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Evening star., 1946-04-21
Civic and Study Clubs

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CAPITOL Hill History Club-Wednesday
with Mrs, Walter Metz,
American Association of University Wom-
en-T omorroW. 3 m. lnternat tlonal re-
HsTod 9ni fseHSson groHn 55T0sp sPeake5 MTs c
PLAYERS Of George Washington Unlver-
s!ty. THURSDAY. 6:l5 pm, Program
&ationai iie Housna ;s! LesisistioH SIN NJ
art .appreciation group; speaker, George
T; Hamilton, Mature. Man and struc-
Twentieth Century Club = Wednesday,
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Women's City Ciub-Tomorrov: $ pm,
unio' M. bridge sGeo party: I'M. Board meet
ms
Business and Professional
Clubs
soroptimist Club-Wednesday, pm,
Willard Hotel, program with Mrs. Edna
Hlnhel, Chairman OF Attendance Com
zonts Ciub-Wednesday, $50 pm, May
flower Hotel dinner and annual busi-
ness meeting installation of officers.
Business and Professional Women's Club
the Wash99gt0n Club Inter- pterj
Nine l. Dithsk1r Bjakdi Of Royal
ssmese Leea5Sn Dr. HILLS LoTy
Mrs. Tillman Durdin. India.
Community Clubs
woman's Club Of Chevy Chase-Wednes,
day 3 pm. to pm. tea, guest OF
am. Spanish section. with Mrs. Dwight
6l Pek"sf Hrl Lang A.
buftes. world traveller: , pm, interns
tional relations section; speaker Miss
siaer Aeses sprins 9uaa womans
group; camp and hospital rooms; THes- Y, ,ss
rover e4e POOL Poole sETuEd s5 Gnden deD lane H Foest M
Glen, Nd; speaker. Mrs. Howard Dozier.
woman's Club of Riverdale-Tuesday. 5
FoTtleth street, University PARK: speak
er, Miss Ethel NJ. Reean, county home
demonstration sgent
"oman,s Club Of Woodside-MeqneS,Ga,S Il 80 a,
Silver Spring. Md
Beverly Women's Club-Ihursday' ; pm NJ
Pearl Atkinson. Posture. Elections,
Alexandria Woman2 cIub-Ihursd1ay aadrs1 :,,,S :
pm. internatensII relations ~ depart 9aG:
Anston Rfn ol'A Ridse Ns oGeoa rosd spesser P
College, Brunswick, Ne The Present
H.Seemb eGa Cub Cub of Bethesda-Friday. !
pm, Battery Park Clubhouse, dessert
womsn's Club of Greenbelt---Thursday, ,
pm, with Mrs. Samuel Houlton, 1876
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GNU AH1,17li

The George Washington Alumni
Library Association will hold
spring meeting and luncheon at
1870 pm. Saturday at the Kennedy
Warren.
Prof. and Mrs Alfred Schmidt and
Miss Adelaide Hasse will be guests
of honor.
Miss Anna Link, chairman of the
Hospitality Committee, is making
luncheon arrangements.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Seven.Day Convention
Seven.Day Convention
american Pen Women to Hold
Biennial Session Next Month
Rr Nn,nL
By Gretchen Smith
Women's Club Editor

One OF the most interesting and
important conventions ever held by
the National League of American
Pen Women is promised for this
years biennial convention to open
May II at the Willard Hotel to con-
tinue through May IT,
The initial function. of the seven
day convention, will be the authors
breakfast at noon May II in the
large ballroom of the Willard when
high light of the program will be a
pageant entitled "A Parade of
Heroines"
The '"heroines" will be characters
from books of several Well-knoWn
authors who will attend the break
fast as honor guests. Among these
will be Alma Robson Higbee, novel;
ist, writer of short stories and poet
of Kansas City, Mo, who is a can
didate for the national presidency.
Others will include Taylor Caldwell,
author of This Side of Innocence, +"
who will fly to the convention &C
companied by her husband and
daughter; Faith Baldwin, Anya
Seton, Helen Orr Watson, Blanche
Smith Ferguson, the national pres
ident; Bates Bachelor, Ethel Hues-
ton and Medora Field Perkerson.
Guests of Honor.
Mrs. Ferguson, a daughter of
Maryland, whose home is in Balti-
more will have Gov. H. R. O'Conor
and Mrs. OConor and Senator and
Mrs, Mfard Tydings as special
guests.
Other honor guests will be the
Chinese Ambassador. Dr.. Wei Tao
ming; the French Ambassador, M
Henri Bonnet and Nine. Bonnet. and
Sheik Ahmed Abdul Jobbar, First
Secretary of the Royal Legation of
Saudi Arabia. representing the
Arabian Minister.
Mrs. Florence Lloyd Holman. ma
tional chairman of the American
Professional Artists League, will
direct the pageant which will be
narrated by Hester Beal Provenson.
n uoaOIS opSdhGl > ldDlS Will De
arranged to accommodate the seat
ing of the many honor guests, the
national officers and the State pres
ldents.
That evening a reception will be
given for Mrs. Ferguson by Dr.. and
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin at their
home, 260l Thirtieth street NV.
A memorial service will be held
Sunday at 3 pm. at the studio of
the District branch, 1851 Columbia
road NV, and at 4 pm. there will
be reception opening the national
art exhibit of the Penwomen at the
Museum of Art of the Smithsonian
Institution. Tenth street and Con-
stitution avenue NV.
A luncheon and program, at
which contest awards will be made,
and dinner followed by a pro-
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Greenbelt Women

