Variety (July 1949)

1 WedneMlay* July 13, 1949 LITERATI Jia 53 Announcing * new publishing house: The Wild . Duck Press (“Books that dare to be dull”). Several feet of Englund's five-foot shelft ^ _ Constructive Type Volumes “Do Your Own Egg Candleing.” “Build Your Dream House Out of Burnt Matches.” “Make That Counterfeit Money Pay Off.” “I Learned to Pull My Own Teeth.” “1 Made My Home in a Runaway Balloon.” “Mule Breeding Made Easy.” “Every Man His Own Embalmer.” Biographies “Memoirs of a Comparison Shopper.” “Confessions of a Bloomingdale Book Spy.” “I Fought at Klein’s Basement.” “Reflections on The Mirror Business.” “I Remember Ab.solutely Nothing.” “My Father Wasn’t Ever My Father.’’ Medical 'rype Books “Hangnail — Friend or Foe?” “The Romance of Chiropody.” “How to Suck Your Teeth At the Movies.** “I Laughed Off Halitosis.” Occupational (Female) “Spot Welding For Debutantes.” “New Horizons for Girl Steeplejacks.” Audubon Division “Bird Watching By Lantern Light.” Philosophical “Are You Sure You’re Alive?” Political “Are We Drifting Anywhere?” , The Arts “Transylvania Folk Dancing of the 14th Centui*y.” “Transylvania Folk Dancing of the 15th Century.” Dry Ice Books “Has Dry Ice a Future?” Economics “Has the Bottom Dropped Out of Buggy Whips?” Culinary “Tapioca — Enemy or Ally?” sideration when a book is put before the board, and too frequently the censors are required to make snap judgments on books which they have not had the time to read, and which are submitted to them with a few passages marked for their attention. The Minister for Justice, who names the hoard members, hasn't nominated his successor yet. ■»♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦a ♦♦♦♦♦»♦»♦♦♦ SCULLY’S SCRAPBOOK By Frank Scully Nut Plains, Conn.. July 10. Bariy Fox Stevens, author of “Hideaway Island,” says she doesn t remember seeing “interpersonal” in Scully’s Psychiatric N. y. World-Telly Shifts Personnel shifts at the N. Y. , World-Telegram last week found i Sterling North replacing Robert ! Minton as the paper’s book reviewer while art critic Emily Genauer was let out after some 17 years with the organization. Her release came as a result of the management’s decision to abandon its art and antique department. An author and mag contributor. North long was literary editor of the Chicago Daily News. His comments on the book realm began in the W-T Monday <11 > and will be run every day except Saturday. Minton returns to the paper’s staff to handle general assignments. He became literary reviewer when Harry Hansen was named editor of the World Almanac. all other officials continuing as members of the new organization. The Boettigers, who last week filed divorce proceedings in a Phoenix superior court, began publication of the Times as a weekly shopping news, June 27, 1946. Six months later they published the first issue of the daily Times. In January, 1948, Boettige’r relinquished his interest and publishership to his wife. In July, Mrs. Boettiger sold out to a group of Phoenix men and C. Hamilton Beasley of Los Angeles assumed control as publisher. Only last month a shuffle in slock control resulted in Beasley moving out in favor of Dunbar. Dodd. Mead’s GBS Project All of Shaw’s plays will be published in uniform volumes by Dodd, Mead, starting Sept. 6. Initial fmblication will be a set of three arge volumes containing the dramatist’s 20 best-know'n plays, for $15 <or $5 per volume). Subsequently, one or two plays will be published in separate volumes each year. The firm will let its respective volumes of “Nine Plavs” and “Six Plays” by G.B.S. go but of print. ^ Dodd, Mead has previou.sly published Shaw''s works in the U. S., but uniform editions of his plays and novels were originally published in this counti^ by Brentano’s. Shaw’s new play, “The Buoyant Billions,” will be published in England shortly in a de luxe edition, w sell for $25. It will have illustrauons by Clare Winston, wife of ^wPhen Win.ston. author of the recent "Days with Bernard Shaw.” O’Casey Reprints The first two volumes of .Sean UCa^y’s autobiog, “I Knock at u 11 sttd “Pictures in the Hallway.” will be issued in reprint « September by MacMillan. With increase of interest in the since the publication of the wira and fourth volumes. “Drums ^be Window” and “Ini.shwjlen. Fare Thee Well.” there has * growing demand for the nrst two. ‘Newsmen at Work’ An OK Book “Newsmen at Work” < Houghton Mifflin; $4.75), by Laurence R. Campbell, of the University of Oregon, and Roland E. Wolseley, of Syracuse University, is the work not only of teachers but working newspapermen. It is one of the be.st on the reporting angle of the newspaper business. Covering every aspect of reporting, how to define the news, how to gather it. press and radio patterns, interviews, sports, etc., a lot of the book points up newsmagazines and radio joumalism. As the authors say, the book is for those who wish to work for press and radio; it is for those who want to gather and write news for any medium of mass communication. It is a teachable book and the aulhor.s present principles and facts at the point at which the .student really needs them. Variety is quoted throughout, showing how it handles births, personals, about trips and vacations. typical jargon, how it covers pic biz. heads and grosses. It also shows examples of reporting in all the branches of the newspaper biz. “Newsmen at Work" Is a must for the tyro reporter and it wouldn’t hurt the working reporter to read it and brush up a bit on thing.s he may have forgotten, I Joe Laurie. Jr. CHATTER Walter Davenport, of Colliers, is on the We.st Coast on last leg of a trip made for sounding out state of the national mind. He’ll do a series of think pieces for the mag. Jonel Jorgulesco. art editor of Redbook, and Leo Aaron, photographer. are in Hollywood shooting travel pictures at two resort hotels, the Roosevelt and the Miramar. Dodd-Mead & Co. readving Frank Ernest Hill’s “To Meet Will Shakespei^re” for Sept. 6 publication. Book is said to be a period story featuring a "16th Century Broadway.” Leonard Cripps has resigned after six months as story editor for Berg-Allenberg agency in Hollywood. He pulls out for Europe in about a month to scout literary properties on his own. Bob Sylvester has feature on Arthur Miller, author of “Death of a Salesman,” in July 16 issue of Satevepost, depicting Miller as standing to make $2,000,000 from a ^ play he wrote in just six weeks. I Edmund Angelo’s “Curtain — ■ You’re On.” prepared from a series of lectures given by the author, who is executive producer and di I rector of the Institute of Pro ' fessional Direction in Hollywood, published by Murray & Gee, Ine. i "Seeing the British Isles with ; Patty and Kay” will be title of ! book James FitzPatrick will write j for publication by Children’s Press. Chicago, during his forthcoming four-month jaunt to Europe for | Metro’s “Traveltalks.” He’s taking \ his two daughters with him to use their views for the book. i Ruth and Augustus Goetz are batting out a treatment on "Si.ster Carrie” for William Wyler at their Bucks County, Pa. home. Theodore Dreiser story will be Wyler’s next for Paramount. The Goetzes don’t have to pull up their Bucks 1 County stakes and go to Hoily1 wood until time to write the second . draft. i Columbia Artists Mgt. has issued 1 a brochure. “The Music World’s I Answ’er to Collier’s,” to answer a recent article on concert “mismanagement.” Brochure includes j replies from Cecil Smith. Musical ' America editor; various columnists, local cmanagers and artists, defending Columbia and National Concert & Arli.sts Corp. in its activities. Garry Davis Continurd from page 1 Phoenix Times’ 4th Switch dan '^lull’ll* Phoenix evening SViy’.^’i'iRinally published by John Anna Roosevelt hands Mondii> y *he fourth time in three (ears. New publisher. Herbert Rapid.s. la., ini’ ?* li s organization I thf paper from • Phoenix and California nii'n. Sale price was not •nnounced. Former publisher Danir • remains on with the in an advisory capacity, with .Austria’s Musikwelt Musikwelt is gradually growing into the leading bi-monthly organ tor German language readers in the entertainment trade in Austria. In its late.st number. Karl Wewerka. Jr., has .started a .system of statistics on pop nuisii . similar to Variety’s. Kurt Kraus of Kraus Verlag is the publisher. Resigns From Eire Board Dr. .1 D. Smyth of Trinitv College Dublin, who has been a member of the Irish Censorship of Pui)lications Board for the past two vears. has resigned tnl lowing a disagreement with