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Evening star., 1946-12-08
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, d. G. Dbl
g.,

her cousin, Miss Norma Breen OF
Hartford, Conn, and her brides
maids were her twin sisters, the
Misses Betty and Bernice Salisbury.
Mr.. Robert Campbell of Washing
ton and New York served as best
man and tie ushers were the brides
brother, Mr.. Peter Salisbury, jr., and
the brides cousins, Mr.. John Breen
and MIR. John Boyle OF Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1946-12-08

Leonora Simon, junior bridesmaid,
and Stanley Simon, junior usher.
Mr.. Norman Bernstein served as
best man and the ushers were Mr..
Alvin Lipsitz, Mr.. Ernest Bernstein
and Mr.. Leonard Bernstein.
Mrs. Bernstein attended George
Washington University and her
husband Columbus University.
Geisler-Salsbnry
IN a double ring ceremony at st.
Michael's Hall recently, Miss Dor
othy Salisbury. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. p. A. Salisbury OF Takoma Park,
became the bride Of Mr.. Ernest G.
Geisler, son of Mr.. and Mrs. z. @.
Geisler Of Columbus, Ohio.
The brides maid of honor was
Evening star., 1946-12-08

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FOR RALIFETIME OF HAPPINESS
Each creation of Master Craftsmen in AK Gold and
gorfed by precious Diamonds Rubies Sapphres
and Tourmaines. Items Illustrated -.
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Matching Earrings So4zo
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Evening star., 1946-06-27

The habits of saving and bond
buying that American workers ac-
quired during the war and which
meant so much to our Nation can
now be turned into peacetime chan
nelS.
Evening star., 1946-06-27

Academy at An
napolis, it was
learned today.
Cadet Brown,
who has lived in
w a S h i n gton
since shortly af-
ter his birth in
B a | tilnore, was
colonel of COL
ored high school
c a d e IS in his
senior year at
Dunbar. AS a
major and bat
talon command
Evening star., 1946-06-27

ef at Jne same Haiushipmah DroWh.
school the previous year, he led the
prize winning battalion in local
cadet competitive drills. For four
months after his high school grad
uation, Cadet Brown attended How
ard University under the Army Spe-
cialized Training Program.
His previous schooling was at
Garrison Elementary School and
Shaw Junior High.
An only child, Cadet Brown is
spending his summer vacation with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Brown at the @ street address. He
Is a member of the John Wesley
A. M. E. Zion Church, Fourteenth
and Corcoran streets NV.
During his 'plebe" year at An
napoliS, to which he was appointed
by Representative Powell of New
York, Cadet Brown was a member
of the cross-country team. He served
in the 10th Company, I'd Regiment
at the Academy.
Evening star., 1946-06-27
nComp|efesYea
Al Naval Academy

Wesley Anthony Brown, 10, of 1909
@ street NV, earlier this month
became the first Negro since 1873 to
complete his first year at the United
S L q 6 Naval
Evening star., 1946-01-27
It's Still MoIoney
BIZ Russell M al o n

By Russell NJ ney. dial:
$780, g.
Russell Maloney of the staff of the
New Yorker has published here a
collection of his New Yorker pieces.
They run through the years of the
past decade. New Yorker addicts
will probably remember a good many
'of them. The important thing about
them, now that they are in book
form, is that one sees that they have
suffered nothing by the action of
time or republication. This is re-
markable-there are not many stint
writers whose works do not fray in
collection. Mr.. Maloney's title.
therefore, has something more than
a euphonic association to commend
it. Even between book covers his
work is still Maloney;' though
would prefer to put it still New
Yorker"
There are fiction pieces, profiles.
dramatic criticism, book reviews,
satires, parodies and yet other lit
erary species in the volume. Preced-
ing most of the offerings are Mr..
Maloneys engagingly modest little
notes on how he came to write them.
I am not making any claim to orig
inality when I say it, l am simply
confirming what is generally recog-
nized, but I do say and confirm to
wit: That this Maloney prose is some
of the best prose of our day. Stu
dents of the preatomic literary pc
riod, come 2C46, will unquestionably
be expected to memorize Mr.. Ma
loney's dates. l hope he does not
mind
Evening star., 1946-01-27

any of them. Technically, that is
quite a job.
AS for style, that has troubled her
very little and it would have been
better If it had not troubled her at
all. For there are times when she
abruptly takes leave of her normal
moderately grammatical, wholly CO.
therent simplicity and lunges off into
the purple with astonishing results.
Yet first had come October" she
declaims in one of these outbursts,
with the valley and mountains and
every WilloWspring street, even unto
Limestone avenue, a sudden galaxy,
and the whole of earth wearing light
like halo" I looked up galaxy"
in Webster and found three mean
ings-the first, the Milky Way" or
"a milky way or island universe;
the second, IAN assemblage of bril-
liant or noted persons or things;
the third, the plant galax aphylla. -
l still do not know what Miss
Howard meant.
But that is unimportant. The
book will be read everywhere. So, in
its day, was The Green Hat"
Evening star., 1946-01-27
The Berlin Stories
By Christopher SherWoo
(Ne1U Directions: $780,

