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C-POUR BRIDGEPORT SUNDAY POST, NOVEMBER 29, 1964 1.ARTS Guggenheim Is Aflutter With Mobiles John Kieran's World: A Remarkable Place FatePlays Trick on Man's Wish THE EXPLORER. By ParkluM Keyes. New Yark: McGraw-Hill. As everyone probably knows, Frances Parkinson Keyes is a prolific and popular novelist. Her books run to great length (this one well over 200,000 words) and her audtence is enormous.

Some of the best sellers have been "Joy Street," "Dinner at' Blrtf witching, which he has Antoine's," "Royal Box" and) 1 kin 8 nce "rly youth, and "Steam-Boat Gothic," "The Ex- wr tin K. which he has been doing ever since 1915, when he wanjled NOT UNDER OATH. Recollee- and By Joha Kkfaa. HwithtM Mif. MB.

John Kieran is reputed to be in retirement. He has said so himself. But if he Is, certainly puts in a full day, beginning at dawn or even earlier. After long walk, while friends and neighbors are asleep, he is back his house at 7 for breakfast and a day's work. Current Best Sellers IVIfcM HKKZOO- Bellow THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN CANDY--Terry Soutlwrji ind THE A I i you OXLV LIVE I A Gort Vldal THE LOST ITTY--John Cu A SONG OF SIXPENCE-.

plorer" is her 39th book and done in her usual grand scale fashion, with scenes shifting from socially correct circles of New York, Washington and Virginia to the mountains of Peru. REMINISCENCES-- otn, rttxiglii job as a reporter on the 1 New York Times from a news ex-' ecutive who was a family friend, A occupy his long day. The Times edl(or job assured By MILES A. SMITH ivi2 iv hibit g-cn for WRrTTEN IN purple prose that has long since almost vanished into lhe past beyond recall, it revolves around the ad- vemures of Nicholas Hale, explorer, and Margaret Porterfield, a well-born Virginian. Totally dedicated to his dream of finding a lost city in the mountains of Peru, Nicholas suddenly desires a male heir, and for this reason makes a proposal In Margaret in brutally bald form: "Marriage," he announces, "seems to be the only answer to getting a legal heir.

I'd like to marry you with the under- 1 Kieran that he would "never be any good at it." In his so-called retirement, at Rockport. which is not far from Gloucester, he has produced an- v's 1 NVISBLK OOVERNMEOT a. i wno i ll auer I I turned a toy into a major art form. Everyone a purpose." rum tor his mobiles. And so they were married Russians Invented Art though not to live hap- He didn't invent the form--al-j ments and metal that catch i ever after, because Hale wandering eye.

most half a century ago the sian constructivisls experiment-l cd with abstract pieces that mov- pleasant one. (APN) ed--but he turned it into a majo force in a new movement in sculpture. Back in the 1930s he was almost alone in turning away from solid forms, into the realm of space and movement. In sense, he anticipated the Space Age. Later experiments were to turn the concept of space inward, creating pierced and open sculptural figures.

Caider's dextrous touch converted what might have been only an esthetic toy into a key method ot expression, a new vernacular of motion. A TO JOHN F. KEx5 Kd. by Pisrre StlinEer tnH S.ndfj other book, an autobiography which is one of the most fascinating narratives of our It is John Kieran, delightful raconteur, talking cheerfully to you about many things, rei of his nationally read "Sports of the Times," and extraordinary, intensely human appearances for a years on "Information Please." THE KE.V.\Elr WIT-Ed. Bill HeriUxt cheerfully to you Mrs Readers ANYONE WHO recalls those wonderful radio and television performances, when John Kier-i an, flanked by Franklin P.

Adams, (FPA) and Oscar Levant, under Clifton Fadiman as master of ceremonies, astounded thousands, yes, millions of listeners by his brilliant display of FIRST PAPERS. By Laura Z. Hobwn. New York: Random House. Humanist Disdains Htimbug DONT KIND MY JAY- SO.

Bj WMd Kntfek. This is a colleclioi of familiar essays which Krutch has written over the years for a variety of top-grade magazines. a literary form, Ihe familiar essay has gone out of fashion--as Krutch notes with this comment: "Its disappearance is only a minor symptom. Or perhaps it is just a little bit more thin that. At least there are a ber of subjects which might profitably be discussed by fewer Turmoil of an Individual, Generation Is Convincing CHILDREN OF- VIOLENCE.

