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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-28

the opinion poll which indicated
that both students and faculty r
in favor of having Negro teach
ers but that the students are much
more enthusiastic about the idea
than their white professors.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Among
the Authors
By CoroIyn Coooins

Another Day, Another Dollar, y
is the new book by John T. Win
terich, (reviewed in The Star Aug
l0) who takes his readers back for
a good old"fashioned dip into the
past OF streetcars and dollar bills
that would buy something. His
name will look familiar to followers
of The New Yorker where his stories
frequently appear.
do you know there are thousands
of kids who never have and never
will ride on a streetcar?" he in
.quired sadly. How they envy my
being a streetcar conductor!" -
The stories in Another Day, An
other Dollar" were written, he ex-
planned, when he went into the
Army and had to answer millions OF
questions which, among other
things, asked him to list every job
he ever held. The number staggered
him. Thinking back on those days
in Providence, r. l.. which he left at
81. filled him with nostalgia, and his
amusing memories are now shared.
Author Winterich was in both
wars, but the last one was fought in
the Pentagon, a place he is glad to
be away from. Nevertheless, he
filled in dull evenings in Washington
by writing part of this book. The
rest was done at his home in Ossin-
ing, New York. His past, in a liter
airy way, includes reporting or edit
ing for Stars and Stripes, The
American Legion Magazine, Colo
phon, Saturday Review Of Litera-
ture and The New Yorker. He also
wrote six books about book collect
ino
Evening star., 1947-08-17

OF the book would not be fair.
Ludwig Bemelmans writes with
ease and humor. The only sec.
tions of the book which drag are
those that concern themselves with
an oral philosophizing about the re-
lation of art to economics and
society. The observations are worth
while, but not in keeping with the
persons who make them.
But the book will accomplish one
objective, and that is to make the
reader wonder whether sanity does
pay of-or should he take off i'm
mediately for Hollywood, and be-
come another one Of the $1,000-a-
week pariahs who toll in mink
Sweatshirts and chinchilla slacks.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

Smartlng under the Scorn OF an unap-
preciative maiden. When fire breaks
out at sea and he is cast up on a
lovely little tropical isle called Lying
Dog, he begins to recount the out
rageous events which befall him to
soothe his much-shaken nerves
Mr. Weekley has kept to the style
Of the times, which is 1851, and
introduces a nice humor with
Henry's gentility and his gallantry
toward the captains full-blown
widow. The elegant, old-fashioned
prose is in pleasant contrast to the
brutality of the action.
When all hands abandon the
flaming ship Quail. six Of the crew
and passengers, including the newly
bereaved Mrs. Birch, make the shore
Of Lying Dog. A f1areup Of tempers
over some cached rum results in
the murder of Henry's friend
Frank and the lady in the party
Appalled, by this turn of events
Henry fees to a distant part of the
island and skillfully evades capture
by the cutthroat sailors who remain
From a stiff-necked scholar he is
soon transformed into a willy and
Evening star., 1947-08-17

ne is.
In its general effect, this novel
is satirical, though the main char
acter, Charles Gabriel, is offered
as what the theater used to call
straight man. He is not, like
some of his colleagues and other
persons he has to get along with,
a phony, but fellow who is honor
able in his way and never cuts
corners too sharply. He works hard
for the usual 10 per cent he col
lects from his authors earnings; he
is temperate and he avoids feminine
entanglements. He emerges from
the story persuasive and likable.
Gabriel's best client. Drew Dor
field, who writes q best-seler every
year, is a hard-drinking, ill-tem-
pered egoist, who f1ips off tawdry
books with cynical ease. Then
there's Nathaniel Hawthorne Peck,
jr., unpromising youth whose father,
a famous agent, will have none Of
him. Gabriel, for reasons which
are made clear, builds up the junior
Peck, with the aid of a ghost writer,
into a national figure. There are
the Hollywood agents, telegraphing
wildly for the rights to Dorf1eld's
latest novel. These gentry are por-
trayed as larcenous double-crossers.
Gabriel's love interest, Barbara
Bright" Nudge. seems to have been
lugged in because Mr.. Mealand felt
that he had to have something of
the sort. In fact, Gabriel appears
rather to resent the time this ro-
mantle interlude demands.
There are a good many digres-
sions which slow up the narrative.
Just the same, Let Me Do the
Talking" is an interesting, pene-
tratiug and sometimes hilarious
panorama of a certain portion Of the
New Cork literary scene. C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
resourceful primitive, as relentless
as the men who are stalking him.

