davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1938-11-13

reviewer herself soon got the hang
Of IT. can easily tap out Three
Blind Mice" "Frere Jacques,
Farmer in the Dell" or what have
you. Now, maybe this teaches
rhythm and the sociological value
of an understanding of the arts.
But, as for the reviewer, she had
always wanted with wistful hope
less longing, to play xylophone.
and "Sing-a-Song" provided her
with the opportunity. So that is
her choice. Unscientific as liking
ice cream.
After this the books which the
reviewer has received so far this
year divide themselves in great
part into two classes. One of
these is the animal story, and the
other is the child from foreign
lands. The two combined far out
number all remaining classifications.
Now, the reviewer is sunk in such
shameful apathy toward juniors
duty to make friends and influence
people that she prefers the animal
stories infinitely. This year, she
notes, the horse is the most promi-
nent quadruped featured in juniors
library. She does not know why
this should be. Maybe there is some
connection between the circuln-
stance and the fact that equestrian
ism is supposed to indicate a certain
social splendor She trusts not. The
critics of the Nation and the New
Republic, however, will undoubtedly
perceive the influence of fascistc
propaganda upon the juvenile de-
partments of our capitalistic pub
Anyway, there are five books on
horses this year, with the closest
second three on cats. Dogs have
only two volumes to their credit
and the rest of the menagerie is
strung out in ones. These are all
mainly bright pleasant works.
Well, fascistis or not, the reviewer
is going to recommend "Hoofbeats,
Picture Book of Horses" It is
by James L. Cannon and is pub
lished by Albert Whitman Co. of
Chicago. 1t is simply a series of
pictures of the leading modern
breeds with descriptive text telling
the history of the strain and it's dis
tinguishing points. The drawings
are good and the reading matter
plain and devoid of gush. The
book is, to be sure. educational, but
not word. on vitamins. 1t is posi-
BILE that there may be education
and then education? Certainly
there is no downright menace to
juniors precious trends" in some
reliable knowledge of hosses.
After this the reviewer liked
Blaze and the Forest Fire" by
c. w. Anderson for It's very nice
drawings. It is pony story for
the very young and is published
by the Macmillan Co.
Among the cat books there is one
Evening star., 1938-11-13
INSIDE HISTORY OF AIR EXPLORER
Michael Foster Produces Book With Highly Readable Story Lf
of Actress From Northwest-Prze Romance With French
Background Autobiography of Miss Farrar

gambling for living when we first
meet him. Later he takes over the
management of q country estate,
and through his experience there
the reader sees the disorganized
peasantry, the old-timers, faithful
to their pre-war ideals; the young
men and women filled with strange
| doctrines which they do not in the
least understand, and so on. The
gallery Of characters, indeed, is too
large to be described, or even listed.
Suffice 1t to say that when, with
German thoroughness, Herr Fallada
has presented what he feels to be a
representative range of postwar
sufferers, prof1teers, politicians and
merely well-meaning citizens he al
lows Wolf and Petra to be respect
ably married and to face a reason
able prospect of living happily ever
after.
The weightiness of the book is to
some degree Offset by that light,
tender humor which has always
characterized its writer. Notwith-
standing. there are passages aplenty
which are grim enough. 1t seems a
sound, substantial work; little
made-to-order perhaps, but still dis
tinctly worthy.
THE NOISE OF THEIR WINGS.
BY MacKinley Kantor. New
York: Coward McCann.
This is a curious book and one
which, in day of novels devoted to
sociological themes" is wildly out
OF fashion. Yet it is as readable q
thing as you will find. The review
er hesitates to recommend it-yes.
But that is only because she fears
that her readers will disapprove of
q work in which the dominant quail
ity is pure imagination. Those who
can countenance such a departure,
however. will find something to their
taste here.
The story is built up about an
obsession, held by man OF wealth,
to restore the passenger pigeon to
American wild life. To this end,
the tycoon of the tale has offered
Evening star., 1938-11-13

