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BUNDAY MARCH 9 1947 GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS CRETENSBORO NORTH CAROLINA SECTION PACE Dixie All Over CD AIL NEWS BGD REVIEW Tke Pen And Lyre Tales Top the Theie Will Be No Glamour Girl This Book Span Covers Year According To Tar Heel Native Just Single Night un LATE RELEASES BOOK SHOP 116 WEST MARKET STREET have the honor of presenting Printed MISS CLARE LEIGHTON Orders author of TEMPESTUOUS A a Tuesday Afternoon MARCH 11th $175 YOU 5 had girl Probably as uncanny a anyone could imagine is tale of this volume from Ancient residents of the Aleu tian Islands killed whales by using poisoned stone tipped lances COCKTAIL NAPKINS Tea 4 to 6 Add 10c each book pins 3 tax for mailing Go Devil by Marguerite Eyssen Doubleday and Company New York City 314 pp $250 CORDIALLYJNVITED TO ATTEND fl 1 I Book Department Street loor 100 White Napkins boxed and printed in gold silver or colors with monograms names or wit ticisms Mail Name Address Lis Books by number he ran away from his Rocky Mount Mr and Mrs had moved from Otl CUI METHONE ALL STABS A representative exhibit of Miss Leighton's wepd cuts will be shown they wanted to do were courage ous enough to toss back into the teeth of the insult that they couldn't amount to any thing Encouragement more often stimulates than dissipates There are few of the above mentioned persons who did not 'cherish a good hearty and understanding friend who offered them cakes and honey instead of sour grapes Almost every one recalls some teacher in elementary or high school some person who took more than a casual interest some one who helped blow on the spark until the fire burned by itself We believe that if the road to That Place is paved with good intentions the streets of That Place are paved with the state ments of There is no measure for the 111 that has been caused by too sharp tongues A good part of genius Is hard work and self confidence A curse on him who tries to rob man of eiher The and ask and the Then armer had to TRAIN STRIKES CAR KINSTON March La tham of Kinston barely escaped se rious injury when a car he was driving was struck by an Atlantic and East Carolina railroad train here late Thursday police reported today car sustained con siderable damage but he escaped idtlr minor cuts and bnnses sons through the uneasy darkness of the city The second naif brings us to follow Johnny himself afraid and dying fleeing no more the police than the nightmare of con sciousness And as he flees the people of the underworld converge upon him and for a brief time their faces are held in the cold blaze of light with which Green works Man is a powerful book not deep or detailed perhaps but unusually compelling in its movement toward an inexorable end Its errors tend to be positive ones too little restraint with the bizarre iteration of an emotional point already made It is however never less than exciting reading In Uncanny The Beast With ive ingers by William ryer Harvey Dutton and Company IncNew York 219 pp $250 ON INTERNATIONAL BASIS left to the Duchess of Windsor The occasion was a party for wounded veterans arranged by armer for one of his clients (Photo by David Workman) W7e Recommend and syndicates and of feeding suit able material to the gossip and so Iciety columnists One day he said a beautiful girl walked in placed 10 crisp $1000 bills in front of him and said she wanted publicity anything just so her name reached' print He knew she had a good family back ground and plenty of money so he started the balf rolling Column ists soon were saying that she was engaged to various play boys or that she was headed for Broadway theatrical stardom or that she christened another glamour with a battle of champagne Then one day her fiance aware that armer was represent ing her came in and told armer to name his price for keeping her name out of the papers armer solved that dilemma by inviting' both to be' his guests at Palm Beach la and four weeks later they were married rom To The versatile North Carolinian ranges from to He is publicity and public relations director for the pre mixed division of Pillsbury Mills In an after 1 time while entertaining the New York Antiques Show and Sale at the Waldorf Astoria he could be heard to say kind things about everything from Krisp mix to Katherine dancing at La Martini que Although he lives and breathes his work close to 24 hours a day is found at La Martinique every night and on his Saturday night frequently goes to some other writers who were covering the night club to keep abreast of after dark life profession has not always been press agenting or public relations counseling He was a