Variety (April 1961)

VARIETY LEGITIMATE 61 Wednesday, April 12, 1961 Recalling Sime Silverman” H. Allen. Smith's “How' To Wr ite. Without. Knowing Nothing,” which | “Little, Brown will. publish ‘in..the } fall, is a’ collection. -of ‘odd-ball -pieces, ‘with accent on, slanguage : “and semantics. ' Ineluded are ‘four. of hisVARIETY’! Anniversary “Number ‘special .ar-7% 'tieles, titled. . Of . VARIETY cand: ‘Sime, “Sinte’s Hidden-Note = Trick.” “How I. “Won tive Cham. pionsnip™ “and “Biography | “Word.” .The first two refer: Sime. Silverman, founder’ Var: ETY. to ‘of LHJ's: Unique ‘Study What adds. Upto: aunique piece of ‘yromation is-a voluminois dossier created by the. Ladies’ Home . Journal to. show. how its ‘editors.’ _ plan. and .creaté a. special feature. . ‘Laheled. “Case History of a LHJ Article.”: the document | ‘cancerns a -svory. In ‘the: mag’s:. current issue ‘on. “How... America: ‘Spends Its Morey.” Brochure-like “tract. “was. “ pre-. pared. by the ‘Educational: Bureau . ‘Of the Curtis. Publishing. Co. Not only .does ‘it. explain, in minute: de| tail how such an_article is. put to-" gether, ‘but it. includes a variety of: exhibits ranging trom an editorial. assistant's preliminary: report. on the family. ‘selected, for. analysis ‘to: ‘of )-a. “Literati i on the West”. subjects for discussion. will be one Of the | Stan Freberg—Aithor artist Stan Freberg is doing a book -on “Modérn Adv ertising” for Random House. ‘Another w {Il ‘be. titled “Freberg’ s : First Reader,” a “modern primer’ ‘in. his familiar show’ biz ‘Offoeat style. Syndicating Griffin ’ John David Griffin's “I See by TV ” colunin in. the N.Y. Mirror, -Which (started only: March 20, is ‘hemg ‘jumpedto” semi-syndication status via’ the. Hearst wire,. ‘thouch no ind.cation ‘yet. how many Hearst editors ‘are. p. .cking it up. Nod for ‘the intramural .wire-often preludes a wider syndication via Hearst“own ed. ‘King ‘Features. Griffin began. the column after mee long ‘sidelining by illness. His.-chit-. ‘chat pillar inno way. effects. Nick. Kenny's ‘tele: column,: since latter 6ften goes far afield in addition to his frequent. versify ing, oO’ Hara‘ 'S. Anthologies ; “Four Plays by John O'Hara™ is soon. due under the Randon House. imprint: including .a dramatization of his “The Farmer's ‘Hotel.”” “With the: exception: of “experimental pro Ad. jingler, songsmith. and disk} ~ Publishing Stocks (As of. April 11, 1961, closing) | Allyn & Bacon (OC) . . 38!9+4.4 =! American Book (AS) .: 7412+ 114}. ‘Book of Month (NY) .. 3517%-+-+ 124. {Conde Nast (NY) ..... I7g— 114 | consulted the sons or daughters of | Crowell-Callier (NY)... | Curtis: Pub Co. (NY)... 44)2— 214 “Sigmund Freud in London or any L.A. Times Mirror (Oc) 44. Macfadden. (AS). . 15°3— ‘Macmillan (OC) ..... 74 ; "McCall (NY) .:... wee Stat 2 McGraw-Hill (NY) ... 37! 2:+ Bry consulting them weuld -+ 3'» analysis were translated under my er 44! ‘Supervision. } He answered to my 24° contacted anybody because he felt imply “New Yorker (OC) .. Me 0 + 5. commitment that he would have to Pocket Books (OC) ... 423.4 4+ 34 take whatever advice they gave Prentice. Hall (AS)... 45)4— 24 him. +. Ran'm House (QC) ... 45 + 14 I demurred fram his conclusion. Scott Foresman (OC)... 30° -+ > it But he was the playwright. I was Time Inc, (OC). ..... 100 ‘only interested that the drama be “H. W.. Sams (OC) ..... 43 -—31 historically accurate. I then ‘Western Pub, (OC) ...74 + 3 pointed. out some specific errors ‘in fact to Mr. Denker but he turned ‘my’ suggestions ‘down, indicating {that dramatic license and the ne‘eessity for maintaing dramatic impact made his inaccurate version valid. I bought tickets for the opening q S| Legit Bits “night of the play to see for myself He what distortions, EE tions and false characterizations Blyden has joined the cast resulted from this, to me, strange opearty,Blvden has joined 1 Song," attitude of the playwright. ‘succeeding Jack Soo, who's been j. Okay Re Analysiz tapped for thefilm yersion of the! The play. obviously, must be musical. .judged on three Jevels. First. its Isabel Halliburton, who has been construction as a drama and its ap OC—Over. the Counter. “oNLY.