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Evening star., 1943-08-22
In Local Bridge Circles -.
Bv Frank B. Lord.

1894, Mrs. Waits $3.50, Mrs. Alma
Byrne .524s. DR.. Eddy 1924, Mrs.
M. r. Reddy .5198, Mr.. Phelps .5161,
Mrs. A. Grimes .5093, Mrs. Ray
Shepard .5O88, DR.. c. C. McDon-
nell .5066. John Donnelly .5057, Mrs.
John Donnelly .5057, Mrs. Phelps
$3.50, Mrs. Dixie T. Wright .5019.
The results in the plaque series
have been, on the mems side, that
DR.. Waits has won twice, and Mr..
Buford, Mr.. Donnell, DR.. Wooley,
w. Stewart, Mr.. Westman and Mr..
Phelps, once each. Among the
women, the following winnings have
been recorded: Mrs. Waits. twice;
Mrs. J. r. Belt, Mrs. Kitty Boyle.
Mrs. John Donnelly, Mrs. Violet
thinner, Mrs. Tom Hamlin, Mrs.
M. r. Reddy. Miss Kathleen Nc
Mutt, Mrs. Peck, Mrs. Phelps and
Mrs. June Hodgkins, once each.
The contest among the north and
south players in the pair game Of
the Federal Bridge League, at the
Wardman Park Hotel. was horse
race. The four leading pairs were
divided at the end by less thar four
points, and it was anybody's game
until the last board was played.
The winners were DR.. and Mrs. A.
J. Steinberg, 1907 points; Mrs.
Boschan and Sergt. Dingle tied with
R. E. Mullen and ]. Roster, each
1893 for second place. and Mrs.
Kathleen McNutt and Mrs. Annie
Grimes were next, with lat. On the
east and west side, the finish was
not so close. H. A. Bean and c. F.
Fuechell winning with score Of
158 against Mr.. and Mrs. Wander
cleve, tied with John Darsey and
James G. Stones, each with IA.
c. w. Zimmer and ]. r. Moore were
next.
In the Junior Oficers game last
Monday night at the Cairo Hotel,
the winners were Capt. B. Seidl and
Capt. R. Bond. first; 1t. D. T. Per-
kins and 1t. r. N. Porter, second,
and Maj. w. j. Tillier and 1t. J, q.
Williams, third
Evening star., 1943-08-22
Exhibition of Military Prints
By Florence S. Bergman.

~
Nineteenth century American
military prints on sheet music COM
pose the current special exhibition
of the Division of Graphic Arts,
United States National Museum, in
its new gallery in the Smithsonian
Building. These prints, lent by two
Washington collectors, Miss Edith
A. Wright and Miss Josephine Nc
Dewitt, are examples of a type
almost unknown to the public to-
day; yet a century ago they were
familiar and popular form of art.
Many of our cities Gncluding
Washington used to- have one or
more military organizations: Light
guards, volunteers and zouaves.
They wore colorful uniforms, those
of each city group having distinctive
character and accoutrements. Rep
resentations of these various COM
panieS, and sometimes of individual
officers, were made by outstanding
lithographers of the period to adorn
the covers of missionaries,
dances, etc, often dedicated to
the respective organizations. Uong-
time Washingtonians may remem-
ber that Sousa wrote march
for our National Fencibles at
somewhat later period than that
covered by these prints: 1835-1870)
Pendleton, Moore, Thayer, Buff
ford, Endicott, Duval and Sarony
are the artists whose work is in the
present collection, which represents
Is cities; Albany, Baltimore, Boston,
Brooklyn, Charleston, Chicago, Du-
buque, Hartford, Lexington, Louis
Vile, Milwaukee, New York, Phila-
delphia, Providence and Savannah.
There is much more variety than
one would expect to find, not only in
the uniforms but also in the groups
of these sheet music Autographs.
More than half of them are printed
in several colors, and in some in
stances gold. Gazing upon the gor-
geous plunage affected by our great
grandfathers when soldering, we
are bound to conclude that military
life had pleasure and even dash of
glamour, which the two appalling
wars of this century have COM
pletely destroyed.
The New York City Guard, for
instance, wore scarlet coats, tight
dark blue trousers and tall fur caps;
their portrait will remind many
people of London's Horse Guards
uniforms and lofty BUSHES. The
Albany Burgesses' Corps had uni
forms somewhat similar to New
York's. Brooklyn's Light Guard was
resplendent in black and silver,
white trousers and red sashes, with
towering shakos heavily bedecked.
The United States Zouave Cadets of
Chicago must have looked like
Turks, with their baggy trousers,
short jackets, richly trimmed blouses
and fezes.
Some of these Autographs have
scenic backgrounds typical of the
locales of the respective military
organizations. The harbor of
Charleston, S. C. appears behind
the Jasper Guards of that city; thesI
New England Guards are deploying
before the Boston State House; the
west Point Dream Waltz" depicts
cadets with ladies before a large
hotel overlooking the Hudson. An
other group is portrayed at a BAN
quet table, heavily laden with fruit
and wine.
This category of military prints
could be enlarged to include colored
Evening star., 1943-08-22
.OtamPs
By James Waldo Fswcsff.

