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Ceferino Palencia Exhibition
By Florence s. Berryman,

An exhibition of paintings and
other work by Ceferino Palencia.
sponsored by the Ambassador of
Mexico and the n-American
Union, opened october 6 at the Ma
tional Museum. The artist who
came to Washington for the open
Ing OF this show, his first in the
United States. is a Spaniard who
went to Mexico after the Spanish
Civil War.
He studied in Madrid under Edu-
ardo Chicharro, at whose studio he
met young Mexican later to become
famous, Diego Rivera. Senor Pa
lencia's work is predominantly con-
servative. its novelty lies in his sub
jects. Three paintings, for in
stance, intended as tryptich, en-
titled Straw Fair in Mexico" are
arrangements of figures, trees, ami
mails and other objects made of
brightly colored straw by Mexican
Indians. with which all visitors to
Mexico are familiar.
Figurines Of painted plaster or
pottery, representing folklore char
acters, are subjects of three other
oil paintings, which, with a decora-
tive arrangement inspired by play
ing cards ("Royal Dynasty') and q
still life of Indian masks, give the
exhibition as whole q CAV and
whimsical air. The artist also shows
two experimental paintings in the
modernist idioms of the School OF
Paris.
A number Of portraits, some in
oils, others in watercolor, favorably
impress the visitor with Senor Pa
lencia's ability to achieve like
nesses, with uncompromising truth
fulneSs.
Undoubtedly some visitors will
like best such smaller works as the
delicate little watercolor drawing
entitled THE Blind Man" and the
four crayon drawings of Mexican
landscape, all Of which manifest thu
artists good draughtsmanship.
Two large etchinss Of Spanish "a.
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We live in plastic age. Plastic
products have become essential parts
OF our environment at home and at
war. Both as substitute and As pri-
mary materials. they have earned
their place of Importance. And, in
evitably. mass of printed matter
has been produced to define, explain
and describe the various products
which are included under this name.
A variety Of books, magazines and
pamphlets on plastics are available
in the Technology Division Of the
Public Library. Eighth and K streets
NV. and in the neighborhood
branches.
For those readers whose knowl-
edge OF chemistry consists only of
memories of required course taken
some years ago, there are two books
which describe in entertaining style
the development Of plastics. One is
This Chemical Age" by William
Haynes and the other Science Re-
makes Our World" by James Stok-
ley. Both include other materials
and processes. but they devote sew
eral chapters to plastics. These will
give all the information needed to
enjoy the new lucite furniture, the
plastic parts Of automobiles and air.
planes and the touches Of color in
handles and bottle tops in the
kitchen.
Pioneers Of Plenty" by Christy
Borth is collection Of biographies
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Gaelic or Irish language.
DR.. M, Y. Dabney of Birmingham.
Ala, has been elected president OF
the Confederate Stamp Alliance.
national organization Of collectors
and students of the postal emissions
OF the Confederate States of Amer
lea, 1861-1865.
Stamp collectors generally do not
approve of V-mail. but they are
fair-minded about it, The follow
ing editorial comment from the
Boston Post therefore is quoted in
this place:
Lots OF people have not been sat-
lSf1ed with V-mail. They have COM
planned that the small writing is
sometimes hard to read Others think
the personal touch is lost when the
letters are photographed and re-
produced
Ihere are many reasons for "
mail. The most important to the
senders and recipients is that "
mail gets through. A recent incl
dent is good Illustration. A plane
carrying 100000 V-mail letters was
forced down. The Army post office.
learning OF the mishap. swiftly saw
to 1t that duplicates of the letters
were forwarded. Those receiving
the letters will perhaps never know
that the originals met with an acci-
dent that would have meant lono
delay. After all. actually getting
that precious letter, in as good time
as possible, is what really counts"
The Collectors Club of Washing.
ton will meet at the Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets NV.
Tuesday evening.
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Who Could Ask for
Anything More?
By Kay SWitt. (Simon &
SchuSter.)

oy huy OUJL. (StHlOU q
T Schuster.)
A New York sophisticate-author
OF the hit song, Cant We Be
Friends?"-meets and marries a
cowboy. This is her story OF life on
an Oregon ranch, told with honesty
and a sense of humor that never
deserts her. She describes a sue
cession of farm hands. some funny,
*some pathetic She tells anecdotes
about characters of the nearby
towns: describes Western Fourth
OF July celebration, rodeos and
carnivals. She takes her readers to
the graduation from country
school, does searching piece on an
old-timer who is near death, reveals
some of the secrets of the men who
follow the carnivals
She admits at the end that she
misses her friends. the sights and
sounds of New York. but, she points
out. she has been given the thing
that everybody in the world wishes
fora second chance.
Readers will like Miss Swift. She
takes them into her confidence,
makes them laugh when she feels
like laughing and sad at the things
that make her sad Because she is
stranger to the West, she finds
it all vivid and exciting. She gives
her readers a chance to share that
experience
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
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Prisoner of the Jops
By GUen De1r. (KnoptJ

