Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1952 — Page 28

Truth as Strange As Cheap Fiction

THE GLITTER AND THE GOLD. By Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan. New York, Harper, $4.

By HENRY BUTLER THE STORY of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan is the|

story par excellence of the American heiress who married

a foreign nobleman. |

Daughter of the amiable “Willie K.” Vanderbilt and ; his domineering, relentlessly am- — | bitious wife who later became Vanity are among the book’s| Mrs. 0. H, P. Belmont of Wom- most interesting passages. an's Suffrage fame, Consuelo had For® those casually acquainted, a poor little rich girl's unhappy through books and magazines childhood in the 1870s and 80s, With international society from As the early chapter of her Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

autobiography, THE GLITTER UP to World War IT, THE GLIT-| AND THE GOLD, sometimes ITR AND TE GOLD will be poignantly testify, she was forced 87) GIVErIng. . into slavery to her mother’s de-| LITERARY PARODY ATER! often teriuined drive Suwards prestige. falls flat, and even some of our pared iis a century or 80 of most energetic and prolific funny-

ymen in print can turn out the jest cheap fiction and even current without the smile, in Coleridge's soap operas.

Livy phrase. | APTLY NAMED—"Abstraction' is the title of this color lithow. HOPALONG - FREUD RIDES ograph by Willi Baumeister, foremost artist in Germany today, | por By BRE aon Ci AGAIN, a new volume by Ira which is a recent accession to Herron Art Museum's graphic art |

Wallach (New York, Schuman, cgllection. ars wale SomplveY $2.50), has more merits than I've and granite “cottages”, titled but én recently in books of Its

: . / empty-walleted foreigners came Sao: Hach stars iis antiol- Shirer S Somewhat

a-courtin’ in one of the strangest| : ogy with a highly irreverent parmarriage markets in history. The ov of WOMAN THE LOST SEX.

Puss of i Tg by Marynia Farnham and Ferdi- Ted IOUS Jou rney

prospect in sight nand Lundberg, He kids the pants

| . . Accordingly, Consuelo, at 18, Of Freudianiam, which 18s% Pheak)\y n CENTURY JOURNEY. By William L. Shirer. New York, Farrar,

was - virtually imprisoned, PA™ | the kind permission of Oscar Strauss & Young, $3.50.

ticularly after she had told her : moti oa. ors for an. Hopman 1 KG Ue to ME py JUN PAULUS he regen of the powe of QHiser Juitor Iu the dreary splen- 250 “Junger than Springtime.” “Anyone desiring a quiet life that infamous coalition, the magdor of Marble House on New- ~~ _"' » | nates and the m ry, that on If you can vaguely imagine the has done badly to be born in the, previous occasions led Ger-|

port's Bellevue Ave, or the in- o credible French Renaissance SIOTY Of Snow White as written Twentieth Century. many to her downfall. Both

chateau Mrs. Vanderbilt commis- NY Ey non BERD That's what Leon TrNZEY She | Sroups are confident enough to sioned architect Richard Morris : {wrote an e firs alt o Sicome out in the open, he says; Hunt, that studious antiquarian, °f & nursery school the Tt | century has proved him fo he a and this bodes ill for the peace to build on part of the present of USA CONFIDENTIAL, Lait & geer and a pro of the world.

| Radio City site on Fifth Ava, Mortimer, Then fhisds Sour hook het. For we The real revolution in Britain, | Consuelo languished while mar- y have 11ved he found, was not so much eco-|

ellent parodies is “Emma and then h an era: riage preparations went on. ge h a {-nroug B nomic as social. Five acts of Par- . ws Wax Parakeet,” a take-off on the , ¢ unparalleled lament since July 1949 made

|deceptively naive, spuriously pro- ploodshed, tyran | tory, evok- » 1 te, Iti THIS PART of the story, evoke (51nd story that sometimes Gets ny. war And de eons as Botan]

ing the 80s ‘and 90s, recreates § what used to be the $10-g-week 7 the New Yorkers editor. struction hy could ever be again what she had at home and on been.

