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I The Dally Tar Heel Wednesday, September 14. 1977 Southern saga: two ladies' tales A Northern lady and a Southern lady are the heroines of two current and popular novels: A Dark Lady by Louis Auchincloss (Houghton Mifflin Co. 246 pp. $8.95) and Look Away, Beulah Land by Lonnie Coleman (Doubleday. 492 pp. $10.95). How different are their ladies? Louis Auchincloss grew up in New York state, attended Groton School and Yale, now lives on Park Avenue and has an office on Wall Street. In one novel after another he has drawn skillful portraits of Northern men and women: orderly, reserved, well-educated well-bred, affluent. elegant, seemly. His best novel may be The Rector of Justin, based on the headmaster of his prep school. Groton. but equally illuminating of the Northern character are Portrait in Brownstone, The House of Five Talents and The Great World and Timothy Colt. Lonnie Coleman is a native of Georgia, worked as a newspaperman in North Carolina and lived in New York until his best-selling Beulah Land brought in enough money for him to buy a home in Ireland. He has known Southern women all his life; and one of his most effective novels carries the title of The Southern Lady. Mr. Auchincloss' "dark lady" is Elesina Dart, beautiful, well born, but a victim of too little money, two unsuccessful marriages and a weakness for alcohol. An aspiring actress, she once played the role of "the dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnet sequence and was perfectly capable of playing any role in the social world which she believed would prove advantageous to her. Elesina's greatest admirer and manager was Ivy Trask, a middle-aged, shrewd fashion editor who introduced Elesina into the richly elegant home and priceless art collection of Irving and Clara Stein, then pushed Irving into divorcing his wife and The area's only open air produce market! North Carolina Apples 19c ib. Tomatoes 39c ib. Green Beans 29c ib. Seedless White Grapes 59 C ib. Yellow Squash 19c ib. Plums and Nectarines 39c ib. WE'RE OPEN 'TIL 8 PM DAILY PERSEVERANCE PRODUCE 929-5450 300 W. Rosemary St. Behind Pizza Troniit Authority Walter marrying Elesina. and finally prodded Elesina into a steamy love affair w it h Irvine's son. David. This is the basic plot of The Dark Lady, but Auchincloss embroiders his unsavory story of lust and greed with polished pictures of the Stem salon, with witty dinner table conversations about Shakespeare and contemporary drama, art treasures b Holbein and Botticelli and New York politics. The reader may not admire Elesina Dart Stein, but he mav well admire the precise elegance with which Auchincloss depicts this overly successlul northern lady, who at the end of the book is headed into Republican politics with the aid ot herclever homosexual secretary. Readers of Lonnie Coleman's earlier Beulah Land, compared in some circles to Gone With the Wind, will remember the Kendrick and Davis families living on their neighboring ante-bellum Georgia plantations, raising cotton, being kind to their slaves, intermarrying rapidly and indulging in a good bit of same-sex activities under the oak trees. The inevitable sequel, Look A ay, Beulah Land, carries the story right on through the Civil War and into Reconstruction, running from 1864 to 1874 with the indomitable Southern lady, Sarah Kendrick, managing the plantation, finding a new husband, befriending a forlorn Yankee soldier, marrying off two of her grandchildren and standing off the Yankee invaders and the invading carpetbaggers with courage and determination. The first section of the novel, under the appropriate quotation from Shakespeare's The Tempest: "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." draws a believable and llHeldOvef 11th Big Week Sorry No Passe Shows 2:30 4:45 7:00 9:15 Abngomeago hagSexyjar araway.. fppj it ,f Held Over I VfpVf M 6th Bi9 Week 1 TTOiHsEfrrftr Sorry No 1 JAMES BONO 007' 1 ijjpl. "HWWING showsf fTZTiTIPTa 2:30 WfrATiip I pg f UJU!.girj' Held Over ' tn3OQ0 Jr BlgWeek I Shows! LIZA MINNELLI 900 I NEW YORK j I NEW YORK I r h - ' r iipli Spearman authentic picture ol how one Southern lamily managed to survive the war. even though the plantation house at Beulah Land was burned, the black women slaves raped and