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Evening star., 1943-12-26

characteristically dramatic in feel
ing. the past becomes the present,
and consideration is directed to
works by Degas, Manet, Corot, Gau-
guin, Redon, Lautre and other ex-
treme French modernists. The in
clusion Is wise for the art of today
will, in time, take its place in the
great tradition, provided 1t merits
the distinction. Its display with
those who have stood the test af-
fords opportunity for comparison.
Mention should also be made of
the inclusion in this exhibition of
a group of color etchings by Mary
Cassatt which came from the es-
tate of the French art dealer, VOL
lard, and not before shown in this
country, Miss Cassattt living for
many years in Paris.
This exhibition will continue to
February 13. Later on other selec-
tions from the Rosenwald collection,
SO rich in the works of the masters
will be similarly set forth.
Ambitious Undertaking.
The making of great print COL
lection for National Gallery of
Art is, as the Assistant Curator of
Prints, David Keppel. has said an
ambitious undertaking. The Print
Curator's dream is a beautiful i'm
preston of every great print that
has been made throughout the CEN
turieS, the realization of which
might seem fantastical had not the
RosenWald collection been assem-
bled and made available through
gift. With it as a splendid be-
ginning the way now lays open
to such unbelievable achievement.
Furthermore, in breadth of scope
and richness of impressions a stand
ard has been set for a National
Print Collection rivaling those of
other great nations. To have wit
messed this beginning is a stimu-
lating experience.
Exhibitions at C0rcoran.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art an
nounces the extension of two of
its current exhibitions. These are
the Annual Exhibition of Paintings,
Prints and Drawings by Merchant
Seamen of the Allied Nations, which
was to have closed on the oath,
but will continue through today;
and the Special Exhibition of Sculp-
ture by the late Paul Wayland Bart
lett, which has been extended from
the 10Th Of this month through
January 2. The Gallery, which was
closed as usual on Christmas Day
will be open on New Years, January
l. from 2 to 5 pm.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
ColIinqwood Will Discuss
u. 5. Policy Toward France

Charles Collingwood, Columbia
Broadcasting System correspondent
who covered fighting in North
Africa, will discuss What About
Our French Policy?" in lecture
Wednesday at $3.50 pm. in the Ma
tional Press Club auditorium. He
will speak under auspices of the
France Forever organization.
A native of Washington and a
graduate of Central High School,
Mr.. Collingwood was the winner OF
the 1912 George Foster Peabody
award for outstanding news report
B ing and holder of the 1943 Radio Re-
porter's citation awarded by the
National Headliners Club.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Society of Medaisfs
Issues 28th A ,card

The Society of Medalists has lust
issued its 28th medal. 1t is by Carl
l.. Schmitz, born in France in 1900
and a resident (and now citizen) of
this country since 1923. 1t represents
two of the -Four Freedoms on each
side. Being wartime issue, it is in
silver rather than bronze and re-
duced In size to about that of a half
dollar.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Morris Graues' Exhibition
Closes M Phillips Gallery

different kinds Of boats-sponge
boats at Tarpon Springs, Fla; oys-
ter boats on the Eastern Shore and
shrimp boats
The paintings are small, more of
them a foot or less in dimensions.
But they are freely and competentiy
executed, the subject matter is IN
teresting, and although they deal
with small commercial boats rather
than with majestic globe-grdling
ships, they have the charm of near
ly ali sea subjects. The exhibition
closes Friday after two months
display.
Cats and Dogs.
The Arts Clubs reception and
dining rooms are alive with animals
at present-many kinds of cats, from
fluffy Persians to sleek Siamese, a
number of appealing dogs, and a
lion and tiger. All are speaking
llkenesSes" by Gladys Emerson Cook
of New York City. About two thirds
OF the group of nearly 40 subjects,
are done in pastel, the remainder are
etchings. A few subjects are exec
uted in both mediums.
Outstanding are pastel over-life-
size head of a beautiful tiger striped
orange Persian, another head. of a
Maltese called Man About Town, "
9nT nfnl,I,1u IF ,o,,ciun 1iD,,
However. Miss Cooks work is even
in quality, and favorites will doubt
less be matter of personal taste.
France and Nesc ENGLAND.
Nostalgia glimpses of ancient
towns in France, and equally pic
turesque views of old villages on
Cape Cod, are the subjects of more
than 40 prints by Donald F. With
erstine of Provincetown, Mass, now
on view in the Arts Clubs gallery
The show is divided between block
prints and drypoints, the latter of
which seem somewhat the better,
from the standpoint of technique.
Some of the drypoints are done
with a fine line and velvety tones, as
in the little "Dunelands';; others
are executed with coarser, freer
line.
Mr.. Witherstines block prints
have extensive black areas which
give a night illumination to many
daytime subjects.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Victoria GrundoIet
By Henry Belldman. {
& Schuster.l

