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with stops to examine an antique fan
light over a door in the slums and
pauses for the beauty of the newest
Skyscrapers, through the shopping
districts and by the libraries and mu-
seums; almost every section and every
phase of the city is touched. 1t Is
not profound, but, as its name states,
it hits the highlights and hits them
well.
E. H. Suydam has illustrated the
book profusely and finely. His
sketches of Broadway at night and
several others have caught the par
ticular luminous quality that belongs
to New York alone. r. r. T.
MY FATHERS HOUSE, by Pierpont
Noyes. New York: Farrar 81
Rinehart.
MY FATHER S HOUSE" is the
simple story of the last ten
years OF noble experiment in Chris
tian communism, and incidentally the
biography OF the first 16 years Of the
life Of an interesting and morally
strong man. 1t relates the everyday
life of group of three hundred
people, housed in one house, sharing
all their material and spiritual pos
sessions, from faith to clothes and
wives. In some particulars, notably
in the rearing of children, it resembled
life in ancient Sparta. In others it
was not unlike the more recent ex-
periments in communism undertaken
by Russia, although it differed funda-
mentally from the Russian expert
ments, being motivated by the faith
Of the early or primitive Christians.
The dissolution of this community
as communistic enterprise, as seen
through the eyes of child, is por-
trayed. The causes behind the dis
solution which came from within
the group are easily guessed by
the reader. The book proper ends
when the author is 16 The pub
fishers have kindly added postscript
about the last SO years Of Mr.. Noyes'
life, only part Of which was devoted
to making of the Oneida Community,
Ltd, name as respected in business
circles as it was formerly anathema-
tized in church circles. R. r. T.
THE STONE FIELD. By Martha
Ostenso. New York: Dodd Mead
81 Co.
THE energetic Miss Ostenso here
turns out a typical perform
ance-a perfectly conventional ladies'
magazine love story, set in her North
Minnesota woods. 1t has all the lush
sentimentality of the famous white
oaks" fiction, all the stale romance.
Miss Ostenso, like Miss de la Roche,
however, has contrived to get herself
mentioned as a writer OF something
above pot-boiler quality. 1t is curl
GUS thing. There is absolutely no
merit in her performance except the
merit Of correct grammar. Her public
will doubtless consider it sublime.
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Is known here for his frescoes in the
board room of the Potomac Electric
Power Co. Won Schmidt is an illus
traitor as well as mural painter, and
among the books he has illustrated is
Villa Gathers Death Comes to the
Archbishop"
Aside from the spaces assigned to
these painters for decoration with ap-
propriate themes, a large painting to
go back of the stage in the auditorium
is to be secured through open COM
petition, and paintings for the walls
of the employees lounge room will
be obtained from Indian artists, some
of whom have made a specially of
muralS-Which seems very just and
fair. In this, as in other Federal
buildings lately erected, small frac-
ton of the cost is allocated for dec
orations, thus making painting and
sculpture an integral part of the build
ing program.
OF the three sculptors commits
stoned, two will make panels in relief
to 60 on either side of the stage in
the auditorium, Stackpole doing a
panel in commemoration OF the late
John Wesley Powell, and Warneke
one memorializing the pioneer ex-
plorers, Lewis and Clark, while the
third, Gnbertson, is to produce reliefs
depicting American wild birds and
animals.
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placed before her. One is Interna-
tional Astrology and the other is the
American Journal Of Astrology. The
salesWoman says apologetically that
the Journal costs so cents but that
the other one can be had for mod
est quarter.
Dearie puts down IS cents. The
salesWoman looks startled Her face,
from being friendly, becomes severely
impassive. Is something wrong then?
She seems to feel that there is an
