The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26

She shared the physical misery and risked the death that has taken so many war photographers and correspondents. Much credit would be due her even if the results of her tough assignment were less i'm presSive.
 Photography on the front was no new chore for Miss Bourke- White. She had become familiar with the sound of guns in Spain, China, Russia, and North Africa. In the latter theater Corporal Jess Padgitt, of DSe Moines, was as- signed as her Man Friday. He ap- pears much in this book, stands out as everybody's CT in Purple Heart Valley, that dangerous and bloody stretch near Cassino; but there are pilots, monks, doctors, privates, gen. erals, and artillerymen. You get to know them all and you get to know as much as any non -combatant could possibly know of the hell in Italy, through the authors pictures and equally graphic words.
 U. S. CAMERA ANNUAL
 Quite the finest pictorial record of the war to appear thus far is "The U. s. At War: The U. S. Cameras Annual, 1945," distributed by Duell Sloan & Pearce: (S4.5Ol Commander Edward Steichen, U, s. N. R., edited by Tom Maloney, and has a foreword by Admiral Chester w. NimitZ.
 The year 1944, historys greatest year of invaSions, is recorded by photographers of all branches of the armed services, Yank, the Army magazine, and the major news serV- ices, including the work of Charles Corte and Michael Alderman, NEA- Acme warpool correspondent-pho- tographerS. Titles of some of the pictures convey some idea of the exciting and dramatic content of this book: Battle for Tarawa; Sal erno Beachhead; Naples Post Office Blast (Corte); Wading Ashore at Cape Gloucester; Dive Bombing a Jap Freighter; Tanks Coming Across Kwajalein Airf1eld; Landing at Maxim; Death in a Shellhole, Eniwetok, and Jap Meets Flame throWer.
 Nearly all of the photographs are full-page; the accompanying text gives an excellent background for each photo and the events sur rounding its taking. "The U. s. A. at War; Is a book whose value will increase throughout the coming years; something to be gotten out, paged through-and shuddered at, even though most of the wars more realistic horror has been omitted in its pages.
 ARTISTS as well as photogra- phers are busy chronicling the war; "GeOrge BiddIe's War Drawings is one of four art books published simultaneously by The Hyperion Press, and distributed by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, each priced at $500. Riddle sketches men. mules, and landscapes in the Mediter- ranean theater in free, almost car- toon style. There are F full-color pages, approximately 100 drawings in black -and-white.
 "RenOlr." by ROsamund Frost Is another of the group, and contains only reproductions of the works of the modern old master which are in American collections. Eight color plates, 48 in black-and-white, prove that some of Renoir's best may be found In the museums and private collections of this country. Striking Is his Madame Charpen- tier and Her Children; hit hard to take is his "The Shepherd Rest ing" in which the basic red domin- ance is almost binding. Brief but information biography and critique helps to evaluate and enjoy the pictures.
 COMPLIMENT FROM DEGAS
 MARY CASSATT." by Margaret Breuning gives orchids to the artist who drew from Degas the comment, "I do not admit that woman can draw so well" Best known as a painter of children. Mary Cassatt (1845-1926 put character and real" fly in her young subjects to an astonishing degree. The eect of Jap