SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT

...In the Soviet it will be rAll the News That's Printed To Fit...

...The alternative to wage-cuts is a decisive "Stop the Music...

...Without Magnolias covers the magnolia country, from catfish to cornpone, expertly...

...It helps them to be prepared for every turn in the state of national and world affairs...

...It is a story that needs to be widely read, and understood, if the rest ot Europe is not to suffer the fate of the Rumanians and their' neighbors...

...Moon's portrayals of Gardner and Rogers' son, George, an amputee veteran, are among the book's weakest...

...The least they can do is call their bill the TafUHartUy-Lewis Law...

...tone-poems, variations, dissonances, symphonies;, his' i poetry is alive with musical references, and the keys to" His own works indicate his constant preoccupation with the possible utilization of musical techniques to heighten the, general expressiveness of his poems...

...Roger exists in a racial no-man'sland, caught between the crossfire of , Negroes and whites...

...The courtship and marriage of the story's oldest couple, Jeff Bronson and Esther Mathews, both of whom have buried spouses and raised grown children, is rare and touching...

...But in dealing with his young folks' amorous relations Mr...

...his wife, a light-complexioned woman, can never forgive herself for having married a dark skinned man and never lets him forget it...

...Unlike Walter Duranty or John Gunther, whose conciliatory Behind...

...Moon's tensest scenes, involving a besotted prostitute who is ordered to strip-tease before him and almost costs him his life...

...Even his marriage is unbalanced...

...However, Luther does star earlier in one of Mr...

...Moon seems rather awkward...

...No one is better qualified to tell it, for Reuben Markham, before his expulsion in 1046, saw more of Balkan Communism in action than any other American correspondent.' His writing is pedestrian and his book, unfortunately, is devoid of either footnotes or an Index...

...By Calvin ; S. Brown...

...of slavery worse than Hitler's...

...Bessie Mathews and Eric Gardner kiss here and there, but considering that Bessie is President Rogers' secretary and Gardner a cause cclebre, the way their lovemaking trips past the central drama is something remarkable...

...This bare outline can hardly convey the richness of this ground-breaking attempt in comparative esthetics...

...Jeremiah...

...By Reuben H- Markham...

...Perhaps, like Markham, I am out of step with these cynical times...

...THREE PARALLEL LOVE STORIES tend to confuse the reader...

...illiterate backwoods woman of culinary genius...

...Music has always seemed to exert a special fascination for sensitive artists in other fields...

...PetfiHo*» advice that musicians will consider a limited wage-reduction highlights the industry's critical plight...

...THE SOVIET Yoke...

...Those editors who rejected it could only have done so because they were totalitarians who objected to Its aaticommunism, decadents who objected to its moral indignation, or hucksters, who feared they wouldn't make their gttout...

...The .stories of Egmont, Manfred, Romeo and, Juliet, Hamlet, Faust, Don Juan, FalstafT Till Eulcnspicgel, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Hero's Life, oncTcountless others have been musically . "narrated...

...the second considers their collaboration in vocal music...

...This, of course, conflicts with what allegiance he still owes to the Northern-inspired radicalism of his youth...

...Moscow's campaign to reorganise the Iralnlng'of Journalists may be summed up in a revision of a famous American newspaper slogan...

...and he mikes up for most of his' literary shortcomings with n clear-sighted sense of decency that many of hie more successful, and pliable colleagues lack...

...Nevertheless, he doesn't drive his generalizations too far...

...The decision to provide a swivel chair for each Senator is a thoughtful gesture...

...Without Magnolias attempts to show that, ultimately, this cannot be so...

...musical works attempting to aggrandize literary functions imply the existence ot similarities in the two arts basic enough to permit mutual translation...

...Toward what should his young'militants revolt...

...instead, he (and not the arch reactionary Daniels) arbitrarily fires Gardner, thus excorcising the Northern demon in him and appeasing his Southern blood...

...Resorting to a mixture of realpolitik and tragicomedy, Rogers gives them an annual dinner at the school which he leads them to believe is cooked by his domestic science students, but has been prepared by an...

...Leigh White was Balkan corresponds at for CBS and tho Chlmigo " Dally Newt...

