The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 185, Ed. 2 Sunday, August 2, 1959 Page: 6 of 12
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Wake Up
And Read
By W. G. ROGERS
NEW YORK (AP)—Have you read the new novel by
Sandburg?, Or the one by Maugham?
This isn’t the Carl Sandburg now busy writing his
memoirs, or the poet and Lincoln biographer, but his
daughter Helga. ' \ \
This isn’t, either, the W. Somerset Maugham who in his
80s has announced he will " "
write no more, but his ^or a t,me to such novels of .her
T?r.Kir. father's as “The Trees,” “The
nephew Robin. Fields” and “The Town,” and
It is Robin’s fifth novel, could have learned from them
and Helga’s second. something of her stately dignified
They are not the only ones who pr^fe style'
follow in the footsteps of writer a storytelling knack in
fathers, husbands, uncles or grand- j*°bin Maugham that he could
fathers. Harvena Richter, daugh-have acquired from h.s unclemore
ter of Conrad Richter; Rachel clemently than from other
Cedi, daughter of Desmond Mac- models-
Carthy and also wife of Lord! And though I don’t want to be
David Cecil; and Venetia Murray, too far-fetched, yet Venetia Mur-
granddaughter of the Greek schol-' ray's handling of her theme.
time to read it, too.
BrilNant Scene
The most accomplished novel in
this quintet is “The Human,
Shore.” by Miss Richter (Little,
Brown). Nona Reardon decides, if
not to leave her husband, as she
quibbles, then to let him leave
her, and she remains in their sea-
shore home while he goes off to
teach.
“Any relationship with a man
was bound to be a battleground,”
she believed. He argued that “a
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By MARY ELLEN JANOWSKI
Our neighboring state of Louisi-
ana is featured in a history by
Dr. Edwin Adams Davis of Lou-
isiana State University.
Dr. Davis is head of the depart-
j ment of history
. ' 3 at LSU and an
i a u chon tv on the
history of the
vHK state. His bn*,
Pelican State” is
mJm fjt i a current
(■ : and comprehen-
but she retorted, “a wife is a
slave.” What’s a man good for,
she asks, but to lead armies, en- j
force law and order, and direct
commerce? He can’t even produce!
children.
Miss Richter gets you all keyed
up for disaster, and she paints a
brilliant scene of wind and waves
and trapped humans.
The Misses Murray, Cecil and
Richter all write first novels. In
Miss Sandburg's “Measure My
Love" (McDowell, Obolensky);
Faith Summers marries Buddy,
though he has courted her sister
Lacy, and will court her again.
Choice, Buddy’s brother, wanted
to marry Faith but settles for
Lacy, yet makes passes at Faith.
It reads just like an Erskine
Caldwell plot, but Miss Sandburg
romanticizes it and sets it far
north of “Tobacco Road.”
Maugham’s “The Man with Two
Shadows" (Harper), is basically
a mystery. His hero Peter Grant
goes to North Africa on a post-
war assignment to work with Gen.
Maddern of British Intelligence.
AUTHOR SANDBURG
short delightful book she tries by
might and main to catch up. Miss
Murray has been compared to
Franooise Sagan, but her story is
much more innocent, and an utter
charmer.
In one place Kitty is asked
mockingly by a friend whether, in
writing a school paper, she thinks
she’s writing for David Cecil —
professor of English at Oxford,
and author of books on Hardy,
Jane Austen, and Scott.
This Cecil's wife, daughter of
writer and critic MacCarthy, is the
author of “Theresa’s Choice”
(Dodd. Mead). Her heroine is 18.
