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Evening star., 1941-04-27
Brief Reviews
NOVELS.

NOVELS.
So Dream All Night, by Kenneth
Payson Kempton putnam Snow
ell of modern academic life. the regi-
mentation and sycophancy which &C
to advance modern scholars.
Episode on West Eighth Street.
by Jules BrouSseau (Smith & Dur
relD-Group of odd characters are
involved in melodrama and ro-
nance in Greenwich Village.
River Rat, by Daniel Lundberg
tReynal & HitchcockD-B Blunt talk
ing novel of modern youth.
The Good Shepherd. by Sunnar
GunnarSSon (Bobbs- -MerrilD - A
story of Iceland written by an Ice
lander.
Adam Pennfeather, Buccaneer, by
Jeffrey Farnol Doubleday, DoranD
The sWashbuckling days of pirates
and treasure ships are given a new
twist.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
All in Lifetime, by Frank Buck
with Ferrin Fraser Mcbride e)-The
life story of the famous bring EN-
back alive" man
TRAVEL.
The Donkey Inside. by Ludwig
Bemelmans (Viking) - Travel in
Ecuador. mostly in the vicinity of
Quito. Illustrated by the author.
INSTRUCTION
The Technique of Oil Painting, by
Frederic Taubes Dodd, Mead d)-Vast
amount of information which should
be invaluable to art students. In
fact. if it could be made required
reading" in every art school. new
era of painting-and better one
would result.
GENERAL.
Humanity on Trial, by Horace J
Bridges Giveright)-An examina-
ton of the human race in the light
of the present world crisis.
Law Without Force, by Gerhart
Niemeyer (Princeton)-A study OF
international law with recommenda-
tions for sweeping changes.
Bureaucracy Convicts Itself, by
Alpheus Thomas Mason (Viking)-
More on the famous Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy of the Taft ad-
miniStration. about which Secretary
of the Interior IckeS recently wrote
at some length in popular maga-
zine.
New Directions in Trade Policy
by William Diebold. jr. Council on
Foreign Relations will be
the effects of the war on United
States trade policy. This and other
important questions are discussed
in a scholarly way.
Introduction to the Co. operative
Movement, edited by Andrew J.
Kress-More than 300 articles
chosen with care and thoughtful
ness from the entire literature OF
the consumers cooperative move
ment.
HISTORY.
Toward a Philosophy of History,
by Jose Ortega y Gasset CNorton)-
The author of THE Revolt of the
Masses" offers his personal inter-
pretation of history.
A History of Chile, by Louis Gal
danes. translated and edited by
Isaac Joslin Cox North Cardinal
The dean of the faculty of social
sciences at the University of Chile
presents a detailed history of his
home land.
Evening star., 1941-04-27
Spring Symphony
By Eleanor Painter. Ne1D York
Harper & Brothers.

Harper & Brothers.
The love story of Clara Week,
concert pianist, and Robert Schu-
mann, composer, is one that lends
readily to novelizing. Drawing
carefully from known facts and
adding the touch of her own judi
cious imagination to fill out the
small, human detail of this story,
Miss Painter has breathed life into
the inspiring romance of these TIVE
guiding spirits of the 10th century
romantic movement in music.
The author has chosen to re-create
only the youth and courtship of
Clara and Robert, to forego the deep
tragedy of the later years. Thus,
her novel is concerned with the
growth of Schumann'S creative
genius, his affection and esteem for
the little girl 10 years his Junior
whose prodigious talent and cap
tivating personality were to establish
an nseparable bond between them.
Herr Week, Clara's father, of
course, plays a predominant part in
the plot as the driving, willful cul-
tivator of his daughters talent, the
respected parent who eventually
estranged himself from his family's
household companion and friend,
Schumann, and became the bitterest
obstacle in the path of the lovers
growing attachment for each other
and their ultimate marriage.
]. w. STEPP.
Evening star., 1941-04-27
Best Sellers

