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Show Xlie Pulitzer Winner r. Parodies Aim Sharp Barbs thought of the original If burlesque is pouring new wine into old bottles, parody is making a new wine that tastes like the old but has a slightly lethal effect At its best it is a form of literary criticism. A few of the parodies included in this anthology are like the new wine, however. Fortunately, for readers like this reviewer, who cant seem to warm up to Max Beerbohm, Peter De Vries and Kenneth Tynan, or the parodies on their works, sn index is provided. And it was a delight to find Wolcott Gibbs famous parodic "profile of Henry Luce of Time, VM. The dust jacket blurb says this is the most comprehensive collection of parodies ever to appear in a single volume. No doubt It is; and It makes good reading. Included are parodies from English and American writings, some of them delightful some elusive. Before proceeding very far Into the volume this reviewer was moved to d Mr. Macdonalds definitions of a parody In his preface and appendix. The author, a staff writer Andrew Johnson Biography Tells of President on Trial Harrison H Salisbury, one of the foremost American experts on Russia, is slated to, lecture Monday at 8 pm Andrew Johnson: President on Trial, by Milton Lomask. Farrar,' Straus and Cudahy, New York, $6. ' i Soviet satellite countries of Eastern Europe and was the first American correspondent to visit Communist Albania. Juvenile Delinquent Report In America again he was assigned to investigate at first hand the problems of Juvenile delinquency and wrote a series of articles on teen-agstreet gangs in their hangouts, schools, and homes. From this study came his book, "The Shook-uGeneration. In 1959, Mr. Salisbury was again in the Soviet Union lor a new survey of condi- . tions there. The Adult Education lecture series includes 10 speakers still to come during the season. Unannounced previously are Ben Moreel, Salt Laker who became an admiral, and who will speak March 13, and actor Basil Rathbone who will speak April 24. Those who attend the full roster of speakers still remaining in the current season can receive a full hour of upper division credit at BYU, according to Roscoe Grover, program supervisor. Center-sp- onsored e p Utah Theater Week Playbox Sets Actors Live By Ad-Li- b In Instant Theater Classic Pygmalion University of Utahs play-boTheater will present a x By Richard O. Martin A form of theater, once known as commedia dell arte, Is back with us. But today, in keeping with of the times, for the New Yorker, says that Parody, front the Greek parodia . , . concentrates on the style and Parodies: Aa Anthology from Chaucer to Beer-bohand After. Edited by Dwight Macdonald. 874pp. Random House. Prize-winnin- fact-findin- g its called "instant theater." ou n d theater-in-the-- r per- formance of George Bernard Shaws classic comedy, "Pygmalion Jan. and Jan. 27 and 28 at 8:30 p.m. in Playbox Theater on U. of U. campus. Cast members will include Rashad Kamal as Henry Higgins, Edwin As tin as Col Pichering, Karl Eberhard Unte as Freddy Eynsford-Hill- , London Green as Alfred Doolittle and Richard Carter as A. Bystander. Jean Jory will play Eliza Doolittle, Geraldine Elliott will play Mrs. Eynsford-Hill- , Patricia Clawson will play CatherMiss Eynsford-Hill- , ine Laffin, Mrs. Higgins; Mary Nielson, Mrs. Pearce, and Linda Chandler will play a parlor maid. Director is Ralph Margetts. the slang 19-2- Commedia dell arte, which flourished during the Renaissance and even as late as the 1880s, used a written plot and quick-witteimprovisations to communicate . withJts audiences. .. there even a writisnt Today ten plot The Premise, New Yorks first theater of improvisation, opened Nov. 22. Its actors, who literally, liye by, their wits, supply their improvisations by acting out suggestions from the audience. I And according to reports re- I ceived the response has been Mr. Martin gratifying. The main commodity of The Premise is humorous satire something which' many theater people have been missing for too long. The actors ad lib their way through the evening on such topics as broken goldfish bowls, surly bus drivers and autumn leaves anything the audience may suggest And this approach makes each performance somewhat unique. Present Daily Newsreel-On- e of the most popular presentations involves a daily newsreel in which the players satirize the days news