’ , bu tes| = 2 Br ren c tual outline ( 1 jou the international Mr. Shirer concludes his book | aprici S scene, with some thoughts on America

Throughout the book, Mme, Bal-| L san (after her divorce from Marl-| William —and this is a very controversial chapter because the things he sees’

: be borough, she eventually married Ty ) . _ |Shirer, who Col. Jacques Balsan, of a wealthy | ran |came a big jour- as progress may be just “soclal-| and conservative French indus- THE FLOWER OF LIGHT, A nov-|nalistic n a m e o dio istic” to other people. But he’s trial family) is realistic, clear-| el. By Josephine A. Peck. New/during World War II as a radio o,4 to pe home—as they all are | . . commentator and author of “Ber- fi th fll of the! sighted. i York Richard R. Smith, $4. | ”» tried t vz when they’ve had eir 0 e Even a slight tendency to quote ae; (lin Diary,” has tried to analyze; ., egsness of the world beyond | from her own stock of “devastat-|_ LDS Seems to be an attempt atithe world’s affairs in this new, ono, |a latter-day version of the JAL-|pook. I don’t think it's pne-fifth

ing” ripostes can be pardoned. |, volumes, all wra ’ 7 ) pped up intolag good as “Berlin Diary’ — . ; Mme, Balsan, judging from the ,,, jt ys a plography of the largely because Mr. Shirer now| American Crime

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book, never was a tremendous myo aon geno : . ; y, headed by pa-poges as a philosopher (which he! ¢: ordi Apes —wit. But -she-seems-&llalongto-1yiarenar Dr. Edward Clare BI-|ign’t) in ay pion LR Since Revolution 1 have had good sense, which some junqen, a minister and college paperman (which he once was). MEN OF THE UNDERof the great wits of Edwardian president. He is a man who plays

society lacked. |god to his family and dictates Mr. Shirer once again travels WORLD, edited by Charles Ham-! =a 8 their lives with an iron will. thegugh he Jarious ations Stliiton, will be published Oct. 28 by HER DESCRIPTIONS of Blen-| myeryone hows to his will, al-|uropP 'H y 2 t P them Macmillan. According to the pub-| heim Palace, the immense, Vac- though most of his dictates seem flavor. He seeks to compare them 2 uous and {rightfully uncomfort- incredibly stupid to the average With the way they were 25 years lisher, “burglars, counterfeiters, able monument to 18th Century reader. And he succeeds in driv-/280 when, as a young reporter, hijackers, con men and gangsters, ling many of his family to death BN te these Jauas. The here tell their own stories, deor disaster. Most of the story re-|¢© . . . |volves about his grandchildren, |OUS, sometimes tedious, and often SEHbINg eriminal technique Iparticularly the daughter of a dull g y » {marriage he refused to acknowl-| He tries to travel back and breaks, the .general atmosphere {edge until he decided to take the forth not only in space—but in of the underworld and the forces igirl from her mother, {time, so as to accurately gauge which led them there.” { It is an unusually long book, where we stand at the -mid-| . a {beautifully printed, simply writ-\century mark. He visits Vienna Chronologically, the ‘bogk coy

| , ers the history of crime in Amer1 and hard to believe. —D.D.K. and sees what is there today but, . i.e the Revolutionary years. ' Big Bird Books |

also takes the reader back toi. oes thow things were yesterday. | | | LAND BIRDS OF AMERICA,| In France he sees the waning | @ JOSEPH a comprehensive illustrated book star of a people once both proud ‘

N with commentary by Dr. Robert and strong. How could she fall N RnR ! Cushman Murphy of the Ameri-/so low from so high so soon? LAUT E | can Museum of Natural History, The corruption, confusion, class! i will ‘be published in the fall of divisions and antagonisms — all ANNOUNCES fhe OPENING | 1953 by McGraw-Hill, It will con- these things contributed to its OF HIS t tain 225 full-color and 50 black-/downfall. Once with the finest STUDIO t and-white pictures by leading bird balanced economy of any nation for the teaching of

photographers. According to Pub-/in Europe, she is now prostrate. VOICE & COACHING lishers’ Weekly, the publisher de-| And what has happened to the In All Branches of scribes it as ‘‘the great single con-| Master Race? REPERTOIRE

tribution in the field of. bird] Mr. Shirer, who spent many

CONSUELO VANDERBILT BAL- 'iljystration: since the work of vears in Germany and knew the

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