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Evening star., 1947-11-16
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.
The author Of "Out of the Night"
has written an astonishing first
novel. Any Jan Valtin work, fic-
tional or photographed, could be
expected to reflect hard personal
experience and drive home q bitter
message. This narrative exceeds all
anticipation by the engrossing In
terest and force of story full Of
suspense, adventure, timely mean
ing and unforgettable humanity.
It is the story of castle Of hope
and tenderness built by Daniel and
Katrina Braun after they escaped
from the brutality and degradation
of much of Europe in 1888 and
slowed away to the United States.
It also Is the story of sands that
spread and shifted far, relentlessly
to pull down their castle of pioneer
dreams in a new frontier.
| Mr.. Valtin occasionally stretches
the long arm Of coincidence to bring
characters together and set up situ-
ations. He nevertheless moves al
ways on credible modern ground in
letting the far reaches of tyranny
and a world wide madness, as well
as democratic indifference, overtake
the couple.
For all its tragedy, desperation,
Illustration and wickedness, Castle
in the Sand" is neither fatalistic
nor vindictive. Katrina and Daniel,
striving to be the masters of their
fate, are not playthings of fate.
They cause some of their own mis-
fortunes.
The novels message to Americans
is powerful because 1t Is not flung
spitefully in the face Of America.
1t is implicit in the events and
effective because the writer is, above
all else, q frst-rate story teller. The
action, however melodramatic and
earthly, speaks louder than the
words.
This book is a challenge rather
than cynical criticism as it
touches on a common attitude in
TINS country toward CempeSt-toSSed
Europeans who seek refuge here. It
is the sort of book that rivets q
readers eyes to every page. And
then, long after Daniel and Katrina
have gone their solitary way, 1t
holds the readers thoughts on q
fundamental problem of human dig
nifty and right.
WAR is NO DAMN GOOD, by
r. Osborn. doubleday; $2) Ninety
cartoons in color, expressing the
civilians attitude toward wars
desolation.
BEST CARTOONS OF THE
YEAR, edited by Lawrence Larier
Grown; $2) Three hundred car
toons which appeared during the
past year in popular magazines.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

11C w "A w fA4eD 4eA9A11A11a4S
BY A. j., Liebling. doubleday;
$685.
Reviewed by
MARY McGRORY.
When A. J. Liebling paddles
the wayward press-and few
have a better right-it really
hurts him more. A chain reader
of newspapers since boyhood and
a veteran of many papers, who
practiced his craft so well that
he is known as one of the worlds
finest reporters, he hates himself
for his lifelong passion for a
profession which in changing
from "a scrabbling calling" to "a
pompous industry" has become
It's own worst enemy.
If its wit, reliability and ele-
CANT syntax are not held against
it, Liebling's needing may well
serve as a shot in the collective
arm of pallid pressmen, especial
ly publishers, for whom he thinks
a school of journalism should be
founded. Liebling is himself an
alumnus of the Pulitzer School
for Journalism at Columbia,
which, he remarks in one of the
sprightly essays OF professional
autobiography which accompa-
MES these critical essays from
the New Yorker, "had all the in
tellectual status of a training
school for future employees OF
the A. d p"
Publishers are not, however,
the only ailing pressmen treated
by DIR. Liebling. although he
obviously thinks most of them
should of stood In bed, and In q
chapter entitled Papers Within
Papers" blithely accuses the au-
gust Times of seeming to have
lipstick all over its face" after re-
ceiving the embrace of huge edi-
tortal advertisements whose con-
tributors in many cases he thinks
are suspect. Wolf-crying COPY
readers, gore and thrills crime re-
porters, "moonbeam and magic"
music critics and "scribes of des-
tiny" sports writer's are all operated
on and left more dead than alive.
What THE Wayward Press" adds
up to Is progressively disen-
chanted running story of American
newspapers, crowded with examples
Of the press ganging up on itself.
Liebling takes note of the rigid
self-imposed combinations which
held at police headquarters when he
was an apprentice at Columbia, and
could still be observed when Edward
Kennedy OF the A. P. broke the news
Of the armistice to q chorus of
howls from herded correspondents
who had truckled to "dress extra"
Army public relations officers.
As reporter for the Providence
Journal he exposed rigid economy
grafters who were responsible for
the hospitals deplorable condi-
tions." Years later in New York
he discovered that similar grafters
had mouthpieces in the newspapers
that exposed" relief recipients liv-
ing in hotels.
AS q remedy for the "concentra-
ton Of newspaper ownership in the
hands of a group Of wealthy individ-
uals who share the same point of
view," Liebling prescribes daily
papers backed by labor unions,
citizens organizations and pos
sibly political parties yet unborn"
which will represent definite un-
disguised points Of view and will
serve as controls on the large
profit-making papers expressing
definite, ill-dsguised points of
view"
Liebling's book is one Of the best
inside jobs ever done on the press.
It's hard to say who would profit
more from it-those who work for
newspapers or those who read them.
Maybe they all better read it.
Evening star., 1947-11-16
Reviewed by
MARY McGRORY.