and newsmaking personalities. The whole business, of course, is a thoroughly inforRuss Potter, photographer mal approach to the theater art and it's not likely the show at The Premise will be invited from its Greenwich Vi- of travel film, India,1 Land llage bailiwick, to Broadway. But it is reassuring to know of the Spectacular, will nar-rat- e that such a group can make a commercial success of the the showing of the allfine art of satirical conversation.' color documentary for the Pantomime Performance Promising University Travel Club TuesFrom the reviews and advance publicity accorded deduced be day at 8:15 p.m. in Kingsthat can it Marcel Marceau, only everyone interested in theater should plan to see his Salt bury Hall on University of Lake City performance. Utah campus. He will appear at Kingsbury Hall Friday evening, The record of under auspices of the University Artists Series. cultures and the peoples of Pantomime is an art that has largely been ignored will India filmed M. Marceau and highlight French the in recent years except by Minto mind. Most Americans interviews Prime with come immediately Tati Jacques associate the form most intimately with Charles Chaplin. ister Jawaharlal Nehru, the And M. Marceau has been called . . . the greatest comic exiled Dalai Lama of Tibet, pantomimist since Chaplin by Richard Watts of the New the Indian philosopher N. Sri York Post. r Ram and the famed dancer Chandralekha. Harvey Playwright Writes Again Scenery will include the Mary Coyle Chase, the Denver playwright who created famous Taj Mahal, the tem"Harvey," has another show in rehearsal that is schedples and sculptures of uled for a January 26 opening in New York. the tropical The play is titled Midgie Purvis." Says Mrs. Chase: The play is the .result, of a lot of .thinking IVe done for. .Malabar Coastr the . Mogo women palaces and agriculture of several years about the problem of middle-agewhose children have left home and whose husbands are the Punjab. The film will give glimpses busy men.. But it isn't a problem play, heaven forbid! of the fabled cities of Delhi If "it doesnt turn out to be funny, were dead." Mrs. Chase has several Broadway credits In addition Bombay, Calcutta and Srina-ger- . to "Harvey. There were two flops, Now Youve Done It" T and then "The Next Half Hour. Her successes include Mr. Potter, who filmed the documentary only last gum "Mi. McThing, and Bemardine." d s, At 10 a.m. Saturday, April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson became Lincolns successor in the White House and began one of the stormiest and most tragic presidential careers in American history. - His problem was the South: How should the Federal Government handle the 11 Confederate states. Lincoln favored leniency, like Grants to Lee; Johnson was known to hate the southern aristocracy from close contacts with it in his Tennessee, and so could be supposed to favor severity; Congress was controlled by radical Repub licans who schemed to hold down southern whites, exalt the Negroes and get their own man into the presidency. Talked Too Freely When Johnson, an uncouth . man too fre in his talk but too honest for his foes, indeed for his friends, decided to follow Lincolns course, his enemies ganged up on him. They were a mean crowd and the American picture is much less deserving because of their blemish: Ben Wade, Charles Sumner, Benjamin F. Butler and, in the cabinet itself, untrustworthy Stanton. But the leader was Pennsylvanias Thad Stevens, and on Johnsons dismissal of Stanton, Stevens engineered proceedings. impeachment The move failed by one vote. Savage Attack Lomask turns the savage congressional attack, vindictive and unprincipled, with no holds barred, into a gripping drama. It makes us wonder whether our historians are not too lenient with some heroes. The Negro must inevitably have had a happier course with some , ! Plowright, Angela Lansburjr Lyceum; British drama of lonely glrla aearch for love; available. Ed Advlae and Consent Begley, Richard Klley; Cort; Washington political melodrama about fight over presidential appointment; popular, aoma available. ' t , Ah Evening with Mika tJIrh-ols- 1 and Elaine May" John Golden Theater; the two aatlrlatt In - , a drama critic whose wife writes plan ahead. Laurenct Olivier, "Becket't Anthony Quinn Royale'a historical drama of clash between Thomas Becket and Henry II; available. Chit Rivera, "Bye Bya Birdie