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he did not do it. Unfinanced ad-
venture lost it's romance for him by
then, and when his ship turned
around to back-track to East River
he was aboard. Just why, after &c
years, he has wanted to write an
account of his little youthful squirt
for freedom is his own business. He
was a fat boy, he wore spectacles
and, as he reports, was desperately
afraid of unfamiliar dangers. But,
obviously. he was more afraid of not
asserting himself. and the memory
fingered.
His account is humorously written,
but there is a pathos about it for
any one who feels writing beyond
the sight of ink. The trip should
have been adventure and it turned
out to be monotony. The shipmates
should have been fellows of wonder
full experience and they turned out
to be mere plodders of the sea
roads, at best puzzled, at worst vile.
The essence of the whole disap-
pointment came in the return jour-
ney, when young Solbodkin, after
spending three weeks cleaning the
hilges. mutinied and was put "in
irons"
The irons were an old pair OF
handouts which he could slip on
and off at ease, but. even SO, he felt
that he was being martyred for his
comrades rights and expected them
to admire him. They only ignored
him. however, and after a day of il
he gave in.
In broad comedy version, the
record sums up to what happens tt
manT romantic young hopes. Yor
laugh at them later. but they were
part of you once, and an important
part at that.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Public Library
THE SOUTH SEAS.
Bp Della p. Oakes.
Chief Sociology Division. WashinRton
Public Library.

Chief Sociology Division. Washineton
Public Library.
The native is nearly, If not quite,
as good a man as. you are. Don't
underrate his intelligence" So read
some of the cautions given our
South Seas servicemen in their "ap-
piled anthropology" courses.
Military operations have high
lighted these regions and stimulated
curiosity about the races inhabiting
them. Perhaps the Polynesians are
the only Pacific people who come
up to the glamorous mental images
which the traveller takes with him.
Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), of
Polynesian blood, has written "Vik-
ings of the Sunrise" based on an
thropological studies and incorpo-
rating legends and traditions Of the
islands. In the authors words, ut
is an attempt to make known to
the general public some of the
romance associated with the settle
ment of Polynesia by a stone-age
people who deserve to rank among
the worlds great navigators.
A more recent work is Native
Peoples of the Pacific World" By
Felix M. Keesing, an anthropologist
born and bred in the Pacific. 1t tell.
without exaggerated glamour what
the visitor really needs to know
about the people and the way they
live
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Author of MY Head and MyHeort'
Is on Library of Congress Staff
BY Harry Lever

When she isn't dabbling in Jeffer-
sonian research or converting goth
century Government girls to 18th
century cooking, Mrs. Helen Duprey
Bullock, author of the just-pub-
lished MY Head and My Heart, ;"
ponders how her French poodle,
Figaro, got his name since the only
connection between him and the
Barber of Seville" is that he oc-
casionally howls like a petulant
prima donna.
Figaro was already named when
an American composer gave him to
me" she said. Hes not very musical
and about the only thing he has to
do with the Barber of Seville is
to visit dog-barber once in while
like most poodles." :"
Mrs. Bullock is a first-rate re-
search worker at the Library OF
Congress, but apparently her work
does not stop there. She's so in
terested in culinary research, par
ticularly in 18th century cooking
she's even written a book on that
subject, THE Williamsburg Art of
Cookery now in its third edition.
It's full of early recipes for chicken
pudding and what not, and she
often invites Government girls to
unusual dinners in her home at 1880
Wisconsin avenue NV
Cooking on Grand Scale.
Let me tell you about one dish"
she began. First you take two
dozen eggs, then five pounds of
butter then -
Just minute, Mrs Bullock" the
reporter interrupted. You must be
kidding. Who's going to eat all
that?"
oh, those amounts are for fairly
large meal. Families in the 18th
century had lots of kids You can
boil it down to scale
MY Head and My Heart" was
started a year and a half ago and
released recently by G. p. Putnams
Sons, New York It's about Maria
Cosway, young wife of Richard Cos
way, painter. She was born of
1IiiS iLoiA pal CiiIS AZ lIdiy III |OS dllQ
was living with her husband and
occupying prominent place in con-
tinental society when the recently
widowed Thomas Jefferson came to
France as American Minister in 1874.
The two met, she left shortly there
after for England and then she and
Jefferson carried on a correspond
ence until his death.
Mrs. Bullock got on the trail of
the story while she was archivist
of Colonial Williamsburg On check
ing with Jefferson's correspondence
she noted strange dearth of letters
between him and Mrs. Cosway from
1885 to 1889
Il got suspicious, so I checked up,
figuring the correspondence was
pretty personal" she said. Sure
enough, two years ago Is missing
letters, all between jefferson and
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Brief Reviews
GIFT BOOKS.