By Henry Bellaman. (Simon
& Schuster.)
The impressive thing about this
short novel by the author Of the
recent best-selling Kings Row" is
1.-THE contradiction in it between what
the reader is told about the charac-
ters and what the characters really
are. In Mr.. Bellaman's view. the
Ipeople of the story are wonderful
beings set aside by a tragic and
beautiful fate, other-worldly crea-
lures with a long tradition of an
tique nobility which has imbued
even their physical surroundings
with its atmosphere. But to the
reader, unhappily, the star-crossed
quality is not apparent. The char
acters, judged apart from Mr. Bella
mans comments on them, seem ut
terly ordinary people. Either Mr..
Bellaman has failed to realize that
editorializing does not make novel,
or he has tried to do something
which has been too much for him.
| 1Ilt SIOl utdlo Will lIlc Nj diiOO-
let's, an ancient Louisiana family
which, for generations, has lived on
Its paradisical estates. maintaining
an intensely self-conscious tradition
To them comes Victoria, the New
England wife of the current Gran
dolet heir, ambitious and matter of
fact. Victoria wants to become a
great lady in the Grandolet tradi-
ton but cannot-she derives from
too widely different a background.
She therefore tries to create her
own world in the Grandolet midst.
She fails and comes to a tragic end
The story is meant to be study
Iof atmosphere and its influence, but
the subtlety required by such a
theme is not in it. The reader will
find it hard to believe in either Vic
Itoria or her too well-born relatives
lin low
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Sponge, Shrimp and
Oyster Boats.

Modestly buried in two glass cases
in the gallery devoted to the his
tory of water transportation in the
Arts and Industries Building of the
National Museum, is an exhibition
of more than SO works by Philip A.
Sawyer, marine historian. They
comprise oils, pen and wash draw
ings, water colors and sketches Of
Evening star., 1943-12-26
For the Mystery Fans

Brief Reuie1Ds OF Current
DetectiUe Fiction.
The Woman in Red, by Anthony
Gilbert (Smith & DurrelD-Exciting
thing about young woman's dis
appearance. Current best seller.
Wall Of Eyes, by Margaret Millar
(Random House)-One of those
thrillers in which a decadent old
family is the piece de resistance.
Pretty good.
Evening star., 1943-12-26

fellows, but beloved and appreciated
by the slaves. He makes it an i'm
portant ingredient of his story that
the poet loved and championed the
colored race and hated white Ameri-
can society.
The Interpretation is personal and
obviously rests on sentiments OF the
authors which are similar. He
editorializes frequently and at length
over the social evils which have al
flicted our country, and frankly at
tributes them to the constitutional
Wickedness of white people. One
cannot doubt his sincerity. One Is
forced, however, to conclude that he
holds an embittered and more or
less deliberately uncomprehenslve
view of the great sweep of American
history.
In literary quality, the work Is
naive and somewhat amateurish.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
BY Mary.Carter Roberts.
Empire
By Louis Fischer. (Duell, Sloan
g. Pearce.)

U TcuCS./
In this small volume, Louis Fischer
|avails himself of the common privi-
lege of describing q proper postwar
world. He remarks that fear that
the United Nations may lose the
peace, though winning the war. Is
hardly admissible; the United Ma
tions are losing the peace right now,
in his estimation. Anyway, he says,
If the peace is lost, it will not be at
the conference table, but while the
fighting Is still going on.
The United Nations must give
concrete evidence while fighting
Isays Mr.. Fischer, that their avowed
democratic aims are genuine. What
he gets down to is that Britain must
announce to the world that she will
free India. Empire must go and,
India being the biggest one piece of
empire, the going must begin right
There
Mr.. Fischer writes with calm ON
niscence and a most impressive GER
ltainty.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
How Nozi Germany Has
Controlled Business

