Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 22

9 Sr "i1 ''V -j 'i- '-4 vf -y -s -r --i-i-rr 'wHrTornrf-t Rj jlsvh rj i si 0 ti ivT Av''fvv'vN "ivKM'vAf' -V i I ART NEWS AND REVIEWS 8 hirio lor hfe book Chpt or wrote Ho "SMpparti OBar cl lor tho Tritoa to anoanwwdy wrote a Is Rich Mature Navy feds a Ma ft NT with hi addition to wrltkm the mw retire section of ftjwtonfk of- fldil report which formed tho wn a master at getting out of work ud avoiding bte of ia (tha old anal cr than paragraphs and cluttered up fell enviable nuclear writing da with eo many hmnha ggj gadget! tolt Chpt BaacK flreOrote submariner and lint rate author hu had to do moot of Ida writing wtomerged hi thought to tho of Ma home Books and Authors: fi Details Soviet By M0I A CUV BASEL HAMRICK in her latest enfrtnan exhibition which is composed of brgs and small paintings in sevanl madia in-dwflqf eOs and watewotaw uncovers hcah sources et subject material and heightens her stature as a local painter of impart anes Her dnr currently is at the Cbrpna Christ! Fine Arts artist at the month at the YWCA for November During this era of violent abstraction and rather open design structure in art Mrs Hamrick escapes the looseness and nervous aggressiveness at same of our wywy fwn and instead displays a relaxed power In this mcaribigftd selection of works Her sense of composition also very rare in today's is the sign of a rich mature personal style The artist's selection of colors is individual: Saturated and usually heavily textured but never startling The watercolo rs The PsHcans" and an consistent with the color quality of the more deliberately handled oils and raseins and they are masterful in control of their transparent washes use of white areas and dense though sensitively drawn Ww "Reflection in Shadow" and The flute Player" are Inspirations of portraiture ant Beldam Been In any A SURVEY of tho Irena why the UMtod Staten appears to te behind the Rusriano In the nutter of conquoring aput la giren by Dr Donald Coa In THE IPACE HACK (Chflkn Boohs Nov 30) Dr Ok wu formerly with fin National Aarenanttea and Space tint 1 tmreflng dsmoBBtratia unfo la Ma hook ha flaenan fha slaps to catch upb VINCENT mCTAWt Theatre Playboteae HOW AFRICAN wild animals were raised hi a freest la central Swoda Is the story fifwod Bstggw trite hi FKRMWM FORERT trenriated by Evelyn Ramsda (Marrow Nov 12) Derggwu visited Africa the first time to 1954 at which time ha brought homo with Mm a Han cub Store tha ho ted added to Ma a young rhinoceros a hyena a small monkey a leopard and a cheetah In Ms account the author trite af tbs hwtifft-rw of the emergent African countries to tho ptight of their native wild fife more Mom tttan mere portraits they have that fixating quality brought out by deeply frit things The painter's oil point ia ten tured and texturmlly employed But in her works one docs not aenoo a gap between pictorial synthesis of Idem and material and tha desire to enhance tha surface quality of her pigments Her oOa have the look of bring simplified and generalized Into the essence of form Such a step la apparent hi the fairly rvaUsde Interpretation Thinking" and the designed realism found to "Reflection in Shadows" In several other paintings the carefully built-up surfaces are the work of a profeadonal who understands painring apace and color For example in "Pebbles" aha has utllzed rite simplification and reduction of natural form to order to realize her ob- jectivs of finding realism through natural forms to a world to SUNDAY NOVEMBER 18 1962 which almost everything Is abstract "San BOguri" an arcM- tocural form la treated similarly as is "Gema of tho Set" Pethapo several of the paintings do not measure up to tha professional standards achieved to tie latter trio of paintings However the artist's power and knowledge are beyond question Mn Hamrick has planted her pemonsl style squarely to the middle of design realism as a mode of expression that a large number of contemporary painters claim but that she is capable of holding an her now 00 BLUES' BY ad on display at Little aD Iks Book Gives View of FANTASY WHIMSY and the macabre are the genre of a collection of 27 Short atorko by