"The Financier" and "The Titan
described Cowperwood's rise. It may
be nostalgia, because those books
were read in youth. but It seems to
me that they were finer, broader
novels than the third Of the trilogy
"Ths Stole" sometimes is deeply
interesting, often tedious.
There has been no explanation of
why Dresser waited 50 long to write
the third book. Or had he worked
on it at times all those years? He
wrote, meanwhile, q number Of other
books, notably IAN American Trag-
edy." "The Stole" shows both his
power Of expression and his awk-
wardness with words. It is typical
Dresser, but perhaps also a weary
wondering Dresser. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-11-16
|LiebIing Beats
Press, Which
Beats Him

THE MAYNARD PRESSMAN
BY A. j., Liebling. doubleday,
$685.
Evening star., 1947-11-16
Fost-Moving
Novel Headed
ForHoNywood
THE TAMAFACK TREE
BY Howard Breslin. (WhittleSey
House; S3.)

BY Howard Bresltn. (WhtttteSey
House; So
Reviewed by
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
In July, 1S4o, on strategic
Stratton Mountain In Vermont,
there was a great gathering of
Wings in support of the presi-
Dental candidacy of William
Henry Harrison (Tippecanoe
and Tyler, too'') against Presi-
dent Martin Van Buren, the
Democratic nominee. Thousands
drove and rode great distances to
meet on a clearing above a tiny
settlement. The speaker was
Senator Daniel Webster.
Nominally 1t was only a con-
gressional district Whig conven-
ton, but 1t lured such an i'm
mense crowd for those days that
1t became of symbolic Importance
In the successful campaign of
"Old Tippecanoe." Today there's
nothing left of even the cross
roads settlement except the
church and parsonage, and most
of the farms on the mountain
side have been abandoned. But
high up the mountain a monu-
nnent marks the place where the
great orator addressed the out
door throng.
Around this historic episode
Mr.. BYeslin has woven an absorb
ing novel. His book is the Lit
erary Guild selection for Decem-
Der.
The main events Of the story
take place within the three days
the people are massing on the
mountain, holding their meeting
and slowly dispensing.
Meeting Is Backdrop.
But the meeting itself, while ma
turally big moment In the lives
Of all concerned, is only a backdror
for the drama of more personal
things that are happening to the
families that live in the village and
on nearby farms. These things &C
on happening in spite of the meet
ing and some because of 1t.
There are Lot Purdy, the stage
coach driver; Dan Tarbox, the inn
keeper; the Rev. Jedidah Chester;
Eratus Chittenden. the respected
farmer; Joel Patch, the graspine
sawmin owner; Lem Brayton, the
mean, shiftless farmer, and his un-
faithful wife, Zilpha; Abner Reed
the blacksmith; old "Peleg" Mason
the Revolutionary War veteran
each with sons or daughters or both
and with hired men. The gathering
attracts 'Dr." Portus J. Merriield
who sells an elixir that's a panacea
for man and beast.
Thomas Jefferson Dunbar, young
dandy from Virginia, rides in with
his personal slave, Hoe, from his
university to see what such back
woods conclave ts like. Dunbar,
with his elegant clothes, his high
flown speeches of dueling pistols,
threatens to wreck several feminine
hearts and comes near depriving a
leading mountain family Of its most
promising son.
Mr.. Bresltn manages adroitly to
give the surge Of the crowd and the
feeling OF the meeting and yet never
to slow up the fast-moving nara
tive that envelops his group Of char
acters. It is evident also that he
had studied closely the speech and
customs Of the period.
AS for the inner story Of the STRAIT
ton families, it has enough romance
plain sex and violence to please al
tastes. Moreover, since the virtu.
ous get all the breaks and the sin.
ners invariably suffer the conse'
ouences, which usually are pretty
bad, 1t should be possible to transfer
The Tamarack Tree" to the screer
practically intact, with only couple
nf ss,iSo6eg modified.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