On the title page of this book is
the statement that the volume con-
tains two novels-''The Last of Mr.
Norris" and Goodbye TO Berlin" I
would not call Goodbye to Berlin"
novel myself. 1t is, rather, a col
lection of stories and impressions
which have related theme-the
Berlin panorama on the eve of Hit
ler But The Last of Mr.. Norris"
is certainly novel, and a most
absorbing one Both sections of
the book. no matter what you call
them, are sensitive and accom-
plished writing.
The Last of Mr.. Norris" takes
the form of series of fantastic ad-
ventures between the narrator, a
young Englishman who is in Berlin
to study German civilization, and
the character Mr.. Norris. sort of
Hair breadth Harry with overtones
of Mr.. Micawber and a shading of
Oscar Wilde. Mr.. Norris wants only
to make money. He wants to make
money only to live pleasantly and
avoid uncongenial conditions He
has no desires beyond these. So he
engages in multiplicity of irregular
dealings, from complicated export
ing and importing" to selling gov
ernmental secrets. He is quite in
nocent, for he has no principles.
Bland. bewildered, hoping always
for happy outcome. he goes from
tight place to tighter until he
reaches a sad end. The virtue of
the novel is that, using a melodra-
matte plot, Mr.. sherwood turns out
a profoundly serious piece of real
istic writing. The impossible Mr..
Norris becomes not only possible but
logical in the Berlin which Mr..
sherwood describes.
An equally convincing effect is
worked out in the latter novel,
though, as I said above, not in
novel form. The sketches which
make up this section of the book
cover life in the Berlin slun tene-
mentS, the making of young Nazis,
the hysterical unreality of German
communism and the world of the
night club entertainers. Extraordi-
narily fine Characterization is done
in number of the selections, as of
Sally Boweles, the night club singer;
Otto, the potential Nazi, and Land
hauer, the heartsick German Jew.
The material of the book is, natu-
rally, often extremely unpleasant,
but the treatment which Mr.. Isher-
wood gives it is coolly clinical. I
rate the work as fine, and commend
it to the thoughtful.
Evening star., 1946-01-27


with any one. She gives us the
rude oncoming newcomer who. by
encouraging the rabble, aims to un-
seat the head of one of the old
families in the mayoralty. She
gives us the town spinster, quietly
starving because she is too proud
to admit her poverty. She gives
us the gang at the livery stable,
telling bawdy jokes and holding no
reverence for the commonly revered.
She gives us the town bad woman
She gives US the croSS-the-creek
settlement, where Negroes and
white trash live side by side, though
still not without social barriers. She
gives us the white-trash boy who
is born genius. She gives us an
attempted lynching. She gives us
a little Jewish girl ostracized by
little Gentle girls. She gives us a
group of adolescents finding out
about sex.
You can say that she comes as
close to giving us all the stock prop
NANANp 40 40 kSOoolOlS III OllC DOOh
and she adds nothing to them. Her
Interpretation is unimportant
Where the public view is senti-
mental, she is sentimental. Where
it is satirical, she is satirical.
The scope of her story covers only
single year of the village life and
the story makes no particular point.
There are loves, births, deaths,
scandals, attempted crimes, good
deeds, sorrows. The kind, wise, in
fnitely tolerant country doctor is
somehow, privy to them all and as
fists in bringing good out of most of
them. At the end, he adopts the
White trash boy who is born genius
The achievement of the story is that
Miss Howard carries along large
number of characters, all about
equally important, without losing
Evening star., 1946-01-27
WASHINGTON TAPESTRY
WASHINGTON TAPESTRY
By OHUe EUing Clapper. whit
tleSey House, S2.75J
Reviewed by
ROBERT j, LEWIS,
ROBERT J. LEWIS.

