Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 5 Oct 1957, p. 16

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atk dung SH 0 NI po fr wage costs. "1 helleve i to be a fact that in no other country but Canada are labor policies guided paved abroad," he sald, "Nor does the labor movement in any country but Canada contribute so largely to the financial support of labor] union headquarters in another country whose economic inter ests and trading po) are of ten to conflict with ours," 28 TW DARY FIMES-GATIVTL, Seturdsy, October §, 1957 THE NEW BOOKS' New Facts Give Life To O.HenryBiography true there is| TONIGHT and every Sat. Night DANCE "peter§chaeffer' And His Orchestre Toronto Band featuring "DIANNE" Song Stylist $2.00 a couple |Combines Act Should Cover Union, President Says | TORONTO (CP)-V. W, Scully, whole industry at will," i president of the Steel Company| 'That the repositories of such f om I hursday | power should be exempt from the trust legislation be amended to controls embodied in our com- cover la unions, {bines or anti-trust legislation is He told the annual Canadian | manifestly a serious anomaly," {purchasing conference that union he sald. i |not marred in some way by senti-| ; : pry oH ted opine | power exceeds any authority ever| Mr, Scully sald smaller com [continye to do so, It is It was a character in one of is not one of his stories which 0. Henry's short-stories sald: "You can't write with ink, and ou can't write with your own 's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of someone triviality of conception. |cXercised by employers and that|panies cannot stand organized ot in spite. er) ul the pi large unions "can shut down a pressure for long nor have they which can so easily be adduced ) /] DANCE IVERY SATURDAY WIGHT Sophia Loren, the screen's new sensation, tangles roman- tically with Alan Ladd in a scene from the big colored pro- duction "Boy on a Dolphin", a sensuous new world of adven- ture, love and*excitement open- ing Monday at the Biltmore Theatre on the same program with "The Way to the Gold" starring Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, Barry Sullivan and Wal- ter Brennan. THE DEMOCRATIC ROOSEVELT Tugwell Sings "Ito have a legend - created about "land colorful life he lived with a else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist." _ This was, of gone, the atu} A ro vg Henry who was the most highly paid and the best known short story writer of his day, O, Henry did not have to die him, He was a most elusivé man who kept even his closest at a respectable distance and throughout most of his tumultous dreaded secret ~~ he had a prison record. $ REALISTIC TREATMENT Although half a dozen books and hundreds of magazine ar- {ticles have been written about him, the information assembled from them has been most dis appointingly incomplete, For in- stance, there has been no realist- fe treatment of O. Henry's mar- riage, nor any adequate examina- tion of the evidence in his trial 0. HENRY AS YOUTH for embezzlement, It is pretty well agreed now that a per lity more )! and more fascinating than the him "a likeable, extremely mod- est man with a natural courtesy and a beautiful wit." C. Alphonso Smith assembled a against his work, what we have to do in O, Henry is a kind of minor classic. One hastens to add the word "minor", and to qualify the pronouncements in other ways. 0. Henry, one feels, is a rather disreputable figure in the com-| PONTYPOOL to DOUG DASTI The W pany to which such classification "Hitchin' Post" BUCKAROO RANCH Harmony Rd, N, to the Sign admits him. Nevertheless, the time has come to cease blaming him for the sins of his formula- bound imitators. The time has come to grant him the niche to which he is entitled among the rmanent figures in American iterature." In the decade following his death no other writer's stories, except Kipling's, sold more widely and were move highly esteemed than O, Henry's. In 1920 close to 5,000,000 volumes of his stories had been sold In the Us. His fame was not confined to the U.S, By 1923 translations had been made into French, Spanish, | German, Swedish, Dano-Nosweg: y | jan and Japanese. Incidentally, 0, Henry's popularity in op £ STARTING OSHAWA BIG geatures - 4 ALAN LADD OF CLIFTON ADVENTURE SERA 2 £9 2 io SOPHIA legend of O. Henry itself would have emerged had the wealth of wealth of material for his author-| hag persisted, despite the aban. ized biography in 1916, but a /donment of the attempt to read SHOWING | THE AY Praise Of FDR In writing his new biography of labor, afd big agriculture and Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to use big government to "THE DEMOCRATIC ROOSE- bring about a concert of interests, VELT" (Doubleday of Canada F. D. R.s inclinations ran strong-| Ltd.) -- Rexford G. well says|ly towards the second approach| he had one key objective: and the early phase of the New| "The hope of interésting a mew|Deal was heavily influenced by it.