By New Vwki MM Doris -Lessing is English writer who, a couple of. years ago, first came to the attention of American readers with her novel, "The Golden Notebook." Now she appears in a new book which contains two 'novels, the first of a related group of five. "Children of Violence" is the story of the generation borni'at the time of the first Work) War and came of age in the second. heroine ot work is Martha Quest which is the lille' of the first novel. The second is called "A Proper Marriage." Martha is.

15 when the book opens, daughter of a middle class English couple, with pretensions to culture and social experts and more human be- who had. come lo the British -colony in central Africa to be- That is a key statement, tori come landed gentry. It hadn't Krutch himself 5s a determined! worl; oul lhlt wa y- They owned a farm, to be sure, which was tilled by native labor but they were wretchedly poor, lived in almost primitive conditions and were homesick for their native land. For Alfred Quest, sick, defeated, prematurely old. the past held one bright period, his sen-- ice in World War I.

On her 'ide, his wife relived dreams of early romance which actually never occurred. DORIS LESSING departs afler five days, for the knowledge of just about every- an important show, and a A When the heir he wanted thing under the sun, and h'is FROM THE standpoint of style, as this exhibit plainly demonstrates, the artist achieved were so deceptively simple, so playful, that they have a childlike appeal--for children of all They remind you of a slyly affectionate gift bring- a wide-eyed youngster, ing reciprocal smiles. Yet they have a certain urbane lightness, a wry humor, a deftly understated finesse that really participates in the essence of sophistication; This paradox was underlined a couple of years ago in a smaller exhibit combining Calder's mobiles with the paintings of Juan Miro (a friend and artistic brother), so that the effect was a thoroughly sophisticated dialogue between abstract shapes and motion. From the mobiles Calder went on to stabiles, in which Ihe element of repose was the principal esthetic appeal, and finally tn a combination of the two techniques, for contrast. THERE WAS another way in which CaJder's early work gave an impetus to new trends in sculpture.

He committed himself to the use of sheet metal, metal rods and wire. That was a clue for other: artists to enroll themselves in the machine age, using the new materials of the modern era, and since then there has been a rush toward metallic expression. The Guggenheim, with its long, winding spiral ramps, is an ideal place for the Calder show. Suspended from the dome is a great white mobile, "The Ghost," a 35-foot creation constructed in Calder's Roxbury, studio ior this show. On the floor below is a great black metal stabile.

22 feet high, brought over from the artist's studio in Sache, France. These are the largest of more than 3oO objects on display. 1 The smallest are bits ol jewelry and the tiny, flultery mobiles shown in small cases. The whole show runs through a wide scope from line drawings lo wire portraits, wood carvings, tapestries and paintings. A VISITOR to this show, which will be open through Jan.

15, starts at the lop of the museum's spiral paUi to learn how Calder began as a draughtsman, interested In circi-s subjects, then turned his figures and drawings into wire sculptures. As the visitor follows the path down the ramp he discovers mechanical constructions, dodges and ducks around a i mobiles in his path and slides through a section of drawings tnd paintings. Against the flat white walls of the museum, the mobiles stand out in sharp Blacks, and reds, which soon-turn into brighter Bveii on (he ramp's shoulders thef--'--- Urwlioru of Audubons Writing WasLively AUDUBON'S WILDLIFE. By Edwin Way Teale. New York: Vikuig.

Nearly everyone sees samples from time to time of John James Audubon's famous bird paintings, but few a chance to read selections from his writings in Ornithological Biography or Thei Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Teale, a famed writer in his owa right on natural history subjects, has made such a selection for this volume that reproduces also about of Audubon's plates in color and 70 others in black and white. A SIMILAR job was done two decades ago by Donald Culross Peattie in "Audubon's America," but the present publication sticks closer than that one to the subjects of animals and birds. There is a tendency among critics to downgrade Audubon's lively--sometimes overly lively paintings as works of art. But they display a vitality and freshness that is reflected also in his writings.

He lived when the new world still was young and his readers will enjoy nearly every minute of it with him. AUDUBON'S achievements as a naturalist, as Teale brings out in his graceful introduction, were hardly less impressive than-his accomplishments as a publisher. In 12 packed years, starting with less than the fare to London, he saw through to the finish a $100,000 project. He sold Ihe necessary subscriptions at $1,000 apiece, painted the 435 pictures showing more than 1,000 individual birds, plus plants, flowers, insects, reptiles and mammals: arranged for the skilled engraving of plates that is born, fate plays a trick on Ihe imperious gentleman the child is a girl! FURTHER OUTLINE of the incredible plot is better left for the scrutiny of those who want to read the book. This is the kind of thing that publishers and publicity folk like to call rich and satisfying.

