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2-G Oakland Tribune Sunday, April 28, 1946 'Ait and Artists ill iTTMi" AND TH ARTS Music and Musicians Books and Authors Mills Summer Session Boasts, Reginald Marsh By HELEM ClXMnrf William Gaw, chairman of the Creative Art Workshop. Announced by Board By CLIFFORD GESSLER Butler Is Heralded as British James M. Cain By NANCY BARR MAVITY. Tribune Literary Editor announces that Reginald Marsh, famous American painter, will join the Mills College Summer Session which will be conducted from July 6 to August 17' He will teach courses Music will take to the woods again this Summer in the in painting with special emphasis on figure I drawing. He will be in residence at The United btates House open-air surroundings of Woodminster Bowl, where the Oakland Board of Park Directors has announced its fifth annual series of 15 free Sunday afternoon concerts, beginning June 16.

The series will include three concerts by the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Orley Sec, which will A new English novelist comes to American attention by what Her which will feature the study of American history, literature, bert Spencer (who talked like that) called "a concatenation of circum creative'art and creative! stances." His first novel was accepted by tne first punnsner who saw it and the publishing house, shortly thereafter, was blown up in the blitz. music, social and economic Mrc WilHonhrrm open the season with a guest artist to be announced; a con cert by the Oakland Orpheus Reginald Marsh is one of Symphony No. 5 in flat major. A freak of undesigned publicity brougnt rum transatlantic xame ana the American publication of two of his stories. Wherein Our SaUonnen Unwittingly Shows Ceramics America's foremost contempo the chorus will sing six songs.se Project a Book Into Best-Sellerdom The ceramics by Marguerite rary artists.

Some of his paintings have been reproduced in Life magazine, the most popular being Coney Wildenhain were acclaimed as the Kiss THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS, by Gerald Butler; Rinehart and lected from the works of Pales trina, Copland, Bach, Douglas Moore and de la Rue. The string quartet will interpret Beethoven's Quartet, Opus 18, No. 1. N.Y.; $2.50. finest ever shown in America by Dr.

U. A. Middledorf of the University of Chicago. (Her work, entirely handthrown and highly A $50,000 advertising stunt catapulted Into best-sellerdom a book Island Beach, 1938. He has been a teacher for ten years at the Art Students' League in New York and his paintings and frescoes are on display in many galleries and public Of THREE STRINGS which not even its buyers could praise.

Thus stimulated, a serious young novelist hired herself a top flight personal press agent, quite frankly; fired, consists of, stoneware and The triangular-boxed, three- Chorus, conducted by Mynard Jones, and dance programs, ending September 22. A series of. paid admission night performance by professional groups, including ballet, opera, and light opera. Is under consideration for the Fall, according to Hal Boyd, in charge of programs for the board, headed by R. C.

Bitterman, with Nat Levy, vice-president, and F. Ostrander. BARITONE AT U.C. April goes out and the merry month of May comes in with daily musical activity on one or the other tide ef the Joseph James, baritone who cama to the Coast with' the Hall Johnson choir, will for sales promotion without reference to literary values, and thereby1 chint It Includes vases, bowls. stringed Russian balalaika will be became the target for critical brickbats and rotten eggs.

By these com mercial devices, which treated a book strictly as a commodity, like soap, tableware and a few decorative bas-reliefs, nearly all of which have been produced in the United States. buildings, notably the Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum, Wood Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the UJS. Customs House in New York snd Forever Amber" and "The Manatee" got themselves talked about, and sold. The dispensers of these huge advertising appropriations must be Some of the pieces have been displayed throughout the country while others hsve been shown for the first time. V.

many others. He has illustrated several choice editions of famous books and is a member of the Na tearing their hair and beating their breasts to find that a mere couple of humble anonymous readers unwittingly put over a stunt of advance advertising which neither the MacMillan Company nor Russell Birdwell could match, with all their funds. featured as a solo instrument Iri-day night in Oakland Auditorium Theater by Simon Philipoif. who has returned to the concert platform since bis discharge from the Army, where he served as interpreter lor General Clark. His concert is sponsored by the Meni-Ketti Music Co.

of Oakland, under management of Kenneth Pilblad. Philipoff a program includes several of his own compositions, besides the 24th caprice of Paganini, Kreisler's "Caprice Viennois and Mrs. Wildenhain received ker tional Academy, the American Society of Etchers, and National Institute of Arts and Letters. He was the Blood Off My Hands" was a first novel, published in Eng training at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, which was under the direction ot Walter Groplus, now heed land In 1940, and not considered bf enough importance to be picked artist-correspondent for Life maga sine in Brazil irt 1943. Marsh's best of the architectural department at Harvard University.