resourceful primitive, as relentless
as the men who are stalking him.
Mr.. Weekley documents in fasci-
mating detail Henry's perilous daily
life, his careful marshaling of sup
plies, his halting mastery of naviga-
ton and finally his daring break for
the Pup, a smaller island off Lying
Dog. His discovery of a domestic
paradise left by a heart-broken her.
NIT is a little story in itself and
leads eventually to romance-al-
though not, let it be said at once,
with any 19th-century version of
Dorothy Lamour Henry's further
adventures in the gold fields of
Australia with a reformed juvenile
delinquent from the Quails original
crew don't measure up in suspense
to his castaway days. THE Ledger"
is at its best when Henry is crawling
through the foliage of Lying Dog
with enemies all around him. Then
it is f1rst-class adventure fiction.
Henry Colby would be welcomed by
Robinson Crusoe and the Admirable
Crichton, and the other great sur
vivors of literature.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
High Adventure in
"A Postwar World
ON MY WAY HOME
BY Richard Phenix. William
Sloan Associates $3.) .
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.
Reviewed by
STANLEY BATE


Like so many others freshly out
of the military service, Richard Phe-
nix didn't know what he wanted to
do. His college career interrupted
by five years of service both at home
and abroad; having known new and
strange places and the fear and ex-
hilaration of bodily danger, he found
it dificult to contemplate going back
to prewar routine. In short, he was
one of Americas own vast horde of
displaced persons.
The first move he made was a
smart one. Instead of going home
and resuming college, he got in his
car. moved around the country, took
odd jobs, and finally wrote a book.
This is it.
This book is distinguished by
freshness and easy pace and by a
total absence of the sensational ad-
venture he might easily have cooked
up to give readers that extra flip.
No, not great deal happened to Mr..
Phenix. But the little that did is
related with a certain quiet humor
and charm. ...-.
When he shed his captains bars
at Camp Crowder. Mo-. he got into
his prewar auto, still In reasonably
good condition, and headed West,
looking for something-he didn't
quite know what. He ran out of
money; worked for a junkman: cut
wood in the High Sierras; was a
laundryman in San Diego; clerked
in grocery store; took a course at
Stanford University while he
trimmed lawns in Palo Alto. Before
he finally turned his car toward his
native New Hampshire he had de-
termined one thing at least: He had
no use for Hollywood.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Good Scenery
And Good Sense
HETTY DORVAL
BY Ethel Wilson.
VESPERS IN VIENNA
BY Bruce Marshall. (Houghton.
Mif7in;, $2.75.)
Reviewed by

ne ! Doftv AL
BY Ethel Wilson. (The Mac
milan Co.; $2.25J
A great deal of good sense and
basic understanding have gone into
this brief and unpretentious story of
a child's infatuation for a fascin-
ating but inscriptions woman. Brit
ish Columbia makes noble back
ground for the development of
young frankie Burnaby's clandes-
tine friendship with beautiful Hetty
Dorval, a graceful, accomplished
creature who calmly wrecks other
peoples lives, but who cannot bear
to look upon the shambles. Her par
ents break up the attachment, but
it lakes seven years and many meet
ings under different circumstances
for Frankie's enlightenment about
Hetty's moral f1abbfness to be COM
pleted. A somewhat melodramatic
climax rather spoils the generally
{ calm and reasonable tone, of the
book, but not before Miss Wilson,
whose nrst book this is, has done
some admirable character drawing
and made some eninently sound OBJ
oervations about ufe.-M. Meg.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Mr.. Manners Beautiful Book of FiIioI
Devotion Is Tender and Full of Fun
BY William Manners (E. P. Dutton & Co.. Inc: $275)
Reviewed by FRANCIS P DOUGLAS
FATHER AND THE ANGELS

Mr.. Manners, who wrote detective
stories for the pulp paper magazines
and then broke into the Sticks,
says 1t is his ambition to write one
beautiful book after another.
He is off to a good start. Father
and the Angels" is a beautiful book
a moving book, of filial devotion. It
is this devotion. apparently. that
led Mr.. Manners to write this tender
account of his father, a rabbi in
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, and, for a brief
period, in indianapolis.
Father was short and fat. His
rabbinica1 beard made him look like
the pictures of Gen. Grant. He was
a man of limitless compassion for
his fellow man.
Father was always acting like a
Christian, Mr.. Manners writes, and
Evening star., 1947-08-17

his high school days, father urged
Willie not to hurt his opponents
Mother worried about Willie get.
ting hurt and said she would lei
the other boys mother worry about
him. },. 90
Fathers influence was working
silently. Willie gave up fighting
even though the fight fans said vii.
lie had a left like Benny Leonard's
Father had a book about the Jews
in America and Benny Leonard was
in that book.
Mother is really background fig
ure in this book, but she emerges
lifelike and clearly defined as a
person.
Mr.. Manners style has the SIM
plicity of good art. And, beginning
his story as little boy, his style
seems to mature as he does.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

