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1 I 1 i 1 1 I 1 1 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1959 a 7 Barzuii Chitlos Our Culture Perhaps There Is Era Seen in Intellectual Debacle Memory )f Cohan Revived A. I hrr" 'i-Tv. I iK i-i II 1 I i I if 1-1 'I I -A: 4 1 Two well-known art books appear in new editions by Phaidon Press, distributed by Doubleday. "Head of Moses" Michelangelo, is reproduced in "Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture," by Ludwig Goldscheider.

"Head of a Girl," in the manner of Leonardo, is from "Classic Art: The Great Masters of the Italian Renaissance," by II. Wolfflin. Both books are profusely illustrated. Andrew Prine listens to argument between Miriam Hopkins and Ed Begley about legal document she wants him to sign in "Look Homeward, Angel," drama opening Playhouse in the Park season, June 8. Conflict By FRED DANZIG NEW YORK, April 25 No matter how slowly and de liberately Lloyd Nolan seems to glay his part in TV's forthcoming, Ah, Wilderness," he'll probably feel he moving too fast.

The reason is George M. Co han. Back in 1933 saw Cohan play the part of Nat Miller, the solid, understanding father in Eugene O'Neill New England folk com edy about a rebellious adolescent. Now, Nolan will portray Miller in the final Hallmark Hall of Eame production of the season, on NBC-TV Tuesday. "When Cohan played the part," said the handsome, silver-haired Nolan, "he sure took his time.

He didn't miss a trick. Why, he stretched the play 25 minutes just by being very deliberate in his talk and movements. But that was on the stage, where he could do it. On TV, there's no time to lose. We've got to clip right long, so there no danger of my being influenced by Cohan's performance." ALL-STAR CAST the TV cast with Nolan will be Helen Hayes as Mrs.

Miller; Burgess Meredith as Sid Davis, the tippler; Betty Field as Lily Miller, and Lee Kinsolving as the teen-age son, Richard, who gets into a jam by quoting Swinburne to his sweetheart. An actor for more than 30 years, Nolan first achieved prominence in roles far different from the Nat Miller type. He played the hard-boiled cop so often that bookies still flee from him on the street. But five years ago Nolan proved he was a star as Cap- Citaart in "TVio Painp Mil. tiny Court Martial" on stage TV Ho onnnnH a Irncr nf "hsct award T.afnlv hnwovpr Nolan seems to have mellowed.

He played the part of an understanding, kind doctor in "Peyton Place" and he sees a similarity between that role and Nat Miller. VACATION WITH PAY Nolan regards his current TV assignment in New York as a vacation with pay. "Ordinarily," he explained, "I don't like to leave the wife and kids, but the weather is nice here in April and getting to work is no problem. Ginger Deplores Filmland Sellout' Solutions By Slick Manning Coles' "Duty Free" (Crime Club, $3.50) is a very smoothly deployed, mildly amusing satiric romance with a couple of minor characters labeled crooks to qualify it for the Crime Club category. Itr scene is a principality in the Pyrenees so tiny that it Sleuths has been overlooked ft, THE HOUSE OF INTELLECT.

'By Jacques Barzun. (Harper. 274 pages. Mr. Jacques Barzun manages to be a university administrator and at the same time keep up his scholarship and his teaching, and also repeatedly prove himself a polished and witty writer.

This is no mean feat. The present book is so amusingly wiitten that only after the reader has been enchanted through it does he comprehend that it is a savage, indignant arraignment of modern democratic culture in Europe and England but primarily in the Unite'd States. Mr. Barzin's idea of Intellect is rigorous. It means hard work, "concentration, continuity, ar ticulate precision, and self- awareness." In the name of these magnificent virtues, he lays about him.

It is a stagger ingly firm book, getting directly, sometimes rudely, at central points. OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS Yet it is by no means simply another sentimental lament over the pathetic anti-intellectualism of the masses. Instead it is an objective analysis of the situa iton, which puts the blame for the sense of the degradation that has everywhere menaced the mind in western civilization upon the intellectuals themselves: "They have abdicated but live on, self-exiled." Mr. Barzun's choice of foes is startling. He himself is at home in the arts, but he names as the first seducer of intellectuals the modern cult of Art.