Nobody would ever be so churlish as to doubt that an enormous amount of hard work, research and dedication to her career are given to Mrs. Keyes' novels. The first one, "The Old Gray Homestead," was published in 1921 shortly after her husband, the late Henry Wilder Keyes, entered the Senate. "The Explorer" was begun at the Oxbow (Homestead in New- oury, where seven generations of her family have lived; carried on in Italy, Peru, Boston, Washington and aboard the SS Santa Cecilia, Santa Mariana and Conte Verdi; finished at Beauregard House, New Orleans. She attributes much of her success to the habit of writing on the actual scene of each story.

--MARTHA BUTLER sparkling humor which seemed to be inexhaustible, will surely want to read and enjoy this tale of a most happy man, his associations and his wanderings. There are a lot of people, including many of his oldest friends who will be surprised to learn, after John's graduation, cum laude, from Fordham, that he went up lo the family a in Dulchess county and sel himself up in the poultry business. This was because he wanted to be in the country of Riverdale and the Bronx, to sludy nalure and sleep under lhe stars. The village, lacking a school teacher, summoned Kieran to the one-room, six-scholar school, paying him $40 a month for sharing his already vast store of knowledge with the country kids. But hrs dream, and cash, vanished, and he got an J-a-week job, in New York, helping to each covered more than five riage Hero's Ride All Downhill YARBOROUGH.

By 8. H. Friedman. New World. Trie hero of this novel, A Skelton, is an aimless man who fritters away his life because he can find no sense of values, no direction, no goal.

His only progression is from bridge prodigy lo bridge bum. At the age of 6, Skelton was beating adult bridge fins. But even in his card games he was more interested in perfecting a system than in winning trophies though at 17 he won a national tournament prize. who let prep school, his grades would have made him valedictorian, but he turned down the chance. In college wis doing well and headed for law school, but dropped out because he could see no point in continuing.

He had numerous affairs, out was not interested in mar- Skelton was the type portunity slide. In pre opporti ftway, the ef- The tremendous task wore him out. He had not left the necessary vitality to finish his master work colorful con- wire, (lass frag on mammals. --JOE WING eels of drugs--he started marihuana as a teenager--but found only transient solace in them. Even as a professional bridge player he merely drifted sneering at a man who was ambitious enough to become a national authority.

All this downhill chronicle of a man who lacked motivation and couldn't find his own identity is told a background of JULIAN GREEN DIARY 1124- clubs, night, life, sex and dis- 1M7. Translated by AIUM Greenjillusionment. There is a sreat ideil of bridge talk-readers who i "ot the game will hive bom do some skipping--and a pre- Amencan parents in Paris and occupation with narcotics Personal Record Of Sensitive Man New Haremrt, Brace World. i a Green went lo school both in France and the United States. His dual sharing in education and language of the two countries was, further enhanced by his sharing of the traditions of two religious Friedman writes well, but his alerial may not appeal to a wide audience.

H' hip. cultures-- Puritan and Catholic. This background alone would his 30-year diary of singular interest, but he is also a foremost French novelist his an artist's introspective disciplines. Thus we have a record ol a sensitive man's articulate observations of the events in his life and career, of the people and Places he knew and of his search for identity. Good thought-provoking reading ANALYSIS OF VERSAILLES David Lloyd George, one of the "Big Four" primarily responsible for the Treaty of Versailles, has called thut paper "the most abused and least perused document in history." The infamous drafting of the Treaty of Versailles, which js presumed to have laid the groundwork for Hitler's rise to power, js explored In Frederick Czernin's new book, Versailles, inj, published by G.

P. Putnam's Sons. build mammoth sewer. But land in France I. His war experi- the subway crush at night, and other inconveniences, caused him to pledge lo himself: "I will not go through life traveling in this horrible way; will find a better." And he did find a better way to travel when he took the reporter's job on the Times.

IT IS NOT EASY to think of John Kieran as an admiral. But admiral lie was, when he cornered the boating concession on Central Park's lakes. First Sta Lord of hundreds of rowboats, swan boats and launches. He had to leave this sea-faring operation to help make the world "safe for democracy," and he was one of the first American soldiers to World War ences are told briefly and fac tually, the author being no- babbling old vet embellishing small incidents to show how he won the war. Everything he did, everywhere he went, heightened his interest in nature, particularly the birds on land and sea, in the city and the rural areas, in scores of countries he visited.