She went through the six years of study and by American publishers' scouts. That was that until in 1942 a sailor picked up a copy on a transport at Samoa and began reading it aloud. The book, already minus a cover, was dissected into chapters and passed around for communal consumption. paintings have a note of satire as i they picture the contemporary American scene. He has received Gerald Butler, whose two novels hare Just been published Here, la hailed by reviewer cm the British James M.

Cain. apprenticeship required before receiving the degree of master potter. variations on themes of Corelli and Tartini; Rachmaninoff's prelude in sharp minor; Rimsky-Korsakoff Wide Search for Missing Two Chapters many awards for his work, and is During seven years Mrs. Wlldta the author of a book entitled, Anat This piecemeal distribution had disastrous consequences. The last hain and her husband operated their CAPSULE CHATS ON BOOKS omy for Art Students.

Also currently showing at the "Flight of the Bumblebee" and selections from Durand, Monti and Harlick. The piano accompanist ewn workshop la Futtea, Holland, Their work woa especial aerTttn Mills Art Galleryis aa exhibition will be Benjamin Hawes Jones. of three "One Man Shows' Joseph two chapters fell overboard. Then began a search that led from Samoa to New Zealand and all around the Pacific to San Diego. The transport was sunk in the Solomons.

One of its rescued men eventually arrived at the San Diego Naval Hospital, and carried on the treasure bunt lor the missing chapters. He enlisted the help of the San Diego librarian; she appealed to "Publishers' Weekly." Still no copy of "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands." The English publishers, meanwhile, had been bombed FRESH FROM THE PRESSES Albers, Abstractions Mine Ofcubo, OAKLAND SYMPHONY The Oakland Symphony, con Scenes from TarJoran, Trans Ked-erer. Fainting! and drawings. The st the Paris lntevuttoesl Basest tioa fen 1837. Sinee she earn to thai si iti in 1M0 she has taught e4 Cm land College of Arts and Crafts and has had her workshop at Pond Farm, Guars tville, Calil AHT MYSTERY ducted by Orley See, concludes its DENVER MURDERS, edited bv gallery is open Wednesday.

Friday, out in the blitz. GEORGE rtNSSS, by Elizabeth regular season next Sunday in Oak land Auditorium Theater, with Ed Unfortunately, this part of the story ends here, and we are not told Lee Casey; DuelL Sloan St Fearce, Sunday 1-8, and the show wlQ run McCausland; American Artists ust what bright master mind of the Rinehart staff took hand in the ward Ulric, baritone, as guest solo- n.z.;4.s. lsw to iv4Z crime I UUBUU muj Mui. Group, N.Y. Critical biography of a that paid in court thumbed its note quest and how he solved the Mystery of the Vanished Chapters, to the obvious benefit of his house as well as of Machinist's Mate Third Class famous American landscape painter, at fiction in the shadow of Pikes with full page illustrations.

Lloyd Powers. Peak. Happily and coincidentally the book itself stands up to this un- THE HOUSE IN LORDSHIP THE TECHNIQUE OF OIL buyable buildup as worth attention even without the saga. LANE, by A. E.

W. Mason; Dodd, PAINTING, by Frederic Taubes; Gerald Butler is an English James M. Cam not in the sense of that 7 Mead N.Y.; $2.50. Inspector Hanaud of the Paris Surete makes Dodd, Mead Co- N.Y $3. A mod- ern expert discusses traditional murder indeed a pleasure, when vi technique in terms of contemporary master's many imitators, who ape the toughness without capturing the magic that makes style, but with the family resemblance of brothers under the typewriter.