SEBASTIAN, by Flora Aruytage.
Doubleday Routine thing about
q smooth Europeans fascination for
a simple minded American woman.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

THE READERS SHAKESPEARE,
by Babette Deutsch. (Julian Mess
ner; 81 The story Of l6 Of the
most popular plays.
The Republican., 1947-10-09
Farm Fires Destroy
Barns and Crops

The annual destruction by fire Of
an estimated $90,OOO,OOO worth Of
farm and rural property is seriously
rctarding Americas production Of
food that is vitality needed in this
country and throughout the world,
warns the National Board of Fire
Underwriters in a Fire Prevention
Week statement this week.
Increases in the use of gasoline
burning farm machinery and electli-
cal equipment have created additional
fire hazards. the Boards advice to
farmers says. Large quantities Of
gasoline should be stored in under
ground tanks equipped with standard
pumps. Smaller supplies should never
be kept in barns, but should be stored
in metal drums in a well-ventilated
shed at least 40 feet away from all
buildings.
Install electrical machinery where
there is no danger that hay and grain
dust may be ignited by spark. Clean
and oil regularly to prevent overhead
ing. Make sure heavy electrical ap-
pliances have separate power circuits.
Place all electric lights out of the
reach Of animals and equip with met
al guards. Don't set lanterns on the
floor but hang them on hooks. Be
careful with matches and Smokes"
The Board reports that lightning
has become the leading fire menace
to farms, causing one out of every
three farm fires. Complete protection
from lightning can be secured when
lightning rods of the proper size and
material are properly installed on
every building.
Another major cause of farm fires
is defective chimneys and fIues. The
Board recommends that chimneys be
cleaned each Fall and inspected for
cracks and other defects.
The Republican., 1947-10-09
DIED
MRS. JOHN FAHERTY

Mrs. Catherine Faherty, aged 80,
widow of John Faherty, passed away
at 4:l0 o'clock yesterday morning.
October s, at the home Of her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Cain, in Morgantown. W. Va.
She had been in i'll health for some
time and suffered a stroke of paraIy-
sis on Sunday.
Deceased was daughter of the
late Barney and Bridget Reynolds
and was born in Oakland April g.,
1861. She lived her entire life in Oak
land until about seven years ago when
she went to Morgantown to reside
with her daughter. She was a mem
ber Of St. Peters Catholic church
here, the McVeigh Holy Cross society
and the Blessed Mother Sodality.
Her husband John 7. Faherty. died
in 1897. Surviving are one son, Bern
ard Faherty, and three daughters,
Mrs. Cain and Mrs. Matthew Canty,
Morgantown; and Sister Mary Phelo-
menia, Texas, Md; also one brother,
Owen Reynolds, Grafton, W. Va; and
one sister, Mrs. Charles D. Bosley,
Oakland
Funeral services will be conducted
Friday morning at 9 o'clock from st.
Peters Catholic church with Rev Fr.
George W. Shipper officiating. Inter
ment will be in st. Peters cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Phil Davis and
Erbie Lantz, Morgantown; William
The Republican., 1947-10-09
MRS. ARTHTR COZAD