Whether was travelling with the Yankees, the Giants or the Brooklyn Dodgers, visiting art museums, plan- eiariums, he never forgot his binoculars. They, like his charming wife, lo whom he dedicated this exciting autobiography, are his constant companions. And he has other companions, a few hardy souls who enjoy getting up "in the middle of the night" for a nature-loving trek along the shore or into the woods with this indefatigable scholar and ing both the extremes of anarchy and of those who would save thei country from anarchists. The Paiges, of New England are socially conscious, though jess excitable a the AJLI1 Blr IIID me wmri 10 a i i a Ivarins. They are pacifists and) TAP-TV i THE and only tardily realiws that," 1 'TM- a i a THIS IS NOT an autobiography in depth, or in trifling detail.

There is a richness in every I age, as a happy man describes the highlights of a busy, fruitful career. The book is fascinating and will provide some satisfying evenings of reading. "I'm always writing a book," he said the other day in an interview, and it is our hope that more will come from him. He admitted how happy he is, smilingly asking, "What's the use of being any other way?" CHARLES J. McGILL FORESHADOWS K'S FALL "Russia in the Thaw" by Alberto Rnnchey and published by Norton, provide timely and important background material for Khrujhchev's fall from power.

Mr. Ronchey, for many years Moscow correspondent for La Stampa of a'recognized student of communist theory and practice who has talked at length with most of the leader of tha Soviet hierarchy. humanist, and he diaeusses very profitably a -broad range of subjects. THE ESSAYS are grouped in- lo four categories--Manners ami Morals, Writers and Writing Theater, and The World W- Didn't Make (meaning nature) The author is thai rare combination of the bookish man ami the amateur naturalisl. He is a.i admirer of Samuel Johnson.

G.B. Shaw, Henry Tboreau and H.L. Mencken. As a former theater critic, he has coger.t things to say about O'Neill as well as Ihe theater of the absurd Existentialism. author ol "Gen-; Perhaps Ihe best part' of the tleman's Agreement." has writ- collection is the section on Manten a strong, long (502 pages) ners and Morals, for Her main characters are two remarkable Long Island families, in the six years before World I.

These people, Ihe Ste Iv ance. their friends, the Evande'r nns. and of lesser import- Paiges, are interested in far than going to the job, ning the house and marrying off the children. THEY READ world news, discuss it and worry about it. They these essays lhat he demonstrates his grull disdain lor bosh and buncombe, his devotion lo .1 sense of values and his-astringent doubts about the exactness of science.

MORE THAN anything elsr. Krutch is an individualist. It happens lhat he writes in the neglected field of Ihe a i i a (that is, personal) essay, and have political beliefs which they deepen by arguing back and forth and they're willing to voice their deeply felt, sometimes unpopular, opinions outside the home, to the vast embarrassment of their children, who would rather be, i i noncommittal like I everybody else. Ivarins, of Russian Jewish background, are socialists, hat- THAT THEY WERE Ihe governing English in a land which was nine-tenths colored gave them status. Not only were they superior to Ihe natives but to Dutch A i a a who were their neighbors and to Jews who were Master Of Short Stones THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, By John New York: Random House.

This is the fourth year in a row that a book ol short stories by O'Hara has been issued, and there was one novel in between. The wonder lies not only in the great a i of stories that he has poured out are 28 in 16Articles On Unufual Children THE DIFFICULT CHILD. S. New Ywfc: PHIiiiihkal The articles found in this book are concerned with the creative child, inattentive child, the child with language problems, UK poor writer, the poor reader, (he slow learner, the precocious child, the aggressive child, children wilh in musical growth (sic), the severely emotionally disturbed child, the amalhematicil child, the pamper- ered child, the lazy child, UM juvenile delinquent, the child with poor memory aod finally family tocio-emoticnal problems. The range of'articles is wide indeed and, as can be expected, the articles themselves are uneven.

Yet, in one way or another, most ol the major problems facing the development of children are touched upon here. The articles which 1 believe make the most significant contribution are those entitled: "The Creative Child." "The Precocious Child." "The Aggressive Child" and 'The Severely Emotionally Disturbed Child." POINT WHICH ti not developed enough throughout the book with the exception of "The Precocious Child" is that there Ihis collection but the a a i 1 re lo few facilil reserved for either shop-keepers or profes- hc keeps surpassing himself in;" 10 lied or exceptional child, sional men. mailer of quality. Many i A Q( a democracy, the Rebellious against the wre'ch- lhc stories in this book have a a child has a much a edness of her parents' way of life and their petty outlook, Martha, with the help pi Joss Cohen, son of the village store-keeper, gets a job in the nearby capital city of the colony. With details that are surely pan of her past, Mrs.

