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Evening star., 1943-10-24

Shores of England describes the
five seas of the English coast.
The authentic voice of England
speaks in the words of Winston
Churchill, whose collections OF
speeches, Blood, Sweat and Tears,
The Unrelenting Struggle anc
The End of the Beginning" give
an accurate survey Of the course
of the war. Philip Guedalla's Mr.
Churchill' explains much of the
greatness of the man.
Front Line" the official story OF
civil defense in Britain, tells a ter
rible and dramatic story Of the
blitz Margery Allingham's "Oaker
Heart shows the impact of the
war on small village. The British
Library of Information has pub
lished a number Of illustrated
pamphlets piCturing all phases OF
life in England today.
These books are available at the
Public Library. Eighth and K streets
NV. o. through its branches.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
The Trespossers
By Laura z. HObSOn. IS;
G SchuSter.)

d SchuSterJ
A sharp line of demarcation can
be drawn between the two parallel
plots of this book. One. the story
OF a family of Austrian refugees.
shows quality of both writing and
Characterization. The other, the re-
latlonshlp between a New York de-
partment store buyer and a ruth
less radio tycoon, is anything but
convincing.
The two plots come together be-
cause the Austrian pSychiatrist. DR.
Franz Vederle, is dependent upon
Vera Mariner, the buyer. for ad
mittanCe to this country. The author
has done an excellent job, too, of
presenting all the red tape and hui
man obstinacies that can crop up
at time of immigration. The hopes
and the disappointmentS which the
Vederles experience in Switzerland
| while awaiting their American visas
are quite real.
This is the authors first book
She has ability as writer. but her
Judgment in putting together two
types CT writing that do not COM
plement each other is open to ques-
ton. NORMAN KAHL.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Sculpture
BY DOr0thea Greenbaum.

The exhibition of sculpture by
Dorothea Greenbaum at the Whyte
Gallery is very rewarding. Sub
Jectlvely 1t is pleasantly varied and
technically it is fully professional.
The majority of the pieces shown
are small but her simple, direct
manner Of handling conveys a sense
of size. Apparently she is neither
modernist nor traditionalist but a
little bit of both. Essentially she
relates her works to the materials
employed-bronze, nickle. stone. etc.
and sees to it that it is first and
always plastic.
Among her bronzes shown are two
full-length figures. David" prize
winner in the National Art Week
exhibition and acquired by the IN
ternatlonal Business Machines Cor
poratlon for its travelling collection.
ana an aCrobat-a Woman-cOm-
pletely nude but of fine physique.
the lines of whose body are 1.-the
and supple, rhythmic and flowing.
One of the tests to which one
puts works in sculpture to adjudge
merit is that of line, silhouette, not
as seen from single but many
viewpoints. Another is consideration
OF what for lack of better term is
called lump mass" for sculpture
Is solid and cut or nodded from
formlesS material of weight and
strength. BY both of these tests
Dorothea Greenbaum' sculpture is
founo good-in these she scores.
Her modelling is less traditional.
In some instances it is shallow and
casual. This very mannerism does
nevertheless give individuality of
expression and. to some extent,
charm.
Very pleasing are her interpre-
tationS of childhood and youth
such as Girl With Braids," Lizzie
and young Woman" the last lent
by Mrs. Morganthau. jr. Engaging
too is Head of Girl With Scarf, "
Evening star., 1943-10-24

which is in limestone, and very
freely rendered. In Tired Shopper, +"
a stout woman well nigh exhausted,
| fatigue in every line of her face and
slumped figure, is found a CLINT OF
humor, and in two heads Big
Business" and Man About Town, -
more than a touch of the satirical.
With these works in sculpture are
shown a number of drawings by
the sculptor. made as studies, but
fully significant in themselves Some
of these are of babies. some of ami
mais, tame and wild; all are evolved
from a multiplicity OF strokes from
which the subject emergeS with
clarity and lifelike vigor
Dorothea Greenbaum began her
professional career as a pupil of
Kenneth Hayes Miller, under whom,
in the Art Students League, she
studied painting In 1927 she turned
to sculpture and produced the
Sleeping Girl exhibited that year
in the Whitney Museum and now
here-an excellent work. Successes
followed in quick succession. In 1884
and 1889 she had "one man" shows
in the Wehye Gallery, New York.
In 1912 and 43 she exhibited in
San Francisco and at Williams Col
lege. In l941 she was awarded the
George Widener Memorial Medal IN
the Pennsylvania Academy and also
medal of honor for sculpture in
The Society of Washington Artists
annual exhibition in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art.
The Whyte Gallery III its new
location on Connecticut avenue has
excellent facilities for showing et-
fectlvely such small intimate ex-
hibitionS as this.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
BY Florence s. Berrr,uan,