the vantage point Of operate stage
and cinema screen. If any autobi-
ography is ever to be welcomed uni
versally with open arms, this one
is probably the first in line.
There seems little to say that
hasn't long since been said about
the dazzling personality whose
beauty and ability won fabulous pop
ularity, lasting renown. The life
represents a constant and rapid sue
cession of acclaim from early child
hood, guarded over and led by an
ambitious, worshipful mother, yet
not unmarked by misfortune. Miss
Farrar's associates on the opera
stage seem like an index to the who's
who in music drama; her contacts
with this galaxy were absorbing.
Caruso, Calve, Destinn, Jeritza,
Matzenauer-all were an important
part of her sphere. Recalling these
artists, Miss Farrar turns interest,"
ing focus on their personalities, dis
cusses their characteristics and abil-
ities in entertaining fashion. She
IS heartfelt in her praise of idols
Toscanini and Lilli Lehman.
The butt of numerous unfavorable
rumors in the course of her career,
Miss Farrar is good -naturedly firm
to discount them all. She writes
frankly, sometimes strongly, on her
unhappy marriage with movie-star
Lou Tellegen of silent screen days.
OF her relatively short term in the
pioneering Hollywood of Goldwyn
and De Mile, Miss Farrar writes
happily, 1t was joyful experience
to the glorifier of Carmen, Butterfly
and Zaza.
The book maintains its lively
manner unbroken, except for the
several somewhat incomprehensibly
justified sections In which Miss Far
rar presents her mother as relating
the daughters life. It is to be sup
posed that the spiritual being is
speaking. Otherwise, the autobiog-
raphy Is full-blooded and rapidly
moving. j. s.
THE PADEREWSKI MEMOIRS.
BY 1gnace Jan Paderewski and
Mary Lawton. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Paderewski, symbol of superlative
piano artistry Of the past three
decades, herewith offers his life
story with the assistance of Miss
Mary Lawton. It is the first volume
of two (the second already being
in preparation) and deals almost
exclusively with his whirlwind musi-
cal activities up to the opening of
the World War. So the issue to
come promises Paderewski's politi-
cal grist as its feature, and it is
to be hoped, incidentally, that the
new book will be less Of . disap-
pointment than memoirs No. l."
For, with such excellent possibiu.
Evening star., 1938-11-13
BOOKS TEMPT JUVENILE MINDS
Animal and Racial Volumes Lead Procession Season. With Some
Attractions for GrownU Ups We-Horses Featured and
American Indians Made Attractive Figures
Bv MIC. r.

There is such deal of heavily
serious thinking given today to the
problem Of juniors intellectual de-
velopment that the reviewer is
apologetic over being obliged to
confess herself as completely, dis
gustingly frivolous in her attitude
toward child literature. Alas, like
Zuleika Dobson, she only knows
what she likes. The delicate in
tracies of the higher criticism, as
applied to Mother Goose and the
Wizard Of or, are beyond her. She
Is aware, of course, that q proper,
modern juvenile contains material
which will in some manner "co-
ordinate" juniors trends and
teach him co-operativeness and
also the value Of vitamins, the
sociological reason for being kind
to animals and how to make friends
and influence people. But alsa!
Her own corrupt childhood has
blunted her appreciation of the
beauties of such works. She read
Grimm, and she had, too, some won-
derful books which were illustrated
by (no doubt deplorably unpsycho-
logicaD genius named w. w. Dens-
low. Does any one beside herself
remember him today? He drew a
picture of that cyclone which car
ried Aunt Ems and Uncle Henry's
house from Kansas to the Land of
OF, and there was not a co-opera-
tive trend in 1t, but one child never
forgot it. >. Well, this is Book
Week again, so let us have at 'em.
The reviewers choice, then, of
everything gotten up for junior so
far this year is a cheerful, loudly
colored thing called "Sing-a-Song
Player Book" and the reason for
her nomination is that the "Sing-a-
Song Player Book" is really a xylo-
phone. Yes, xylophone. It has
eight keys set in at the bottom Of
the page, and one Of those minia-
ture polo mallets for whacking.
Notes and words of familiar songs
are arranged on the pages, so that
any ordinarily bright child (the
Evening star., 1938-11-13
Antarctic Cold Oozes From Pages Of Byrds Dramatic Lonely Vigil
The Public Library

A selection of questions taken
from . one-day recording at the
information desk of the Central
Library, Eighth and K streets NV.
reveals q wide variety Of interest:
How to keep q diary?"
"What are the diseases common
to children and the symptoms7"
How to make after dinner
speeches?"
What are the leading Ameri-
can foundations, their contributions
TO education and q listing of the
same by States7"
Where can I learn the philosophy
of the New Deal?"
What are the activities of the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation: "
Where can I find Chinese prov
erbs?"
Have you any books on the prob
lens of the city church,"
This last question has come up
since the local missionary institute
was held, october 1927. The Public
Library distributed Q list Of books
on the city church at this confer
ence and still has copies available
For a brief general view of the
field. Samuel c. Kincheloe's "The
American City and Its Church" is
recommended. 1t is used as a text
by the interdenominational mission
study groups. Certain problems
| confronting the church and intensi-
fled by city life, such as unemploy-
ment, relief, housing, the disintegra-
ton Of the family, juvenile delin-
quency, the misuse Of leisure and
racial prejudice are touched upon
in Kincheloe's book.
The reader will get a more de-
! tailed conception of the church in
a medium sized city from Murray
H. LETTERS "City and Church IN
Transition" 1t pictures the small
city growing up: the changing pop
ulation around the church; the va
ried patterns of life In different
suburbs, and makes suggestions for
working out more effective le-
ligious program.
THE Challenge Of Housing" by
Langdon w. Post, shows just what
has been done toward solving one
of Americas major problems to-
day and presents alternatives for
the future In which tho church
may have part.
Regina Westcott Wieman, . wom-
Evening star., 1938-11-13