Like Cain, he takes as his preferred protagonist that most difficult of all characters for ordinary folk to understand the real criminal, whose whole map of values is alien territory, and I cariously enjoyed, as he probes the recesses of the criminal mind on problems and resources. "-kw V- if A 1 1 A both sides of the English Channel. FICTION charts that strange country with the disinterested accuracy of a HANGMAN'S HILL, by Frank THIS SIDE OF INNOCENCE, by lyn Fell; Dodd, Mead Co, N.Y. the time rd been blotting up beer for a couple of hours, any Taylor Caldwell; Charles Scribner's ai. war correspondents, a camera fellow who starts anything with me is crazy.

Although maybe I nit him Sons, N.Y.; $3. Double Conflict of harder than I meant, or maybe he hit his head as he went over, or some' business and love, between two man, a gal reporter, a glamorous barmaid and other assorted characters involved in a behind-the-scenes thing, but he looked like a chap who would want plenty of jab, and that brothers with antagonistic ideas of Joseph James. Bay Area baritone, who will be heard tomorrow evening in Wheeler HalL continue the University of California Extension series with a recital tomorrow evening at 8:13 in Wheeler Hall, singing Bach's seldom heard solo cantata No. 86, groups sn't the way he looks as he's on the floor. He looks pretty still.

He looks finance and the woman who mar 1 -v v.v- .1 i 7 A 1 j-i 1 "rc0" 1 r- sin Hum! war interlude with a battle of wits damned still. Come to think of it, he looks too damn still. The whole ried one and loved the other, in rather than guns. $1000 Red Badge pub had dried up like a scab. The place was so quiet you could have America's mohair and plush pe riod.

Literary Guild selection. Mystery. heard a cat mess." Here's Reason for Cain Comparison BLOOD IS A BEGGAR, by MIRROR OP DELUSION, by rnomas Jtiya; j. B. Lippincott Co, Mary Jteinsner; Dodd, Mead Co These opening sentences, in which Bill Saunders commits a murder Philadelphia; $2.

A non-academic N.Y.; $2.50. A series of apparently whose consequences reverberate to the end of the story, show what is detective, with more brains than trivial incidents, beginning with meant by the comparison: like Cain, Butler speaks within his character education, overcomes the disadvan of songs by Borodin, Debussy and Williams, and four early English songs. TWO PIANOS The Oakland Forum series closes Tuesday evening in Oakland Audi and yet, within these strict limitations, smites the language with ham broken mirror, take on sinister implications for the American companion of an artist's Invalid wife in tage of no Phi Beta key when the professor gets himself done in. right mer taps of individual style. But that wasn worrying the men on the gun deck of the transport on campus.

Greece. off Samoa. They wanted tough, fast action, and no nonsense, when Bill, in his flight from the police. Invades the room of a girl (who sells hats OLD DOC, by Elizabeth Seifert; torium Theater at 8:30 with the appearance of Bartlett and Robertson, JUVENILE LOOKING FOR LUCKY, bv Jane Dodd, Mead N.Y.; $2.50. Dr.

at Benny's department store) they would not stand for any "Editha duo pianists, program in Sam Lowry thinks he can retire Edward Ulric, baritone, soloist with Oakland Symphony next Sunday. Quigg; Howell, Soskin, N.Y.: Of Burglar" sentimentality of sudden reform. Nor is Bill a Robin Hood out law with his heart and his morals in the right place. cludes a group of early English from the responsibilities of the hos Tommy's two black kittens, one was pieces, including three of those ar Bill is the true prototype of the "rugged individualist." He goes after what he wants, at others' expense, and the devil take anyone who Ice Cream Cones." qj tempera, painted by Reginald Marsh, who it going to teach at the Mills Summer Session. ranged by Ethel Bartlett for their recently recorded "Elizabethan Schumann's Andante and 1st in the prologue from "Pagliacci" tries to stop him.

His code, insofar as he has one, is satisfied by the ex lost and kind neighbors and chums kept returning the unlost one to their master; the mixup ends happily, with purrs for all. BIOGRAPHY pital to the peace of family life, but finds the frying pan and fire proverb true enough. CAPTAIN GRANT, by Shirley Seifert; J. B. Lipplncott Philadelphia; $3.