a few people killed. I he villain ol the piece is the greedy black man. Junior F lk. who connived with the carpetbaggers but met the end he deserved Other blacks arc sympathetically portraved. and one ol the best scenes in the book is the vengeance taken on Yankee sergeant Bills Smede. who pillaged and raped, when he is caught by black Hosd. 1 2-year-old Ben and Yankee deserter Daniel I odd. I he novel ends with -books- By WALTER SPEARMAN A Dark Lady by Louis Auchincloss Look Away, Beulah Land by Lonnie Coleman the establishment ot a school lor tree blacks, set up by money Junior Elk left his good son, Roscoe Elk. Look Away. Beulah Land lacks the vitality of the earlier Beulah Land, as though Lonnie Coleman realized a sequel might be popular but lacked any great interest in writing it. Alter all. Beulah Land had already prov ided him a new home in Ireland. But any reader who was already caught up in the characters ol the Kendricks and the Davises will be interested to follow them along lor a lew more years in Georgia. And it is intriguing lor any reviewer to wonder how Auchincloss"'dark lady" Elesina would have handled a Georgia plantation or how Coleman's energetic Sarah Kendrick would have fared in New York's sophisticated salons. Walter Spearman is a professor in the I NC School of Journalism. The Suspense of a Lifetime 3:00 5:00 7:00 9.00 Held Over 4th Wk 3:15 5:15 7:15 9:15 Ram Foreign Films Are Back! Francois Truffaut 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30 RICHARD PRYOR RAM GRIER MAGICAL IMP fe lir'--j.ll!rsl' jjj jt 1 HAVE UWATMAY BE A RATHER DIFFICULT QUE5TI0N FOR YOU... DOONESBURY ,.ANP FMUHBR, TIM RIZZO FFOM MAINTENANCE HAS 0YEX PRAWN HIS CHECKING ACCOUNT I BY 3l-67, ANP DONNA HLL i MORE FPOM TNE SECURITY J COUNCIL OVERDREW HEJRS c BY tlBO.SO! I v3 S3 S 7V d srr n Herb expert tends garden By K1MBERLY McGUIRE DTH C ontributor Most likely you'll find her bent over in the sun, wearing sneakers and a denim skirt and a big straw hat to fend off the 90 degree heat. She won't say anything that sounds like she's doctoring people, but she'll quickly pick some jewel mint from her garden to aid your poison ivy. Mercer Hubbard worked in the Country Doctor Museum Medicinal Herb Garden in Bailey, North Carolina' until she came to Chapel H ill four years ago. Three and a half years ago. as a charter member of the foundation which supports the North Carolina Botanical Garden, she donated the five dollars with w hich the herb garden was started here. Since then, the garden has grown, and so have the number of devotees who value the herbs for their medicinal, culinary and industrial purposes. "The H)A is terrified. They can't figure us out. So we promised not to prescribe our herb remedies." Hubbard says. Did you know that Foxglove is used effectively m heart medicines? Besides their medicinal qualities, many of which have been learned from the Cherokee Indians in this area, the herb gardeners "like to show oil and cook with herbs." Hubbard adds, t.cmon thyme cookies area favorite and everybody loves "saving herb recipes and trying to outdo each other." L vet tried sorrel soup (Irom the herb sorrel)'.' Rosemary tea is noted for its delightful aroma, while it works on your memory and helps you not to torget. Herbs are usually good pesticides. " I he pennyroyal plant keeps mosquitoes from going in the kitchen door and the dog loves to lay in it in the summertime. "Saponaria is commonly called the soap plant and if you beat the stems and swish them in water, it makes suds like the Indians used. Looking around the terraced garden, build into cinder blocks for proper drainage. Hubbard remarks. "It's amaing how all the herbs are so different; this stuffs fascinating - it can get hold of you and you'll go cray." The North Carolina Botanical Garden is owned by the state and funded by the Botanical Garden. Inc.. a non profit public foundation. The real support and strength of the garden. which keeps it a growing and active project, comes from the volunteers who work long, hard hours. Many volunteers have specialized and concentrated on specific plants. The most notable is Villa Zola, an ex librarian who donates time at the garden. Nicknamed the "poison lady," she knows practically everything about poisonous herbs and their harmful OnCA-THE ONLY ANIMAL WHO KILLS FOR REVENQE. RICHARD HARRIS JWttALE COLOR CHARLOTTE RAMPUNO .., , H COLOR "A CELEBRATION AND A JOYOUS ONE AND BLESSEDLY FUNNY." -jayCks.TlmMogo2ln Esj COLOR 7 IT INCNIPIA. ROSEMAIT WW.W-.v.ri.!!Sy UMAT'5THE DIFFERENCE nr. in AND JUST FEELING BAP ? vj LADIES ANP GENTLEMEN, THIS IS JUST A PARTIAL UST. ALL OVER THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH REGULAR PEOPLE LIKE WAND ME MAKE EVERYDAY UTTLB ERRORS IN BALANCING THEIR CHECKBOOKS.. SUCH MISTAKES ARE HUMAN. I HOPE THEY WILL HELP YOU PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE SIMILAR MIS TAKES MADE 8Y OUR BUDGET DIRECTOR. . 