singer and master of ceremonies at the Stork Club in 1935 having succeeded Dorothy Larnour in an engagement there Stork Club operator Sherman Bil lingsley observed that time after time armer was getting mention in the columns the life blood of a night club and his in terest was aroused is your press asked Billingsley said armer favorable press continued finally Billingsley told him to Jimmy Love to come around see him about representing Stork Club confess that no such person ex that Chic armer was Chic press agent Billingsley said that from then on Chic arm er was the Stork Club press agent ams $1000 Weekly Twelve years later he is earn ing never less than $1000 a week has an office force of seven spends an average of $100 a day for enter taining business guests and has a home on Long Island in addition to his New York quarters at Hotel Winslow He maintains a card index of 10000 names addresses and tele phone numbers as they are known in the trade He knows thousands of people by their names If he use the first name or Baldheaded men are called and waiters are His standard greeting to all girls is love that "You may say that a social said armer have made a business of knowing the right people It is just as easy to know the right people as the wrong people and much safer in the long that the they are When home in where his parents armer Nashville armer intended to be an entertainer He joined the Mason Stock Company which was playing Rocky Mount and other communities as singer and elec trician Known as Leon armer in Rocky Mount he is Charles Leon Henry armer named for three he became Lee arm er with the theatrical company He decided that some formal education was in order so he en tered Blackstone Military Acad emy in Virginia He entered Oglethorpe University Atlanta Ga in 1927 and remained a year and seven months Quits Books or Sheet Music Jan Garner orchestra came along and armer forsook the books for sheet music and remained At Co into It was ARMER PLIES HIS TRADE Charles (Chic) armer native of Nashville and specialist in glamour plies his trade on an interna tional basis as he introduces Model Patricia Seamoti By Don Bishop NEW YORK March 8 Walter Carrolls Top which opened at the American Negro Theater here is at once a refuta tion xo two groups of agitators in racial relationships in the South Because its author is a North Carolinian and winner of a Kay Kyser scholarship in drama at the University of North Carolina it cannot be said by those Northern reformers who have never seen the South except in a geography book that Southerners will not concern themselves with racial questions On the other hand and again because Carroll is a North Caro linian Bilbo Talmadge and the lynchers in Greenville can not dismiss the drama as the instru ment of a misinformed Northern troublemaker "Tin Top is the story of a white high school youth in a small Southern town who develops a friendship with a Negro youth of his own age They decide to go North for college As the youth leaves his mother she shoots him rather than see him go away with his friend A "poor white trash" neighbor accuses the Negro of kill ing the boy and even though the mother breaks down at the funeral and confesses the shooting the minister and congregation permit lynchers to drag away the Negro who has come in to say goodbye to his dead friend Carroll plays a small part that of a white man of the community who speaks up for justice whatever the color of the person judged BY DON BISHOP Daily News Correspondent NEW YORK March Identity of the glamour girl of 1947 which is a matter of great importance to at least a portion of tne American pubjic has not been made known yet by the man who docs the decid ing Charles (Chic) armer a na tive of Nashville He is the night club press agent who conceived the "glamour title and built it into a national institution He still represents a New York night club but he's a public relations counsel now said armer "there will not be a glamour girl tliis year an aftermath of the war the time ripe for a glamour He nevertheless let it be known that Lorraine Dresselhuys prob ably will be the debutante who is given the greatest by the glamourizing agencies He predicted too that her name will be found on many charity com mittees and social fixer that he is it undoubtedly will armer conducted the campaigns of Gloria Baker and Brenda razier for glamour honors He was press agent at the Stork Club five years and at El Morocco for six years after that This year he is at La Martinique and the glamour girl seems always to be seen and photo graphed where Chic armer is do ing the press representing Also Keeps Names Out Of Papers He long ago expanded his