By L. Hamburger. (Brookings
InStitution)
Nazi Germany has exercised con-
troll over German business for a
long time Nazi Germany, despite
its socialism" did not assume pub
lie ownership of German business.
And Nazi Germany, through it's un-
socialized control of German busi-
ness, largely found Its road to con-
troll of the German nation. How
was it done?
By regulation, says the author of
this extremely interesting study.
BY extending the power of govern
ment to regulate business, the Nazis
gained control of income; by con-
trolling income, they gained control
of spending; by controlling spend
ing, they controlled the people. And
the outcome was totalitarianism. It
made a very pretty vicious circle
each extension of which was entirely
logical at the time.
Mr.. Hamburger explains the
growth in a very scholarly manner
His book is an important current
document to all Americans.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
The UnconquerobIes
By Joseph Auslander. (Sin
d SchuSter.J

oy JOoCpft HNotN"NS'' 'S'''sS''
d SchuSterJ
This is book Of poems ad-
dressed to the people Of the occu-
pied countries of Europe. 1t is for
popular reading, full of sentiment
and easy rhythm. 1t calls on the
men and women living in Nazi
bondage to hold out little longer;
it celebrates their past herolsm.
The French, the Czechs. the Nor
wegians, the Poles, the Dutch. the
Belgians, the Greeks, the Luxem-
bourgers and the Yugoslavs receive
Mr.. Auslander's encouragement,
while there is also a letter" to a
friend of his in England and a
postscript" from Finland.
The reviewer confesses possession
of the kind of mind which made
her turn to the last-named with the
greatest interest. It turns out to
be sort of requiem to the Russian
soldiers who died in the Finnish
woods when Russia attacked the
small republic.
The volume will probably enjoy
considerable popularity.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
"A Tower of Steel
is Fine Story of
Wartime Living
A Tower Of Steel
A Tower Of Steel
By Josephine Laurence. (Ltttle,

By Josephine Laurence. (Ltttle,
BrOUn.J
To the women who work In II
the Lyman law ONCE Is "A Tower
of Steer--a secure refuge from the
anxiety and emptiness Of wartime
living.
The only man left in the ONCE
Is old Marsh Lyman, the senior
partner. His three nephews, the
other members Of the firm, are of
nghting the war.
Thalia Dell, Lyman's secretary,
Is engaged to q man In the service.
Frannie Miller, the firms book
keeper, Is secretly in love with one
Of the old mans nephews. Leis
Disson, stenographer, is married to
. soldier stationed In Texas. And
Edith Voyage, "ofics boy" loves Q
young sailor.
There is nothing particularly ex-
citing about the ofiice, its star or
the situation in which they fnd
themselves. On the contrary, all
three are typical Of America at war.
The ONCE is your ONCE or, at least.
the once Of people you know, and
the characters and their situation
are equally familiar.
Josephine Lawrence Is not q
spectacular writer. She writes sim
ply, directly, without f1ourishes. But
she writes Interestingly, knowingly
and convincingly, and as result
her quiet novel makes the problems
of its lonely women in their tower
of steel' seem almost as real as II
they were your own. She has done
another flrst-rate job of story-tell-
Ing and the average reader should
enjoy it. PHILIP H. LOVE.
The Darker Brother
By BuckHn Moon. Doubleday,
DordnJ
This novel is a not altogether q
successful attempt by white man
to interpret the problems of the
colored race. The author must face
from the start, of course, the insol-
uble difficulty of trying to convey
emotions which he himself can never
feel. He has chosen to write about
world which he can view only
from the outside.
Mr.. Moon tells the story Of a
Florida colored family-Essie Mae
and her two children, Ben and
Josie-transplanted in New York's
Harlem after the death OF Essie
Macs husband. There Essie Mae
finds a loneliness in the midst Of
the teeming city which Is by no
means peculiar to her race. Young
Ben Is more adaptable. and soon
becomes a part of the life around
him.
He meets Birdie and loves her.
Their life together is a struggle. yet
scarcely more so than that which
thousands Of other young couples in
New York must have faced at about
the same time.
Uncle Rafe, with whom Efie Mae
and her children live, might have
been developed into fascinating
character. Unfortunately, he isn't.
Uncle Rafe is Harlem numbers
racketeer, preying on the gullibility
of his people, but whose family re-
lationships reflect a certain tender
ness and even nobility. Uncle Rafe
meets a nasty and violent end, and
the $4,000 insurance policy which
Is all that remains Of his under
world earnings, is dissipated by Effie
Mae when she becomes involved
with religious sect more than CO.
incidentally reminiscent Of the one
led by Father Divine.
Altogether. Mr.. Moon has fallen
, far short OF achieving what Richard
Wright has managed TO do in an
! alyZing his own race.
J NORMAN KAHL,
Evening star., 1943-12-26
THY KINGDOM
CONE!

