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Show "rr-- r Trr s r X , Observations i ol tbe Stars Collect Cities Ji Two' hard-workin- visitors to Utah for the next two weeks are Harry Hickox and Joan Wel-jdo- n -stars of the University Utah of Summer Festival t production of "The Music Man.. This is Joan Weldon's first .trip to Utah. Harry Hickox, , who has frequently been in Utah on both business and pleasure, calls Salt Lake one ot,his favorite cities.- - Since theatre USA is not limited to Broadway and Hollywood, today's stars of the theatre travel widely to' fulfill their varied engagements. Both Joan Weldon and Harry - Hickox are, authorities on the subject of "see America rfirst Their reactions to s of this country give fascinating insights not only into the character of the cities but of the stars themselves. 4 i v- New York if. Hickox: New York is . the- cleanest, the dirtiest, the the prettiest), the ugliest friendliest, the unfriendliest. The liveliest, the deadest; the most cosmopolitan, the hicki-- . ?st, the most cultured -. . the most decadent The most ' progressive, the most backward city in the world. -- Weldon (giving the lie to ,JLam i n i n e verbosity) : "Its - electric. ; ; Chicago Weldon: Devilish! Hickox: "Noisy . . dirty . . . hot in summer . . . cold . lrt winter .. . . crooked and evil. But withal . . friendly !j;v. growing . . . roaring . . . handsome and powerfully - ' alive. Los Angeles Hickox: Cars . . . children boats . , . Restaurants . . . jaljri trees , hills tangled .Wi$i undergrowth, flowers, iiun and fog. ' J, Weldon: "Smoggy! 0 Washington, D.C. 'i' Weldon: Diplomatic! '"Hickox: "The hub of the Svorid the most important city in our country . . . and intensely interesting because of that importance. Handsome . . . full of problems and people scurrying to Solve or excuse them. Challenging in all ways! A wonderful city! , Atlanta , ; Hickox: The s o y t h e r n belle' that should, always wear camellias 'in her hair il. . instead wears squalid IqKcks on her streets. Yet she has' beautiful. tree-line- d residential greets' . . . restaurants where your ham and eggs are served with a rebel yell . . . fchd you can read one of the finest newspapers in the ..country, Weldon : "Peachy I &M, Saa Francisco "tYeldon: Home Sweet Home! Hickox: "THe city, that was bom wearing a flower in Its button hole . . . and through thiclr and thin . , . continues to wear it 'Salt Lake City . Hickox i ."A beautiful, dean-swewhite city of the west The air is clear . . the mountains like an artificial stage set. As a matter of fact Salt Lake City looks to be exactly what was intended... a city planned 7. . a rity ordered. It was In. in turn inspired . . . it spires . . . for it seems to promise the good life. Weldon : S till absorbing it ' all! . , t The Summer Festival run of "Music Man begins Thursday at 8:30 p.m. to Stadium Bowl, with Leora Thatcher, Don Soelberg, Marlon Morris, the University ballet company, and members of the Utah Symphony Orchestra. The Evans Quartet international award-winninbarbershop harmony, group, are an added attraction to this production of The Music Man. Performances o f "T h e Music Manwill continue on the 6th and 7th of July and from July 9 through July 14. iiTrench, entitled The ' -- ... run-dow- n . i Joan Weldon and Harry Hickox, imported stars for U. of V.y play, "The Music Man, compare notes on U.S. cities. Concert Artist to Address Music Teacher Barley intemationally-famtaj- s concert artist and teacher from London, England, will be one of the lecturers during the, - annual convention of the Western Music Teachers Division, National Assft. The convention I3 scheduled July 29 through Aug. 1 at the University of Utah Union. Jessie M. - Perry, professor of music at the university, is president of the Utah Music Teachers Assn, and is vice president of the Western Division. Other Artists Several other participating artists and teachers have won national and International acclaim. William- - S. Newman, recognized author, pianist and teacher, will conduct a session on "Some y New Discoveries in the" Pi. anists World. Blythe Owen, . professor and composer at Walla Walla College, will speak on The Importance of Today's Music in Teaching. At the same session, Henri Arcand, concert pianist and accompanist on the Pacific Coast will be heard on the field of contemporary music. Frances Clark, chairman of all piano study at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., will give two lectures, How to Teach Music for What