Our Hollywood reporters who dis
cover in the lives and activities OF
the movie stars and assorted zanies
OF filnadom a never-failing source
Of news, will find in this fantastic
tale of Ludwig Bemelmans much
that rings true. And the reader
who during these vacation months
prefers light and entertaining books
will not be disappointed in DIRTY
Eddie"
With tongue in cheek, Mr.. Bemel-
mans, who has worked in the movie
studios Of Hollywood, has written
q gentle satire about the motion
picture industry which will cause
many readers to congratulate them
selves upon their choice Of more
prosaic yet saner occupations. How
ever, the delights of Hollywood are
many. and after reading the authors
description of the renaissance and
Oriental luxuries which are accepted
as casually in that fabulous com
munity, some persons will be per-
suaded that year or two of such
insanity, as the author describes it,
would not be too difficult to bear.
Individually the characters in the
book are strange, but-collectively-
they are out of this world. There
is Vanya Vashvily, the producer who
is surrounded by beauties, but who
sleeps sitting down, standing and in
revolving doors. There is Belinda,
the star, named after cigar.
Maurice Cassard and Ludlow
Mumm, $3,000-a.week writers who
do not write, live upon another level
from those literary untouchables
who earn only a $1,000 a week, and
are subjected to sights and indig-
mites that only the most refined
sadists could devise. And last, but
not least. we meet and examine
Moses Fable, the boss at Olympic
Studios, who gives the people what
they want-entertainment. ALI of
these persons, busy with reviling and
stabbing each other in the back,
make movies. Their methodology,
as described by the author, will ex-
plain to many movie-goer why
only very few pictures appear not
to have been created in the violent
wards of our asylums.
Dirty Eddie, the most human of
all the characters in the book, will
come as surprise to the reader.
And how his salary is boosted from
$40 to $1,000 a week will delight
every one. But to detail this portion
Evening star., 1947-08-17

ciples may find Stravinsky's Rite
OF Spring" a strange collection of
sounds and may never change his
mind, and yet that composition has
come to be considered by many Of
us who were raised on the early
classics a masterpiece in a modern
idiom. 1t may be that some years
hence Joyce will be easy for the
average reader to decipher. You
never know.
Granting all that, and after ap-
preaching this subject in an earnest
effort to understand and appre-
ciate, I must confess that Pro
thalamium" left me without any
complete, coherent picture, and so
I can impart none. You may have
better luck.
"Prothalamium," which is styled
a novel, ostensibly presents, in turn,
the thoughts of each of several
persons at a London tea. Every
passage, however, has an allegorical
significance which makes the inter-
play of thoughts and the occasional
remarks expressions of drama of
birth, death and the hereafter
which turks beyond the common
place room.
There is undeniahle poetic power
in many of these expressions. But
cumulative clarity is another mat
ter. Sometimes the, meaning is
clear. At other times it's as, OBJ
scure as anything in "Finnegan's
Wake" though MIR. Toynbee writes
in straight English, never with the
madeup words Joyce delighted in.
The elaborate chart at the begin
ming of "Prothalamium," which Is
supposed to explain the scheme of
the narrative, is unnecessary and
not helpful. It's always clear who
is thinking, though what and why
are matters to be pondered SOL
emnly-if you care to make the
effort. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
reviewed Dy
THOMAS r. HENRY.


THOMAS r. HENRY.
This is a revision of q series OF
lectures delivered at Yale Univer-
sity by the president of Harvard, who
during the war was chairman OF
the National Defense Research
Committee and who is looked upon
as leader by the whole American
scientific community.
He is concerned with the logic OF
science, and methods of bringing
out better understanding of its
basic principles and procedures on
the part Of college and university
students. He explores the pos
sibility Of applying the methods
whatever they may have been and
they are difficult to define-which
have led to such outstanding devel-
opments in the physical and bio
logical sciences to the social sciences
where they may be used to solve the
problems Of human society.
DIX. CQnant Is somewhat icono-
elastic. He brushes away the old
idea that scientific advances can be
brought about by following any
standard three-step formula such
as is often described-the collection,
classification and Interpretation of
facts. The mind of man does not
work in any such simple fashion.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

form or content
that 1t battles
you at first
glance or hear
ing.
Your lack of
tolerance m a y
lead you to an
i'll hammered
re ] &c tion Of
something you'll
later find your
S elf admiring.
The music lover
con d | t on e d
only to Mozart
and Beethoven
and their dis
Evening star., 1947-08-17
The Fiiendish
PereI1on Sets
A Booby Trap
ACRES AND PAINS
BY s. ]. Perelman. ,(Reynal &
Hitchcock; ST.
Reviewed by
IRVING r. LASH.