Lessing paints the portrait of the girl, lovely to look at and mentally terrific impart. right to develop his potential I Ihe average child. unai js, personal; essay, and it 10 IOOK at and mentally should be hoped that he will not! an1 emotionally beset with ang- s( "rk exactitude. AS EVERYONE knows by I is (perhaps llwre OHara has a supersensitive a i has always been and there will utiliies dialogue I be) a shortage ot talent achieve his effects with a Ihe United States, We can ill mum of effort. He also has ai a to waste what we have, very sharp eye for the small! This brings up the rote of teich- visual details of his scenes.

that his descriptions take 01 be the last to lend distinction to er5 and confusions. To her. the this form. Biography Of Toft job as clerk in law ollice of Joss' uncle means escape to freedom to a world more just and decent. i you are But, transplanted.

Martha's ex-j" wi 1 pcriences are neither on the cul-! a tural or mental'level. She becomes a member of Ihe smart It is becoming increasingly a clear that we need teachers who have had a sound knowledge of result is that you feel youj a they are supposed to know his people, that vou Wen-l teaching. I 0 a young English set who begin drinking and dancing it sundown and keep it up until dawn. They are all very gay and bright and liberated about everything tttlt means fun, sex included. i On Ihe suggestion of Dr.

Jamts Conanl, several teachers' col- miu rcai leges in New York are BOW star- the outcome of the! ing emphasis on the disctpliM tn be taught, if a teacher it lo tfarh mathematics, his degree ought to In this' collection O'Hara has severai items In which people reach the flash point of tfcir emotions and -suddenly tear into each other. hus- in mathematics, not In history, English or anything ehe. This sounds like common MOM, bui we still have too many. "The Clear Track" a -rse in Ihe'subjec, matl lerlh FLATTERED BY her popular- Case" ihere ity, Martha is caught in the "whirl cltma.v to a similar sit- 1 when war comes their son declares himself. a conscientious objector, on ethical not religious ground, and he is sent to prison.

Anyone who has forgotten, or TAFTS. By Ishbtll Newithe pattern, apart fronTils I wo old "b'iddics whTdron hey beer horou York: New America. gloss, is essentially polite amenities and claw I by their parents. Name a field of worthwhile me 3 0 51 5 deavor in the United States never-erwha? some of the people out of itep T.ft English circle. in a a a 5 0 -L Sh? a few atu 1900s in the United States, forget again after reading Mrs Hobson's book.

She does not overly dwell on citizens committee vigilante activities, but she does include one vivid scene outside San Diego in which Dr Ben Rettman, the business manager of an anarchist who had come to town to make a speech about a play by Ibsen, was tar- stuck with cactus teaching. too. we are expecting from the schools. After all. children bepirt school iftrr they have been thoroughly condi- The school.

And I the child does mirror In his sonality. traits, and above all hii BU1 altitude what wenl on in the home and what helearned there. William Howard Tafl same taboos and a nasiy male bullv devilino --ainst colored people, against i woman friend about" her outside IP 3 5 in "The Jet Set." "AJI jTied Up" (here is i sadistic' iltempis to; a lormenling an emplove A Rh or i i Min- break free, some of them ex-' Palh another lac-i qUe 1Cy gm! homr no became in i fj a 0( lhe ar in "The Bonfire a lale of em As Ihe I i 1 f- nile Delinquent" points oul: "The home and family ti the basic social institution. It is potentially the most effective agency of social control. It is apparent that a norms! family is the best insur- name.

Helen was dean of Bryn Mawr 1 Charles P. Taft built Ihe THE PEOPLE Mrs. Times-Star into one of the nation's more noted newspapers. most of feast admirable They make a reader The details of Martha's life as rcc proudly a he 8'ven the Award "of Merit of ihei American Academy of Arts and! clear hat the material of the second novel in the volume. The war wish he BIOGRAPHER HISTORIAN right to say it: service because nf an ulcer, Martha, now 23, again breaks free, this- lime seeking meaning and with a communist Letters for the novel, it i is iiea that he eager to return to (hi lorm and demonstrate his skil work to do." your --MARY- CAMPBELL Novel Tells Story Of Molly Magufres the 1670s.

and traces i convey the turmoil of an i books seem over-1 pages in all, they) York: I (I! what is now the United States in! whlle the 1670s. and traces the family through mid-1964, when the senatorial candidacy of Robert A. Taft Jr. and the decision of Charles P. Taft to support Lyndon B.

