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At Last: Some Really Good Talk ION the Ar)

"On the Other Hand" which
could be lively reading pro-
viding she does not succumb
to the excess OF discretion
which marred her husbands
"reminiscences.
Also OF special interest to
local readers Is Edward
Lambs mo Lamb for the
Slaughter" a rather trucu-
lent backward look by the
Cleveland broadcasting mag
nate who was the subject,
and almost the victim. OF a
long. dreary inquiry by the
FEC In 1855.
Sylvia Ashton Warner, the
New zealander whose Spin
ster" was a sensation several
years ago. has described her
life as a Maori schoolteacher.
Margaret Bourke-White.
the great photographer, gives
us "Self-Portrait."
In the literary biography
class. there will be "Dostoev-
sky" by David Magarshack. a
countryman; and Lord
Byron's Wife" by Malcolm
Elwin who had access 10 the
Lovelace papers which are so
revealing about Annabella
Milbanke. the spoiled. self
righteous heiress who hoped,
but not for long. 10 tame
Byron; also MY Brother
Bill" "reminiscences OF Nobel
Prize-winning author william
Faulkner by his brother John.
Evening star., 1963-03-10
THE PRODIGALs. BY Petru
Dumitriu. (Panth on;
$4.95)

THE PRODIGALS. BY Petru
Dumitriu. pantheon;
S4.95.)
Romania, like so many
other small, nearly forgotten
countries which do not splash
themselves across the worlds
consciousness through inter-
national imbroglios, would
hardly be expected to be the
breeding ground for much of
literary Importance.
A work such as this great,
rambling bear of a historical
novel, however. proves again
that the unexpected d does
h happen in literature, and
that the unexpected can even
be quite good. This, the sec
ond volume in a trilogy en-
titled "The Boyars, is not
only the fictionalized history
Of a stepchild country skill
fully told, it is also the art
full study of decadence, the
age which produced it and
the people destroyed by it. 1t
is an important book, be-
cause it provides insight into
an age and a people now lit
tie understood. and because
1t is a work of art.
Mr.. Dumitriu, who in 1861
made his escape to the Free
World from his now Commu-
mist homeland, has produced
a striking book. 1t is powerful
In its nearly overwhelming
historical detail and the
depth with which the author
treats his characters as they
Evening star., 1963-03-10

and finished manuscript, Mr..
Deiss begged down. The his
torical passages do not come
alive. the battles are not WV
idly portrayed, the love
scenes are skimpy, Federico's
wives are carbons Of the
originals. so are his mis-
tresses. The dialogue is limp.
1t is a case where Federico
might have Jared better be-
tween the covers of a BIZ
ography. rather than in a
dull novel.
However, perhaps some
producer Of film epics will
save the day for Mr.. Deiss
through ample use of wide
screen and color. Mr.. Charl-
ton Heston might play Fed
emco. However, Mr.. Frank ST.
natra would not make a con-
vincing Francis Of Assist.
WALTER HACKETT.
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those days, and later, that
the Nephilim appeared on
earth-after the divine beings
had consorted with the
daughters of man, who bore
them sons. They were the
heroes Of old, the men Of re-
nown." The King James ver-
sion puts it:
And it came to pass, when
men began to multiply on the
face Of the earth, and daugh-
ters were born unto them,
that the sons of God saw the
daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took
them wives Of all which they
chose. And the Lord said, NV
spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he also Is
flesh: yet his days shall be
an hundred and twenty
years There were giants in
the earth in those days; and
also after that, when the sons
OF God came in unto the
daughters Of men, and they
bare children to them, the
same became mighty men
which were Of old, men Of
renown."
The present translators
note that the Hebrew for
shield" is obscure. 1t is curl
Gus that they did not use,
given their choice, the much
stronger strive" of the Au-
thorized Version. But in a
much larger sense it is more
curious and very sad that the
three great religions that
hold the Old Testament sa-
cred do not join in encour-
aging their children to make
the King James version a
part Of themselves. Jew, Prot
estant and Catholic have
testified that the language Of
this book is a cultural in
heritance equal to the gift of
Shakespeare. New transla-
tions Of the Bible are of the
greatest Importance in ex-
planning puns and other lin
guistic peculiarities of He
brew and Greek, but none
has been comparable to the
King. James as literature.
That the churches should
share their beliefs and dog
mas is a matter for the
priests and rabbis; they
should, however, share their
greatest inheritance in its
most glorious dress, precisely
as they share the name
God"
Evening star., 1963-03-10
A CRIME OF HONOR. BY