The other two are Science and Philanthropy. The worship of Art, with a capital substitutes sensation for thought; Science does not mean something opposed to "the humanities" but a mystery that through "the increasing fantasy of its concepts and symbols" has also receded from the common world. FOUNDATIONS CHIDE These two are joined in unholy matrimony, chiefly by the foundations, into a gigantic scheme of Philanthropy which, with the most innocent of pretensions, corrupts the ideal of instruction and intellectual authority, leaving us with a vague notion of education in which few know anything, which is in effect a denial of Intellect. This dissection of the intellec tual debacle of our age is so ruthless, and so convincing, that it tempts the reader to despair. NO SURRENDER Without false optimism, Mr.

Barzun does not surrender. Though the Intellect is today in peril, it cannot be in mortal mlHnnt floehn. fused the clear crystal of alphabet and number," it will paradoxically survive even if it die. This happy conjunction of severity and gaiety leads the Provost of Columbia University to find vigor in juvenile delinquency, virtue in intellectual Ins (infl nnti rrlinciltr i 7 v- nuuai 'c icSc.iuui6 fui- cnase ot scnoiany dooks. iie is fairly rough on teachers who seek for foundation grants order to escape teaching.

Reviews i was an muor more inan 60 Years," by Thomas A. JIT lif Ti fi -m mi i 311 tne rumors he heaas history as well as progress. A money-pinch leads, on the ad- vice of the Prince's British pterodactyl, which for so long has valet-de-chambre, to a quicklyjbeen only a word to trip unwary t. Lurks History Of Aztecs Is Tragic THE AZTECS: People of the1 Sun. By Alfonso Caso.

Translated by Lowell Dunham. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. (University of Oklahoma Press, Because the Aztecs were the dominant civilization of Middle America at the time of the Con quest, we know much more about HI I IflFlfll ii it i Z)t phtlflbtlphta Jlnquirec suppresse d(and rather skillfully stagedK Communist revolution whetrihe waS which brings in an American mcn seen in Malaya in 1953 ware Economic Mission. Meanwhile men or apes, he "can only leaye the Prince is falling in love withie reader to draw his own con- By RICK DUBROW HOLLYWOOD, April 25 (UPI). Ginger Rogers says women are losing out as movieland's top stars because they don't know now to oargain man-style smoke-filled conference rooms And she says the movies are lus- l0od'S bi8 SUnS Listen to the lady "The movies have become more and more of a financial hazard.

And the men who con trol them think that only other men understand business. So they deal mostly with male stnrs because they speak the same language. AILING INDUSTRY "It's like trying to break into a political caucus for a woman to get into those smoke-filled with him or threaten him. The film industry 13 "Really, this Is a woman business. It's vanity business ttiinrfc TKa'o '1U, lS 1 Even in A Laugh WAR IS A PRIVATE AFFAIR By Edmund G.

Love, (liar court, Brace. 192 pages. Grim-visaged war wears the mask of comedy in most of these ten unofficial case histories com piled by Edmund G. Love. The subjects are men who, for the most part, succeeded in living their own lives although caught up in the great authoritarian Army machine.

As a platoon sergeant in the 776th Chemical Company, based in Panama, Mr. Lowe had to deal with Adolphus Lamb, a profes sional football star who could do no wrong and was required to do no work; the Canal Zone's wild life brought Lamb's reign to an end. In Panama, too, Mr. Love, perturbed by the fact that the men in his platoon were being al together too successful in living their own lives instead of protecting the Canal from a sneak attack, shook them (and the whole Zone) by turning the handle of an air raid siren. The story of Col.

Hans Fricke comes from Mr. Love experiences while assigned to the 7th Writing and Historical Unit (7th WAHU) stationed in Honolulu. The Colonel ingeniously arranged that his WAC wife (blonde) be sent from the States as his secre tary, and when the War Depart ment sent another blonde he ac cepted the substitute, in way. every Bureaucracy and horerlnm. of course, were not the nnlvpnpmies operating in the Pacific Theater.

There were the Japanese. There are five stories in Mr. Love's book drawn from the records of island battle: the wild exploits of a teen-aged klepto-maniacal private named Pros-niak; the painful but hilarious story of Private Hackleford, who was shot in the toe and received four Purple Hearts; and the story of a company which rescued a baby girl from an island cave, The show is a lot of fun, the cast rooms. You just can't. Women is ready, and it's all very pleas- don't operate the same way as ant." men.