T Reviewed by
IRVING r. LASH.
To say Perelman is funny is ri.
diculously redundant. Most people
get hysterical at the mention OF hi.
name. -.--.....
Actually there is good reason tc
believe Perelman is the nom de
plume Of a fiendish lunatic bent on
destroying the human race by bonn
harding the world with q witherine
barrage Of bellylaughs.
In this instance, he lures his VIC
Tins within range by pretending his
tale Is a tragedy having to do with
the woes of a country squire Zone Of
his disguises) who loses his mind
coping with hired help, weekend
guests, architects, hoboes, neighbors
antique dealers, rabbits and wood
chucks-which are not necessarily
listed in the order Of their i'm
portance.
Then, just as the naive reader
settles back to enjoy some melan-
choly bliss, the willy Perelman, as he
calls himself, reverses his field and
tosses a long, looping farce that ex-
plodes on the 40-yard line and wipes
out everything in sight. except, of
course, the rings on the table left by
wet glasses.
This is one Of the dastard's most
cunning booby-traps. Look what 1t
did to me.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

he tells Of the time he found the
rabbi scrubbing the kitchen floor
for old Mr.. Schneider.
Where Was Father?
Willie found father on his hands
and knees on Mr.. Schneller's kitchen
floor, soap suds and water all over
the linoleum.
MY feet slid on the soap suds
too. 7 tried to pull father up. but
I couldn't. He was heavy. Finally
father went across the floor on his
hands, like a baby, to the kitchen
range. He climbed upon it: that
was how he got to his feet"
On the way home father con-
fessed he was selfish:
Il do the things that are to my
own interest believe that all
individuals are important and that
includes myself. You should do unto
yourself as you do unto Others"
Father was not an exhorter, but
he Influenced" people. When Will
lie became professional boxer in
Evening star., 1947-08-17
The Forgotten Man
Of Books Finally
Gets Into Print

LET ME DO THE TALKING
BY Richard Mealand. Double
day; $2.75.J
The forgotten person in the cur
rent stream of books on the more
commercial aspects of the publish
ing, radio and movie industries is
Evening star., 1947-08-17

s. p o tllghted In
Mr.. M e aland's
amusing novel
This person is
the lit er airy
agent, an i'm
portant figure in
every field of ex-
preston.
Mr.. Mealand
f e t C h es him
from his post OF
po W er in the
b a C kground OF
the ii t e r ry
scene, takes him
apart, and shows
why and what
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Eorly Travels
|WnhErniePyIe
HOME COUNTRY

HOME COUNTRY
BY Ernie Pyle. William Sloane
Associates; s3.75.J
This new collection of Ernie
Pyle's writings actually is the oldest
In point of chronology. 1t is COM
posed of selections from the columns
he sent back to his papers during
the five years Q935-l940) he was q
roaming correspondent. On this
rambling assignment, the former
Washington newspaperman visited
all the States, Alaska and Hawaii.
These were the columns about
everyday people and the way they
llved-the pieces that won him pop
ularity before the war brought him
wider fame and death on a Pacific
island. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

BY Robert Bloch. (Dial Press:
$2.50.)
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.
Daniel Morley's tortured mind is
constantly tainted with memories
of early sex association from
which he cannot free himself. A
love-hungry spinster teacher gave
him a scarf when his graduation
from high school neared, and this
became the symbol of his slavery
and misery. He knows he is some
what abnormal when the scarf,
which had once been used in an
effort to kill him, becomes a lethal
weapon in his own hands; and, only
after he has killed three women
with it and tried to kill a fourth,
does he admit to himself that he is
a ease"
Throughout this story Of a be-
wildered mans rise as an author
of books about women, runs a
thread of hate for women until, like
Mr.. Hyde, he. finds it too late to
respond to loves healing balm. It
is a f1xation difficult to understand,
but how scarf could stand up
under SO much wear and tear is
even harder to understand.
Our crazy author even cracks the
script circles in Hollywood before
be breaks under his unclean, un-
controllable nature. A psychiatrist,
ex-husband of his third victim, dogs
Dan to the coast and prevents him
from numbering. the girl they both
love. ~
Rather murky throughout. But
students of abnormal behavior and
those who just like to read about
such characters will be entertained.
Readers will detect many Huck-
sterism in this novel dealing with
the human side of writer's, agents
and publishers.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