It Is, and "Group Learning in Piano Dorothy Bishop, Study.' head of the Preparatory Division of the University of Southern California, will conduct a session on Sustaining Interest at the Junior High Age. Organ Specialists . William M. Foxley of Salt Lake - City and Burbank, Calif., will give a Survey of New Organ literature, Methods, and Materials. Frank W. Asper, organist at the Salt Lake Tabernacle, will speak on Teaching Techniques and Practices." The head of the Voice Department at the University of Southern California, William Vennard, will conduct several sessions. Florence EusseU of Los Angeles, teacher of voice production, wUl also be heard. G. Willard Bassett, president-director, of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, wUl J Gordon Childs performs on th viola damour, a rare Instrument made to 1700s with 14 strings in two layer's. Native Utahn to Demonstrate speak on. The Develop- ment of the and Adolescent Voice. ' Beiv-to-n Coffin, Builder, Colo., wUl discuss literature problems. Joachim Chassman of Los Angeles, a leading string teacher from that city, wUl appear, at the major string sessions. Audrey E. Bush, string bass principal of the Utah Symphony, wiU discuss problems on orchestral bowing. Dale Stevens of Salt Lae City, a violin maker, wiU speak on adjustmehts and repairs of instruments. .David -- B Freed,- - principal cellist with the Utah. Symphony Orchestra, win speak on "New Paths in CeBo Teaching." ' 4 Rare Stringed Instrument Gordon Childs, a native Utahn and presently assistant professor of music at Adams State College, Alamosa, Calif., and conductor of the San Luis Valley Symphony, is revisiting Salt Lake tor the Western Division Convention of Music Teachers National Association July 29 to Aug. L j While attending the convention, Mr. Childs will conduct t a demonstration lecture titled "The Viole d Amour and T . . . Their Use in Modern Times." ' The voile damour Is a difficult instrument to play, developed in jthe late 17th century. It Is an offshoot of the viol family of bowed Instruments which were the direct an-- : . cestors of the Violin family. The outstanding characteristic of the viole damour is its 14 strings, one set of seven which are bowed and another set of seven small wire strings' which lie directly underneath the first set and which vibrate sym- , pathetically when the top strings are played. ' Mr. Childs instrument was made sometime during the middle 1700s and is thought to be of German origin.- - This . instrument was purchased, to Salt Lake City. from an old ' German dealer to fine violins whose family ha.d owned it ar aoi heirloom tor a century or more. 7 d Harp-sichor- ( , , L In- stitutions, of the Old Testament" It won Instant and deserved acclaim. The translation before us contains all. of it to one volume and brings it up to date- -' The author is Hie .renowned Dominican Fattier who, for many years,- - has directed the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem and edited the Revue Biblique." Field Archaeologist ' ' He has been a diligent field archaeologist and one who knows the Biblical scripts and the necessary languages. Above all. Father de Vaux is a historian who delves into origins and observes order of " the development, seeing of life the ancient changing Hebrews In dynamic relation to the surrounding cultures. j. Father de Vaux follows the pageant of ancient Hebrew life, as finaBy centered in Palestine, from the beginnings to the time when Pharisaism and the Qumran Community had definitely", taken form. (H has been right in front among the scholars exploiting the discoveryof the manuscript riches in the Dead Sea cayeSl His latest book Is on Archaeology and the Manuscripts of the Dead Sea. 'In Graphic Detail Ale describes, in full and graphic detail, the world of the famUy, of the free, of business. He treats similarly of slavery in ancient Israel, and kingship, and the mlB-taraspect. Almost the whole latter half of this big book is occupied with the "Religious Institutions." The author has made fulj use of the evidence in the Hebrew Bible, and restrained use of Herodotus, Josephus and annals of Assyrian kings. He has constantly looked for light in todays knowledge of such contemporaneous cultures as those of Egypt and Phoenicia and Nuzu and Ugarit, and in the archaeology of Palestine; always careful not to read too much into the hints. Need Support He says, "Many of the suggestions or statements advanced here need to be more are fully supported and based on findings of textual, literary