fellow-members on the working of the censorship. He complains that literary or historic merit are not taken into con through. This is exceptional Swiss Service” Permission from the federal police at Berne had been received to admit Davis on condition that he would not deliver a political speech. The appearance In Switzerland was the windup of a tour of 12 French cities and 20 meetings in the last tw’o weeks for Garry and Robert S.'irrazac. general secretary of the World Citizen.s Registry. They spoke to audlence.s of 600 to 5.000 people in Nantes. Bescancon. Montpellier. Careassone, Nimes. Toulou.se and others. Dressed in his worn leather flying jacket. Garry speaks extemporaneously in halting imperfect French which garners sympathetic approval for liim among foreign listeners. Showing no tra<e of hi.s actor’s training he speaks as “simple man to man.” believing in the good sense of his audience and their desire to unite themselves with all men everywhere In prrUesl against another war. Davis is homesick for the stage "I wish 1 could give this all up and he a clown in a traveling l ireus ” he told me. He is mulling quite a f(‘W film offers but would prefer to do a play dramatizing his ideas, "written by someone like I.indsay and ('rouse; if they won’t write it. I will." he says. Me is holding eonversalions this week in F’aris with Walt Disney about a cartocm feature on World Government which might be financed, he believes, hv contributions from his 223. (Kih Woikl C'iti/cns. [Recently the French prize picture. ".Monsicui Vincent” was financed by popular sul)scrit)tion. and that’s where he g(»t the idea l Davis returned directly to I*aris from I.ausanne and will go to the country for two months this summer to write a book. Word Book and writes that Hollywood must be crazier than most places to think it can get along without “Interpersonal relations.” “In fact.” she writes. l think you could devote a whole column to it. All psychiatrists and psychiatric patients do.” As we already are up to Nostalgia. Nudophobla. Nymphomania anti Non Compos Mentis, why go hack to Id and all that sort of thing. Our hope lies in the future. Otherwise we will never get to a description of Psychiatry itself. To get there we must pass through N and O first. So let’s get there* on the double. N. NARCOLEPSY: Short naps which the 4>.Ttient can’t control. Commtvn to critics who catch pictures in projection rooms and liear no laughter to wake them up. NECROMANIA: A morbid belief that dead bodies are an attraction. Producers addicted to reissues. NEGATION DELUSION: Denial that obvious conditions exist. Movie producers who deny there is such a thing as television: star.s who think they look as young at .50 as tliey did at 15. Met with in dementia praecox. NEOLOGISMS: Words sometimes coined by psychotic patients. Usually a composite of several words condensed. “Cinemaddict,” “renovated.” "Goldwynners.” “Paramountebanks,” "C. B. Essence,’ "Southern Cafeteria,” "Chow meiniacs,” "R. K. Oafs,” etc. In the Winchell syndrome. NEURALGIA: Pain at points of di.stribution. Often imagined by Francis X Ibitor at hl.s nerve-ends when distributoi*s hand him excessive terms for the one pieture which might make him enough money to make up for all the turks he exhibited during dog days. NEIiRASTHENlC: A psychoneurosis which brings on authentic exhaustion. People who took "The Snake Pit” so seriously they had to he carried out of theatres and put in circulating baths. NEUROGRAM: A painful experience. A collect telegram. NEUROPATHOLOGY: Anything which has to do with disea.ses of Ih* nervous system. If It is caused by the flipping of television images due to static caused by a passing plane, turn off the gadget and pick up a book set in immovahle type. If it doesn’t go away then, you’re sick, brother! , NEUROPSYCHIATRY: Merger of medical sciences which includes neurology and psychiatry. Due for a big boom, now that war scares can be augmented by television and cigarets made to march. NEUROSIS: Used to designate practically any symptom of p.sychotlc origin, making Hollywood Hie original bed of neuroses. NIHILISTIC DELUSION: Belief that the existing order of things has passed away. Common to old crocks who keep telling 'you about 1 the good old days when summer was really