| generation in the ohe man to/Them, under .a varlety of pres-| whom no one in my generation/sures, the President swung to-| was indifferent." ward the Hore Sraditional pai. ern of reform, and In the late ol iw, ote of the last of 1930s the New Deal was talking! taken time out to reconsider the 2nd acting the anti-big business unpublished material on him been studied and evaluated, Author Gerald Langfo |, an as- sociate professor -of English at the University of Texas, is the first blogaplier of O. Henry to have made full use of this mater- ial, He includes these findings in his new book "ALIAS 0. HENRY: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SIDNEY PORTER"; Brett-MacMillan Ltd,, Canada. This is an accurate, document- ed and full-length biography of the famous short story 'writer, very considerable portion was not used by Smith himself and has not been used by any subsequent writer although the entire collec- tion has been available for many years in the vublic libarary at Greensboro, North Carolina, Some mid-century readers may inquire fastidiously; is the life of . Henry worth examinlog as literary blography? These read- ers will insist O, Henry's 'vogue is long since past, and a recon- sideration is hardly warranted for {what they will call his "dated and lephemeral work', addressed as MONDAY social protest Into his work, Gerald Langford has done an LAST DAY: KIM NOVAK in "JEANNE BAGELS" ADULT | outstanding job in this blography | of one of America's most popu lar writers, and this work should win wide favor as the most au- thorative and scholarly stories of William Sydney Porter to date, It will do much to erase old doubts and disjointed theories regarding this author who lived so much in his 48 years on this earth, It should also do much to restore 0. Henry to his rightful role on the American literary scene, FIRST TIME ON THE SCREEN TWO AMAZING JUNGLE THRILLERS TROPICAL TERROR IN WILDEST AFRICA! PREMIER PICTURES presents TO THE GOLD, I CINemaS cor Joffrey HUNTER - NORTH Harry SULLIVAN - Walter LOREN fom a eh significant facts of this momen- tous life. He has also taken time to complete a penetrating re- search into the private, little known areas of Roosevelt's child- hood and formative years, his education, career training and family life. FORCEFUL PROSE Here in forceful prose is the portrait of a complex and fascin-| ating human being -- a man with pronounced doubts and problems, | with great warmth and charm,| with weak spots and human fail- ings. Behind it all he was boiling| with an almost superhuman energy, intelli and i ] The reader will find opened up| for him new avenues into the his. tory of our times. The great per-| sonalities of the Roosevelt era ss in parade -- Stalin, Church-| and Roosevelt at the Yalta conference, The alling Harry Hopkins, the harness maker's| son, faithful and devoted at his chief's side throughout the cre-| ation and administration of the new deal. | There is also the Sate of the Roosevelt, one who 1 young made the famous 'Haj War- rior' speech to assure Al Smith's nomination as governor of New York State, as an assistant secre- tary of the Navy. The author's admiration for his subject has not blinded him to] F. D. R's faults and foibles. At| the same time, he has not been| put off by the late president's| many detractors, Because of his| first-hand knowledge and his re- search he has provided much new material that v lll be of assistance| to historians, as well as to the) general reader, Has any other U.S. president equalled Franklin Roosevelt in +provoking so quickly so many food books about himself? Not| ashington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, not even the effervescent Teddy Roosevelt or the command- | ing Woodrow Wilson, { is