improperly in purchasing so lavishly.
Should one tell her that these maga-
zines are bought on an expense ac-
count? Dearie hesitates, hopping
from foot to foot A new purchaser
comes up. "Chiclets," she says. In
the yellow package" The opportunity
is lost, if there ever was one. The
explanation cannot be made, If it
ever could have been The shutter
has clicked, the hour has struck, the
day is lost. 1t is depressing.
But ah, the new world Of these
magazines! What great dooms and
cycles swing through the armament
to be sure Why neglect the stars?
The magazines reply that the stars
do not neglect you. Shake hands
with Venus, then. Step up and meet
the planet Jupiter. Adjust your down
sitting and up getting to old Saturn
and red Mars. There Is still magic
then, it seems. Did a black cat not
howl in the woods outside your window
on last Sabbath eve? Did you not cut
the ace of spades three times running?
1t did-you did. Idle apprentice, do
you not see that life has meaning?
Go to your study with the American
Journal Of Astrology and its starry
backed colleague and learn what it is
all about. Survival in Nebraska.
Liberty in Puerto Rico. Indeed.
Yes, there is still magic. 1t is lit
tie disheartening to find that it must
needs creep about today under the
spare mantle Of science (as our jour-
nails join in assuring us Of the abso-
lutely scientific nature Of their natter
but then it has always been hiding
oAieNi SOAaiS Ai1ileiC VI oliiCi.
spread her ecclesiastical skirts over it
at one time. In Greece the better
thought of sects disapproved its tur-
bulent practice. 1t remains, none the
less. The salesWoman called it
psychology" but she had it in her
wares. Blond, lip-sticked priestess of
mystery you know not what ancient
tradition you employ. Psychology?
Psychology indeed.
One reads in these papers of the
golden key, Of the Shadvarga, of Isis
and the Egyptian mysteries, of May
day. Of the Kabbala, of the transmuta-
tion and the Sphinx. One reads of
planets in their vernal changes and of
the powers of the moon. Dated, mind
you, 1887. Yes, there is magic.
To these ends there is magic-that
we may keep our health, that we may
be lucky in love, that we may outwit
our enemies, that we may grow rich
and avoid accident. The same ends
as those Of men more recently deposed
OF the Golden Age. What. nothing on
the blghting of cattle? But that was
a fashion. 1t belonged to a pastoral
civilization.
The question arises-if magic be 50
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cusing headlines about survival in
Nebraska and liberty in Puerto Rico.
That seemed somehow too much.
The reviewer rose hastily and went
to nearby newsstand. She thought
that she would shop a bit for
something about-well, say, Maurice
Chevalier. Somehow, survival in Ne
braska never seemed to trouble him.
Alas, poor Maurice His infinite
jestlng seems to have gone likewise
into limbo. The newsstand glared
with magazines, but they were drear-
lily predictable. Are you a Woman?
asks the magazine rack in cooling
tones. Then buy a Woman's Maga-
zinei Are you Highbrow? Then buy
the Atlantic Monthly; we have it. Are
you Sophisticated? We know about
that, too: buy the New Yorker Are
you a sadist, lecher, a dreamer,
adventure hungry? Then come this
way. Here they are-crime, nudity,
Hollywood, the open range. Alas, how
adroit are our editors! All that is
needed is the purchase price. Clever
fellows, they foresaw that perfectly.
Said the reviewer, THE Nation is
no worse than this. Go back to your
shelves and dust them off tenderly.
Learn how the hardy Nebraskans go
about surviving. Learn why, If you
can. But can even so Worthy pub
lication as the Nation tell you that?
1t is to be feared that the answer
will be no."
Said the saleswoman, "Are you in
terested in psychology, dearie? Maybe
you'd like to look at these"
Dearie looks. The magazines are
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THE EVENING STAR D. SATURDAY.
'GRAPHERS ARE HISTORIANS
One Mighty Torrent Reveals Movement of Past Written Lives
Observation-Disclosures Kennedys Newest Novel Does Not
Equal "Constant Travel Book Notable

