FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Children in Far Peru New Books Found Eager to Read By BARBARA NOLEN THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C„ MARCH 6, 1960 B-5 Contributing Writer The old and the new rub shoulders in Lima, Peru. The tallest building in Lima Is the Ministry of Education, a modem skyscraper, 22 stories high, earthquake proof. From ENTERTAINMENT its stining windws, I looked down across a wide plaza to SHEER Sir the University of San founded than 400 Anthony Marcos, more years ago. The 2-story stone buildings of the university ’ are built around quiet patios, Leaves Us with and Break of fountains palm in Era trees and arcades, where stu- dents sit and argue even dur- EDISON AWARD Guessing ing the summer vacation in January and February. IN BIOGRAPHY By RICHARD FRYKLUND Dull Novels On the sidewalks of Lima, Long, Star Staff Writer vendors offer native weaving AND SCIENCE Reporters who shuttled be- and native fruits By CARTER BROOKE JONES on trays. tween London Newstands sell In choosing Star Book Critic and Cairo dur- I garishly prize-winning ¦?. < 1 printed comic books, books, the Edison Founda- TRAPS. By Frederick Duerrenmatt, translated from the ing the Suez crisis of 1956 as ugly in Spanish as in English. But tion takes a poll among rep- German by Richard and Clara Winston. out what is book fare offered to Peruvian organizations concerned with (Duell, Sloan & Pierce; $3.50.) until Eden children. children and reading. The Could two novels be less alike than these? going on writes prizes recently announced in I doubt it, though both can be recommended first- his memoirs.” Now he has as Model the neglected field of biog- rate entertainment, if nothing more, and that should be written them< FULL CIR- Library raphy and science follows: - enough, at least as a change of pace, in this era of long, CLE. By Sir Anthony Eden. Children’s librarians “The best children’s science dull novels. are book”: IN (Houghton - Mifflin: $6.95.) being in EXPERIMENTS Each of these stories is brief, crisp and moves fast. trained, Peru, to And though we now have a SKY WATCHING by Fred- There are no tedious pages create a pleasant atmosphere better of what erick Brandley (Crowell) is In either. picture was on Traps guilty and for leisure a pronounced the British Prime Minister's ' reading and re- practical, do-it-yourself ¦•Traps.” which does not ’I~I sentence. mind during that amazing v lated activities. I met four of handbook for young scientists the ’ ¦bMH -•¦ concern English word to What then happened? I incident of history, his policy them who serve as staff for who want to study the sky which the term usually re- won’t tell you to except say still doesn’t make much sense. a model library in Callao, the with equipment they build fers. is about a man named the ending is This grim. Sir Anthony casts himself port of Lima, a commercial themselves. Alfredo the a Traps, scene novella, with its lean, hard section in the role of St. George slay- well supplied with po- “The best science book for German-speaking town in prose, might have been tential ing Nasser, a dragon who readers. youth”: IGY: YEAR OF DIS- Switzerland. written by Maupassant The COVERY or looks exactly like Adolf Hit- librarians are attrac- by Sidney Chap- Traps, who started his Chekhov. tive ler. John Foster Dulles is young women, well train- man (University of Michi- and had career as a peddler Frederich Duerrenmatt ed and Press) the player who throws away enthusiastic about gan explains to lay- the extraordinary luck to wrote "The hit Visit,” a on the script, snatches the their jobs. This branch of men and young people the become travelling sales man- the American and “The stage, sword from the defender’s the municipal public library physical processes in the ager for a big firm which Pledge.” TAPESTRY /N is hand and springs the dragon NEW ART BOOK SERIES only two years old, but upper air and the magnetic makes a synthetic product ?