Mrs. Mayme Cozad, wife of Arthur
Cozad of Verona, Pa, died at her
home last Saturday night about 9 o.
clock She had been in i'll health for
& number of years.
She was daughter. of the late John
and Mary Compton and was born in
Oakland.
Surviving are her husband. two
daughters and four granddaughter,
and the following brothers and sisters,
Mrs. W. Russell Pancake, Cumber-
land; James and Joe Compton, Oak
land; John Compton, Fairmont. W.
Va; Mrs. Luther Brown. who had
been staying at the Cozad home for
a year or more; Elwood Compton, of
Ohio; and Grover Compton, at Perry
Point, Md.
Funeral services were conducted
at Verona yesterday. Attending the
services from Oakland were Mrs.
James Compton and her daughters.
Mrs Pancake also attended from
Cumberland.
The Republican., 1947-10-09

assistant.
The Republican., 1947-10-09
First Glance of
Alaska Promising

Harry Bud Faubcr's first impress
sions Of Alaska are promising, accord
ding to letter received yesterday by
his parents, Nh. and Mrs. R. NJ,
tauber
faubrr and Paul Ilauscr left here
September Il to accept positions at
Anchorage. They arrived there Octo-
Der ] after having driven 5,294 miles,
1861 OF which were over dirt roads.
They had no flat tires or any trouble
except one broken spring he wrote.
A few excerpts from the letter
SHOW something OF the conditions
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The Republican., 1947-10-09

R. Browning, William Pendergast, A.
G. Hesen and Irwin r. Rudy, Oakland.
The remains were brought to Oak
land last evening and will remain at
the Bolden Funeral home until time
for the service.
The Republican., 1947-10-09

elected as pastor and elder Of the
church at Accident for another year.
Sunday school officers installed at
last Sunday nights meeting in the
Accident church were Charley B. Mil
ler, superintendent; Roy Broadwater,
The Republican., 1947-10-09

Wilson Ballard, chief engineer Of
State Roads commission, resigned his
position. William F. Childs, Jr. was
made acting chief engineer.
The Republican., 1947-10-09
Renamed Pastor

At a meeting of the church council
Of the Bear Creek Church of the
Brethren last Wednesday night, Rev
Olonzo P. Fike was unanimously re-
The Republican., 1947-10-09

A new communist international
organization was announced from
Moscow to fight the Marshall plan
and UNITED States imperialism" ;"
Communist leaders Of nine countries
formed the cI0un
The Republican., 1947-10-09
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Evening star., 1947-07-30

Stray Lamb" Jeannes husband
New York actor Kim spaulding, Il
coming out here to stay three
months with her.
Peggy-Ann Garner and heI
mother Cancelled the deal for the
house they were going to buy in
Cheviot Hills, and for a good rea-
son. They were to have had it
for $4,000. But when the judge
allowed us $500 to buy a house,
Peggy-Ann tells me, "the owners
wanted to charge us $36, 900! So we
bought a different house, in West
wood"
Could the power of suggestion
have been too much for Kathryn
Grayson? In 1.-The Kissing Bandit,
the other day, she had to do scene
in dentists chair. That night her
jaw swelled and the next day she
began having wisdom-tooth trouble.
X n r
Deborah Kerr, by the way, had a
wisdom tooth pulled last week. She
and Dinah Shore expect their babies
at the same time-Christmas Day.
Now I've heard everything: Mar
jorie Main ordered very swanky
ensemble from Adrian to go away on
her vacation in classy style!
Judy Garland-with big mouth
and big nose and clowns outfit
glimpsed having dinner with Gene
Kelly and Husband Vincente Min
nelli in the Metro Cafe last Friday.
Judy and Gene did their dance
numbers at night, to speed up fin
ishing of THE Pirate" so that Judy
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Hollywood:
Sinatra May Do
Stage Shows
In England
By SheiIoh Grohom