there have been several deliberately
written to end books of travel. This,
not written with such an intent, ought
to do great deal in the beneficent
direction. At the same time it has
more realism than q Thousand Of the
run-of- -the-mill variety.
THE YEARS. BY Virginia Woolf.
New York: Harcourt Brace e. Co.
THE veteran artist writes here q
novel about a group OF people
growing older. She begins in 1880
and ends in the present day. She
is wise enough to make nothing hap
pen beyond birth, death, history and
conversation. She Is wise enough,
too, not to make these particularly
arresting. The result is a long, dull
book. The reviewer is quite unregen-
crate. Yes-the result is long, dull
book.
ST. GEORGE OF WELDON. BY
Robert Rylee. New York: Farrar
& Rinehart.
ONE of the best books Of 1888 was,
unquestionably, Robert Rylec's
memorable Deep Dark River" 1t
was, fundamentally, study in pity.
1t dealt with the railroading of an
innocent Negro to Jail in a Mississippi
town, but, banal as that sounds, the
book had nothing that was hanal in
it, Now the same author has written
his second novel and, alas, it is sad
disappointment
1t is one more story about young
man in search of his soul There is,
on an average, one week of this
type. Therefore a writer must needs
do something pretty fine in order to
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Art Notes
Continued From Page Bay

NSOllblllucu TlUIll 7 age b-Z.J
classification with those in other ar
tistic media. Who knows but what
the camera, which has been thought
to have injured art, may lead us
back to its better appreciation?
Paintings and Sculpture Com
n1iSSioned By the Government
For Ne1D interior Department.
WHILE the heads and employees Of
the Department of the Interior
are moving into the new building,
lately erected by Washington archi-
tect, Waddy B. Wood, announcement
has been made by the Section of
Painting and Sculpture of the Pro-
curement Division of the Treasury
Department Of the appointment of II
painters and sculptors to execute
mural paintings and model sculpture
to be given permanent placement
therein. The list is as follows: Paint
ers, John Steuart Curry, Henry VAR
mum Poor, Edgar Britton, Nicolai Ci-
kovsky, Maynard Dixon, Erbest Fiene,
David j. McCosh, William Gropper,
James M. Newell, Millard Sheets, Ed
ward Buk Ulreich and Harold Won
Schmidt; sculptors, Boris Gilbertson,
Ralph Stackpole and Heinz Warnekc.
OF these II painters, are repre-
sented at present in the Corcoran
Gallery of Arts Fifteenth Biennial
Exhibition OF Contemporary American
paintings; they are Curry, Poor, Ci-
kovsky, Fiene and Sheets. Millard
Sheets and Maynard Dixon are both
Californians, the former of Clare
ment, the latter of San Francisco.
Won Schmidt, who now halls from
Westport, Conn, is a Californian by
birth and q pupil of Dixon's; David
j. McCosh was born in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, and now resides in Eugene,
Greg. Curry and Poor are commits
stoned for the second time, having
both produced muraS for the new
building of the Department Of JUS
tice. William Gropper, who is illus
traitor and cartoonist as we'll as paint
er, has executed murals for the post
Office at Freeport, Long Island, and
Is a member of The Mural Painter,
New York. Maynard Dixon has done
many notable murals in California.
James M. Newell scored success in
his muraB done on the w. P. A. art
project for the Evander Child High
School In the Bronx, New York, and
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privately controlled. for use in the
treatment of such disease.
"(3) To establish in any marine
hospital or other hospital under the
supervision of the Public Health Serv-
ice, or in any other hospital Of the
United States, with the consent OF
the chief executive officer of the ex-
ecutive department or agency under
whose supervision such hospital is
placed, a department for research and
the clinical study of such disease, and
80 To pursue any other method
which he may deem necessary to carry
out the provisions of this act"
This appropriation will in no way
limit any other activity of the Public
Health Service in the prevention, con-
troll or treatment of cancer.
SURG. GEN. THOMAS PARRAN,
commenting on the bill, said: "I
think we may be on the eve Of i'm
portant developments in getting at
the factors which cause cancer and
thereby eliminating them
DR.. Parran also states that only
about s500,000 annually has been spent
on cancer research in all the labora-
tories of this country, including the
Governments expenditure of s115,0OO
Evening star., 1937-04-10
Brief Reviews of Books