summer and blizzards 1 stopped all traffic for weeks. Producers who say they can’t find anybody as pretty any more as Lily Langtry, Lillian Russell or ; Lili Putian, ' NIRVANA: Blissful slate where every need is satisfied. Found only in prenatal embryos, catatonie stupors and Polyanna pietures. NOOKLEPSIA: Lewis’ term for thought-theft. People who believe their I brainchildren are being kidnapped right out of their heads. If they hear anybody .say, “I know what you’re thinking,” they rush to the D.A. and swear out a complaint, and it’s rarely for petty larceny. Nooklepsia is what attorneys who specialize in plagiarism suits live on. NOSOPHOBIA: Morbid dread of a particular disea.se. In Hollywood it’s most common among the sort of person who counts his pulse before he counts hi.s change, and if the beat is over 100 he figures he can’t take it with him and doesn’t pick up the change at all. NOSTALGIA: In its simple form this is not really a psychotic symptom but plain homesickness. When, however, it overcomes songw-riters j who become homesick for a flock of pla,ces they have never seen I and would die in despair if ever sentenced to. it’s a neurosis that I might well end up as multiple schizophrenia. In the Mammy !. syndrome. .N’UDOPHOBIA: Morbid dislike of being undressed, or of even looking at a naked body (gymnuphohia). Practically unknown in liollyI .wood, though nudomania. the urgent desire to be naked, is comI mon enough. Mo.st psychiatrists view sunbathing as sublimated I nudomania but exclude .strip-teasers because of the economic factor. NYCTOPHOBIA: An unreasonable fear of darkness. This. loo. Is not a common Hollywood neurosis though an unreasonable love of it certainly is. N.^NCY SCHOOL: Pre-Freudian neurologists in Nancy. France, who sought to remove hysteria by hypnotic suggestion, not being aware i of their p.sychic origin. Headed by Bernheim. Freud studied at i Nancy but was interested in neurosis, not hypnosis. How the terms came to mean effeminacy in men is quite clear. Sub.sequently reduced to "nance." it became even more obscure, because Nance O’Neill certainly was not the name of an effeminate male. NIETZSCHEAN: Having the characteri.stics of Friederich Nietzsche, the Prussian whose superman spiels drove Mencken to beer. Shaw to clowning and their author crazy NIJ.MBER DREAMS: This is derixed from Jung and develops a whole sexology around numerical symbols. .lung tells of one married man who dreamed of the number 2477 and by “free association” the ' psychoanalyst found the number totaled the birthdays of Ihe patic'nt himself, his mistre.ss. his wife, his two children, and his i mother added to Ihe age (»f him.self and his mistress exactly balanced what his illicit advcnliire had cost him. In Hollywood even more complicated numbers are dreamed up to go broke at Santa .4 nit a. Las Vegas and even among the slot machines of private homes in Bel Air. A s\mptom of paranoia. N.AKRAMANIA: This is a fear of a Bengalian di.sease associated with Ihe grip. Starlets experience it during an exciting sequence in a projecting room. ’I'hey led sure something gripped them. Amateur psychiatrist present usually cemvince them it’s all in their imagination and fliat the subsequent black and blue marks came from stumbling against the seats in the dark. N.4.SITI.S; Inflammation of the nose, ('ommon to critics who are perpetually claiming picture^ slink. .Xdually what they are breathing IS their own halitosis. N’.ATURAL: Pertaining to naliiie That is to .say. not abnormal In Hollywood associated with a roll of the dice when a 7 comes up on the /irst throw. N.ATKS: 'I'lie gluteal region of the body Origin of the phrase ".She s got a lot of cheek” A fixation of night club entertainers who even spell the prepfisition "hut" with two t's. NECHOFHAGEOr.S: Living on dead bodies. Producers who produce biographical stories about people dead so long that not an heir is 'eft for the payoff .NEEDI.I.VG: Exploring with a grooved side to bring away a few drops from a cavity. In Hollywood anv attempt to penetrate the hide of another w ith a w it sharper than a serpent’s tongue. ,NKRf)I.I: Fhe oil ot orange blossoms People who imagine they smell It when the "Bride and Groom ” program comes over the air lioiu I Hollywood cveii afternoon.