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DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW 43 Sunday Book Review Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, January 5, 1969 stk K-f A III TROPICAL FISH 'The Green House' Action Novel for 59c rteni 8 for 9So Red Tail Tetra for 8s Sliver Hatchets 2 for tISe dish is served and savored. And there's a march of viragos to destroy the green house as THE GREEN HOUSE by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Rabassa, 405 pages. Harper Row. spirited as that day the Frenchwomen went to mm Versailles. gas Llosa braids his stories.

Time runs in circles that move from pool to pool of dialogue. Time runs forward to complete a span of some 30. years that coincide with Vargas Llosa's experience in his own land, but never beyond its tradition and folklore. The green house itself is a roaring frontier although awash in richly deserved ill fame. The original model was built by the book's most mysterious stranger, Anselmo.

He arrived in the town between desert and jungle as a moneyed desperado. ChaDter by hapter, while New Verses By Ogden Nash Punny Ones By Miles A. Smith THERE'S ALWAYS The scene of "The Green House" is town and desert and jungle in northern Peru. The action is as heady as a Pisco punch. Mario Vargas Llosa, the author, was born in 1936 at Arequipa, in southern Peru.

He was educated at San Marcos University in Lima and at the University of Madrid. Now, after expatriate years in London and Paris, he holds a ANOTHER WINDMILL. Ogden Nash. Little, Brown, $4.95 French Shriner SHOE SALE Broken Sizes Discontinued Numbers Regular $45 shoes Now Regular $35 shoes Now Regular $30 shoes Now Fine Shoes Always Look Good And Feel Good Toot State! change wrenches all things, fellowship at Washington s26" $18w As a good many readers know by now, Ogden -Nash seldom gnashes. But often he gives you a sly dig in the ribs as he Anselmo becomes a dirty, doddering saint.

With a gift for evil. Vargas Llosa is an accomplished novelist in the newest finger-painting tradition. He swirls colors, themes, people; together with fluid skill. I en-j University. At intervals he wins Latin-American literary awards and on the evidence of "The Green House" I should say he will, in what we fondly call the foreseeable future, be asked to Stockholm to receive the dyna- casually tosses off his observa Summer theater building was elaborate, but venture failed at the box office.

Decatur Diary Summer Theater Lasted a Year tions about vulnerable moments in all our lives. There are 101 funny verses in am Jmb mite man's prize. Throughout joyed his book, I may say, in this collection, and many of that today's densely interwoven response to the inevitable, But them are as full of puns as ever novel his point of view is that of did you really think of; Don't Pretend to be Moliere los de abaio the underdogs, it?" But I should also say that Than He also slips in a mn and the talent Park was closed and the land was within possible reach purchased by the city lor half bie iunas is not the the value of the stock. This plus 125 Water By Ron Frazier Of the Herald and Review Decatur's first summer few exercises in the limerick crowds or caliber to attract But his style is aristocratically it's as repetitious as life itself, avante-garde. What is more, he If not more so.

One wearies, for theater lasted only one year, opening Sunday, May 24, 1908 as has superb control of it. The form. He varies from typical to topicaL He takes an owlish view of such things as television and 1 one feature of Dreamland Park. The 10-acre recreation area was west of Fairview Park and proved to be financially unsuc SMI LOEB'S the silly Latin names that ornithologists give to birds. He example, of hearing yet again about Fushia, the fiendish filibuster in the jungle, his treasons, strategems and spoils.

Or, to take another example, there's a bit too much here on the bold, fearless revolutionary spirit in talk, too little of it in measurable action. cessful. muses nonchalantly about the translation is adroitly idiomatic. A squirming mass of tatterdemalion humanity emerges in these pages. It is electrically alive.

There are Amazonian River people and Amazonian women. There are missionary runs, lawless speculators in raw jungle rubber, Indian tribesmen an indebtedness of $3,000 brought the purchase price to $15,750. Although' popular at first, the skating rink failed to help the park much more than the theater before it. With the purchase of the Dreamland property and SO acres belonging to the Illinois Traction System, between Dreamland and Stevens Creek, Fairview Park was expanded to about 90 acres. When the city of Decatur The Irage frame building virtues of squandering money keep them coming.

In one way or another, summer theater had been tried in Decatur for 15 years prior to 1909 and it had never been successful. With this experience on record, the stockholders did not hesitate to end operations in the first permanent structure theater for the city. Roller Rink At Dreamland Park they decided to cut out the summer theater and convert the building ANNU XL housing the theater was only and the vagaries of cooking with herbs. one feature of the amusement park, which also sported a He shudders at the use of i 1 Well, perhaps that's the roller coaster and other rides. nonglue on the backs of postage wno use Diowguns ana puois on book's moral for our time.

JANUARY river Doais in me ampniDiousi and a large dance pavilion. When Dreamland Park first you get evervthine- "F1 cau uic mca human locusts attending aJ i opened, there were a number of vaudeville acts on stage in the purcnasea tne Dreamland property in 1919, all the buildings into a roller skating rink. The i i theater. Vaudeville plus iuvui cnange irom meaier to stealing had been removed including the ana area talent snows were Triads of smugglers and ob-i childbirth, the brutalities of In-Etreperous village hoodlums anddian torture, moments of intox-even establishmentarians go offiicated joy, a fatal game of on their sprees. Marriage isRUssian roulette.

provincial rare. Copulation is copious. wedding. The catering is Time runs backward as Var-! magnificent; every regional wedding receptions. He also tells a yarn or two.