| ties to present an intimate glimpse
of the musical world at one of its
peak eras, Paderewski relates sur
prisingly little to that effect. Well
known is the fact that the great
pianist circulated among the chosen
few of music artists, on close terms
with them in especial view of his
own outstanding accomplishments
PadereWSki seems content simply to
mention that he knew them well'
rather than to bring his critical
gaze, which would certainly be re-
Spected, to bear on individuals or
the general picture.
Tireless, assiduous worker that he
has always proven, the great Pole
in his autobiography displays what
seems to be lack of energetic in
terest in telling of the musical life
of which he was such a vital COM
ponent. He acknowledges the great
ness of his contemporaries of the
last century and this-Saint- -Saens,
Gounod, Nikisch, Theodore Thomas
but discourses analytically on them
not a bit. OF course, as far as his
own career is concerned, more detail
could hardly be wanting. This Is
gratifying.
From beginnings of decided
bourgeoise nature, Paderewski ele-
waited himself to a position of pre-
eminence among pianists. It is a
story of great personal conviction
of purpose, Of devoted friendships,
of intense application toward a goal.
After a youth spent in generally un-
tutored piano work and concen-
trated on composition, Paderewski
cleared the all but impossible bar
rier of undertaking orthodox and
systematic piano training after years
of immersion in his own improvised
style.
BY good fortune-and good for
tune conspicuously marks his ca
reer-Paderewski was catapulted into
limelight, fortune taking the form
of Theodor Leschetizky. To be sure,
personal dint Of hard work cast the
mold. But Leschetizky put it on
display. And once the Paderewski
star appeared above the horizon it
developed comet proportions on its
inherent power. The Pole fairly
swept Europe. America still idol
ICES him.
A by-word in the American house.
hold, Ignace Paderewski's feats here
have long since been history and
legend. But in the memoirs one
learns of the stirring courage Of the
pianist which he displayed on his
first tour Of this country; when he
played all Of the scheduled 80 con-
certs, averaging three a week, and
most Of which with overworked arms
and fingers that felt anguish at
every chord; when he played with
an infected finger which left the
keyboard bloody after the perform
Evening star., 1938-11-13
WEEKS 10 BEST SELLERS.
FICTION AND NON-FICTION.
poSfnn

Fiction-"Rebecca," Daphne
du Maurier; "And Tell of
Time" Laura Krey; my Son,
My Son." Howard Spring:
THE Yearling," Marjorie Kim
nan Rawlings; 1.-THE Generals
Lady," Esther Forbes.
Non-fiction - with Malice
Toward Some" Margaret Hal
sey; Listen! the Wind" Anne
Morrow Lindbergh; "The Horse
and Buggy Doctor" Arthur E.
Hertzler: Sailor on Horse
back" Irving Stone; Benjamin
Franklin" Carl Van Doren.
Chicago.
Fiction-"Rebecca," my Son,
My Son" "The Yearling," And
Tell Of Time" Dynasty of
Death" Taylor Caldwell.
Non fiction - Listen! the
Wind" with Malice Toward
Some" "The Horse and Buggy
Doctor" Benjamin Franklin"
Alone" Richard E. Byrd.
New York.
Fiction-"Rebecca," "All This
and Heaven. Too Rachel
Field; MY Son, My Son" THE
Citadel" A. j. CrOnin: 1.-THE
Yearling."
Non fiction - Listen! the
Wind" with Malice. Toward
Some" THE Horse and Buggy
Doctor Benjamin Franklin"
Such Sweet Compulsion," Ger
aldine Farrar.
San Francisco.
Fiction-"All This and
Heaven. Too" THE Long VAL
ley" John Steinbeck; MY Son,
My Son." Dynasty of Death,'
"Rebecca."
Non fiction - Listen! the
Wind" with Malice Toward
Some" THE Big Four" Oscar
Lewis; Benjamin Franklin"
"The Horse and Buggy Doctor"
(Copyrisht. 1888, by the North
American Newspaper Alliance. 1nc.)
Evening star., 1938-11-13