A CRIME OF HONOR. By
Giovanni Arpino. Brazil
Ter; $4)
In 1862 "The Novice" by
Arpino was a memorable ad-
dition to the years fiction.
The authors new novel ex-
plores a theme far different
from that moving love story:
The appalling age-old tradi-
ton that binds an educated,
Goth century man to personal
concepts of honor that are
disastrous as well as
spurious.
Ga etano Castiglia, an
American-educated doctor, is
one of the wealthiest and
most respected men in the
town. When he falls in love
with Sabina, a waitress in
the local tavern. he deter
mines, against strong ma
ternal advice, to marry the
luckless girl and undertake
her transformation into q
lady. On his Neapolitan hon.
eymoon the doctor is rudely
awakened from his Pygmalion
dream when he discovers that
his wife is not a virgin. By
the end of a narrowing night
the civilized and scientific
DR.. Castiglia is a man so
obsessed by primitive hate
that nothing short of two
brutal murders can satisfy his
lust for revenge.
The cleverest defense coun-
sci in Naples, hired by the
doctors mother, is fascinated
Evening star., 1963-03-10
BY MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

For those who complain
that ours is a one-subject
town, there is good news.
Radio Station WGMS and
the New American Library
have gotten together TO pre-
sent a series Of interviews
with authors called "The
Writer Speaks"
They are being aired every
Monday night at 8:35 through
May 20 and a study Of the
transcripts proves them 10 be
great fun. especially for those
who have long since wearied
Of endless discussions Of Sem
ator Goldwater's presidential
prospects.
The authors speaking In
clude Ian Fleming. c. p. Snow,
Theodore H. White. James
Jones. Norman Mailer. Gore
Vidal, Anne Fremantle. VIII
liam Styron and McKinlay
Kantor.
Theodore II. White, author
OF Making OF the President"
turns out 10 be the most
articulate Of the authors. and
contributes an excellent de-
scription OF the contrast
between the two types OF
writing at which he has had
brilliant success:
I'm non-fiction. you weave
from complication 10 sim
plicity. and In fiction you
Evening star., 1963-03-10
Romonion Author
Receives High Praise

live that history. Mr.. Dumi-
triu has taken a subject
which could break many writ
ers, and spread it across the
pages of his novel with per-
ception, acute observation
and compass ssion. From a
youths first awareness of the
decadence around him,
throughout his life in his re-
latiopships with a dying aris-
tocracy, to his own drown
ing in that decadence, Mr..
Dumitriu demonstrates a
power and skill that could
give him place among the
immortals.
THE Prodigals" is a book
covering a whole nation, a
changing world, and the in
dividuals of that world with
a magnificence this reviewer
has never seen in a his
torical novel. Mr.. Dumitriu
is not a busy-work writer
who loses time on the heavy
preachments about a dying
age that his Western Euro
pean cousins fall prey to. His
characters live. their time
lives, and Mr.. Dumitriu's OBJ
Servations, his point, tram
scends the restrictions of the
age he has chosen for the
vehicle of his work.
The 38-year-old writer
roams from drawing room to
battlefield. through thwarted
revolutions and needless
waste of effort and lives.
using first one character and
then another, their lives
woven together by the i'm
pending catastrophe which is
sure to sweep them up. The
catastrophe. Nazism, finally
comes to the physical world,
and the characters of the
novel are swept away in the
tide. But Mr.. Dumitriu makes
1t clear they are swept away
because they are already
morally dead. not because
their time is finally over and
their age past.
Mr.. Dumitriu's escape,
aside from its political con-
notations. is an especially
important one for the Free
World. for now the greatness
sown In his native land can
be reaped throughout the
West.
JAMES LEE.
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In the offing

