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Show Variety of New Books Opens Neiv Decade of Literature THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 19ot 1 Oai!y Herald 3A i i Famous Christmas Ballet i Had Basis in Fairy Tale By United Prts International, Lovey's world changes abrup- - Oh, how I suffer. He suffered Huey Lang by T. Harry tly when her father is thrown frjm unrequited kve from a horse and tilled. She ning at age 12), from contem- leaves boarding school, her porary blindness to his musical (Knopf, $12.50) to mother breaks genius, and from the erassness aeet ksbian affalrs A Lo ,0 fooIs- - Fe nve claimed S08" Kerns fated u, a dissolute' to suffer so much. Certainly than T exIsteDce enjoved it more. (begin-Wilkaaa- iJrSLi Wr,ST hv! i;tins nn SLtf'IS S better NEW YORK (ITI-T- he Nusskracker und der Mauskot Christmas ballet, the Nutcrack- nig." er Suite, is based on a French It will be presented in Provo interpretation of E. T. A. Uan. 9 and 10 at Brigham Hoffmans fairy tale, 4,Der Young University by Ballet West and Utah Symphony 'Harai In bis Memoirs he catalogued rescue Pbt's Hs aesthetic pains with iorth teJin "in TlUng ".swdid twists. He could record smacking relish There often is 'Visit of lip-dS- I t .. i . ?' ae aaae ana Oe reaaer suu emotional asouies but ntver would recognize the people: sallowing in self pity. Sufi'eripg wiKumes involved as basically decent, if, was a desirable state in bis aim view. It sharpened sensibilities.: iuiuiy wwutii, uut uouDiea, numan Beings is lascinating aa the same. Joan Hanautr (UPI) English language readers are What it lacks in grace and in Ciis translation of fortunate more it than makes up; polish, Talent to Amuse by a classic autobiography first iot in coionw Sheridan Morky. published in 1865. Previous (Doubledty ?895) translations were incomplete Snself i ful .1 Noel Coward, who is just a and clumsily done In compari- u t LUOU WUCI "L"C W ULU SUU. CtoW ,m. ik. I'nit is one of its most No other in the firmament of ntury, to outrieht tfctatw an . . . . . seen . , , , d u witx St. Nick' niiuami dook is wiunu. irreieara uidi SfofL? burg. It tells the story of one littl girl's unusual Christmas gift a nutcracker doll, which in her dream comes to life to lead an KZ Jl YORK (LTD-dem- ent Clarke Moore's classic poem, army of soldiers in a victorious d "A Visit from St. Nicholas," battle against the mouse-kinwas a special gift for his children who awaited the Transformed into a handsome arrival of gift bearing '"Santek-las- " prince, the nutcracker flies as Saint Nicholas was away with hei to the - land of the Sugar Plum Fairy- where called in 1821 On that Christmas Eve, while toys and sweetmeats join in one frolic to celebrate their fur the family's great .shopping romance. holiday turkey, Moore com It was not until 1844 that the posed what was destined to ballet was in its performed become or of the most famous in the United States in entirety the in poems English language. San Francisco. It was not until the following Since 1954. "The Nutcracker" year that the poem from the has been performed by the New imagination of this professor of Greek and Oriental literature ori Qty Ballet each Christ mas season. It is one of the was first published in the most cherished Christmas tra was titled: It ditions of the New York scene. "An Account of a Visit from Saint Nicholas," though it is far better known as " Twas the embossed In braille and recited Night Before Christmas." throughout (he Christmas sea It has been translated into son at home, on the staee. almost every foreign language,1 'radio screen and television. Was A Gift multi-heade- J , T KQt With a score bv Pfer t Tschaikovsky, fee ballet premiered Dec. 17. 