They can't throw around Still, as soon as "Ah, Wilder-f0Ur-letter words, slap a guy on ness" is taped, Nolan will headhe back, eo out and get drunk American heiress who has a an rich satiric possibilities of this fable are explored only in the most harmless ways. "Man in Ambush" (Harper, $2.95) is the latest in Maurice Procter's increasingly effective succession of tales about the police in the great midlands city of Granchester. In this one, the murder of a detective while iir back to Brentwood, home base. He doesn't want to get tied GINGER ROGERS Baroque Gems on Stereo Thn f'rirt'tfin rr.ir Inil Tflft down to the West Coast. AniSick( sick.

The movies always actor must be fluid today," hejflourjshed when women got equal said. "I can't just sit in Holly-I billing with men. Now only a few wood ana say i ao pictures anacan quiring into an apparently rod-! lela border in 1917 by a pardon-tine case of financial hanky-ihly alarmed Swiss geologist wo pictures alone. There aren't that many pictures panky sets Detective Inspector.curiously neglected to preserve He'll also finish work in a newjfull o( cnjcness and giamor and ON THE TRACK OF UNKNOWN ANIMALS Ril Rprrtvf Won. velmans.

Translated from the French by Richard Garnett. Introduction by Gerald Dur-rell. (Hill and Wang. 553 pages. $6.95.) The author of this hefty tome? is a Belgian zoologist who earned his doctorate with a thesis on thj dentition of the aardvark.

Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, as you with see, believes in starting at the very beginning of things, including the beginning of the dictionary. The title and theme of Dr. Heuvelmans book are irresistible. He is saying that our planet must contain a lot of animals as yetj unknown, or once well known and wrongly deemed extinct.

Have you seen a dinosaur lately? I LURKING IN OOZE Probably not, but that's no reai son to be smugly sure there isn't one lurking in the dark ooze oS inner Africa. Or so the doctdrj argues. He himself hasn't seen4 the Abominable Snowman, but he has read enough reports by alleged eyewitnesses to convince him of the Abominable one's ex-l islence. He even has a theory about justj what it is: a giant biped anthroJ poid that fled to the uplands long ago when it felt civilization closing in. Observe, he asks you, all the fauna that have come into the catalog after pundits rashly said that nothing important remained to be discovered.

So now have the giant panda (1889). the okapi (1900), the pygmy chimp (1928) THOSE APE MEN Mind you, he doesn't accent I andf wonderful. i That a bat-like creature seen wi recent times in Africa is a tnft iflds ln sPe'hng bees, is a "myi- iinnr trial- rAmnine in Wa Jt ions- probably saftr mai way. But about others hp rrnHo jconvinced, some of them of-4 a sort vividlv described bv victims of the D. T.s.

His prize perhaps because it is the only one of his "unknown animals" of which there is a good picture is a real horror; at first glance, a female spider-monkey but taller than that species, rce massive, and without a tail. It iWaS shot on the Colombia-Verfe- Rococo Art In Baltimore "Age of Elegance: The Rococo and Its Effect," the major exhibition of the 1958-59 season at the Baltimore Museum of Art, will open in the museum's main galleries today. The largest exhibition ever assembled by the Baltimore Museum and the first exhibition ever held in America, in which the Rococo style is defined in its various expressions in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, England, and the American Colonies. The show will continue through June 14. Best Sellers 1 This chart If compiled from report! supplied to The Inquirer by the following bookshops: Baini, Kails, Cefra, Fireside, Frirate, Cimbels, Ltti, Rellly, Seitler, BnellrnburKs, Strawbrldge Clothier, VYanamakttr.

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EAT WELL AND STAY i WELL. Keys', FIELDING'S TRAVEL A GUIDE TO EUROPE. 1 them than we do about the iaz- because, being "the iSonata (Vanguard' Stere0' $5'95 Pcwer which put of man's inter- uiv Si PR1 Vivo mas. TV series, A. 7," in which he portrays a crime-busting Treasury agent.

LAW SIDETRACKED Nolan, born in San Francisco, studied law at Stanford University for three years and left in 1927 to become an actor. He joined the Pasadena Playhouse w.wv. in the good old days. "The same men have been seated in executive chairs too long. They've gotten fickle, their morals have degenerated and gone to pot.

