides of RCA

. 8. from repeated burlesquing, but Victor - 12-inch LP record LM! BRAILOWSKY PLAYS SCHU-|\j oq Traubel sings them straight

9025. It consists of some of the MANN. Striking performances of jn her warm and. ringing voice, {best-loved items of the summer two of Schumann's most notable and with all the honest sentiment |“pops” concerts, played by two solo compositions for piano are they inherently contain. lof this country’s finest musical presented this month by a planist | She attacks “Take Me Out to jorsanias ions. a Ly who has long been considered one the Ball Game”. with more than There are seven selections®in or the greatest Interpreters of usual enthusiasm, for she was lall. On one side of the record, romantic music, Alexander Brai- formerly a part owner of the St, {the Boston Pops, conducted by jowsky, Louis Browns. The other songs |Arthur Fiedler, plays “Wine,| They are “Fantasia in C, Op. are “Bill Bailey, Won't . You Women and Song,” “Artists’ Life” 177 and “Carnaval, Op. 9.” Both Please Come Home,” “A Bird in and the “Emperor Waltz.” are found on one 12-inch 3313- a Gilded Cage,” "My Pony Boy,” The Minneapolis Symphony Or- rpm. RCA Victor record LM-9003,| “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee,” chestra led by Eugene Ormandy while “Fantasia” alone may be “Mother Was a Lady,” “The {puts zest and ardor into four had on three 45-rpm. records Curse of an Aching Heart” and |more of Strauss’ lilting, melodic (WDM-9003), and “Carnival” “After the Ball.”

{compositions on the other side. comes on two 45-rpm. records : ; . They are “The Blue Danube (WOAM-0000) Wins bh Waltz,” “Acceleration Waltz” and| “Fantasia” has been called | : I i g p thor of “8h y the overtures of * “The Gypsy Schumann's greatest work in ;0¢ LAUTIe Jf. CON o ow

Biz,” “Variety” columnist, and a man steeped in the lore of the period. —H. W. M.,

Baron” and “Die Fledermaus.” jarge form for the piano alone.

To supplement what little, re- [ts unorthodox structure, lyricism { ~— and individuality are fully devel Phili i py Artuoso ESN p i oped by Brailowsky's vir : Pike wy . style. : Arts Selection Collecte “Carnaval” is a Programmatic ABSTRACT PAINTING is the It's poor conjugation to speak work, a sort of musical diary. It y ’ ser August selection of the Seven of being captured by Philip Wylie, W28 Presented hy. the compo The situation is neither passive as a series of musical portraits— Arts Book Society. Its author,

- nor incomplete; it is total aggres- °f Schumann himself, his friends, Thomas B. Hess, gives the batk=

sion accomplished totally. Ernestine, Clara Wieck (later his orounqd and the American phase |hardly Ws 4 tally. ] ten wife) and the composers Chopin g¢ the type of art. matic as to be able to drop out and Paganini—at a masked ball.| je believes that the artistie ‘of a Wylie story until he has been It Nas a magnificent finale. center of the world has shifted |whirled and buffeted through the | #8" from France -to America. Plates entire experience exactiy as the! HELEN TRAUBEL, Metropoli- jllustrating the text include 12 in author planned when he mapped tan soprano, sings songs of “The full color. hig plan of action. {. a Three of Mr. Wylie's Satur = % . . Evening Post ots iii have Want to Write? Big River been brought together in THREE! A new anthology, BEST AD- “Place the mouth of the AmaTO BE READ (Rinehart, $3.50). VICE ON HOW TO WRITE, by zon at New York and its arms

ts full of farm scenes and sounds As compared with GENERATION Gorham Munson; famed teacher would reach-up-into Canada and

modern novel, ‘This offering by as only they can be registered by OF VIPERS or AN ESSAY ON! of writing, will. be published Nov. down into Mexico and almost to

Miss Morris is an odd combina-

a’ Britisher in love with her land, MORALS these are slightly 1 by Hermitage House.

It con- California.” This is one of the

tion of all the love themes. |And Miss Morris definitely loves punch-pulled Wylie — one might sists of selections Mr. Munson amazing facts made dramatic in

Although it is titled THE VIX-N'8-CUB, itis more the story

of the Vixen than of the Cub. Interrupts her story on several

her land—so much so that she post -ed— put

almost say they have been Staeve-'has recommended during his THE - AMAZING AMAZON, by you won't lay them!years of teaching at the School Willard Price, which John Day

— R. L. P. ifor Social Research. will publish in September.

down,

best, !