Back on February 27, 1881, Ray
mond Clapper had a 40-minute in
terview with the troubled man in the
White House. President Hoover was
then in the midst of graphing with
the problem of having too many citi-
zens selling apples on street corners.
What the country needs is good
big laugh" said the President to the
astonished Mr.. Clapper. There
seems to be a condition of hySteria.
If some one could get off good
joke every 10 days, I think our
troubles would be over
Mr.. Clapper was one of those rare,
and wise. reporters-as his wife
points out in this book-who kept
detailed notes and descriptions of
events and people. Into his diary
over long period of years as a we'll
placed Washington neWspaperman,
he set down off off-the-record notes and
comments for his own guidance and
/ later use
From such material in Raymond
Clapper's notebooks, plus threads
! from her own acute recollections
Mrs. Clapper has woven colorful,
dramatic, highly entertaining fab
ric in which Washington's tower
ing events and gigantic figures over
the last 25 years stand out in bold
! design. Though this book was writ
ten long after Mr.. Clapper died in
an airplane accident in the Pacific,
he is the co-author, as his wife eX-
| plains
In these pages, the Roosevelt era
stands out vividly against the Wash
ington background Here you glimpse
behind d-the-scenes Washington as
seen by a Midwest newspaperman
and his wife who came here in 1917
to watch the scintillating parade
go by.
Here you meet the headline names
drawn to scale and listen to the play
of intellect as they cross swords at
cocktail parties. Here you watch
/ political stars rise and fall. Here
you observe the interplay of forces
which plunge a Nation, pell-mell,
along its course.
| This is not, however, a frothy
book. 1t was written by woman
of uncommon intelligence, with a
keen and liberal insight into public
Evening star., 1946-01-27
Among
the Authors
By Carolyn Coeeins

Probably the fact that Daphne
du Maurier, whose new book is THE
Kings General" thinks authors
should be read but neither seen nor
heard, is due to the family life she
enjoys. She is a fetching looking
blue-eyed English lady, not yet 40
This is her eighth novel to be Sc
lected by a book club, and some
thing like 100000 copies of her
books have sold in the United States
alone. In spite of this superpros-
porous state, Miss du Maurier has
quite a bit of gray hair mixed in
with her ash blond.
Miss Du Maurier is married. She
says of her husband that he is the
best-looking man she knows. He is
1t. Gen. F. A. M. Browning, whose
Army career is as fabulous as her
writing one. They have three chill
dren. nicely varied by being two
girls and boy aged from S to II
years.
Although she wrote this long story
in three months, she spent a much
longer time doing the research.
She sticks to her typewriter when
she is working from six to seven
hours every day until a book is
finished.
These are bits that should be
added to the public's more gen.
eral knowledge-that her father was
the famous Gerald du Maurier of
the stage and her grandfather
George du Maurier, who wrote
"Trilby" and Peter Ibbetson." +"
Since Daphne du Maurier is long
way off and does not believe in in
tervieWs anyway, these are not
things about her we have seen
I'VE only heard"
Ethel Vance. the author whose
identity caused SO much conjecture
when her story Escape" came out
six years ago, finally was identified
as Grace Earring Stone when Re
prisal" was published in 1912. Now
she has a new book coming in late
February. Its title will be Winter
Meeting"
Evening star., 1946-01-27
All the Stock
Properties.

She gives US
the two old FAM
lilies, whose chill
dren are not al
lowed to play
Evening star., 1946-01-27

dIlClellt pa tVCl lA'
and she does as
little as pos
sible to change
its accepted fea-
lures. Her vii
lage is Willow
spring, Pa. In
1880, but that Is
ly i n c j.
dental
Evening star., 1946-01-27
Publisher and Hollywood Are Betting
This Prize Novel Is What People Like
BEFORE THE SUN GOES DOWN

By Elizabeth Metsger HoWard.
doubleday, Doran; S2.75.J
The impressive sum of $145,00O
has already been paid to the author
of this novel. She received $4,000
for winning the Doubleday, Doran
novel contest and from Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer she garnered $125,-
0G0 more because her book seemed
to that company eminently suited
to be made into a movie. It is
quite a nice down payment, but
neither Doubleday, Doran nor
Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer is a philan-
thropic institution. 1t seems rea-
sonable to assume that both look
to get their money back. That
brings us to the public. Clearly the
public is expected to buy a million
or so copies of the novel and to go
to see the picture in proportionate
numbers. The payment is an act
of faith in the public, in short,
rather than a tribute to Elizabeth
Metzger Howard's genius. This, in
effect, says Messrs. Doubleday,
Doran, Metro, Goldwyn and Mayer,
is what the people like.
One can see that they are sure
Of it. They have no doubt that
they know what the people like
When businessmen pay so hand
somely they are seldom guessing.
And from that the seasoned reader
will conclude that the quantity to-
which I referred above-MiSs How
ards genius-does not enter into
their calculations at all. For genius
is unpredictable. Works of genius
have sold their due million before
now, but no one could be sure of
it in advance. To know, with $145,-
900 worth of certainty, that book
will hit the public taste, you must
bar genius out altogether. You must
have the 100 per cent stereotype,
tried, tested and sentimental That
is what Until the Sun Goes Down"
is. and I, like Hollywoods Mr..
Metro, have no doubt about its
popularity.
1t is a village novel in which the
lives of the rich and the poor, the
good and the bad, the stupid and
the smart, all intermingle in the
usual way, while a kind, wise, in
f1nitely tolerant country doctor looks
on and helps everybody. The viii
lage is the world and the doctor is
the patient deity. That, obviously,
is Miss Howard's idea. 1t is an
Evening star., 1946-01-27

