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Evening star., 1948-04-18
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
pa1tnss and aodts s'uptu1f R o psnsss By fTsss
By itsfi an and German masters.
Masterpieces from Germany,
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col-
lection Of Fine Arts, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Amer-
lean paintings from private collec-
Society oie OF Of Washington Artists An
nual, through April %.
ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING,
Jefferson drive and Ninth street
Decorative arts collection. Section
of photography-pictorial photo
graphs.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
nj nue. ana Tenth street-Prints BY
James L. Wells, throush next Sun
day.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint,
ings and etchings by Whistler and
etfs5 exbibita. American af'i'''' eh'h''n'
CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
avenue and E street-American
painting and sculpture and the W.
A. Clark collection. New exnibl-
washington and vicinity: Euro
day. washington, Virginia and
Maryland sculptors' exhibition.
through next Sunday.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1900 Twenty-first street-PaInt-
timore Artists Annual. opening
today.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Cap
itol and First streets-Dlvision OF
Prints, Georgia Anniversary Exhi-
bition, throush May ~.
ARTS CLUB, s017 I stree. Nv
exhibition Ish ito .Ga.r.y BY BOB RoSert BRAKEMAN
UNITED NATIONS CLUB. 1901 Nine
teenth street N.W.-old master
drawings.
WATKINS GALLERY, American Uni
versity campus-Annual exhibition
of contemporary painting.
PUBLIC LIBRARY-Eighth and K
streets E.W.-Cartoons BY Clinord
K. Bergman, through April.
DUMBARToN OAKS COLLECTION.
1903 Thlrty-second street NV
II Byssntstn,s, Inc, art ~ clossd 10 Monesgs: " s;s:
days, 2 to 5 pm.
RUSH & WEEKS GALLERY, 2010 g
street NW.-Exhibition by Emit
Kaufman. through May s.
PAN AMERICAN UNION. Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth. street
N.W.-Paintings by Cundo Ber-
mudez, through April.
CONNOISSEURS' CORNER. zoos q
street NW-Graphic art.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Sixth street
and Howard place N.W.-Japanese
prints. through April.
WHYTE GALLERY. 1918 Connecti-
cut avenue N.W.-Exhibition BY
Lois Mailou cones. through April.
Artists, COOPERATIVE, 1903 X
street N.W.-Exhibition by George
Cress. Jane Love and Hazel Van
Natter.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY, 1877
Randolph place N.W.-Paintinss BY
BENJAMIN Abramowitz, April and
May.
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Public Library
By RosoIie Monnino
Librarian, Takoma Park Branch

With ownership comes RESPONSE
bility for repairing, and springtims
is the season for going over the
house and garden noting the work
that needs to be done. Home
Guide to Repair, Upkeep and Re-
modelling" by w. H. Grouse, tells
what items about the house should
be checked annually and how to
do simple jobs that help to keep
the house in good repair. Louise
Sloane, in Revive Your Old FtIrr1i-
ture," gives instructions which serve
to make old furniture more pleasing
and usable. Upholstery, wood An
ishing and remodeling Of furniture
are considered. Popular Homo
Decoration" by NJ D. Gillies, Is full
of suggestions for color schemes,
window treatment and arrangement
of rooms.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Chess Notes
By Donald H. Muqridee

Many people are fascinated b.
the game of chess but find 1t diff
ficult to take the initial plunge. or
to pass from q. mere knowledge OF
the moves to that minimum of skill
which makes playing a regular
source of satisfaction and pleasure.
For the benefit Of all such, the
Washington Chess Divan is insti-
tuting a course Of weekly lessons
beginning next Tuesday at 8:15 pm.
Reuben Fines Chess the Easy
Way" will be used as textbook,
with the Hardness and Chernev
Invitation to Chess" recommended
as a preliminary and companion
work for absolute beginners. A stock
of both books will be kept on hand
at Sidney Kramer's bookshop, l722
H street NV.
A competent instructor will be
on hand for each session. and the
first will be led by Norval P. Wig
ginton, director of the Divan's
chess program. The formal instruc-
UlOu WILL DS 1OllOWCu Wy q PSAAoN
of supervised play among the stu
dents. No charge will be made for
the lessons and nonmembers of the
Divan are invited to participate. II
there is a sufficient response, the
lessons will be continued through
the first Tuesday in July.