“first voice” business doesn’t read good. This new. book is filled with good and true things Tom has to say about the veritable stuff of Denver and Colorado, , Cherry Creek and old Louis Vasquez, gold and silver, Il.eadville and Central City, buffalo skulls and skeletons of Model Ts rusting in the sage. The 60-0dd poems in the volume are a distiliation of nearly 30 vears; some are from Tom's previous books, “High Pas-' sage,” “Westering"” and “Trial by Time,” now out ‘of print, and some are new to book form from the pages of Harpers, the Atlantic, the Nation, the New Yorker of recent years,

Unite The ones I like hest-are graphic in 1950.

ones in which he grasps firmly

the sights \ | je SIENin and sOURdA 9 he past has lapsed into an era of abnor- he discovers that the behavior of

mality and immorality?

and present in Denver rado and weaves them into the) classic fabric he is spinning; the {timelessness of change and the eternal victory the soul wins over time. * 8andburg and Frost, if my ear hears true, are the major influences, but to me Ferril sometimes is more than both.—R. L. P,

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Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 2—Indiana University Press announced today publication of William WORDSWORTH'S GUIDE TO THE LAKES, most important prose written by one of England's greatest poets, The book, illustrated by John Piper, describes landscape of England's scenic District of the Lakes.

Bargain Random House has added to its Modern Library Giants AN ANTHOLOGY OF FAMOUS BRITISH STORIES, edited by Bennett Cerf and Henry CC. Moriarty ($2.45). Eighty stories from Chaucer to Waugh, 1248 pages.! Anthologies are nearly always,

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other subjects, | The Vixen is Clara Cromwell, - om— (who like many another English {gentlewoman before her, ran off .with her curly-haired and hand-/

Hospital Reunion

The 50th reunion of Central some groom. State Hospital former and present. The Vixen's Cub is Garnet, her employees will be held at 2 p. m. son, who isn't so bad when you today in Brookside Park. Re- get to know him-—although that freshments will be served. job takes some doing.

Who Is to Blame For Spread of. Crime?

WHO ARE THE GUILTY? By David Abrahamson, M. D. (Rinehart, $5).

A crime was committed in the maladjustment as they occur in States every 18 seconds homes and schools.

Some of his discoveries would Does this mean that this nation not amaze Grandma -at all—for

There i8 a child, for instance, is to a large! no indication, in fact, that thi® extent the reflection of the famfigure is higher today than it was {ly in which he lives. in 1950. But there are other, more interDr. Abrahamson says not one esting conclusions — conclusions single thing ds responsible—but-on a more scientific plane. rather the breakdown of the These call for a broad program! moral forces in four places: The of mental hygiene in all our home, the school, the delinquent schools, jails, homes and other and society, institutions. He is not so much This outstanding psychiatrist concerned with laws as he is Analyzes the problem with a great about emotional conditions which deal of skill, arrives at some in- Shape a person's personality toterasting but hard-to-take - con- ward one end or, another. clusiqns, and charts a way for] Some of the ‘case histories” us. : (which Dr. Abrahamson outlines The Yook should be read by for us make-up the most interevery police commissioner, correc- esting parts of the book. tion officer, judge, juryman and| All in all, this is a masterful schoolmaster. Job of research, study, deduction The author began to put notes and recommendation. together for. this book when he discovered that .the emotionally

(ers, Groom and Garnet, are very

occasions to go out of her way to give us a rural description. (HH The story is seen through the eyes of Willow Herron, a sensitive young girl who has come to the farm named “Crow’s Wood” with her brother Charlie. The inter-| relationships between young Willow.and the two Cromwell broth-

interesting indeed. Seldom has adolescent yearning been set down on paper so appealingly. Robert and Clara Cromwell had seen their marriage go to seed as the story opens—and something apparently was going, to happen to it. The breakdown begins when Drayton, the faithful old family retainer, is dismissed and a slick article named Roberts is hired in his place. It doesn’t take Roberts long to become something more than just a trainer and handler of horses. And the next thing we know, | Aunt Clara has eloped with the groom. This upsets things quite a bit around the place and brings on| one crisis after another. Garnet, ruthless and cynical though he is! bears up well under the blow and| the reader feels sympathetic] toward him, although ~he--isn't: supposed to. | | Inevitable tragedy strikes the! little household and Willow, now matured and strengthened by al succession of cruel events, is quite the lady. For a fizzing fillip, or without. ice cream, this little novel goes 'good on a hot summer day.

disturbed or dellnquent human being was an intriguing entity: What ‘appeared to be an entity

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