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-to PITTSBURGH i SATURDAY, JULY 4, This World of Books Stage and Screen Ross Alexander gets the part In "You Gotta Learn Sometime" originally intm ded for James Cagney. Mary Blackwood will graduate from th rhorim to a featured role in Darryl Zannck't "Girl Dormitory," By Lee Berry ORPHANS: Publishers continually lament the fact that so much I written about the current best-sellers and so little is said about the equally Important books which have somehow mtheat! title passes This Wide-Open-Spaced ColoneVs the Real McCoy Heads Movie Relief Fund Fourth Consecutive Time failed to gain popular favor. Herewith, then, is our own list of the four most undeservedly neglected novels of the past half year: "Men and Brethren" by James Gould Cozzens, which provides a realistic and masterly portrait of a young Xew York clergyman; John Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle," a look which many critics have hailed as the best American labor novel ever written; "Young Mr- Disraeli" by Elswyth Thane, an unusually brilliant example of fictionalized biography: and finally, Paul Hor-gan's "Main Line West," a deeply moving book which marks the author's transition from an LEO, THE LION, HAS HIS JUNE R0ARC0MING MGM Leads Field In Month That's Just 'N Ended. Is peraie Jt, Complete control of 1.,,, Theater, opened in vy-crated by Lorw's, In, b' 1 Via r- Elswyth Thane DRUMBEATS: amusing novelist to an important one. Two years ago this department -was shouting itself hoarse over Carl Carmer's "Stars Fall on Alabama," Wednesday who Ul i the management, it yesterday.

The Pittsburgh I 4T iE St i -S SfaKiSiajiSKaSS Si preferred stock in the ever, contemplate nn ntfrtinnnul mam (np inuiiies, Attorney p0i. McCrady, who repi said. The prime reason in louuui whs burgh owners of tlu Officials of Loew's Inc n'd" Artists, felt rental chart's ground have been extra taxes they have born the city were too high. Failure by them better agreements rcsiil'rd Crady being summon York last Monday an.j kV viz 0 io r4gc or.A fra--' which set a new style in travel books and won so wide an audience that a couple of sons: -writers cashed in on the value of the title by setting it to music Mr. Carmer's new book, Listen For a Lonesome Drum'' (Farrar and Rinehart.

$3), is another heady brew of folklore, history, legend and colorful reporting, and there is every reason to believe that it will be quite as popular as its predecessor. Upstate New York was the mysterious land explored by Mr. Carmer while gathering material for this completely absorbing His uninhibited wanderings took him to the Genesee Valley, the Tonawanda Indian Reserve, the Adirondacks, the Catskills and all through that color-drenched region which lies west of Albany and south of Rochester. There's not a chapter in Mr. Carmer's book that doesn make first-class reading fare, but that section known as "The Truth Shall Spring Out of the Earth" is so packed with fascinating material that we read it twice before continuing further.

Here the author deals with the various prophets and religions which have found at least temporary nourishment in York State soil, and lovers of the bizarre and the incredible will need no urging to gobble up these chapters on the Shakers, the early Mormons, the Millerites; the Spiritualist colony at Lily Dale, the woman known as the Universal Publick Friend and John Humphrey Noyes and his fabulous Oneida Community. Other indispensible Carmer items include the tale of Ameriga Vespucci, tragic descendant of the man who gave this continent its name, the Chautauqua chapter, the story of the fearful Loomis Family and the author's pungent accounts of his experiences in the company of the Tonawanda Indians, the Caleboguers, the Adirondack lumberjacks and Troop of the State Police. If vou read "Stars Fall on Alabama," you'll have a pretty good Idea or "what to expect from this handsomely designed and illustrated companion volume. If you missed the Alabama book, don't make the same mistake with "Listen For a Lonesome Drum." liOMECOMLNG: As almost every Scandinavian novel achieving publication in this country falls automatically into the saga category, readers of Josta Justaf-Janson's "The Old Man's Coming" Knopf, may well open their eyes wide on discovering that h-re is no earthy tale of the. soil but a sophisticated, highly dramatic story of a doom-ridden family of crackpots and fanatics.

