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i I not referring to the veteran publisher saying he was only delineating an American type, a composite of the fabulous few who rose to great wealth and enormous power early in this country. "The plot moves only to satisfy the requirements of the character," Welles said at the time. "I want to show, as a if 7 By THOMAS BLAKLEY Press Drama Editor Even back in 1941, Orson Welles was a self-admitted young genius and he backed up his feeling that year by releasing Kane," regarded by many movie as the greatest sound picture in this country. than "Gone With the people will argue over that and reason. But discerning film that "Kane" was the champion of occasional showings on television an old movie (and those butchered jobs make even a movie seem like something out Orson's best effort has in re'ative obscurity since II, with the exception of picking it up now and then of classic films.

aiong comes one of those super for a prominent place in the film buff's library. "The Citizen Kane Book" (Atlantic-Little, Brown, $15) is fresh on the bookstands. It's the complete shooting script of the movie along with Pauline Kael's "Raising Kane," which tells how the movie came to be written and what followed. In the book are loads of murky photo graphs shot on the set of the RKO release. The casual moviegoer isn't going to be much interested in a shooting script, no matter how great it is.

But Miss Kael's 84 pages at the start are entertain-in; and revealing, and the script will fascinate serious students of the motion picture industry. Speaking of Miss Kael's entertaining style, that's what made Orson Welles such an intriguing character his best efforts always seemed to land him in controversy. When he started shooting "Kane" in July of 1940, it was only a couple of years away from his men-from-Mars scare. And when the picture came out, it was only a matter of days before a publisher by the name of William Randolph Hearst got the notion that Orson Welles was impersonating him. Emperor Hearst wasn't alone in that idea.

Everyone expected that the Hearst chain of command would put pressures to bear and squelch the picture like squashing a grape, but the picture made it to" the public stalls. It did get euchred out of deserving Academy Awards. All along, Orson insisted that he was of the script of "Citizen Kane," although" Welles took credit for half, along with the producing and directing chores. I "And by an awful fluke of justice," Miss Kael relates, "when Acaderay Awards night came, and Welles should' have got the awards he deserved as director and actor, the award he got (the only Academy Award he has ever received) was as co-author of the Best Original Screenplay." Miss Kael knocks off the false notion that "Citizen Kane" got bad reviews when it came out because of the Hearst influence, Welles' unpopularity with the studios and the picture being ahead of its time. Nothing could be further from the truth, says Miss Kael.

"The picture got a thunderous reception, even in the -Hollywood press. "It was very well understood by the press (who would understand a newspa-per picture and it got smashing reviews. "The New York opening, which had been scheduled for Feb. 14, 1941, finally took place on May 1, and a week later it opened in Los Angeles. In January, Hedda Hopper had 'doubted' whether the picture would ever be released, and some of the trade press predicted that it wouldn't be.

Possibly it wouldn't have been except for the screenings that Welles arranged and the publicity that he received." i i WELLES MANKIEWICZ novel might show, how complex the life of a public mail can be how he can be loved, hated, feared and respected by different people at the same time. "Also, how this same man can be called cruel and kind, fascist and patriot, great liberal and hidebound reactionary. There have been such men. Charles Foster Kane isn't any one of them." Miss Kael devotes lots of space to Herman J. Mankiewicz, who generally is credited with writing at least 90 per cent On Collision Course fallingwater Album Marital Life Of FDRs Stormy Best IWalt 'Our By WILLIAM K.

TROSENE When local jazz pianist Walt Harper called to say he had a' new album hot off the presses, he sounded more than his exuberant self. "It's our best yet," he said without "A lot of "ft MR. AND MRS. ROOSEVELT Their life together analyzed. Her adored father failed her, her handsome husband turned elsewhere for love, her children presented crisis after crisis, and her mother-in-law was a living, breathing symbol of all the term implies.