or historical criticism which are open to debate. He is. candidly modest about his hypotheses, which he labels so. He works like a higher critic in many ways; fundamentally, he is one in not taking the Old Testament to have been written all in one piece, and Jn one mind; developmental! v it reflects social ajjd religious development. I would praise highly Father de Vauxs intellectual integrity and candor, his modesty as a scholar in dealing with matters the answers to many questions about which must, at present, be tentative- Father' de Vaux allows himself occasionally, and properly so, to write as a devout Christian: he remarks occasionally that something in the Old Testament was to be perfected or fulfiBed In the new. Other than this, he does not formulate any philosophy of history, nor leave the realm of the verifiable for the metaphysical. He mainly organizes the data so that clarification leaps to the mind. As, for instance, on the subjects of slavery-- , the Sabbath, sacs rifice. Louis G Zucker semi-nomad- Lili Kraus, . Band Performs Today, July 4 In addition to the regular concert this week, Sunday at 7 p.m. to Liberty Park, the Salt Lake City Municipal Band will present a concert at 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 4th, to the park bandstand. Featured to Sundays wiU be two tenor solos by Glenn H. Johnson and Marimba Selections by Lowell P. Hicks, according to Marvin H. Strong, director. Mr. Johnson will also sing two solos to Wednesdays concert Both . programs- - include a liberal numtyr of rousing march .tunes and . 9 overtures - Mickey Spillane . . . Sends Mike Hammer on spy chase. Spillane Pens New Tale Of Spy Ring By Gale JTklese New York Times , NEW YORK, June 30 Mickey SpUlanes detective heroMike Hammer, a character possibly more famous than Franny, Zooey or Raskalrtikov, wUl be back on the "book thrives this summer after 10 years absence. The . neJv book is called, rot unexpectedly, The Girl Hunters," and it pits Mike Hammer against an international spy ring, a master killer and, not unexpectedly, a' sultry blonde. Fifth On List Spillane believes the new book will be his biggest seller. Since 1946, when he wrote I, The Jury, he has written nine mysteries and, counting hard and soft covers with foreign editions, says he has sold 73,000,000 copies. "Im the fifth author In the world, not counting the Bible," he said. Ahead of me is Tolstoy, Gorki, Jules Verne, some other Russian, and myself. They call me the White Hope. Required 10 Years Some tritic discovered that seven of my books were bestamong the 10 sellers and got mad; he said it was a sad commentary on American standards. I - told him, shaddup, youre lucky I didnt write three more. The mystery writer, in manner and attitude, is not unlike his tough-talkin- g hero, Mike Hammer-- It has taken him 10 years to complete his' Hammer epic, he said, because he went a bit stale in 1952. most-translate- d all-tim- e latest fang-and-cla- PoemBook Inspiring Poems of Prayer, compiled and edited by Ralph L. Woods; Hawthorn Books, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. $5.00. ' Ever read an Inspiring poem at the end of a1 busy day? Then youU enjoy Ralph L. Woods magnificent anthology, Poems of Prayer. The beauty and joy of mans spiritual life, are blended in the language of poetry, and grouped under such headings as Morning Prayer Poems, for Protection and Peace, Adoration and Praise. . The works include some of the best of contemporary inspirational poetry, as well as weU known bits of literature from the past The book is the result of years of reading nd research. Best of the Paperbacks ' . Critics Analyze Literature, Music in Latest Editions Edmund Wilson has been in the forefront of American by Irving Kolodin (Collier, $1.50), is another book of literary critics tor many music criticism, with comyears, not only, because of posers acting as critics of the merit of what he has to other composers. Most of say, but also because of his the material has been gathered from the diaries, letters way of saying it Other critics may be more profound to andpersonal papers of the their analyses, but none can .composers,' from Palestrina, touch Mr. Wilson for sheer toBchoenberg. The relation of art to readability. ABof which is to say that its a pleasure to American life is the central s thesis of John A. have his Classics & ComMade In America mercials: A Literary Chronicle of the (Anchor, $1,45).. By tracing what he calls the vernacuin paperback (Vintage; lar tradition in such