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ress Agent Doffs Mas! With Enchanting I Fakcry Is Examined COVSTERFEIT, by Soma Cole (Ahilard-Scuiman, 'J 1)9 pages, This collection of deceptions ranges from the Pilt-down skull to Van Meeg-eren's forgeries of Vcrmeer paintings. The English author not only gives the history of well and less known frauds but she examines the characters and mentalities of the perpetrators. They were all ill-adjusted personalities. if. i Ii iu i- know, of a theatrical press agent is that in it a press agent, takes off his professional mask and talks about his product, the theater, with uninhibited and exuberant candor.

HE ISN'T selling anything except a vastly diverting chronicle of show business and the part he has played in it, Maney is not only one of the most skilled practitioners in his field but a writer of wit and style, and his book comes at the peak of his career. In 33 years lie has publicized 250 shows, most of them There's Rousing Fun in This Tale of Life on River Till: VOYAGERS by Dale Van Every (Henry Holt 317 page, Dale Van Every provides a humorous twist to his latest narrative and romance on the Mississippi river in the late 18th century. His descriptive powers create a lively picture of the period. Abel Traner, saddled with a swarm of lazy relatives, is overcome by the wanderlust and departs from his Monongahela home on his wedding morning. Adventures, romance and wealth pile up with amazing regularity for young Abel.

But Abel retraces his steps from New Orleans all the way back home with plenty of tribulations, and arrives pretty much in the same position in which he left, though somewhat wiser. Altogether, it adds up to a rousing tale. T.J.P. FAXFARE: The Conies-sions of a 1'rtss A pi nt, by Richard Mam if liar-per, 371 page, Reviewed by JOHN K. SHERMAN Press agents, by the nature of their calling, devote their lives and apply their ingenuity to the task of writing only favorable things.

They are promotional experts in the service of undertakings seeking the approval and dollars of the customer. The piquant quality of this memoir the first autobiography, so far as I BOOK yy Hi I III 1 rU, Ml MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE Nov. 10, NEWS Plaitie hat cover See dia3ram A American Legion Button Public relations love of the U1A Third eve for the old world Pigeon Mi for complexes Dates bag (mothtrl irf. birthd Ambition Numbtn bg First name bag Diagram A Strip teaic tie ZG I 'A Martini Mv Ffivnt Charles Dcmuth, American artist, was taught by the cubists "to shat i Tijr i-y pi ter shapes, and he proceeded to crack the very skies as well writes Alexander Eliot, art editor of Time magazine, in "Three Hundred Years of American Painting" (Time, The book, a comprehensive history of art in the United States since colonial times, is illustrated with 250 reproductions in full color The above, "My Egypt" by Demuth, was painted in 1927. tfitf BOOKS OF THE WEEK Important and interesting booh reeently published: THE SANDBURG RANGE, by Carl Sandburg $6).

A rich and well chosen selection of poems and Author to Speak Thclma Jones, author of the new book "Once Upon a Lake," the story of Lake Minnetonka, will be guest on the Book Chats program at 4 p.m. Monday on radio station KUOM. 6 UJrnJ A ii Ulcer I books Sandburg has written, prose excerpts irom some iL. U1- inciuuiiif; uiu nicmuiuuit; poem on Chicago starting log butcher of the world" and a large hunk from his biography of Lincoln. BYRON: A BIOGRAPHY, by Leslie A.

Marchand (Knopf, 3 volumes, $20). First full-length biography of Lord Byron in 25 years, and certainly the definitive one of our time. Marchand used new source materials. lnllnwnd Rvrnn'a fnntstpns I I 1 all over Europe and put 10 years' work into this meticulously detailed portrait of a vain, eccentric, many-sided man who happened to be a genius. Illustrated.