man after he has been badly broken
up by his experiences in the World
War. Serious, worthy.
ME AND THEE. BY Robert w. Nc
Culloch New York: Lothrop, Lee
81 Shepard.
Love story OF a Shaker colony.
Mild, harmless.
AS OF THE GODS. BY Rollo Walter
Brown. New York: D. Appleton
Century.
A middle-aged man considers the
end OF life and acquires a philosophy.
Mild, harmless.
A MODERN JEzEBEL. BY Irene
Nemirovsky. New York: Henry
Holt Co.
Story Of a woman's life in terms
of love and lovers. Ordinary, OBJ
vious.
NO STRANGER TO MY HEART. BY
Lois Montross. New York: D.
Appleton Century.
How a wife got her husband back
again. Ordinary, obvious.
ANOTHER SUCH VICTORY. BY
Clifton Cuthbert. New York:
Hillman Curl Inc.
The class struggle As exemplified
in New England textile town.
Strikes
MEMOIRS OF GEORGE sHERS-
TON. BY Siegfried Sassoon
Garden City: Doubleday Doran
Co.
A one-volume edition of the trilogy
Memoirs OF a Fox-Hunting Man."
Memoirs Of an Infantry Officer"
and "Sherston's Progress"
MYSTERIES
AN OFFICIAL SECRET. BY Allan
Duncan. New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell Co.
An international spy retrieves the
airplane plans which had been stolen
by the villains.
THE DEFRAUDED YEGGMAN. BY
Harry Stephen Keeler. New
York: E. P. Dutton Co.
Crime in town on the Mexican
border. Exciting and hard to figure
out.
JUVENILES
NEW WORLD BUILDERS. BY
Blanche Wood Moorehead. Phila-
delphia: John G. Winston Co.
Lewis and Clark, for young folks.
VERSES
VERSES I LIKE. Selected by Maj.
Edward Bowes. Garden City: The
Garden City Publishing Co.
The famous major picks his poetry.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
ByMary.Carter Roberts.

oNR MIGHTY TORRENT. By Edgar
Jihnson. New York: Stackpole
SINS.
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depreciation. She tells the reader at all
times how she felt when she went here
or there and got this or that particular
bit Of material for her Peruvian
Jersey opus. She describes the throes
of artistic creation with more gusto
than her fiction product would seem
to justify, and with more frequency
than the interest OF the reader is apt
to require. She is, in fact, much too
easily inspired, and much too occu-
pied with her concept of herself as
a Single-Souled artist. But when she
confines herself to history she does
not do badly at all. And when she
can bring herself simply to write about
what she sees. without taking a
SYPHILIS attitude over it, she is entertain
ing enough.
And certainly no one will say that
she is not thorough. She covers her
Peru very well. Its modern life, its
natural wonders. its constantly out
cropping paSt-she treats Of them all.
She is intelligent in her observations,
too. II only she would remember that
she is not poet, one would have no
complaint to make of her book. But
then, Of course, her book would be q
great deal shorter.
UNEQUAL TO SONG. BY Charles
Martin. New York: Stackpole Sons.
MOT every farmer has two daugh-
ters willing to sell themselves to
save the old homestead, but this one
has. The hot, lush country of Louis
lana may have something to do with
1t, or it may be just the author show
Ing OF. AT any rate, such is the cir
cumstance in this Cain novel. Mar
garet is torn between two loves: Jack,
go-getter, and Fred, as unconvincing
musician as you will find Things
are dark back on the farm and a
black, black villain named Lacour
twhy not Lafitte?) is brandishing the
mortgage menacingly. Margaret de-
cides to sell herself to Jack, but
changes her mind at the last minute.
Meanwhile on the farm her younger
sister 10 makes the big sacrifice and
the roof is saved. Margaret goes free.
10 is released from sordid, repulsive
affair the villain is completely routed,
Jack prepares to wed his mistress in
plque and Fred rides away in a storm
which plays symphony into his SYM
pathetic ears.
There-we've given away the entire
story, but we've an idea you have
heard it before. E.T.
HIGH LIGHTS OF MANHATTAN.
BY Will Irwin. New York: D. Ap-
pleton-Century Co.
NEW WORKERS will enjoy this
work For it is a veritable guide
book of their famous city. From the
Battery to Spuyten Duyvel and from
the Hudson to the East River, it leads
the reader. Into and out of the homes
OF rich and poor, with due attention
to the artistic and would-be artistic,
Evening star., 1937-04-10
BY NC. X.