q prize of one hundred thousand
dollars for pair of the vanished
birds, male and female After 20
years, the award is claimed. A
Florida poor white hunter traps the
desired fowls. He brings them to
the tycoon's yacht and collects his
pay. And then trouble begins.
For the hunter, until the day on
which he receives his prize money,
has never seen so much as one
hundred dollars together. And so,
we are told, his sudden possession of
wealth makes him mad. He goes
out to do what has always seemed
to him desirable-he buys a motor
and gets drunk. Subsequently he
has an accident in which several
people are killed. The daughter of
the tycoon, who has never approved
her fathers passion, attempts to
oversee the spending of the money
to some extent, but is unsuccessful.
In her bitterness, she takes step
which results in the death of the
long-sought birds, and the dream is
ended. One understands that the
tycoon's eccentric heart has been
broken. and, such is the effect of
Mr.. Kantor's persuasiveness, one is
tempted to drop tear for his de-
stroyed hope.
The dominant quality of the book,
however, does not come from the
story at all, but from the hold
which the story of the passenger
pigeon has evidently made on the
authors mind. He repaints for us
the magnificent flocks of these van
ished birds In exquisite terms; their
shadow is behind the whole tale,
and the little figures of the modern
day simply jerk about on the sur
face of the blue river" of that lost
flight, unimportant and hardly real.
1t is q piece of genuine poetry.
There IS no other way OF describ-
ing 1t.
SHADOWS AROUND THE LAKE.
BY Guy de Portales; translated
from the French by Geoffrey
Sainsbury. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf.
This novel comes to us with the
accolade of several foreign countries
on 1t. In France it was awarded
last years Grand Prix de Roman
and the Prix Colbert. In England
1t received the Heinemann Prize. The
reviewer confesses that she is curl
Gus about the reception 1t may have
In this country Tn Snyne resrerts
1t would seem to be a natural "best
seller" by American standards. Yet,
for other reasons, 1t may just drop
out OF sight in the manner Of many
highly praised translations.
1t is an photographed kind Of
thing. It tells the story Of q young
mans life from the 90s to the
World War, the young man being .
citizen Of that ls-heard.of cosn.
Evening star., 1938-11-13

| try, Switzerland. In the main, his
story is narrated through his loves;
he first worships a young woman
of the spiritual" type and later one
of the ''physical"-and how neatly
these writer's divide womankind, to
be sure! His affair with the SOUL
full girl is doomed from the begin
ming, for the reason that she believes
that true love should express itself
platonically. Nevertheless, she
makes him very unhappy for a
surprisingly long time. BY modern
standards she would be called the
most pernicious kind of flirt. BY
those of the late Victorian period,
however, she is admirable, and the
young man wonders reverently at
her high-minded attitude. while
carrying on casual liaisons to which
he is, essentially, Indifferent. 1t is
only when the soulful creature goes
mad - "neurasthenic" - that he
comes out of his dream and realizes
that his warm -blooded cousin is
ikelier life companion. Up to this
time he has said of her that her
feelings could not really run Deep"
This little tale is told against .
rather disproportionately vast back
ground-that of Swiss society before
the war. with its Calvinistic bases,
its 18th century gentility and its
cultural vagueness. When the war
period is reached, the hero's ad-
ventures in arms Che serves in the
French Army are told at some
length, and seem to have little re-
lation to the rest of the book; they
are a separate story, just thrown
in, as it were. The love affairs
cease. during that time, and the
reader steps into completely diff
ferent world. It is this break in the
continuity of the theme which has
made the reviewer wonder about the
books popularity in America.
The quality of the writing Is q
great clarity. The beauty of the
country, the placid lives of the Swiss
gentry on their estates, the cosy
minuteness of the little towns-all
this is set down in believable and
rather lovely coloring. The war
scenes are vivid, too. The scattered
nature of the story is unfortunate,
but, page for page, the novel is an
admirable one.
SUCH SWEET COMPULsION. The
Autobiography of Geraldine Far
rar. New York: The 0reystone
Press.
This is one of those rare musical
autobiographies that hold appeal to
every one-every one even Of rela-
lively short memory. But naturally,
because Geraldine Farrar is the au-
thor. The Farrar that at the height
Of her career swept royalty. rags and
stasehand OF collective feet, from
Evening star., 1938-11-13
WashingtOn's Best Sellers,
Week Ending November 8, 1898.