| VI an VI AHCIICd. TlEldIC "
Bernard De Voto. Edited by Anne
ICrane, Hyperion; s10) A~ mos
interesting volume for any one con
cerned with contemporary Ameri
can art. Sixty-nine color plates ant
80 two-tone Autographs of painting
taken from museums, private collec
tions, collections of industrial com
panies, magazine covers and hith
erto unreproduced work from artists
studios makes a volume designed t.
give panorama of the popular ar
of the moment. Interesting for 1t
self and decidedly valuable as
record.
Furnishing With Color. by Waite
Rendell Storey. (American Studio
Books; $4.5O) Ninety-six pages
each with its picture and descrip
ton of an interior. Some color
Should appeal to any one home
minded
Roualt, by Edward Alden Jewell
Hyperion; So Monograph on th'
painting of Georges Roualt with
many black and white reproduction!
of his work and eight large colol
plates.
Rondin, by Philip r. Adams. (Hy
perion; So A collection of photo
graphs of Robins sculptures and re.
productions of his drawings ano
water colors% Accompanied by {
brief biographical text.
Degas, by Camille Mauclair, Hy.
perion; So Sixteen full color and Al
black and white reproductions OF
DegaS' paintings, accompanied by {
brief biographical essay.
An Anthology of Famous English
and American Poetry, edited by vii.
liam Rose Benet and Conrad Aiken
Modern Library; $l.45D Six hun
dred and seventy poems by 10;
poets. A good selection, from the
Elizabethans to the present.
Nom. I'm Home. by sgd Hoff
Doubleday; '$2) A collection OF
cartoons on the veterans return
For Hoff enthusiasts only.
North American Game Fishes, by
Francesca La Monte. Doubleday
So Descriptions of hundreds OF
species of fresh and salt water fish
with instruction as to habitat anc
season. Eighty-one full color plates
u black and white. Special water
resisting binding. Rod and rec
charts showing record catches
Handy pocket size.
WAR AND PEACE.
Atomic Energy in War and Peace
by Gessner G. Hawley and Sigmune
w. Leifson. CReinhold; S250)
work on the theory of the atomic
bomb and its history so far.
A Cartel Policy for the United Ma
tions, edited by CorWin D. Edwards
columbia University Press; sl.25..
Lectures delivered at Columbia Uni
versity by Fritz Machlup. Ben w
Lewis, Robert P. Terrill, Theodor,
j. Kreps and Corwin D. Edwards
For the economist
A .Psychiatric Primer for the Vet
eran's Family and Friends, by Alex
ander G. Dumas, M. D., and Grac
Keen. university of Minnesot;
Press; So Instructions on how t.
treat your returned soldier so tha
neither he nor you goes crazy.
LANGUAGES.
A Handbook on the Teaching o
| Spanish and Portuguese, edited b
Henry Grattan Doyle. ID. c. Heath
$148) A book for teachers touchin
on methods. preparation, texts an
so forth.
SPORTS.
Football: Facts and Figures, by
H. Baker. Farrar & Rinehart; SIS.
An encyclopedia of football GOVERNS
the last IS years.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Bronte Biogropher
GivesWormA Account
OF Gifted Family
CHARLOTTE AND EMILY
By Laura L. Hinkley. Hastings
House; $780,