1891. at thm Marinsky Theatre in St. Peter. g. of the preached his skills with the current entertainment world written word, the biting phrase.' the kan ma,ch against Hong's rchSjoSSp of afrestin8 m him? music little man was genuine and his Charlie ChaDlin and Orson crystal clear analysis. lt of the much to push Franklin D Welles rank with Coward as all-- ! Tie composer moviemakers. Bernard tic Symphony is d toward Social an incredibly fantastic and as Eugene O'Neill ity and other needed reforms in Shaw, ;others outmatched him as character. It is not accurale to caU him . uJfiiavwririit. AS!!K.!r Rut hnw manvi . ine mosi surprising oi uic.r j o No Romantic. label vet a g novels or hit songs Williams revealed new facts by devised fits him. He was an have Ciese gentlemen assassinated? but killed by aduced? And what have they .Original, as man, lover, composer stray bullet fired by his body was a nlmseu' cuards when thev thought he Sheridan Morlev's biographv "J? THE TOSSED AND TUMBLED LOOK of a mane, an effect gained bv adding- man. and a great of the master overlooks few v.as being attacked. various hair pieces to natural hair, is pre; sented as a forecast of the look for Delos Smith (UPI) details of his professional life, Thomas Powers (I'Pl) .the 70s. (IJerald-UP- I Telephoto) although some personal insights U.S.S.R. the in Opposition Philadel-phians are missing. Lovely Guides: A 7 by Roland Gaucher. Story by John O'Hara. The current state of anti Morley, son of actor Robert (Funk & Wagnalls, S10) Dame of and action can be told onlv Soviet wi-tail grandson House, Money TinHnn TOWN SHOP, 168 W. Center . . . COLLEGE SHOP 461 N. $5.95) (Random it 9 University Ave. , Tee-n'Hora ! aiwave likpd waays cooper, nas ne&iea ouiartv ,mnm!t triH by the ruemnn and the to write about sex but he was;the official record with extorts to end an argument about the espionage groups, i.iis prax Soviet Union bv saying: "Well, deals wiin ine Known ups oi we K .r infnffn'itiAii irotx-." triAii'p qnH "" , C whatever vou sav. we have i"51 rceueiga. might have been the central irom more man iw oi uis established a svstem that has It is a melancholy affair, in force in his novels h . iniororf n other suujctia tvmciupuioirca and lasted more than half a the authors mmd, the good associates, .close Those sexual than guys have yet to win. relationships. century." A Talent to Amuse is a fact-o-f Yes," replied his critic, "but A warning for the objective beautifully evoked Americans! War II have never filled account of a remarkably you still jail poets." wader: in his hunt for anu such nasty full life which should give the This is a book of poets and Soviet action, the author has to been put man who lived it cause for others who have defied Commu listed some admittedly doubtful perversions as they are in his pride. nist rule. It is not a hapf y list. tales. latest book. tabulation among the There are the "white forces And this is precisely the fault A Richard H. Growald (I'PI) After-Christm- as with a generally absorbing appendices lists Coward's cre- which struggled for more than book. The characters are so dits from his first public a decade against Bolshevism. neatly and fully drawn that the appeal ance in 1907 (he was not 'There were the Ukrain'an AFFLUENT FORTY-FIVER- S reader wants to know more quite 8) to 1968, the last year guerrillas and those from other of about their activities than the for which returns are in. It s an areas who tried, at the end of Americans over 45 years of U. S. World War n, to remain aloof age spend some 50 oddities they practice in the imposing record. dollars. Thev have greater in from the Kremlin. bedroom. Doug Anderson (UPI) available for discretion come Childs is the were There the daughter Lovey priests, poets, Hector writers, clerks and soldiers iho ary spending since children no of of a wealthy, horsey fader and The Memoirs rather distant, refined moher. Berlioz newly translated from did more than think "no." They loneer live at home and the included British-finance- d Both parents have been unfaith- the French bv David Cairns. soies mortgage is eliminated or reful to each other, though not in! (Knopf, $12.50) and Western - based emigre duced. 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