Daughter of a quite Bohemian ar-
tist. brought up by aunt and uncle,
she has some growing-up adven-
tures, including in particular a
naive and daring night ia a French
chateau with a young artist
This is a long novel in a Vic-
torian style; it could have been
written 50 years ago, despite the
night in the chateau; and maybe
that would have been the best
that handles any of the related fleshly.
established writers, as it happens; “Waiting for Love.” by Venetia
and besides, the quality of this Murray (Dutton) is a story of 15
fiction, if not always superior, is year-old Kitty Lee who finds it
in every case so good that the very hard to wait, and almost
author oould stand on his own. He doesn’t, for 16, which appears tc
didn’t need any letter of introduc- be England's legal age of consent
tion. She has a beau. Jonathan, but
In another sense, too, he didn’t how callow he lookr beside Si-year
need this help. Perhaps you could old Harry! Harry even has a mis
not tell if you didn’t know, but in tress, as Kitty discovers by peek
a couple of instances you suspect ing through a window. Her own
you can spot something more than sister has a lover.
I blood relationship. 1 She herself is the one left be
Harvena Richter was exposed hind, and for the length of this
Marital Adventures
Provocative Novel Follows
One Family Through Years
UNDER ONE KOOF. By
Eunice Gray. Peisiagtss
Press. $4-S*.
This provocative novel is the
fast-paced story of a wealthy Chi-
cago family through nearly four
decades, from before World War
I through the years following
World War II.
Jennifer Owens, whose auburn
haired, green-eyed, sensual beauty
is a dialienge and threat to all
who know her, is the central fig-
ure of the novel. Most dominant
and willful of the Owens tribe, she
uses her freedom, great wealth
and social position to establish a
pace of life ruinous to herself and
tu those whose lives toiSto hers.
Jennifer's stormy marital ad-
ventures include unions with Keith,
a sensitive young soldier whom
she marries during the first World
War; the sophisticated Rene, a
French count who is Jennifer's
husband at the outbreak of World
War II; and a long term liaison
with Lloyd Forbes, well born and
fortune-seeking husband of Jenni-
fer’s sister Melissa.
The book chronicles the many
laves and bitter conflicts of the
Owens clan — father Jonathan,
mother Emily, sons Bruce and
Jon, and daughters Melissa and
Jennifer.
The story of Jennifer Owens and
her family, who spend most of
their lives “under one roof” —
the .luxurious mansion of Chicago’s
Lake Shore Drive that becomes a
symbol of the in-fighting for fam-
ily control and domination — is
on exciting tale
It is a compelling recital of all
the motivating human passions —
love, hate, pity, avarice, fear and
lost — depicted full blown with
jp-eat imaginative intensity.
Eunice Gray, the book's blonde
author whose cool, sophisticated
beauty adorns the smartly de-
agned dust jacket, has written a
go d yarn in “Under One Roof.”
Tender Story
Honestly Told
grew up between 1896 and the
j achievement of Indian independ-
ence in 1947. All of the illustra-
tions are in black and white.
Another publication of the LSU
Press is Richard Brownlee’s “Gray
Ghosts of the Confederacy." This
is the story of guerilla warfare in
the west from 1861 to 1865. After
much research the author sepa-
love for Maggie and her love for!
him.
The place is Kerouac’s familiar ...... ^ __
Lowell, Mass. Zagg, whose father jra(es fact from legend concerning
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! “Bloody Bill” Anderson, 1
jC. Quantrill, Frank and
James and the Younger brothers,
lit is a fascinating addition to the
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beyt, Vinny. Roger, ready to rough-, literature of this period.
duck one another in the) "Play Production"* is a hand-
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r inexhaustible energy. j script to financial management,
speak a piquant language,: Chapters are included on play in-
cite French, never quite jterpretatkm, casting, stage busi-
, like "grace to God" for ness, speech, acting technique, set
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latest information available.
SHE WRITES, TOO!
Eunice Gray, the blonde charmer who penned “Un-
der One Roof,” once was a model, was offered a screen
test (which was vetoed by her father) and is am accom-
plished painter. She now makes her home in Miami
Beach, Fla., with her husband and two children.
SPOT ADS
ar« well read
titodes; here instead by the Cat
cord River where Maggie lives «s
touching, tender love story banes
ly and simply told.—W.G.B-
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 185, Ed. 2 Sunday, August 2, 1959, newspaper, August 2, 1959; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth558011/m1/6/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.