Fiction.
REBECCA. Du Maurisr.
Doubleday Doran.
ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO.
Field. Macmillan.
MY SON, MY SON. Spring.
Viking.
THE FIFTH COLUMN. Hem
ingway. Scribners.
SPELLA HO. Bates. Little.
THE YEARLING. Rawlings.
Scribners.
N0n-FictiOn.
LISTEN THE WIND. Lind
bergh. Harcourt Brace.
WITH MALICE TOWARD
SOME. Halsey. Simon &
Schuster.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Van
Doren. Viking.
ENJOYMENT OF LITERA-
TURE Powys. Simon g.
Schuster.
ROADS TO A NEW AMERICA.
Coyle. Little Brown.
HORSE AND BUGGY DOC
TOR. Hertzler. Harpers.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Arlington to Share
In NeU Allotment

QN.SD Among the 279 PWA
projects throughout the nation an.
nounced today by PWA Admin
istrator Harold Ickes under the
1888 pump-priming program were:
Arlington county, PWA grant,
$l57 500; total cost, $3.50 900. Belle
vile. ILL.,, pavements and bridge,
grant, $55,636; cost. S123.636
Benton, H.. sewage plant. grant,
$42,545: PWA loan, 1000. Total
cost, $94,545. Bloomington, Ind.
school and students club and dor.
mitory, grant, $34,S69; cost, ST..
487.
Other large projects on today's
list are:
Chicago, ILL.,, for an armory
building. $571 ,909 grant; East ST.
Louis, ILL.,, $2,588,727 grant for a
SIS 500 900 bridge and a $252,T27
police and fire station; JeSsups,
Md, $409 ,091 grant for penal in.
stitution Improvements: Madison
Wis, a grant totaling $l,270, ,45O
for a 81 ,832 900 State office build.
ing, a $65 900 school addition, a
5000 school addition, a $64, 900
water works improvement and a
$3.50 600 county court house annex
Trenton, N. j.. a grant of ST..
| l146,2o2 for $2,547,l15 schools.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
VIEW
new GENERATOR

Delegates to the summer con.
vention of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers at the
Mayflower are making daily trips
to view the new high voltage gen
orator of the Department of Ter.
restrial Magnetism of the Ck'.
negie Institute, now being = III.
stalled at 5241 Broad Branch Rd.
N. w.
The machine is capable of de-
livering constant potential power
at controlled voltaeeS from 500,-
600 to 5000 900 volts. It is ex.
pected to be in operation within
a few months.
Technical subjects were dis
cuSSed at sessions of the conven-
ton today. DR.. william McClel-
Ian, president of the American
Engineering Council, will address
a formal dinner tonight and
Count de SaintQuentin, ambas-
sador Of France, will present the
BaSton Plante Medal to DR..
George W. Vinal Of the Bureau
of Standards. for his research
work on electrical storage bat
terieS.
This is the initial presentation
of the medal. which is awarded
by the French Electrical Society.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Regulars Elect
POirier AS Chief

The National Association of
Regulars yesterday elected the
following officers for the coming
year: J. A. Poirier, Washington,
D. c., commander in chief; Charles
A. Cummings, Los Angeles, Cal,
senior vice commander in chief; !;
Harry M. H. Currier, Everett,
Massachusetts,, Junior vice com,
mander in chief; Reverend John
A. Naylor, Matawan, N. j., ma
tional chaplain; James A. Hud-
gins. washington, D. c., quarter
master general; DR.. Oscar Browne,
CaSpar, Wyo.. surgeon general,
and Edgar H. Taber, Washington,
D. c.. adjutant general.
The association has moved ma
tional headquarters to the Victor
Building, Ninth and Grant Streets
Northwest.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
JACKSON BACKS.
labor LAWYER.
IN BAR QUARREL
Declares Lamb Acted
Within His Rights

G.N.SD Defending his per-
sonal support to Edward Lamb,
a Toledo attorney, in his fight
against disbarment proceedings in
Ohio. United States Solicitor Gen.
eral Robert H. jackson stated to-
day he will continue to fight for
the right of any member of our
profession to appear habitually,
If he desires, in labor cases, and
tht right of a man at the bar
% become a labor lawyer as well
as to be a corporation lawyer"
DiSbarment proceedings against
Lamb were instituted because he
charged his clientS-the United
Shoe Workers of America-had
been "hijacked" by the court ii
a case against the Williams Mani
featuring Co., of Portsmouth.
jackson charged the proceed
ings were started solely because
Lamb is a counsel for the CIO.
In a letter to a critic, w. r.
Daley, of Cleveland, Jackson de-
Tended his active work on the spe-
cial committee the National Law
yers Guild appointed to defend
Lamb. While saying he did not
approve of Lambs derogatory re-
marks about the court, Jackson
stated the punishment should be
q fine: not diSbarment.