press agenting beyond the realm of com ing out parties and night club hopping So he rightfully is called a public relations counsel When Winston Churchill came to the United States for a vacation arm er was retained to precede him and to make certain of a His work may be that of keep ing names out of papers as well as getting them in and in one ca pacity or the other he has rep resented John Jacob Astor Rich ard Reynolds tin plate king William Leeds Errol lynn Nancy Oakes de Marigny Ray Milland and many others On one of Errol visits to New York armer arranged for him to appear in a charity tennis match To keep away the antic ipated swooning and souvenir clutching females armer acquired the services of 300 Waves to guard the walkway from tennis court to dressing room The Waves kept the girls away from lynn all right Then the Waves mobbed him armer took to a hospital for 10 days after the romantic lynn concluded his New York visit The problem presented by Ray Milland was altogether different Milland wanted to bq left alone He would like to have gone to the ballet but that would have brought unwelcomed fanfare So would Nancy Oakes de Marigny who was in town but she also stayed away for her father's death was still fresh in the minds of the public armer who had been retained to represent both brought them together for an con versation about one of their favorite topics the ballet Brenda Highly Photogenic Reminiscing about the clamour 1 girl exploits armer said he "found Brenda razier in a photographic 1 He explained that i what he meant was that he had taken her picture at the Stork Club 1 he did a great deal of his own photographic work and when he 1 developed and printed it he discov 1 cred that Miss razier was the i most photogenic girl he had ever seen rom that point on it was 1 a matter of supplying her photo 1 graph Io the publications i Modem Valentino Producers of stage production which will star the movie idol from England James Mason are looking for a slingshot expert who can teach Mason how to handle the ancient Biblical weap on not the shapcd kind that youngsters use to break windows Hildy Parks of Richmond Va who has a part in the play was asked on a questionnaire if her family had ever been on the stage she replied would be "horrified at the thought of John Gielgud one of the fore most English actors who opened here this week in Oscar Importance of Being also once had parental trouble They consented to a stage career for him if he would give it up if he was not a success at the age of 25 Ex actly at 25 he became a star with the Old Vic Company And speaking of stars Dinah Shore the songstress ville Tenn was definitely the star of a party given to introduce her to the New York press at the Hampshire House CBS and the agency for her program Walter Thompson hosted the event with Al Durante a Washington and Lee alumnus and Norm Varney former Duke University news bureau man as steering committee for the agen cy Miss Shore rated second with the feminine guests however Their eyes were on her handsome hus band George Montgomery sporting a oiacK string tie wmen any planta tion owner would have been proud to wear Miss Shore has gained a tighter grip on her reputation as irst Lady of Popular with her Bel and Close My disked for Columbia Rec ords Another good Columbia of fering is Kay the Beginning of the backsided by But for sheer delight please pass that Co lumbia album by Dorothy Shay the Park Avenue Hillbillie who hails from Jacksonville la a neat combination of Susan Reed and Ger trude Niesen Prof John Terry of Rockingham one of the most popular teachers of writing and biography at New York University has a novel technique for making a subject in teresting He invited Kathleen Soagland an authority on the sub ject to speak on Irish poets On hand to sing Irish ballads before arid after she spoke were folk singer Susan Reed and her brother Jerry Reed both formerly of Asheville and Columbia That was no slip of the tongue last Sunday night when Kenny (Senator Claghorn) Delmar said for on the red Allen radio show Delmar said aft er the: broadcast that during re hearsalla sound man a Southerner had questioned the word "back But his objection got lost in the shuffle friends in the South will probably flood me with said the Senator blame it on that Yankee red Allen for making me say it that Oh! for the life of a movie actor Out in Central Park where Van guard ilms is photographing scenes for of Joseph Cot ten (Petersburg VaL the leading male actor sits in his warm trailer dressing room Outside the cold winds whip across the lakes of the park stand in Cliff Rath jen made up to look amazingly like Cotten goes through the rehearsal