—N.LY. Stock Exchange. AS—American Stock. Exchange. the’: final layout": and: editorial schedule... Copies of the study dre being stint to. schools of journalism :and college. writing: classes throughout . the .caountry. Curtis: public rela-tions execs fecl that. the study. duction in Princeton where he residés): the plays are new. go ‘out via RH, .-thefirst titled “Assembly. Yorker pieces, novellas. ete. should | be. a. “unique teaching aids novels. fer’ vears ta come.” The April; — erticle. ineidentally,. is No. 4 -in., _Golden-Westerh’ s Subsid. the, Journal's new seriés examining New. -Ratine Press has heen “family finances. and hardcover books and: a diversitvaf other publications, as @ suysidiiry of Golden -Press.. :Frank E. Tavlor: ‘will, be. head, -with Mare Rushing ‘Elizabeth Taylor’ Jobn. B. -Ajlan. has rushed out apaperback biog entitled * "Elizabeth Tavloi** which Monarch will issue, Jaffe as editor-in-chief of the trade as ot did with’ “Jacqueline Kendept.; Richard .B: Fisher ditto of ane dy.” the educational | dept.: Allan Bar- nerd as m.e., John Ferrone, senior editor. and Chester. Johnson .and ‘Stephen ‘Zoll as associate eds. “Walter. Brooks. will be art editor. Matthew H. Murphy will head ‘the: juvenile publications. with -Ed Latter, publiched to-hit the new Sstance during the first. week-of the . -Presicent’s inauguration, has so far sold a sensational 2.500.000 ° conies at 85¢5 7. Hillman Books has ; also just is-.. “sued “The Elizabeth Taylor Story.” .mutid Marine as art ed. by Olan Levy. as a 50c. paperback. .. Since 1952 this staff. has ‘been ‘Levy authored “Operation Elvis” an. _independent unit within West ] inehart:& Winston: for ‘Holt. ‘Rine L -. ‘ef Dell Books and. Dell Comics. © ‘Golden Press, Farent of. this new Racine. Press. is owned jointly by W estern. Purb ‘Co.: successor to. Western Ptg. & Litho! and Affili_ated. Publishers ‘Inc. _. Bantam's Churchill Rights |. ‘Bantam Books has closed. what is probably one: of the biggest paperback deals in.the purchase of re-~ pint rights: to Sir.W inston Church-Alt.s. six-volume ‘history ‘of ‘WW. IT, : “Publisher plans to issue-a volume; CHATTER every four-months over.a 20-month ! “Shirley Gillespie, women's ediperiod.-Initial book, "The. Gather| tor of The ‘Ottawa .iCan.) Journal. ing Storm,” is due’ in unabridged "ty Carleton University as assistant paperback. in: September at $1.25, ! ' ‘public. relations director. Series, which totals some 1.250, oon ‘words, won Sir Winston, the: Nobel : "Prize for. Literature. ‘in. 1953. Press staffer, recently Ottawa. pat Post. to the Ottawa Citizen ‘news Ea Albee’s. Plays : staff. , New. playwright’ ‘Edward Albec’s * “Jaiestoff-Broadway: ‘play, “The _ American Dream,” .will be pubished by Coward-MeCann whieh also breught out: “The Zoo Story. Coward-MeCamn. now in ite second season ‘off-Br oad-: May, and ‘The Sandbox,” ‘Cobitled with) “Dream? is. Albee's” “The. Death of Bessie. Smith.’ “which Cai wardMeCann is ‘also’ publishing. ee cntally. the playwright is tie’ adopted son of. -vesterv-ear vaudeville magnate Edward. ‘F. Albee of the Keith-Albee and KAQ. iKeithAibeeOrpheunn Anterests.. the ammnual 500-mile: classic.’ N.Y: $63.000. heist at its Brooklyn plant. “We Wuz:.Robbed.” Within 24 ‘hours $58.000 ‘of the lnot ‘had been recovered .and tHe. five gunmen apprehended. The -competitive N:Y¥. Daily Mirror: also headlined .the same story in. its’ bulldog. -edi“tion. ; _ An anthglogy: of 45. plays. from ‘the Greek to the préyent. under the title of “Masters of Drama,” India‘s. Tagore Seminar . William Faulkner. will be amang ‘the eminent. men and women of: letters taking‘ part in ano interna: tional seminar in India’ Nov. 11-14, ‘organized as. part of. the celebra; Cerf. . tions of the centenary of the In-.