By Laura L. H1nktey. fHdStn9S
House; $780,
The subtitle of this book-"The
Brontes better be the real
title. for the work is about the whole
famous family. 1t is a delightful
volume to a true book lover, but
whether anything more can be said
of it, I do not pretend to know. 1t
will please or enrage the critics
tnever to be mistaken for true book
lovers, by the way) according to
whether or not they are in agree
ment with it. 1t will bore the gen.
eral reader. fear. But for any one
who likes to splash about in book
tshness-warm bookishness, as dis
tinguished from cool scholarship
1t should be very real pleasure.
The author herself is plainly
such a one-at least where the
Brontes are concerned. Reading
her work, you know that the men,
bers of the Bronte family have been
her neighbors for many years. For
she knows them as you know neigh
bors-not by reading their biogra-
phieS but by absorbing their person.
alities, listening to the gossip ap-
preciating their virtues and making
allowance for their faults.
What she has written is not
family history, nor yet literary
one. She has tried instead to 60 into
the Bronte home and relive there
the experiences which surrounded
the authors and went into their
work. And by authors" she means
Branwell and Anne as well as Char
lotte and Emily. Her effort rests
admittedly on her personal inter-
probation in all the many points for
which, there is no authority. But
her personal Interpretation is helped
consistently by good sense and her
arguments are persuasive accord
tngly.
Basically she holds that the genius
Of the Brontes was an expression of
a powerful imagination which, for
reasons at present inscrutable to-
science, was innate in the four. In
Charlotte and Emily, the faculty was
linked with one for discipline. In
Anne and Branwell it was not. The
imaginative capacity alone, says
Mrs, Hinkley, produced the great
novels of the elder sisters.
There were no secret love affairs,
no perversions, no Illustrations, none
of the other erotic stimuli with
which modern critics have found it
necessary to afflict the pair The
Misses Bronte were, curate's re-
spectacle daughters who sometimes
taught school or acted as govern
esses. In addition, they happened
to be immortal geniuses. 1t was
what they Were-not what they did
which made them great.
AS Mrs. Hinkley very truly says,
Love is the easiest thing in the
world to imagine. Anybody can
imagine it. Everybody does.
The reason we cannot all, with or
without experience, write love stories
like Charlotte's or Emilys is not
that love is difficult to imagine, but
that imaginative competence like
theirs is rarely attained" For the
rest, the book is a tracing of the
course of that imaginative compe-
tence as it played on the known
events and people of the Brontes'
Evening star., 1945-12-16

set out to see the
world. Since his
m e a ms were
limited, he per-
force did the
setting out on q
paying basis. He
signed on as a
deck hand on a
forlorn oil d
freighter bound
for Argentina.
1t was his in
tention, he says,
to desert when
he reached the
lotus ! a n d S of
tho tropirs h,1t
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Best Sellers
-NATION-WID

A<HA4oAN- w Why
tAccordinE to Publishers Weekly)
FICTION.
1st-The Black Rose. Thomas b. Co.'S
"d-Cass Jimberlane, Sinclair Lewis
3o-The white Tower, James Ramsey
4thEso Wen Remembered, James
Hilton
5th-The Peacock Sheds His Tail,
Alice Tisdsle Hobart.
NoNFICTIoN.
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Crane Brinton.
Evening star., 1945-12-16

~ Cn1eJ WUTTuHt OULCeT II. ~
Kahn, jr., and T/Sergt. Henry
McLemore. THE infantry
Journal; S2.50.)
Reviewed by
NORMAN A. KAHIl.
Novelists who contemplate writing
the great book about World War II
in a couple of years, when they get
the perspective" should file
Fight Divisions" somewhere 50 they
can get at it when they need 1t.
Warrant OfIicer Kahn and Sergt.
McLemore have gone to great deal
of trouble to compile concise rec
ords of Americas combat teams.
Each history is brief, occupying gen.
orally less than two pages: but 1t
tells exactly what the division did.
where it operated, what objectives
it took. "a '
In the back of the book are tables
showing the order Of American
Army units with their commanders
and major engagements in which
the Army participated; maps Of all
the theaters where Army men op-
Grated, and color plates Of division
al shoulder patches.
1t is only fair to warn friends Of
Mr.. McLemore that they will not
find in this book any of the drollery
that appears in his column in The
Star But the book is contribu-
ton to the annals of World War II.
if for no other reason than that
given by Gen. Jacob L. Devers, com .
manding general of the ARMY
ground forces, in the preface: ITO
my knowledge, this book is the first
attempt to cover the history Of
every division that comprised our
ground combat forces"
/ Additional book reUie1Us on
on Page &C.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
- - SUNDAY, DECEMBER I6 f7%5.
Fighting Divisions

By Chief Warrant officer z. J,
Kahn, jr., and T/Sergt. Henry
McLemore. THE In tdntry
Journal. $2.50.)
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Fo'custIe Waltz
Bu Louis Sol b o d k

By Louis Solbodkin. Van
guard: s2.75J
Some 20 years ago Louis Solbod-
kin, the sculptor, then young art
student, took leave of his wet, wet
clay and for sweet adventures sake
Evening star., 1945-12-16
New Books

Democratic Education, Benjamin Fine
December IS.
Famous Pioneers for Young People. Ra-
mon P. Coffmann and Natsn G. Good
man. December u.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01
Floating DrydOeIxs
Aid Pacific Fleet

NEW YORK, June l GNS)-
war Shipping Administration re-
Ncaled today the existence Of a
fleet Of i9 ocean going tugs used
20 haul huge floating drydocks TO
the Pacific war theaters TO eXpe-
dite repair OF damaged warships.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01