paces while Director William Die terle decides which way Cotten shall turn his head or move his i hand or stroke a head Then minutes or nours later when all de cisions have been made Cotten emerges and is filmed in the scene At the location one cold day re cently the camera crew and various technicians were going about their business of preparing for a shoot ing A few New Yorkers had slipped past police lines to watch the filming An automobile pulled up arid stopped Suddenly all ac tivity ceased and everyone dashdd over Was it Cotten and co star Jennifer Jones arriving in grand Hollywood fashion? No It was a huge can of barley soup The film people went for the soup like bobby soxers after rank Sinatra Oh! for the life of a movie ac tress When Kathryn Grayson the MGM actress who was born in Winston Salem came to the Capitol Theater here for a stage engagement the theater converted a dressing room into a kitchen and another into a projection room Her dressing room was decorated in blue and gray her favorite colors Odd Man Out by Green Reynal and Hitchcock Inc New York 280 pp $275 The stark glare of prob ing spotlight is focused on an out law named Johnny In the merci less light of it one follows that man to his death in Belfast one night when a raid has failed and his fol lowers have disintegrated or found a sort of fanatic suicide The span of the book is brief it is one night but one of concentrated excitement and unrelieved intensity The first half of the volume is con cerned with companions the police and the tortured woman who loves the revolutionist All of them seek Johnny for different rea Artists writers and musicians who achieve any ap preciable degree of excellence generally become if they maintain worthwhile positions in the world of artistic production kindly understanding affable peo ple The cost of fame is not only privacy it is also smallness During the past 15 years of newspaper reporting we have in terviewed such persons as am bassadors from Russia Germany and rance the leading personal ities in the National Academy of Science Ethel Barrymore redric March Sir Philip Ben Greet rederick Lewis Allen Robert A Millikan Otis Skin ner tycoons of industry world travelers titled personages The biggest of them were the most humble and charming It was probably Walter Win chell who said "Be good to fel lers when you're going up the ladder you may meet them com ing All of the noted people we ever met had to begin some where and that somewhere irr most cases was at the bottom In their climb no doubt they broke a few conventions shocked a few friends wept a few silent tears in their solitude because they dared to attempt to do the things that George Apley" and Pulham Brilliant satire and spar kling humor are combined in thia provocative novel of America be tween wars Orig NOW $LW 770 CLAUDIA AND DAVID Rose ranken "'In thia welcome ae quel to "Claudia" Miss ranken has lost none of her freshness or charm in picturing the many sided married life of the young architect and his impressionable Phila Record Orig NOW $1 Il A BEST YEARS Beran Wolfe This book offers a practical technique for re taining youth and love and meeting the challenge of the years Reviewers say: essential reading for every woman over Orig NOW $1 011 THE WELL LONELINESS 1 Radclylfe Hall A poignant and beautiful novel about a woman masculine by nature who matured In accordance with that nature NOW $149 TCJ TAWNY Donald Henderson Clarke She was passionately rash but she had courage and love and these protected Tawny in her colorful exciting career NOW JOI THE AMERICAN 401 COOK 1032 pages latest edition Now more than ever the most practical cook book ever published Thumb indexed contain ing 5000 recipes and 230 photographs many of them in full color A large nanasome volume xnai maxes a ful and appreciated gut ONLY ICO BEST LOVED POEMS wuu THE AMERICAN WILLS BOOK STATIONERY CO 107 Greene St run I have found but bigger they are the nicer Mena" TED WEEMS One is often inclined to forget that Dvorak ever composed any music except the World Columbia reminds us that he did with a new release on in Minor for and done by Gregor Piatigorsky with the Phila delphia Orchestra Eugene Or mandy conducting This concerto was composed as was the World Symphony" during stay in America Unlike the sym phony however it contains no American inspired thematic ma terial but is clearly and wonder fully Slavonic from the first bar to the last Listening to its hauntingly lovely themes one wonders why the perpetrators of the current rage of Rachmaninoff Tschaikowsky Grieg desecration have not pounced on this concerto to make new mu sical hash for the juke boxes playing as always is completely