Robert Lowry called PIETY OF DREAMERS (Fleet Nov 22) Tho stocks rango from baste tomi experiences to hallucinatory subconadoua Rare Renoir Faculty A LOOK AT THE world's standard of living particularly la the underdeveloped countries Is taka by Paul Hoffman In hte new book WORLD WITHOUT WANT Hoffman who atainlstered the Marshall Pten for the economic recovery of Europe la now managing director of the UMted Notion Special Fund In Ml hook ho reviews the mistakes of past aid programs and Bs-cusses tho capital required to make future programs a success IYom Harper ft Row Nov 2L AN AMERICAN EDITION of two riiort novels by tie Danish writer Chr! Ewald wifi be tewed tomorrow by Horizon Preu under title MY UTILE BOY MY BIG GIRL Tho lint story which wu published 49 years ago trite of a tether's emotions as he watches hte young son grow up The second never published previously tells of a young woman reaching toward love The translations are by Beth Bolling THE TEXAS AAI Art Department la currently ehowing now through Nov 30 an exhibit entitled "The Faculty Collects" The show is as woodd be expected largely made op of works to toe lean expensive media fitoograpfay block print and other graphic medto hut also contains some eOs snd watercoion well aa name Mexican clay and stone folk art both contemporary and antique With the exception of one painting each by three former AAI art instructors Robert Hawkins Witt and "Woody" Wood whose works had not been seen here tor a number of years work by local artists was excluded according to IYofessor Ben Bailey chairman of the art department at Texas AAL Aa outstanding feature of the show Is a fiiree by five and a half rubbing of a Chinese stone carving lent by Mr and Mrs Richard Owens of the music department Funky members 4 have tent their works for this exhibition are: Dr Boyd Stewart director of tho division of arts and Dr Fred Garland chairman of tho chemistry deportment Dr Irving Smith history department Miaa May Chmpbril Engfirii department Richard Owens mate department and Bailey Wmism Renfrew Thomas Schlotterhack and Mias Sarah Scbraeder of tho art department Rounding out rim Bat Dr Neylmd Page of the history department and Dr Howe director division of agriculture have tent works from thdr personal eotteettons THE 20 YEARS In American history from the assassination of President McKinley to the defeat of tho League of Nations Is covered by John Dos Passos In hte new book MR WILTON'S WAR Tho volume will be published by Doubteday a Nov 23 part of Us "Mainstream of America Series" Three man volumes are in preparation lor that sertea Join Van Doren professor of history at Brandete University is writing a the period from Andrew Jackson to Abraham Lincoln Jonathan Daniels wifi cover the period between the taro worid ware' Kenneth Davis is completing a history of America in Worid Wu IL NEW NOVEL by Nicholas Dlmlimo author of BALF A DOLLAR IS BETTER THAN NONE wu issued last week by Crown In THE GENTLE MARTYRDOM OF BROTHER BERTRAM a monk who prefers the peace of the monastery Is assigned to sell its chesses In -a big city Overseas Exhibitions JS A siimdl maker the am of a tailor and a seamstress "When I think" he remarked later in one of tha many conversations that his am records in Boswellian fashion "that I might have been bom into a family of Intellectuals It -would have taka me yean to get rid of all their ideas and see things as they are" THE FAMILY moved to Paris when Pterre was 4 As a boy he began to drew constantly He had a fine singing voice and the choirmaster of the Church of Saint Eustache an unknown young composer named Charles Gounod was so Impressed with it that he offered to provide Renoir with complete musical education and get him a place hi the chorus of the opera Instead Renoir accepted a Job as an apprentice at a porcelain works At he determined to become a professional artist and wot to study at the Atelier Gteyre where he became on of a group of anti-traditionalist painters whoa members included Monet Sisley and Bszllto Soon thereafter he entered upon a lifelong friendship with Cezanne In Jean Renoir's pages: we heir Ids father's votes recalling the joys of these days of poverty and comradeship