1t Is difficult for those who have
not faced the physical experience OF
war to conceive of it as a concrete
reality. For all our films and jour-
nallStic accounts, we who live at
peace in warning Nation can never
completely understand the tremen-
douS personal impact of battle. So
felt Gwen Dew, an American news
paperWoman, when she left for the
Orient shortly before Pearl Harbor.
She went with single purpose: to
seek war and, by her description, to
give those who have been spared
the necessity Of confronting it an
understanding of its ultimate ma
ture.
1t is not enough to say that she
has succeeded, for Prisoner of the
JapS' is more than either an objec-
tive account of experience or an in
Prospective study of one woman's
reactions. Miss Dew was with the
defenders of Hong Kong from the
first day of its siege until that island
fortress lowered it's flag in bitter
submission to the japanese: later,
she was imprisoned for six months,
along with hundreds of British and
American civilians, in the concen-
tration camp at Fort Stanley What
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The Age Of Plastics
By Eixabsfh M. Cole.


of modern chemists. The stories Of
the work of these men in chemurgy,
plastics and other fields of indus
trial chemistry are almost like fairy
tales. OF special interest to those
reading about plastics is the chapter
on DR.. Leo Baekeland. who discov-
cred how to produce the plastic
known as bakehte.
There is q steadily increasing
number of books which discuss
plastics for the engineer and de-
signer. Among the newer one are
"Plastics" by J. H. Du Bois, "Plastics
for Industrial Use" by John Sasso
and industrial Plastics" by Herbert
r. Simonds. In addition, the maga-
zine, Modern Plastics, and the an
nual reference volume, "Plastics
Catalog," contain the latest devel-
opments.
The plastics industry has great
plans for postwar development
hints Of which are given in many
magazine articles. "Molding the
World Of Tomorrow" in Popular
Mechanics for July, 1943, lists future
possibilities for plastics as colorfu
building materials, flexible water
pipes and synthetic textiles. Ar
article In Sales Management fol
February Is, 1943, predicts a true
plastic automobile Of revolutionary
design. The future of plastics
based on brief but eventful past
promises to be unlimited in its va.
| riety of both color and texture.
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I he Art Word
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Exhibition
AT National Archives Building
BY Leila Mechlin.