A hefty (608 pages) of and the aria "Erf tu" from "The cuse that his violence, rapacity and cheating are always a matter of variations; a Chopin rondo, and single action. Masked Ball." Ulric recently re turned from two years of enter numbers by Paul Pisk, Granados, I don't hit anybody for the sake of hitting." he tells "the kid after ARTS AND CRAFTS COLLEGE 1 tabling service personnel in both knocking out an inoffensive fellow train passenger and grabbing his young U. S. Grant before he took to THE TIME OF OUR LIVES, bv Benjamin, Austen, Arensky, De bussy, Chasins and Llszt-Kovacs. LECTURE RECITAL theaters of war.

wallet, having first cheated him in a craoked card game. That the The strictly orchestral part of TO HEAR SINEL, DESIGNER only, way I know. I don gang up on people, do There was one of me the program will include the first and one of him. That's fair enough, isn't it?" Martine Rouchard; Pantheon Books. N.Y.; $3.

A 14-year-old -French girl wrote for her absent father an in-timate account of her experiences during the war years, and found complete performance of the "Vic In the girl from Benny's, who shoots a bulls-eye through this reason Joseph Sinel, industrial designer The final event in the U.C. series will be a lecture-recital Wednesday night May 1, at 8:15 in Wheeler HalL featuring Hindemlth's "Ludus ing. Bill meets his come-uppance: "I suddenly realized that here was tory" Symphony of Paul Martin, Oakland composer; the prelude and of international repute, will be guest speaker at a dinner meeting something I couldn't snatch. Here was something that I wanted, and it herself awarded a prize for the best "Love Death" from Wagners "Tris was going; and I couldn just take It, because it wasn't that kind of sponsored by the California College autobiography of the year in post Tonalis." Manfred Bukofzer, as sociate professor of music, will lec battles, a beard, whisky and politics, embedding a lot of historical detail in the romance of his wooing and wedding glamour girl Julia Dent SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC, by Raya Keen; J. B.

Lippincott Philadelphia; $2.50. The career of a ballet dancer, by one who knows all the steps. THIS IS GOOD-BYE, by Betty Baur; J. B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia; $2.50.

For women as well as men, war brought a violent up Weber's "Oberon" overture and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Spanish war jfTance. of Arts and Crafts alumni group at the Hotel Claremont on Friday eve The crack in Bill's armor is not a moral conversion. In that sense, ture and Bernhard Abramowitsch, GLAMOROUS DOLLY MADI to the high credit of the author's art and insight, he never reforms at alL ning, May 3. SON, by Alice Curtis Desmond: pianist, will perform the work. COLLEGE CONCERT Caprice," with numerous solo pas sages for first-desk players.

BACn CELLO SUITES The end of his story will, never get to the movies without suffering Dodd, Mead Co, N.Y4 $2.75. The His subject will be "Putting Vis sea-change, since the leading characters do get away with murder and The Mills College Chorus and Cinderella of the White House still eclipses all her successors in her Also next Sunday, Robert Maas nobody stands around to say, "Crime does not pay." But in the deeper sense, the whole criminal code is knocked to smithereens once Bill breaks Orchestra under the direction of Howard Brubeck of the Music De the distinguished Belgian cellist, rule of charm through four admin free of the imprisoning self-limited walls of his egoism. ual Images to Work," according to announcement by Miss Eleanor Hughes, alumni representative, of the college's board of trustees, who has charge of arrangements for the meeting. will give the second of his two pro partment, combined with the string istrations, and is one of the two rooting of old ways of living; three The circumstances that lead Jane to kill the man who threatens grams of Bach suites, at 2:30 o'clock quartet under the direction bf Mar of wrenched from their sol in the concert hall of Mills College caret Prall, will present a concert First Ladies in our history memor able in her own right GENERAL Bill's life and peace with exposure or blackmail, the tortuous chase, suspense, danger and dilemma make a tale which leaves scant time to stop and think in the middle of it But when you do stop and think, you find dier men, meet as workers in an aircraft factory and face their dif The suites he will play are No. on Wednesday, May 1, at 8:15 in the in minor.

No. 3 in major and Concert Hall. Mr. Sinel is one of the foremost pioneers as well as an outstanding current figure in the art of indus ferent problems together with vary The orchestra will play Schubert's No. 8 in major.