°. Noy. ‘Times dance-: ‘critic John dian poet ‘Rabindranath. Tagore," "Martin, ‘a native of. Louisville, was 1913 winner. of thé Nobel Prize-for ‘made a Kentucky colonel at a dinliferature. Other notable foreign. ner hosted by Lt. Gov. Wilson participants’ will be Britain’s ‘T.-S.' Wyatt on the: oecasion of the: 6th Eliot and Aldous Huxley, France's | Andre Malraux, Argentina's Vic‘toria Ocampo, and Japan's Toshi| Eric. Hawkins. editor eineritus hiko ‘Katayama: . About. 50. Indian: of ‘the Paris ‘edition of the N.Y. writers representing each of the 16 : Herald: Tribune, upped: to ‘officer -MINajor Indian’ languages . nized by. India’s Sahitya Akademi ‘has long. been: a chevalier ‘in the teur> trade; will be published. by i tet. Festival ‘there. Three more neéw. books. will also ’ collection of his New: ‘due: next winter, followed by two new, _foimed to--publish adult paperback Ferm Ptg,.& Litho in the. creation -Don » Peacock, :former ‘Canadian . . _Jiamentary editor of The Financial “sports. editor. of Indianapolis. Star. and now: p.r. director of the Indianapolis. Motor Speedway Corp.,, “has authored “500 Miles to Go” ‘for. It’s, the story of. Daily News headlined the primed. for the college and: ama Random House; edited by Bennett’ annual Southeastern Regisnal Bal-. Tecog-. t in the French Legion of Honor. He: conducting Monday evening semi nars on directing at the ‘off-Broad-. way Sheridan Square Playhouse, N.Y., Will offer’ a series entitled “The Business of ‘off-Broadway Producing,” at the Playhouse be-ginning April 17. Brandeis U. Creative Arts Awards for 1961 in theatre have heen pre-. sented to playwright Lillian Hetlman -and Julian Beck and Judith ‘Malina, Eugenie Leontovich will appear in’ the. Robert E. Griffith-Harold S. ‘Prince ‘presentation of Jerome Lawrence .and Robert E. ‘“Kuprin.” due May Broadhurst Theatre, N.Y. Patrick O’Neal and James Noble have’ succeeded George Gaynes and Robert Goodier, respectively, in “Far Country.” Joan Blondel] will portray. the mother in the touring . company. of “ ‘Bye Bye. Birdie,’ scheduled to: open April 24 at the Curran Theatre..San Francisco. ‘Sibyl .Bowan will appear’ in “Donnybrook,” the -Fred Hebert directors of. the Living Theatre, N-Y. was truthful. Lee’s: 25 at the peal to an audience. That area is not in my field of competence to evaluate. But certainly the New York critics in their favorable verdict indicated it met the standard of a good show and that it was well acted. Second. the story of the discovery of psychoanalysis. Does it meet the standards of truth? I Jent the available copy of the seript I had: to a_ distinguished psyvchoanalvist. Dr. David Abrahamsen. He.read it carefully and said that. by, and large. the treat ment: of the psvchoanalytic story He criticized some minor elements. called the office of the producer. Roger Stevens. to acquaint him with them. but never heard from him. I am not a psychoanalyst. but believe the drama _tist treated this subiect sincerely and soundly in its main lines. Third. the plav must be judged a Freud & Family Continued from pagé 2 Seeeeeneenemen | IN2+ lg, of us in.this country who had been | the stage. truth, always permitting such Gramatic license as is necessary for : Grolier. (OC) ........ 64134 1 1 closely associated with Sigmund| Possibly such an indictment ce: Hare’t.. Brace (OC) ... 42 —.234'Freud in a personal and profes{mands specific comment on seme ‘Hearst (OC) ......... 12'2 ‘sional capacity. (The General In-:of the matters not truthfully pre.Holt, R&W (NY). ..:.. 