i X-ray of a typical American citizen, from the JUlin European viewpoint a drawing by Walter Goctz in "The Secret of Major Thompson" by Pierre Daninos (Knopf, The book, a sequel to the popular "Notebooks of Major Thompson," which explored the foibles of the French, casts a satirical glance at the Anglo-Saxon tribes of England and America. VISIT WORLD BULL RINGS Aficionados Will Result Broadway productions, and today he is the much-beleaguered and immensely popular spokesman for "My Fair Lady," the musical of the century. He has not always been so fortunate in the plays he has pledged to tout, and over the years he has labored vainly for many a flop. But with all the hazards of his trade, the shows that fizzled and the lunatics he's dealt with, Maney admits he couldn't have chosen a calling with more fun and edification in it or associated with more enchanting folk than stage people. HIS BOOK is crammed with anecdotes and thumbnail portraits (some of them caustic) of players and producers, and it oozes with the color and atmosphere of the theater.

Moreover, Maney himself is a "character" in this self-portrait; he loves baseball, France, and a touch of spirits now and then; his vocabulary is luxuriant and picturesque, especially rich in synonyms and flamboyant euphemisms. Of Maney's revelations and reflections, the following may be cited: The reason New York openings are set at 8 p.m.. is to give Times critic Brooks Atkinson time to write his review in longhand. Ed Wynn, Charles Chaplin and W. C.

Fields are the great clowns of our time. Katharine Cornell is all form and technique and lacks warmth, humor and humanity. "I have yet to meet a critic who could be decoyed by a quart of Canadian Club" (Hear! Hear!) There's too much decorum in the world Humor smacks of dissent. By current standards, dissent is a form of treason. The humorists and the hellions are hiding under culverts.

When conformity becomes the law of the land, their heads will be the first to roll." I join Maney in three cheers for humor and dissent! And I heartily recommend his book to all theater buffs. NEW BOOKS MINNEAPOLIS IS READING As reported by the Minneapolis public library: IICTION BY IOVE POSSESSED, by James Could Cozpiis THE CONVERT, by Margaret C'ulkin Dunning RALLY KOUNL) THE I LAG. HOYS! by Max Shulman ANCI-L. by Tavlor I AIKOAKS, bv Frank Ycrby NONI1CTION THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS. bv Vance Packard ANY NUMBER CAN FLAY, by Clifton Endimnn LOST CITIES, by Leonard Cot- (roll THE NEW CLASS, by Milovan Djilas BAKUC'H: MY OWN STORY, by Bernard Baruch done in such a way as to preserve the flavor of the magazine through its hundred years.

THE PAGES sparkle with the names that have become synonymous with American thought and literature- James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Thoreau. George Bancroft, Carl Sandburg, Alexander Woollcott, Mark Twain, Henry W. Longfellow, William Faulkner. An introduction which gives a brief history of the magazine, a roster of the editors and the organization of the anthology into a scries of subject matter make the volume nil the For Creative Cooks COOKING AMLIUCAN ny MJnty 'J Ikrni SLASON TO TAsrt; liy I'fjigy Harvey TWTI.Vr COMPANY DIN RS ty MarRit Sec Tfifpi The ft 31 I4TH AVE. S.E.

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The author has taken his turn as a matador and he knows what he is talking about. His book is authoritative and fascinating. TARI. SAMnmiDf. CamilS' Short jiuncd iu Be Published Short stories by Albert Camus, recent Nobel prize winner, will be published by Knopf next March under the title of "The Exile and the Kingdom" Clare Boothe Luce is engaged in writing her BOOK memoirs to be called "The GOSSIP Dream of My Life," covering her multiple career as playwright congresswoman and ambassador to Italy Alice Carlson in Powers book section has assembled a lavish display of imported books now on view art and travel tomes from countries all the way from Finland to Japan, many of large format with color reproductions, plus recent French novels (in French) and even European roadmaps Erskine Caldwell, author of the best-selling "God's Little Acre," has finally given in and permitted a film treatment of his novel, starring Aldo Ray and Robert Ryan.

