Evening star., 1955-02-13

Walter Kerr. who is now
drama critic of the New York
Herald Tribune.
Biography this season will
have a strong theatrical
flavor. No less than two books
are dedicated to the PROPOSE
ton that Shakespeare did not
write Shakespeare's plays, an
old argument that never kept
anyone from enjoying them.
One is "The Murder Of the
Man Who Was Shakespeare"
by Calvin Hoffman; the other.
"The Renaissance Man of
England" by Dorothy and
Charlton Ogburn.
Green Room Memories
No possibility of mistaken
identity, however will figure in
the following green room
m e moirs: Memories" by
Ethel Barrymore, Sunshine
and Shadow" by Mary Pick
ford; "Laurette" (Taylor), by
her daughter, Marguerite
Courtney; "The Man in the
Silk Hat" oscar Hammer
stein u. by Vincent Sheean;
"Garbo," by John Bainbridge;
"Verdi"; by T. R. Ybarra, and
"Verdi: The Man and His
Music" by Carlo Gatti.
Boswell again speaks for
himself in Boswell in the
Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica,
France"
Two short-term residents of
the Capital, with perhaps not
the happiest memories of their
time here, have told their
stories: Newbold Morris in
"Let the Chips Fall" and Mar
tin Merson, hapiess aide to
former propaganda chief Rob-
ert johnson, in "The Private
Diary of a Public Servant"
Another controversial public
figure, artist Rockwell Kent,
takes a backward look in Its
Me, o Lord" and prize fighter
Rocky Graziano does the same
in Somebody Up There Likes
Me-" In Waterfront Priest"
Allen Raymond tells the story
of Father Corridan, Jesuit
friend of the longshoremen.
"The Moth and the Star" by
Aileen Pippett is a biography
of Virginia Woolf, and the first
biography of Booth Harrington
has been written by James
Woodruff.
Current Affairs
In current affairs, Rebecca
West is speaking again. in "A
Train of Powder" six essays on
contemporary troubles. Murray
Kempton's part of Our Time"
considers some ruins and
monuments of the '30s.
"The Passionate State" offers
some aphorisms and epigrams
by Eric Hoffler, author of "The
True Believer" "The Fall of
France" by Maj. Gen. Sir
Edward Spears, continues q
chronicle ably began in "As-
signment to Catastrophe"
Gordon Clapp contributes a
study Of a project he knows
well, "The iva" .
Fiction is running heavily to
the historical. A 25-year-old
novel by H. F. M. Prescott,
author of the incompatible
"Man on a Donkey" comes in
May. It is set in 18th century
England and entitled, "The
Unhurrying Chase" other
entries: "Raquel," by Lion
Feuchtwanger; Hannibal of
Carthage" by Marie M. Dolan,
and "The Twelve Pictures" by
Edith Simon, she Of "The
Golden Hand"
Contemporary Themes
On contemporary themes,
the following: Faithful Are
the Wounds" by May Sarton,
a study of the difference be-
tween disloyalty and dissent,
as exemplified by a college
professor; "Tongue of Fire."
by Ernest Frankel, the story of
a Red-hunting Congressman;
Excelsior" by Paul Hyde
Bonner; "The Seagull on the
Step" by Kay Boyle; "The Ge-
MUS and the Goddess" by Al
dous Huxley; "The Persistent
Image" by Gladys Schmitt,
and for comedy relief, "The
Train ON Track Six" by James
Thurber.
An English import, fes-
tooned with advance praise, is
Rough Winds of May" by
Nancy Hallinan. Also from
England, "The Hidden River"
by Storm Jameson; "Not Hon.
or More" by Joyce Cary and
Laugh Till You Cry" by Wolf
Mankowitz, author Of the en-
gaging "A Kid for Two FAR
things"
Eudora Welty, briefly de-
serting Dixie, is represented in
the short-story field with "The
Bride of the Innisfallen,"
which has stories of Ireland
and Italy.
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