new book is certain to rank high with the top serious books of the new season, BIG, VIRILE BOOK ture audience. It is richly inform. ed and endlessly fascinating. The heart of the book is Tug- well's analysis of Roosevelt the man and the leader. Roosevelt, to Tugwell, was a personality propelled by an inner |edge of human beings and of the {American scene. same standard |p Second World War period, how-| ever. Perhaps this is because he can call on less first-hand knowl. diminish Washington otne the | Wor! ar brought a de-empha-|3 s sis on all New Dealism in the 50 Miles, capital. Some of his statements tj will draw protests such as his as- sertion that the "execution" of| Aires, to Punta Arenas and Me- Wallace as the Democratic vice-\Murdo Sound. Then to Christ. presidential candidate in 1944 was|church, N.Z., Melbourne and Dar- a blunder from the point of view win, Australia; Manila, Tokyo, of both practical politics and the Anchorage, Alaska and then over {national interest. This is a big and virile book, 10%; however, despite some de-| Frankfurt, Paris and back to Bos. unabashedly addressed to a ma-| program of Sally progressivism SOME COMPLAIN Some readers may complain that little of this analysis of Roosevelt and his program Is new. Tugwell, however, gives it a fresh look by his subtle knowl. Speaking of his own life before his death O, Henry remarked: "Fiction Is tame as compared with the romance of my own| life", Readers of this searching| and sympathetic study will cer-| tainly agree with these words. | Author Langford admits in a foreword to the story that it is difficult to be dispassionate about a personality as appealing as that of the elusive man known as 0, Henry. Art Young once called io World Flight In Honor man |Sabbath-slippered feet on another chair, and to the woman who snatches the paper for a moment while bollin izied baby these I love to sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of Kings." with this fact; whether we like it or not, O. Henr stay. Says Langford; OVERPRAISE SEEN of ludicrous overpraise and three |decades more of deprecation and neglect in critical circles. Peo- nd still read O. Henry and there he himself said it was 'to the who sits smoking with his GOOD FOOD J Luncheon Ie Business Men's | COMMERCIAL HOTEL B I f greens or a narcot eaves her free, With I" Re, Author Langford impresses us is here to 'He has survived two decades DANCE | good reason why they should' \ TONITE Of R. F. Byrd WASHINGTON (AP) -- Plans for a round-the-world air flight jcrossing both poles and named | honor of the late Admiral Rich. ard E, Byrd were announced to- day. It would be the first such cross. OLD TIME--MODERN SALLEY Music By TAP--BATON HIGHLAND Register for the Fell } Term I Ll JRENIE HARVEY || Caller--BOB FOWLER ing of the bottom and top of the Red Barn | ADMISSION 75¢ world in a continuous series of hops, said Cmdr. Frederick G, Dustin, an Antarctic veteran and close friend of Byrd's. Byrd bad flown over both poles in separate expeditions, Dustin said the flight, financed by a group of bu en, is about |scheduled to leave Boston Nov, 10, One leg would take the crew and sponsors on a never before attempted flight from Punta Arenas, Chile, over the South \ theipole to McMurdo Sound in. the Second | Antarctic--a distance of nearly FRANKLIN D, ROOSEVELT Tugwell does not maintain the in the , second hase of the New Deal and the Tugwell's sympathies seem to somewhat with Dustin announced this planned nerary: Boston to Trinidad, to Buenos the North Pole to Thule, Green- This is a book well worth read- (land. 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The suspension ata de srt cone WI my et al mre {bers - alleg 0 have n ac | yt 0%, PONS, uid by he lo huh rad: auestioned that power Win 10 he ng are restored to their former used to "build", to use the demo-| "oer cratic political processes to hus:| band the nation's material and| human resources, and to broaden social and economic opportunities for the individual. F. D, R's confidence in this drive of tremendous power. Tug- well says that such a personality, influenced by an aristocratic background, the pervasive ten- dencies of his schooling, and the example of his relative, Theodore Roosevelt, turned F. D, R, into that special phenomenon, the pa- d trician reformer. 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