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Tfie Salt ake Tribune, Sunday, September 2, 1962 Wll Four Plays, Musical, Ballet U. Theatre Heralds Season Family Story Majestic, Witty Troupe Finds More Than Sin on Circuit The Glory Circuit," by Jess Gregg. St Martin's Press, iew CHher evangelists beat tb--drum only during. the summer, but our -troupe toured the glory circuit the whole year round, one small town after another, pounding em, pounding em, living night and day At sin-cracking pressure till our nerves were raw, our tempers jagged, and we were too used to it to realize how far gone wed got." So declared Jesse, a truck driver and handyman for the troupe, who tells the story. didnt mind letting the world know it Grandmothers ihusband made a fortune in Russia.

Grandmother moves from Italy to Germany to Switzer land to France, but Russia always is in the background and no place Is like home. The millionaires are the disinherited, and the narra-tor of their story is, the heaviest loser of all. Before My Time defies all classification. It Is a novel, obviously but what kind of a novel? A family satire a social satire a study of tyranny? Yes, it is all these, and more besides. It Is m- characters are fascinating to the point of unreal! nothing ever seems to finished.

In 638 pages (the length Of "Before My Time') that kind of fiction can wear very thin in spots. However, the reader, though bored now and again, should not despair. A few dull spots are small price to pay for the rich treasures found In this novel. Describes Children Tucci can be both discursive and concise. In a mere three pages he describes grandmother's children.

He doer a brilliant caricature of an unspeakgble German archaeologist. He takes his readers back to the days when the rich were filthy rich and iestic and witty one of the most exciting events of the new publishing season. -Theodore Long. With the new Pioneer Memorial Theatre ready for occupancy this fall, the Uni-- versity of Utah Saturday announced la full l-Sched-uleof 3 four plays, one musical and one ballet plus two extra attractions for the inaugural 1962-63 season. ISs IT Mr.

Hatfield 1 y' a n-n 6 Shakespeares "Hamlet," Starring Hurd Hatfield in the title role, will initiate the season and will rua. from Oct through 20. Mr. Hatfield, a native New Yorker, first gained international recognition as the star of Oscar Wildes screen adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Auntie Maine The next University Thea-tre production, Nov.

15 through 24, will star Mary Cooper as "Auntie Mame. This will mark Miss Coopers second Utah appearance, the first being her performance last year in "Old Ac- quaintance with Arlene Francis. Two University Theatre extras will be offered to theatergoers in December and January. The traditional Christmas-time performance of Tchaikovskys Nutcracker Ballet will be the first. The second will be Dame Judith Anderson and Co.

in "Medea 62 and Lady MacBeth, Jan. 24, 25 and 26. Kim Hunter to Star Later in the season, academy award-winner Kim Hunter will star in Major Barbara, and Mercedes Me-Cambridge will appear in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Look Homeward, Angel." This years musical will be Peter Pan," and in May the annual presentation of Wiliam F. Christensens Ballet Gala, will complete the season. Cultural Leaders Others -Dejected But Jesse was not the only member of the troupe who was dejected.

So was Doc, who played the organ and directed the singing, and Mr. Hackett, the manager. In fact, every member of Preacher Rawls troupe were down in the dumps except Rawls himself. When hellfire, brimstone, wrath and damnation rolled from Preacher Rawls lips, repentant sinners came flocking to declare for the Lord, But when he changed his tune to joy and loving kindness, converts dwindled. Dream Fades So did funds.

So did Mr. Hacketts cherished dream that the evangelical troupe would be selected to represent the Christian Crisis at Madison Square Garden. Millie Marie Mercer was to blame. She turned the scorching denunciations of Gods Angry Man into the honeyed reassurances of a serene apostle of love. Jess Gregg has written a novel full of humor and humanity that contrasts re-feshingly with the many books about southern evangelists.

"Maurice Jones. Kim Hunter Mercedes McCambridge In Pulitzer-award drama. Bette Davis Follows the sound of distant music. Bette Relates Her Fears And Rapture The Lonely Life, by Bette Davis Putnam, $5.95 Miss Davis begins her story bravely. I have lived in a permanent state of rapture.

I was never able to share it with a mate. It exhausted them. It evidently drove them mad; but I was as helpless as they. Once youve heard the sound of that distant music, youre deaf to everything else I suppose Im larger than life. Thats my problem.