Personality in Dress" will be the
subject of a talk by Mrs. Carl w.
Hintz before the last meeting of
the American home department of
the Woman's Club of Greenbelt at
? pm. Thursday in the home of
Mrs. Samuel Houlton, 1876 Ridge
road.
Mrs. Gordon Finlay will present
piano selections.
Serving as co-hostesses with Mrs.
Houlton will be Mrs. John Gale,
Mrs. Gilbert c. Heine and Mrs.
Edward c. Kaighn.
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Women

Election of officers will be held by
the Alexandria Woman's Club at 2
pm. Thursday at Gadsby's Tavern
Reports OF delegates and depart
ment chairmen will be made prior
to the elections. Mrs Claude B.
Harris will be hostess at tea follow
ing the program.
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She will speak on her Impressions
of the First Assembly of the United
Nations"
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SCOUT LEADERS,
local Girl the corld
Chief Girl Guide Lady BddenP PoCeN paid U to the Capital
route to Ne York Boston Canada
fJ OF honor at last ueek Mrs Fred
erck Brooke right chairman Of the National Girl Scout Ad
uory Council The ladies photographed they
looking brochure OF the Julette Lou World Fellowship
Fund in the garden OF Mrs Brookes Georgetown home
PhOto
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assistant secretary and treasurer
and Mrs. Bert Frost, Panhellenic
delegate.
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Evening star., 1946-04-21

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Evening star., 1946-05-12

generations. 1t is that only avowed-
ly, however, because its specific
tragedy rests on case of individual
SelfishnesS and not on inevitability.
The plot is to have happily mar
ried woman, typical prosperous
New York apartment dWeller, con-
fronted suddenly by a 17-year-old
illegitimate daughter abandoned on
birth and-literally-forgotten.T The
child was the result of indiscretions
which stemmed from the mothers
clash with her parents and, receiv-
ing the girl into her home, she re-
solves to avoid any similar lack of
sympathy. With this high motive in
her mind, she drives her daughter
to suicide in a short time.
What Merriam Model wants to
say obviously is that the middle
aged cannot understand the young,
by any effort of will. But her
action fails to carry out her theme.
Ellen, the mother, is more than
normally obtuse toward the daugh-
ter's needs. The girl herself is
impossibly reticent. Her suicide be-
comes stupidity rather than a
necessity. The tragedy is not one
of conflicting generations but one
of specific tempers.
The book has the quality of a
forced demonstration of something
which, after all, is not demonstrated.
I like my tragedies little less hard
working. MIC. r.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
The Roots of
American LOYALTY
By Merle Curti. (Ct
UniUerSitu Press. 81

oy hc' tc Suf ~. tCOtHWOtQ
University Press, So.
In this work the distinguished
historian, Merle Curti, professor of
history at Wisconsin University and
winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize in
historical writing. offers a survey of
the successive forms which the pa
triotism of Americans has taken
since the beginning of our Nation
1t is a fine, concise piece of work
DR.. Curti examines the kinds OF
patriotism which stem from attach
ment to place, from belief in our
country's unique destiny. from rec
ognltion of our historical difference
from all other nations, from eco
nomic interests. He also surveys the
various concepts of our Government
which have been current among
our leaders and our people - the
early concept of a federation of
sovereign States, the later concept
OF a Federal Union, the still later
movement toward imperialism fos-
tered by the Mahan school of
thinkers. He gives special atten-
ton to the fluctuations of patriotism
in our crises-the split of opinion
which existed over the Mexican War
and the great rift torn by the Civil
War and the subsequent shame of
the reconstruction.
He is in the main not concerned
to draw conclusions. He presents
thn fo ~ ho
giving them for the most part in
direct quotations from Source-from
the words of political leaders, min
listers, newSpapermen, authors of
books, writings by what are called
common men. He does make the
point, however, that treason has
been a most uncommon crime in our
Nation, that dissenters from our
Governments policies have seldom
felt themselves disloyal but have
regarded dissent as part of the con-
duct of good American citizens when
conscience directed. Our patriotism
has had its chauvinists, he observes,
but in the main there has been so
much sound reason for an American
to like America that the chauvin-
istic have achieved no great fol-
lowing.
The book is not long, hence it is
not detailed. 1t is a survey. One
could wish that DR.. Curti would
some day expand it further. In
each of its concise chapters there is
material for volume.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
Books in Brief
SCIENCE,