The following list of best SELL
ers is compiled weekly from in
formation obtained in Washing
ton by The Star and in New
York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Amer
lean Newspaper Alliance.
FICTION.
II. NJ. Pulham, Esquire, by j.
P. Marquand little. Brown.
For Whom the Bell Tolls. by
Ernest Hemingway tScribner'sp.
Mountain Meadow, by John
Buchan tHoughton, Miff1in).
Random Harvest, by James
Hilton Little, Brown.
In This Our Life, by Ellen
Glasgow (Harcourt, Brace.
NON-FICTION.
Blood, Sweat and Tears, by
Winston Churchill tPutnam).
Out of the Night, by Jan
Valtin alliance.
White Cliffs. by Alice Duer
Miller Coward -McCann).
KablO0na, by Gontran de
Poncins tReynal g. Hitchcock =.
Exit Laughing, by Irwin S.
Cobb CBobbs- s-MerrilD.
Evening star., 1941-04-27
The Literary W0Revews of Current Publications Various Fields
Lack of Planning Is Seen
BY Expert as Weakness
.OfU. S. Defense Effort
Administration Has Discarded
Program of Service Heads,
Says Hanson w. Baldwin
United We Stand

By Hanson W. Bald,Cin. New York: Whittlesey House
York Tunes @ e19 M h @ po Of d amesan n e1 M The s ns
up the state the Army Navy and air he industry
His His conclusions M neither aosether optimistic pmc
The greatest criticism which he makes that potentially
h the the The heads a e nd for h. % pn hs
out had already drawn up plans for the mobilization of the Nations
have been @ &
misakabe At time when there tremendous national
any Single individual more S'e"'' 70 0Sun'
Navy Prepared for Than Army
nof o the d R @ s f sa
the of the other branches of the
well coodnated he says and the acquisition from Britain the
bases in the Atlantic is an important addition naval strength
reality eight years
the development arpane
empire power Aantic
inevitable he writes Our naval plans seem to be in accord with this
more bases in the Pacific - "''' " ~ N'4NA anu 'O1''-'
has BEEN fs less A s 1 h h is n h ps a
on m 04 @ De oe n m @ @ 9T no m msny % M
designed either III his opinion We aiming at the establishment of
shown specialize in mobility
apped traditional volunteer conscrption
be able to cope with Euope threat precisely the time when Eopes
helpless have
@ of an s n b @ the = e T % Te seaoy @ fo our
as nGc @ as S 80 pr cent & year. at least @ will @ reaFf to make these
strength has considerably
grave @ danger whether @ the school which the Nation ter
Whether we fight eventually Europe on our own shores this ueS
S
the
coordination absence for oordnated USE We
promise handicappng
of modern branch anazng Amys
avoid
Baldwin Unlike
has been tremendously influenced by British needs At present. the
nearly air And be the kind need
today
that adequate police hemisphere
Establishment Defense Board Of Experts
billions there fancy orders be changed
established
his after
bodies should
plans designed the basis hemisphere defense for
should possibly for life and should hold our
defense something position the Supreme
judiciary defense effort reflects
mentality mpemented confused and frightened Con-
mentality is Baldwin points quotation of
capable least of degree
gives thorough survey possibilities
invasion furnished
nations
subject materials of hemisphere defense scheme 1t dis
bottnecks 1t detailed often
technical method that lay will find hard reading AS
reading concerned with the defense any
NC
Evening star., 1941-04-27
HeH-Bent for War

By Hugh S. Johnson. Indianapolis: BobbS-NferriH Co.
The title of this book will ample understanding Gen
Johnson opinion of countrys foreign policy
without without without
nt advanced of this
Its and calls upon George Washington
the Monroe
British fleet? he further
today. The Johnson
lenes which
Should then Navy and rely on
the
To do would be to take appalling risk
And aid England
mistake about it, the
expert with respectable military
country who will that there
of Hitler without immense expdonary
bly, the fighting
AS for the Presidents that
the world after the
johnson potedywhat
whether
policy
solidarity real We could Hitler trustworthy
mental certainly
of the world into because he
The the point
have nused the President with
country that the disposition
existing nation he Why dilute strength
Of the
Evening star., 1941-04-27
Zopoto

By Edgcumb Pinchon. Ne1O
York: Doubleday, Doran &
Co.
This a biography of Emiliano
Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary
hero. 1t is written. however, in as
near the manner of a novel as may
be. The author keeps to the facts
of zapatas career, but adds ma
terial for which he does not pre-
tend to have authority; that is,
he describes minutely the personal
emotions of his characters and puts
into conversational form much talk
which certainly has not been re-
corded. In other words, he has
written a book which is neither
a historical novel nor straight
biography, but about half of each.
This is not to say that the work
is not interesting. 1t is good en-
tertainment. For those who like
biographies-sans it is
recommended.
Evening star., 1941-04-27
What Makes Sammy Run
Bu Budd Schulberq