She found refuge from these storms in the needs of the world outside. Lash suggests that she could survive because of her rigid training in a sense of duty and in her deep religious conviction, which made her duty into a privilege. She had little formal educa- 4 Books Music Section Page 3 Sunday, Oct. 31, 1971 anner In New Theories BEYOND FREEDOM 'AND DIGNITY, by B. F.

Skinner. Knopf. $6.95. By CHARLOTTE CHENEY B. F.

Skinner, one of the most influential and controversial living psychologists, tossed another time bomb into our a 1 a anxiety-ridden bunker with his latest book, "Beyond Freedom and Skinner, who taught pigeons to play ping-pong, and trail i them to guide missile boms during World War II (a fn-ture only half successful, nee we had no missiles), is a specialist in rat behavior. The champion of the bchav-iorists, Skinner believes the Individual is not responsible for cither good or bad. Everything he does comes from genetic heritage and environmental factors. Most human behavior is the result of environment only, and there is no non-physical (spiritual) force operating in human beings. Having mastered much of science and technology, the thing man understands least is himself.

"What we need," says Skinner, "is a technology of a 1 Forget the old standards and begin anew. Since Skinner believes that man is a superior animal only, his behavior can be changed by the same conditioning methods that work on rats and pigeons, i.e., giving rewards to change the subject's behavior to conform to the experimenter's ideal. "Home isn't the place to bring up children," he thinks, so he would put them under the control of experts during their first five years, where they would be trained to love and to eliminate aggressiveness, hostility, and hate. The psychologist feels education has failed miserably in not teaching people to enjoy what they are doing. Since they will be doing their boring jobs only a few days each week in the future, extra leisure will be an added problem, for history shows that drunkenness, gambling, and watching violent sports are the inevitable concomitants spare time.

Skinner would eliminate such worn-out values as freedom and dignity for the betterment of all men. Skinner cjtes Montaigne's question, "Would you bury your children or your books?" Skinner would bury his daughters, whom he loves dearly, as they love him, and hope that his contributions in books would live. His apoplectic readers will perhaps agree with him when he says, "Science is human behavior, and so is the opposition to science. What has happened in man's struggle for freedom and dignity, and what problems arise when scientific knowledge begins to be relevant in that struggle? Answers to these questions may help to clear the way for the technology we so badly need." But does the Skinner method provide satisfactory answers? "Citizen buffs today ever made Greater Lots of with good fans insist of them all. Outside as chopped up, superior of remained, World War college groups in revivals Now deluxe jobs Acheson's xFleece' Ft He proves why in his latest Decca offering "Bert Kaemp-fert as he plays more recent tunes than his normal standards.

Outstanding are Dream Baby (a real delight when listened to via ear phones) and In Our Time (A Prayer for Peace). Bert's strong rhythm, deep bass and interchange (or rg) of Instrup'cutal sections never were better. Other songs are Proud Mary, Oh Woman, Oh Red Sky at Morning, Put Your Hand in the Hand and an original, Living Easy. One standard: Me and My Shadow. It's good.

The Bennett Touch A more sincere and thoughtful man, plus bsing one of the great singers of today, has to be Tony Bennett. Earlier this year, Tony appeared in a sell-out concert in Royal Albert Hall, London. Columbia Records now has released the entire performance with "Tony Bennett: Get Happy With the London Philharmonic Orchestra." The first side Is devoted to Instrumental numbers conducted by Robert Farnon, an old friend of Tony's. Then Tony took over and with his standards (I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Sunny Side of the Street, Tea for Two. Let There Be Love, Old Devil Moon, completely won over the audience.

The concert was recorded live and includes the Id applause of those attending. Cash Collection Another fine Columbia album is "The Johnny Cash Collection His Greatest Hits, Volume II." The vocals are by Johnny Cash which means 'r good. They include some of his great best sellers: Hey Porter, A Boy Named Sue, Daddy Sang Bass, I Prison Blues and If I Were a Carpenter. Meaningful are the jacket liner comments written by Cash. He explains why each song has an attachment to him and his life.