Modern Chinese painting, an ex-
hibition assembled by the Metro
pOlitan Museum of Art, New York
City, and circulated by the Amer
lean Federation of Arts, opened last
week at Howard University Gallery
of Art, to remain through Novem-
Der 7.
Beauty both of subject matter
and presentation is the most strik-
ing feature of the show. Although
markedly different from Occidental
painting, these scrolls speak Ian
guage every one can understand Ger
tam portions are realistic, others
mere suggestions in rendering but
all are ineligible as we'll as charm
ing. Furthermore, despite the fact
that they are contemporary work
by artists who are familiar with
modern experiments, and who in
some instances have studied in
Europe, these paintings seem much
closer to traditional Chinese paint
ing than do European and Amer
ican modernists' paintings to the
works OF Europes old masters.
1t is not claimed that this is a
comprehensive cross Ss-sectlon of mod =
ern Chinese painting Only Is
artists are represented, who are now
or have recently been in this coun-
try. DR.. HUI Shih, formerly Chinese
Ambassador tC the United States
and Lin Yutang, in their admirabl
Introductory notes to the Metro
politan's catalogue of the exhibition
express regret that many of China S
best living artists could not be in
cluded. Nevertheless, those whose
work is shown are outstanding.
Among them is Wang Chi-yuan
vice president of the Shanghai Col
lege of Fine Arts. and a leader in
the modern art movement in China
He has contributed approximately
40 paintings, more than half OF
the exhibition. His series of panels
depicting bamboo under various eli
matte and seasonal conditions -
bamboo facing the wind, covered
with dew, in the rain, in clear
weather, etc.-makes a striking dis
play. All are executed in black and
white, are large in size and done
with breadth and vigor one does
not expect of Chinese painting; yet
these could not be mistaken fol
the work of any other school.
Chang Shu-chi of Chungking
who was in Washington last Janu-
airy, when an exhibition of his
painting was held at the Arts Club
is represented in the present dis
play by 8 beautiful paintings OF
birds and flowers. Every one who
had the good fortune to see his
demonstrations at the Arts Club
of his severai-color brush technique
in painting birds, will recall the
marvellous verisimilitude he got into
their appearance.
A third artist, Chang Shan-tzu
shows four animal studies which
will delight every beholder. They
have not only the appearance, bu,
Evening star., 1943-10-24

wish to know the attitude of The
War and the Treasury Departments
toward the transaction.
According to Philip H. Ward ir,
Of Philadelphia. the complete series
of Allied stamps for Italian postal
service includes: Is ccntcsimi, yellow
orange: Csc. pale olive; 30c, gray;
SOC, violet 60c. lemon; IL. green;
2L. red; 81. robin S egg blue. lQL,
yellow brown. Plate numbers arc:
44687, 1858, 4446O 44467. 4A462,
44454, 44463, 44465 and 44466. The
reproduction printed herewith IS
shown by courtesy of Ernest A.
Kehr, stamp editor of the New York
Herald Tribune.
The Sc New York Worlds Fair
stamp of 1899 finally has been
dropped from the Philatelic Agency
list Other ellminations are: SC,
blue and red airmail 1888: lOc. blue,
airmall, 1926; 81 Migratory Bird
Hunting stamp, 1910.
Ecuador is bringing out eight
stamps shown President Arreyo,
President Roosevelt and the White
House.
The late \. w. Dunning left lit
orally houseful of stamps and
covers at Cedar Landing, Wrights-
vile, n. c.
United States and Great Britain
and Colonies stamps TO be sold IN
Baltimore on November 6 will be
displayed at the Office of H A.
Robinette. 900 F. street NV. Friday
and Saturday; also November 4.
Mrs. Edward B Martin Of South
River N. j., formerly active in
Washington philatelic circles. is
registered at the Occidental Hotel,
Pennsylvania avenue near Four
teenth street NV.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tuesday evening at 6-Collectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson
School. Twelfth and L streets NV.
Yugoslavian program, with Ambas-
sador ConStantin FotitCh as guest OF
honor; exhibition and bourse
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society. Lee Shera-
ton Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets
NV. Combination quiz conducted
by Alvin R. MeiSsner; report Of
phllateliC tour of Mexico and exhibit
ton of Mexican commemorative by
Mrs. Dorothy r. Wilson.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
See What | Mean?
By LelUiS Broune. (Ran
House.