* » » for further maiden-devour- already it handles more “bus- changes on the earth. like This is a of “The Hunt” (something nylon) “Pittsburgh Phil” an reproduction (1938), which is included in iness” was ing. Stag than the library for “For special excellence in stumbled into an adventure. “Andre actual character, as the Derain,” a critical study by Denya Sutton. “The Stag Hunt’ is adults to which it was added. portraying America’s Past”: His car broke down in this knows. He Harsh Criticism in the Aubusson shown In its THE GREAT sporting fraternity copied Tapestry, here, and was from 1938 to 1957 fact, circulation is sev- DISSENTERS pretty village, and he de- flourished shortly before the in the Winterbotham Collection of the Art Institute. en or eight times as large. by Fred Reinfeld (Crowell) cided to spend the Sir Anthony's criticism of Chicago Containing night, turn of the century, and he 93 of Derain’s in tells how history was made the in the of reproductions paintings (23 color), “Andre Derain*’ leaving car a shop. made millions the Secretary State is as six brave men who playing is a 'Satellite' by were There were several but published by Doubleday, Phaidon Alpha Book Newspaper inns, horses. harsh as a trained diplomat priced surprisingly not afraid to inde- low at Other titles the series willbe express they were all full and a pri- $3.95. in on Georges and The children’s Frank Mastroly has been could permit himself to state: Braque room is in- pendent ideas. These men vate home was recommended Heironymus Bosch. John a movie executive and pro- viting, with bright blue walls were Quincy Adams, to him. He “It is pardonable not to see went there, and Horace Em- ducer. and Mel Heimer is a the and low tables Mann, Thoreau, old him danger. It is excusable to painted blue an man looked over New York erson, William Garri- columnist, author it and declare it and and Lloyd carefully, noted his see do yellow. It has a separate good of several books. son and Oliver Wendell effective about it on clothes and nothing entrance from * passable man- a side street, Holmes. —B. N. ners, and said he'd been de- Actual moral grounds. It is unpar- FRANCOISE IS GROWING UP POETS SHOULD Characters with a bulletin board in the lighted to entertain the donable to see it and make While they have made a lobby, where the children’s stranger overnight. No, he a pretense of meeting it by BE HEARD AS who counted his library card novel of own wall newspaper is couldn’t accept pay, but out Pittsburgh Phil's methods one knows in one's as his “best birthday pres- This Is Mlle. This posted. newspaper called Traps would be for heart to be totally ineffec- Sagan WELL SEEN ent.” expected career, they have followed AS “Our Own Little dinner. tive.” Satellite,” the essential facts so far is AN ALBUM OF MODERN only one of many creative But although he may be Translations known. activities Held Mock Trials as they are Some ac- right in saying Mr. Dulles At Her Silken Best POETRY: An Anthology sponsored by the tual characters, like the fa- library. Favorite stories with the At the dinner table Traps was pretending the Secretary Read by the Poets. Edited mous Jockey Ted Nat During the the children are those universal Sloan, apparently to By MARY McGRORY past year, found three other old was willing use Oscar Williams. Three very Goodwin and Diamond Jim Star Staff by children wrote European classics: PUSS any device to cool Sir An- Writer puppet plays men. All except inn- Brady, friends of 12-inch LP records, boxed. with the encouragement and IN BOOTS, SLEEPING an were Phil’s; down and avoid shoot- AIMEZ-VOUS BRAHMS? By Francolse Sagan. (Dutton; thony (Library of keeper, who supplied the others the writers' have in- $2.95.) Congress; guidance of the library staff BEAUTY, PETER PAN and ing). it is questionable $13.50.) vented to fill out their story. Mlle. Is and the Director of the Pup- novels by Jules Verne and wines, were retired lawyers, whether he is Sagan back, and we all know what that means. always right Theatre Pittsburgh Phil started life She began us with her There are 46 contemporary pet from the Uni- Hans Fallada. From trie and Traps’ host had been a in describing his own posi- by shocking world-weariness when she in an impoverished family, 18. Now she is withered English and American poets versity. The best plays will United States, in Spanish judge. They amused them- tion. was a sage of 25 or so, and while she be and as a lad worked in a cork she still here, whose readings of their produced by the children. translations, older criildreh selves, evening after evening, For he he can no longer cause us shock, can stir us to bemused instance, says One factory. When he left Pitts- admiration for the sophistication of her of own works have already been prize-winning play, by choose WILD ANIMALS I with mock trials, drawing on ordered the invasion of point view, her burgh for Chicago, he had a omniscience about love—or at least I’amour— avilable at the Library of a 13-year-old boy, concerns HAVE