The Divan's quarters are on the
ground floor of 2445 Fifteenth
street NV, near the corner OF
Euclid street and opposite Meridian
Park.
In the District championship
tournament. Oscar Shapiro gained
a very important point by his in
cisive victory over Martin G.
Stark in the fifth round. Hans Ber-
liner kept level with Shapiro by
winning from George Thomas. Ed
mund Nash defeated c. R. Zust
and thereby evened his score. The
game between Russell Church and
William F. Gray went to an ad-
journment and was ultimately
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More Old Master Drawings

A beautiful eXnlDltlOn OF OlQ IIldS-
ter drawings from the Schaeffer
Galleries, New York City, is on view
at the United Nations Club through
May 2. Mentioned briefly here two
weeks ago, before 1t opened, it COM
prises nearly so drawings by mas
ters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian,
English, French and German schools
of the 18th through 10th centuries.
The large number Of works in
color should give the exhibition
more popular appeal than is gen.
orally the case with such collections.
Famous names are common in the
present group. Brueghel, REM
brandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Boucher,
Watteau, Tienolo. Gainsborough,
Renoir, Redon and many others.
Yet, as not infrequently happens,
one may be most impressed with
work by some less important artist.
I was arrested by a remarkably liv-
ing head of an old woman by a
French artist. Lagneau "a name new
to me), who was active in the early
18th century. Her penetrating gaze
at the beholder seems to say, What
I have seen! What I have known"
This and many other items, hung
on two floors. make 1t an excep-
tionally rewarding exhibition.
Guest Lecturers
The National Gallery Of Art is
presenting this month two guest lee
turers from abroad. Herbert Read,
noted English author and critic, will
speak this afternoon at o'clock.
His subject will be Realism and
Abstraction in Modern Art" He was
formerly on the staff OF the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, and
has been a professor at the Univer-
sites of Edinburgh, Liverpool and
London.
Next Sunday at the same hour,
Jean Maunoury, present architect of
Chartres Cathedral, will lecture on
some aspects of it. AS his father
and grandfather held the of1ice be-
fore him, he must surely have more
intimate knowledge of that sublime
edifice than any other living person
\ 4 4 4
Trio at Silver Spring
Paintings, Autographs, sculpture
and ceramics by three artists well
known in Washington are now on
view at Silver Spring Art Gallery,
l92l6 Flower avenue, Silver Spring,
Md. They are the works of Aline
Fruhauf, Katharine Safer and
Katherine B. Hobbs. The show will
remain through Sunday, May 2.
Congressional Club
The third annual Congressional
| Club Art Show will be held at the
club next Sunday from 2 to 6 pm,
featuring paintings, drawings and
graphic art exhibited by members
of Congress, the Supreme Court, the
cabinet, the families and the stats.
| The show will be open to the mem
bers of the club, exhibitors and their
guests. Andrea zerega will give q
demonstrationtin Yin painting at $50
p.m.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Days of the Silent Steed'

and faces were bespattered with
mud and it was only by the men
shouting their names or numbers
as they crossed the tape that the
judges we're able to score the right
full winners.
After covering about half the
course, Dannemiller was forced to
quit because his eyes were filled
with mud, and when he got on his
wheel 1t was with difrculty that he
was identified.
1t was about the roughest and
the toughest race ever pulled OF
around Washington and it is safe
to say that there is not one OF the
contestants living but who dis
tinctly remembers this notable 20
mile event, which was finished IN
rain and darkness. The race was
won by w. A. Bolden, with J. A.
Galeski second and N. Rupp third.
Began in 1873
Going back to the beginning Of
things, Charles w. Krauskopf Is
given credit for introducing the
modern high bicycle in Washington
in 1878. This machine WAS known
as the "ariels." and had double
spokes and 46-inch wheels. The City
Directory of this period lists only
one person Of this name. He was
Charles G. Krauskopf, who kept q
hotel and restaurant at the corner
Of Tenth and E streets NV, over
which he resided. He had obtained
the machine from the British vice
consul stationed at Baltimore.