The codes we set up oniHn tho mnvip rlnn't moan1 ain win gei inruugn uie censors, uecause tne proaucer is a mend i and, belore long, was ihas been known only to archiv-in stage classics by Ibsen andj and it is to the great credit of Shakesnpare. Beina away from une picture tun ot snme ana i iftlO "Raph Hintr! that if hgc hnpni land other earlier peoples whose cultures were in many ways superior. We have eye-witness accounts of how the Aztecs actually lived and conducted their society. There are also penetrating studies by 16th-century scholars which drew upon the surviving illustrated codices as well as upon the memories of the enslaved survivors of Montezuma's empire. No one is better equipped to in- terpret this complex of fact and myth than Alfonso Caso, best known for his epoch-making exploration of Monte Alban, the ceremonial center of the earlier Zapotcc civilization to the south, bat also an expert in Aztec lore and a distinguished writer.

DIVINITIES PICTURED The present essay is an expanded version of Caso's "The Religion of the Aztecs," now out family and friends hebed him develop as an nctnr Nolan be- lieves. "If you're too close to home, oi someone. Anomer, wnn you've' got your parents watch-jUng injand carried and cared for her throughout a battle. less wrong, gets cut. They're let- polices become our moral, IM1MM Mill! Illllll IIA HI W(I morals If the movies had been run by more moral and mature persons, said the slim, vivacious blonde actress, they would nsver have sold films to TV.

NEED FOR GAIETY in Brief seven lives and caused more $11 million damage. Hag- of print, embellished with superbitricking) tale to tell and with it ccrtv (Thanha Publishing Co.J6erty tells nis story in an ea "It was a sellout, pure and 3,1 Kinas- ruccim Pera ine plain," she said. "Then every-Girl of the Golden based body wonders what happened to on the once play of that the picture business. by David Belasco, has not fell because performers who an-! thieved much currency in the six-color reconstructions of thcltne special advantage ot a Diaz Deared on TV movies didn't house' However, this com ing, or your irienas out troiu, and they always tell you how wonderful you are. You can walk on without pants and they'll think it's great.

But away from home, you get solid criticism. That's where I found out I was OK in the company of professionals," Nolan said. Lyric Plans Full Season Continued from First Page ana" with the Philadelphia Orchestra next season. MET STARS SIGNED The Lyric will present a repeat of "La Boheme," Friday, Nnv. 20.

a earn with Elisabeth Carron and Diana Brewster, and with Giuseppe Di Stefano, famous tenor, in his first appearance here since 1956. Di Stefano wil) also sing in "Carmen" Friday, Dec. 4, with Jean Madeira and Norman Treigle, baritone, repeating their roles of this past season Aztec divinities by the late Miguel Covarrubias. It is Caso's belief that the Aztecs were only beginning to find themselves as a religious culture when Cortes arrived on the scene. Exceptional men, like King Neza-hualcoyotl of'Texcoco, had already tried to reduce the stultifying polytheism to a single (and even invisible) divine being.

But meanwhile the Aztecs were im- ardous and thoroughly exciting problem. Reading Dale Clark's "Death Wore Fins" (Mystery House, $2.75) is like riding in a car with a driver whose notions of propulsion are extremely whimsical but who keeps up so amusing a stream of conversation that you are usefully distracted. Mr. Clark's principal, Ken Sverder- up, is a reporter on I he Milque yaiTs Gobe" summoned 0 La Jolla to be commended by the owner (and peremptory Grand Old Man) who has a notion of involving Sverderup in some extra curricular and familial problems. They involve multiple murder and an ingeniously contrived paternity puzzle.

In "The Salazar Grant" (Rine-hardt, $3.50) E. L. Withers has a very simple (and handsomely ing New Mexico setting. But a potentially tight little thriller is unaccountably transmitted through the laborious awareness of Hendrick (sic) van Doom, a representative of the Royal Netherlands Mineral Produc tions Co. The consequence is like- trying to run in a swimming pool when you could just as well swim it.

cessful thrillers, but on "The Dark Road" (Messner, $3) James Cross carries the game too far. He besets bright Harry Benton, his honest, tactless hero, with two rather perfunctorily related problems (diamonds and a little black book containing po- revs up uuui su mai uie utu is nprfprtlv friohtfnl Mnrh nf thp unstinting artinn is nrpttv P. citing but after a while there is quite simply too much of it so that we are ready for a rest before Mr. Cross is. Lee Roberts (especially as Robert Martin) gave us a very persuasive, modest succession of tales about a private investigator, Jim Bennett, who worked in boarding houses and factories, and knew the territory.