A must for Cash fans. into the Canadian prairie and his "adoption" by a female badger. From this incredible incident Eckert has fashioned a remarkably moving novel. Because Eckert is a naturalist of considerable accuracy, his story has much to say about man's relation with his envi-ronmnnt. Uniike most nature novels, "Incident at Hawk's Hill" is vcrywell done and must be highly recommended.

my liarpsr: Yet' hard work and a lot of fun. The album is ths sound track of an educational TV show developed ebout Falling-water, the fabulous country home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in nearby Fayette County. develop his theme, Walt Includes some originals and also songs by John Lennon end Paul McCartney, Gerald Wilson, Benny Goodman and Bart Bacharach. of the originals is Donegal Movement written by Walt as he drove to Fallingwater WALT HARPER New album is out. 9 with Tom Cherones, director of the TV show.

-Walt, as usual, sings two songs: Willie Bobo's Evil Ways and George Harrison's Something. Other instrumentals include Here There and Everywhere, Soft Winds and Close to Ypu. 'Walt's group is the same that draws crowds at his Attic, Market Square: Brother Nate is on electric flute and tenor sax; Art Nance, flute and tenor ssx; Clarence Oden, flute and alto sax; Bert Logan on percussion, and Tommy McDaniel, electric bass. After one or two listenings, it's apparent that Walt's exuberance was not misleading. No doubt it's his "best yet." stereo disc was released by locally-based Birmingham Records.

Serf's Back Now Bert Kaempfert's orchestra Is. one of the few big bands that never left the scenes 3 ft Behind-Scenes History Rivalry In Love Related SUMMER OF THE RED WOLF, by Morris L. West. William Morrow. $6.95.

By NICK G. FLOCOS Story-telling supposedly Is becoming a lost art lost because it has to find an author willing to tell a story and forsake the fancy footwork of liberated literary style and, deep psychological sifting. Morris L. West is' one of the few who still 'writes stories, adheres to the ancient trinity of beginning, middle and end, and avoids any indulgence in verbal gymnastics. Like Somerset Maugham, he gets on with the story.

"Summer of the Red Wolf" is a simple story of love, rival-" ry and violence. It is the story of two men and two women in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Ruarri Matheson, the red wolf of the title, is a 20th century Viking red-beard and all. He is joined in this island setting by a man, the narrator, known only as the storyteller. This storyteller seeks to retreat into his own Celtic past and begins his tale with this explanation: "Suddenly I was sick of the.

savagery of the world. I was sick of the wars and the killing, the rise of new tyrannies, the refinement of old ones, the lies, the politics I was ashamed and sad to be a man." The narrator goes to the island and receives a baptism in'o a new brotherhood, that of the red wolf. His life becomes a tangle, not with the sterility and savagery of civilization, but with the elements and elemental man. At the end, his sense of humanity has been deepened by "the moon madness and epic terror that overtook us all." "Summer of the Red Wolf does not have the narrative pull of West's best sellers "The Devil's Advocate" or "The Shoes of the Fisherman," but it is good reading if you like story more than style, novels more than anti-novels. Book Fast Moving "Loophole," by Arthur Mal-ing (Harper Row, is a fast-moving, suspense novel set in Palm Beach about a man trying to find the killer of his brother.

Good escape featuring original works of graphic art etchings, lithographs, by leading 20th century artists; Picasso Miro, Chagall Searle Vasarcly Dali Caldcr Friedlaender Rouault and others. TODAY! Oct. 31st, at 3.1)0 p. Webster Kail Motor Hotel Exhibition of Workt I 3 P.M. ADMISSION FREE prico from tlS.OO frt.tnUi kt ikt MtrWtn Galltrf FRAGMENTS OF MY FLEECE, by Dean Acheson.