Making excellent use of a device exploited by Claude Houghton in "Christina" and "I Am Jonathan Scrivener," Mr. iiustaf-Janson takes us into the heart of a corrupt and humorles upper middle-class family and shoxvs how and why their fate, lies in the hands of one Charles-Henri de Grevy. owner of the estate on which they are living. Suddenly word comes that, the aged de Grevy, after an absence of 20 years, is returning home, and from that moment on the tension builds up to the breaking point, finally reached when the old man actually appears. The manifold philosophic and psychological implications of this superbly contrived story completely overshadow the importance of the setting, and even those who normally go out of their way to avoid Scandinavian fiction will forget their prejudices as they follow the devious twists and turnings of this suspense-laden tale.

This is the. first novel by Mr. Gustaf-Janson to make Its appearance on this side of the Atlantic, and the author's name is well worth noting for future reference. Despite an unsatisfactory conclusion. "The Old Coming" is a work of distinction and importance.

It has been admirably translated by Clande Napier, and unless you've sworn oh all serious fiction for the summer, this is a book to include on your reading list. nenceforth Loew's wa i ing control. The group its interest as a of the common stock. Actually PittsbufRhecs in control of the th.ai,r years through the F( Corporation, local group holders. There had bc-n ment that in event of group's default on trol was to revert to th.

s-, By Harold W. Cohen The roar you may have possibly heard a week aro as June melted into -July was that of Loo, the Lion, belching: profits into the Metro-Cioldwyn-Mayer treasury, the direct result of the -whacking 'Fury" and the lusty "San Francisco." Of course, Mr. Zanuck's Twentieth Century-Fox drums were likewise rolling out a box-office tattoo labeled "Private Number" but even this mortgage-lifter could be traced directly to the Lair of Lee. You see, it was Mr. Robert Taylor, the cinema's pretty boy, who squeezed the gold out of "Private Number's" practically barren claim and Mr.

Taylor happens to be the property of MGM. He was merely laboring for Mr. Zanuck under a loan if not a delusion. Although the other studios nipped here and there during the month of brides, they picked up only a few crumbs; it was chiefly Mr. Louis B.

Mayer and his smiling stockholders who sat down to break bread in the ecstatic warmth of swelling dividends and stomachs. And now for the June survey. "The Case Against Mrs. Ames" Madeleine Carroll is so lovely that she keeps your eyes off the humdrum happenings of still another courtroom melodrama. "Dracula'a Daughter" Prettier than her old man but not half as mean or exciting.

Anyway Miss Gloria Holden manages to look both deadly and devastating, which any lady will tell you is quite an order. "Palm Springs" In which a noble gambler sends his daughter, who was about to marry a dashing millionaire, into the arms of the man she really loves. Frances Lang-ford, Sir Guy Standing and Smith Ballew are pleasantly if rather ineffectively involved. "Law in Her Hands" Three scotch-and-sodas in quick succession is the perfect antidote. "Fatal Lady" Make it four.

"Bullets or Ballots" Edward G. Robinson and the Freres Warner manage to take a lot of warmed-over gangster vs. G-men hash and make it racy, hard-boiled and full ers here. At that time Loew's rnr. handle the operation nn.i in.

ing with the agrrrmrm Pittsburchrrs. rrnresenl. M.Hi I OX DA VIES Probably the most popular of all screen slars has been reelected for the fourth consecutive time as president, of the Motion Picture JJelief Fund. Miss Davies has leen able by her unfailing devotion to the cause of this fnnd to vastly increase the charitable work which it conducts among the entire film industry. Crady.