and frith in the "new way" of seeing things the bitter gibes of the critics when Hum printings were first exhibited only thing we got out of it was the label Tmpressionaism a name I HE MARRIED a young seamstress named Aline Chari-got the moment he took up a brush to says his son years before he ever knew her Renoir was painting the portrait of Aline and we his children he had done cur portraits even before we came Into ton Happy years followed with a measure of financial security recognition as an artist and Joy-ful family life Tha injuries received in a bicycle accident ted to progressive arthritic paralyses more intolerable his suffering became the more Ren-oir painted" Hehafed tho word "artist" and called hfansrif a He was convinced writes Jean Renoir "that it the world which wai him and that ha was merely reproducing this life of ours which enraptured him Uks a passage in gnat symphony Ho only wanted to interpret faithfully the marvels be perceived so dearly for tha fit of those unable to perceive them" Dottier INS Naw Ysrk HaiwM TrfMro YOURS New Boolu spy or the ujl by Rad Mont with John DUte A for-mor Polish officer tells how he was able to trick tho FEU set up spy agencies in this country win the eager help of Americans in learning valuable military aecreta and why ho at last turned against Ms Cbm-mailt misters snd aourid ref-in the UMted States THE GRAND DEMON -PROM COMMON MARKET TO ATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP by Joseph Km ft The author of THE STRUGGLE FOB ALGERIA explains tho progress toward an Atlantic partnanMp aa tha Kennedy administration's attempt to bolster our the din at traffic and criaa of adttore the i of fcmfty friends and heal ladtaa cottars groupi Ha cant ia no window aql awn if there was one there wouldn't be any thine to see Ho curt go hr a walk mound tha block Amp Into a nrighborhnnd bar fritter away an afternoon at tho ft-bury or tha biDard parlor or any of tho othor pro-available to a to writ lor no tote-virion to watch no riorm windows to hang or ocrea doors to prtfli of in gtvw author fan- A it PAGE 4B BEST SELLERS The weekly coast-to-eoast survey of leading book sellers by the New York Herald Tribune riwws the following books currently at the top of the beat seller lists: LABURWUIIB- ENCK Drury Sequel to ADVBE AND CONSENT with a UN setting SEVEN DAYS IN MAY Knebd and Bailey A military junta plots to seize the US government In 1974 DEARLY BELOVED: Lindbergh A June wedding evokes reflections a love and marriage FAIL SAFE Burdick and Wheeler Mechanical error predpitates unclear war WHZ3E LOVE HAS OONE Robbins A year-old Is a trial for the murder of her mother's lover THE IHW BED LINE Janes The battle for Guadalcanal In 1942-43 1 SHIP OF FOOLS Porter Human race on a voyage to eternity I THE PRIZE Wallace Qmfltet and intrigue in croaaaectten of Nobel Mae wtanoa NON-ncnoN TRAVELS WITH CBAR-LEY IN SEARCH OF AjUMTA Steinbeck A relaxed tour of tho United States with FYench poodle 30 YR JKW AND JULEPS! Hudson A 10-yearcld girl's view of life in 1904 BLENT SEEING Chr-on An Indictment of the tadtecrimtoBte nee of 4 THE EOnSCHLDB: A FAMILY PORTRAIT Morton Thro hundred yore of a remarkable family MY LIFE Of COURT Nlser Memoirs of a leading trial lawyer MARK TWAIN! LETTERS FROM TEE EAB1H Edited by Do-Votok More adectioa from hia unpubltehed papers 7 THE NILE Moonhead Panorama of the upper Nila from 1T9S through the 19th century 5 FINAL VERDICT St Johns The life of a edo- tested trial lawyer by mi angur FOR THE Et Lr Retama Public own economy and meet the Communist threat abroad OOINB THROUGH AGES by Lsuroeo Brown A history of coins from their be-gtimtog hi ancient Lycia in TOO BC to the pres mt with much tefermatkai a ealn styles art work Inscripttons designs and separate section on UJS and Canadian coins Illustrated with EL DUCE! THE LIFE OF BENITO MUMOUN1 by Christopher Hibbert From 1983 to 1945 when he and his mistress were rind and hog up by the heels Mussolini ted colorful life as a brilliant editor of the THE BEST DV PAPERBACKS "ABOUND URMEEOPr Is tiio eyowitnem account of tho historic 1910 voyage of the atomic submarine Triton which dreumnavigated tho gtobo along Magrilnn'i route but did