Radios Second Chance, by Charles
A. Siepmann. Little, Brown A
criticism of radios course to date
and suggestions for betterment OF
the service in the future.
Science in a Changing World, by
E. J. Gable. R. W. Getchell and w.
H. Kadesch. tPrentice-Hall) A
survey of the physical sciences in
their recent developments. For the
layman.
Bastogne: The First Eight Days,
by Col. S. L. A. Marshall, assisted by
Capt. John G. Westover and 1t. A.
Joseph Webber. unfantry Journal
The story of the siege and relief OF
Bastogne. Vividly told.
Shadow Over Athens. by Phokion
Demetriades. (Rinehart Seventy
seven drawings showing the suffer-
ings of the Greeks in the Nazi occu-
patton.
ANIMAL BOOKS.
Dogs in the News. compiled by
Dear Dog Lady. Paebar) Accounts
of dogs which have appeared in the
press of all the States, Alaska, Ha-
waii and Washington, D. C. Inter-
esting.
Training You to Train Your Dog.
by Blanche Saunders. Doubleday
A well-known. trainer gives the ele-
ments.
AWOL Musters Out, by Bertrand
Shurtleff. (Bobbs- -Merrilll A novel
on the life of a Doberman which
finishes his war service and enters
civilian life.
Know Your Cat, by John Hosford
Hickey and Priscilla Beach. Harp
ers.) The care, feeding. training and
cultivation generally of the feline
Illustrated.
The Life of the Queen Bee. by
Louis Sutherland. (Ackerman.) The
story of the insect matriarchy, pop
ularly written. Illustrated by "a
photographs.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
A Solo in Tom-T oms
By Gene Fo1Oler. Viking;
Reviewed by
WILLIAM HILL.

You'd better avoid this one if
you're % pompous and conven-
tional, ca too stolid to have ever
been young, and 90 the kind that
filters because a belly laugh is vul-
gar. The autobiography of Gene
Fowlers boyhood years is not for
you.
It's the story of a Denver boy
who learned to live life in gulps.
It's salty and full of gusto and as
American as cowboys and Indians.
If you read Good Night, Sweet
Prince" Fowlers biography of John
Barrymore, you know the authors
style-the creation of character and
advancement of the story by anec-
dotes, myriad anecdotes, one after
the other, like beads on a string.
That's "A Solo in Tom-Toms," 4"
too, but this time the personality
that gradually unfolds is that OF
Fowler himself: The boy who sought
his father 80 years before he found
him; the boy who climbed a null
berry tree with his pet parrot and
dreamed dreams. the boy who pelt-
ed a passing actor with tomatoes
only to find years later his victim
had been the actor, Lionel Barry
more; the boy who became a news
paper reporter because he took of
his tight shoes in a cemetery and
met a man playing piccolo; the
man who saw girl and immedl-
ately proposed in such horrifying
way that he had to give her $50
worth of red roses before she'd cease
being skittish and marry him.
Apparently everything that ever
happened to Gene Fowler can be
turned into an anecdote and there's
room for him to tell how Jack
Dempsey learned he'd won the
heavyweight championship from
Jess Willard and how Paul White.
man became a musician the hard.
est way.
Out of it all rises a detailed pic.
ture of a Rocky Mountain era thai
is past and the personality of mar
that is at once irreverent and ten
der, impertinent and romantic, hare
as nails and yet dreamy. A lot O.
people who don't ordinarily reac
books ought to like this one. IT.
served up neat, like life.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
Boy
By Theodore Pratt. ID
Sloan & Pearce; $780,
Reviewed by
JAMES BIRCHFIELD.