Karl L. Morton, nori 1 he rmrnn-f i' Company, and E. S. Fowrrj COLONKL Tin M.COY rJlie Acterati Western tnr of the iiiuia hs taken leave of Hollywood for the summer to head the wild West, Miow with th Kingling-Hai-niim 1 iivus, which arrives here Monday and TiicMlay for four performances. Mct'oy, by way, is no colonel of th Kentucky variety he.

served in l-'tance (lining the World war as a lieutenant-colonel and now holds the rank of colonel of catalry in the United States Army Iteserve. Col. Tim McCoy an Expert In American Indian Lore Western Screen Star Has Sioux, Crow and Black feet Warriors in His Wild West Outfit With Ringling-Barnum Show, iMcuirrr. Mike. Cullen.

present the Tenn, will continue i McCrady said. What, is with the agreement with Brothers, through whur Marxes "Comic Caravan" Hits the Road Next Week H.V. '4' shows and the IV nn the mnlinn rinlnrna TirnVv.hV be decided until the pv. re: six weeks hence, McCrarfv said Kennywood Prepare-1 For Crowded Fourt: By Eileen Percy Former Film Star and Staff Correspondent of ih PitUburgh i'ost-Gazette HOLLYWOOD, July 3. Aboard a streamlined express the Marx Brothers will launch Hollywood's oddest comic caravan next week when they set out with a company of 50 on a "preview" road tour to get audience reactions to a bag full of new He's an expert in Indian matters, is Colonel Tim McCoy, the western screen star, who heads the wild west contingents with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Circus, coming to the East Liberty show grounds Monday and Tuesday.

He speaks all tribal tongues and is fluent in the sign A crowded Fourth r.n BRASS: jokes and situations. While Readers of "It Can't Happen Here" who are curious to know what sort of book may next be expected from the pen of Sinclair Lewis will be interested to learn that -Mr. Lewis has recently been spending much time in Waterbury, ostensibly for the purpose of visiting a Kennywood today. Thorr dancing to Val Garv.s swimming in the be from Erie the (In air net and, ss a leaturc, patriotic oii' Ccrvone's American of bounce. "friend and college classmate.

Interviewed by a many chiefs, including the son of the famous Sitting Bull, of Custer Massacre note. Colonel McCoy was a lieutenant-colonel in France during the World war, and is now a colonel of cavalry in the United States Army Reserve. In his rough riding squadrons are Cossarks. Vaqueros, Indian warriors, cowboys, cowgirls and gauchos. In several instances, when the government has decorated Indian chiefs in his rontingent.

Colonel McCoy has been asked to make the presentation of medals by virtue of his Army Reserve Corps rank. Recently he decorated Chief Thunder Bird, of the Southern Cheyennes, for leading his people in the ways of progress. present plans call for appearances in Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, the comedians will also stop at smaller cities en route. On the trip they will test some of the screen material for their new picture, "A Day at the Races." The company includes its principals, Margaret Dumont. Harry Stockwell, Lorraine Bridges and Leonard ceeley, all of whom will be seen in the picture.

Four or five scenes will be presented much as they were Garvin's hand, by thri ilocal newspaperman, the novelist refused to comment on the nature of his new book but freely admitted that he was spending a great many hours in the Waterbury brass factories. The logical deduction is that Mr. Lewis is gathering background material for a novel which will have some bearing on the brass business. remain at Kennywood language ns well. As a young cowboy and rancher, Tim was a protege of General Hugh Scott, United States army, who had the confidence of all the plains Indians and often treated with them for the government.

Through General Scott, Tim gathered much knowledge of Indian life, and he now finds it useful in dealing with the Sioux, Crow and Blackfeet warriors in his wild west section. Among the 40 warriors are next week, and present afternoon concerts. All of hr sj including Sunny A-te BATTLE: That thrilling hundred-day period In Harry Stockwell. ilton, Jimmy DeTello r.ifr? Lorraine Bridges. I I i history when Aapoleon returned from Barker, will be on i i session.

(exile, swept down on Paris, planned his greatest battle and then met everlasting defeat during the Sinclair Lewis for 'A Night at the Opera." Many new gags will be written in as they present themselves. The hilarious stateroom scene in "A Night at the Opera" was largely developed in this way during the "previous tour." This new laugh fest has a race track and an insane asylum for its settings. with Hanlevy McDevitt and Clay Adams. An official of the company just sent Jane Withers one of those drugstore size marble machines. Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg will be in Stratford-on-Avon for the world premiere of "Romeo and Juliet." Betty Furness is still getting plenty of gasps out of those trick hats she wears.