tho entire voyage --ail 4L553 mlteo of Its all S3 days 9 hour and 51 minutes of founder water! Thlo extraordinary journey never hu received fin red share of public attentkm because a the day tin Triton surfaced off Rehoboth DeL ill captain could be by helicopter to tho White House lawn the headlines were fun of mmrthfng erited the U2 affair The Triton's chronicter and captain during fia finest hour Is a handsome deeply tanned-man with thin graying hair and dark penetrating eyre Writing is nothing new for him Hil first book gUEMAEINE! was a bat eriter His second tho novel EUf MLENT BUN DEEP was made into a movie tarring Clark Gable AS A SEA GOING author Chpt Beach 44 Is carrying a a literary tradition Edward Bach's tetter also Chpt Edward Beach wrote a number of children's books to addition to nnmmamting battle-ridp in both tho Spanish American and World War "1 gueaa I did my first writing at AnnapoBa wha dad sent mo a long tetter and endoaed whet thought wu old aa Beach recalled "I wore the chantey into a short story that wu accepted by tho Log tho midshipman newspaper Dad wrote back to say it wu great except I should hare credited the poem to a fellow named Rud-yard Kipling Luckily no one rise recognized the author" Idolizing his father whose Navy career' wu tragically blighted aha the cruiser Memphis which te commanded ran aground in a tidal wavs off the Dominican Republic killing 33 sailors Beach early to life deckled to go to sea Wha the Triton knifed up tiw Thames River to her boms dock at New London Com at tha completion of her fabulous voyage the ensign from the old Memphis fluttered from ter periscope LITERARY pen-chant produced some memorable log entries In Worid Wu which he spent a almost continuous sea duty He saw considerable action junior officer aboard tho submarine Trigger I which sank 18 Japanese hips and damaged 18 more His first professional publication roiw about as a result of a bout with flu aboard the submarine Piper hte first command Laid up in hte bunk for thru days Beach set out to write a memorial to the Trigger which wu sunk in the tetter days of the wu in tha Pacific Ho intended to send off mimeographed copies to the families of all who had lost their lives board this gallant old ship In the process of obtaining clearance tha manuscript came to tha attention of a Navy information officer who thought It had magazine paasibillttea Blue book readily accepted and Beach ted Ma first check from a publisher Betwea stints skipper of several submarines naval aide to tiw Joint Chteb of Staff and later to President Elsenhower kipper of alter and student both the Submarine Nucteu Propulriu School and tiw Wu Cbltege Beach somehow found time to turn out number of articles stories and television plays "My wife Ingrid and the kids' give nw a wide berth wha writing they know what kind of a mood I got confessed tfw authoMklpper "Writing Is special kind of agony there's nothing in aa duty quits like ft" NO ONE board except a few select officers knew in ad- AS KING Library Socialist newspaper Avtnti as tha nan who shouted for war and was expelled by his party as tho feared dictator and tho leader of the fascist Black-ridrts and as tho strutting: somehow ridiculous demagoguo of Worid War IL With 30 photographs and a map RETURN ENGAGEMENTS by Norris Houghton In 1938 tiw author wrote a very enthusiastic report on tho Russian theater called MOSCOW REHEARSALS Now after a return to Moscow lut yeu he flnda that tiw young acton and dramatists and directors ha vs kept it vital Illustrated with photographs: THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL af the Museum of Mod cm Art has announced plana tor lading 19 wxMMtyye to couni trim to Larin America the Far East and Europe in 190 and tor lending original works of art to UJS in France and Africa bringing the total number of embassies thus served to 19 The council a non-profit organisation counted! of about 100 art patron from various parte of the United States announced its plus at the gmduskn of its annual meeting held in Warii-tagtan in late October At the same time toe council wirhia reiterated a previous announcement of test Mhy that It could no longer subahBae the official