Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1952 — Page 18
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JOHN STEINBECK—
"A great novel."
THE I*'DIANAPOLIS TIMES
‘Dining Out Delightful |
SUNDAY, SEPT. 21, 1952
Barrymore to Write Early Christians
Lionel Barrymore has signed! Gladys Schmitt's new novel, a contract with Little, Brown & CONFESSORS OF THE NAME,
PAPA'S TABLE D'HOTE. By Maria Sermolino had always a sane, Co. for his first novel, to be pub-|a story of the early Christians, is Old World view of life and its jjshed early next year. The: title the November selection of the Lit-
pleasures. Good food, good drink of the hook will be CANTON- erary Guild. It will be published Oct. 23 by Dial Press.
Sermolino. Philadelphia, Lippin-
cott, $3.
Between 40 and 50 years ago, immigrant restauranteurs, Papa a famous Italian restaurant in helped liven up an Greenwich Villag served an admirable dinner with music and wine for 50 cents, Eventually that price, like every
New York's
other in creation, had to be hiked. (As late (as 1919 it was still only 60
cents), How Gon|farone’s on W..
'8th St. managed
such price mir-
acles is part of the subject of PAPA’'S TABLE {D'HOTE, by Ma-
ae with Papa serving various kinds
PAGE 18 : . 2 = oa ° igon. He has conveyed the feeling 5 and texture of that love-and-hate 4 C | pattern that does so much to our \ lives. | R » a =» india HE HAS SET himself the imimense task of studying good and ¢ . evil in human life. More than! ! ew tein eC Nove S any other novelist I have read in : recent years, he has succeeded in ! Of ( 1 t F a P making his study both intelligible | rea ra an eop e and moving. Si id ob J Even with a fiendish character EAST OF EDEN. A novel. By John Steinbeck. New York, Viking jike Cathy Ames, later briefly Press, $4.50, Adam's wife and ,mother of his By HENRY BUTLER : lsons, Mr. Steinbeck retains perJOHN STEINBECK'S “EAST OF EDEN" is one of the spective. Cathy finishes her high {school years in a hideous blaze great novels of the 20th Century so far. ., iof carefully planned glory. HatGreat American novels” might sound too much like ing both her parents, she locks the old cliche. them in the kerosene-drenched Moreover, though Mr. Steinbeck, house and sets fire to it. She has chosen for locale his own with Adam and Charles Trask leaves artful clues in the stable home region of the Salinas Valley|in New England, quarrelsome indicating she herself has been in California, his book has a sons of strict old Cyrus Trask {vietim of tow Jiay, hen Sisap/ iblic si A , Charles ; : Biotic) Intensity BPG vepth:that| Adam. isthe accspied one, Ch later, after her short interlude of Dearing about these pe makes it universal. the rejected, after the pattern of 4 : and their descendants. To use a word overworked by the Cain and Abel story, which marriage, she becomes a very Hollywood, “EAST OF EDEN” is Mr. Steinbeck later discusses in PTOSPerous madam an epic in the original sense. It’s/a similar series of quarrels be- linas region: the story of a great people and a tween Adam’s twin sons, Aron 8 x ‘ws great era, from the Civil War to and Cal. World War I It's all of the] Charles comes close to murder- Hamilton, imaginative and im-'pigh art. America in that period of im-| ing Adam. Later, Cal does great provident Irishman, and the Chimense change, as seen through/ psychic damage to Aron, and the nese-American servant Lee are ex-| b S the eyes and experience of some reason is the same. The love and traordinarily well realized. Their A out Our ong native and some immigrant Cali- offerings that a rejected son talk together, full of wisdom and
father turn to wild hatred and dramatic intensity.
Steinbeck's own forebears. * jealous passion for vengeance.
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and too rich in detail for ade- cently with all this, avoiding both inspired and .a bit lonely. author of a
» in the Sa-|2 book of this scope suggests at least one sequel volume. Meanwhile, Mr. Steinbeck has Gonfarone). produced a tremendously effective ADAM'S NEIGHBOR Samuel gng mature work of the novelist's creates the spacious days when, old. dining out generally was an ad-| |venture, often, as Maria, with a Selected {precocious child's keen eye for, S |dining couple's expressions. when long novel A first novel by Arnold Shaw, she peeked from a dark hallway about the pre-sound movie indus-
Yuate summary. here. It starts preachiness or psychological jar- You feel you want to continue LINGO OF TIN PAN
rsonalities Tia
Sermolino, Miss Sermolino ‘The emphasis in Miss Vander-
Certainly one of Papa Ser-
molino's daughters. general manager for old Mme, usually presented
This quite charming book re-
fornians, including some of Mr. brings to a hostile or indifferent humor, sometimes reaches great|authority on Tin Pan Alley lore, at nearby tables, a clandestine|try, will be published under the title one. She could spot the married Nov. 17 to Dec. 1 by Holt, its & Like all other grand stories, THE MONEY SONG next spring couples, the unmarried and the publisher. Reason: The book has « THE STORY is much too big Mr. Steinbeck has done magnifi- “EAST OF EDEN” leaves you by Random House. Mr. Shaw is'troubled. jargon dictionary,| Whatever minor tragedies might tion of the Book-of-the-Month ALLEY. be brewing on the premises, Papa Club.
were important. Like many other WINE.
essentially ° puritanical America. © Miss Sermolino includes some tempting recipes and some vivid and hunger-provoking descriptions of Gonfarone’s in full swing,
TIME MAGAZINE: “Explosive combination of scholar, priest, and chevalier.”
of “pasta.” Her book is intelligent and inio gratiating.—H. B,
Casual Etiquette
Doubleday will make : ¢ |Vanderbilt’'s COMPLETE BOOK . ‘OF ETIQUETTE, due Oct. 6, the biggest item on, the publisher's fall promotion agenda, according, to Publishers’ Weekly. PW adds:
N. Y. TIMES: "Will be welcomed as af ifiportanf fécdrd in the struggle for the soul of the Free World.”
"ONE SKY TO SHARE
French-American Journals of R. L. BRUCKBERGER, soldier-priest, Chaplain General of the French Resist: ance, Chaplain to the Foreign Legion in the Sahara, seasoned friend of freedom, now a visitor to this country, records his adventures and speaks out in admiration of America.
Amy
bilt’s book is on a more modern was and casual way of life than is in books of, etiquette,” citing as examples the problems of a servantless house-
(Papa
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