and disagreeable jobs in order to
live as justification for not wanting
to fight. At. the end of his tale.
however, he experiences burst of
idealism and decides to fight on. He
finds some grenades and proclaims
mis- intention of throwing them at
the Germans outside, which means,
of course, that he will probably be
killed. One gathers that his better
nature has triumphed.
The book is done with aggressive
vulgarity and is so like an imitation
of an imitation of Hemingway that,
save for its war references, it might
have been written 10 years ago.
Evening star., 1946-01-27
Mrs. CIopper Weoves Co|orfuI Story
Of Behind the Scenes Woshinqton

affairs and the men who have
played part on the national stage
AS an illustration, let Mrs Clapper
sum up a durable public servant
named Henry Wallace:
Look over Wallace's record from
1882 until the knock down, drag -out
Senate fight over his confirmation
as Secretary of Commerce in 1945,
and you will see that he overcame
all his enemies.
"Tenacity is the key to his sue
cess. He is never personal about it.
He simply believes with fanatical
intensity that the United States of
America can create good life for
all its inhabitants, and he'll work
toward that end with whatever
methods seem right to him as long
as there is breath in his body"
There is plenty of pure entertain
ment in this book. But there is
more than that. For you cannot be
the kind of person Mrs Clapper is
be married to the kind of person
Raymond Clapper was, and live in
such close touch with important
events without coming to some wise
conclusions. Mrs. Clapper has set
them down fearleSsly.
Evening star., 1946-01-27

long Sollloquy as
he waits for
night-When he
plans to try to
rejoin his unit.
At the beginning
of his story he
rejoices that he
has been hit,
since, as he says,
he can now 60
home. 1t ap-
pears that he is
of the depres-
sion generation
and regards the
fact that he has
to work at hard
Evening star., 1946-01-27

American Enterprise in Europe,
by Randolph Leigh. (Chief informa-
ton and education divisionJ A de-
scription of the work of the United
States Service of Supply in Europe
during and since the late uproar
Something to make Americans
proud.
Evening star., 1946-01-27
Best Sellers
NATION WJDF

tAccording to Publishers Weekly
FICTION.
lst-The Black Rose, Thomas B.
2d-The White Tower, James Ram
sey Ullman.
3d-Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn
Waugh.
4th-The River Road, Frances Park
inson Keyes.
5th-The Peacock sheds His Tail,
Alice Tisdale Hobart.
NoNFICTION
ls'-Ths fs Egg and l. Betty Mac
2d-up Front. Bill Mauldin.
3d-Soldler Of Democracy, Kenneth
Davis.
4th-The Age of Jackson, Arthur M.
SchleSinger, ir.
5th-The Life Of the Heart, Frances
Winwar
IN WASHINGTON
FICTION.
1st-The Kings General, Daphne Du
2d-Forever Amber, Kathleen Win
sor
3d-The Black Rose, Thomas B.
4th-The River Road, Frances Park
inson Keyes.
5th-The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
NONFICTION
1St-The EEE and I. Betty Mac
Donald
2d-The Age of Jackson, Arthur NJ.
SchleSinger, jr.
3d-Soldier of Democracy, Kenneth
S. Davis
4th-Thc Ciano Diaries, Count Ciano
5th-Pleassnt Valley, Louis Brom-
field
Evening star., 1946-01-27
The LONG November
BIZ James Benson NQblO.