Dick Van Dyke. Kay Medford; 54th Street; funny musical about troubles ot rock 'n roll singer and manager; available. Camelof Hugs Advance Camelot Richard Burton, e Julia Andrews; Majestic; musical based on King Arthur legend; huge advance, plan ahead. Choice Critic Henry Fonda Barrymora; dUemma of Lerner-Loew- .a: , bad plays; available. Do Ra Ml Phil Silver,. Nancy Walker; St. James; funny musical about a Juke box racket;' smash hit, plan ahead. Tlorello! Tom Bosley; Brodhurat; musical about early career of Florello LaGuardla in second year; available. Gypsy" Ethel Merman; Imperial; nostalgic musical of vaudeville-burlesqu- e days centering around Gypsy Rose Lee and mother; available. "Invitation to a March Ce- -, lest Holm; Music Box; sophisticated comedy of a glrl'i lov problem; avauable. riaa Fee lima "Irma La Douce Elizabeth ' , An American edition of "Christopher Syn, by Russell Thorndike and William Buchanan, was issued by Abelard-Schuma- n January 5. The story Is based on a legendary folk hero known to generations of Englishmen as the scarecrow. By day he was Dr. Syn, wise and gentle vicar; at night he led a band of smugglers across the Kentish Moors during the reign of King George HI. The career of Ivan Lyon, one of the least orthodox, most mysterious warriors of World War n, is the sub-jec- t of a new book by Brian Connell called "Return of the Tiger. Captain Lyon was a member of the Gordon highlanders stationed in Singapore before its capture by the Japanese. After its surrender he was determined to get revenge and .the British high command let him fight his own war. His exploits, one of which was the sinking. of almost 40,000 tons of Japanese shipping in one night, were so little known that even his record of army unit had no them. A. Buss Potter . . . Will narrate India travel film Tuesday. mer, will Investigate the life and problems of present, past and future India. SeaiPKelth Mich ell; Plymouth: musical of a Parisian cocotte's romance; capacity, plan ahead. My Fair Lady" Michael Pamela Charles; Hellln-gemusical of Shaw's "Pygma-lio- n In fourth year; available. "Period of Adjustment James Daly; Helen Hayei; Williams comedy of two couples In mirital trouble; available. "Send Me No Flower David Wayne; Atkinson; comedy of hypochondriac who thinks h la going to die; available. "Tenderloin Maurice Evans; 46th Street; musical of minister's campaign against sin and corruption In New York of 1890's; available. r: Ten-nei- s EH.L. A new novel by the 1959 winner of the Harper Prize' Novel contest, Robin White, will be issued Jan. 16 by Harper. Called - "Men and Angels, it, is about the son of a missionary who searches for his father, missing in India. Mr. Whites story was "Elephant Hill. prize-winnin- g My Hero, a new novel by Robert Carson, will be published by McGraw-Hil- l on Feb. 6. It is a story about a war hero who marries a beautiful temperamental heiress and of his efforts to be - independent of his wifes money and her family interests. Virginia Cowles, author 'of "Gay Monarch: The Lift and Pleasures of Edward VII, will have a new book Criticat Large . V t .7 i 14. n m nammAs Sm-- Walt Whitman Views War, Sees Shy, Homesick Boys By Brooks Atkinson New York Times Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 7 The real war will never get Into the books, Walt Whitman remarked about - the Civil War when he was still brooding over it a decade after General Lees surrender. In ."Walt Whitmans Civil War (Knopf), Walter has arranged In one volume the prose reports that Whitman set down about his days and nights in the hospitals and camps, together with Interludes of poetry. It Is as vivid as a personal letter written yesterday. It Is also a profound-- ' ly moving portrait of the agony of a Ration. No Glory, Excitement No glory; no excitement; no propaganda; very little moralizing or vindictiveness. To Whitman the clash of American against American was a painful human fact He saw the armies in the field, dragging their feet through mud or stifling in the dust, or amiably relaxing in improvised bivouacs between battles. - For three years, which undermined his health,' he saw thousands of young, lonely soldiers in hospitals that could seldom cope with lie broken masses that strag- Low-enfe- the national voluntary health organizations and their conflicts with local United Funds. Mr. Carter Is an experienced Journalist w h o makes his home in Ossining, New