63%44+ 14 troductory Lectures on Psycho: sented. Not a Stormer Sigmund Fieud is presented as a great surprise that he had not ; storming man who yells loutiy at his patient and his family. To anyone who knew Freud intimately, of has carefully read the authoritative biography of Frnest Jenes this is, of course, not true. Freud was a scientist. gentle and quict. He never stormed or ruged with patients or members of his famiiv. ~ The relations of the memhers cf the family to Freud and to p-ychoanalvsis are falsely represented. In the Vienna of the late 19th ¢cntury and early 20th century. a .Woman's place was in the home. misrepresenta. Certainly in Freud's immediate family no one criticized. argued er discussed psychoanals sis with dim, and certainly not in his office. His mother, mv ‘ zrandme'tcr whom I knew, is depicted as remon .Strating with him about enter:ng -@ career in psychoani}ys is. During her Jong lifetime. he was wlways her “golden son™; everything e did was right. And he had only the greatest affection tor her. He ‘called on her every Sunday dur -is present. on the truth with which the char. ‘ful? members of the Freud family to: ‘Sigmund Freund and to one another David Kapp presentation due. May’ 18, at the 46th Street Theatre, N.Y. ‘Playwright . ‘Clifford Odets will’ ‘receive the annual award for drama of the American Academy of Arts. jand. Letters at a joint ceremonial truthfully represented? acters are represented. Are the individual characterizations truth. Are the relationshins of the Is the relationship of Freund to his patient and the relationship of the vatient ‘to the Freud familv truthfully por of the Academy and the National; held May. 24.. Bonard. Productions, of ‘Helen G. Bonfils, Haila Stod. dard, Henry Meier and. Donald R. Seawell, in association with Charles Russell, is arranging to present Noel Coward’s “Sail. Away’ on ‘Broadway next October. Kermit. Bloomgarden has “with .. Institute of Arts and Letters, to be traved? As to these. the playwright is way off the mark. ‘Family Distorted The characterizations of the consisting . Freud family in all these relation ships are distorted and false. I do ing his mature life. To use her as a@ @cerice for ernasitaa Quid a joil for Freud is preposterous, The relation bin cf Freed ta his sister, Dolfi, the only one cf five sisters depicted. was not at all ke that presented ih the play. The playwright depicts the psoycheanalvsis of a patient as if it were a family affair. with Fieud’s wite and my aunt Dolfi moving in and out of his office while the patient This is as false as to picture the family of my, doctor running in and out of the office while I.am in the examining reom, The treatment of the patient :s¢ portrayed on stage as if the patient were being psychoainals zed by the family and not by the doctor alone, The relationship of members of the family to each other is gras<‘v distorted. In no cultured family in Austria of that period would a mother give a slap on the face to an adult daughter as depicted in the play. Omissions Historically. the play misses many jmnortant chtracters in that part of Freud's life deccrihed. en the stage. Freud's daughter, Anna, ;a mainstay of his life in the tast days in Vienna, who now sucecess fully practices in T.endon. is not _mentioned. Numerous sisters who played a more important role in not think this indicates malicious. . ness on the part of the playwright. ‘the time, William Bullitt. an ac _who is devout and sincere in his ‘appraisal of psvchoanalvsis. but he seems to have permitted economic ‘pressure of time. laziness, lack of drawn as producer of Arno?d Shul-. ‘man’s “The Nose of Jerry Pepper.” the Milton Berle. starrer he was to present on Broadway. Donald. -Albery and Peter Dau duction of Peter Ustinov's -Photo Finish” and Robin Fox a.d : Aibery are also consideiing the actor-playwright’s “Paris Not So Gay” for West End presentation. Another Ustinov drama, . adapted from the Ingmar Bergman film, “Torment,” is. contemplated ‘for May -presentat’on in Los Angcles by Hal Martin. _ Leo G. Carroll w.:1 star in a production: of “On ‘Borrowed T:ine,” opening May. 12 at Chicago's Goodman -Theatre-as the final offering Julia Meade will star in the Lee Guber-Frank Ford-Shelley _ Gross |. presentation of “Pajama Gam».” | set to open June 12 at the Sprins“field ‘Mass.) Music Fair,.to be follawed by a strawhat tour of oneweek stands. -Carol Teitel, cur rently appearing in the off-Broadway revival .of “Under. Milk Wood,” is the wife of .N.