KNOWN, LITTLE their experience and making the and the finesse few hundred Egypt only to keep Is- this who legal dollars saved, of her style. Congress; is the first a baby boy plays hookey WOMEN. LAST OF THE up problems. raeli-Egyptian war from and he was wondering about anthology in the library’s from school and *fights with MOHICANS and TARZAN. This they a "Aimez-vous Brahms?” is time had na- spreading. But that does not mation and dissolution with the horses. How has this series of single records the his best friend until he dis- tural would be long Mlle. Sagan at her silken the by What about Peruvian au- prey. Traps square with plans American detachment that the been going on? He worked poets. About half of these covers that he needs an edu- thors? What about national the ex- best. defendant, and the diplomats say he had to French have always been out his of handi- are real which cation in order to of would own system The situation is intriguing. able poems gems, become a heroes, folk tales and family judge, course, pre- overthrow the Nasser gov- to bring to the consid- capping. The authors do not We have beau- makes this a very high-grade doctor. The play is short and stories? Yes, there some side; one of the others, a Paule, age 39, eration of these matters. are tell too much ernment; nor does it square indeed. former us about this tiful, anthology The record- snappy, with violent action the library shelves. More prosecutor would press with composed, moderately Why derange' oneself? It is on not private statements of but is and drama in the while the system—perhaps they are well pleased with her situa- ing varies, usually quite typical puppet fantasies than anything else. charges, third British not a question of what is too sure how it government spokes- inconspicuous. show worked—ex- fashion. . lawyer would defend their tion as the mistress of Roger right and what is It When the local newspaper in that Phil men who said in August and wrong. cept was always and as successful interior If anyone needs to be con- Another activity, open only Lima offered in guest. But what would they a is a question of what works. a prize 1958 looking for "overlays,” that September of 1956 that an vinced that poetry must be to regular of the li- charge him with? decorator. Roger does not Paule is but above patrons for the best story for chil- invasion a woman, is. horses rated 5 to 1 or more only waited for the wish heard as well as seen, this brary, is a 5:30 show on to marry her. although all a Frenchwoman. The most p.m. dren, the winning story was A Subtle Crime when they should have been first good excuse. And it does album should to television, in a he is Why not? Eh bien, provocative of her serve con- separate room a fantasy with a moral by 2 to 1 not with Jree. aspect or even money. Finally, square reliable re- Roger cannot be content with vince him. The texts of the off the entrance lobby. The Cariota Carvallo de Nunez. Traps himself supplied the rather sad emotional history Phil, rich, elegant, yet always ports—and hints in the Eden peoms supplied, but listen day I was about 20- one aflair. Within its illicit is that she her af- are there, Stories from other Latin indictment. As after regards course quiet and gentlemanly, moved memoirs that the British he with the book closed and 25 children trooped in for limits, must have other fair with the tired American countries have wide to New Roger, course of wine loosened his York and took a government encouraged the little Paule but poem after poem will take the TV show, an old Ameri- flings. sighs, businessman of any country, appeal. One of the most he told house on Fifth avenue and Israeli to attack. do? shape and glow in the mind can "western” with Spanish tongue, something of what to Enter Simon, would bank account. popular, I was told, are the sent for his mother as one a and kid Sir Anthony says he hand- —poems that, merely seen titles. his life. He recalled how the aged 25, theatrically So much so tears animal fantasies by an Ar- brother. time, many He acquired his own stopped the invasion in mid- with the eye, would never former sales whom some, ardent, eager for love. have been invested. Does gentine author, Constancio C. manager, stable. one racing stride not because of Soviet have got off the page. It is he succeeded, died of a heart withdraw one’s savings with- Bookmobile Vigil. His story of THE and American threats and Eh Pour ce Soir? remarkable how the poets' attack in a rage after learn- Died