Upon what authority In the law
does President Roosevelt rely when
he accepts gifts Of stamps for his
collection from oficias Of foreign
governmental
Ono answer to this question. re-
Gently raised by q political column
ist. may be found In The Star for
Tuesday, February as, 1919, ~ fol-
lows:
Part OF the baggage of President
and Mrs. Wilson delivered ut the
White House today includes several
large boxes containing gifts and SOU
venirs received and collected in the
various cities Of England, France
and italy. Some Of the gifts were
presented by rulers Of nations and
others by oficials and citizens q
municipalities.
"The list includes = valuable set
Of historical books, presented BY
King George 10 President Wilson on
the conclusion OF his visit to Eng
land and unnamed mementos from
the President Of France and the
King Of Italy to both the President
and Mrs. Wilson. r.
Among the gifts and souvenirs
are fine paintings, rare volumes,
statuary, jewelry and works OF art,
They weigh hundreds Of pounds ana
have an intrinsic value Of many
thousand dollars.
whether Congress win be asked
to sanction the acceptance Of any
OF the gifts received by the Presi-
dent In his oficial capacity from
foreign rulers or ofilcials, or whether
they shall all be considered as pri-,
vate gifts from one person To
another, remains to be determined.
Some authorities contend that
Article I, section 8, paragraph 3, of
the Constitution OF the United
States may have some bearing on
the subject, but others stoutly main
tain that IL has nothing to do with
the case. That article reads: No
title OF nobility shall be granted by
the United States and no person
holding any ONCE Of profit or trust
under them shall, without the con-
sent OF Congress, accept of any
present, emolument, ONCE or title
OF any kind whatever from any
king, prince or foreign state
Representative Ramseyer Of Iowa
recently protested in the House
against the acceptance by the Presi-
dent of set of books presented
him by the King of England as
unconstitutional unless authorized
| by Congress. Other members held.
however, that the case was covered
by the recent act of Congress
authorizing officers, of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps to accept
gifts from foreign governments on
the ground that the President as
commander in chief came within
that category. 1t developed in the
debate, however, that the law in
question applied only to military
decorations"
According to the Associated Press
Feature Service, "the Bern (Switzer-
lan6 philatelic publication, Berner
MISUNDERSTANDING, lists four ad-
ditions to vichy Frances coats of
arms stamps. Unlike previous issues
OF similar design which were semi
postals, the new stamps are regular
postage issues and portray the coats
of arms Of provinces rather than
cities.
The list includes-5f, Lyon; 1of,
Bretagne; 15f, Provence, and 2of,
lie de France.
"one set Of ssmipostal coat Of
Evening star., 1943-08-22

Autographs on popular songs, not
dedicated to any particular COM
pany. For example, the writer has
an old song book which belonged
to great grandmother, in which
there is a sentimental ballad en-
titled THE Soldiers Farewell" !"
dated 1881. It's cover is large litho-
graph resembling an early Currier,
setting forth touching scene of a
young officer in an eye-shattering
uniform, bidding his lady good by.
The exhibition at the Division of
Graphic Arts remains only through
next Sunday.
Evening star., 1943-08-22
So Little Time
By John P. MarQuand. little,
BrO1pn.j
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