Softly tailored coat-stye frock that matches row
of garden-gay plastic buttons with its ingenious
overthe-shoulder felt applique Cool in navy or
black; striking in coral or lime, sizes 10 to B.-
GARDEN ERocK stiop--Fqfb Elssr-F4~-,s--ssssss
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01
Al-Night Parking
To Be Topic June 13

A iont committee of six city
department, IS scheduled 10 con-
duct a study of all-nIght street
parking June II. II was announced
after suggestions 20 common
council that such parking be pro-
hlblfcd
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01
Stars Christmas Baby

HOLLYWOOD, June Gloria
De Haven and John Payne, pop
ular young stars, confirmed the
report today that they are cX-
pecting the birth oil a child next
Christmas.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01
Often Wed,
Denies Fraud
BY VERA BROWN

Much-married Mrs. Ruth Phelps
Haymaker Erwin Tadlock, %,
accused by Uncle Sam of using a
fake marriage 10 get money from
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01
Teachers
Celebrate
Security

Concrete plans for a new era
Of security for $500 Detroit
school teachers and several thou
sand other school employees were
being made today following last
nights victory dinner in the Book
Cadillac TO celebrate enactment
OF a state pension law.
Fifty honor guests, including
city and state officials, members
of The board of education and
CIVIC leaders Who have struggled
for years to achieve pension leg
lSlation were entertained az the
dinner by the Detroit Federation
of Teachers. AFL.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01

The Detroit Times has far more
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit newspaper.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01

Tex. Of $500 was free on bono
of $500 yesterday. II was fur
nished by her parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs Paul Phelps Of 2226 Var
Dyke.
AS the girl waited 10 be re
leased on bond, she sat in hel
cell reading a Bible.
WANTED TO WE'D
"This Is all liStake," she
said "Of course, knew 1t.
George Williams Jr. He wanted
me To marry him. refused.
You see he told his mother we
were married. After he went
overseas she sent me $50 as .
present. That's all.
1T IL "A terrible thing To
besmirch a girls fair name"
her mother added MY daughter
sent the gift check back TO Mrs.
Williams and asked her 10 make
II out In the name OF Phelps.
There was no question of de-
frauding anybody"
"She'S our only daughter, I
lust got eut of the navy and
one Of my boys II In the south
Pacific in the navy, too" the
father SAID "Certainly Ruth is
not married 10 several service
men. She's the legal wife of 1t.
Warren o. TadloCk.
MARRIAGE BROKE Up
"She was married 10 1t. Ken
meth Haymaker. he's a Virgin
ian. and she found out SHE had
10 give him all the money she
made working in a war plant.
That marriage broke up. They
were legally divorced.
AS for Erwin, that marriages
was annulled. There II nothing
10 this whole thing. The small
bond should tell YOU that"
Assistant Prosecutor 5. Vlncen
Fordell. however. says the gir
wrote 70 Mrs Williams 10 ask fol
$500 The girl allceedly claimed
20 be the officers legal wife, anC
SAID that child born 10 then
had died.
The Phclus familY returned re
Gently from California where the,
had gone after Phelps was re-
leased from the navy ayear ago
Mrs. Tadlock went 10 Field Schoo
here, and said she completed hel
schooling on the coast.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01

Hthe mother OF
soldier over
Yeas, today said
the whole thing
is a misunder-
standing
A h e st a l.
HA9tie brown
haired, bro ~n
eyed girl, ac-
cuSed by fed
eral authorities
of using tn @
mails TO de-
Al
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01
LONG FIGHT DESCRIBED

After short speeches by Gov
Kelly and Mayor Jeffries, Miss
Mabel c. Woodward, president of
the Retirement Fund Board. WV
idly described the long fight that
ended May 4 when Gov. Kelly
signed the Warner-Storey-Mont-
gomery retirement bill.
Provisions of the bill, which goes
into effect July ], call for a state
appropriation of S3,200.000 which
IS 10 be supplemented by city
funds and contributions from the
school employees.
approximately 1000 Detroit
school employees will be benefited
including the 800 teachers.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01
FUNDS NEAR DEPLETION

Miss Frances Comfort. eXecu-
tive secretary Of the federation,
pointed out that for years the
teachers have been contributing
S75 yearly out of their salaries
into a retirement fund that has
been rapidly depleted
She said that in l5 years the
City of Detroit had added only
SIS 600 10 the fund. Under the
present law the city Will be re-
qulred 10 apporuon al least half
million dollars year 10 augment
state appropriations and salary
deductions.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-12-13

ture has been done for 1.-THE
Suspect. Add to that one of the
best performances Charles Laugh
ton has ever given and you get
a picture of unusual quality. The
theme is more tragic than melo-
dramatic, although it concerns one
murder committed in cold fury
and another in fear. Aside from
the victims who are unbelievably
despicable, the characters are all
attractive people. The story is
told quietly and relentlessly, with
occasional humor, and charm. Re-
membering some of Charles
Laughton's past performances, is
there any actor who can compare
with him in portraying bad table
manners, plotting new deviltries,
being blood thirsty, or gentle. Is
there any actor who is 50 con-
vincing in any part he plays. None
comes to mind there's only
Laughton, who is superlative in
character portrayal. Laughton is
great.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-12-13
BENTON THEATRE