THE COMPLETE PROPHECIES
OF NOSTRADAMUS, edited by
Henry G. Roberts Grown Publish
ers). All the prophetic verses of
the famous 18th century mystic,
with the original French text, a
new translation and the editors
interpretations. .-
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Here's a New South Sea Adventurer
To Accompany Crusoe and Crichton
THE LEDGER OF LYING DOG
BY William George Weekley. Doubleday & Co.; s.
Reviewed hv NARY McCR0Pv

Reviewed by MARY McGRORY.
William George Weekley during
late war was member of car pool probably the only who
passed the time waiting for his ride writing novel
going to be awy glad he did, for
kind OF tale of shpwreck survival that
readers far from humidity related
crack branch open
on Is the only of return civilization.
Purportedy the daily journal kept in shorthand
New Zeaander Colby
crammed with enough violent action suspense
satisfy the most demanding young aspiring
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Philip Toynbee
Presents Novel
7oGive YouPouse
PROTHALAMIUM

BY Philip Toynbee. Doubleday,
s2.50.)
It's easy to dismiss with heavy
sarcasm any experimental piece 'o1
writing, or, for that matter, ar
expression of any art so novel ir
Evening star., 1947-08-17

BLIND ALLEY, by Georges ST.
menon. Reynal & Hitchcock Ex-
citement among refugees in early
World War II days.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Horvord's S President
Looks at Science

ON UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE
BY James B. Conant. yale UNI
versity PreSs.)
Evening star., 1947-08-17
mr.. BemeImons Writes q Gentle
Satire About the Movie Game
DIRTY EDDIE

FDlNTY EDDIE
BY Ludwig Bemelmans. (The Viking Press, s275j
Reviewed by IRVING SHULMAN.
Author OF "The An.bou Dukes"
Evening star., 1947-08-17
For Students of.
Abnormal Behavior

IdE SCARF
BY Robert Bloch. (Dial Press;
$2.50.)
Evening star., 1947-08-17

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Evening star., 1947-02-23
Poee 10

Six young udyenturers ore
reody to moke their second
ottempt ot logging 9 four
months Caribbean cruise ID q
Two fnosted schooner. The first
try foiIed when the ship wos
damaged il a squoli. The 65
foot boat. built for rddio
nnognote Atwoter Kent IN 1923
ond used By the Coast Guard
during World War II. wos
bought BY two Of the youths
at a Wor Assets sole.
Arkansas State press., 1947-02-21

lernon Hudson of Chicago, Is the
quest of his aunt, Mrs. Emma Erwin
md family. =. Mrs. Maud Erwin has
eturned to Nashville, Tenn. after
spendilg an extended vacation here
with relatives and friends. We
III regret the passing of Mrs. Jane
Ridple who died February 5th.
She leaves to mourn her passing
two daughters, Mrs Emma Erwin
o, Wilmar, Mrs. Ora Robertson Of
Dermot, and lNo sons, Everett Rid.
gle Of Wilmar and James Ridgle
Of Monticello. She leaves also
LweEty.seven grandchildren, twenty
six great grand chi dern and "A host
Of ra'atives and friends. She died at
the ripe age Of 81, Stewardess
Board Mol sponsored a tea party
at the church cafeteria February
10th. Mrs. Queenie lamb, president.
Mrs. Elnora Hayden and Miss
Cleanthis Eatmon made business
trip to Warren last Saturday Mrs.
Hayden is residing with Mrs. Della
Ec tmon
WEST POINT
Arkansas State press., 1947-02-21

Mrs. w. Whitfield. President, Mrs
)eanie Hicks. Seey,, Mrs Nettle
Young, Treasurer. Mrs. A Clay.
,orne, Vice President, Mrs Grace
tones. Assistant Secretary, Mrs. G.
A. Alexander, chaplain.
ocie Lee Smith, II. w. Ifspy'
Mesdames A%lgerena Neal, Georgia
zee, Loreda Johnson, and Marjorie
Walste'n assisted the inmates OF
he Veteran Facility with Eingo
Thursday, February Il, 0cie Lee
smith led in group singing.
On Sunday afto5noon. February
18th, a Neiehborhood Council was
organized at the residence OF Mrs
sadye Thompson, 1873 State st,
The council is composed of repre-
sent'ves from Neighborhood Clubs
fhe following officers were elected
Mrs. II, r. Jackson, President, Mrs.
Joseph ne Hardin, Vice President,
Mrs, w Whitfield, Secretary. Mrs.
Carolyn Dean, Assistant Secretary,
Mrs. Velma Derrick, Chap ain.
The cub will meet Wednesday,
February 26 to make plans for a
project.