Vf.Vf. Norton Co. Inc. $6.95. By ROBERT PERLOFF A fragmentary collection of essays, orations and reflections is destined unexceptionally to yield an uneven appraisal, some selections assayed as pure gold and others, well, as possibly little beyond the golden mean.

Many such compilations She Is totally concerned, totally herself. Ihe caption reads, "She went into every ward, stopped at every bed, spoke to every patient." She would do just that and consider herself privileged to have the opportunity. Such dedication is costly, physically and mentally; endless hours of travel, constant writing, repeated importuning of the President, who wanted only to be left alone with political realities, struggling to fit family explosions into a crowded schedule, and, most difficult of all, facing failures in friendships and causes and enduring public criticism. Mrs. Roosevelt met these things over and over, quite alone.

Fascinatins Woman Although Lash has titled his book "Eleanor and Franklin," the focus is always on her in their complex relationship. That it was so complex seems to have been more her responsibility than his in the collision between her great need and his self-absorption. It is not necessary to answer this question, however, to appreciate Lash's contribution to understanding this most fascinating and in many ways maddening woman. Golden, the Army." That was that; the matter was dropped, buried and forgotten. It was frequently said of Dean Acheson that he was one of the most elegant and forceful writers of our times, certainly among public figures.

His "Fragments" nourishes this reputation. Viewing the State Department between World Wars I and II, he tells us, with more than a smidgen of regret, that "the department was much smaller then." "The country had not reluctantly donned the imperial purpose of world leadership, or acquired a voice heard hourly around the world, or discovered and exchanged culture; nor was it required to cope with the mounting ill-will of the objects of its solicitude and generosity," he writes. At the highest levels, Acheson was in public service and engaged in a prestigious law practice for half a century. It is scarcely surprising, then, that his "Fragments" reflects a colorful spectrum of tales, experiences, and friendships. These include his spellbinding account of a bout between a resourceful fisherman and his tireless prey; a delightful sketch of a memorable feast in Italy, and loving but unscnti-, mental tributes for Supreme Court Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, law a Burling and Rublee, and his good friend, Norman Hapgood, at one time editor of Collier's.

While his 20 bear little relationship one to the other, they share his gift-edness as a writer and his intellect, his style, his grace, as a man steeped both in the pedestrian and in the grand affairs of the world. Acheson, on whom the Custom Tailors Guild once be-s to wed its designation as America's best dressed man, also has been dubbed "the shiniest fish that ever came out of the sea." Although each of his "Fragments" may not be all that shiny, enough of them glisten to justify their preservation between two hard covers. ELEANOR AND FRANK-LIN, by Joseph P. Lash. Norton.

$12.50. By MARY L. ROBB Anyone more than semi-conscious during the 1930s and 1940s was aware of Eleanor Roosevelt as the wife of the President, and everyone aware of her had an opinion abnit her. Emotions were not mixed you were for her all the way or she was anathema. Whichever it was, she was an inescapable fact of life and history.

How she came to be the way Fhe was is the question Joseph P. Lash has undertaken to answer in "Eleanor and Franklin," an estimate, based on her private papers, of her background and upbringing and of their effect upon her difficult and challenging mar-riage. Lash knew and a I Mrs. Roosevelt, but he is also fully aware of the problems she presented to herself and to her family. Warm, Friendly Those who met Mrs.

Roosevelt remember her as warm and friendly and, above all, serene, no matter how difficult the issue at hand. But this serenity, Lash contends, was won at enormous cost in self-discipline by the shy, homely girl in a family of beauties Patriot' Views Mafia THE PATRIOT, by Charles Durbin. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan Inc. $7.95. By DANIEL J.

HUGHES "The Patriot" gives the reader an insight into a perverted world of violence. A power struggle within the New York Mafia over control of heroin serves as a backdrop for the events around which the author attempts a semblance of continuity. The result leaves the reader of this account of a Mafia leader who is deported by the United States more confused than enlightened. A major theme of the book is the patriotism that draws Ray Hodgkin, a Mafia chieftain, back to the United States to settle an underworld Little sympathy can be generated for the altruistic motives that impel Hodgkin to assume this unnecessary risk. This book should have a rather large reading audience.