THE COMPLETE CRUISER, bv ing success. that the externals xt violent deeds and taut suspense conceal a clinical sharpness of characterization and an artist's combination of the unpredictable with cause-and-effect continuity. designing four books for the United States Government He has served on the faculties ef the California College ef Arts and Crafts; the Prstt Institute, New York; Chouinard Institute, Los Angeles; Claremont College, Clare-moot, California; and Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design, San Francisco. Sinel has served as an officer of the Artists Guild and the American Artists Congress in New York, and is a member of the Society ef Illustrators, New York, and the Artists Union, San Francisco. He has been awarded the Art Directors Medal and the Ail-American Packaging Medal in New York, As a speaker, he Is much in demand and has appeared before engineering, advertising and educational and art societies in New York, Boston, Worcester, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, Minneapolis, Spokane, Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and other cities.

The dinner will be served on the Lido Deck of the Hotel Claremont and will begin at pa. next Friday, according to plan. Members of the graduating senior class will be honored at the dinner. eranat Aymer: Greenbere. N.Y THE DAYS ARE SPENT, by G.

P. $3.50. Practical and complete sur CONCERTS, BALLET ACROSS BAY Griggs; Coward-McCann, N.Y.; $2.75. A short leave in London and return vey of all you need to know if you trial designing. He is an industrial artist who has won a world wide reputation over a period of 25 years for his skill in the use of visual principles for creating effective public appeal.

run your own boat, compiled from War Has Its Boredoms More Deadly Than the Furies of Clashing Armies to battle gives time for danger, love. 'La Traviata." De Luca was in tne author's wide and long expert laughter and fear, but not for the Rome during th war but re ence. conventions. turned to New York last Winter. THE SECRET, by Charles La- This noted designer has been instrumental in the development of FROG FACE, by H.

W. Stokes: The Opera Association brings him gourgue; Meador Publishing Co to the Bay area to replace the can P. Putnam's Sons, N.Y.; $2.50. You'd never guess the drastic things that could happen to an ordinary little Boston; $2.50. A somewhst mystical theory of voice production, with tu celed program ot Kosario and An many products for national manufacturers, including Remington-Rand, Bristol Company, The Texas The complete Tschaikowsky ballet, The Sleeping Beauty," prologue and four acts, opens the week in San Francisco this afternoon at 2:30 In the Opera House, continuing the Russian Opera and Ballet Association's season which began last Friday night with "Prince iRor." Vera Nemtchinova and Paul Petroff are the featured dancers, with a large supporting cast and an orchestra conducted by Eugene Plotnikoff.

tonio, LIST SOLOIST grocery clerk whose life catapults from the commonplace, and we wont tell you, except that it isn't DARK RAINBOW, by. Gerald Butler; Reinhart and Co, N.Y.; $2J0. The title chosen by the author, and used for English publication Their Rainbow Had Black Edges" is more descriptive, as well as making better sense, than its American substitute. Our one-man crusade" against irrelevant or nonsensical titles will henceworth be inclined to tap the publisher instead of the author as a more likely culprit. Gay, insouciant, happy young married love all with pleasant dispositions and plenty of money, too made life indeed a rainbow-hued affair for Elisabeth and Arthur Rannlngton.

Even when the declaration of war in England caught them just at the close of a gypsy de luxe honeymoon in their custom-built trailer, "Ranny" flapped his wings and crowed to the sun. He would Join up immediately, of course, not from any prodding sense of obligation, but because it would be fun. Think what a hell of a Eugene List, the sergeant who torial advice to students. REPRINTS Short Stories WTNESBURG, OHIO, by Sher runny played the Tchaikowsky Concerto at the Potsdam conference, will be Company, RCA-Victor, Sonotone Corporation, Toastmaster Products Marchant Calculator Company. He designed the Australian and the Southern Pacific exhibits at the Golden Gate International Exposition, and recently completed SOUL OF THE SEA, by Leonid soloist with 75 memfcers of the Vladimir Dubinsky is stage and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra sobolev.

translated by Nicholas Orloff; $3. Short stories of the Rus technical director and the decor conducted by Werner Janssen of br Alexl Dianov. The ballet will be sian Navy in World War II The wooa Anderson; Penguin Books, N.Y 25c These sketches are the foundation stones on which the modern short story art form (as distinguished from the old reliable "slick paper" pattern) has been Los Angeles, Thursday night, May repeated the evening of Friday, USSR gives book prizes, just like De Young Museum May Program 2, at 8:30 o'clock, in the Opera House, as a benefit performance for us; this one won the Stalin Prize for Literature, with 50,000 rubles at show it going to be, he tells Elisabeth, who has her doubts. "I simply couldn't miss it Why it'll be like one whacking holiday, with plenty i of excitement thrown in. Thank heaven it's come while Tm young May 3.