Because of studio orders, Luise Rainer has switched her luncheon diet from applie pie to raspberry ice. "SECOND WIFE," RECENTLY acquired as a screen property by RKO, has gone before the. cameras with Walter Abel and Gertrude Michael in the top spots. Also heavily featured in the production will be Erik Rhodes, Iee. Vann Atta, Emma Dunn, Ann Shoemaker and Mavine Jennings.

The story is based on Fulton Oursler's stage play, "AH the King's Men," It treats the domestic problems that follow the second marriage of a widower who has a young son by his first wife. RADIO FLASHES FROM THE PICTURE STUDIOS: Bob Burns has taken over the Bing Crosby show for the summer and will "Sons O' Guna" Probably E. Brown's poorest in the last couple of years. It's the old Jark Donahue stage hit, laid during the World war, and the authors apparently felt duty-bound to keep the humor within that period. "Fury" The hysteria of a mob is dramatized with tense and feverish excitement by Director Fritz Lang, the exiled German, who fashioned the unforgettable The first half is the best, the last half a trifle phoney although Mr.

Spencer Tracy and Miss Sylvia Sidney traverse both sections handsomely. "Forgotten Face Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael In a really major picture of minor importance. From a threadbare narrative that suggests an inverted "Madame the players and their director, E. A. Dupont, have wrenched a strange, macabre breathlessness.

"Speed" Ted Healy steals this one from James Stewart and Wendy Barrie but he couldn't possibly be held for anything more than petty larceny. "Things to Come' Mr. H. G. Wells is the soul of pessimism as he insists that the next, and not the first hundred years are the hardest.

Some occasionally remarkable photography but little else save perhaps confusion of ideas and isms. "Private Number'' The Matinee Idol with It, Mr. Robert Taylor, Miss Loretta Young and Virtue triumph over that thing called evil. They triumph over a lot of other things, too. including the oldest story ever told.

"Hearts Divided" A pleasant, moon-glow drama that tells of the ill-fated romance of Jerome Bona-parate and Betsy Patterson, the celebrated Baltimore belle. Marion Davies lends charm and sincerity to the "leading role and gets some able assistance from Dick Powell and Claude Rains, the latter as Napoleon B. E. (Before Elba). "Boulder Dam" It takes sulky Ross Alexander seven reels to realize that Patricia Ellis and Boulder Dam are the two greatest construction jobs in the world.

"Early to Bed" The best of the Boland-Ruggles domestic comedies thus far, with Mr. Ruggles contributing a priceless performance as the meek somnambulist whose sleep-walking activities get him involved in murder and mirth. "Three Wise Guys" Mr. Damon Runyon's short, short story survives lywood for that if program, a ne Froman 1 ill do herf chees Ja West View to Stage Big Fireworks Show West View Park has mapped a big week-end for the Fourth. It will include afternoon and evening dancing to Fran Eichler's orchestra, free performances by the Looping Nixes, the amateur contest finals and a giant tire-works display tonight.

Tomorrow Sammy Fuller will m. c. the amateur entertainment and there will be movies again at night in the Talkie Temple. Kich-ler's band remains at the park all of next week, with Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears coming in Tuesday for a one-night stand. tmMrcr 1 fk-w.

cvf XI! broadcasting in 0 Hollywood and work at the Warner Brothers studio between programs. C. B. DeMille's 11 course of a single fateful afternoon is vividly re-created by 3ianuel KomrofT in "Waterloo" (Coward, McCann, which is the liveliest, most swift-paced historical novel of the year. Ignoring the current tendency to squeeze the last drop out of a story, even if a thousand pages are required for that purpose, the author of "Coronet" has turned in a streamlined version of the Cor-sican's Hundred Days.