Such as the one about the Egyptian who was in no hurry to read Cheops's late st hieroglyphics because he was "waiting until it's out in papyrusback." primarily the daily offering. rime cost an estimated theater. It was not observed including purchase of skates to then as important to history. rent- I Rather, it was regarded only as Dreamland Park was of Finally in 1919, Dreamland i a money loser. ficially incorporated by the Decatur Amusement Park Co.

Choose From America's Finest Clothes on May 26, 1905, with $40,000 in capital stock. The incorporators were Henry L. Breinig, J. F. Public Library Lonely Adventure Recorded N.Y.

Times Best Seller List Given and E. S. Baker. Almost from the start, it was FICTION a matter of survival as the 1 THE SALTRTtRfi rrw stocKnoiaers louna en- XECTION Maclnnes terpnse popular witn me people 2. A SMALL TOWN i ut expensive to operate.

GERMANY Le Carre Arlendance Varied 3. PRESERVE AND PRO- At times the theater drew Drury large houses, both in the after- 4. AIRPORT Hailey i noon and evening but there 5. THE HURRICANE YEARS were many times it was Hawley virtually empty. In addition, 6.

TESTIMONY OF TWO; there were periods of time when MEN Caldwell I the building was not in use at 7. THE FIRST CIRCLE all. OOOKP (fctixi JUfii 4t 2 i Solzhenitsyn The theater building UKtiS 10 FROM i represented an investment by NAVARONE MacLean association of approximate- Early one morning in the as it is recounted by Gen-autumn of 1967 Tom Powell try. saddled his paint, Sioux, and Bickering, Accusations rode toward the South Rim of; Perhaps more interesting the Grand Canyon. It took him than the actual search and six months; he had started in; detection work is the lunatic Providence, Rhode Island.

The: dissolution of friendships that story of his ride, "The Restless accompanies the discovery. American," is a catalog of Members of the original search hardship ameliorated by the team turn on one another in a warmth and neighborliness of spate of senseless bickering and those met along the way. febrile exchange of accusa- An unusual guest? Perhaps. tions. but then this country seems full; A happier ending to a no less of Tom Powells and their crazy adventure is to be found and they are rarely loath to in David Conover's "Once Upon write of their adventure.

jan Right after World Perhaps no writer ha si War Conover and his wife described his solitary adventure bought an island off the coast of as well as Edward Abbey in British Columbia. They "Desert Abbey, a homesteaded there, building prize winning novelist, spent cabins for an island resort and several summers in Arches raised their own food. They Nationar Monument in eastern learned what they had no Utah's desert wilderness. His known before self sufficiency, description of this territory is! Through the 20 hour workdays the springboard for views on and a brutal winter they nar-conservation, the National Park rate their own coming to Service, dudes, the automobile, hardness tempered by love of in fact, anything. He is un-! the land and sea.

compromising, savage, I Colin Fletcher's hike through AjXD OTHER STORIES 7,000. Receipts were not O'Hara enough to allow for interest on Consider Mutual's Bonus Savings Accounts capital stock, SENATOR 10. THE Pearson It did not take long to discover that Decatur's first summer theater was a losing venture. A brief survey by the stockholders tended to prove that seldom if ever were park summer theaters a paying venture. At the same time they were GENERAL 1.

THE MONEY GAME Smith" 2. INSTANT REPLAY Kramer 3. ON REFLECTION Hayes Dody 4. MEMOIRS: SIXTY YEARS ON THE FIRING LINE Krock 5. THE RICH AND THE 5 TOTAL ANNUAL EARNINGS nutraeeous.

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s99 Suits Topcoats Regularlv SI 23.00 To S140.00 Sale overseas to mail valentine greetings between now and January 15. Retail meat dealers may charge no more than 40 cents per head for dressed wild rabbits. Maximum retail price for domestic rabbits is 55 cents per pound. 10 Years Ago 195? The temperature dropped to 10 degrees below zero last night for the lowest reading in Decatur since Jan. 14, 1957 when it was 12 below.

After 24 years on the Macon County Board of Supervisors, John I. Pasold will not be a candidate for re-election. Decatur service stations have begun another round of gasoline price cutting. Most major brand prices for regular gasoline dropped to 23.9 cents a gallon. Independents were selling regular at 21.9 cents.

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FREE DELIVERY CHARGE ACCOUNTS mxm LOEBMASTER SUITS 93 Sale 879 Suits Regularlv Priced S100.00 50 Years Ago 1919 The Review printed a special page in this day's edition with the names and pictures of 36 Decatur or Macon county men who had died or were killed in the service of their country during the World war. Henry Hunt, widely known local factory man and lodge man, has accepted a position as manager of a large factory at Dubuque, Iowa. Miss Bernice Gher became associated with Miss Daisy Daggett in the Daggett kindergarten. The Decatur Ministerial association members are discussing formation of a church federation in Decatur. Loebmaster Sport Coats Regularly S33.00 Cl SQO95 On Sale For Only OSIC OV 25 Years Ago 1943 WSOY has joined other broadcasting stations in announcing the time as "Central Victory," replacing War" time.

Norman's and Schudel's, the city's two operating laundries, reported their plants are swamped following the of the Wash Rite Laundry Dry Cleaners. The War Department has urged wives, sweethearts and relatives of service men am iuirfj Decatur's Prescription Druggists 3 Convenient Locations 143 N. Water St. 2697 N. Main 1314 N.

Main St-Phone 429-5449 at Damon Phone 429-1812 Phone 877-8890 125 North Water i.

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