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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, February 25, 1962 Poetry Fable Hits Note Of Perfection Novelist Recreates Medieval Era The IJly and the I.lon. by Maurice Druon. Translated by Humphrey Hare. Charles Scribners Sons, New York. $1.50. The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice An Homeric Fable by George Martin, Illustrated by Fred Gwynne. Dodd, Mead A Co., New York, $3.50. Here hangs a tale as timely now as three centuries after Homer when some unknown Greek poet parodied the Iliad In The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice." Part of George Martins version is a translation of the older poem from The Incident to The Arming, when he takes departure. In the finest classical tradition, line by line of best blank verse, dignified and moral, the tale moves inexorably from the accidental drowning of Crum-snatchby King Puff-jato the death of the r mighty heroes and Troglodyte slain by each others hand. j Ends In Stalemate The battle ends in a stalemate for both Frogs-an- d fi.Mice. In its straight-facedelity of mood and tone, the ppem jnakes even frog-poncarnage frightful. As Martin observes in a note, these frogs and mice are Athenian and therefore oratorical. Not a little of the charm of the tale is the absence of It is unmarred by a single smirk. The satire of the is artfully and successfully projected and reinforced on every page by Fred Gwynnes illustrations of frog and mouse in large but not too burlesqued attitudes. On the end papers of this handsome little volume, mouse and frog heroes posture on Greek vases in keeping with the dignified format. Discreet Smile Martins discreet smile shines from the thunder-rol- l call of names, of Cabbage-eater- , Pond-Larke- Artists of gTace and prevision perform in Les Ballets Janine Charrat de France, due I in Logan, Salt Lake performances. Prima ballerina Lily Eeyers leads the company. Ballet Troupe To Perform Twice in Utah Laissez Faire Les Ballets Janine Char-ra- t de France is scheduled for two performances in Utah. They will appear in Logan at Nelson Fieldhouse on the Utah State University campus Thursday at 8:15 p.m. as the next attraction of the Utah State Genevieve, on tour, is causing eyebrows to lift in more than polite surprise. It has nothing to do with her performance, it's just that is still in the her act, and his present wife is traveling with the happy group as some kind of aide, columnist Dorothy Kilgallen commented recently. Salt Lake audiences will have an opportunity to view Civic Music Association series, and in Salt Lake Friday at 8:15 p.m. in the Highland High School Auditorium under the auspices of the Civic Music University-Cach- e Genevieve Troupe Includes Former Spouse, New Wife T if) - Association. Janine Charrat, French ballerina and choreographer, received extensive bums while filming a ballet in a Paris television studio recently and as a result of the accident, has cancelled this seasons appearance with her ballet company. Lily Reyers, international star and prima ballerina of the Marquis de Cuevas Company will appear in Mile. Charrats place, as guest artist of the company. Miss Reyers, one of the top ballerinas of Europe,, began the study of ballet at the age of nine with Madame Julie Sedowa, former prima ballerina of the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburg. At the age of 14 she made her debut at the Opera of third-degre- Nice," whereshp--stibseqen- 4 f ( Jr e Genevieve . . . French zany and troupe due Saturday. Engineer-Travele- the happy family when From Paris With Love, Genevieves new revue appears at the Terrace, Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Genevieve, established as one of the bright new stars on the night club, television and summer theatre scenes, will sing, dance and act, in English as well as her native French, and will be surrounded by a company of her own choosing. Don Driver, writer and director of the show which was especially written to provide the widest latitude for its star and her cohorts, describes the revue as organized insanity. The production surrounds Genevieve with an atmosphere that is conducive to her multiple talents, calling upon her to not only exercise her noted vocal ablities, but also her flair for comedy in several sketches. Musically, the production will travel from the bistros of Montmartre to the levees of Mississippi, with samples .of melodies that Genevieve has brought with her to these shores and also those she discovered here which have become a part of her repertoire. . to Offer r FilmLectureonVenezuela t- ly became Premiere Dans-euse- . She also studied with Gerard Mulys, Maitre de Ballet of the Paris Opera, to whom she is married. When she was 17 she was engaged by the Marquis de Cuevas and in a short time became prima ballerina of his company. Robert Auburn brings a film adventure Viva Venezuela! to Kingsbury Hall on Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. Three years in the making, r this documentary on a South American neighbor so recently in the headlines contrasts the sophisticated, beautiful coastal cities with the fabulous oil wells on Lake Maracaibo and the primitive, remote tribes of the plain and jungle. The program is on the University Travel Club series under auspices of U. of U. Extension Division. Also highlighted are the fantastic Angel Falls, a rodeo Venezuelan style, Devil Dancers, historic Ciudad Bolivar, an expedition into the Amazon basin, ultra modern Caracas, and the lost city of Nueva Cadiz, topped by a comic bullfight by the