SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 105S
PAGE FOUR
THE,pAlLY TAR HEEL
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Down From Ail errs Alley
Comes All-Amencan Aufry
Mister Zip H. Allen Smith
Doubleday and Company,
Inc. Garden City, New
; York, 1952.252 pp.
The famous Zip LeBaron,
America' favorite , Hollywood
cowboy, gallops and gestures in
his own Boy Scout way through
H. Allen Smith's newest. "
The hero is placed in the un
likely position of a movie star of
western who actually believes
all the sagas and legends of the
Old Yest, and gullible All-American
boy that he is, believes that
all men (except rustlers) are
honest and all women are virtu
ous. '
After a few run-ins with the
big wheels in the studio who ob
viously don't live by -the high
standards set-up by the Old West,
Zip finesses the whole deal, walks
out on the studio, and takes off,
incognita, to "go out West."
Good ole Slanthead, a relic from
bygone days, goes with Zip on
his quest to find the West. A
geographical problem arises when
they realize that if they go muoh
further west, they will be food
for fishes. After riding north all
day it dawns on them that they
are still in the suburbs of L.A.,
heading for San Francisco and
the vineyards. Finally' they go
east to get West.
Along their merry way the two
pick up a trick horse, and are, in
turn, picked up by the police in
the metropolis of Brasada, and
finally , end; up in Jughandle in a
nest of them thar dirty rustlers.
Zip comes crashing through with
a finale straight out of the shoot-em-ups,
complete with the chase,
duel, six-shooters and, above all,
the-Zip LeBaron hat.
Adding local color to Zip's es
capades are the local colorities
from the Short Cut Salon in Hol
lywood, presided over by Jersey
Jacoby. '
And, of course, there is the one
and only Sodbuster, the palomino
pony, who has ridden to fame and
into the hearts of millions carry
ing Zip. Only there are three Sod
busters, one for untying knots,
one for regular riding and one for
the "chase." And what is a west
ern without a chase?
H. Allen Smith has also hu-
morized with Low Man on a To
tem Pole, Life in' a Putty Knife
Factory and Rhubarb. Mister Zip
is up to his usual caliber well
written, fast moving and good
fun.
Jody Levey
Dixie, Dance, de Milles
Make Interesting Reading
Dance to the Piper (342 pp.)
Agnes de Mille 'Little-Brown
and Company ($3).
In a loosely-written story which
mentions the .North Carolina
origin of the de Mille family, the
neice of Cecil B. traces her thea
trical and dance career from the
time she first saw Isadora Duncan
and heeded her advice to dance
barefoot in the California desert.
Mother's picking of the cactus
spines was the painful forecast
of struggles of a gal who wanted
to do things on her own
Tortured years performing in
the States and on the Continent
and the ever-pressing problem of
ttie dollar wrought in Miss de
Mille some sort of philosophy
which enabled her to keep on
with her dancing even though the
effort, meant depletion of her al
lowance from the home folks.
Uncle Cecil questioned her in 1935,
"Good Heavens, baby . . . Don't
you make any money at all? Are
you in this for your health?" The
author privately thought the ques
tion silly. Of course she was!
Cowboy movies have been good
examples-of the desire of the read
ing and moviegoing public for a
happy ending. Dance to th Piper
jumps along with the tradition.
Success does come to our heroine.
. If the ladies want their modicum
of romance, let 'em dig into Piper,
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stuff too. There has been some
wonder hereabouts if the book
weren't meant only for the dis
taff side Of the campus population.
But this male has found enjoy
ment and instruction combined
in fact, well mixed.
Others (who not,- indeed) will
care to look into an early chapter
called "Ballet and Sex." Though
the author prefaces the book with
a claim that the work is a com
pendium of notes written on paper
napkins and old envelopes,
thought here is that such rare
insight came not as much from
desultory scribbling as from close
and happy observation of mores
in the bright and rough world of
theatre and particularly in the lit
tle world of modern dance.
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Sinners, Paul D. Green. $3.50 Wil
fred Funk Inc., New York. 1951
289 pp.
If you want to meet a guy who
could make friends with a Rus
sian delegate at a United Nations
meeting, then meet Freddie Ben
ham, newspaperman par excel
lence and gadfly of the printed
word. Freddie was endowed with
phenomenal good luck, kid gloves
and spats, and a smile that would
force Joe E. Brown to hide his
blushing countenance. When he
was a cub on the World he just
happened to be waiting for a
streetcar when . one of the most
powerful men in the world had
his life threatened. J. P. Morgan
received two pistol wounds in the
thigh lifting Freddie Benham to
international prominence as a
man who scooped the world.
From stories ranging from the
ends of wars (Versailles Peace
Treaty) to the organization of the
American Legion, Benham was
there smiling face and pad and
pencil in hand. He's one of those
guys who could slap Eleanor
Roosevelt on the behind and get
away with it. He had more friends
in high places than Lamar Cau
dle, and many times could have
been a millionaire. He chose to
make his friends millionaires
while he remained " elegantly
dressed and a couple inches to the
right of bankruptcy.
Paul Green (not ours) writes
in a style tnat is pungent with
the odors of New York. You can
feel the vibration of the subway
and sense the rumble when the
presses begin to roll. His is a story
of a man who searched the big
city for some "new twist." In this
collection of events and personali
ties you will have a tete-a-tete
with Teddy "Roosevelt, shake a
book-trained hand with Dale Car
negie, and have a conversational
catch with Leo Durocher.
All in all, it made pleasant in
brmative reading.
This week finds the literary
and theatrical world in, almost the
same spot" which it occupied at
the beginning of the new year,
In some cases we observe that
the arts have taken a step for
ward while accelerating to the
rear. Broadway sight - seeing,
show-goers, while not tapping
their feet to the strains and loos
ening their belts to the belly
laughs , of "Top Bananna," jure
enj oying an old timer by the fa
ther of American drama, Ibsen.
"The Wild Duck" boasting Of a
cast including Maurice - Evans,
Mildred . Dunnock, Kent Smith,
and Diana Lynn is being received
with much admiration. The audi
ence occupies popular-priced seats
who have continually come to see
good theatre produced by The
New York City Theatre Co. Mean
while Gian-Carlo Menotti, the
modern operetta composer-direc
tor, is still taking bows from
NBC's Christmas eve showing pf
I "Amahl and The Night Visitors."
Those books listed in Time Mag-
Thanks
Our sincerest thanks goes Jo
Paul Smith of Intimate Book
Shop who made available to The
Daily Tar Heel the books review
ed on this page.
Boole ;Eods.aiic3;Odds
azine's recent and readable col
umn of January 7 and repeated in
the 14th issue are: Barabbas,
Closing The Ring, Gods, Graves
and Scholars, The Conformist,
Life's Picture History of Western
Man, and Katherine Mansfield's
Letters to John Middleton Mury.
The only new recent and readable
addition to the list seems to be
The Confident- Years by Van
Wyck Brooks.
' Mass intellectual hysteria still
floating over American campuses
springs again this week from God
And Man at Yale. Political writ
ings (as they are) have been cen
tered around corruption at Capitol
Hill. "Ike" also makes front page.
The uncovering of Communist
workers at the UN starting from
the basement laborers to the pent
house politicians is big news and
got a thorough working over this
week.
Dance To The Piper (reviewed
elsewhere on this page) accepted
an acknowledging nod from both
The Atlantic and Time Magazines.
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