satisfactory espe cially in the sustained singing mel odies of the first movement which display to its fullest extent the richness and depth of his magnifi cent tone Moreover there is evi dence throughout the entire re cording of that rare co ordination between soloist conductor and or chestra which cannot fail to make a performance less than the best The haunting melodies which have become a permanent part of American music are sung oy Hise Stevens in her inimitable manner in the new Columbia set called The mezzo soprano opera star has a voice that blends perfectly with the type of songs selected for the set familiar concert numbers tempered by the years and assured of such a place in the heart every lover of music that they have virtually become a tradition The superb voice of Miss Stevens brings out the delicate shades of tone in Old Sweet "The Sweetest Story Ever and No less lovely are and a Voice is and Dream" complete the thoroughly satisfying set Count Basie his acrobatic piano and his orchestra have waxed a pair of jive numbers that really hit the spot Mill" is an instrumental featuring tenor sax trumpet and gut bucket has a vocal chorus by members of the band Victor turned this one loose along with a catchy plagiarism from hill billy music called with Jane Harvey and the Page Cavanaugh Trio one keep on humming lipover is Number One Dream Came The same company has also just released a 12 inch platter by Al Goodman and his orchestra same being apparently set on populariz ing the classics from the mad composer Robert Schu mann features the violin of Oscar Shumsky was adapted for the motion picture of the same name from themes of Brahms's and gets the Goodman treatment with the capable piano performance of Vladimar Sokoloff 249 Hazel elleman 700 page! of inspira tional famous and beautiful poetry selected by the Poetry editor of the Timet Over 600 poems ONLY IM J71 DAVID GRAYSON OMNIBUS tit Three of the inspiring David Gravson books in one volume: "Ad ventures in Contentment" "Adven tures in and "Tha nkndlx Road" Orig NOW 149 7fln THE THORNE SMITH THREEOU DECKER Three complete full length novels "The Stray "Rain In the Doorway" and "Turn by the Rabelais of Orig NOW $196 By Archibald Rutledge Author of By Th The first railroad in the United States constructed for steam en gines was completed in 1833 and ran from Charleston to Hamburg riendship Gets Emphasis In New Volume Of Poetry The Book of riendship by Eliz abeth Selden Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 496 pp $3 Authoress Selden is not interest ed in producing just another an thology This is instead a concrete manifestation of her sincere con cern about the lack of emphasis be ing placed on friendship among nations communities and individu in this world Philosophers she reminds us have long been propounding the theory that world security can come only after respect for man has been established So con vinced is she that she has drained the spoken and written words of poets and philosophers for their specific pleas for friendship While her quotations are at times too fragmentary Miss Selden has certainly presented a truly rep resentative array of minds end has succeeded in impressing upon the reader the importance of her mo tive in compiling the anthology The reviewer thanks her too for the inclusion of many Chinese poems they alone while contribut ing to Miss purpose still manage to impart delight with their simplicity and charm The Book Shop 115 So Green story as the first which it gets its title Lovers of this type of tale will get some real thrills from the reading of it We wish we could say the same of the entire book but the other stories fail to measure up to the standard set in the opening tale of the series of 20 included It may be that the first story set too high a standard but the reading of the remaining 19 is somewhat of an anticlimax after the first A thoroughly enjoyable though unreal story it tells of the legacy of young Eustace Balsover from an uncle for whom he had little nat ural affection A box with a cover nailed on was delivered by the lawyer and "opened when Eustace was alone This begins the uncanny tale of a living hand which the box contained The malevolent hand becomes a beast with five fin gers and sets out on a sinister ad venture which would ruin the read ing if told in advance There are other enjoyable pieces in the volume but none quite so strange as that about the beast They range from the horror type to whimsical and mildly sardonic but are well worth reading Three new Columbia releases offer wide variety irst you have Golden Gate Quartet in their inimitable presentation of on one side and and on the other The