By Le1Ois Broune. (Randon,
House.
This book seems to be an au-
thor's attempt to capitalize the
current detestation for fascism.
That ought to be a good deal bet
ter than a sure-fire recipe for
pleasing everybody, one would say
offhand. But Lewis Browne is at
once so dreary in his style and SO
limited in his concept of fascism
that he fails of impresSiveness,
even with so live a theme. He has
set out to expose once more the
lunatic fringe of native American
Fascist movements, and he does SO
by having an organizer of such a
movement make his confession in
his own subliterate language. Glenn
Smullett is this worthy's name and
his habitat is Hollywood, where,
due to engaging in blackmail, he
has failed as publicity man. He
joins an anti-Semite crusade
when he becomes sure that he can
not reinstate himself, not because
he really believes that there is q
Jewish conspiracy" or anything
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Journey in the Dark
By Martin FlaUin

By Martin FlaDtn. (Hdrper.)
Here is the new Harper prize
novel, a solid, serious thing, with,
for its aim, the presentation of a
typical example from the American
generation born in the 80s. This
was the generation which grew up
believing in business success as an
ideal. It was the generation which
accepted the office-boy head Of
the-firm motto, and frequently put
it into practice. 1t was also the
generation which today is belabored
by intellectuals for materialism. Mr.
Flavin has set out to show that
basically, it was no more material
iStic than have been the people of
other periods, but that, within the
limits of its time-formed concepts,
it combined goodness and badness
in about the usual proportions.
He takes the life of one man and
follows it from boyhood to late
middle age. Sam Braden Is a poor
boy who has social inferiority added
to the handicap of poverty. He
begins life in an Iowa village where
his father, from charity, has been
made town marshal at $40 a month
He lives in Shanty Town and suffers
from deprivation of sleds and bikes
such as other boys have as a matter
of course. Nobody despiseS him or
his people, but he learns, just the
same, that the comfortable think
tlonf1oGn1yrnC y,, it,NrN Ccik, 10
to the poor
In Mr.. FlaVin's slightly forced
handling, it comes about that Sam
develops an admiration for the
towns one rich family, and a deter
mination some day to live as that
family lives. So he starts on his
career and without any remarkable
trickery or sharp dealing, but still
with a certain amount of both,
arrives at possession OF SIX million
dollars. He is. in the main, a good
man and conscious of his RESPONSE
bilitieS. But he does not get much
from his money. His wealth rep
resentS to him merely a goal which
presented itself to his young eyes
as proper. 1t is not for its own
sake or for power or possessions that
he acquired it. 1t is simply as the
realization Of a youthful conviction.
On one point the novel seems to
have decided weakness. AS a
portrait of man as a type, it is
diSconcertlngly personal. That crlti-
ciSm, Of course, leads TO the corol-
larry that there is no such thing as
type and that every mans life
is individual. But Mr.. Flavin insists
that Sam is the ideal Of his time,
and one must take his word for it.
One can say. moreover that if the
book does not have that significance,
then it has none at all.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
The Duke
By Richard Arlington. Viking
Press

By Richard Arlington. Viking
PreSS.)
Richard Aldington's aim in this
new biography Of the Duke OF
Wellington is. as he says. to presen;
life which Will avoid the evil OF
pedantry on the one hand and that
of trivOlity on the other. The at
tempt seems to be pretty successful
The work contains enough military
and political history to bring it into
the serious class. but it does so with
out entirely ignoring the charm OF
the Guedalla method.
The reader will be able to. follow
+ the Dukes campaigns both in fe1d
and in forum in close but not
tedious detail, and will also find
himself delighted by a good many
of the picturesque episodes which
thave made Wellington a beloved
! biographical subject. The reviewer
would say that the effectiveness oi
the work would depend on the read
er'S failure to have read any pre-
ceding biography, so she limits her
recommendation accordingly. Ii
there be any so beni9hted, Mr.
Aldington's life will certainly serve
them as an excellent introduction
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Hedge Against the Sun