Created in a fury, Im at home in a tempest. At the end of the story she is close to tears. "It is the strong who need care. It is they who need constant replenishment It is the strong who are vulnerable. History of Roles Separating these two statements is a history of her roles and husbands, the two categories scarcely distinguished, told in the same breathless, driven style which characterizes her work in films.

Her self portrait is that of a brilliant actress overcoming all obstacles to attain the summit of her art. The picture which the reader sees is rather different The nearer he is brought to the summit the less he hears about the art. The final pages of her book dwell heavily on her loneliness. She is no longer sustained as' on the evening of her first triumph, playing Hedvig in The Wild Duck with Blanche Yurka: The audience seemed insatiable. Suddenly Miss Yurka took my hand and led me to the footlights and the curtain fell behind us.

This was a tremendous honor and most gracious of her. But then she let go of my hand, smiled that secretive smile of hers, and walked off the stage, leaving me alone. The theater now shook with applause and bravos. People actually stood in their seats and cheered for me. Just For Me "It was really just for me.

Wave and wave of love flopd-ed the stage and washed over me. I felt my face crumble and I started to cry. It is impossible to describe the sweetness of the moment. My heart almost burst. This was the true beginning of the one, great, durable romance of my life." At the conclusion of the book, with Miss Davis going on stage in The Night of the Iguana, the durability of the romance seems very much in doubt.

Roger hi Bowen, Chicago Daily News Writer. S.L. Educators of Music Return to Classroom Before My Time," by Nlecolo TuocL Simon Schuster, New York. $7-50. The characters in this stupendous novel existed tn the real world before" Nlecolo Tucd transferred them to the world of Imagination.

They are members of his family his father, the Ital-lan doctor; his mother; uncles and aunts; family retainers; and grandmother especially grandmother. The old lady is the novel; the other characters we supernumeraries. They are individuals, it is true, but they are important only because they are in the book with grand- moiheLl I I was bom before my time, Tueci writes. When my time came, the place was occupied by someone else; all the good things of life for which I was not fit had suddenly become unfit It was always too early or too late. Story Was Ended When Tucd was bom, the story he tells was ended.

Grandmother was dead, though her spirit dominated the family almost as completely as had her physical presence. But Tucd writes as if he had witnessed all the scenes he' describes. An era a way of life had also emjed. At the turn of the century, grandmother and her daughter Mary (who was to become Tuccls mother) traveled through Europe in a state now dreamed of only by Greek shipping magnates. A whole household chef, butler, governess accompanied them, When grandmother decided to stay in some city, she built a house.

At the very least, she took over a floor or so In a hotel. Most Out of Reach Grandmother had a half-dozen sons and daughters. But all except Mary were out of her reach, some by choice, one because grandmother had committed her to an asylum. Grandmother was a tyrant, strong willed, self centered, relentless. And Mary could not would not escape.

Though she made two marriages (the first a mistake, quickly erased), grandmother was always the head of the house. Tuccls short stories In the New Yorker have been greatly admired. His novel somewhat resembles a "typical New Yorker story. It evokes the past with brilliant de Beil SetL eri (Compiled by Publishers Weekly) Fiction SHIP OF FOODS Katherine Anne Porter YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE Herman Wouk DEARLY BELOVED Anne Morrow Lindbergh UHURU Robert Ruark THE REIVERS William Faulkner ANOTHER COUNTRY James Baldwin PORTRAIT IN BROWNSTONE Louis Auehlncloss THE PRIZE Irving Wallace -THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Irving Stone LETTING GO Philip Roth FRANNY AND ZOOEY D. Salinger DEVIL WATER Anya Seton Nonfiction THE ROTHSCHILDS Frederic Morton MY LIFE IN COURT Louis NUer THE GUNS OF AUGUST Barbara Tuchman YE JIGS JULEPS! Virginia Cary Hudson CALORIES DONT COUNT Dr Herman Taller CONVERSATIONS WITH STALIN Mllovan DJllas MEN AND DECISIONS Lewis L.