Schulberg dramatic form the
psychological
the book generalization either
Schuleg ghettoborn children will out to be Sammy
Clicks brother brought into the just long
that the ghetto New York East Sde
might just well bring out fine spirituality an unsh love OF HUI
manity.
From the first Mannheim the first singular of the book
idea of finding what makes Sammy run The
title which frequently the novel occaoned by the fac that
boy always on his jobs with ferret
earnestne terrifying Schuberg believing
interested else than he is in himself
Mannheim almost neurot subject of Sammy
like curvng streams sometimes
would to take for
attractive either practice Equally nacv much
Schuberg couched his narrative The
influence of the John
OHara-James Cain school of writing.
For first novel What Makes Sammy Run? unusually iac Lhe
excellent
actually little doubt
what makes Sammy and those like him.
MIRIAM OTTENBERG
Evening star., 1941-04-27

and he gave it back in fun-making.
The world invariably asked for more.
His life reads like a civilized success
story.
The present work is just that. 1t
tells of a procession of laugh-making
successes. and it moves along with a
notable string of great names-Mark
Twain, Kipling. Aldrich. Howells,
Charles Dana Gibson, Richard Hard
ing Davis and so on. 1t is not book
which can be called, as so many are,
a portrait of an era" for it sticks
too closely to its subjects career for
that. But it traces a lively course
through its era, and its signposts are
worth the reading in themselves.
Evening star., 1941-04-27
Mountain Meadow

By John Buchan TueedsmuirJ. Boston Houghton,
Mf1in Co
his John Buchan the final adventure of
Leen appearing the earlier Buchan novels
mellow philosophy OF
himself, Canada.
necessity of making his SOUL
Sir Edward finds Although his lifetime of high adventure and Sees
of character high deasm sound philosophy Of life he find
the closing hs that these
Fatally with live he makes his final decision
midst adventure which he hopes
find his soul The disappearance of great American leader
Northern provides the
opportunity farther
civilized world, physically. mentally morally
The though itself powerful and dramatic is not the
John tell mighty
struggle Sir Edward find his foohod the life beyond his last
earthly Find he the adventure which he thought
be his still another and of which he had
this he resolves his final doubts bridges the
between material the spiritual existence and
wisdom which the final blessing life bestow mankind
strong spiritual which
full ion in this strong
there
which
physical plays the lesser role
The volume includes prologue by Howard sVge-a scholarly and
relationships of
plots their characters the other tying them into unified
whole of which this last work is the fitting climax.
JOSEPH S EDGERTON
Evening star., 1941-04-27
John Kendrick Bonqs
By Francis Hyde Bangs Neo York Alfred A. Knopt Inc

By Francis Hyde Bangs. NeD York: Alfred Knopt
This life of of ustrous
possible considering
subject
frequent
volume prodgousy
his life
maned constantly productvewng editing giving readings and lee
his life He
which notable bnce of its wits the
highest feather there polished satire
contributor others
Evening star., 1941-04-27
The Soonq Sisters
By Emily Hahn

By Emily Hahn. Nev York: Doubleday G. Co.
The Soong family struggle
for freedom since the DAYS of Sun Yaen Consequently life
the siseMesdames
be personal record In the hands of Miss Hahn
The soong family as moderny existing dates she from Charlie
uonary He broke the family
Christian embraced
held
In the family
the
left their College
She gives little about the time the
country few anecdotes remembered
college themes the period Nine Chang
Amerlcanzed
OF her at the time OF her graduation According photograph
herself Wellesley
ces not her face Oriental She looked
American college girl
although learned
Southern
Personal
the sisters
lonal Chinese
Miss Hahn them saying that Nine left
alive
Nine Chang finds the rht point of
whose husband with finance the
fully described
to world But the personalities of the three remain
enlgmatic The history
the soong girls than history OF the Soon girls themselves
Evening star., 1941-04-27
The Snow Goose
Alfred A. Knopt, Inc.