13 i to ;Si . -., H " V'i -V ' ?' -"aw- . . VXn? jr - 1 Oft 'jfrsX I Mercer Hubbard bends over her herb garden at the Botanical gardens in Chapel Hill. An expert in herbs and medicinal plants, she also teaches classes and coordinates volunteers for the herb garden. effects. Perhaps the most vital contribution is made by Charlotte Jones w ho heads up the "rescue squad." Jones stands up to bulldozers in the Chapel Hill area and takes it upon herself to "save" plants before they're damaged by construction. She brings them back to a safe, new home in the Botanical Gardens where they can survive in a natural habitat. H ubbard says that the emphasis in the volunteer program is on having a good time. The success and extensiveness of the program, which now includes 200 men, women, and children, is obvious at the garden. Forty of the volunteers work on the Herb Garden with Mercer and they all have straw hats like hers. "Can't you see it'.' A bus full of us, headed for Winston-Salem to visit another garden, all wearing these wild straw hats with green ribbons on them!" Hubbard says laughing. "This is a teaching garden, where Flying club ready for take-off The Chapel Hill Flying Club will hold its fall membership meeting at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 15 in the Carolina Inn. Club benefits, regulations and fees will be explained at the meeting and two films, "Wings for Beginners" and "Flying in the Bahamas," will be shown. Interested UNC students, faculty and staff are invited. Refreshments will be served. The Flying Club was organized in 1961 by five people who wanted opportunities to fly Hello HAT U)A5N'T SiCh A PlFFlCULT QUEfTlON AFTER ALL.' DAACf 0U TAKE TO5 UCSWM k-v ..... . mm by Garry Trudeau J0DY, MEN'S gSSR AFWMORE TO RESIGN? EXAMPLES.. . Staff photo by Joseph Thomas people may study and find pleasure," Hubbard says. There are classes offered for children and adults where wreaths and natural dyes and potpourri are made from the available herbs. Blind people can learn about herbs, as they are easily distinguishable by touch and smell and taste. In the future, casette tapes will aid the blind in learning more about herbs. Wheelchair paths will be built throughout the garden area for the aged. A "beginner's garden" where children can come and pinch and smell the herbs is planned, r - . Snipping some spearmint (which is a plant native to North Carolina), Hubbard says "It's late in the afternoon and they don't smell as good as they do early in the morning." She looks up and adds, "lots of these trees are herbs as well. The walnut tree there, and the sassafrass, it's used to make root beer. There's no end to it, it goes on and on..." at a reasonable cost. There are now 60 members and four flying instructors. Four planes are maintained by the club for members' use. Two are two-seaters used primarily for flight training. Two four seaters are used for cross-country pleasure and business trips by club members who have their private pilot license. All members are invited to participate in regular meetings, picnics and flying contests. For more information call Edward Boer, 967-3104. Suzanne "Scene after scene is unforgettable" Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker Magazine SPECIAL LIMITED ENGAGEMENT Academy Award Winner "BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!" starring Sylvester Stallono on wt'vt bn" o KWomen waiting SWry Dmvifl S.ySwn-l awKe for!! Ffiday PGjas. rp Spt. 16 OH" Iwwonnotiu 1 ) 2:35 4:50 7:05 9:20 v y I Cria! SI.I !- l-.-.il V ll'IIIIIIIIIMIIfll "I II ML 111 2:30 . M 7:00 f1! 9:15 If Loit Di Doy U Thura. W 91 C
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