Shirley Temple, you can, bet, will
have to withdraw from War Party
With her baby expected in January,
Shirley won't be in the mood for any
strenuous movie work.
Frank Sinatra has been offered
$100, 900 to do two weeks of personal
appearances when he goes to Eng
land at the end Of August. If he
has time, he'll do 1t.
Dorothy Mcclure celebrated her
wedding anniversary alone This
makes her fourth such solo celebra-
ton. Husband John Swope is kept
in New York on business.
Joan Crawford has changed her
mind-she will 60 to one of the
Hawaiian Islands when she finishes
Daisy Kenyon" This cancels the
planned trip to South America. Says
she won't have the time for that.
And I still say Joan will star in
Anna Lucasta."
The suit Lana Turner wore on her
nrSC cate with Tyrone POWER was
designed by Harry Finer. There is
now an enlarged photograph in
Finer's shop here of Lana, wearing
the outfit, with the caption, This
is the suit that brought love to Lana
Turner" Fifty women have ordered
copies of the suit!
II y *
Mrs. Vincent Price edith Bar
rett), has given up acting for paint
ing. At the latter art she will have
to be very good to match her work
in the former. Do you remember her
in Ladies in Retirement"
2 Marlene Dietrich cabled Edith
Head, top Paramount designer, to
make her a black satin and lace
bathing suit. It's now on its way to
Marlene, who must be in the mood
for a new romance. Marlene, I'm
told, is very good in Golden Ear
rings"
It is now certain that Jeanne
Cagney will have the lead opposite
her brother, Jimmy Cagney. in "Ihe
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Power Rate Meeting
lis Set for Thursday
by The Assoeiofed Press

RICHMOND, Va, July 80. - A
special utilities committee Of the
League of Virginia Municipalities
was named today and called to meet
in Richmond at 2 pm. Thursday to
consider action in connection with
Mayor Horace Edwards request to
the State Corporation Commission
that it slash Virginia Electric and
Power Co. rates by 100000.
H. I. ,Baumes, executive secretary
of the league, said the committee
was named by. Mayor T. w. Preston
of Bristol, president, but said names
Of those appointed would not be
made public until they have ac-
cepted.
Mr.. Baumes said representatives
Of counties served by Vepco also
would be asked to meet with this
committee in the leagues office
Thursday.
Seventeen Virginia cities and 68
counties are In the territory served
by the power company which Mayor
Edwards alleges collected last year
SO 100000 more than a fair return
on its investment Of 100000 900.
Evening star., 1947-07-30

the WlnQ. DAVID y. SelZnlck
wanted to sell, after having seen
the Margaret Mitchell Clark Gable
Vivien Leigh-etc. opus become the
biggest money-earner in the history
of the screen. After talking it over
with SelZnick, M-G-M decided that
the picture was a dateless work,
that its reputed gross earnings of
$20,000,000 did not represent the
ultimate, and that it would 60 on
making good, If less, money for
many years.
So, owning Gone With the
Wind" and operating all those the
aters in a manner of speaking, the
picture has been booked into the
Palace Theater for third Wash
ington showing.
The date is not exactly fixed. The
film will follow "I Wonder Who's
Kissing Her Now which will fol-
low "The Hucksters," into the F.
street house.
X X X X
Another reissue scheduled for
early display in one of the Loew
houses is THE Great Waltz" Ever
since this Strauss item was pro-
duced, ever so lavishly, the studio
has had feeling that it should be
an enormously profitable item.
That it did not work out that way
In the original release is attributed
to the fact that its issue was i'll
timed, that the public at the time
was surfeited with musicals.
Hence, THE Great Waltz" Will
make the rounds again, starting
here some time in August.
X X X
Business has been almost too
good, if there ever was such a
thing, at the Washington Office OF
the Theater Guild-American The
ater Society-the one on the land
ing at the National Theater. A
backlog of 10000 orders for season
tickets frankly has engulfed Bess
Davis Schreiner and her associates.
The result has been to force the
closing Of the Office for the re-
mainder Of this week. During the
enforced lull,, Miss Schreiner has
hopes Of catching up.
The office will reopen Tuesday,
Evening star., 1947-07-30