Mechlin.
British, a head in the clouds, feet or
the ground feeling, which after al
is Mr.. Churchill
President Roosevelt's ancestor.
followed the sea, and for it, and its
life, he has. it is well known, love
and keen interest This is mani
tested in the present exhibition by
number of ship models, together
with prints of ships and naval ac-
tions from the early days of oul
Republic to today.
Ship Models.
Among the models is one of the
Constitution (Old Ironsides)-
most famous in the aNnals of Ameri-
can naval history,-which is almost
as old as the ship herself, having
been made here in the Washington
Navy Yard in 1915, by her ships
Carpente,. Another very engaging
model s of the slender and beau
tifully designed Flying Cloud" the
fastest clipper which ever sailed the
seas, built, it will be remembered
at Boston yard, and in the China
trade from 1862 to 1874 Ship
builders were in those, and earlier
Gays, artists as we'll as artisans, and
the modelmakels. of today are
scarcely less talented. There is a
f1ourishingr Society of Ship Model
makers here, in our country now
which includes in its membership
not a few well-known painters.
In this connection mention should
be made of model of H. M. S
Bounty" built by o. G.. Holmes
a research model-maker, for the
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer "Mutiny on
Bounty model contest and shown
here not only on account of its fine
workmanship. but because of the
part ii 4asldf its Infamous master
played in bringing to notice and
hence reform certain evils at that
time beset'ing the British navy.
Recalling the past and the ex-
ploits of our own Navy are the
prints in this exhibition, the major
lty of which are in color, and very
graphic. These include one of the
IS. frigate Consultations, engaging
the French national frigate LIN
surgente" February 9, 1899, which
did not, it must be said. exactly
further our efforts at that time to
enc the Quasi war with France
then in progress and greatly dam
aging to our commerce.
Another shows the merchant ship
Planter defending herself against
French privateer, and yet a third
pictures Commodore Preeble attack
ing, with his famous squadron, the
forts off Tripoli, stronghold of pirate
vessels, the highwaymen of the sea
in 1904. When these prints were
produced there was no photography
no cables, nor wireless to carry the
news, their cost was little, hence
their great popularity Quaint as
some now seem, they have, in many
instances, surprising artistic merit.
A light and pleasing note is
struck in this exhibition by a grouu
OF drawings of the Presidents pet
dog-Fala-constant companion and
devoted. They are by Alan and John
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thedrals are the only souvenirs of
MS native land. They add a fifth
medium to the exhibition, which is
presumably a characteristic cross
section of the artist work. The ex-
hlbltlon will remain until Octo-
ber 81.
NetO Exhibitions at
Arts Club.
The Arts Club began its season
auspiciously last Sunday with the
opening of an exhibition of gouache
paintings by Laforce Bailey and
modern French prints lent by the
Whyte Gallery.
MI. Bailey's paintings fill the gal
Iery and overflow into the dining
room. All of them depict Cape Cod,
chiefly Provincetown, at which we'll
known artists colony he spends his
summers. He is professor of art at
the University of Illinois.
The paintings are large, rugged in
character and rather dark in tone.
They are best seen from a distance
OF 10 feet or more, due to their
breadth of handling. Their subjects
are harbor scenes, boats, glimpses of
Provincetown, its old buildings, mar
row streets, crowds of natives, tour
lists and artists. The show as an
entity, gives the flavor of the place
Original prints, by modern French
artists. make colorful display in
the Arts Clubs reception room. They
comprise color Autographs, etchings
and block prints, which were shown
last year at the Whyte Gallery, but
are well worth seeing whenever the
opportunity is offered.
Both exhibitions will remain until
October %,
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she has to say of life under bomb
and bayonet comprises one of the
wars most moving documents, one
that calls for revision of many of
our conceptions OF warfare.
For the graphic description Of
modern warfare. particularly the
tremendously exciting account Of
the seige of the Victoria Hotel, and
for the light thrown on the charac-
ter Of our Oriental enemy, "Pris-
oner Of the Japs" is a fascinating
book. But the lesson to be learned
on war and its effect on human
character raises the book to the
level of the very best reports on
war experience. MS.
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P r e S i d e n t OF
Fire, is the fea-
ture of a h-
p e n ny green
and a 212 12-penny
r u by released
for the 50th an
niversary of his
organization of
t h e G a lie
League to revive
the use of the
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design in its new
series Of four
S t a m ps COM
memorating the
Tooth anniver-
sary of the first
Brazilian post
age stamp. The
new issues in
clude: 80 een-
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OtanPs
By James Waldo FatOcsff.

~ SUWeS " OSVO HUtVCeITs
The death Of w. Kelsey Hall, vet-
sran Rhode Island stamp dealer.
has been announced In Mekeels
Weekly Stamp News. He was well
known in Warrington from having
attended several conventions here.
Philip n. Ward remarks: with
the millions Of stamps being manu-
factured at the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing daily . It Is not
surprising that errors creep in from
time to time. Indeed. the surprising
thing is that moro errors do not
occur"
Hundreds of stamps listed IN
Scott's Standard Postage Stamp
Catalogue at Z cents each cannot BE-
bought at 40 times that small
amount.
Italy, in the midst Of the greatest
convulsion in which It has been In
volved In modern times, has brought
out four beautiful stamps in homage
to Calico Galilei, the philosopher
and astronomer.
Dee's Stamp House, Tulsa, Okla.
recently was looted OF more than
$4,000 worth OF philatelic material.
The dates for the American Gen.
tenary OF the Postage Stamp and the
Ninth American Philatelic Congress
to be held ut the Pan-American
Union Building are November 2s.
n and %.
According to the New York Herald
Tribune, Postmaster General Frank
G. Walker denies rumors that new
postage stamps for the Army. Navy
and Marine Corps have been under
consideration"
The Luxembourg Bulletin for july
August contains feature article on
the Luxembourg stamp of the United
States, including the text Of a letter
written by the Grand Duchess Char
lotte to President Roosevelt on
August 10.
When American troops occupied
Holtz Bay. Attu Island. they found
IN the post ONCE there certain
strange and curious Japanese
stamps as yet unexplained.
DR.. Herman L. Kretschmer OF
chicago, new president Of the Amer
ican Medical Association, is an ar
dent stamp collector. .-
Norway. despite German occupa-
ton, brought out series Of stamps
to mark-but not to commemorate
the centenary of the birth of Edward
Grieg, the composer.
A leading Washington philatelist
recently severed his connections with
more than 20 different stamp So
cieties. The explanation. he says,
is a desire to save all his leisure
time for work on his collection.
The Old Sleuth, writing in Stamps
Magazine, says: Probably the most
popular stamps on the market today
are those of Canada"
H. A. Robinette, 900 F street NV,
has published an illustrated cata-
logue OF United States, Great Brit
ain and colonies. to be sold at the
Longfellow Hotel, Baltimore, Satur-
day. November 6.
George A. Scott, writing for the
Associated Press, says: Brazil has
reproduced its famous 'bulrs-eye'
Evening star., 1943-10-17
MIRIAM OTTENBERG
Malta Story