Naturally, Krauskpof was 'kidded"
and "guyed" as he rode through the
streets. But the bicycle had come
to stay, and 1t was not long before
William G. Scribner ceased man.
aging the Gazette. at 931 D street
NV. and opened a bicycle store
around the corner Of 1108 E street.
and If he was not the first one In
the city to engage in this business,
he at least was one Of the earliest.
Though Krauskopf was the SUBJ
ject of much chatting and joking.
it was not long before he had
company. and soon other Washing
tonians became infatuated with the
vehicle which was to become so i'm
'mensely popular in such brief
space Of time.
Soon Frank G. Wood, Max Hans
mann, Fred D. Owen, L. P. Einolf,
Herbert S. Owen and Louis N. Je-
sungofsky were proudly riding the
silent steed. and it was these gen.
tlemen, with Mr.. Krauskopf, who
organized the Capital Bicycle Club
on January 81, 1879. Mr.. Hansmann
Is still with us and Is member OF
the Oldest Inhabitants. Later a
long list of active members included
such well-knwon persons as James
G.. Blaine, jr.; Rudolph Kaufman
and Rex Smith.
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manned high. 1t has never been SO
high since. Although the number
Of western troops was small, they
gave the man in the street assur-
ance that they could not be knocked
out of the country, either by the
Yugoslavs or the Russians, without
the most serious implications to
those eastern relationships. This
token force of Americans and Brit
ishers had the same psychological
effect on the average Italian as the
military policeman has on the ILL
famed section of large city.
But in our anxiety to dispose Of
the war in Europe by signing peace
treaties. regardless of their future
implications. the United States Sem
ate, on advice from the administra-
ton, rushed to ratify the peace
treaty with Italy. 1t gave advan-
tages only to Russia and her satel-
lites.
All we obtained from that peace
treaty was the opportunity to sink
more money into Italy, in the from
Of assistance to keep the Italian
people alive. The Russians obtained
5000 200, 900 cash and portion of
the Italian fleet, which they intend
to use in the Mediterranean.
The Yugoslavs obtained large
chunk of Italian territory, which
consolidated their strategic position
in the Eastern Adriatic, and some
naval units which may come in
handy in the near future. Greece
obtained the Dodecanese Islands,
which the Russians expect to take
over as soon as they decide to take
over Greece by force. France, alone
among the western powers, obtained
a piece Of territory in the Alps
smaller than Central Park in New
York.
The U. s. S. r., which has been
adamant against making concessions
in the peace treaties with Germany
and Austria, ratified the Italian
treaty without hesitation. Moscow
knew that the western powers would
not welsh on the terms of the treaty
and the American and British token
forces would be withdrawn exactly
80 days after ratification OF THAI
document by all the signatories.
The departure Of American troops
from italy was day of mourning
for the overwhelming number OF
nom Communist italians and . day
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drawn. The next round OF the Dis
trict tourney will be held on April
"A, the intervening Saturday being
reserved for the match between
the Divan and the Mercantile Lii
brary Association at Philadelphia.
Meanwhile the standings are: Ber-
liner and Shapiro, 41a-h; Stark,
80; Gray and Nash. 21a-2A;
Church, 1h-3h; zust, IA; Thomas,
a-4h.
The third cycle of the Worlds
Championship Tournament began
as scheduled at Moscow last Sunday.
The United States champion, Re-
shevsky, made an inauspicious be-
ginning by losing in the first round
to Smyslov. with whom he had
previously drawn twice. He thereby
dropped to fourth place, behind both
Smyslov and Keres, who had beaten
DR.. Euwe third time.
The April rapid transit tourney at
the Federal Chess Club was note
worthy for the temperance of
Harold Burdge, we'll known as
former New Jersey champion, who
won the event, followed by DR.. H. v.
Klein and George S. Thomas.
On April 3, was contested at the
Divan the 57th monthly Hatfield
Mccoy feud. This fixture has now
rounded out five years of existence.
for on just four occasions has it
failed to take place on the first
Wednesday of the month. Every
member of the Divan is either a
Mccoy or Hatf1eld-they do, to be
sure, occasionally change sides If
Director Wigginton perceives a
DANGEROUS preponderance in either
camp-and the families engage in a
monthly struggle, somewhat less
lethal than its Kentucky prototype.