ALJTeQ a. hnOpJ, INC.
Romantic fiction now begins to
come out of the war. We have here
a love story with war background
1t is a short tale, only a novelette,,
but undoubtedly it is a precursor to
other popularity intended war fiction.
1t is sweet little piece about
crippled English painter and
poor fisher girl who in pre-war days
saved the life of an injured snow
goose. Comes, then. the defeat of
France, and the painter sets out
in his sailboat to help get the
refugees off the Dunkirk beaches.
He rescues many men, but is finally
machine-gunned by German
plane. The snow goose has stayed
with him through his efforts and,
when he is killed, it flies back to
the girl, who understands from its
appearance that her lover will not
return. That is all. 1t is a sort
of superior variety OF commercial
fiction. NC. r.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Damascus in Center
OF War in levont

old and venerable are the
" buildings in Damascus, Syria,
around which British and Vichy
French forces recently engaged in
fighting.
The stamp above depicts q
mosque In Damascus, one OF the
many ancient structures that were
threatened by fighting In the VIZ
cinity.
About 100000 persons, mostly
Mohammedans, inhabit the city:
No fortifications, capable OF COP
inG with modern mechanical war
fare, were thrown UP around the
city. Damascus Is used chiefly as
the center OF civi! administration
and the famous old citadel Is now
used IS q prison.
Most Of the residents OF De-
mascus were slain about $40 years
ago when the Monsol invader,
Tamerlane, swept through the
city, slaushtering and pillasins IS
he went along.
Syria fell into French hands
during World War I after having
been Turkish territory for CEN
turtles. Under the treaty OF Yer.
sailles, this country was man.
dated to France. But In 1895,
Syria obtained autonomy. sl.
though the French have continued
to look upon this land as . pro.
tectorate.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
DEFINITION OF A LIBERAL

Everybody likes to think Of himself
as. liberal. Those who to others oP-
pear either carefully conservative or
reckIessly radical usually think OF
themselves as liberal.
There is no ShbboIeth by which the
liberal may be kno~,, no sort Of po-
liticol itnus poper under which he
turns pink or blue at an exploratory
touch. Wendell Willkie offered def
milton at YoIe's commencement exer-
cises the other day.
"Liberoisn," he said, Consists Of
meeting the enemies Of freedom at
home or abroad, wherever they oppeor
and whenever they seek to limit leeiti-
mate freedoms Of men"
Scarcely citizen Of the United
Stotes can poss q day in these times
without coming upon situation ir
which he may test himself by that ex.
octino formula
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
ITALY STARTS A SHORT WAR

The ltolions didn't do notably we'll
against the Greeks, the British, the
Australians. So now they ore embark
ing on another war, q war on shorts and
long pants for women.
In Florence, police sternly forbid
either eorb, and severely threoten thot
if woman is caught riding bicycle
while she is wearing trousers, the BIZ
cycle will be eonfiscoted. ut is time,
srowIs the newspaper Nozione, TO
Toxic strong measures o9oinst this STU
pid Hollywood style"
So ItoIy declares war on shorts and
points. II may be long war, with the
police doing the painting, il Italian wo-
men ore anything like American wo-
men.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30

War Relief. And the players
are scrambling for roles which
they'd never dream of playing
in ordinary movies. Cary Grant,
for example, expects to play an
aged minister, and Sir Cedric
Hardwicke's very social wife has
been cast as a kitchen maid.
Shirley Temple, who's really
growing up, gave a formal din
ner dance the other evening. f.. 1.
French Star Jean Cabin Is spend
ing much of his time seeing
selected American pictures, in
Guiding all Of Clark Cables. to
help him learn English. >. Bob
Montgomery declares that "Mr.
Jordan Comes to Town" will be
his last movie.
RKO has plans for q spect.
aclefantasy titled "Gwansf'
which would make II the most
costly and pretentious film in
history. Wouldn't be limited by
a budget or a shooting schedule,
but would just 60 on eating up
months and millions until COM
pleted. . F.. Speaking of super
features, Director Leo McCarey
and Morris Ryskind have done
a scenario on the history OF
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
~ ~ WDoN
Daily M6altos Weahiaoesa