Reviewed by
JAMES BIRCHFIELD.
The valley San Fernando.
The boy :. Johnny Birch, a sensi-
tive, charming youngster who is be-
wildered and lonely and hungry for
affection and understanding.
On the current lists of fiction the
theme of the misunderstood child
would seem to rank second only to
abnormal psychology and psychia-
trio consultation. In this depress-
ing company of unhappy children,
Johnny is perhaps less tortured than
most and while he suffers from
thoughtless neglect on the part of
his parents he does find compensa-
ton in his associations with other
adults.
George and Helen Birch know
considerably more about horses
than they do about children. They
are kind enough to Johnny (when
they think of it, but they are differ
ent and arty. They build a house
that is artistic" to them, but
Johnny's contemporaries jeer at
Johnny's 'loony house. When
Johnny wants, more than anything
in the world, a pair of low-heel
shoes like all the other boys wear
he gets another, and fancier, pair
of cowboy boots. His needs are
those of any preadolescent child
the protection of the herd, the
anonymity of being just like or at
least looking just like every other
boy his age in order to belong"
Mr.. Pratt has handled competent
ly the delicate balance of relation
ship between child and adult. He
has shown sympathetically what
can happen when well-meaning
parents go by the book instead
of relying on common sense and
ina agination in dealing with children
In the beginning valley Boy" is
reminiscent of "The Yearling," but
it shows the growth and change OF
child into youth against a more
complex and artificial background
When the characters are projected
through the knowledge and emotion
OF Johnny Birch the story is intense
and interesting but, unfortunately
for an extra dash of melodrama
some incidents beyond the compre-
hension and awareness of the chilo
are dragged in by their heels.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
Peace of Mind
By Joshua 10th Liebnlar

by Joshua LOtH LleOMGn. 81
mon & Schuster,. $780,
Chosen by the Religious Book Club
for its May distribution, this work
by Rabbi Joshua 10th Lehman of the
Temple Israel of Boston is highly
significant for these our times. The
turn of the thought of the intellec-
tuals toward religion has become
established. The response of re-
ligious leaders has not always indi-
Gated that there is a corresponding
yielding to the demands of the
modern intellect on their part. Rabbi
Lehman distinguishes himself, how
ever, by advocating that yielding.
Religion, in his view, must become
mature as the race of men natures.
He urges religious leaders to recog-
nize the tools which our growing
knowledge has put into religions
hands-as, for instance, psychoanal-
ysis, which, in his view, should be
a great aid to confession and to the
intelligent understanding of con-
science. The springs of our con-
cepts of right and wrong are ex-
plored by the psychoanalyst, as he
brings out, and comprehension of
those sources aids the growth of
tolerance, tenderness toward others
and respect toward ourselves The
divine commandment, as he re-
minds us, is to love our neighbors
as ourselves. We need knowledge
of what is implied by love if we
are to love intelligently.
From this basis, the rabbi con-
tinues until he has developed his
creed of a mature and intelligent
religion, the aim of which is to
bring the modern man into an un-
derstanding of his relation to God,
his neighbor and himself. 1t is a
very fine piece of work, quite devoid
of sectarianism. 1t can hardly be
recommended too heartily.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
A House in the
UpIonds
By Erskine CaldaUeU. (DueH,
Sloan & Pedrce.)
Reviewed by
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

L
The author of Tobacco Road
and Gods Little Acre" has re-
turned to a familiar theme in his
latest novel-the decadent South
This time, he is more concerned with
decayed aristocracy than pore
white trash" although he can't re-
sist a sideWise glance at a tenant
farmer.
Grady Dunbar is the last of an
aristocratic line The author makes
clear that Grady's way of life was
typical of other families in the re-
gion-people. who clung to dilapi-
dated manor houses and stubborn
ly maintained an outmoded way of
life at the expense of Negroes and
uneducated whites who were kept
in some form of peonage by means
of threats and intimidations." Such
families, says Mr.. Caldwell, die out
like a decaying tree but meanwhile,
las though nature had become i'm
patient with delay, violence fire.
quently broke out and removed the
remaining members Of such faml-
lies overnight"
Nature became impatient in Ora
dy's case but not before he had
abused his wife. consorted with a
quadroon. mortgaged his few re-
naming acres at the gambling ta-
bles and refused to let an aged col
ored couple spend their last days
away from the plantation.
Mr.. Caldwell makes one clear in.
dictment-that a form of slavery
still exists in the South. He goes
rather thoroughly into its pattern
picturing a condition where a col.
ored person tolls from childhood fol
family, is paid no money but i.
provided with a shack and some ole
clothes, and-when he wants tt
move on-is told that he owes ar
enormous amount of money in back
rent If the master of the manor
does keep books. says Mr.. Caldwell
they have no relation to the facts
If the colored person tries to leave
he is caught and sent to the work
house.
If this condition exists, and Mr.
Caldwell wanted to do anything
about it, he could have served his
purpose better by less melodra-
matte portrait of Grady. All the
characters seem overdrawn-as i.
Mr.. Caldwell were making up in col.
or what he lacked in substance. Mr.
Caldwell is still writing Tobacco
Road" and that seam of ore is run.
ming pretty thin.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
RENA LEVANDER.