Strauss IN THE CLEARING Robert Frost SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL Helen Gurley Brown VEECK AS IN WRECK BUI Veeck book manages to be' a stinging criticism of bureaucratic management without going into bitter tirades and threadbare cliches about the profit system and creeping. socialism. At the end of The Blue of Capricorn (Crest, 60 cents), Eugene Burdick writes: "For thfe person who can regain an innocent nerve, a tolerance for repetition; for those who can endure a natural beauty which Is soaring 'and massive and vivid to the point of disbelief and a human art which is primitive and bawdy for these the Pacific is endlessly lntrigu Jng. Mr. Burdick, co-authbr of -The Ugly American, obviously Is Qne, of these, and he conveys his love for the South Pacific people and lands In this captivating series of tales for armchair travelers.

Mary Cooper To portray Auntie Mame on U. stage. Pianist Puts Whammy Oil Classics PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) Music experts are puzzled about a young concert pianist whose playing of classical compositions has a way, according to his critics, of sounding unlike the notes set down by the masters. -Although they have sincerely praised 33 year-old Frederic De Lis for a dynamic keyboard Style I exciting presentation, fie still arent sure theyre not being entertained by a talented double-talk artist Pasadena Concert The most recent cause for excitement over the New York born pianist developed out of a concert he gave in, the Gold Room of Pasadena Civic Auditorium In which he played pieces billed as little-known works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Bar-tok and Liszt The program listed "Chorale and Free Fantasy by Bach, Passacaglia and Fugue on B-A-C-H" by Beethoven, Three Episodes from the Fantasie by Debussy, Four Piano Pieces by Bartok and Phantasie-piece on a Motive from Wagners Rienzi by Liszt Definitely Different But what was played definitely was not written by the masters, according to Dr.

Milton Stem of the Los Angeles State College piano department. I would categorically say none of the pieces exist" Stem, himself a concert pianist, said after the concert. He (De Lis) uses legitimate musical forms and names, but the music that came out was most fraudulent. He would start each work in the style.of the composer, but would then go off on his own. Stern, who is- backed up by Mrs.

Lucy Peterson Vas-quez, pianist for the Pasadena Symphony, claimed the performance was at best "an enormous improvised concert, at worst "an out-an-out fraud. Remain Mum But the man at the center of the controversy, a pianist who made his concert debut as a 10-year-old prodigy, is doing nothing to settle the confusion. They would say the pieces I played werent valid even if I could prove the names are, De Lis shrugged. So I wont say anything. Improvised concerts, at any "rate, are not new to De Lis.

In almost 2,000 performances since his West Coast debut in 1950 in the same Pasadena theater, De Lis has become known as an artist who can Invent on the keyboard the way scientists do in the laboratory. Book Introduces Weird Birds Familiar to All The 1 Indoor Birdwatchers Manual By Helen Ferri (text) and Anne Folsom (drawings), 112 pages. Duell, Sloan and Pearce. $2.95. This delightful little book depicts a variety of human characters in birdwatchers terms.

For instance, the Hairy-Chested Backslapper, whose call is Hy-ya, Bub! -Or-the Full-Breasted Pushover, whose call Yes! Yes! But not much can be described in a review. This is a book which has to be seen as well as read to be properly enjoyed. H. K. is Yes Utah Symphony violinist; Granger Dean L.

Hailstone (vocal), John L. Chatelain (strings) and H. DeVerl Hurst (winds). Mr. Chatelain Is- a Utah Symphony violinist; Granite William Bobolls (vocal) and Harold L.

Rendlesbach (instrumental). Salt Lake Supervisor Vernon J. Leemaster continues as music supervisor of the S.L.C. schools. Joining him in the central office will be Margaret Cornwall Richards who taught choral music at Highland High' last year.

Lorraine Bowman continues as a vigorous productive fixture at East High (choral). Dow H. Young Jr. heads Easts instrumental program. Dow is second clarinetist in the Utah Symphony.

Rounding out Easts staff is Carolyn B. Shum-way (vocal). At Highland it is Paul G. Christensen (vocal) and Sheldon A. Johnson (instrumental).

Joyce H. Andersoh (formerly at OlympuS prior to graduate study at Occidental College last year) will also be on the vocal staff. Returns to South High J. Armont Willardsen, Mr. A Cappeila himself and director of the S.L.

Symphonic Choir, returns for the umpteenth year to South High. Long known as the Siberia of local instrumental music, South-finally has it made in the person of Ralph L. Gochnour who is performing miracles there. Ralph is a Utah Symphony member as well as its librarian. Wests picture remains unchanged.