York. Decline The Fifty-yea- r and Fall of Hollywood," , by Ezra , Goodman,- - a - former Time magazine movie editor, will be issued by Simon & Schuster orf Jan.k 16, The author writes about film producers, directors, cameramen, cutters, casting directors, designers and stars of the present and past He also comments on press agents, columnists, trade papers, fan magazines, reviewers and restaurants. Great American poet Walt Whitmans view of the Civil War is found in his notebooks, which are vivid and profound. l, print Latest work will study Current Stage Hits Pack Full Houses ot aketchea; capacity, from Chaucer and Shakespeare through Lewis Car-rolBeerbohm, Benchley, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Walt. Whitman and Henry James. The parodies, with Air. Macdonalds running commentary, invite reflection on the nature and function of parody. And they furnish several evenings of fun. O New York Time Sorvica Broadway Box Score aerlea features the greaflarodist3 NEW YORK Richard Carter, author of the recent book, "The Doctor Business," has written a new book titled, The Gentle Legions under the Doubieday im- d a . New Book Takes Look At Health Fund Drives fast-movin- g NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (UPI) Current Broadway stage their leading attractions, players, theaters and ticket availability: Joan A Tail ot Honey .... Books in Brief . . Life, et al, which originally appeared in the Nov. 28, 1936 New Yorker. . , This creative distortion of Timestyle and caricature of the spirit of the Lucepapers remains almost as funny today aa 24 years ago when "Headman Luce and his handsome politician wife were less In the public eye. Sad to Say It is sad to acknowledge, however, that some of the sharpness o Gibbs critique is blunted because so many writers have newspaper adopted a form of Timestyle. Also tops for those who like their parodies contemporary are Oliver Jensens, The Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowese which was circulated widely in carbon and later mimeographed form three years ago. For good measure the author adds Mr. Eisenhowers West Point Address of June 5, 1960, which in some respects is more ehuckle-worththan the Jensen parody. Wide Scope The subtitle of the volume Indicates its wide scope. It y champion other than Stev-enwhose support of his black brother was utterly unscrupulous and whose political past in Pennsylvania was lurid with corruption and graft Grants superb generalship should not blind us to his failures as president nor, even earlier, to his under-hande- d toward behavior Johnson. Less indiscriminate idealizing of some of these characters might prepare us better for the present and could make some good books. U. of U. Travel Club Series To Present Film on India t, W13 From Chaucer to Eisenhowerese News Expert To Give News Views ' New Pulitzer York Times writer Harrison E. Salisbury,' whose Work appears regularly in The Salt Lake Tribune, will speak Monday at 8 pm. in Assembly Hall on Temple Square, sponsored by-- Brigham Young University's Adult Education Center in Salt Lake City. At 10 e.m. on Monday Mr. will speak in Salisbury George Albert Smith Field-hous- e on BYU campus in Provo. ' Mr. Salisbury, who covered the tax evasion trial of AI Capone and the assassination of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, was appointed London manager' of the United Press and director of European coverage in 1943. He covered the Teheran Conference of the Big Four and during 1944 . spent eight months inside Russia, traveling some 25,000 miles. Covers United Nations Returning to the United States he covered the inaugural conference of the United Nations at San Francisco and subsequent sessions until he joined the staff of the New York Times and served as correspondent in the Soviet Union for five years. After his return from the Moscow assignment, Mr. Salisbury wrote a series of articles for the Times titled, "Russia which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in foreign reporting during 1954. In the fall of 1957 Mr. Salisbury made a prolonged survey of the Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, January 8, 1961 , ls BJSJLh Richard Carter . . Publishes book on health volunteers. rtctiaa about British aristocracy published Feb. 1 by Harper. Called The Great Swindle," it is an account of Englands eighteenth century South Sea bubble that burst in the reign