BIZ Barbara Bentley. (DOdd
Mead.)
For some reason not comprehens-
ible to the critical intelligence,
Messrs. Dodd and Mead have seen
fit to encourage novel writing by
college students. They have offered
a prize to the boys and girls for
the best copybook. Miss Barbara
Bentley. late of Pomona College.
Calf, is the winnah.
Her book has presumably been
considered original by the judges
1t deals with the childhood fixation
theme, but gives it an unfamiliar
twist. Its heroine, from seeing her
mother made unhappy by the i'm
providence Of her father, determines
as child never to subordinate her
own happiness to love. She grows
up and marries a first-rate man,
but, due to the childhood obsesSion
is never able to think of him as
anything but a proyider for her
wants. When he falls into tempo
rary financial trouble, she leaves
him because, to remain with him.
would be to admit that she, like her
mother, was bound to a man. That
at least, is the plot as Miss Bentley
tells it to us. But as she never
makes her heroine demonstrate a
mentality above the sub-moron
level, reader is apt to suspect, in
spite of editorial assurance to the
contrary, that not a childhood fix
alton, but plain dumbness directed
the young Woman's behavior.
The novel is devoid of any crea-
tive quality whatever. 1t has no
irony, no humor, no light, no spark.
There is no reason in the world
why immature students should be
"encouraged' to do this kind of
work. Anyone who is fit to write
a novel will do so, and discourage
ment, so far in the worlds history,
has generally produced the best
results. AS it is, there are entirely
too many novels being written. any,
how. A good three-quarters of them.
or better, could be dispensed with
to the definite improvement of pub
lie manners.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Otanps
BY James Waldo Fazcceff

By James Waldo Faycef.
A campaign for a stamp in homage
to Clara Barton, founder of the
American Red Cross, has been
started by Mr.. and Mrs. Dominic
A. Brosnan of East Natick, Mass.
Readers who favor such a tribute
are invited to address Third Assist
ant Postmaster General Ramsey S.
Black.
Col. William A. Kenyon, retiring
deputy director OF the Army Postal
Service, has received the Legion Of
Merit. He was chief inspector Of
the Army Postal Express Service in
France during the First World War.
High-value st. Patrick stamps Of
the Irish Free State-2, 5 and 10
shllllngs-are appearing with the
multiple 'e" water mark.
Guatemala has brought out s.
centaroS blue portrait stamp in
homage to the Jesuit poet, Rafael
Maria Landivar, l73l-l793.
Mekeels Weekly Stamp News,
Portland, Me, has published Spe-
cialized handbooks on the stamps Of
Cambria, Monaco Crete. Nova Sco-
tia, Panama, Belgium, the Cayman
Islands and British Central Africa.
Valdemar Weiergang will be chair
man of the Banquet Committee for
the Pan-American Centenary Ninth
American PhilateLc Congress dur
ing the last week Of November.
What law, If any, governs the pri-
Vate possession of copies Of the Allied
military stamps now being used for
the transmission of mail in the
liberated portions Of Italy?
This problem was raised last week
by a report that full sheets Of such
material were being shown among
officials in Washington. Inquiries,
1t is understood, have been made as
to the potential value of five differ
ent denominations But before any
sale legitimately can be completed,
both buyer and seller naturally Will
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Best Sellers
FICTION

FIC1lON.
The Robe, by Lloyd C.
Douglas.
Hungry Hill, by Daphne Du
Maurier.
The Apostle, by Sholem ASch.
So Little Time, by John P.
Marquand.
None but the Lonely Heart,
by Richard LleWellyn.
NONFICTION.
Under Cover, by John Roy
Carlson.
u. S. Foreign Policy, by Wal
ter Llppmann.
Journey Among Warriors, by
Eve Curie.
Between Tears and Laughter,
by Lin Yutang.
God Is My Co-Pilot, by Col.
Robert L. Scott.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
7 he Art World
Navajo Art at the National Gallery
Soul pture by Dorothea Greenbaum

ment of the Museum of Navajo Cere-
monlal Art of Santa Fe of which
Miss Wheelwright is both founder
and director.
A film lecture on Navajo Art
will be given this afternoon in the
auditorium of the National Gallery
.of Art at 3'and again at 5 o'clock
A week from today, at 4 o'clock
Rene d'Harnoncourt of the Indian
Arts and Crafts Board will speak
on Ceremonial Art of the North
American Indians"
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Maxim Litvinoff
By Arthur Uphana Pope. IL
B. FiScher.J

This book is good deal more than
a biography of Maxim Litvinoff. 1t
is also a survey of the causes and
events of the Russian revolution,
and an examination of the efforts of
the European powers to achieve COL
lective security. AS far as the biog-
raphical material goes, it is almost
exclusively concerned with Mr.. Lit
vinoff as political influence, the
personal element being hardly in
cluded in the work. One can say
that the book is a history of the
political activity with which Mr..
LitVinof has been identified rather
than history of Litvinoff. In the
authors view, LitvinOff is one of
the enlighted and minded
statesmen of the day. He considers
that the future will probably bear
some marks of his shaping. 1t is
an informative and currently i'm
portant volume, written with no at
tempt toward an entertaining or
popular StVle.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Current Books
BY Mary-Carfer Roberts.