¥. Univ. literature and drama professor Nathan Teitel. of the current subscription season. | openmindedness or plain stubborn the American publie on the stage, and presumably for the sereen later. characterizations which by beny -are planning a Lendon prow. the. greatest stretch of the imag. “The ination do not represent in fheir ! attitudes and actions the people they are supposed to represent. There can be no acceptable ex -cuse for such mishandling of the ee w, truth. Frenzy, me that: Hollywood is a worse of-: ‘fender in the presentatien of his torv and that there are few stand| _ards or criteria for truth or ethics ‘that playwrights follow in the Scramble for cash and boxoffice. Our society protects liring ‘persons aaainst damaaing .statements by its libel law. But once an individual is dead, ‘society permits the sku as the limit. There is no recourse to assure that the. public will nat get false stereotines and cliches about dead individuals. Figments of a writer's imaqination rather than historical representations are tendered the public. his life than Dolfi are not mentioned. His sister-in-law. Minna, who was close to him. was omitted. Our Ambassador to France at herent of mv vunele’s were dee ty ‘interested in psvchoana'vsis and in -great part responsible for Freud‘’s getting out of Austria. Visits of : aft he néss to induce him to precent to ‘the members of the staff of the ;American Consul General Wiley, :whotonk an interest ju keenine t'-p ‘Nazi Gestapo within hounds. -Freud's disciple, Ernest Jones. Knowledgeable people tell: Although, as one of the oldest of { Freud's immediate familv in the| .U:S.A., I am interested in seeing | ; that the truth fs set right. also will take part. . UNESCO has offered.:a grant., to. meet. the travel expenses. ‘of ‘the foreign delegates: to’ the semi| nar, which will be_organized jointlv by. the Sahitya Akademi and: the Indian Council of Cultural: ‘Relations. “The . Impact of". Tagore | . : 'saciety.: He. has been working: on his’: memoirs since. ‘Biving up the dav-to-day. operations at the HT.. ing 160.000 copies. of United Art-. Encland when film is: released in (Europe: : Trans-World Publications ready are -not mentioned. letter. frem ,;FDR. I can find no record <f anywhere, is dragged in and reads a London, stirred up the British Government to express solicitude for Freud's safe departure. The _playwright omits the aectivitv. of ; Americans on the spot. a matter of ‘historical record in Jone hivgras phy. This letter uses a case study To _point up an issue that all Ameri-eans interested in the nerpetuation of truth on the stage and ; screen should be concerned about. ‘it presents an issue some national A | association of dramatists oar his torians might come to grips with to ‘ensure the American publie is not fed the imaginings of an agile i playwright's brain under the guise ‘of truth. An essential element af ‘a democratic sociefv is that the ‘public shall be enabled ta make its judgments on what is presented ‘to it as the truth. ‘Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen.” a Yid There | dish-American musical by Louis ‘las Theatre Center, was the recipi-‘ are broad moral and: public issues : Freiman, is scheduled to open next ent Jast Friday night ‘7) in. Dallas | inherent in this situation that lead | fall at the Anderson Thestre, N.Y , | .Paul -Baker, director of the ‘Dal-; -at a dinner in his honor of. the first ,;to my interest in it. A historian i under? the production auspices of annual Rodgers & Hammierstcin j who destroys the truth would find | Jacob Jacobs, who created the title $1.000: cash award and brorze me-:himself dishonored. A contributed most.to the t catre inj -the southw est” during 19680. lawyer ; and the original Ivrics to the SOnNg ‘sts’. “Young. Savages” for sale in{ dallion to the person “whohas; would be disbarred. Why should | of the same name, Sholom Secunda, not his conferees or sociefv hold : who wrote the music for the song, 'a playwright responsible fcr the ‘or Abe EUstein wil] do the score. -_& ~m_