...In his present book he tells the whole atrocious story, from, beginning to end, replete with scource material,,, of how the Comlnformlsts, making a science of lies, threats, and murder, have reduced Rumania, in five years, to the miserable status.of a Russian province...

...287 pp...

...Dixie dialect is faithfully and cTiarmingly reproduced, and without the accentuation and illustrative punctuation which burden many books on the South...

...He has traveled the Northern coktaU-drinking circuit and "understands the race problem" . . . until he returns home to settle...

...Thornton wants to convert Gardner—who is an exaggeration of what Thornton himself once was—to his...

...The author moves with.ease and authority through both realms of art...

...In an earlier book, Tito's Imperial Communism, Markham told us in his homely journalese how the Yugoslav totalitarians, before their excommunication, were emulating Stalin's methods to carve out a separate Balkan empire...

...Thornton is- the "good white Southerner," as Rogers is the "good nigger," and imagines the solution of the race problem to lie with himself and Rogers, but mainly witk himself...

...It may get its name from the difficulty of selling it to the consuming public...

...With, all his Uncle Tomming, Rogers is never certain the three whites who control the college's pursestrings will approve the new budget...

...Few American types lend themselves to the complex drama inherent in a person like Rogers, whose prototype abounds in the South...

...Studv in ComDorative Esthetics MUSIC AND LITERATURE: A COMPARION OF THE ARTS...

...And what easier, methodological shorthand than analogy...

...Conrad Aiken is distinctly among modern poets for his musical sensltiv- - ity, although he does not attempt exact poetic equivalents of the larger musical structures...

...The Curtain, alas, will probably be boosted to the best-seller level, Reuben Markham judges the Russians and their local Communist agents by tho same standards ot morality that he applies to their predecessors, Just aa he makes no excuses for the' Carols, Lupescus, Codreanua, and Antonescus, so he makes no excuses for tho Ana Paukers, Grozas, Bodnarases and Gheorghiu-Dejes, Whose crimes are> infinitely greater...

...But the author's problem is understandable...

...He makes excuses only for the Russian people, whom he refuses to consign to the tender mercies of the MVD simply because they were no more heroic than other European peoples who were lucky enough to emerge from the war on our side of the Iron Curtain...

...Marrying the daughter of Wilbur Daniels, the town's rich John Rankin, supplies only the tangible motivation for compromise (Daniels money keeps the Telegram solyent...

...the third discusses the influence-of music on literature and the attempts of writers to model their works on the musical compositions...

...Novelists and poets have consciously patterned their works' after the^formal aspects of fugue, sonata and even symphony...

...All in all, despite the weaknesses mentioned, this is as colorful, authentic, and well-told a story as one will find in a novel nowadays...

...Reviewed by DANIEL JAMS THE OUTSTANDING QUALITY OF THIS NOVEL about Negroes by a white man is that the author knows his Negroes as iew whites are privileged to know them—from inside as well as out...

...He never loses ; sight, of the fact that each art has its own specific order of impressions and that recognition of the Irreducible differences among the various arts is the beginning of esthetic wisdom...

...the fourth concerns itself with the converse problem, the effect of literature on music...

...George Rogers' sudden decision to forsake a future as his father's successor to work for the "cause"—symbolized by the CIO's Committee Against Discrimination—is a vestigial reminder of Hie up...

...University of Georgia Press...

...And wasn't it Verlaine who said, "Music above all else," as he attempted to fashion his verses in accordance with his ideas^>f the desired musical impact...

...De Qulricey wrote a "Dream Fugue," Sidney Lanier "The Symphony...

...This sad little-joke is one of Rogers' few satisfactions...

...4.00 Reviewed by LEIGH WHITE SUCH IS THE MORAL APATHY of American publishers today, , that a book by Reuben H. Markham, to be published at all, has to be published tor a reprint house like Meador...

...not, ably D'Annuhcio and Thomas Mann...

...Soviet difficulties in enlisting support of the working masses in the satellite states proves an old theory...

...It is divided, into, lour main sections: the first treats ot the common formal and expressive aspects of the two arts, (rhythm, pitch,, timbre, harmony, etc...

...lamented proletarian novel...

...On their part, musicians have not been immune to the influence of the other arts, and have often attempted to ape their functions musically...