On this occasion neither tribe could
exterminate the other-the match
was drawn with Az points apiece,
as was the first board game be-
tween Ernest M. Knapp and Sol
Adler.
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i. S. Bases Getting Rusty

paredness in the Caribbean is espe-
cially ominous in view Of the fact
that Russia is known to have ESQ
huge ocean-going submarines, all
equipped with the German schnor-
kel breathing devices. Schnorkel-
equipped U-boats can operate at sea
for weeks without once rising to the
surface. Given secret bases In
South American or merely operat-
ing at long-range out of Russia's
Arctic sea bases at Murmansk and
Petsamo, Red U-boats today could
easily mount devastating surprise
attacks on the Panama Canal,
Roosevelt Roads, st. Thomas or any
other base we hold in the vital un-
derbelly defense area of the Spanish
Main.
The situation also Is brought into
sharp focus by the current fight in
leftist-run Costa Rica between the
Communist government forces on
one side and the rebelling Ulatistas
on the other. Fighting for the Red
Costa Rican government forces are
Nicaraguans, Dominicans and Hon.
durans, all present with the blessing
Of their leftist-minded governments.
Democrat Otilio Ulate is receiving
aid from Guatemala and Palama.
II the Communists win In Costa
Rica, the United States must face
the fact that left-wing dictator
states will lie on our western flank
in the Caribbean COSTA Rica, Mica
ragua, Honduras) and at least one
ursympathetic government (the
Dominican Republic) is situated in
the center Of the entire defense
area.
The bloody April o revolution in
Colombia-a short airplane flight
from the Panama Canal-also
should give pause to the Nation. A
Red victory in Colombia would pose
definite threat to our Pacific life
line-a threat the United States
would be hard put to guard against
with its present meager forces in
the Caribbean area.
Any blow to the Canal, the Ven-
ezuelan oil fields or the lifeline to
Africa and the Middle East would
seriously endanger our chances OF
winning a third world war.
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vessels called there regularly for
repairs and supplies.
Now, less than 500 men are based
there by the Navy. The atrstrip Is
used largely by Pan-American
World Airways and other CONNER
cial aircraft. The war planes are
gone.
The Cantana fuel depot has been
abandoned and the Sabana Seca
ammunition dump in the hills out
side San Juan no longer Is able to
supply unlimited quantities of
bombs, shells and depth charges to
our feet units.
The thousands OF Puerto Ricans
who served in our armed forces,
like their continental counterparts,
largely have returned to civilian life.
The hundreds of coastal gun en-
placements around the Puerto Rican
coast have been abandoned.
The Roosevelt Roads drydock is
amply manned for current needs,
but would require healthy infusions
of men and supplies In event Of
war. If current rumors that the
Navy is about to pull out of San
Juan entirely prove true, Roosevelt
Roads would be the only American
naval station on the island.
Guantanamo Better Manned
The only other American base re-
naming in the West Indies is VAR
nam Field, Jamaica-an Army in
stallation. Like every other Carib-
bean base, Vernam Field Is little
more than a figurehead.
Other bases, which never were
greatly significant and which are
now imperative, include Cakes
Field, in the Bahamas; Great Ex-
huma, also in the Bahamas; Bowen
Field, Haiti, and Seawell, Barbados.
The Navy's big base on the un-
derside of Cuba, Guantanamo Bay,
is fairly well manned and capable
Of quickly resuming war functions,
both for feet battle units and
planes. Batista Field, near Ha-
vana, has been returned to the
Cuban government, however.
The extent of American unpre-
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/. FeCNeUTS
Whyte Gallery.
By Florence S. Berymon

Washington galleries are now
teeming with group shows. Hence
those who like their art fare varied
can get 1t that way by visiting the
57th annual of the Society of Wash
ington Artists at the Nation91 NV
scum, the sprihg annual exhibition
Of contemporary painting just
opened at the Watkins Gallery
American University, paintings by
artists of Washington, Baltimore and
vicinity, which will open this after
noon at the Phillips Memorial Gal
lery, Ten Virginia Artists" (also
Washington artists, since they ex-
hibit frequently here, and some of
them work here at Chequire House,
Alexandria. not to mention the
Washington, Virginia and Maryland
sculptors at the Corcoran Gallery.