latter is a modern spiritual about the atom and it is a honey needs no comment when this group does it Next is Spade Cooley and his Orchestra offering and Better Do It The first is a specialty number fast and hot while Tex Williams does the vocal in the lat ter which so good Les Brown and the boys present My Merry and My in the final record The Brown orchestra has done better Too rriuch brass tends to detract from what could have been a good Almost anyone should find some thing he likes in these five wax ings from Columbia irst off rankie Boy singing Got A Gal I Love In North and South Dakota" backed by "That's How Much I Love You Both are a little out of the Sina tra element but are well done Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys boast that Gonna Be The Boss rom Now lips over to some thing about a Rock In the Hillbillies with a western twang Don Brown does the vocals on Love and "Gon na Lasso a to the popular Tommy Tucker Time Elliott ivory fingering is es pecially good in Put Our Dreams and They Convince Jack Hunter sings the lyrics If you must have a copy the Three lames do The Door as well as or better than most flipover is Bo So GRAT luUr CROSBY COMO KATE and LOMBARDO Dawn THE THREE SUNS Knews MARTIN Gilbert Work Good Reading Plays and Poems of Gil bert with preface by Deems Taylor Randoih House New York 1218 pp $350 RED AYERS MUSIC CO Greene St Dial 6000 Behind all great industries there is the story of struggle by strong men who would not be deterred in their battle against odds This vol ume is the story of the Pennsyl vania oil fields and the growth of the oil industry in the United States after the rush for the discovery of oil in that region Central figure in the story is Rand Bole son of poor parents who grew up in the oil fields with a determi nation to become a rich man some day The book details that rise from squalid surroundings to the finest house in the oil section The author is well qualified for the job of detailing the rise of the oil empires of Rockefeller and oth ers since she is a resident of Brad ford Pa in the oil region She has known a lot of oil men (her hus band is one) and she says she has heard a lot about oil and read a lot more Her knowledge has made as authoritative as it is exciting Oil was not the only thing in the life of Rand Bole however since there is a romantic tale running through the book There was the rich arrogant Petty Dwyer who found him good enough to love but not good enough to marry Then there was Molly Bannon Irish girl whose steadfast love sustained him in his hours of trial but to whose love he was never faithful until too late The story makes good exciting reading and is told in a brilliant style 3 one who knows the subject matter involved Life In Britain In Postwar Era Subject Of Book Mrs Tim Gets a Job by Stevenson Rinehart and Com pany Inc New York 282 pp $275 This is what a ladies book club reviewer would call a little It is also a book that the average grizzled male reader would plod through for a few episodes as if amazed at what he saw and then turn restlessly back to his detective novel or maybe turn on the radio if no soap operas were playing This story of an English lady is actually pretty good It relates now Mrs Tim with her husband in Egypt on His Service decides to "chuck it end gain fully employ herself The results are simply too marvelous for words Written in diary form in the first person it impresses on the reader what a nice person Mrs Tim undoubtedly is how plucky the entire British people in this diffi cult postwar world and even takes a crack at old Uncle Sam by por traying two American women traveling in the isles as unfeeling capitalists but with very kind hearts This work draws a neat picture of England Everything from the food lines to ruined castles is cov ered together with quaint descrip tions of the countryside in Spring There is probably more tea served in more varied places in this book than in any other yet published Atmosphere what it is! As inferred before the women will love this book And guess what got a happy Jr Deems Taylor the composer and commentator can also be a wit Gil creation of Siu Joseph the lord of the admiralty in is opportunity Who was Gilbert satirizing or criticizing or just plain making fun of? Taylor says of Sir Joseph that he "is no more Landlubber Smith irst Lord of the Ad miralty than he is Landlubber Daniels secretary of the navy yet he is what in an ever so slightly more logical world both would be the Smiths and Danielses that have ever lived and shall live have in their veins the blood of Sir Jo We' had almost begun to think that North Carolina was the sanc tuary for that expression: tary of