Ameri$1 5)- .can art forms as architecture,, Speaking of criticism, .Virgil Thomsons classic of industrial design, literature music criticism, The State and jazz, the author consisof Music5 (Vintage,' $1.25), tently points to the folk arts of the first people In history also is out In soft covers. Written in 1939, the book still who, disinherited of a great cultural tradition, found stands as a major contribution to the understanding of themselves living under .the role of music and ILnsl- - democratic institutions in an cians to American life. expanding. machine econoRichard Christensen, The composer as Listen-'er- : my. A Guide to Music; edited (CDN). Kouwen-hoven- Forties,-avail-ab- le . pro-gra- r 1 jt Co-- , - 1 1 sciiool Sen- of Biography A. RobMorse. Garden . mates as a great taUcer. Then came Morses "stint at the University of Oregon, where he began as an assistant professor, rapidly moved of the up to By H95. two-volu- ... 7- Wayne Tiger to the ert Smith. Doubleday In the late 1950s, 4 work was published ... - The ate: A , g Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, July l,19G2Uy U. Sen. Morse the Great Objector , "Ancient Israel: Its life and Institutions, by Boland do Vaux. New York: McGraw-Hil-l, 196L the-citie- - The Priest Delves IrrAncient Israel Lore s. A City, N.Y. axn Senator Morse denounced this book even before It was pUbBshed. That is nfot Surprising since the senator has an exceedingly thin skin and A. Robert Smith has some sharp things to say about him.. But the biography is, on the whole. Impartial, a quaBty for which Mr. Morse appears to have slight sym. . pathy The Morse career has been a spectacular one. He got the better 0$ Clare Boothe Luce, somethlngthat few men, or womeit either, have been able hAo. He switched and parties in then Vdn against a Republican cabinet mem-r- , personally urged by Pres. Eisenhower to make the race. Great Objector He has been a great objector, a f ormidablefilibust-ere- r and, at times, has managed to make a fool of him Bell No significant legislation bears his name, but it is likely a lot of bad legislation never got on the books because he stood to its way. Author Smith,. Washington correspondent for Oregon newspapers, describes Morse's youth in Wisconsin, where he grew up as an admirer of Robert LaFoUette and was known to his high law-scho- II old Presidents Truman and Ickea, Roosevelt, ol and jumped Into politics with both feet. Service on the War Labor Board then brought him national attention, though it was nothing compared with what followed after he entered the Senate, The Oregon maverick Is not noted for running from a fight He usually seems to be looking for one. Over the years he has taken on Har- - mid-strea- Eisenhower, and Senator Robert A, Taft, at a time when the latter was "Mr.; Republican and the undisputed leader of Morses party. His biographer,' remarks that when Sen. Joseph Mo Carthy was riding high, "Wayne Morse did not volunteer for liberal martyrdom against this worst scourge of liberalism in his time." Smith-- 1 m plies held a dub over Morse, which would not be surprising. Nor is It at all surprising that Morse shunned martyrdom. A number of other Bkely candidates did the same thing. Yet Smith also reports that Morse finaBy tangled with, McCarthy and that few sen ators . . were willing to be so bold." Feud With Protege Perhaps the ugUest aspect of Morses character Is shown in his feud with Sen. Richard NeubArger, a protege who insisted on bring independent. The language Morse used toward a former friend would be inexpBcable except for the fact that Democrat Morse spoke as of RepubUcane he once had proudly praised, Morse appeals to voters and to himself, for that mat ter as a legend of inco-- that-McCart- . rruptibility. John O'Hara . . . Master of crisp verbiage scores anew. New Novel Well Woven But With Weak Thread The The reader senses that this idyllic existence cant last, however. But, Instead of Ward reverting to type, his loving and, up to now, wife strays from the., narrow path. Our hero, without much emoting about his lost love, turns alley cat again. In the end he main- Big Laugh," by John Random House, New York; 308pp. $4.95. OHara; This latest OHara novel features the famiUar pattern of a succession of bedroom s episodes and by tough, and unpleasant characters, staccato dialogue, an air ol exaggerated cynicism and a flimsy plot. OHara is a superb story teller, whether he has a story to tell or not, and his literary style thrills anyone who yearns to also express