By James Benson NabIO. (Dut-
ton, $780,
In this novel a young Canadian
soldier is wounded and left alone in
a house in a contested town in Italy:
He talks out his life history in a
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-21
Circle To Give
Baby Show And
Festival Here

On Wednesday afternoon at i
o'clock, the Cape Fear armory
will lose its military aspect and
be transformed, as if by magic
wand, into beautiful fairyland
when the Ministering Circle pre-
sents baby show and children's
festival.
One of the scenes described in
Grimms' thrilling fairy story
which will become a reality at the
affair will be the miniature candy
house of Hansel and Gretel fame.
While tots from five years ard
under are being judged by popu-
lar vote for the prettiest and
healthiest in the contest, with
loving cup going to the winner,
older sisters and brothers may en-
ter games planned for their
amusement, such as grab bags,
fish-pond and tossing the ball TO
the Easter rabbit.
The aighlight CT the festival will
be group OF young artists from
the Belcher dance school, who will
present dance novelties such as
Melody Babies in Song and Tap;
Raggedy Ann and Andy; Charac-
ter Acrobatic; Perfect Rhythm
E'aby; Personality in Song, featur-
ing Pm Forever Blowing Bub-
bles," and Swing joe" p
An admission fee, will be
charged, with the proceeds to go
toward the work of the circle, one
of the oldest charitable organi-
cations in Wilmington.
At present the circle supports
two District nurses, whose work
comprises ministration to those
needing nursing and bedside care,
aid to children in pre-school
clinics, and advice to prenatal
and post-natal cases. Two rooms
in the James Walker Memorial
hospital are also under the spon-
sorship of the group.
Entries for those in the different
classification of the baby show and
childrens' festival can be made by
telephoning Mrs. Robert Strange
at 1857, or Mrs. Sam Nash. Jr.,
| at 1891.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-21

mighty sun-burned face, that's Peg
gye-our southern convert!
Although he had hoped for a sew
en-day leave, Harry ''Bucky'' Blu
chairman settled for a 48-hour leave
and was here yesterday. He's one
of the men in Navy blue, and being
in the service sho' has agreed with
him. But I sort Of think he'd rather
be Joe Civilian than one of Uncle
Sans nepheWs.
The MINIS baseball team h
their first taste Of defeat this sea-
son when the boys from Rocky
Mount beat them five to one in a
game played in Rocky Mount. Dur
ing the week, our boys defeated
Fayetteville, but they just didn't
seem to click when they met the
sluggers from Rocky Mount.
FORMAL DANCE
Too bad more of you didn't at
tend the formal Easter dance spon-
sored by the Teen-Age club at the
End and Orange USO this past
Thursday night. 1t seems as if the
baseball game took most of the
crowd, and then, most of the people
who usually go to the dances went
to services at their church or at
those of a friend. Due to the fact
that more Marines have been sent
to Lejeune, it has become impos-
sible for us to use the use for
Teen-age activities any longer, so
until further notice, there will be
no more social activities of this
sort.
School is out until Tuesday morn
ing, SO lots of people are out of
the city for the holidays. But those
of us who stayed here will probably
spend our time on the beaches,
bowling, or taking in show. And,
most of US will attend the Easter
services at the churches through
out the city today.
Some girls are just the 1uckiest
ones ever! Betty Hanson, Sara
Williams, and there must be others,
are the proud pcssessors of beauti-
full orchids from fellas who think
they're pretty swell! Red roses and
gardenias are to be seen in abun-
dance this season while carnations,
the old standbys, have never lost
out in popularity. Instead of worry
ing about flowers, the fellas get all
of the color for their Easter en-
sembles from The loudest, most
glazing ties you've ever seen. A
general assembly of just about ev-
cry color imaginable seems to be
the style and some of them I've
seen are really eye-openers!
Well, I seem to have run out of
notes again, so III have to stop
for now. Don't get too sunburned
over the holidays, but have lots Of
fun! So long!
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-21
Youngsters To Hunt
Easter Eggs Monday

In completing the Easter holt
days, two Easter egg hunts will
be given by organizations OF the
city.
The fun of hunting bright, col
ored eggs hidden behind trees,
bushes, and rocks will take place
Monday afternoon. The Cradle
Roll depa rtment of St. Paul
Lutheran church will hold its an
nual Easter egg hunt at the church
grounds at O'Clock. There will
be prizes and refreshments served
during the afternoon. A very small
fee will be charged and the public
is invited to attend.
The other hunt which will also
take place en- Monday afternoon
and is being sponsored by the Co
lonial Village Mothers club ana
will begin at 8 o'clock.
Here's one for the frill. Remove
q slice from blossom end OF toma-
toes. Scoop out part of pulp. Fill
with cooked peas and broil ten
minutes, three inches from fl'-"-