IT you have not seen Sonia
Henie in Technicolor, you have
not seen her at the high point of
her glamour. And if you haven't
seen cts A Pleasure, which
opens at the Benton Tuesday for
a three-day run, you have not
seen her best picture.
Yes, color does a lot for Miss
Henie, but since you last saw her,
Miss Henie has done a lot for
herself. She has shed her chubby
plumpness and has become PIN
up girl to rival Betty Cradle. She
is slender, vivacious and charm
ing and her skating is as marvel
Gus as ever. And in one gorgeously
staged sequence she leaves off her
skates to make her debut as a
dancer.
Pictorially, the new Henie film
is an eyeful from beginning to end.
The story is the romance Of pro-
fessional hockey player and a
skating star and is a much better
than-average yarn. Miss Henie is
supported by an excellent cast
that includes Michael O'Shea as
her costar, and their performances
are tops.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-12-13
Lions Play 70
Games IN Season

Seventeen games are left on the
Kennewick High school basketball
schedule. Tonight the Lions play
River View on the opponents
floor in their fourth game. Final
game will be a return match with
Walla Walla here on February is.
Following is the schedule.
Dec. IA, Hover at Hover; Dec.
ID, Hermiston at Kennewick; Jan.
4, The Dalles at The Dalles; Jan. S,
The Dalles at the Dalles; Jan. 8,
Hermiston at Hermiston; Jan. IL,
Prosser at Kennewick; Jan. Is,
Pasco at Pasco; Jan. %, Sunnyside
at Sunnyside; Jan. Is, Richland at
Richland; Jan. %, Grandview at
Kennewick; Feb. /, Prosser at
Prosser; Feb. S, Pasco at Kenne-
wick; Feb. 8, Sunnyside at Kenne-
wick; Feb. 8, Walla Walla at Walla
Walla; Feb. IL, Richland at Kenne-
wick; Feb. Is, Grandview at
Grandview; Feb. l6, Walla Walla
at KenneWick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-12-13
FILL 7l,ooo, 900 TEETH

The Army Dental Corps has
made u, O0O, 900 filings, 16, 500, 900
extractions and 100000 dentures
for military personnel since Pearl
Harbor, Ninth Service Command
Surgeons office learned today at
Fort Douglas, Utah.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-12-13
ROXY THEATRE

ROXY THEATRE
All that sensitive direction,
intelligent production and a
forceful script can do for pic
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-28
Ben to Bid
For Trials
By GEORGE r. VAN

Ben Bagdade is all steamed up
over the idea of bringing the
American Olympic speedskating
trials for the 1948 team 10 Michi-
gan next winter.
PetoSkey, Grayling or Alpena
are likely sites, he says, pointing
out that Michigan was moving up
in front as a winter sports center
before the war and that the
Olympic tryouts would focus at
tention on the sport in the state.
Bagdade has Just returned from
the annual meeting in Chicago of
the American Skating Associa-
ton where ne was named first vice
president. Next son, the
Olympic year. he is slated for the
top office now held by Herb
Schwartz Of St. Paul who sue
ceeded Ted Young of 81 Louis.
Del Broughton Of Wyandotte
accompanied Bagdade. was made
national Judge Michigan, ac-
cording TO Bagdae held m o r e
skating meets than any other
section in the l.. S IN l945. The
national championships viii be
held at ST Paul Feb. %.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-28
Sonia TO Use
Double Stage

The technical staff The advance
guard of the Sonia Ienic Holly
wood Ice Revue, which opens a
Tonight stand At the Olympia
Stadium Friday night arrived IN
Detroit early from Indianapolis,
where the revue closed Sunday
The crew must put together the
huge revolving double stage that
has been constructed for the
worlds largest ice revue The
stage. an innovation in handling
settings and scenery, avoids the
usual wait between scenes.
The technicians are: Al Sou
dan, Nay Gaynor, Joseph Baker
and Roger DriScoll.
The local engagement closes
Wednesday, Dec 10, and there is
no performance scheduled for
Sunday Dec. 9.