RUBINSTEIN PROGRAM the fund for talented musicians erected. sponsored by the Gainsborough Artur Rubinstein's piano program enough to enjoy it." RED WIND, by Raymond Chand tached. The new Russian literature is well worth following, partly because the Russian nature has not Foundation. Boredom More Hazardous Than Warfare in the Opera House tomorrow night, which closes the Larry Allen concert series, will Include Franck's ler; Tower Books, Cleveland, Ohio. Five superior murders by the au-thor of "Farewell.

My Lovelv." changed with its politics. MuUrworkt from a iamous Paris collection, through May. Palntinr from th collection of Mn. David Armatrons-Taylor, through early May. San Quantin AcUrltica and Industrlaa of on of the world's great penlteo-Uarlea, through May.

Painting! by Max Schoop, opening May 1. Watercoloraby John M. Saccaro, open SNOW MAIDEN Although Rimsky-Korsakoff com Prelude. Chorale and Fugue; Cho But war wasn't like that In fact it wasn't even like war. Like many an American GI, Ranny found training camp singularly lacking in banners and brass bands.

The "war of nerves' can be personal as well as po A NEW DAY, by Theodore Pauls; Chapman Grimes, Boston; 25c A German, long resident in America. pin's minor Ballade, flat and MERRY GO ROUND, by Claire MacMurray; Forum Books, Cleveland. Ohio. Combinina "Out On posed The Snow Maiden" in 1881 and it was produced the following year, the performance of this opera talk on the exhibition by Mr. Roddick Bickel, Saturday, May It, at o'clock.

I volution of the California Prison System, by Clinton T. Dully, Warden of San Quantln Penitentiary, May IS, at o'clock. Prison Iducstion, by Alfred I. Row en. Director of Education, San QuenUn Penitentiary, Saturday, May SB, at o'clock.

1 What Art and What Art lent, a course of four lectures in art criticism will be glren Saturday afternoon at o'clock beginning June. t. by Charlee Lindstroro, Museum Director of Education. -AST CXA88IS Children Saturday mornings from It to litical Even in combat areas, some ot our most honest writing from the flat minor Sonata Opus 35; Sena bine's "Vers la four ma thinly coats with fiction his design msiae stresses tne grueling eifect of boredom as harder to endure than Limb" and "And Beat Him When He ing joey 1 watercolora and drawings by by the Russian Opera and Ballet Association next Saturday night In zurkas by Szymanowski. Opus 50; the shock of battle.

for the new Germany. sneezes." Sketches of the antics and Reeks, L'SMC, open- Sergeant Harry D. DeFalla's "Dance of Ing May the uproar that can be kicked uo the Opera House is said to be the aintines by Balaton Crawford, open Gershwin prelude, and Rubinstein's arrangement of Richard Strauss' "7 mree uveiy sman noys In the THE HUCKSTERS, by Frederic Wakeman; Rinehart it Co, N.Y.; $2.50. There is as much fact as fun in this ride inside the squirrel cage iamiiy. So it was with Ranny, who was 111 equipped to meet the onslaughts of monotony and who was caught in the snags and barbs of mutual antagonism with campmates who resented his wealth and social difference and whose stolid stupidty rubbed him raw.

As he subtly crumbles under these pressures, Elisabeth notes thst "something was missing, something that he used to have, a kind of fierce, gay challenge to life. It was as JUUTH SEA TALES, h-r JT.rlr "Dance of the Seven Veils." DE LUCA RETURNS ixnaon; Tower Books, Cleveland. of radio soap-opera and advertising. Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Tuesday night sees Giuseppe de Eight of London's lesser known tales which followed the cruise of iz he had been born with a wand in his hand, and now was stopped Luca, famous Italian baritone, back first on the Pacific Coast and the first in this country since.it was given in New York by the Metropolitan Opera Company 30 years ago.

Nadine Ray, remembered from last year's season, will sing the title role; George Doubrovsky, also well-known here, the Tola of MIs-gyl, and Ilys Tamarin, tenor, who recently sang with Alexander Klp-nis in recordings of "Boris Godoun- ing May 4. Oil in Watercolor. cponaored by the American FederaUon of Arts, opening May S. Greek Textiles from the Henrietta Brewer Collection, through May. Domes and Epirea, photographs and drawings lent by Mr.