w Gss&tS HIS
By John P. MarQuand. little,
BrotDn.)
John p. Marquand wrote, in
"Wickford Point" that the require
ments Of . modern novelist were 4
dramatic sense and . peculiar eye
for detail that he can distort con-
vincingly.
This formula has been followed
with precision In $50 Little Time" )"
which is plotless, but so keen in its
perceptions and observations, so
rich in colloquialisms, that it Is abb
sorbingly interesting in the process
sion of gaieties, spirits and moods.
Essentially, it is story Of frus-
trations, with much of its charm in
retrospection, SO exquisitely written
and close to human truths, that
they strike the reader with all the
impact of reality. The tale is close
to the current stream Of world his
story, spotlights the futility OF a
man young in spirit, but touched by
milestones which keep him on the
sidelines in the present cataclysm.
Mr.. Marquand gets away from the
Boston Brahmins to tell the story
of Jeffrey Wilson Of Bragg CMass0
High School, who went to Harvard
and graduated to q newspaper re-
write desk. From there, he evolves
into an expert play fixer and Holly
wood scenarist. Along the way, he
amasses a competence, with houses
in New York and Connecticut and
family able to enjoy luxuries and
the advantages Of higher education.
Jeffrey is a man of strange indeci-
sions. One wonders whether he would
have been happier had he married
Louella Barnes-who winged his
Evening star., 1943-08-22
The Spanish Labyrinth
By Gerald Brendn.

6y GeTQLQ bTcnUn. M &C.
millan.J
Gerald Brenan is an Englishman,
who, at the end of the First World
War, settled in Spain and took up
farming there. His long years Of
unofficial life in the country gave
him an unusually intimate ac-
quaintance with the problems of
the Spanish common people. AS a
result Of this acquaintance, he has
felt that there are many factors in
the modern Spanish problem which
are not understood outside Spain, at
least not in the complicated inter-
relation which they hold within the
country. So he has undertaken to
write a history of SPANS recent
years, beginning with the accession
of Alphonso XII in 1874 and carry
ing on to the fall of the republic,
tracing throughout the work the
interplay of the many influences
which have to be accounted for in
any exposition of SPANS national
conduct.
He names his book we'll. It is a
labyrinth which he portrays. The
reader who wants an understanding
that goes beneath the level set by
current works devoted to exposing
Fascist horrors will find his material
here. But, for his own aid in fol-
lowing Mr.. Brenan's tortuous course,
he will want to keep a notebook by
his side as he reads and make fire.
quent memoranda. Without such a
refresher, the infinite complications
OF SPANS politics and the irrecon-
cilable contradictions of her factions
will merely reduce him to hopeless
bewilderment.
Economics, religion, army, King,
Catalans, agrarians, industrialists,
liberals, conservatives, anarchists,
trade unions-all these factors, con-
fusing as they generally are, are
confusion confounded in Spain. Mr..
Brenan has understood the prob
lens, but even his understanding
cannot make them lucid to the out
slider. The reviewer can only recon-
mend that the serious read the book.
They will find 1t we'll worth the
headaches, but the headaches will
be there.
Evening star., 1943-08-22

Society, Mr.. Clarke, speaking in both
his professional and official capac-
ity, had the following to say:
I'VE are living in stirring times.
The world is in a state of turmoil
Mems souls are being tried, but now
at last, we see the light We must
continue to have faith, the deep
abiding faith of the indomitable
English. In the dark days OF Oc-
tober, 1910, Mr.. Churchill remarked:
London, Liverpool, Manchester and
Birmingham may have more to suf-
fer, but they will arise from their
ruins more healthy and, hope, more
beautiful In these terrible and anx-
ious days Britain's Premier was
thinking of beauty amid environ
ment Of desolation created by bomb
ing. If our English friends can have
such visions of the future, surely we
can do likewise" To which, in con-
clusion, he added: THE survival of
democracy is dependent upon the
continued life of each one of its COM
ponent parts. Art is part of
democracy, indeed it is part of life
itself. 1t is not something which we
can set aside as thing to be en-
joyed by a few, but rather a rich
heritage to be enjoyed by all"
Those of the present generation
may not see these dreams of city
planning come true, but it is we'll to
dream. 1t was Solomon, Mr.. Clarke
has reminded us, who 5000 years age
said, Where there is no vision, the
| people perish"
Evening star., 1943-08-22
Library of Congress
Receives Grant.