US et the important international biennales in Sao Paulo and Venice aa it has done since the early 1950s listing such nationally known pereona as Mrs John Kennedy CL DougUs DQkn and Sea William Tulbright as honorary members of the council the group will send a one-man exhibition of works by the late nans KUne on a tour of mu-aeumi In London Brussels and other European centers Other hows will indude: Drawings by Anhilc Gorky Modem Sculpture: USA and Ben Shahn one-man show New exhibitions also are being prepared tor tolpment to Japan Latin Amerio Australia Africa and France Collects Group continuous mowing 1L5 closed Monday open Schedule COUNTY Tha Nueces County Ubrary'n bootenobflo schedule for the coming week la as foDowa: MY FATHER by nuristed by Randolph and Dorothy Wfcaver MS pages Little Brows MAS THE LOVE and light that ahine in the paintings of Pierre Auguste Renoir are qualifies too of toil biography and book of memories by his son one of those rare and Immensely valuable books giving the reoder an intimate and inspiring close-range view of genius "Who? Me? A Renoir pere would say "What I don't take drugs I've never had syphilis and not a pederast Well then How unmodito in the sick Sixties to write about a man who lacked these qualifications for greatness an artist whom canvases are full of health and color and who was faithful to his wife as well as Us art! And that In them post-FYeudian days such a book should have hem written by a aa who loves his father! Pierre Auguste Renoir was born In Limoges a Feb 25 2841 the grandson of a shoe Playhouse Exhibit Is By Helms By LUCIE LOCKE AN EXHIBITION of paintings by Melvin Heims is showing currently In the lobby of the Little Theater Playhouse during the run of "The Miracle Worker" Sensitivity as well as knowledge at form and feeling for organization Is evident throughout the collection Helms handles his pigment oMiiftiiiy and uses rich color The three portraits exhibited are depicted fay varying techniques In harmony with the subject In "Portrait of Wife" ptostteaHy handled textures are tressed white In "Mrs WDltentf" the color choice and unusual composition make It a striking canvas "Aurora" the portrait of a child is suitably simple and direct "Nude" is a ihiim rindv In i tones roHMea BHPU aw rowww grill dealing with people a group of five canvases are almost illustrative in subject matter but are vital and handled plastically with comport tionil and technical skill Tha most striking of these is "Go Blues" where the figures ire designed into an exciting pattern to express the dance Very similar In subject ia Taste1" hut hoe the music maker is accented white "Night Seas" stresses a lonely banjo player SWINGING TO another typo of suhject "Dark Expectations" 1 presents a 1 worn mother and her child In a different mood is designed ss a horizontal compost-that auitahto to tho Ma depict- Thraa Corpus Christl make qp still another category A child's figure dominates "Legacy for Lou" tiny among U-houseo On the otter in "Over tha Set Saw" tha bascule bridge and city buOdinga form a particularly striking composition "Bluff View" depicts ia well choeen well organized forma a familiar scene from Upper Broadway "Tha Lydia Pinkhsm" tha only water color included shows Brims' versttlllty since it is a fight sketch very different from the heavier treatment of tho oils Jl Art League To Men THE SOUTH TEXAS Art League will hold Its regular monthly meeting today at As Centennial Museum at 2 pm Criticism of new paintings will follow a short businem meeting The league's annual fall exhlMtten currently te on view at the Centennial Museum through Nov 27 Art Kern and Reviews CENTENNIAL MUSEUM: South Texas Art League Fall Show Now through Nov 27 Hours: Tuesday through FW-day Weekends 2-5 dosed Monday Also there are new Hems on display hi tho Muaeua Shop as well aa In too Art Rental Service Goltery Si SOL GALLERY: Gallery Bonw Tuesday through fhturdiy by appointment BLACK LIKE MR fay John Howard Griffin (9gnrt 50 cents) is the straight journalistic account of what happened to a white writer who changed the color of Ms skin through medical treafcnent and tha went into the Deep South for six weeks to discover for