himself with a minimum of words. The meter of his spare sentences are a delight. "This is a story about a man who tried to be something he was not (not unusual, surely); who wasted his time and asked for and got a lot of trouble." At the outset he was a complete heel; in middle life he himself, but he only confused the people and while confusing the neople he also Confused himself. . . . As in other O Tiara fiction, the rogue is reformed by love- ,- temporarily- ,- but -- like several of his .recent books, love also proves destructive. Lack of Sympathy One gets the impression OHara has no feeling for his aB too human, characters, that he is bored with their weaknesses and repetitious amorous adventures, that he is convinced they earn their fate. But his portraiture and style make up for other Shortcomings. The central character- of this short novel is a renegade from upper middle-clas- s society named Hubert Ward. At 20 he has been kicked out of three prep schools for the gamut of sex offenses and he has run down and kiBed an old lady in a stolen car. One can hardly imagine a more despicable character. At one of the many orgies he is wont to attend, a girl tells him, You are such a big phonv you ought to be an actor. Gets Role in Play . And, just like that, Jie seeks out a summer stock theatrical director and blackmails him into giving him a part in a play. He uses the weB-adjuste- d double-crossing- tains the superficial' trap- pings of respectabBity to preserve his movie-herimage. Boredom, a sense of futility, set in. o The authors .Erne Linford 00 ..." Smiths thought-provokin- g biography catches most of the Morse flavor, but It., doesnt explain everything about this unusual poUti-- , clan. Theodore Long SJL (Compiled by Publisher Weekly) Flotioa ; OF FOOLS Anne Porter SHIP Katherine 3. AND ZOOEY FRANNY THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Irving Stone DEVH. WATER Anya Seton HerYOUNGBLOOD HAWKE man Wouk , THE BULL FROM THE SEA Mary Renault t Non-Flotl- Frederic THE ROTHSCHILDS Morton CALORIES DONT COUNT Dr. Herman Teller MY LIFE IN COURT Louis Ntier THE GUNS OF AUGUST VALIANT 4-DO- SEDAN OR DEMONSTRATOR SALE - d on Broadway. Eventually, however, he makes the big time in Hollywood through luck more than talent or shrewd conniving- .Thls was in the 1920s, when the movies were better than ever, and Ward makes a terrific hit in clean-cu- t heavy roles. Success comes to Hubert Ward without the necessity of blackmail shady doings, and he buBds a reputation for dignity and upright living as weB as an artist of the sUver screen. His reform seems complete after, he faBs to love with a good woman, a pretty young "widow, and marries her in an engrossing OHara-typ- e pursuit and climax. As incredible as Wards reform is the quiet, 'pleasant relation-shl- p of themarried lovers whfle the actor works hard, makes money and does the right things. prac-ticaB- For an, economical vacation r y in a top performance com- choose this sedan. d Valiant Youll like the extra gas mileage and the smooth Torsion-air Ride. Equipment includes a super engine, radio, heater a'nd white wcHI tires. Original price was $2,437. You get it tomorrow for only $2,095 and save $342. No pact, value-packe- charge for Freed's New Car Warranty. Buy on Freed's own personalized time payment plan at low bank rates or pay nothing down on the Freed Plan. COME IN TOMORROW Ikm( kbci XX Salinger ..Barbara. Tughman 62 V-2- In Smiths words: Wayne Morse, the Legend, is the Eagle Scout of American poBtics: trustworthy, loyal, heljiful brave, clean and reverent. . . . The Legend itself 1 a fusion of fact and fiction , . ." Ardent Reformer It could be that Morse was bom after his time. Ha la a. reformer and there is no great national cry for reform as was the case to the days of LaFoBette, George W. Norris and Hiram Johnsom That he is a valuable senator cannot be denied. It Is also obvious that he is frequently a pain in the neck. at hadia-h- a the end is a contemptuous guffaw at the screen idol whose f ate he foretold at the beginning and also at HoBy ' wood itself. The reader finds himself wondering, however. If Mr. OHara isnt reaBy laughing more at him and taunting him for believing for a whfle in human decency. One feels his leg has been puBed. "The Big Laugh is no Pal Joey, but as long as OHara can put words together with the skill he does and gives his readers the vivid experience of vicarious sinning, his books wUl continue to seB. -- uglyteehnfque again' . HMTAi w tHmui. UMI MMl tot nsR e mtttU fmmm |