By Gladys Lore
Revelation proiected against the world
today. The underlying influences Of
life drawn into the "alpha and OMEGA"
Of mans existence. The mark Of the
made crystal clear in de only credible
Interpretation Of this enigma ever
$z.00-yous Bookseller or post
paid from DovFenes & Co., DrexeI
Bldg. Philadelphia. s, Penn.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
The Raven

The Raven
By Chancellor Williams. (Dor-
rance
In this long novel on the life of
Edgar Allan Poe, Chancellor Will
liams, Negro, apparently has
striven to identify the great poets
sufferings with the sufferings Of the
Negro people in America. Con-
versely, he Identifies the cause Of
those sufferings with the Negroes
oppressors-the white masters of
the South. He shows us Poe mis-
understood and prosecuted by his
Evening star., 1943-11-14
No Relatives May Meet
GripshoIm at n. Y. Pier
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Relatives and friends of the Amer
ican repatriates from the Orient
who are scheduled to arrive at
New York December 2 on the ex-
change liner Gripsholm should not
expect to meet them on the pier as
that will not be permitted by the
authorities for security reasons, the
State Department announced yes
terday.
The Red Cross was designated the
sole agency at the pier for the
purpose OF giving information to re-
patriates, delivering mail and tele-
grams, as well as supplying address
ses, telephone numbers and other
information as to where they can
meet friends and relatives in New
York. \
Relatives and friends of repat-
rates have been advised, the an
nouncement said to remain at their
hotels, homes and other points OF
contact away from the pier and to
advise the Red Cross as to their
exact location and telephone num-
bers in New York.
Evening star., 1943-11-14
Won Papen Leaves Ankara
To Give Report 10 Hitler
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANkARA, Turkey, Nov. 13.-
Franz Won Papen, German Ambas-
sador to Turkey, left here last night
to report to Adolf Hitler on the
Allied conferences at Moscow and
Cairo and tonight it was said he
had indicated to confidants his be-
lief that Turkey sooner or later
would grant air and naval bases to
the Allies.
This so-called belief, however, may
have been planted Intentionally by
Won Papen in an effort to gain
Turkish or Allied reaction.
Won Papen conferred with Turkish
Foreign Minister human Menemen-
cioglu before leaving. British For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden and
Menemencioglu had held a lengthy
conference at Cairo when Mr.. Eden
was en- route back to London from
the tri-power Moscow conference.
Evening star., 1943-11-14
n. F Foster Smith Still Regarded
As Fine Fellow by Muny Here

was held under 5000 bail, and re-
moval proceedings were postponed
until Wednesday.
Lester, the FBI agents report,
was arrested in Chicago hotel Fri
day night. According to ]. Edgar
Hoover, Lester freely admitted he
cashed checks at the Statler Hotel
here when he knew they were no
good. He also told FBI agents, Mr..
Hoover said, that he had falsely rep
resented himself as a talent scout
and that there was no basis to his
claim that some Hollywood stars
were on their way to the Capital
to star in a Smith extravaganza,
Capital Capers."
Whatever his real name is, he will
remain dear to the hearts Of many
(see TALENT scQUT, Page A-223
Evening star., 1943-11-14
Reds Drive on Poland 90 Miles
Away After Capturing Zhitomir;
u. S. Bombers Hammer Bremen
Roll Center's Fall
Virtually Splits
Nuzis in Ukraine
~ the Associated Press.