Red dick Blckai. through May, Watercolor sketches of California wild flowers, opening May S. SPECIAL LECTUKES 404 Yean ef CHI Painting, by Dr. Stephen S. Kaysor, Saturday, May 4, at o'clock.

European Domes and Spires, gallery HISTORY me on the stage of the Opera House, Tickets for Students The New York Philharmonic has received a gift of $13,000 from Bartlett Arkell to form the nucleus of a fund, proceeds from which will buy tickets at reduced rates for public school students, I where he has sung many.times with HO TOR HEAVEN, by Virginia the San Francisco Opera Company, this time in a recital of songs and Moore; E. P. Dutton it Co, N.Y; $3. Death ss well as life is subject to DEAD RECKONING, fcv TnnrU arias including "Aprite un po quegr Bbnnaray; Penguin Books. N.Y.; 25c Murder in the Library of Congress.

off," will have the part of Ben- irum waving il A hero tragically frustrated by being stopped from waving his wand is not one to win immediate and wide sympathy. The author's one chance and it takes some not inconsiderable wand-waving on his part -Is to communicate directly to the reader Ranny's captivating charm, the light and shimmering play of his irresponsible fancy. It is easier to understand a coward or a villain than one who runs away, not through fear but from a sort of wild and unconsldering playfulness, like a child who insists on playing with matches even though he burns down the house. "Your thoughts were a mix-up of poetry and speeches and bits of history and the sound of militat bands. But the Army soon killed that occhi" from "The Marriage of Figaro" and "A tanto amor" from changing fashions.

Here they are traced across the continents and down the ages, with historical acumen, some humor and no sentimental dereL tne run neat of a Washington Summer, drags Peter Shane fwhn looks like Von Pspen) from his rest- gloom. nu garden chair and will keep you glued to yours. WAS IT MURDER? by James Hilton; Bantam Books, N.Y4 25c There is no Mr. Chips at Oakington School, but a couple of violent deaths sets EMPIRE AND THE SEA, by Fletcher Pratt; Henry Holt Co, N.Y4 $3.50. England's struggle against militant Continental power from 1783' to 1805, with re 1 semblances to recent events of mat quiet institution tv tne ears SATlIEIt GATE Book SHOP; Far any keeks reviewed er aeVsttisee' la this tsswe, sey ether books, mail this coupon to the Set her Gate seek Shop, 2331 TaUfraph Areeee, Berkeley 4, Califereia.

2 I enclose ChargeD CODJ3 (Bookmm postage free la VS.) a (PfiINX TITLES) Name 1 Address 1 State Pfcoje mid, IVtJo Stalt ScUi Tvt in CalifornU zor you. ngnting a war was one thing, and being in the Army was another," Ranny reflects. "All that the war was doing was to keep you away from Elisabeth." So Ranny walks out on the Army, in the spirit of a schoolboy lark, playing hooky" for the sheer devil of it What began as light-hearted irresponsiblity tightens in a descending spiral to tragic destruction. The "black edges" of the rainbow might be described in the words of Car-lyle, words which, even to the end, Ranny refused to accept the recognition that "an iron ring of necessity encompasses us." New Arrival! ABBOTT Master Works of Economics a digest. $4.00 BRIER Western World $2.50 SCIENCE YEAR BOOK OF 1946 Edited by Rodcliff AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF VINCENT VANGOGH Edited by Irving Stone WALDECK Lustre in the Sky.

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Raudenbush; John Day and introduces James Hilton in a different type of fiction, which you may hitherto missed. THE THREE HOSTAGES, by John Buchan; Bantam Books, N.Y4 25c Sir Richard Hannay rides again in the period between the last two wexs and comes in, as ever, with a tale both literate in style and en-grossing in metier. Co, N.Y.; $3.50. "Managerialism is Entirely different in style and in the milieu and external character of the protagonists, "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands'- and "Dark Rain- certain to prevail unless capitalism dow nave the same inner core: each is a study ei extreme individual. oan discover within Itself modes of thought and action which can do ism, the self-destruction la wait for those who go their own way, re- better the work ef the age.".