of Georgs the First The story of intrigue, fraud, chicanery and deceit involved many persons, among them royal mistresses, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, cabinet ministers and ladies of the bedchamber. "Museums directory of the United States and Canada, compiled under the direction of Erwin O. Christensen, will be issued next month by the American Association of Museums and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The reference book will Include art, history, science and special museums, art centers and associations, historic houses and historical societies. There also is Information on childrens museums, planetariums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and arboretums, college and university museums and libraries with collections and exhibitions other than books. Christensen recently retired as curator of the Index of American design and decorative arts at the National Gallery In Washington. Ernest Gann, the novelist, will have a work of nonfiction published Jan. 26 by Simon Schuster entitled "Fate is the Hunter." In it Mr. Gann tells of his experiences as a pilot and of the missiona he flew for the air transport command in World War II. & Madigan Tryouts Tryouts for the Ford Foundatiopre m i e r e performance of Thomas P., Cullinans "Madigans Wed-- ' ding will be Monday and Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. In Kingsbury Hall Play is scheduled to run from Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, directed by C. Lowell Lees. ADVISE AND CONSENT lan Drury. Al- - HAWAII Jamas Mlchanar. MISTRESS OF MELLYN Vic- toria Holt THE LEOPARD Gluiapp 41 Lampedusa. THE DEANS WATCH Elizabeth Goudge. THE LOVELY AMBITION Mary Ellen Chase. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Lee. John THE CHILD BUYER Hersey. DECISION AT DELPHI Helen Maclnnes. gled back from the battlefields. Over 50,000 of them were in hospitals in Washington at one time, according to a dispatch he wrote to the New York Times in February, n THE RISE AND FALL OF William THE THIRD REICH L. Shlrer. THE WASTE MAKERS Vane Packard. BORN FREE Joy Adamson. THE AMERICAN HERITAGE light McAfee Tryouts Tryouts for' Young Peoples Theater production of . HISTORY OF THE PICTURE CIVIL WAR Bruc Catton and editors ot Amerlcan.Herltage., THE BARUCH: PUBLIC YEARS Bernard M. Baruch. THE POLITICS OF THE UPHEAVAL Arthur Schlalnger Jr. THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES Jean Kerr. 1863. Homesick Soldiers To Whitman they were not cases or patients. They were, homesick boys, chiefly farmers and mechanics, who ex- -' pected little from anyone. One was "like some frightened, shy anlmaL Another "has a hard, sad, strangely deadened kind of look, as of one chilled for years in the cold and dark, where his good manly nature had so room to exercise itself. During the next four centennial years, it would be enlightening to keep In mind Whitmans grieved point of view. He applied it to the few "secesh boys he saw as well as those in the Union Army. For he believed, ho aid. ."Not in the breaking away of peoples but the coming together of peoples ever more and more the coming together." In matters touching on his professional career he could be prolix and pompous. He enjoyed the sensation of being a recognized man of letters as much as If he were an amateur. He was also a bit of an American firster. He had a higher regard for the native born than those who had foreign blood in their veins. Had Poefa Vision But put him in a bivouae or hospital, and the compassion that flowed out of him was quick, whole and noble.' There is no in anything he wrote about the soldiers; and this despite the fact that he always had the double vision of a poet While he was gazing at a battle he was also aware of 'the tone of the day, the texture of the foliage, the softness of the air or the bland color of moon- Allen Cooks "Mickey will Misadventures Tuesday .beMondajrvmd from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Kingsbury Hall Play will be presented Feb. 17 and 18 in Kingsbury Hall, directed by Vern Adlx. Me-.Ate- 'KINGS piano INVENTORY SPECIALS Galbwmaae jnd Othaia THIS WEEK 11. 6651? KIMBALL WURLITZER LIVINGSTON -O- $1,041.00 to $1,265.00 ORGANS! $00 THERS- up UP YOU'LL BF HAPPIER WITH A GULBRANSEN n-sponsored - J3 Oyaa Till ttSO R.m. p.m. Maaday Till t TERMS - MUSIC SHOP P1ANOS-ORGA- NS N. K. GALLACHER, Owner 2233 Sesilh 7th East ' ' |