By w. L. RiUer. (Dutton.)
For two years, Flying Officer
Howard A. Coffin kept a diary of
his experiences with the Raj in
Malta, and this book is the result.
Coffin, native of Los Angeles.
joined the RAF in January, l94l,
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Meet Mr.. Blank


By Countess Waldeck. Put
nam'S
Under this irritatingly smart
aleck title, the Countess Waldeck.
author OF "Athene Palace" under
takes to survey the field of possible
postwar leaders of Germany and,
II not to name the winner, at least
to indicate the comparative chances.
She proceeds by examining social
and political groups-the royalists,
the militarists. the industrialists
the refugees, the professional poll
ticians, the clergy, the communists,
labor, the liberals, the bureaucrats
and so on. In one of these, she
says, is the future head of the
German state. Who will it be? The
American public, familiar with the
great game Of picking the Derby
and the World Series winners, is
likely to find sporting appeal in
her undertaking, but, at the same
time, is hardly likely to take her
very seriously. Just the same. there
is some interesting information in
her book. There is also some in
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tavos. 60 and 90c, and in addition a
souvenir sheet composed of the first
three values and pictures of En-
peror Dom Pedro II. Brazilian ruler
in l843. and President Vargas, pres
ent chief executive"
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At Howard University:

Howard University will open today
an exhibition OF modern Chinese
paintings which were previously
shown In the Metropolitan Museum
In New York.
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Langdon Foster. illustrators of New
York, and will be found engaging.
In quite another class and with a
touch Of the regal are examples of
the unexcelled craftsmanship of
North African metalworkers - a
magnificent tiara of openwork gold,
studded with semi precious stones OF
brilliant color and a pair of brace
lets in gold filigree sent by the Sui
tan of Morocco, by the President, to
! Mrs. Roosevelt. Also a sword of
Damascus steel with diamond-set
scabbard, also the gift of the Sultan,
but to the President and hence the
Nation. These treasures seem in
deed direct from Aladdin's palace,
their art essentially that of an ar
tistic people stepped in tradition.
To pass from these to the illus
trated books for children, cherished
since boyhood or collected by the
President as part and parcel of our
American life and ideals, might
seem long step. but art is in the
simplest as well as the most elabo-
rate productions. 1t is this. per-
haps, above all, that the exhibition
from Hyde Park now in the Ma
tional Archives teaches. It will be
open to the public until November
Is. No one should miss it.
Exhibition of Navajo Indian
Paintings Opens Today.
A special exhibition of paintings
made in the Navajo country and
Illustrating the art of the Navajo
Indians will open today in the Ma
tlonal Gallery of Art and continue
through November IA. Eighteen OF
the, hundred or more works to be
displayed are reproductions in
gouache Of Navajo sand paintings
depicting the war ceremonial which
accompanies the induction of Nav
aJo trlbesmen into the armed forces.
These are by Miss Maud Oakes, who
has spent the last three years on
the Navajo Reservation and are only
part OF her contribution.
Another notable group is that of
paintings by various artists, chiefly
of the Southwest, illustrating Nav.
ajo myths of creation, collected by
Miss Mary Wheelwright of Boston,
founder and director of the Museum
of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Sante Fe.
N. Mex.
This exhibition will be given fur
ther value and interest by a series
of related lectures and films by
eminent authoxities for which the
National Gallery of Art has arrang-
ed and announced simultaneously.
The flrst-on Dry Paintings of the
Navajo Indians will be given this
afternoon at o'clock by Clvde
kluckholm of Harvard University.
Sculpture by
DOrofhea Greenbaum.
The Whyte Gallery is showing
now and until the end of this month
collection comprising 18 works
In sculpture by Dorothea Green
baum of this city Mrs. Greenbaum
Is member of the National Sculp-
ture Society as we'll as of the Sculp-
tors Guild. Among other distinc-
tions she has that of being repre-
sented in the museum collection at
Moccow.
Exhibitions Postponed
Owing to delays in transportation
the Marsden Hartley and the East
West exhibitions, which were to have
opened in the Phillips Memorial Gal
lery today, have been postponed
until October "a.
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A few months later, after training
in Canada and England, he went
to Malta, where he fought through
1000 enemy air raids in 400 days.
Only five of the 200 fighter pilots who
went to Malta with him survived,
and he had several close brushes
with death himself. He was shot
down three times and crashed once,
and spent total of nearly five
months in hospitals. Now he is in
the United States Army Air Forces,
serving as an instructor in aerial
gunnery at Craig Field, Alabama.
Mr., Rivers has cone a splendid
job Of writing the Malta Story"
Pill.
Brief Reviews
Readers Guide to Books in
Various Fields.
NOVELS.
The Incorruptible. by Marjorie
Coryn (Appleton Century, - His
torical novel based on the life of
Robespierre. Superficial.
The Covenant, by Brigid Knight
(CrowelD-Story of triangle. War
background. Trade piece.
Without Orders, by Martha ALI
brand Uittle. Brown)-War story
based on American officers adven-
lures in Italy Lively.
Our Daily Bread, by Enrique Gil
Gilbert (Farrar & Rinehart)-Life
on a rice plantation in Ecuador
Awarded honorable mention in the
1912 American prize novel contest
Well done.
Friday, Thank God, by Fern Rives
putnam 's)-Promising first novel
about high school teachers and their
students.
Spell of Egypt, by Victoria Wolf
(Fischer) )-Romance on a mummy
hunting expedition to Egypt. Pretty
good.
AVIATION.
Love at First Flight, by Charles
Spalding and Otis Carney (Hough-
ton Mifflin)-A young mans rise in
Navy aviation, illustrated by Carl
Rose. Both text and drawings are
very good.
PEOPLE.
George Washington Carver, by
Rackham Holt Doubleday. Doran)-
Biography of the great colored
scientist.
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The Battle Is the Poyoff
By Ralph IngersoH. (Harcourt.