inimitable Mexican comedian Music Auditions Slated in March Dr. Frank W. Asper has announced the regional auditions, for admission to Rocky Ridge Music Center, will be held on Saturday, March 17 at 2 p.m. in Room 400 of the Music Building at the University of Utah. The Rocky Ridge Music Center, located near Estes Park, Colorado, is in its 20th year . of training talented young musicians. Students In Salt Lake City and the surrounding area may contact Dr. Asper for information regarding the auditions. gineer who turned to foreign travel, Robert Auburn has worked and toured in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. His most recent venture, a solo jeep trip down the Pan American highway through Central America resulted in a three-yea- r stay in Venezuela, during which he completed his film report in depth to be shown and personally narrated on Tuesday. large-in-sma- Cheese-Scoope- Mud man, Ham-gnawe- r Loud-croake- and the rest; in the parleys, the heralds, the assembling, the arming, the hosts bristling with slate swords and spears, peanut shell helmets and cabbage leaf shields. The poetry itself is impec cable. Spare and neat, everywhere fitted to purpose: pine-needl- e But "... so deserted. Crum-snatche- Struggled in vain, sank oft and with His sprawlings came afloat, breast up, Hands grasping the .air, but the water Weighting his fur washed over him, and At the last he cried Peepe and perished. Mouse or man, that is moving; as is also: on the shore Alone and in the dark lay Pond Larker Staring at the Heavens with open eyes As the driving rain cleansed his corpse. . . . "... In a world where poets and artists are dying out we are thankful to George Martin and Fred Gwynne for taking the time out of their busy lives to create this thimbleful of perfection. T.L. - Organ Society Meet The Hammond Organ Society of Salt Lake will meet Thursday at 8 p.m. at 3244 So. State St. Can-tinfla- s. graduate petroleum en RANCHO "42" LANES features WEEKEND BOWLING and MORNINGS BOWLING AFTERNOONS AT RANCHO Cameron Johns . . . Elected Utah Writers League chief. Utah League Of Writers -- IS FUN... RELAXING... FIGURE IMPROVING --El- ects Slate The League of Utah Writ- ers elected new officers at an officers and delegates meeting held at the Hotel Utah. The officers, elected for a r term, include Cameron Johns, president, Salt Lake City; Wimfied Jones, first vice president, Proo; Leora Larsen, speond vice president, Clearfield, and Bonnie . Emmertson, secretary-treasurer, Salt Lake City. The League of Utah Writers is a professional writers group with a membership of about 125 and local chapters in most of Utahs towns. "Its purpose," said Mr. Johns, is to stimulate the minds of the members and formulate ideas for creative writing. A yearly roundup of all the members will be held this year in Proo in September with the Provo chapter as host. two-yea- Altitude Cue To Cooking The Complete Book of Donna Miller Hamilton and Beverly Anderson Sage Books, Denver; Ne-mir- 370 pp. $o.75. Even in this era of pre- and baked, packaged foods, the demand for cook books is lively and enduring. volume This attractive should be especially helpful to cooks of both sexes, professional and homemaker, In the high and wide Intermountain West. Longer Cooking 51ost people know that longer baking and other ..types Of cooking arere1 quired in higher altitudes, but they often dont know how much longer. More problems occur in baking than in mere cooking in high altitudes, the authors report. Altitudes covered by the recipes and special Instructions have a spread of 3,000 from 3,000 to 6,000 feet and for cooks who feet may not know how far above sea level they live, a list of high altitudp cities is provided with the adaptations recommended for the various levels. Recipes Tested Of the hundreds of recipes given, every one has been successfully tested and used ln high altitude conditions, the authors proclaim. Interestingly, neither author is a professional baker or home economist Both have a fashion and copywriting background, mainly with the Denver Dry Goods Company in the Mile High City. Both are long-timcollectors and testers of recipes, however, and both are mothers who do a great deal of baking for their children. The book is arranged so that every recipe appears upon a spread of pages as the book is open; the page need not be turned to complete a recipe. The index is complete. It makes one E.H.L. hungry. . Few historical novelists succeed in recreating the past. Most of them become too engrossed in love and action and their work Is historical" only in the sense that it is laid in another ora. Maurice Druon Is a brilliant exception. With this novel he brings to an end a senes dealing with the last of the Capetian kings and the first of the Valois dynasty. And though the characters are principally French, the English are also involved, for in the 14th century what happened on the continent often had Immediate effect on the other side of the channel. The year is 132. .Young Edward HI has just been crowned in York, though his mother and her lover, Mortimer, rule the fcajm. Ln France, Charles IVLhas died without an heir and his cousin, Philippe of Valois, has become king, ably assisted by that master of duplicity, Robert of Artois. Robert ls the principal character and the authors favorite. When Robert dies, as he must in keeping with historical fact, Druon breaks in on the narrative to remark that he is moved to sorrow. Robert, however, is only one of a dozen Impor C New York Tlme Servlc NEW YORK, Feb. 24 Herman Wouk, author of and The Caine Mutiny Marjorie Mormngstar, will