Packing a maximum amount of drama into a minimum number of pages, he sweeps through Paris, Brussels and Waterloo in less than iiOO pages. The result, if not great literature, is at least, compelling entertainment. The battle of Waterloo itself is, of course, the high spot of the story. The author has here managed a stunning piece of dynamic descriptive writinc, and a dozen memorable incidents come quickly to mind, of which the most, dramatic pictures the meeting of two wounded soldiers, a 14-year-old English lad and a French boy one year his senior. The two, lying on the field of combat, become friends as they sail a toy boat in a stream reddened with the blood of the dead and dying.

Although his portrait of Xapoleon is sharply etched, Mr. Komrolf has sacrificed characterization for color and action. The minor characters are shadowy and insignificant, but "Waterloo" is a novel you won't soon forget. Every scene is dramatically realized through a wealth of little-known and fascinating detail, and an extensive bibliography and an outspoken skepticism on the part of Mr. Komroff are twin guarantees of historical accuracy.

PASSION: Literary circles have recently been all agog with the news that Sylvia Townsend Warner's first novel in six years. "Summer Will Show" Viking, would mark a significant departure from her previous work in fiction. Rumor now becomes fact, and readers of "Mr. Fortune's Maggot" can open this book in full confidence that Miss Warner has abandoned fantasy for a tale of social unrest which, in subject matter, at least, will warm the heart of the most rugged proletarian: Yet although "Summer Will Show" is largely concerned with the French Revolution of 1S4S and its effect on two women, admirers of Mr. Fortune need not lose heart.

Still one of the most distinguished prose writers of our day, still a mistress of exquisite irony and barbed wit. Miss Warner has added to her own literary stature in this wholly unexpected book by proving that passion as "well as urhanity is thoroughly within her grasp. Sophia Willoughby, an arrogant, independent, highly intelligent Englishwoman, sets out for Paris after the death of her two children to reclaim her errant husband. On the night that revolution breaks out she reaches a party being given by Minna Lemuel, his hot-blooded, disreputable, fascinating mistress. Cirsumstances throw the self-controlled Sophia and the flamboyant Minna into each other's company, a strange devotion grows up between the two, and before the story comes to its moving conclusion, the pair have mounted the barricades together.

An aristocratic treatment of bloodshed and revolution, "Summer Will Show" manages to be both eloquent and restrained, patrician and proletarian. Perhaps that explains why it is also a minor but genuine work of art. JEWS: Those who cherish the name and spirit of civilization should either leg, buy or borrow a copy of Marvin Lowen-thal's "The Jews of Germany" (Longmans, Green, $3), for here is a book so readable, so scholarly, so terrifying and so important that it not only deserves but demands the attention of every thinking American. The whole tragic history of anti-Semitism in Germany is chronicled by Mr. Ijowenfhal with such calm and all-inclusive detachment that the blood xvill turn to ice in your veins.

Brutality, bigotry, greed, oppression, ignorance and hatred appear in all their unlovely nakedness as the author relentlessly traces the fate of the German Jew from the early Middle Ages to the fearful events of our own day. His work is a terrible commentary on the inhumanity of man; his rase study of persecution constantly serves as a reminder that "Jewish rights ami universal human rights are inseparable," that "the fight against fanaticism is one fight, no matter who the victims are." Leaving the melodramatic and emotional aspects of this matter 4 i'Vj Coming Attractions soap program is Jane Froman. offering serious competition to the other air shows. Fred MacMurray is said to be closing a deal for his own show. Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur will be co-featured with Cecil B.

DeMille on a near future broadcast. It will be Gary's first appearance on a radio program. JEAN HARLOW HAS A CLEVER new item all lined up for her fall and winter wardrobes. They are initials, created from flat fur and used on simple woolen dresses in place of jewels and clips. Some of the initials are plain, while others are worked into intricate monograms.

Jean likes them from galyak and clipped caracal. I DON'T KNOW WHAT MARY BRIAN will think of this, but Cary Grant says that any thought of A I Edward Arnold in "Sutters Gold" and Jessie Matthews in "It's Love Again." PENN-W. C. Fields in "Poppy," with Rochelle Hudson and Richard Cromwell. STANLEY Jean Hersholt in "Sins of Man," with Don Ameche and Major Bowes Amateurs.