August 4, on the usual Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday from II to $50
pm. schedule.
Another explanation for the con-
gestion is the early opening this
year of the Theater Guilds pro-
gram. That date is September Is,
which will bring Cornelia Otis Skin
ner here in Oscar WiIde's Lady
Windemere's Fan" Two other early
Guild bookings locally are "The
Winslow Boy" an English import,
and "Carousel," the two-season hit
musical which Is now deep in a
brilliant Chicago run.
Miss Schreiner is sorry and happy
at the same time, regretful for the
delay, delighted that business is that
overwhelming.
Lenore Ulrich's is not the only
well-remembered face that will be in
the Olney theater's lineup in per
sonal Appearance" which opens at
the Maryland waysfde drama house
on August 4. The other one will be
that of Rudolph CBuO Watson, a
Prisoner of Zenda" type of actor
who performed here for many years,
in the flesh and on the radio.
Bud (the Rudolph seems to have
been dropped at the baptismal font)
was best known as participant in
the more successful projects of the
Washington Civic theater and the
stin-remebmered Roadside company.
The latter, a war casualty, special
lied in melodrama.
Miss Ulrich, summer circuit tour
ist of recent years, was last visible
in the rural revivals of Noel Cow
ards "Blithe Spirit
The Little Theater is prepared to
document its scornful laugh for
those who say isn't 1t too bad the
movies never were able to make
properly hilarious use Of Beatrice
Lille as a comedienne. There are
lots who do say that, basing 1t upon
Miss Lilies Hollywood adventures.
But the Little's counter Is the long
est running comedy in the theater's
history, an item tagged "On Ap-
proval." 1t held for 10 profitable
weeks at the house last season and
has been the picture in greatest de-
mand for return engagement.
The return engagement is now
scheduled-it begins today.
"Stone Flower" the Russian film
which has been creating something
of a mild dither for months, will
have its first washington showing
at the Hippodrome on Saturday.
Alexander Ptushko, director of some
of Russia's best known puppet films,
makes his first use of human actors
in Stone Flower" The subject, If
you did not know, Is a fairy story
based upon Russian folk legends,
when such legends were quite inno-
cent.
X II n
Speaking of return engagements,
as this column seems to have done
almost exclusively, local vocalist
Kay De Witt will make her third
appearance of the season at Loew's
Capitol Theater tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage,

Stage.
acknowledgements; 2:20 and
800 pm.
Catholic University-'Kingdom OF
the Blind; $50 pm.
Screen.
Acknowledgements; l, 3:O5
Sis, 7:2O and 9:35 pm.
Capitol-"The Ghost and Mrs
Muir; II am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and
s:55 pm. Stage shows: 1:05, 800
e:35 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Fiesta"; 11:35 am.
1875, 3::35, 5:35, 7:35 and $40 pm
Earle-"Possessed"; 11:1o am
lis, 3:2o, 7:35 and GAS pm
Hippodrome-"The Magic Bow;
2:1O, 4:O5, 6, 8 and 9:55 pm.
Keith's-"Brute Force; 11:15 am.
1:2o, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and 9:4o pm.
Little-"On Approval; 11:25 am.
1:10, 2:50, 4:35, 6:15, 8 and $50 pm
Metropolitan-"Great Expecta.
tions";; II am, 1:10, 800, $50, 7:4(
and Gas pm.
Palace-"The Hucksters";; 10:3(
am, 1910, 2:55, sos, 7:20 and 9:3S
pm
Pix-"Duel in the SUM-; 2:4o, 5:o5
Y::30 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts;
continuous from 10:15 am.