have his newest and longest story published by Doubleday on June 1. Called Youngblood Hawke. it is an account of the life of a young American writer who goes from triumph to triumph in New Y'ork and Hollywood in the years after World War II. The novel, the June selection of tie Club, will be serialized in McCalls Magazine and appear in a condensed form in Readers Digest. Dark Labyrinth An American edition of a novel by Lawrence Durrell, which was published in England in 1945, will be issued by Dutton entitled The Dark Labyrinth. It tells about a grofip of Englishmen who take a Mediterranean cruise intended to provide them with mental peace but which results in their being trapped in a labyrinth on Crete. For some the labyrinth is the end of their voyage; for others it Is a way out. American Edition Peter Paris is the pseudonym of a young London who decided to start practice where he felt most needed in the Nicosia General Hospital In Cyprus. He was 30 on his arrival there in 1958 at the beginning of hostilities that ended in the island's independence from Britain. He wrote of his experiences in Tlie Impartial Knife, particularly of his efforts to keep alive the victims of both Turkish and Greek terrorists. The book was well received when It was published in England last year. An American edition will be issued by David LINES RANCHO "42" LANES Woman Airs" Boat. Saga In the Wake of the by Ann Davison. Little, Brown and Co. $4.95. Gemini, This Is a .quite delightful little (274' pages) book about, the further boating i i monoliths frame Avenue of Heroes Impressive ln Caracas, Included In adventure film slated Tuesday. man-mad- adventure. hare-braine- Bed Betlerd by Publlher Weekly) Fiction Fanny and Zooey, 3. D. Salinger. "The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone. "A Prologue to Love, Taylor Caldwell. , "Chairman of the Bored, Edward Streeter. Daughter of Silence, Morrlf (Compiled West. n "My Nlzer. Music Unit to Meet Life ln Court, Loul "The Making of the President, I960, Theodore H. White. "Living Free, Joy Adamson. Dr. "Calories Dont Count, The Junior Musical Arts Club will meet Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Wendell - Beck, 1563 Laird Ave. (1200 South). The program will be under direction of Mrs. Gabriel Della Piana and Mrs. Joseph B. Wlrthlin. Reissue Scheduled The late A. A. Milnes fantasy "Once on a Time, issued in England in 1917 and followed by art American edition in 1922, has been long out of print. The New York Graphic Society of Greenwich, Conn., will reissue It with new illustrations by Susan Perl. Coup D'Etat Six famous coups d'etat, three of which failed, are discussed by D. J. Goodspeed in The Conspirators. The author, a historian on the staff of Canadian Army e Headquarters, begins his with the successful conspiracy in Belgrade, 1903, in which King Alexander and Queen Draga were killed and the Karageorge dynasty took over. Other successful coups were the overthrow Herman Teller. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William Shlrer. "A Nation of Sheep, William Lederer. "ClUzen Hearst, W. A. Swan-berg. vbl-um- SPHERES OF GOLD DIAMONDS IN ORBIT SET IN A GLEN - $290 B. 150 C. 125 d. Prlcei plus tax lamplighter Sq uare W.t . e of the Kerensky government and Mussolini's march on Rome. The three failures were the Easter rebellion in Dublin in 1916, the attempt to overthrow Eberts socialist government In Germany, 1920, and the attempt on Hitlers life in 1944. Viking will publish the book. The Third Law C. Northcote Parkinson, author of Parkinsons Law and The Law and the Profits, has written a new book in which he reveals a Third Law. Called Inlaws and Outlaws, it delves into the making of the modem business executive and the secrets of business administration. Houghton Mifflin expects to publish the book in August Mary s Palace 641 s McKay. fiiMg W!Cif5&L No. Tempi adven--ture- of the English girl who was - the first and only woman to sail alone across the Atlantic. In this one, Miss Davison (married to an American just at' the start of the trip) traveled alone on a 6,000-mllvoyage through the inland waterways of the United States and Canada. Her route led from Miami up the Eastern Seaboard, across New York to the Great Lakes and around the Mackinac Straits into Lake Michigan. Thence she proceeded by the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans and back home across the Gulf of Mexico. It was a trip full of minor adventures, Interesting people and many frustrations such as bad weather and other handicaps. It speaks well for American hospitality and the acceptance of a lone woman on a rather Maurice Druon . , . Recreates medieval era In new novel. A- s1.00 - Trans-Atlanti- c OF GOLD 1:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. of a vanished era. And perhaps most effective of all is his handling of dialogue. Though there are no and zounds, prithees such stuff, no one would mistake the characters for modern men and women dressed in medieval costume. There Is plenty of violence, intrigue, rascality- of all kinds and, of course, love, but the episodes do not have the appearance of being manufactured to stimulate reader Interest, as is the case ln so many historical novels. Druon does everything well; the result is superb.1 TX phy--sicia- n HITE OWL BOWLING 3 and scores of minor ones all admirably drawn. The dynastic struggles and feudal rivalries of the 14th century are extremely complex, so much so that, were it not for Druons ability to untangle them, the reader might be frequently puzzled. 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