Painting Today
The spring annual exhibition of
contemporary painting is the third
presentation of works invited by
American University, which will pur-
chase from it painting for Wat
kins Memorial Collection. The show
is up for only a fortnight Through
April 30).
Between 30 and 40 paintings rep
resent artists of national reputation,
all but two of whom are active now.
Indeed, most of them are regularly
seen here in such exhibitions as the
Corcoran biennial, and recently in
the Pepsi-Cola and La Tausca an
nuals, Nearly all paint in modern
idioms. Five Washington painters
are among these artists, who repre-
sent many backgrounds, foreign and
American.
The major impression 1 have from
this exhibition is that most OF the
works are markedly characteristic OF
the. respective painters. Although
artists occasionally make, major
change in their own work leg,
Maurice Sterne's marines at the
Phillips Gallery in january most
of them become well known for in
dividual ways of painting, constitut-
ing personal trademarks. Indeed,
the only exception in the current
show at Watkins Gallery is Bar
negat Boat Basin" by Joe Jones,
entirely different from anything by
him I have seen heretofore. With
forms suggested in black outline
against a pale gray-blue background
1t has a delicacy that l never felt
In his substantial transcriptions OF
MidWestern landscape, farm workers
and kindred subjects.
But. to return to the characteristic
majority. Who. acquainted with
Raphael Soyers work, for instance,
could possibly fail to recognize it in
the unpretentious Girl in Profile. y
now at Watkins Gallery, subdued IN
mood and color scheme, reserved,
haunting? Niles Spencer's Bristol
Herbor" has the cleancut rectan-
gular forms, the sharp. clear atmos-
phere one associates with his work.
Arthur Doves Chewing Cow" i'm
mediately recalled to me the Phil
lips Memorial Gallery's Dove. Cows
In a Pasture" because of kinship,
! not similarity. ~ Stuart Davis cubis-
tic "Eggbeater" is one of the many
changes he has rung on this subject.
Henry Varnum Poor's handsome
still life. "Citron," strikes me as one
OF the shows best works. Also by
Poor is a gaunt portrait of Karl
zerbe, done with great simplicity,
and by zerbe himself is an uncom-
promising portrait of woman.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi's casein painting,
Figs" has the subtle nuances of
color which distinguish his work.
Three still life paintings represent
Evening star., 1948-04-18
HdwS Future In Balance

of celebration for the Communists
The last security prop was pulled
out from under Italy.
Rush for Red Bandwagon
From that time on the number
Of Italians who jumped on the
Communist bandwagon increased.
Fathers and mothers informed
Communist precinct captains that
they would vote for the Communist
candidates. This was preferable to
risking deportation to the dour
climate of Siberia or seeing children
subjected to hardships which they
knew to be in store for them. The
stories from Yugoslavia and from
the italian territory handed over to
Marshal Tito we're well-known
throughout Italy.
In the last three months our Gov
ernment attempted to remedy the
situation. Not only did we send
more supplies for the Italian popu-
lation-and these had little effect in
the electoral campaign-but we also
rushed a number of trainloads of
military equipment to the Italian
Army, which is supposed to uphold
the right of free expression of cit
liens at the polls.
These moves on the part of the
American Government are said to
have had some effect on the Italian
voters, but how far they are reas-
surfing them against the Communist
terrorism we shall kno1 some time
this week.
It is also true that on the eve OF
the departure of American troops
from Italy President Truman made
a statement that this country would
see to it that Italy is protected
against the arbitrary policies Of
Moscow, in the same way as we
pledged support for Greece and
Turkey. These, however, were only
words. The token force which i'm
plemented that assurance was al
ready on board American transports
for the trip home.
We had to live up to the terms OF
the treaty which was signed in
Paris in the summer of 1916, prin-
cipally to apease Russia once more.
The Presidents statement was re-
ceived with mild applause. In the
minds Of the people who feared
Communist terror these were mere
words. The last of the friendly oc-
cupatiorA force was being moved
thousanl Of miles away.
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. HE writer never owned BIZ
cycle built for two, other
wise known as a tandem,
- but a half century and more
aoo he and his good wife