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TeievIsion

TeIevIsion
BIZ Lee De Forest. Dial Press.
For nearly 20 years television has
been, as an entirely practical ac-
complishment, just over the horizon.
As early as 1927, . daguerreotype
likeness OF human features was
transmitted between Washington
and New York without wires by the
system devised by DR.. Herbert E.
Ives of the Bell Telephone Labora-
tories. Since then, there has been
enormous progress both here and in
Europe. Literally hundreds OF pat
ents are on file here dealing with
some features Of television.
The art has even advanced to the
point Of commercial broadcasting
over short distances. But numerous
obstacles still stand in the way Of
such a development in the wireless
transmission of pictures as the
world has witnessed in the trans
mission of sound.
Not the least Of these obstacles
is the fact that television apparatus
and principles are not easily under
stood. They are much more COM
plicated than those Of radio. They
do not lend themselves to becoming
playthings of the populace.
In this book, Mr.. De Forest, one
of the great names in American
invention because Of his develop
ment of the radio tube. explains
the mysteries Of teleyision about as
simply and clearly as they can be
explained, and thus renders a real
service to the mechanically inclined
public. THOMAS r. HENRY,
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excellent working conditions, his
union protection, his overtime and
the rest Of it. as a most unsocial
creature. 1t is. In many ways, an
appalling document.
1t Is, as should be said, a first
novel. The author, like his hero,
was writing before he went into
the factory. He helped pay his
way at an agricultural college by
doing pieces for trade magazines,
and when the depression forced him
out Of school, he turned to detective
fiction. Eventually, he rose to the
dubious estate of director of a w.
P. A. writer's project. Then he
received fellowship from the Uni
versity of North Carolina Press.
All this apprenticeship apparently
has been turned to the good. Now
that Mr.. Thompson has set his
hand to serious fiction, he has pro-
duced a solid writing job.
One criticism, however, hassto be
made. That Is for the forced and
pointless use of crudity. There Is,
to be sure, enough of the same in
his book which has an intrinsic
right to be there. Apparently under
the influence of the Steinbeck
school, however, he piles such ma
terial up, in many places with no
rhyme or reason. He seems to have
argued that, since realism is often
crude, all crudity is realism, which
does not follow at all. The family
scenes, which, as said, are irrelevent
to the theme of the book, are par
ticularly offensive in this respect.
One does not expect his book tc
sell any the less readily on this
account, however. NC. r
Evening star., 1942-04-12
By Mercedes Jordan,

WdbuluktOIllk DlvlBlOnp Iuollo k<lOI MY.
II you enjoy walking and would
like to get on a more intimate foot
ing with your surroundings. you
should visit the Washtngtoniana Di-
vision Of the Public Library, Eighth
and K streets NV, or one of its
branches. Here may be found true
stories about Washington that will
put new interest into your jaunts.
The Records of the Columbia
Historical Society" are full of de-
scriptions of old streets and sections,
and Of houses with long pasts.
Back when Washington was just
an infant, many of the city's best
people lived nearer to Ninth street
NV. than to Sixteenth street NV.
Henry E. Davis. in his paper called
Ninth & F Streets and There
about" published in Volume of
the Records" recalls his boyhood
in that locality. He remembers that
F street NV. was such soft clay
that the Metropolitan Railroad had
difficulty in keeping its cars on the
spreading tracks, and the horses had
to walk a plank road between these
tracks.
The Benning- Mcclure House, z
Street and Neighborhood. by WASH
ington Topham. tells of the block
on E street where a branch of the
Y. w. c. A. is now located In the
historic Benning-McGuire House, at
GA. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase
lived at COL.
There are stories of other houses
in Historic Washington Homes" by
Hal H. Smith, among them the one
on Lafayette Square where Decatur
lived and where he was taken to die
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Now and on Earth
By Jim Thompson. Modern
Ace Press.