reviewer has q birthday
anniversary this month, and
marks it by an increasing
u degree Of mental frivolity. At
20 she was serious. At that time she
was won't to take her elders to task
for not reading improving literature.
But really" she used to say, on see
ing her favorite aunt "a teacher)
take up q detective story, do you
enjoy that sort Of thing?" She fears
that the question was never put in
the tone of one who Is asking only
for information. There was a reserve
Of rebuke In it, dignif1ed, sorrowful,
uplifting.
Today, with all the serious litera-
ture in the world dumped-upon her
desk, the anniversary of her birth but
two weeks of, and deadline to be
met, she finds that 1t becomes in
creasingly difficult to read the Nation.
The Nation, doubtless, Is improving
literature. The Nation, certainly, is
serious Of intent, and it is intent alone
which should be scrutinized when
Worthy Purpose is the issue (No fault
Of the Nations editors If their paper
SOMETHING'S is unconsciencably funny.
They do not mean it; they do not
mean to add one iota to the comedy
Of this dreamy life. The drearier this
life the better, for their peculiar pur-
poses) The Nation, alas, seems typi-
cal Of all that is devoted grimly to
dragging mankind into state of
greater virtue. With birthday but
two weeks off, and the serious part of
ones existence definitely past, this is
an appalling reflection.
A pile Of Nations lay on the review
er's shelves. The top one bore ac-
Evening star., 1937-04-10
NON-FICTION.

NoN-T ~ l1ON.
MIDDLETOWN IN TRANSITION.
BY Robert S. Lynd and Helen
Merrell Lynd. New York: Har-
court, Brace & Co.
A second volume on that typical
midland American city, which was
made the subject of the study Mid
dletoWn" in 1925. The present volume
carries the history of the town to the
present, covering the depression, the
Roosevelt landslide and other ma
tional phenomena in snall-city terms.
A highly valuable document for stu
dents.
THE AMERINDIANS. BY Donald
McNicol. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
A brief history of the American
aborigines, their decline and fall.
YOU DON'T SAY! BY Alfred H.
Holt. New York: Thomas Y. Crow
ell Co.
A humorous work on correct pro-
nunclation.
THE AMERICAN YEARBOOK. New
York: Thomas Nelson 81 Sons.
A survey of the year 1886 in Amer
lea in 27 fields of activity.
TRAVEL.
LAND OF TOMORROW. BY R. w.
Thompson. New York: D. Apple
Century.
A writer and his wife travel through
Bolivia and Paraguay Interesting
information all along, particularly
about the Gran Chaco war zone.
ROAD MY BODY GOES. BY Clifford
Gessler. New York: Reynal g.
Hitchcock.
A writer voyages about little known
South Sea islands, travelling in a 40
foot cutter. Entertaining.
GUATEMALA. BY Erna Ferguson.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Tourist heaven simply described.
CANADA CAVALCADE. BY Robert
Fl. Davis. New York: D. Apple
ton-Century.
The veteran Bob Davis tells of well
and little known sections of our
northern neighbor. Good reading.
FICTION.
SACRIFICE TO TIKI GRACES. BY
Arthur Meeker, jr. New York: D.
Appleton Century.
Story of a beautiful young Ameri-
can singer in Europe in Victorian
days. Mild, harmless.
THOUGH TIME BE FLEET. BY
Louise Andrus. New York: 10th
rop, Lee g. Shepard
Story Of woman reolaiming her
Evening star., 1937-04-10
Cancer Bill
Continued From Page BID