"If the Shoe Fits" (Dodd, Mead, $2.95) takes a giddy spin in the cultivated world of the successful executive and professional man and makes its way into the coun try club as it inquires who bashed out the loose-living playboy brains. School Music Festival The 50th Anniversary music festival will be held at William Penn High School at 8 P. M. Thursday. It.

will feature an or- gan recital by Samuel R. Cosby, Jr. A been the object of many sue terpieces of the Italian Baroque; by Alessandro Stradeila, Giuseppe Torelli, Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli and Giuseppe Sammartini, make up this en- gaging disc. Much of this music i eias luusica wiamoer urcnesira Hansen. liolh recordings are bright and luminous with the stereo version adding richness and tonal depth.

La Fanciulla del West (Puccini, London, Despite; the popularity of "Westerns" of plete and altogether superb stereo recording of this lyric drama depicting life in Cali fornia during the Gold Rush, may make some headway toward reinstating the work in the repertory. Renata Tebaldi stars as Minnie in tne tiue roie; tenor; Mario del Monaco is excellent as Dick Johnson and Cornell MacNeil, baritone, makes a tre mendous impression as Sheriff Jack Ranee while Giorgio Tozzi, basso, is Jake Wallace, the vaga bond minstrel. Franco Capuana conducts the chorus and orchestra of Rome's St. Cecilia's Acad emy and London's stereo engi neers have contributed splendid depth and directionality toward a completely praiseworthy undertaking. Second Symphony Howard Hanson (Mercury This "Romantic" symphony from the 1930s has found its place in the repertory by its warmth and ready appeal, evident even at first hearing.

Dr. Hanson con ducts it here with understand ame auection and the tun support of his Eastman-Rochester Orchestra. On the obverse Han son leads the orchestra and the Eastman School of Music Chorus through his Lament for Beo wulf, based on a part of the 8th century Anglo-Saxon epic poem Morris Second plays the promi nent French horn solo. Images for Orchestra Debussy (RCA-Victor A truly magnetic and compelling publication by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra of this well known impressionistic suite one of Debussy's most colorful and enchanting masterpieces. E.

H. S. 7 exploited. PARADOXICAL BELIEFS On the one hand, they believed themselves to be a Chosen Peo ple, whose imperialistic mission was to keep the gods of the sun and rain so well supplied with! sacrificial victims that life, enormous secrets i ana, Roberta Peters will sing theitures like That the kind 1" chatty style. "The Merchants of Life," by Tom Mahoney (Harper): In this history of the American pharmaceutical industry, Mahoney tells how methodically commercial drug research proceeds.

A dis ease is picked out for which there is no really good remedy. Then a team of scientists concentrates on finding one. Often it succeeds. But there's many an expensive slip. One drug company was about to market a new product against tuberculosis after long research entailing the synthesis of more than 5000 chemical compounds and the use of 50,000 mice.

But a competitor got there first by a few days with the same drug. "A Quite Remarkable Father," by Leslie Ruth Howard (Harcourt, Brace): The remarkable father in this book by his daughter was the English actor Leslie Howard, who lost his life during the Second World War when his plane was shot down by the Nazis. He had achieved stardom on stage and screen in such productions as "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "The Petrified Forest" despite his firm belief that acting was woman's work. Miss Howard writes with natural adoration but without the cloying that sometimes marks such efforts. "The Shanghai Item," by Mona Gardner (Doubleday): The author of the well-received Oriental novel, "Hong Kong," now follows it with a collection of short stories filled with the sights, sounds and colors of the Orient.