, like one, but for the sake of the
job. The movement becomes a
racket in time, and later an out
right fifth columnist outfit which
ends its career by intervention of
the FBI.
Presumably, Mr.. Browne feels that
there is a. real menace to America
in movements of this kind and
that the menace has proportions
which lift it beyond the competence
Of authorities and make it require
the vigilance of every citizen But
if his picture of the crusade is
true, it is hard to see where the
serious menace. would lie. For the
crusade" gang is SO excessively
vile that it would discredit itself to
child. The chief objection to the
book, however, is its monotone style
and it's filthy language.
La gaceta., 1943-08-10
HITLER CONSERVA
SU CALMA

Londres, agosto 1O.-El dicta-
dor obrero de Alemania, Fritz
Sauckel, dijo ell domingo por Ia
Radio, hablandO desde Paris, que
Hitler, con quien Sc entrevistara
hace pocos dias, Sc mantiene en-
calma Y tiene confianza en- la vic
toria final.
Alemania atraviesa ahora 81
mas dificil, pero al mismo tempo
ell mas grandiOso periodic de su
historic.
"Las noticias sobre ell pr6ximC
derrumbe aleman son de origer
judio."
La gaceta., 1943-08-10
ESPERASE FUERTE
RESISTENCIA NIPONA

Melbourne, agosto 1O.-Las
fuerzas niponas en- ell Pacifico o.
freceran mayor r~esistencia, en- los
venideros ataques americanos, de
la que ofrecierOn en- Munda, Sc
gun ell general Macarthur.
Villa, en- la isla de Kolomban-
CARA, a II millas, sera ell proximo
objective de las victoriosas uida-
des americans. Los japoneses en-
Villa son mas fuertes que los que
habia estacionados en- Munda.
Ell enemigo lleva refuerzos a
Villa, donde Sc arrojaron ell lunes
GO toneladas de bombas.
Macarthur ha congratulate al
almirante Halsey, jefe de las fuer
zas navales en- ell Sur del PacfficO,
porque ell viernes por la noche sus
buques hundieron un crucero nj
nippon y dos o tres d~estructores
frente a la isla de Kolongambara,
sin perder un solo barco.
La gaceta., 1943-08-10
Ell Partido Socialista Obrero
Espanol y la MOnarquia
La COmisi6n Ejecutivs del Partido SCcialsta ODrero Es
na5oI. en- reunion celebrada Ell 30 de JUNO, acordo naceE
pIblica la siguiente nota:

bio espahol a gobernarse por 81
mismo.
4.-El punto tercero del Pacto
del Atlantico, en- cuyo cumplimien
to Sc cifran las esperanzas de to-
dos los hombres liberales del mum
do, dice textualmente asi:-"Re-
conocen-InRlaterra Y Estados u
nidos-el derecho de todos los pue
bios a elegir la forma de gobier-
no bajo la cual viviran, y desean
YER restablecidos los derechos So
beranos v autonomia politica de
los pueblos que fueron privados de
esos derechos por la fuerza." Ese
e., iustamente, ell case de Espana.
Serfa un sintoma gravfsimo para
ell future, v desmoralizador para
ell ~presente que Sc acudiese a una
cfnica violacion moral del Pacto
del Atlantico para impOner en- Es-
pana una monargufa que los espa-
holes rrepudian con sObrados THU
los para clio. Quede bien sentado
que, 81 tai Ocurriera, ell Partido
Socialista Obrero Espahol, cuales
quiera que fuesen las consecuen-
cias de su actitud, no Sc conside-
rarfa obligado a ningGn acata-
miento.
Mexico, 30 de JUNO de 1943.
Por la Comisi6n Ejecutiva del
P. S. o. E.: AlejGndrO OterO, pre-
sidente; Mo nueI AIbGr, ~secretario
La gaceta., 1943-08-10
orden cabaIIero de la Luz

Sc eta para hoy, en- ell edificio
de la Gale 10 Y avenida IL, a la
Logia de Luminares Pasados No.
l., de la Orden Caballero de la
Luz.
Ruega la asistencia de todos ell
Gran Diputado.
Asuntos de gran Importance
seran discutidos.
FL Secretario.