WARNER "Dancing Pirate," with Charles Collins, Steffi Duna and Frank Morgan, and "And Sudden Death," with Randolph Scott and Frances Drake. ENTER YOUR SNAPSHOTS IN 21 11 niii 11 n's Week-En 1 1 SNAPSHOT COXTEST prizrs auarded rack Sunday from July 13 through August 30. Grand Prize $25. Entries must be in by Thursday of each iceeh. lectures must be snapped within 200 miles of Pittsburgh by amateurs.

Mark name, address date and place taken on back of photo niail 1o Contest Kdilor at KaufmannV. If jou wish jour photos returned, please enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope. See. Monday's I'ost-dazette or Kallmann's camera shop for further details. NEW SUMMER STORE HOURS during July and August wi? clow SATURDAYS AT 1 P.

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the stretching process moderately WHERE TO GO WHEN TO GO ic. wit. wedding bells for him is a long way off. Here are his reasons for his love of bachelorhood. A bachelor doesn't have to shave on Sundays.

He can stay -ut as late he chooses. He can choose his lady compan well although the translators often have a difficult time sustaining it over the necessary feature-length period. "And So They Mere Married" What's in a title? In this one, everything. "Trouble for Two" A lively, antic mixture of romance and adventure, fashioned shrewdly from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Suicide Club" and acted to the hilt by Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen and E. E.

Clive. "San Francisco" A bristling, brawny melodrama of the San Francisco of 1906 for which Direc i to lesser men. Mr. Lowenthal, a scholar, historian and humanitarian, writes of suffering, violence and injustice withotit once raising his voice or shaking his fist. His disciplined statement of the facts is jmore shocking, more moving than any gaudier ver- Ision could ever be.

Mary Brian. ALVIN Grare Moorp and Franchot. Tone in "Th Kins Steps Out." Start at 11:45. 12:41, 2:37, 4:33, 6:29, and 10:21. EN RIGHT Ronald Colman in "Under Two Flags" and Fred Stone in "Farmer in the Dell." Complete shows at 12, 3, 6 and 8:45.

HARRIS-FAMILY Irene Dunne and Alan Jones in "Show Boat." Starts at 12:10, 3:00. 5:24. 7:47 and 10:10. VESTS Kay Francis in "The White Aneel." Starts at 11:24, 1:34. 3:44.

5:54. 8:04 and 10:14. STANLEY Bohby Breen in "Let's Sing Again" and Benny navis' "Stardust Revue." Feature at 11. 1:25. 3:50, and 11:05.

Staue at 12:20, 2:45. 5:10, 7:35 and 10. SHERIDAN SQCARE William Powell in "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford." with Jean Arthur. Starts at 12:20, 2:19, 4:18.

8:16 and WARNER Clark Gahle, Mae-Donald and Spencer Tracy in "Pan Francisco." starts at 11:13. 1.21. 3:29. 5:37, 7:45 and 9.53. $1 Wl ART: 'Live and learn is the motto which Irving Stone, author of "Lust For Life," is now reserving for his own particular use.

Mr. Stone, walking into a San Francisco restaurant, found the walls of the eating place covered with repro ductions of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch painter who died in France 46 years ago. ions and as many as he likes. A bachelor can listen to his favorite radio program in peace. He can order and eat what he wants for dinner.

He doesn't have to move out when an afternoon bridge club moves in. And he can smoke Mis oldest pipe as often as he pleases. What ho, Mary? CAMERA CLIPPINGS: Claire Trevor alternating tennis games Curious to know whether this was a loan exhibition, tor W. S. VanDyke has manufactured the most spectacular earthquake on record.

Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jeanette Mac-Donald look after things satisfactorily until the tremblor gets started. "The First Baby" Trouble for two. Irving Stone plied that person he asked the waitress about them. "Oh, yes," re-brightly, "these are the. Van Goof nictures from th museum.

Isn't that one above your table good. It' a painting Of Lawrence Tibbelt,".