the navy under Wilson and ambassador to Mexico under Roose but now Deems Taylor has caught it We mark it up to the spell the good critic underwent while doing the Gilbert preface At any rate fun Here are all of Gilberts words with of and among the most popular The Bab ballads too are followed by the verses Books of this kind are addressed to folk who believe in gnomes and magic carpets who delight in rhythm and jingle and who occa sionally like to put a tack the seat of the big boss with Garber for a year lumbus Ohio he shifted wcvikit wiiiies aranna there he gained his nickname newspaperman wrote about his singing and couldn't remember his first tso he called armer armer enrolled for a special course in journalism at Ohio State University finish there he said never finish anything I hope I never A road tour with Paul White band was next on the agenda and he rolled into New York is the town for me" armer said and here he stayed He sang and yodeled on the radio studied at night and wrote magazine stories At least one incident made him decide that the life of an enter tainer is an uncertain one He was singing in a night club Like nearly all singers he had previous ly agreed with the orchestra leader on what his encore numbers would be He asked the audience for suggestions and waited for some one to mention the number he had already chosen You Ever See a Dream Walking? said a little woman up front armer sang something else manager came up and said: re fired That woman was my Oil ields Story Told Last Best Sellers iction (Compiled by Weekly) Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Rob erts Daughter by John Marquand East River by Sholem Asch The Miracle of the Bells by Russell Janney Pavilion of Women by Pearl Buck Non iction Peace of Mind by Joshua Liebman The Egg and I by Betty Mac Donald Information Please Almanac Ed by John Kieran The Roosevelt I Knew by rances Perkins The Plotters by John Roy Carl son Volume Ends Arguments Hoyle Up to Date edited by Al bert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott Smith John Winston Company Philadelphia 256 pp $1 15000 USED RECORDS Many 1 Bard to ind I Numbers UP Novel Relates Life Of Capri Hotel Vesuvius by Johan abri cios Rinehart and Company Inc New York 240 pp $250 Renato Colleoni seducer of wom en on the isle of Capri on the eve of World War II was grateful to the party but the Axis itself caused him no end of inconvenience The party furnished him xvith his black chirred uniform which he scrupu lously washed once every two weeks and stayed in his room until it was dry But the Axis kept tourists away from Capri what with world conditions the way they were All tourists except the dis liked Germans And Renato was finding this steady stream of blond amazons very tiring life as he dodges his landlord the owner of Hotel Vesu vius bullies the wife charms Nenelie the chambermaid and rubs elbows with a Scottish painter and a German refugee makes an delightful reading of the satirical novel by Johan ebricius a Netherlander who has passed a good part of nis life among the Italians and under stands their characteristics is translated from the Dutch by Stephens and is illustrated by the author who has turned out Over Java Malayan Return from Bali" and 'The Lions Starve at and others An old favorite on card game rules has been rewritten by ex perts to bring it up to date Also included is a dictionary of terms used in the games which makes a handy reference Included are all of the better known card games from Old Maid to Contract Bridge Still other features are the illustrated sections on how to give card parties ethics and etiquette of card games how to select the best games and teaching card games to children a handy volume to have around and many an argument will be settled by means of its contents Cooking Guide Help In Kitchen Cooking Step By Step Ty Doro thy Blue Ribbon Books New York 160 pp $1 Those who approaching that fearsome realm oft referred to as the kitchen are inclined to quake and quail will give the warmest of receptions to this new Ladies no more instructions re sembling chemical formulae No more recipes harking back to the exotic appetites of them Europeans done with charts this time easy steps by steps and the recipes all seem so curiously sim ple for a change Miss Hoffner has exhibited re markable restraint in that she in cludes only dishes meant for the average American palate Charts show amount required ingredients steps in preparation estimated cooking time and proper place in menu Illustrations are by Pelagie Doane A BOOKS rom Book Dept QOQ SO LITTLE Mar uu quand author of "The Late BBL flE Mp! 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