...They contend the Holy See would do well to have another look,;' * * * Repassage of the sales tax in New York City without a vote to spare suggests how unpopular it is...

...Actually, deep down Thornton is gripped, as are so many of the South's spiritually and intellectually gifted sons, by an image of himself as repository of the Confederacy's cultural heritage...

...and the inevitable result follows—not one is really memorable...

...The titles of his poems include nocturnes...

...Markham, however, is by way of being a 'modern...

...I point this out not to belittle tho Meador Publishing Company, which in this instance deserves respect and gratitude, but to engender some sense of shame, it I can, in the better known houses that rejected Markham's book...

...How extensive are these similarities...

...4.50...

...Lewis's action in halting coal-mining for a week should have won him the undying gratitude of labor's foes...

...Pen Points Many observer* criticise reports in Vatican circles thai Israel it pursuing an anti-Catholic policy...

...He is the "reasonable" Negro who is called upon to "mediate" the racial struggle, and is invariably castigated by both groups...

...Morris B. Chapman...

...What, in the hands of another writer—of whatever race—could have become just another attack on prejudice, develops, under Bilcklin Moon's sure grasp, into a fine story of human beings in profound conflict, The tragedy ot the "hero," Ezekiel Rogers, president of a small Southern Negro college, is the book's most heartrending spectacle...

...Thornton is liberal in name and by intellectual persuasion...

...It so happens that, with all his faults, I find it refreshing to read a man who knows the difference between good and evil, in their various-shades of intensity, and who has the' courage to call a crime a crime instead of pointing out that omelets can only be made- by breaking eggs...

...That is the problem the author sets himself in this very illuminating work...

...The author's acid test—what to do about Eric Gardner, the young radical professor—scalds them both...

...CAL THORNTON is Rogers' white counterpart...

...The average man would rather raise hell than go to heaven via the Workers Paradise...

...But what hp has empiracally uncovered is fascinating in the extreme...

...And it is enjoyable enough to make good summer reading...

...Gardner is more archtype than chairacterf _snd,at thai^oot .slightly ref mlniscent of the sort of "liberal" found in the fellow-traveling Southern .Conference for 'Human Welfare...

...Reviewed by JIM CORK ALL ART CONSTANTLY ASPIRES toward the condition of music," pronounced that refined esthete, Walter Pater...

...One trip is made North to give readers a birdseye view of "those Sugar Hill Negroes sitting around with a scotch and soda in each hand" whom Prexy Rogers rants against...

...The Wagnerian "leitmotif" has also influenced .outstanding literary artists into attending its literary equivalent...

...Fate has miscast this uneducated Baptist ex-minister as the white man's arbitrary choice of Negro ambassador to the white community—but of course without any power save that of his wits...

...Literary works consciously pat; terned after musical forms and...

...Balkan Slavery RUMANIA UNDER...

...Publisher-editor of the Citrus City Telegram, Thornton calls to mind schizophrenic Southerners of the Hodding Carter type...

...His long analyses of "Every Valley Shall Re Exalted" from Handel's "Messiah" and Schubert's "Erlkoenig" showing the use of musical means for literal descriptions of sound, mood...

...Rogers toys with resigning • in support of Gardner as his one act of heroic defiance, but capitulates ingloriously...

...Also enchained to the whites materially —without their money he cannot maintain bis college—Rogers, paradoxically, does accomplish some good for his race by the fact that he is able to keep the college afloat at all...

...Meador Publishing Company, 901 pp...

...Architecture is frozen music," "music is liquid architecture," "music is form marching in sounds,"— these are prototypes of the cliches residing in the arsenal of the comparative estheticians whose overcharged sensibilities constantly seek short cuts to comprehension...

...motion or place in the first, and heightening of the dramatic effect in the second, are startlingly suggestive...

...He knows, as Gunther and Duranty ' will never know, for whom the bells of Rumania's few remaining churches took They toll for the still-free countries that have yet to take the only steps that will have vent the .spread...

...Poems have been written according to the aba musical pattern, and even in theme and variations form...

...Luther Mathews marries Jeff Bronson's daughter (these families intermarry all over the place), becomes a CIO official, gets into the new housing project and produces the book's only newborn babe...