og SUC 4tOHtPoONts "OuCf ~
Age Press.
In many ways, this is an iri-
pressive novel. 1t Is, for one thing,
a novel about working men In which
other, it contains unquestionable
evidence that the author knows
with frst-hand experience, the con-
ditions of which he writes. And
for another, the particular environ
ment with which the book deals
is one hitherto untouched by fiction
writers-a plant engaged in war
production, an airplane factory
working on Government contracts.
The last point, of course, would
not be of great importance If it
were not for the other two. 1t
would be perfectly possible for a
novelist to write a routine, senti-
mental proletarian formula piece
about the workers who are saving
America by their selfless devotion
to the production of airplanes-the
wonder is, indeed, that no one yet
has done it. But Mr.. Thompson
has obviously felt no temptation to
take it that easy way. He worked
for seven months in such a plant
as he describes, and his book bears
no resemblance whatsoever to the
trade type of proletarian fiction.
1t is, essentially, a picture of the
workers life at his job. 1t is
told In the first person by a young
man who, after a successful career
as writer, has decided to write no
more. He has q huge family to
support, Q mother, some sisters, .
wife and some children. The sordid,
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Data on Old Washington
Is Available at Library

after his duel at Bladensburg with
Commodore James Barron.
Reading Cordelia Jackson's "Peo-
pie and Places in Old Georgetown"
will conjure up for you the days
when that section was a well estab-
lished city and Washington had just
settled down on its swampy site
across Rock Creek.
Rock Creek itself, that delightful
stream Of water fianked by paths
for man or horse, is described by
Louis P. Shoemaker in Historic
Rock Creek" He tells, too, some
thing about Pierce Mill, which once
belonged to his father. Allen C
Clark. in his paper on 'The Old
Mills" also has written about Pierce
Mill, which was built in 1901 and is
again grinding and selling its flour
Another waterway of importance
to early Washington and of recrea-
tional interest to the Washington
of today is the "CheSapsak g. Ohio
Canal" described for the Records,
by Ronald F. Lee Walking along
the towpath, you can readily picture
the barges of earlier days transport
ing coal or limestone down the
canal, especially If you happen to
be overtaken by a horse drawn
barge full of modern Washingto-
mans listening to lecture by a park
naturalist.
Besides the Records of the Co.
lumbia Historical Society,"" there are
other books and clippings in the
Washingtoniana Division Of the
Public Library which will supply
background for the better appre-
citation of your walks in historic
Washington. The division is open
from 9 am. to 4 pm, Tuesday
through Saturday. and from 8 am
to 8 pm. on Monday.
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The Man Who Sold Louisiana

By E. Wilson Lyon. University OF Oklahoma Press.
Despite the implication Of the title there is little about the sale of
this
negotiated with American representatives
such vast territory this country Marbo servedn diplomatic and
administrative capacitous the revolutionary
Napoeon and the constitutional
the most violent periods Of upheaval without
adapt" himself
property holdings the marquis apparently worked sincerely liberal
constitution after the fall of Napoleon the author
crusader If he had BEEN probably would
and comparatively months
of the political and social struggles
dried elementary textbook account of the French
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Thoughts Through Space
By Sir Hubert Wilki7l,

Hubert Wilkins Harold Creative
Can thoughts and projected
person to another?
Through the there has
Scientists with such exceptions late Oliver
Lodge, have been discreetly sceptical
few DR. Rhine of Duke University threw in the
been disproved satisfactorily explained.
Now the worlds
transmission In 1887 Sir Wilkins
Arctic for lost Russian flyers Before leaving
with friend in New York to continuous thought transfer
experiment.
This surface say the
they extraordinary They
Neither to
honestly
T.. H.
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A Book of Prophecy

Edited NTH Introduction by scrtb-
Sons
greatly spread
the world confagraon off
predictions
the light of the threatening
Today literature
and his obscure quatrains fill
But has remained for John Counos auhhor
English Gentleman and other novels the first digest
representations Of all the prophets since the
Egyptians And pleasant note that
opposed to Christian civilization cannot win
The most impressive prophecy presented by Mr. that
Odile said
when shall
earth her shall the terrible
the world and whom the
christ will
His shall flaming will
and the air The will
Of his victories about the middle Of the sixth month Of
of hosties The second of the will
the will be full surprises
About halfway through this among
the his country who will desire prod
igies will happen in the Orient also.
third will
of Aace continued "and the victor will
tons and laid righteous retribuion
irrelgion I" ="
Mr. Cournos anthology. interesting
Is weakened somewhat by his failure distinguish clearly between
Samuel johnson envioned
OF Nations Andrew jackson predicted automobile
Lenn promised drastic changes the social SYSTEM Adolf Hitler fore
told his The opinions these prophetic
Christians
of sections
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Impressive First Novel Pictures Life in Plane Factory

brawling. loveless existence Of these
dependents and the life of the
factory where the young man gets
a 50-cents-an-hour job are pre-
sented in alternating pictures. The
family scenes, however, are irrel-
evant to the central drive of the
book.
That is the factory. 1t is shown,
not as a romanticized entity, but
as it appears in the eyes of an
intellectual suddenly set down in
its midst in an inferior capacity
Organizationally, it shows as a
chaos; humanity, as a jungle. The
bosses are system-hyptonized and
enslaved by red tape. The workers
are coarse grained savages, quick to
frame fellow who does not meet
Evening star., 1942-04-12
The Last to Rest
By Ernest Raymond. II. c.
KinSeu.