The Hispanic Foundation in the
Library of Congress has received a
grant of $17,650 from the Rookie
feller Foundation, to be used within
two years. for the expansion of its
Archive of Hispanic Culture. which
was established in 1910. The Lii
brary will increase its archives COL
lection of photographs and lantern
slides to the extent of becoming as
nearly complete record as possible,
of the achievements of Latin Ameri-
can artists. The Library will also
be able to prepare sets of slides and
photographs for the use of teach
ers, schools and organizations inter-
ested in Latin American art. Such
interest has increased rapidly in re-
cent years.
The archives collection now COM
prises 1900 slides and about 5000
photographs of art from all periods
in all Latin American countries. The
photographs have been exhibited
throughout the country, have been
reproduced, and copies have been
made available to the public. The
archive has collaborated widely with
other Government agencies and
with museums and universities in
projects to, make Latin American
art better known In the United
States.
Evening star., 1943-08-22
French Prints and
Political Cartoons

In response to many requests the
National Gallery Of Art has again
placed on exhibition the notable coll
lection of French drawings and
water colors of the 18th and Goth
centuries lent by the Louvre and
other French Museums as well as
private collectors, shown some
months ago but retained for safe
keeping.
Also, in an adjourning gallery
there has been simultaneously placed
on display. a group OF political carl
catures, from the Lessing j. Rosen-
wald collection, which will undoubt-
edly be found of exceptional interest.
Evening star., 1943-08-22
Noted Chilean Artist
Visits Washinqf0n

Jorge Delano, noted political
cartoonist and publisher of Chile,
recently has some to the United
States as guest of the State De-
partment. He will be in this country
for several months, part of the time
in Washington, and is scheduled to
make one hundred portrait sketches
of famous people. Each sketch will
be autographed by the subject, who
will also inscribe his idea of free
dom, and the collection will be
auctioned in connection with the
War Bond drive.
Senor Delano is also a painter,
oil being his favorite medium. Incl
dentally, he is distant relative Of
President Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1943-08-22
Books
By Mary-Carfer Roberts.

Andrews utterly convincing on every
one of these points. but, for the
breadth and solidity fhis historical
structure, she commends his work.
An American Dioy
By Samuel Grafton. Double
day, DoranJ -
In this book Samuel Grafton,
political columnist, has done what
all stint writer's long to do. He has
gone back over his accumulated
columns for several years (since
1880, and culled from the mass those
paragraphs which have remained
both good and clever with the pass
Ing OF time. He has winnowed the
heap. in other words, and preserved
his winnowing for presumable pos
terity in the form Of a book.
Naturally, material gathered In
such a manner is of superior grade.
Mr.. Grafton's selected paragraphs
crackle with life and gleam with
smartness. He has come close, in
deed, to compiling a book of cpl
grams.
His subject matter, however, re-
minds one of the fact that the con-
cept of free press has greatly
altered since 1t was first written into
our constitutional guarantees. In
those days, it meant the freedom Of
newspapers to tell their readers the
news, the whole news, and, pre<
sumably, nothing but the news.
Today, no one will deny that news
writing is being subjected to con-
stantly increasing restrictions, while
writer's of mere opinion, or, that is
to say, the commentators, have
liberty to express themselves vir-
tuany as they wish-to assume the
most dogmatic attitudes and to
heap ridicule on any who hold
opinions of different sort. Mr..
Grafton's selected passages, indeed,
boil down to brilliant assertions Of
his personal views and scathing
mockery OF prominent dissenters.
He does not customarily deal in
such matter more than other
columnists, but, by deleting other
material from his book, he has
made the personal nature of his
work unusually conspicuous.
Evening star., 1943-08-22
Best Sellers
FICTION

~ AIo1Ns
The Robe, by Lloyd c. Doug
las.
Hungry Hill, by Daphne Du
Maurier.
The Human Comedy, by Will
liam Saroyan.
The Ship, by G. S. Forester.
The Valley Of Decision, by
Marcia Davenport.
NON-FICTION.
30 Seconds Over Toxic, by
Capt. Ted Lawson.
One World, by Wendell L.
Willkie.
Journey Among Warriors, by
Eve Curie.
u. S. Foreign Policy, by Wal
ter Lippmann.
Roughly Speaking, by Louise
Randall Pierson.
Evening star., 1943-08-22

is fast disappearing. that the un-
comfortable but tradition laden
country homes Of the aristocrats,
complete with dressing for dinner
and old family retainers, will not
survive the war. This book, then,
is sort of farewell to the past and
glimpse into the future. 1t is the
older generation thinking that indi-
viduals matter, opposed to the
younger generation, which thinks
more in terms of the nation and the
world, cosmic forces against human
beings.
Evening star., 1943-08-22
This Was Their Land
BIZ A. +. Loud. (Harper. J