Children's Book Dinner Tuesday Phyllis Tenner, writer and compiler of children's books, will be chief speaker at the annual children's book dinner to be held at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday in Coffman Memorial Union ballroom. Dinner guests will include Minnesota authors of children's books and two visitors from Asia, Mrs. Dolly Boga, head of the UNESCO pilot library for children in New Delhi, India, and Amy Rustomji, Karachi, Pakistan. Miss Rustomji's father is principal of a school to which Minneapolis English Teachers club recently sent a shipment of books.

more worthwile and enjoyable. Especially for Atlantic readers, but also for every other literate American, here is a book which will become a desk companion and which carries a great deal of American pride. AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a YOGI by PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA A Spiritual Classic 'These pages with Incomparable strength and clarity, a fascinating life, personality of unheard-of greatness. The author undertakes the unique task Of Instructing the Western reader In the practical application of yoga, setting the example In his own these pages is undeniable proof that only the mental and spiritual striving of man has lasting value, and that he can conquer all material obstacles by Inward We must credit this Important autobiog raphy with the power to bring about a spiritual revolution." SchleswigrjolstcinischeTagespost fjaily newspaper of Germany. SEIJ-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP Dept.

AN 7, Lo Angeles e5, Calif, BOOKS liOOKSOPTIIEWEEK IMPORT ROOKS Como and bpo our import books gathered together from far away places such beautiful gift suggestions in hooks from Italy, France, Holland, Switzerland, England, Japan, Sweden We nlso luivo Invrlv and landscape prints and cal endars from Switzerland. roniRi riRT moor hooks. A Ml KVM.I.nool) MiehaU ulHtS Atlantic Jubilee Selections Preserve Flavor of Americana Enjoy GATES OF FEAR, by llarnahif Conrad (Crow-ill, 337 pages, Reviewed by NORMAN HOUK Barnaby Conrad takes the reader on a tour of the world's bull rings in this new, large, handsome book. Conrad is the author of "Matador" and "La Fiesta Brava," both of which have been highly esteemed by Americans who share the Spanish and Mexican love of bullfighting, or have an active curiosity about it. The tour starts with ring at Talavera de the la Reina in Spain, and with the death there of the great Joselito cl Gallc in 1920.

Joselito started fighting bulls as a boy an! had a long career. He had an easy graceful style and had a record of killing 251 bulls in 210 days in 19IG. HE WAS so good so long the public tired of him and turned against him. He had to fight, then, not only the bulls but the spectators to make a comeback. I At last he had the ill luck to draw a bull with defective eyesight that couldn't see the cape at close range.

So could not control Joselito and di- vert the charge. And that was the end. The stories of the vari ous bull rings are told in the terms of the men who fought great fights in them. There is a pattern in the biographies. The potential matador starts practicing in boyhood, often with a family background of bullfighters.

In Spain there is almost no other way a boy can rise from poverty to fame and fortune. After becoming a millionaire, matador tries to retire. Few manage to stay retired. The gates of fear call them back. These are the gates through which the bulls dash into the ring.

"Gates of Fear" is liberally illustrated with draw-, ings, paintings and photographs. One camera series consists of candid close- ups of Mary Martin. Jinx Falkenburg, Tex McCrary w1- tStJst New Library Photo Album 2" Regularly 5.95 By Jl 111 LEE: One Hundred lears vf The Atlantic, edited by Edward Wcrkn and Emily Flint (Utile, Hrown, 716 pages, Reviewed by CLIFFORD D. SIMAK John Grecnleaf Whitticr, the Quaker poet, was a hard man to deal with. He wrote steadily for the Atlantic Monthly magazine during the first decade of its existence and always, according to the notation in this jubilee year selection, bartered for large fees.

Not Infrequently he received $100 a poem, and $100 back in the 1857 was a lot more money than it is today. NOT ALL the editorial notes which are used to introduce each of the collected articles In this work are as pithy or tarry a chuckle such as the one concerning Whitticr, but the comment In all cases is pointed to increase the enjoyment and appreciation of the article itself. It would be difficult to select a representative cross-section of any magazine over a hundred years of existence and the task becomes even more difficult with a magazine like the Atlantic. Still, the job has been done by Weeks, ninth editor of the Atlantic, and Miss Hint, the first woman to hold the rank of managing editor. And it has been 1 .1 it BV a am OOK shop.

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