Johnson for President pul Tafls in the headlines The fact thai she started wilh le first the most ToDnOtch Guidebook of the Tans makes for tncea in i this book his natural mastery ofi ry Fcw a Ms' dividual and of a generation and give a convincing feeling of a place and a class. --ANN MASTERS Study of Life Around a Trial nce igainst delinquency. On Ihe other hand a family that is broken by divorce, deser- 'I 011 nd lfalh func- tion "nil- This type of home canot assume the adequate responsibilities necessary in rearing children. The normal family provides Ihe basic needs ef all its members. However.

there Is a trend in recent years that family life has been changing and there are evidences of losses in tpecific functions. What is even more serious is the extent of breakdown of family life here in Ihe United States." There are many wavs of counting history. Arthur has chosen Ihe best to tell the story of the Molly Maguires that strange Irish Mafia that terrorized the Pennsylvania hard coal country from the end of the Civil War i the late Lewis spins his carefully re- author inserts enough anec- doles and other colorful matter to keep ihings moving at a fairly good pace The book picks up markedly with the arrival of Alpnonso Taft, whose children included William "THE DIFFICULT CHILD" is useful compiiaiion of informs- on concerning the many com- f- i I Dy v. I0n Problems of emotionally ill 1 the Cmpire C-llV Yoi and Row' or children. Many refer" will be found in each of i a Symons' latest spe the articles.

Unfortunately, Ihe TO NEW YORK: Emplrejbmder live, up to the high -1 contribution, are not linked to- TV1 i a iu- GRUN City. By Frances readers have come to exoect New York: Fwnlainhead. IfrOm "a Ha.rper novel of sts- oense." addition to this year's lush crop Solomon Grundy for the brutal by an editor's narrative and therefore there Is a lack nf continuity to the book. Also lacking Is a conclusion and index. -LEON A.

DALE searched a like a novel. The Mollies, in operation a reverse Ku Klux Klan North, evolved from a Ing of dissident Irishmen fighting' Aary Ihe anthracite barons into a sections on WilKam Howard passages are rich in night-riding secret society 1 Robert A Ttft might historical backgroun transcendent importance (expected, although lhe anecdotes. There are The coal barons hired a Pink-! ucators tlMl hiltmnr ist i i on neighborhoods, ethnic erton man, Jamie McParlan ire net slighted. groups, bridges, piers and ships and off- There are sec- who infiltrated the organizatioi. tnd.

through a series of adventures that tempt the credibility of fiction, in three years' work turned up enough to who had first-hand word-of-mouth GIVEN THE benefit of access to the voluminous Taft correspondence here wis a family of letter-writers if ever thtre was one and various public iand even tug boats. Some ot the color spills over to enliven the A sive, down the alphabet confined with the unfamiliar and personal The are comprehen- from amusement parks to zoos. In lhe restaurant section the thor over-plays her favorite oflen neglecting other just as serving. Also, the author, is over-! ly casual about lisling of the Mollies written contem- aCTmnls.fnomenls in Ihe lives of the Tafts. which could spell dancer to incrou a cl --JOSEPH L.

BENHAM Visitor on a budget. prio ir Band Floated In 5-OUISVILLE (AS) IIe 0ra lumm th Cltie Ii to Grundy's relationships i wife and her family and with clm with lo1 0 coal his neighbors in The Dell i a Actually, Grundy's guilt or in-! rier and wen out with an oil ear- nocence is almost of secondary overshadowed by the of ences, race prejudice and marital difficulties that arise in a closely. situation. The courtroom scenes out- slandingly effective, and Mr. Symons has, "The End of Solomon Grundy," enhanced his already firjn reputation a in author of suavely literate suspense tales.

--EDNA VERCIN1 The a i stage of the American Wind Symphony Is an Sft-foot box-shaped craft. It has no power of its own and must hitchhike behind commercial tows. Robert Austin Eoudreau ol Pittsburgh always wanied to stage outdoor concerts and thought of rivers ts The symphony has been erui.i- ing on Allegheny. Ohio snrt Mississippi rivers, unfl other streams, for eight awtaonl..