LONDON, Sunday, Nov. IA
The Red Army virtually split the
Germans Ukraine forces yester-
day by capturing the rail juno
ton of Zhitomir and sped on to-
day toward the old Polish border
60 miles beyond.
Soviet forces smashed into the
city on the Leningrad-Od line
from the east, west and south ano
1t was conquered after a violent
night struggle.
Other units, Moscow said, were
converging on Korosten, a second
vital junction on the same line to
the north. One group took Cher
nyakhov, on the railway 13 miles
above zhitomir and 80 miles south
Of Korosten.
A third force that drove into
Malin was q miles east of Korosten
Occupation of this town would force
the Germans to reroute all their
north-south traffic through the
pripet marshes of prewar Poland.
100 Towns Captured.
More than 100 towns fell in yes
terday's drive that bled the Germans
with enormous losses in manpower
and equipment" said the Moscow
midnight communique, recorded by
the Soviet monitor.
Another important Russian at
tack northeast of the Zhitomir-
Korosten area was plunging ahead
through the marshes toward Rechit-
sa, now but Is miles away, to out
flank Gomel in White Russia.
Twelve heavily fortified German
strongpoints were taken and about
1000 Germans were declared wiped
out in the bloody fighting. Large
numbers of prisoners were taken and
tanks, guns and stores destroyed or
captured by the Russians.
The fall of Zhitomir also gained
another important milestone on one
of the few east-west automobile
roads in Russia from Kiev to
Southern Poland. It's capture was
announced by Marshal Joseph
Stain exactly a week after he had
triumphantly hailed the fall of
Kiev, IS miles eastward.
Nazis Abandon Supplies.
Later details told of fighting in
the streets before the Germans fed
during the night, leaving large
stores of ammunition. provisions,
big guns and trucks behind. In one
town in the area the Russians said
they found 1923 trucks, 1000 rifles
and 80 guns and mortars.
Russian guerrillas also were op-
Grating behind German lines in the
Zhitomir region and the communi-
que said they derai.ed two Ger
man troop trains and three re-
pair trains. About 400 Germans
Icoo DIICCTA nooo A ~
Evening star., 1943-11-14
BY VERN HAUGLAND,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
ADVANCED SOUTH PACIFIC
HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 13.-The
daring of American pilots, one of
whom dropped his belly tank on a
japanese plane when he ran out Of
ammunition, and lack of organiza-
ton of the enemy were credited by
naval commanders today for the
success of the latest American at
tack on Rabaul shipping and the
com3lete failure of a Japanese stab
at our carrier force.
Carrier-based dive bombers and
torpedo bombers sank three war
ships, damaged IL others and shot
down "a japanese planes Thursday
in Rabauls Harbor. Sixty-four Of
10 japanese Zeros, torpedo planes
and dive-bombers were shot down
Evening star., 1943-11-14
lovett, Watson, Dodt
10 Start Fight on
Pay Ban Tomorrow
Will Report for Work
As Usual, Ignoring
Congress Custer Move
BY the Associated Press,


Three Federal jobholders ac-
cused by a House committee of
subversive associations will show
up for work as usual tomorrow
and start a fight for the pay
checks Congress says they cannot
have.
The outcome probably will be a
court decision on the question: Has
Congress the right to police the
payrolls OF Government depart
ments?
1t Is likely to wind up in a battle
between Congress and Secretary of
Interior Ickes, who has served
notice he is ready to go to the mat
for one OF his employees, DR.. Robert
Morss Lovett, executive assistant to
the Governor Of the Virgin Islands.
Tomorrow Set As Deadline.
Congress tackled q rider to an
appropriations act several months
ago ordering that DR.. Lovett, DR..
Goodwin Watson and William E.
Dodd, jr., be dropped from the pay
rolls by November Is unless the
President submitted their nomina-
tlons to the Senate. DR.. Watson
and DR.. Dodd work for the Federal
Communications Commission.
The three were labeled ",,,f;t,
for Federal Office by the Dies Com
mlttee, which questioned their poll
tlcal and economic PHILOSOPHERS
Senator McKelar, Democrat, Ten
nesee, said House committee was
convinced the three men had COM
munistic principles"
In a message to Congress, the
President called the salary Ban IAN
unwarranted encroachment upon
the authority of both the executive
and judicial branches
All three have declared they in
tend to report for work as usual
tomorrow. The General Accounting
Offce probably will have to decide
whether Congress was within its
right when it legislated the three
men out Of jobs. If that Office and
the Court of Claims decide Congress
is right. the fight is virtually GER
tain to go into the courts for q
| decision.
Evening star., 1943-11-14
Flyers Describe Smashing Raid
On Japanese Ships at RubuuI

later when they attacked a carrier
unit.
The Japanese planes came at the
carrier force in waves, starting al
1:55 pm.
TT was one of the most spectacu-
lar battles you could imagine" said
Comdr. Forsyth Massey of Roway-
ton, Conn.,, a member of the stat
OF the admiral commanding the
task force.
Our planes had just taken of
again when 20 dive bombers came in
at $4,000 feet in good formation
They started a dive from that alti-
tude at As or so degrees.
"One section of them came down
together. Others picked out indi-
vidual ships. They scored near
misses on two carriers and four de-
(See Haugland. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1943-11-14
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Algiers, Nov. 13.-Winter de-
scended on the Italian front in
earnest today with the American
5th Army locked in grim, see
saw fighting with the Germans
on the main road to Rome and
the British 9Th Army still NOV
ing into position against enemy
lines along the Sangro River.
The 5th Army made what head
quarters described as further local
advances against stiff resistance and
in difficult country" occupying the
towns of Filignano and Pozzili, re-
spectively, four miles north and two
miles northeast of Venafro and
about 25 miles inland from the
Tyrrhenian Coast.
The Germans in their determined
resistance have struck out at sew