htbcS9.
This is an artless, tasteless, warm
hearted little novel which has for its
purpose to expound the Englishness
of the English, particularly as that
Englishness expresses itself under
the stress Of the present war.
1t tells the story OF a man who Is
earnestly presented as an average
English citizen. good, decent fellow
whose rank In life is that of
chartered accountant. He is the
husband Of dull novel-writing wife
and the father of two rather bril-
liant children. The family makes
trip to Czechoslovakia In the sum-
mer Of 1888 and the average English
man realizes, from what he hears
and sees Of Naziism, that democracy
Is a very precious heritage. So,
when war finally breaks out, he
does his bit by becoming a London
air warden. His children also do
their bits. and the tragedy of the
thing is that the daughter, an am
bulanCe driver, is killed when a
bomb drops on her station of duty.
The father, heart-broken, realizes
that there is but one thing before
him-he is an Englishman, and so
he will carry on.
In spite Of this obviousness. there
is a good deal of genuine feeling in
the story. Since the book has a
complete cast of English characters,
however, it would seem somewhat
unnecessary to explain on almost
every page that the reason they
act as they do is that they are
after all-English. One feels that
the point could, with safety, be
left to the understanding of even
a mildly intelligent reader.
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Biddy Brogon's Boy
By Jim Tully. Charles Serb
ner's Sons.

By Jim Tully. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons.
Biddy Brogan's boy made the big
Jump from a Catholic orphanage to
highly paid writer by way Of fac
tory worker, harvest hand, tramp,
prizefighter and smau-town re-
porter. Apparently, the story Of
Biddy Brogan's boy Is the story Of
Jim Tully, its author. Whether the
photographed details include Vir-
ginia. sister Of young Biddy Brogan,
Is not disclosed. but Virginia Is un-
doubtedly the most unusual char
acter in the book. She is the hub
of what home there Is after her
mother dies, and the guiding force
Of the drifting youngster who sue
ceeds to justify her faith In him.
The book is particularly interest
ing for the glimpses 1t gives Of vari-
Gus ways of life. notably that in
Ohio towns Of 40 or so years ago
and In the wheat fields Of North
Dakota. While there is little doubt
about the interest the book holds
for the reader, or the quality of it's
workmanship, 1t leaves one feeling
somewhat frustrated. There is no
sense Of a plot completed or a story
rounded of. 1t Is rather q chain of
events man a story.
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Science Yearbook of 1912
By John D. RatcHf. Double
dan. DOrdn & Co. Inc.

By John D. RdtcHt. Double
day, Doran & Co., Inc.
This is an anthology of popular
magazine articles on science during
the past year.
1t contains vividly written ac-
counts of some of the major ad-
vances in physics. chemistry, biology
and medicine At least a third of
the book is devoted to medicine alone
an indication of the rapidly grow
ing popular interest In prolonging
human life and improving physical
status.
Mr.. Ratcliff has done a real serv-
ice in collecting between two covers
all this scattered material which
otherwise might be hopelessly lost.
T. r. H.
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their notions Of proper conduct, ar
delighting in filthy practical jokes.
Individually. outside the plant, they
are shown to be fairly normal men.
But, in relation to their work, they
are made to revert to a common
pattern Of brutality.
To the reader accustomed to the
proletarian novel, which breaches
class solidarity, this comes as a
shock. There is. however, a con-
vincing reality about it. The au-
thor writes quite dispassionately.
He has no social axe to grind or
theological hobby to mount. The
book has come out of his personal
experience and is reported objec-
lively. 1t shows the modern skilled
worker, with his high wage, his
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Bride of GLORY
By Brdddd Fiel,