A quick tour Of the spring
catalogues indicates that the
most provocative books Of
the coming season will be In
the memoirs and biography
class.
For instance. Rachel
Adams. wife Of Presidential
Assistant Sherman Adams,
has told her life story in
Evening star., 1963-03-10


The former is a superlative
novelette,, showing the ac-
curacy of perception of up
dixie without his tendency to
diffuseness of plot, the ear
Tor speech of early Salinger,
but one not tuned only to
the talk Of adolescents, the
easy casualness of O'Hara
without his Imprisonment in
the mold Of the stereotype.
The last non-fiction pieces
are "The Muses. Are Heard"
and "A House on the
Heights" (the latter a bril-
liant picture of Brooklyn
Heights. They are both fine
examples of creative but nom
reporting, and are
probably the despair of most
professionals.
Breakfast at Tiffany's"
= Is classical in its structure;
In clearness Of outline and
IN the animation of its story
1t would serve Fielding or
Cervantes as an Interpolation
into one of their epic novels.
1t is remarkable in introduce
ing within less than a hun
dred pages a large number of
people every one of whom
is a genuine characteristic
bartender and Madame Sap
phia Spanella. who scarcely
appear at all, no less than
Fred" Holly, and Mag Wild
wood, who are the leading
Evening star., 1963-03-10
Recalling the Thrill
Of Living on the PTS

physical problems Of life on
the boats. Poor food and
primitive lodgings ashore
were often the rule.
The mechanical difficult
ties on the boats also were
sizable--such things as get
ting temperamental avia-
tion-type engines to operate
on gas from rusty drums,
getting boats into dry-docks
to remove speed choking
growths Of algae from their
bottoms, trying to get some
speed (anything over 25
knots) out of a boat loaded
down with heavy shielding
or extra guns and ammuni-
ton.
In fairness, the author
states at one point: TOP
speed under ideal conditions
was 43 knots. Conditions were
seldom ideal"
We'd have said never
ideal"
Old Navy SuspiciOnS
We were glad to see the
author repeatedly mention
the poor communications
between PTS and other
commands" Several friendly
boats. planes and ships were
lost in combat for this sense
less reason. We would place
at least part Of the blame on
the Old Navy types who were
suspicious Of our boats and
on the West Point tradition
that got in the way of closer
cooperation between the Air
Force and the Navy.
In summary: A book with
a great deal Of unpublished
details as to who fought
where but a book still lack
ing in the flavor" of the
life led by this hardy group
of volunteers.
PAT MUNROE.
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actors. Too, the technique Of
the flashback has never been
more happily employed - it
is difficult to imagine how
the author could have held
in solution the volatile char
acter of Holly while he was
developing her features with
out showing her, enigmatic-
ally, perhaps falsely, but
memorably, as the model for
a hardly believable African
woodcarving.
Among the Paths to Eden"
is the product of the same
skill. but the subject-that
Of a spinster who frequents
cemeteries in search Of
mourning and susceptible
widowers - is less interest
ing. The best moment in this
story is the climax, the flash
of intuition in the mind of
the widower that yes, he will
marry again, despite his pre-
vious doubtful reflections,
and no, it will not be this
girl, however well she can
cook or however nostalgia
ally she can sing.
In his perceptive introduc-
ton to the collection, Mark
Schorer mentions Capote's
work-in-progress. 1t is called
I'm Cold Blood" and
we await it as a great ex-
pectation.
Evening star., 1963-03-10
Other Books of the Week in Brief

its origin and development
under Leopold and his sue
cessors, to their handing
over of the power to Pa
trice Lumumba.
CALIFORNIA. BY Keith
Monroe. (Dutton: S4.50)
An illustrated guide on how
to live, work and have fun
in the Golden State.
SWEDEN. BY Marten STEM
berger. Translated from the
Swedish by Alan Binns.
Edited by DR.. Glyn Daniel.
(Praeger: $6.95O A study
on the historical develop
ments Of Sweden. 1t is
volume thirty in the series
Ancient Peoples and
Places"
Evening star., 1963-03-10
Who Shot Huey?
A Backward Look
At All the Facts
THE HUEY LONG MURDER
CASE. BY Hermann B.
Deutsch. Doubleday g.
Co. S3.95.)