It incorporates a maudlin sentiment of patriotism. This pseudo-patriotism attempts to transcend the morgue tables throughout the United States where drug tortured wretches find a final haven after an overdose of heroin supplied by the many Ray Hodgkines who, for whatever reason, put power and money above every human consideration. The violent conclusion of this novel is blunted by the realization that for some death comes too swiftly. Man Of Medicine THE MEDICINE MAN, by Shirley Seifert. Lt'ppincolt.

1695. A novel based on the life of Dr. Antoine Saugrain in the early lCOOs in St. Louis. He was an Army doctor, and the novel gives the author a chance to make use of her deep knowledge of the development of the St.

Louis area where she resiEes. T7iw tion but abundant energy, and she channeled everything she to the needs she CGmront-ed: her invalid husband, the poor, the friendless, ihe young anyone who sought her, or whom she sought. Enlisting her aid must have been a little like signing up for a ride on a tiger. Lash has used a number of effective photographs to characterize Mrs. Roosevelt, but perhaps the one that best epitomizes her shows her smiling warmly, bending over the bed of a wnunded soldier in a Pacific War Theater hospital.

DEAN ACHESON Last book reviewed. and reflective "Fragments," spanning the years of 1936 to 1970, should reward many a reader in unexpected and joyous ways. There is, for instance, a probably little known episode concerning World War II Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George C. Marshall, who later became secretary of state (for whom Acheson served as undersecretary) and secretary of defense.

Marshall told Acheson that during that war a grossly unfair magazine article attacked President Roosevelt. One of the President's aides advised Marshall that FDR wished to withhold from circulation to the Army the issue of the weekly news magazine containing the assault upon FDR. "Certainly," the general replied, "the President is the Commander-in-Chief. Kindly him to send his order to me in writing. It will be obeyed at once; and he will receive simultaneously my resignation as chief of btaif of Ml -X 'it should never be published.

Dean Acheson's "Fragments," however, is not; among these, for his solid ma-," terial compensates for the cost of enduring the duller pieces and those of interest chiefly for resolving the Talmudic dis- putes of historians, lawyers, and internationalists. Acheson's last book published shortly before his death does not contain the more thematic and valuably personal material accenting his earlier (1965), a i aphical "Morning and nor is it anything like his scholarly, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Pres-. ent at the Creation" (1969), documenting his 12 years of. deep involvement in and influence upon American policy, as assistant secretary, undersecretary, and secretary of state. Nevertheless, these urbane I Giese Play I Published 1 Local author Lulu Ga- bel Giese has just had an historical play, "Adolescence of an Im-1 mortal: Abraham Lin-1 coin in Indiana," pub- I lished by Carlton Press 1 i This sensitive study of Honest Abe's relation-1 I ships with his illiterate father and loving frail 4 I mother, and the begir I ning of his growth to manhood, is the second book by Mrs.

Giese. Her first was "Saga of the Great Northwest," also published by Carl-1 Mrs. Giese, her hus-1 band, Richard Sapping-1 I ton Giese, and their son, I Richard, are Sewickley residents. Badger's 'Adoption' Of Boy Moving Tale I INCIDENT AT HAWK'S HILL, by Allan W. Eckert.

Little Brown Co. $5.95. By E. K. McRAE I Even his parents had to admit Benjamin MacDonald was different.

He was small for his age-6-and he seldom talked. I That is, he seldom talked to people. Ben often talked to animals. He had a remarkable ability to: communicate with them. Me cquld mimic their movements and sounds with uncanny accu- rqcy.

And for some reason they' accepted little Ben's presence without fear. at Hill," by Allan W. Eckprt, is a slightly fic It v- v. 1 tionalized ver- Eckert sibn of an actual 1870 event. It "fcof Ben's disappearance.