Broke out reflection? No. BLUE FOREST (El Bosque United Nations action but voices fit their Almost The librarians rpn a book- ing that Traps had cuckolded "Aimez-vous Brahms?" he Mlle. Sagan tells her tale poems. Azul) is outstanding for its But there was trouble because the fighting between all of them read well. mobile and too. him. Wasn't this, the ex- asks Paule in a note, which is with exactly the lightness of story hour, gay and inviting illustrations Israel and Egypt suddenly The list runs from Robert prosecutor demanded, ahead. There always is. Tra- the French equivalent of'ask- touch that it requires. She is The bookmobile has a daily by Federico Ribas. mur- Wallace stopped. But that little for Frost, Stevens and der? Hadn’t Traps deliber- dition has it that Pittsburgh war ing a date. Paule shrugs, so practiced now. it is like schedule, far and Marianne Moore to W. R. ranging driven had stopped for all practical and what will ately his former em- Phil died broke. The authors goes, then, watching an expert cook witli Hidden Talents Rodgers, Richard Wilbur and wide through the narrow to purposes some days before. is ployer death, so that he, such a you? a souffle. Timing, precision save us debacle, and W. S. Merwin. Williams streets of the neighborhood. I from Peru could Mlle. does Mr. came away Traps, get his job? It do show other hard Sagan not make everything. It has that much yet they Out of Phase has the What joy for the librarian with a of a federal arranged peoms by strong feeling many was subtle crime indeed. luck the a case of this tri- taste and that much sub- pursuing fabulous mood which to take books to those who stories to be Defense Other Eden She for- It or subject, occa- waiting told, as counsel argued the in the end. statements angle. recounts its stance. is French. gambler They sionally makes for a kind of cannot travel to the library! well children td of this as ready absurdity theory. have brought in of and actions seem to be out for the child a couple sameness It also would be And what joy listen. Children and adults They had it and down all up romances, which may of phase with who has been eagerly or may history. The much easier to find your way waiting alike appear to be gifted evening while the most gor- not have Phil. waylaid But whole around the if blank for his seventh birthday geous food invasion was an anach- records, with imagination, with crea- (all the retired the as a story whole is per- bands marked off when he will be eligible for ronism— The Novel as a one poet tive ideas, and a natural flair lawyers were wealthy) was suasive. something possible English from the a library card. The librarian washed down next. for dramatic story-telling. I with the finest It should interest during the old Colonial child every one days, —HARRY BACAS. will not soon forget the wanted to As the return to the li- vintages. night waned, who a ever bought $2 ticket but clearly impossible in 1956 to and Passport Another World brary for a puppet show or a they were ready for the at a race track and others In the all of them non-Communist world. story hour, to join the book- verdict, were very who simply like true adven- There is when all American always, sympathetic sister, desperate mobile for of its drunk. The found diplomats in one morn- judge ture and actual people. for love; her obtrusive Cairo during {he crisis said else fails, that unfailing two ing jaunts. Instead, I had to adolescent sons. His parish armed action would build up passport to another world, Other Books in Brief say good-by. Mr. Nasser is poor, his vestrymen as kind and inflame the the Wlien I signed in the li- English novel. It may meddlesome whole Arab world. Sir An- or or self-right- brary I discovered not be a better PAPERBACKS guest book, world, eous people FICTION thony believed that Arabs as are. that other North Americans Final or any less troubled; but it of were a breed of RITUAL IN THE DARK. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. By had found their to this Chapters strange man is a different world, rendered A Frail Shelter By way Boris who loved and respected Colin Wilson. (Houghton- Pasternak. (Signet. friendly center of books and peo- with an absorbing complete- ple who kicked them hard. When Alice Imber, a spir- 75c.) A long-awaited re- children. The above ness that is the unique gift Mifflin, $4.95.) Its basic name ited who does not be- of this famous novel The History seems to the widow print mine was a librarian from Lawless Decade support of our British cousins at the theme is paradoxical American view. lieve in Christ but who a w'hich made world history. writing table. prac- Chicago; above that, -a Sir tices a brisk truth—that even the vilest THE Anthony thought Mr. Pamela Christianity, THE RESTLESS LOVERS. teacher from Howard Uni- YEAR THE WORLD would ever be the same after Hansford John- Nasser would fall under comes into his life, Maurice murderer is seeking, in Robert Dundee. ’27. sons THE HUMBLER CREA- a By (Sig- versity. Are they waiting WENT MAD. by Allen threats finds his a rather ... or at least under calling 25c.) The scandal in and I This the TION (Harcourt, Brace; perverted fashion, for the net, watching, as am, for ‘ Churchill was year of the frail the (Crowell; $4.95), military pressure at shelter against de- enchantment of life. small town created by a further word from those ' ... or $4.50) is in this admirable a romance of Peaches Heenan mands of turns back for look least under invasion. Ameri- flesh and spirit. beautiful wife and children and librarians a colorful and tradition. A simple, rather society gifted Daddy Browning. Lind- Parish a LEVEL 7. By Mordecai Rosh- cans on the scene gossip, well-meaning a at 1927. said he somber story of a London young reporter. in Callao. Peru. bergh's epochal flight to his wald. (McGraw-Hill, and his people, inde- curate, own clamor for $3.75.) President newly vicar, bedeviled by personal Actually this was the, last Paris, Coolidge’s personal happiness bring The day-by-day diary of pendent, proud of their "sov- and announcement that he did parish problems, it com- the who year of what has been called ereignty and Maurice to a crisis that must man must push dignity,” were pels attention for its not choose to run in 1928, literacy, the button that willrelease the Era of tougher than that. be resolved for him as it Wonderful Non- the They compassion and It is execution of Sacco and insight. is for atomic missiles in the final sense, the Golden were. ordinary mortals: Twenties, the at once defter and deeper Whenever Vanzetti, Hall-Millsmur- with and struggle for world people get together, Lawless Decade and other One can support Mr. pain, compromise suprem- der the than her previous books. trial, sashweight Dulles’ a hope of help from acy. things, although the decade during the Her on high. the murder for which Ruth Sny- hero, Maurice Fisher, talk is about Advise and Consent had two crisis only if one assumes Miss Johnson renders the more years to run. der and Judd is a decent man and a Gray were exe- good life of St. Lawrence’s with GENERAL It was the before the col- a peaceful end justifies any year cuted, the "long count” priest. He is also human. fight But humor and a quick for lapse of stocks, the crash of means. even after read- The his eye GREEK HOLIDAY. By Anne between Gene Tunney and celibacy beautiful, ing Sir Anthony's the eccentricities that can- Wall Street that was the explana- silly, tiresome wife has Anthony. (Taplinger, $6.) pre- Jack Dempsey. forced be left lude tion of his own not at the church A narrative cal- to the great depression. Mr. actions, one on him is burdensome. His covering a Churchill, who wrote door. Maurice's is cannot say they were home struggle endar which enables Nobody realized it at the "The ra- abounds with her rela- year Improper Bohemians” tional. conveyed without dramatics time, but there would tives—her the reader to see Greece in never and "Park Row," has, with sickly mother, her but feelingly. Miss Johnson all be a year quite like 1927. his seasons and participate usual skill, portrayed viv- has in done all There short, that in its festivals. would be slumps and the last important idly year of whoopee we can ask of the novelist: recoveries, ups and downs, of unrestrained, prosperity Sljr £>uniiag £>tar she has taken us to the heart war and truce, but nothing unending. —c. B. J. ADVERTISEMENT WEEKLY BOOK SURVEY J 8 of another life. —M. McG. - The * Sunday Star has arranged Si 2 ». with some of the leading book 5 2 £ . „ 2i- Looking for o a sellers >• of Washington and subur- 0 w d ° ¦ ban " * areas to report each week the «? Accountant Goes to S 8 * „ 2i2 How 6th PUBLISHER*! books “ Henry's Italy which sell best as • * a guide to what Washington is « reading 8 Bp!*l2 e £ con gis X o Rose to Your book bo published, pro- f The numbers > To represent the rank “< O< Queenship moled, distributed by successful. 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