OAOSs BJ AL AAA0AAAA ~
Deutsch. Doubleday g.
Co.; $3.50
When Huey Long. the self
styled "Kingfish," was felled
by an assassin's bullet in
1885 a flamboyant political
career was brought to an
end and was replaced with
a mystery which deepened
with the passing years.
After nearly 80 years there
is still controversy, especially
in Louisiana, over whether
Carl Austin Weiss, young
Baton Rouge doctor, actually
fired the fatal shot before he
was killed by Huey's body
guards.
What motive there was for
the killing. If DR.. Weiss ac-
tually did it, long has been
a matter of speculation. Was
he acting patriotically in
carrying out the desperate
act Just when Senator Long
was preparing to challenge
the late Franklin d. Roosevelt
for the presidency, or was
there some hidden personal
motive for the act?
Mr.. DeutSch, a New Or
leans newspaperman who
knew the "Kingfish" well,
has explored all the pos
sibilities in this book of more
than passing interest. He ex-
amines in detail the question
of whether the fatal bullet
was one fired by Huey's
bodyguards and whether an
emergency operation per-
formed by one of Huey's doc
tor friends contributed to his
death.
Mr.. Deutsch comes UP with
logical explanations about
the murder and the reasons
for 1t which would be unfair
for the reader to disclose in
this review. He also raises
questions on matter for
which he has no answer:
What happened to the cam
paign fund, believed to total
more than 81 million, and
documents which Huey had
planned to use in his cam
paign for the presidency.
Some time before his death
he withdrew the funds and
documents from a Washing
ton bank. He died without
revealing where he left them
and no trace of them has
ever been found.
CECIL HOLLAND.
Evening star., 1963-03-10
ME PARTY. nv Rudl

THE PARTY. BY Rudolph
Won Abele. (Houghton Mif-
film Co.; $4.950
Enthusiastically modelling the
central figure of this novel
after the No. 2 man of Nazi
Germany, Marshal Hermann
Goring, the author takes us
to a chilling party in his
marshals Austrian chateau
in the waning days OF the
Third Reich. 1t is like a
visit to the House Of Usher
except that the disease is
concentrated in the minds
and spirits of the celebrants.
The real life German Air
Marshal is never mentioned,
nor is Hitler. In fact, the
author uses the Chaucer
technique of labelling most of
his characters the General,
the Businessman, the Com
mandant, the Chocolate Man,
etc. The hero, If there is one,
is Army Col. Steinbaum,
wounded on the Russian
front, Mortified by what the
Nazis are doing to the Jews
in the name Of racial purity
and on the verge of joining a
plot against the regime.
Seduction
The Colonel is invited to
attend the party and goes
most reluctantly, being a
weak man who has a name
less dread of the Marshal. In
turn, the obese, flatulent
Marshal takes an immediate
interest in the Colonel, prob
ing his mind, his past and
his present for flaws. The
Marshal, in the process, re-
veals himself as a ruthless
man, thirsting after power
for powers sake-a man who
loves being the boss simply
because it brings him women,
drink and food.
After a rather disastrous,
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Other authors have more
trouble formulating. Gore
Vidal. the silken satirist and
savage biographer Of Robert
Kennedy. discusses the de-
cline Of the novel with more
sense than syntax.
He says. for instance:
There is not one living
American writer with the pos
sible exception OF Salinaer
that anyone's interested in
what he writes next"
Evening star., 1963-03-10
THE MOSQUITO FLEET.