Reviewed by
RENA LEVANDER.
Once upon time there was a
terrible flood. The waters of the
Teesta River in North Bengal, India
spread and rose and spread" And
the people went to the Lama for
help. And the Lama came out of
the temple. He looked up at the
sky and the unmoving SHOWS and
back at the water, and he put out
his hand and said: 'Rungli-Rungliot.'
''* Thus far and no further. The
flood Immediately stopped, the water
went down and the Lama went back
to his prayers.
The Lama's words became the
name of the place From August to
the end of December of 1941, Rum
er Golden, her children, 5-year- old
Raphael, and 3-year-old Sabrina;
Giovanna, their Swiss nurse: the
servants, and four Pekinese, stayed
at Chinglam up above Rungli-
Rungliot, surrounded by tea planta-
tons. In these solitary months in
the remoteness of the Himalayan
Mountains, Miss Golden wrote down
many things-deScriptions of the
beauty around her, of the Paharian
people who worked on the tea
estates, curious incidents, random
thoughts, her children'S comments.
There are only few things in
these notes." she says, "Chnglam
and its hills and valleys. work, flow
ers, children, animals, servants.
There is nothing else because there
was nothing else" But what in the
world will you do there?" asked a
friend. Live there" But what
will you do?" Live"
There are few who can surpass
Miss Godden's artistry. She COM
bines Wordsworthian intensity to-
ward Nature with richness of SEN
suous detail that suggests the poetry
OF Amy Lowell. She creates sharp
clear pictures for you to hear and
smell as well as see. Yet the out
lines are exquisitely blurred, like the
delicate crayon drawings for the
book. She is intensely aware of
tints and shades and hues, her coiors
are as bright and beautiful as the
colors in fresco paintings.
Runner Godden's prose flows
smoothly with an Oriental passive
beauty. At the same time it has
an undercurrent of quiet emotion.
Her style is simple, with the charm
OF a child's NATTER of -factness and
care1ulness of words.
Il am forgetting; but when smell
the lemon leaves 1 am back again.
They seem to distill Chinglam. To
dlstlll? That is to extract the spirit
or essential oil. That is what /
want these notes to do"
They do.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
James Farrell Pens
The Portrait of q
Plain Young Man
BERNARD CLARE
By James T. Farrell. Wan
guard. S2.75.)

By James T. Farrell. (Van-
guard; $275.)
The new Farrell novel raises the
question of how far perfect tech
nique justifies Insignificant subject
matter. The book is solely por-
trait of a dreary young man. 1t is
perfect in its technical presentation.
There have always been of course
such things as painters pictures
and novelists' novels, works which
have little comprehensibility or
value to xhe citizen who does not
understand the processes of their
composition. Bernard Clare" how
ever, is not quite that sort of thing.
Its technique, though perfect, is not
sufficiently remarkable to arrest
professional attention. 1t is the rOu-
tine technique of the naturalistic
novel-a mass of uncommenting re-
portage from which all auctorial
color has been severely strained out.
The good naturalistic novel tri-
umphs over this grim procedure by
the presence of an intangible ingre-
dient-the authors passion for his
material. James Farrell has writ
ten such books. studs Lonigan" is
one. But in Bernard Clare" he is
cold. The book is just fine dead
portrait.
The subject is young wouldbe
writer of about dozen years ago,
a lower middle-class Chicago Irish
man who has fed to New York dis
avowing all the conventions, swear
ing that he will devote his life to
literature. He has only mediocre
ability; he wins no success in writ
ing, but he does pretty we'll as an
advertising salesman. He is, in his
behavior, common little boor. In
his mind, he foregathers with his
gods-Mencken, Lewis, Dresser. He
believes that he hates the things
which they hated and lives in fear
of becoming such person as they
have satirized. He has no sense of
his own reality whatever and is, in
sum, a deplorable specimen.
I am sorry to be unenthusiastic
about a Farrell novel because I
have reverence for MI Farrells past
performance. But there it is. The
determination with which he de-
votes himself to characters whose
lack of quality makes them easy to
portray sometimes arouses my
suspicion that he is more or less
subconssiously avoiding that strehu-
Gus work which is the novelist S
price for creating life.