Miss Gardner's stories offer a broad variety of characters and subject matter; title role of "Lucia di Lammer- of picture that made Hollywood moor" Tuesday, Dec. 29. Renatajthe most glamorous name in the Tebaldi, Eugenio Fernandi andjworld." Walter Cassel will be the prin- ,7, i Vvinsted, lhe memoirs of a dedicated newspaperman who retired in 1957 at the age of 83 from the Winsted Citizen, a newspaper he had edited for 31 years. Haggerty looks back longingly to a time "when a man so disposed could start a news paper witn a case or tw0 0f type, a job press and the determina tion to rescue the people from themselves." He tells of his meetings with several Presl dents, of witnessing a vicious murder, of the disastrous Win sted flood of 1955 which took Radio Music This Week Continued from Page 6 7- 8 WHY BEETHOVEN PROGRAM Egmnnt Overture: Partoral Symphony 8- I0-WF1L-FM-IONCERT HALL Symphony 2 in A Morart Two-Piano Concerto 2 Mendelssohn Bronze "Horse Overture Auber Orchestra Suite 03 In Tchaikovsky Kamarinskaya Glinka 9- 10-WFLN-FM-SYMPHONY HAIL Peter Schmoll Overture Weber Harp Concerto Handel La Tragedie de Salome Schmitt SATURDAY, MAY 2 9 05-ll-WJBR-STEREOPHOMC Symphony 1 In minor Brahms Piano Concerto 1 in flat Liszt Symphony 2 In Sibelius l-3-WFLN-AM-FM-8TEREOPHONIC Fra Dlavolo Overture Auber Symphontc Sketches: Noel Chadwick Grand Canyon Suite Grnfe March for Band Persichetti Grand Jeu et Dou D'Aquin Introduction and Rondo Saint-Saens Concerto for Orchestra Bartok 2-4-WJBR-RATlIRDAJT SYMPHONY Nabucco Overture Verdi Symphony 2 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1 Mendelssohn Symphony ttl In Balakirev 7-8-WFIL-FM-SYMPHON HOI Hying Dutchman Overture Wagner Harold in Italy Berlioz 058-VtFLN-WQXR QUARTET uartet in F. Op.

77. ttl Haydn String Quartet Jr5 in A Beethoven 8 30-11-WFLN-FM-GOt'NOD "FAl ST" Cleva. Metropolitan Opera) Conley, Steber, Siepi. Uuarrera the sense of competing with themselves in theaters. Naturally, the audiences preferred what they got for free." Miss Rogers said that the same people who are responsible for the decline of the movie business are the promoters of what she terms "the problem picture." if you and i nave our own problems," she said, "why should we go through the slums and mental wards they show now on the screen? That's not enter tainment.

But we've gone so far along the primrose path that it now takes more courage to make a plain woman's picture than some great, arty, message thing. "What we need are more pic- JacOD rillOW reSTIVai To Star Ballet Rambert LEE, Mass. The 1959 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival is set for a record of 60 performances between June 30 and Aug. 29. Ted Shawn's Berkshire summer congress of dancers from all over the world will present Ballet Rambert, England's oldest company, in a long overdue U.

S. debut, July 14 through Aug. 1. Soloists of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens will come from Mon-: treal for a U. S.

debut. The Ximenez-Vargas Ballets Espanol will return for a week. Thomas Andrew will appear with a company from the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and others who will appear witn tneir compan- ies are Pearl Lang, Myra Kinch and Aivin Aiiey. ooiuims win include Ruth St. Denis, La Meri, Carola Goya and Maiteo.

ii -1 for that matter the universe it self, would continue to function. On the other, this total preoc cupation with staving off a disas ter that was inevitable anyway tended to make them passive, melancholy and fatalistic It is a tantalizing glimpse into a tragic history from which we have much to learn. Bell Completes Trilogy On Revolutionary War "Danger on the Jersey Shore," the third volume of Kensil Bell's trilogy of documentary older boys and girls derived from Revolutionary War events in the Delaware Valley between the Battle of Brandywine and the end of the Valley Forge encampment, will be published by Dodd, Mead New York, on Aug. 17. A South Jerseyman by birth, Bell, a free-lance advertising writer lives in Chester Springs, Pa.

cipals in "Tosca" Thursday, Jan. 28. "Rigoletto" will be given Tuesday, Feb. 13, with three Met stars: Hilde Gueden, Flaviano Labo (tenor who made his local bow with the Lyric last season) and Ettore Bastianini, baritone. AID YOUNG SINGERS Butterfly" will close the Lyric series Friday, March 11, cast to be announced.

Richard Karp, conductor of the Pittsburgh Opera will direct "Lucia" and one other opera. Other conductors include Carlo Moresco and Anton Roc-co Guadagno. In line with the Lyric's policy of aiding younger singers, its Little Lyric Opera Co. will pre tent "La Traviata," with Diana iirewstcr, Enrico di Giuseppe and Nicola Maxymus, on Friday, April 1. S.

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