THE MOSQUITO FLEET.
BY Bern Heating. (Put-
nam; $4.95.)
This book is the first COM
prehensive collection Of
n a m IS, dates and places
where U, S. motor torpedo
boats were involved in ac-
ton in World War II. AS such
it will be Of great interest
to veterans Of the PIT Navy.
Having said that, we'd like
to go on to say that the
author, himself a veteran of
destroyer activities in the
Pacific, really misses the fla
vor of life in the PTS. The
dozen or so men on a boat
were really interdependent
like the crew of a large
bomber. It was a way of
life-an existence with fire.
quent overtones Of despara-
tion-which was unique.
Deserves Better
We'd also disagree with
the authors appraisal Of the
action in which President
Kennedy lost his PIT 109
("the naval battle which
has earned what is surely
the most exaggerated fame
Of all time for its impor-
tance").
The incident has blossom
ed (due to the prominence
of the boats skipper) into
two best-selling books and a
movie due for release this
summer. But even without
Mr.. Kennedy's current promi-
nence, we suspect an over
all history Of the PTS should
have treated the affair with
more sympathy and more
length than the four pages
accorded it.
We also wish the author
had dealt more with the
Evening star., 1963-03-10
Compelling Portrait
Of a Nozi Colonel

spur-of -the-moment chamois
hunt that evolves, the Colo
mel finds himself succumbing
to a strange seduction by
the Marshal's foul-talking
mistress, Leni, and then
stumbles off into the dawn
wondering what in the world
happened to him at the
Chateau.
Compelling Book
It is a strange book and, in
many scenes, a compelling
one. AS an insight into the
character of Goring, the re-
viewer is in no position to
comment. AS a look into the
soul Of a basically good man
confronted by all-powerful
evil, the book is sharp and
keen.
1t is with his window
dressing that Mr.. Won Adele,
an English teacher at Ameri-
can University, perplexes. It
would seem likely that he
would set his scenes with
German phrases and words
but instead, he lards them
with obscure expressions in
French and Latin. He puts
words in the mouths of his
characters and they may
speak that way If the author
wishes, but in his own in
termediate writing, why does
he say crise when crisis is
meant? Why a sentence like
this: HE remained emphat-
ically primus and not at all
inter pares." Pope John
XIII might we'll have trou-
BILE with such a passage. And
what about pudeur, mise en-
scene, arriviste, politesse,
and d'autre cote? They con-
tribute nothing to The
Party" and might make any
one but a linguist yawn, and
leave early.
JERRY OLEARY, JR.
Evening star., 1963-03-10

badly hurt by reviews of her
first, 20 years agrowing
novel, ship OF Fools" Miss
Porter was dismayed that
while many critics admired
her book. nobody liked 1t.
She Cancelled a scheduled
appearance at the Library OF
Congress and went off to
Italy TO think II over.
Evening star., 1963-03-10
Mormon Mailer

Norman Mailer. author Of
THE Naked and the Dead"
and self-described "just a
routine club-fighter OF a
poet" trudges through yards
Of his own way-out verse.
and James Jones grimly de-
scribes the mean streak in
US all.
on March iS. the presi-
dents favorite thriller
writer Ian Fleming discusses
the differences between him
and his hero. James Bond.
Evening star., 1963-03-10
Anne FremontIe

Anne Fremantle contributes
q sparkling monologue about
famous knees on which she
has sat since her English
childhood.
Here is a typical line: "One
Of my earliest knees. not
literally because he didn't
like children and they didn't
like him. he looked like a
white slug and stammered
badly. one Of my earliest
knees was that, those Of
Henry James"
Evening star., 1963-03-10
NOW IN ENGLISH

THE SIN OF FATHER ANA
RO. BY Eca de Queiroz.
Translated by Nan Flana-
gan. (St. Martins; $3.50
A Portuguese novel, origi-
nally published in 1874,
about a priests seduction
OF a young and innocent
girl. This is the first Eng
lish printing.
Evening star., 1963-03-10
Good, Keen
GingoId Fun
On the Run
SIRENS SHOULD BE SEEN