BY BrGddG Field. GreyStone
Press.
This is the latest conner in the
l0-pound costume novel class, and
it adequately upholds the lush stand
ards already set by such forerunners
as THE Sun Is My Undoing" and
The Ivory Mischief" 1t Is built
up on the career Of Envy Lyon,
later renowned as Lady Hamilton,
true friend of the British Nays
Nelson.
1t begins with Envy, dirty faced,
louse-ridden servant girl who danced
in London cutters and looted with
London mobs. and carries her up the
ladder Of prostitution from the ranks
of the casual pickup (or its 18th
century equivalen) to the kept
favorite of petty mobiles and so on.
The sordid tale is made romantic
by the authors determination that
it shall be so. and the customary
background of grim smells, sights
and sounds (realism) is abuhdantly
provided.
On the whole. the novel is fit to
be a best seller under present stand
ards, and then to be made into a
picture. If you haven't read too
many of the same kind, you will even
find it flrst-rate piece Of reading
entertainment. NC. r.
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Pendulum

Pendulum
By Thedd Kenyon. Julia
MeSSner, Inc.
This is a study Of three New York
women, great aunt, niece and grand
niece, Margaret. Peggy and Margie
Their nicknames tell their periods
from the Spanish-American War to
the present. Yet the lives OF the
three are not separate and distinct,
any more than the demarcations be-
tween periods are distinct. They
merge into and react upon one an
other. Each life is nodded by cir
cumstance and heredity, but in each
the same strength of character leads
to an inevitable decision.
Margaret remains an old maid be-
cause she cannot accept second best
in life. Peggy's life, with but very
brief inoerlude, also is that of a
single woman. Margie, the end of
the tale implies, also refuses to ac-
cept second best in the way of a
husband. Margaret sacrifices much
of her life to the rearing of her
nieces. Peggy sacrifices her second
chance at love to her niece.
Some of the contributory charac-
tres in this book are as well de-
lineated and as interesting as the
three main ones. The closely knit
society Of old New York gives the
author good field for drawing
characters with well-marked hered-
itary traits, and allows a well-in-
tegrated story to be written.
r. r. T.
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Sherwood Anderson's Life
Story Is Skillfully Written
But He Has Covered Much of
Its Detail Before in Fiction
Representing Best Effort
By Mary.Carter Roberts,
Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs
Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs

Hdrcourt, Brace & Co.
Though Sherwood Anderson 20 years earned for himself
lasting eric cannot but wonder whether
had not been very much the fashion this For has very
little to Of himself his direct autobiography that has
ali peton any AND dni hee sns on M
Psn
work remains In the Short-story field
He was at his best excellent writer Beyond that
fact that he
repua-
groper
and would not satisfied until he found the few simple articles of faith
them
publicity and Mr. Anderson who had learned to work in
From being artist he Dcameat times self conscious
@ @ m AS & sn af an d sn he remained simple man OF
n INT
alone bp M tG % that m Of M M not @ the a % M H s @
admits that he the slick ones He knew how get along
example while dreaming artistry But nothing could be
this Sickness So his story
into sufficiently theme
Unfortunately though perhaps fortunately for the
interest truth he the two decided conflict
a a rss 's s'fsss
long part Anderson artist Anderson
the while Anderson the constantly and seahy try
when perfect tales
Of poSy his ipy for
admission somewhat o. of harmony with Mr. Mr.
Phistines attained
his wealth And lohe got
literally walked leaving executive ONCE
his teoaph and all the the paraphernaa of financial
change pocket
another hung off, in the
family which had become rkome to him.
Bemoans Hardshps of Cropping Period.
Chicago and went into the advertising business and
stealing accounts MS
allowed the artist freedom than had the
left him free Chicago
requisite
had he fnegrained to use
artist probably would have survived
deprvatons
period.
personal memoirs tell Beside it is
animalc life OF
machine village the and there
Sherwood Anderson has
degraded He
writing OF
does romantcize.
book, angle is of markedly
Mr. Anderson quotes Ben ecnt as
echt Apart memories of his bohood and
which
has understood little of the world He has
character he has
has by humanity What reader will
see however Is that he has concentrated his interests on such narrow
humanity satisfied him personally The reviewer
light
intensity work lies somewhat in the resulting contrast
That there memoirs has been said 1t
truly remarkable
stretches of much that is pathetic
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The Sixth Column
Alliance Book Corp.