This Is one more novel of France
betrayed, one more story of hapless
French peasants suffering under
German tyranny. 1t is a work of
both strength and weakness, but
the reviewer fears that the weak
ness Is the determining factor. At
any rate, the effect is of minor
piece Of writing.
The story Is concerned with q
group of peasants who remain in
their homes when the German in
vasion sweeps into the land. They
are joined by a few refugees who
are unable to go on, and there they
helplessly wait while the enemy
army comes constantly nearer.
Nothing much happens except that,
as the hours pass, the humble farm
ers and farm women discover that
they have fortitude to bear any,
thing-anything at all-and so know
that Germany can never conquer
them. 1t is psychological story
almost entirely.
The strength lies in the por-
trayal of the various individuals of
the group, which is done well, with
out overemphasis. The weakness
Is in the overstressing Of symbols
AS wandering shepherd who, car
rying young lamb In his bosom,
is much too obvious q figure Of
the good leader. The forced quality
rather outweighs the spontaneity,
and the book, on the whole, has
the character of being made to or
der to prove point.
Late and Soon
By E. M. Delafeld. (HarperJ
At A the widowed Lady Valentine
Arbell falls in love again with the
dashing Irishman she loved and was
forbidden to see at II. Thus this
novels title, Late and Soon" AL
though love is renewed within "a
hours after the Irish artist, now
colonel, and the British aristocrat
meet again, the responsibilities OF
both of them appear to stand be-
tween the fulfillment of their mel
lowed love. Complicating matters
is the love affair the colonel has
been conducting with Lady Arbells
daughter, a realistic young woman
lacking equally in manners and
morals. There Is also an old-school
British warrior, Lady Arbell's
brother, and peculiarly vicious
-in-law, both of whom are
opposed to Lady Arbell's sudden re-
version to a love of Is years ago.
Add to that little French girl,
result of another of the Irishmans
romances, and you have most of the
plot of this old-style love story in
the newer setting of Britain at war.
The author realizes and points out
that the Britain that has formed the
background of most of her books
Evening star., 1943-08-22
This Man Ribbentrop
By DR.. Paul Schpdrz. Julian
MeSSner.

By DR.. Paul SchWdrz. (Julian
Messner.)
Though this book carries In It's
subtitle the statement that it treats
of Joachim Won Ribbentrop's Life
and Times" there is little substance
between its covers to bear out such
a comprehensive claim. 1t is in no
sense a full biography of Hitler's
shady Foreign Minister, nor is 1t
q connected exposition of the time
of his dubious greatness. It Is ex-
tremely vague about the years of
Won Ribbentrop's life which. pre-
ceded his political prominence, and
it makes that vagueness worse by
seeming to promise sensational
revelations which are never forth
coming. Then, when 1t comes to the
Nazi period, it does only a little
more than retell what is already
known. Yet, in that little, there
are some passages which deserve
reading. One can truthfully say
that they are the real meat OF an
otherwise bloodless volume.
They consist in frankly malicious,
but quite probably accurate, rela-
tions of absurdities and acts of
ridiculous boorishness committed by
Won Rihbentrop In his various pub
lie capacities. He was incurably a
parvenu, says DR.. Schwarz, and no
amount of prominence could wipe
from his mind his secret feeling of
not belonging, nor could any amount
OF power make him strong enough
not to need to show of. His garish
behavior as Ambassador to Great
Britain particularly stirs the
Schwarzian contempt, and that
chapter is good and lively reading.
So is the final one, in which the
doctor sums up his subject as a
"disintegrated personality" It is
a pity that these pungent passages
should be diluted with so much that
Is colorless and without value bio
graphically or historically. If the
work had been presented as an
essay, instead of as a full-length
book, one feels that it would have
gained considerably.
DR.. Schwarz is a former German
diplomat who had the benefit of
the famous old Wilhelmstrasse
training. His scorn of the Nazi inn
provisations, therefore, is under
standable.
Evening star., 1943-08-22
Exhibitions at the
CMidren's Museum

Featured exhibits now on view at
the Children's Museum, VILLA
Rosa" include an American Indian
display, and one of Persian textiles,
clothing, prints, and other objects
from the collection of Myron B.
Smith of the Library of Congress.
The Museums summer hours are
II to on Tuesday through Friday.
1t is closed Saturday, Sunday and
Monday.