SIRENS SHOULD BE SEEN
AND NOT HEARD. BY
Hermione Gingold. q. B.
Lippincott Co.; $3.95)
Hermione Gingold is a
funny woman. as millions Of
us have discovered via movie
and television screens. So it
should come as no surprise
that she also can write a
funny book. The surprise is
that Sirens Should Be Seen
and Not Heard" is not fun
nier. 1t is unfair, of course,
to expect her to match on
every page her classic OBJ
servation shortly after ar
irving in this country that
she thought it enchanting of
us to have put up that de-
lightful statue of Judith An
derson in New York harbor.
Short Pieces
This slim i176 pages)
volume is neither autobiog-
raphy nor a collection Of
memoirs. 1t is a careless as
Sortment of short humorous
pieces, a short story or two
and some random observa-
tions on Miss Gingold's life
and times. There's a delight
full tale land it doesn't mat
ter whether it's fact or fic-
tom about a wartime en-
counter with an unperturbed
fatalist named John Smith,
who contended that only a
bomb with your name on it
could affect you and you
couldn't hide from it. He
might have known that Ger
man bomber pilots had
taken to signing their bombs
in chalk, but how could he
have known one of them was
named Johann Schmidt?
Almost Hilarious
The other pieces are in
more comic vein. They are
not spectacularly comic,
though. and you wonder
what might hive happened
had this manuscript been
submitted to a publisher not
by Hermione Gingold but by
Johanna Schmidt, say. This
leads you to the key. If you
are familiar enough with
Miss Gingold to see and hear
her in your minds eye and
ear as you read, you can
have a fine time. Put to this
test, a line like Il was living
in London during the War,
and I met Mr.. Smith in an
air-raid shelter in Blooms
bury" can be almost hi
larious.
If you don't carry a pic
ture of Miss Gingold around
in your mind. though,
Sirens Should Be Seen and
Not Heard" is no proper in
PRODUCTION to her.
HARRY MACARTHUR.
Evening star., 1963-03-10
BOOKS IN REVIEW
AnthoIogyReveaIs
Capote's Growth
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic
SELECTED WRIT

! SELECTED WRITINGS OF TRUMAN CAPOTE. CRandom
House: $3.50
truman Capote has achieved two ends in publishing
OF ms best reportoral pieces and shorter fiction
produced in America since he date of the earliest
ana ne indicates by the fact that his latest pieces
are Ie pest that as an artist he is still the way up
Inc Two most recent pieces of fiction included are Break
last at Ifanys" Q958) and Among Paths Eden
Evening star., 1963-03-10
PAPERBAcKS

THE SCULPTURE OF AN
GENT MEXICO. BY Paul
Westheim. "a Doubleday
Anchor Book; $l.45.) A
richly illustrated account
of that fascinating art
printed both in English
and Spanish.
HOW TO GET AHEAD ON
YOUR JOB. BY Thomas
F. Station. PhD. "a Mac
fadden Book; so cents.)
Practical advice for climb
ing the earnings ladder.
PLEASE DON'T EAT THE
DAISIES. BY Jean Kerr. GA
Crest Book; IS cents) A
reprint Of this well-remem-
bered best-seller.
Evening star., 1963-03-10
GENERAL
GEOGRAPHY IN Y

GEOGRAPHY IN WORLD
SOCIETY: A COnceptuaI
Approach. BY Alfred H.
Meyer and John Strietel-
meier. q. B. Lippincott
Co.; SID An examination
Of the geographic frame
work in which our social,
economic and political sys-
TENS have evolved and a
provocative text book. Vol
ume in the Lippincott
geography series.
LEOPOLD TO LUMUSIBA:
A History Of the Belgian
G on G o, 1877-196O. BY
George Martelli. chapman
g. Hall; 30s.) The story Of
Belgian colonization from
Evening star., 1963-03-10
OFF to ltuIy

Friends Of Katherine Anne
Porter report that Washing
toms leading writer has fled
to Rome 10 regroup feelings