a partial indication of the apprecia-
ton of the whole country"
BEFORE drawing up his bill, Senator
Bone consulted with Surg. Gen.
Thomas Parran of the United States
Public Health Service and with DR..
Royal S. Copeland, himself an ardent
researcher and chairman Of the Com
mittee on Commerce to which the bill
has been referred. AS result OF their
conference the bill authorizes the
surgeon general
"Q) To make grants-in-aid to
schools, clinics, hospitals, laboratories
and other institutions. and to scien-
tiflc Investigators, whose work has
shown promise Of making valuable
contributions to human knowledge
with respect to the cause, diagnosis,
control, treatment or prevention of
the disease Of cancer.
"(2) To purchase radium and lend
such radium to institutions, State or
Evening star., 1937-04-10
BEST SELLERS FOR THE
WEEK ENDING APRIL 3.
FICTION

Paradise. Forbes. Harcourt,
Brace.
We Are Not Alone. Hilton.
Little, Brown.
Theatre. Vaughan. Double
day. Doran.
Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck.
Covici, Friede.
Immortal Franz. Harsanyi.
Stokes.
The Late George Apley. Mar
quand. Little, Brown.
NON-FICTION.
How to Win Friends and In
fuence People. Carnegie. Simon
81 Schuster.
Something of Myself. Kipling.
Doubleday, Doran.
The Hundred Years. Guedalla.
Doubleday, Doran.
The Golden Fleece. Harding.
Bobbs- Merrill.
Present indicative. Coward.
Doubleday, Doran.
Return to Religion. Link. Mac
milan.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
COMEDY AT CAPITOL
Russell Montgomery, Stars Of
Gay Comedy at CAPITOL
Jackie Heller Sinqs ~..

Live Love and Learn" another of those bthe, gay
nsoucan that bloom frequently in the make
believe world that FINLAND 1t adorns the of Loews
Capitol Thear and it might be mentioned in passing, last
nights audience seemed derive great deal of enjoyment
from the and the characters.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
Swing War at
The Howard

Syncopation in it's hottest
form is being offered in a battle
of the sexes between the Harlem
Pay Girls Orchestra, only sepia
all-girl band in these parts, and
Tommy Myles and his IS
howlers of rhythm at the How
ard
This novel design for fun
opened at the T Street house
yesterday. The Harlem girls
really swing into tune and do
it in a big way Marie" offered
in the swing tempo, gets big
hand from the audience. Myles
and his boys, local musical aggre-
cation, also tune up things in a
grand style. After all, the battle
is just a battle-ma1e VS.. female.
Reds and Cudley, two hot
stepping tappers, dust off things
for a moment, while Tany, con-
tortioniSt, just twists and twists
herself up into such knot until
you can hardly believe your own
eyes. This young human snake
girl is just a marvel.
The six Ubangi Boys assist
the chorus in several fast-step-
ping numbers, Dusty Fletcher
and Sandy Burns, both under
cork, and George Wiltshire,
handle the comic situations.
Midnight show tonight. W. R.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
New Program
At Trons-Lux

News of the world at the
Trans-Lux. Fighting in China,
balloting at New York, football
highlights of the current week,
speeches by LaGuardia and
Dewey, triumphant from their
victory over Tammany, a
glimpse of the President cast
ing a farmer" vote at Hyde
Park, fashions from Hollywood,
oddities from the news, record
air flights, new bombing planes
for U. S. Army, news of the
world.
Features also include a de-
lightful short" in which Sybil
Jason plays diplomat at an Eng
lish army post in India; this is
a bright piece, done in techni-
color, with the child actress
singing a song and looking very
fresh and sweet.
Mickey Mouse, presenting a
radio amateur hour, has diff
culties with that little scamp,
Donald Duck. Cowboy Shorty"
is also an amusing reel in which
our hero gets his man-in true
Western manner. K. Y.