AUGnCe BOOK CORP
this to brand
Americans who criticize the present IN
occupied
fighting guerilla against
comparison Is merely made
describing conditions
different occupied countries written distinguished citizen OF the
by the Ns to suppress human
Of the inevitable
undaed spirit strike back at their
conquerors
The story from Poland is
ootng importation of degrade
sterilization
employed by the Hitler horde to
expected
strengthened thousand
Workers. labor in munitions plants engage in clever
abotag Underground printing radios flourish Germans
thought
barbarians inferior those
at terrible and heartenlng
In the countries Holland and Belgium there has
The their mdergound The old
like
OF
liberal offers reward for
Dutch being informed that
leave restaurant oentatols
of placing
ting canals OF Holland have
wemany Germans this book have disappeared
unde to be heard of again
of suffering nagnhcent
expressly present
includes letters mugged out of the various countries
Nothing could
country which falls before the
barian onslaught
Evening star., 1942-04-12
Author Studies Strategy of
u. S. as World Power
N. j. Spykman's Geo.Political
Analysis Is Valuable for Its
Coldly Realistic Viewpoint
Americas Strategy in World Politics
By Nicholas John Spyknnan. Harcourt, Brace Co.
Strategy for Democracy


Strategy for Democracy
By j. Donald Kingsley and Dapid W. Peteoorsky Loncnans
Green & Co.
With reaching out every continent Where do 60 from
important queion-but which
likely to get satisfactory unless we first try to find out Just
s, sse study of Americas strength and weaknesses terms of
Starting with the premise make the preservation
foreign policy Concerned with
% %s o that the mn be its he spp the sn a to
politics to the oldest problem Of American foreign policy
that OF isoadonsm nterventionism.
Hemisphere As No
w s se Son Ds dead @ may g i sn
masses and military potenta balance Europe and Asia
an or % @ ns pc s ne Of the NsT World @ s
a1 desnd @ 1sH the IN oua @
cannot effectively defend South America south Of Peru the bulge of
Brazil M iS There no chance Of negrang the states the New lew World
There % ona n W sT W r o in the n To. DR. &
strategic picture demands that conduct military operations the
hod 0 we @ M
neighbors protection"
Eloquent Plea Workable Order.
Dr. spykman has readymade plan postwar world He
insists however that the fundamental problem the balance
asa IN g na e
position modern ndulalizsd CHINA
Balance
sas % s1s s NJ
States global conflict
entirely different problem Of
world taken Kingsley Petagorsk Strategy
as Of Capitalism.
the battle failing
potentially powerful
Dynamic social change be decisive factor the triumph
The choice they it, lies between the extension Of
democracy and its destruction
technology social
point they where capitalism
the forces inherent in monopoly capitalism of the
widespread reaconary
within base
relations"
the authors
hostile environment has ended victory the fruits
instead monopolzed
benefit ownership leading
differences
disposal
breath Of privilege"
n
what democacaly planned society
authors which will substitute the principle equality
which will
is
Petegorsky a chapter
Planned Society," by Morde Ezekiel and discussions postwar
problems by Pierre Co Max Werner Albert Gueard
Building of a difficult
authors
sometimes impractical their faith people
have by their willingness fight liberty,
voice in planning their future BELMONT
Evening star., 1942-04-12
Best Sellers

Best Sellers
Compiled from information obtained Washington by
Star and in Ne York. Boston, Chicago
North American Newspaper AuianceJ
FICTION.
The Moon Is Down, by John Steinbeck CViking)
Frenchr1ans Creek by Daphne Du Mauer Doubleday
Wild Is the River by Louis Brom6eld HIarper).
Dragon Seed. by Pearl Buck (John Day..
Sam Small Flies Again, by Eric Knight (Harper).
NON-FICTION.
Flight -Exupey (Reynal Hitch
cock.
the Land the Silent People by Robert St John Double
day, Doran).
Cross Creek, by Marjorie Knnan Rawlings (scribner)
Mission Joseph Davies (Simon Schuster)
Admiral of the Samuel e. Morrison Qite Brown
Evening star., 1942-04-12
No Second Spring

By Susanna Valentine MITCHELL Harper & Bros
writer has obviously fallen in love with
whole family Of
portray irresponsible tribe of beautiful sisters
mankind
plainly taken that design seriously that she has become
qualities Of exquisite Dudleys
But the amenab thing which has happened
Valentine Mitchell in writing about her humorous
herself totally lost that Of
perception of humor She obliged therefore
Dudeys
S effective to make the point
built about Cyntra Dudley of the ncomparaby
beautiful Dudley but Cynthra perfectons understands
family heritage
musician of Then marries
who mabe dictu fit receive the honor While she going
through these Dudleys
After while they lose which has enabled them to live in the
which their right they shown that they
nVncby above matera they get the cash back again. That
about all there
Women novests particularly commit these raptrou
family
b Miss NtchelS Dudley