~ Kdtpn ln0erSOH. (HGrcOurt,
Brace.)
|. The trouble with newspapermen's
books about the war to date has
been, to this reviewers way of think
ing, the general failure to describe
a military action as military &C
ton. This, certainly, is not because
Of the correspondents failure to
get into engagements. Plenty Of
them have been under fire and
have written of the experience.
But nearly always their accounts
have been in terms of personal re-
action. This, they will say, is how
1t feels to be dive-bombed; this is
what I thought when I was being
machine-gunned, or torpedoed, or
sniped ut, or whatever. They have
written As civilian observers, in
other words. In the present vol
ume, by way Of change, We have
report on = battle by a newspaper
man turned soldier. The former
editor Of PM Is now captain in the
Army, and the battle which he de-
scribes is one in which he partici-
pated, not as writer, but as
fighter.
He was an aide to the captain Of
q company OF engineers who went
into battle in support of a Ranger
outfit. It was in Tunisia, and the
action consisted of assaulting an
italian position commanding road
over which the Americans wanted
to advance. The Italians were vir-
tually "impregnable," says Capt. In
gersoll-but only from the front.
Their rear lay toward their own
lines, and they had no expectation
Of being attacked from that direc-
ton. So the Rangers and their
supporting engineers slipped around
behind and gave Mussolini's boys a
surprise.
They had to march all night
through grim mountain country to
do it, and they attacked without
resting any after their gruelling
trek. They fought all day and got
the Italians cleaned up on schedule.
Capt Ingersoll, who is AZ, admits
that he could not hold the pace and
took few maps during the day of
battle. That was all right. because
his boys were not in the assault. He
saw the whole fight, notwithstand-
ing. Once, when he was just drop
ping of. he was recalled to alertness
by a pair of Stukas. There was al
ways something.
Capt. Ingersoll's battle report is
step-by-step and will be beautifully
comprehensive even to the greenest
civilian. He never gets lost in the
woods at the expense of the trees
You know just what Is happening
every minute, you know what was
scheduled to happen at that min
ute and you know what will happen
If things do not come out according
to plan. You see the whole action
with wonderful clearness. Without
saying more. the reviewer will call
the thing little masterpiece of bat
tie reporting. A writer is always a
writer. He may be captain of en-
glneers, too, but only simultaneously.