himself how Negro is treated He returned with a ptes for justice and understanding on both sides DISCRIMINATION by Wallace Mendelsohn (Spectrum 2L6) is based a tiw 19H flvw-volume report of tho Oora-mission a Civil Righto which in tarn wu hosed a a two-year federal Investigation The contents cover discrimination in education at tho poite in employment In housing and In police misconduct The commission's recommendation result nt the study wu 'That tiw federal government and the respective states take firm and concerted action to reduce economic deprivations like thou bund to exist in most of tiw blacfchaU counties studied which Mwport and perpetuate dentate of elvll rights" THE MARK OF ORRES-MON by Abraham Kanfiner MD and Lionel Ovresy MJ (Meridian J2J5) te a study of (he emotional and psychological effecta of social pwreuree brought to bear a Negroes through kdMdual csss histories of 25 NegtOM obtained by psychoanalytic in tervtewi Tho Negroes interviewed came from oil aortal classes and ags groups The lure of ths 2920s te explored In a book entitled appropriately THE Us fay Frederick Hoffman (CMIler L50) It's comprehensive critique of tiw literature major and minor that made up tiw decade Hoffman hu Mt upon tha happy Ida of summarizing his conrturtou with a aingto text for each pfasu of Ms discussion Thus a section on "critiques of tiw middle dais" It capped fay an oxamlnaMon 1 of BABBIT fay Mnektfr Lewis TYPEWRITER HANK SNYDIk TU4-3662 By RICHARD CHRISTIANSEN PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S sudden dramatic demonstration of presidential power In connection with tiw Cuban crisis makes especially noteworthy the paperback reprint of PRESIDENTIAL POWER: THE POLITICS OF fjEansuMMiw fay Richard Neustadt (Science Editions 9LG5) Neustadt a professor of government of Cbiumbia University wu a special consultant to tiw President-elect in tiw transition months of 198981 and the book had a great Influence In riwptog Kennedy's attitude toward Ms job "My says the author "te personal pnser and Its pdltics: What It te tew to get it bow to keep ft how to use The present news also becomes more meaningful (if any help) ia the light of several otter new paperbacks dealing with the past Georgs 7 BU8HA AND THE WEH UNDER LENIN AND STALIN (Mentor 95 cote) te a masterful survey of SovietAmerican diplomatic relation from the Russian revolution to tiw end of Worid War Kenun floenwr UJL ambus-ador to the Soviet UMou states tint our Mures do not stem from a "treacherous eonspir- acy" within but from a tack of political philosophy and historical understanding Ho concludes "I think our foremost aim today should te to keep it (the worid) phyri ally intact In an ago when ma have nc-qidred for the first time tiw technical meant of destroying ft" KARL MARX by IVsnz Meb-ling (Ann Arbor 2J5) wu written in 1918 fay a German Marxlrt who viewed fate atibject a mu and not a god It still stands one of tiw but studies ever written about Marx and the philosophy which spread from Ms writings to its present tremendous influence in our world The most recent internal UJ5 crisis integration in Mlaekilp-pi is recalled by three now paperbacks taking up various apaeta of tiw Negro probtem YWCA: Artist of the Month: Hud Hamrick November Honrs: Daily during normal wort: hours YMCA: South Texas Traditional Art Association: Group riiow Now through Dec: 1L Hours: During normal work hours ART MART (FarUak) Gallery Group: continuous mowing Hours: Drily during wori: hours CLUB: NAS: TVso-Maa Exhibition: Frances Harris and Evelyn SonriL November Hours: Durins normal dhbtaura Bookmobile CRY La Raima Piddle Library's bookmnbflo schedule for the coming weg Is as foUowa: MONDAY: 1:30 am ftaser School 10:15 in Wood Lawn School 3:30 to 4 pm Driscoll Jufar High 4:09 to pm Sort Shopping Cater TUESDAY: 3:30 to 5 pm HEB No 14 Baldwin ft Mor- WEDNESDAY: 1:30 am Losing School 10:30 am St School I to I pm rwocott Village THURSDAY: Holiday MONDAY: Hearn Road Guth Park Arlington Heights Bhw-bomat HUte Rolling Acres Na i TUESDAY: reri-daoa a Farm Road SIS: residence mktence Highway Village WEDNESDAY: RolUi Acrea Na Gulley's Trailer Park Westwood Center THURSDAY: Holiday FRIDAY: Holiday i.