~ s
Washlnoton You may b
reodlne mare from now On,
oboht Miss Hovrlett Elllott's
Consumsr OIvlSon In Leon
HendaSson's Office Of Price
Administrator q nd Civilian
Supply. The CO will b pitch
Inc at you, for you 70 catch or
duck as your eorselsnrs and
refIe,ees may dietote, more In
formation Of the type shown
in its consumer prices bullet
tin whch now goes out twice
q month to SONS 5000 WON.
ems clubs, trods unions ond
sinnilor organizations. u tells
you to filI your ecoI bin now,
how 10 buy work clothes, how
to conserve furnoee oil and
gasoline and how to buy health
when you buy food.
cD.will Try TO spread It's mes
sooes through, newspapers and
magazines. BY rodio and news
reel. to anyone interested
enough to pay attention. 1t
will spread information on
average prices on consumer
commodities, keep tob on the
cost Of living. woteh supplies
and Shortages, determine how
much IS too much. lfyou have
not been consumer conscious
before, you will be exposed 70 it
now.
II will all be done in the in
terests Of national defense, fel-
low citizens, Which, in these
Days is rapidly assuming the
role Of dictotjne how much you
shall pay for and what goes
into the ice box or automobile
you may not be oble to buy.
When OPAC's was set up
the Consumer Division was
provided for, but the bigger
Job OF getting price odninistro-
ton machinery rdnniro crowd
ed Miss ElIiott's work into the
wings.
Now, however, the bill ho'
been completely worked over
The octors have been switched
around. Miss Elliott retoin'
her co-storrine authority as as
sociote administrator to Iced
ina man Leon Henderson, new
toTent has been brought In TO
featured roles in the key divi
sions, an organization tob''
has been worked out for q cos
OF $50 people, holt Of whom
will get more than $500
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

Bridge runs fairly true to
form. Privately I try to pick the
winners Of various events. While
I wouldn't want to 60 on public
record as q spotter of champions,
I believe that the names ! am
going to mention In this weeks
articles will bear watching at
the summer session In August.
I am willing to predict that
Mrs. A. M. (Helen) Sobel OF
New York will win one OF the
events. During the past year Mrs.
Sobel has made . phenomenal
record. She won the National
Open pairs last December In
Philadelphia. the Eastern pairs
in March in New York. two
events In the Southeastern Sec
tional Tournament in Florida.
and three events In the Phila-
delphia championship tourna-
ment in May.
Today's hand Is an example
of the quick and accurate de-
cisions Mrs. Sobel can make.
East covered the ten Of hearts
with the queen. Mrs. Sobel hes
itated not more than . moment
before playing the four. The OBJ
ject of this play was to void
East of the suit before losing
control.
Later Mrs. Sobel took the
backward finssss" in clubs by
leading the jack toward the
king, to keep West out OF the
lead, and this play gave her tour
club tricks and the CONTRACT. -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
. SO THEY SAY

Regardless of who is the poll
tical leader of France at the
moment, the everlasting quail
ties that have made France a
world power can never die.
Mrs. S. w. Lorge, French
teacher, deplorins decline in
study OF French since Vichy
days.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
ONE FOR THE DISCARD

Twenty-four or five years oeo there
wos heoted discussion Of 'hyPhen-
otes." II meant those people who are
designated as "Germon-Americons, :"
Transformations" "Swedish-Ameri-
cdns," "Itoion.Americons," and the
like.
There never was more unfortun-
ate choice of words At it's best such
tenninoIooy suggests q divided olleei-
once, something more or something
less than simply Americans. 4" t never
mos accurate as applied to nine out Of
Ten In connection with whom it was
l,ood. .Whot was meant, and what is
ylSoout todny, in olmost every such case,
l morjeons Of German, Greek, Swed-
9r ltolior origin"
ft6is ond II, that Is meant, why
~ econted that Americans Of
- ioin" Is q little more eIun-
5non-A mericons," we're
,jxotions with long names
M We d be willing to crop
W n the interest Of occur
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
: HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
NxA'oHvtsa -

Hollywood. McCarey, who'll
direct it, expects 1t to run Is
reels In Anal form. In the Marx
Brothers film, 1.-THE Big Store"
Is a scene in which Groucho Is
commenting on a dress. He turns
toward the audience and says,
This is really bright red
dress, but Technicolor is too ex-
pensive."
Army pilots at q field near
here got an awful bawling out
for taking q prominent actor for
4 ride in q dive bomber. Poor
fellow was so shaken up and
otherwise unnerved that he
couldn't work for three days
A visiting r. A. F. officer
believes that Hitler's tank brig
AIDES easily could be put out OF
action in Africa If Great Brit
ian could borrow a few hundred
Los Angeles Sunday motorists
and turn 'em loose over there.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
BY WIN. e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Because all its events cannot
be played in one week, the ma
tional championships tourna.
ment of the American Contract
Bridge League is divided into q
summer and q winter session.
The winter session this year Is
scheduled for Richmond. va.
The summer session Is held at
Convention Hall in Asbury Park
N. J., and will start on Aug. g.
Two world championship events
are held during the summer ses-
sion, the Masters pair and Mas
tiers team of- four.