James D. Maher continues as vocal specialist and D. Carlyle Baker (who doubles as president of the Teachers Assn.) heads up the Instrumental side. In the valleys southern end, Cannon A. Thomson supervises the music program in the Jordan School District with the following personnel: Jordan High, Jay Pond; Bingham High, Wendell Checketta.

-And at the valleys other extremity, the Davis School District operates "sans supervisor but effectively. At Davis High it is Frank Parker (Instrumental and vocal) and Art Peterson (instrumental). The latter is a member of the Utah Symphonys viola section. Utah Symphony contrabassist Donald Basinger heads the instrumental program at Bountiful High and -Mary Ellen Smith is vocal specialise Floyd M. Murpliy (instrumental) and Marvin O.

Hill (vocal) are et Clearfield. Rounding out the valleys high school music picture la Murray High where Utah Symphony percussionist William Johnson, handles both choral and Instrumental. There Is no district By Lowell Durham School bells signal music educators to the classroom. All play a significant role In the development of our cultural life. In the states largest school district Gran- si Supervi I Marvin H.

Strong and 1 1 W. Hales head up an i able program. Mr. Strong, now in one of his final years prior to retirement, can look back through the years with satisfaction for his rich contributions particularly in the instrumental areas which he heads. Mr.

Hales, whose doctorate from Oregon U. is still shiny, moves into the supervisory post vacated by Lew Wallace. The latter has accepted a new, challenging (more lucrative) offer with a national publishing firm. Skyline High AH eyes are on Granites brand-new Skyline High. Two veterans of Granites Junior Highs move up; Donald H.

Ripplinger (vocal) and William Hogenson (instrumental). The latter is a longtime violist In the Utah Symphony. Arden Peterson (vocal) and Ormon R. Weight (strings) remain at Olympus High where they are joined by H. Dean Alsop (winds).

A fixture at Granite High until this year, Mr. Alsop succeeds Loel Hep-worth who has been signed as assistant band director at the U. of U. Other high school assignments include the following: Cyprus Kelly T. Pearce (vocal), Jack D.

Carsey -Jwinds) and John Louten-sock (strings), the latter a Ex-Utah Pianist Gains Award At S.F. Seminar Thomas HutchingS, formerly of Salt Lake, was a recent recipient of a full scholarship in the Advanced Piano "Seminar meeting currently under the direction of the celebrated pianist, Jorge Bo-let, at the Music and Arts Institute of San JFrancisco. "Now a resident of San Francisco, Mr. Hutchings has studied in the music depart- ments of Idaho State College and the University of Utah 'and under Grant at the McCune School of Music In Salt Lake. Mr.

Durham private i coat Best of the Paperbacks John Rackham Editor to keynote Utah Writer parley. Writers Add Couple to Speaker List Samuel W. Taylor, a Provo-born author who has written nine books, several hundred published stories and articles for magazines and several movie will return to Utah as a principal speaker at the annual League of Utah Writers Roundup. Now a resident of Redwood City, Mr. Taylor also will direct a workshop at the roundup, scheduled Friday through Sunday in Provo, along with guest-e xpert Vardis Fisher of Ha John Rackman, editor of Inland, literary magazine, will keynote the meeting and speak on Writing as an Avocation.

Anyone is welcome to attend, according to Cameron Johns, president of the league. Membership in the group or professional writing experience Is not required. Author Taylor wrote the script for the hit movie Absent-Minded Professor pro- duced by Walt Disney. He has several other screen credits, plus TV and radio, scripts and stage plays. His short stories have been published in leading national magazines.

One of his best-known books to Utahns was his delightful Family Kingdom, the story, as he describes it, of my father, Tiia six wives and three dozen kids. His --father was John W. "Taylor, one-time apostle In The Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his grandfather was John Taylor, third president of the" church. History of Law Pessimistic Regarding Current Trend Adrien, always on the prowl or drama, glamour, intrigue picks this classic trench coat as the most exciting to his private eyel And if you think you won't take on the delicious feeling of a femme-fatal when you slip into it, then all of your conquests are over, ays Emiliel It's, in Heek suede from Holland. Without the belt it becomes a compleTely different, coat almost lady-hkel For all of this intrigue ancT glamour, $58.00.

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