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Evening star., 1949-08-28

a reasonable doubt OF the mno-1 |
cence of the man to be sacrificed.
1.-THE River Line" is the very
moving story of two men who
escaped from occupied France
through the underground, or River
Line, and of a girl who was one
link in their chain Of escape. Even
more, however, it becomes the
story of the man who did not
escape-the man who was sacri-
feed by them because there swas
enough question of his authentic
ity as to place the whole River
Line in jeopardy should he COM
plete the journey. On the surface
the story concerns a happy post
war reunion of these three. and the
general tenor of the book is pleas
antly conversational, with ques-
tions about the River Line disrupt
ing the conversation infrequently
at first. More and more, however,
as the three warm to one another
a fourth personality forces itself
between them with an insistence
that finally skaters their idyll.
leaving only fear of each other
and the terrible question. did we
kill an innocent man."
Charles Morgan has chosen
here one of the most difficult sub
jects in the field of thought and
has handled it surely and with a
seriousness that lends dignity to
the novel-form. Mr.. Morgan may
be little too mystical in his phi
losophy for some, but at least he
errs on the side of the deep rather
than the shallow.
MY HEART SHALL NOT FEAR
BY Josephine Lawrence. INC
Grau-HiH Book Co., Inc; $275J
The focus Of this novel is on a
young mother lying in a hospital
maternity room who wonders If
she was justified in bringing a
child into the world. Through
brief glimpses into the lives Of
her visitors, she learns the lesson
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Books In Review
Pamela Fronkuu Presents Charming
Novel of Life and Love in England

THE WILLOW CABIN
BY Pamela Frankau. (Hdrcourt,
Brace G. Co.; $3.)
= Reviewed by
JEANNE ROGERS.
An English love story. "The
Willow Cabin" borrows from
Shakespeare a title and from the
goth century sophistication.
The plot is so subtly woven that
the reader wonders whether it's
Pamela Frankaus mastery OF
understatement or his own naivete.
Caroline Seward takes the Lon
don stage by storm and, Is taken
in full return by a married doc
tor, 20 years or so her senior.
The doctors wife. his death by
suicide and a carved figure Of a
cat all have separate impacts on
Caroline's life.
This is a new handling Of a love
story by the daughter of Novelist
Gilbert Frankau. It combines
suspense, clever. characterization
and a pull on the emotions.
The authors first book was pub
lished in London when she was 10.
She has not published in America
for nine years, then appointment
With Death"
The book is as charming-and
vet dramatic-as "The Constant
Nymph," a novel of the same
school.
X X \
HEAR THIS WOMAN
BY Ben and Ann Pinchot. fFdr-
rar, StrduS & Co., INC; $3.)
This story of a career woman's
failure as wife is fuller than
most because of the coalition of
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Reviewed by
EDWIN TREBLE.

This is a collection Of 10 works
by Miss Stein in the form she con-
sidered to be the dramatic" form
Only one. Eyes Is For A Very
Young Man." comes near meet
ing the conventional form Of a
play. The rest are pure Stein
and what they mean is anybody's
guess. Mr.. Van Vechten is NO
help. His introduction tells the
circumstances under which they
were written and attempts no ex-
PLANTATION of their aims. The
most helpful idea he advances is
a quotation from Thornton Wild
er that Miss Stein perhaps
sprinkled stage directions and
such words as "Act I. Act III, etc., u
throughout her text as a subtle
lampocning of pedantry in dra-
matte composition. In one Of
these rplays" for example. scene
after scene and act after act con-
tains only the word mo" Others
are even less rewarding.
The best known of these pieces
is -Four Saints in Three Acts"
which has been set to music by
Virgil Thomson. The most en-
joyable for reading preferably
convivial reading) is ''The Mother
of Us ALL" wherein Susan B. An
thony and Daniel Webster are
pitted against character named
10 the Loiterer. Everybody talks
hut nobody wins.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Giuseppe Morotto
Gives Some Views
OF His Hometown

THE TREASURE OF NAPLES
BY Giuseppe Marotta; translated
by Frances Frenaye. (E. P. Dut-
ton & Co.; $3J
Reviewed by
MARK GNERRO.
Giuseppe Marotta must have
enjoyed writing this wise and
whimsical book on the Naples
of his beyhood. The colorful
sketches OF the simple people Of
his hometown have grown out Of
the tranquil musings of a mature
man-sketches which are tenderly
enveloped in a romantic aura that
the passing years have q habit
of bestowing even on the ordinary
happenings of times long since
gone.
This book has no message Of
startling import. offers no pana-
cea for the ills that afflict Naples
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the married writing team who
produced it.
Ben and Ann Pinchot, old hands
at magazine fiction, carry many OF
the sticks" techniques into their
novel. They use clipped conversa-
tions, trick plot twisting and the
old method of f1ashbacks.
The heroine's mission to save
the world through awakened
womanhood undoubtedly was the
descriptive chore of Mr.. Pinchot,
while her inner thoughts and
basic motivations were tackled by
his wife.
An underlying trend of the novel
throws a lot Of bouquets to the ac-
complishments of the fourth es-
tate, the job in which the woman
had her modest beginnings. And
it slaps hard at press agentry and
her loss Of a sense Of values.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Ex-Wurden Tells
The Inside Story
Of Fortress Prison
ISLAND PRISON

ALCATRAZ ISLAND PRISON
BY James A. Johnston. (Scrib-
ner'S;: $780,
Mr.. Johnston, who was warden
at 1.-The Rock" for is years. tells
how the fortress prison of San
Francisco Bay is run, and de-
scribes the careers and traits OF
some of it's most notorious pris-
oners.
Probably the public thinks OF
Alcatraz as the place OF maxi
mum security" where hardened
criminals" are sent to expiate
their many crimes. There is a
measure of truth in this concep-
ton, but Mr.. Johnston explains
that no convict. however bad his
record, is abandoned as hopeless,
that every effort is made to re-
claim him, or at least, if he is not
likely ever to be paroled, to make
his prison life less narrowing.
Clergymen and medical men, in
cluding psychiatrists, are there to
help. Certainly Alcatraz is no re-
sort for indolent lawbreakers-the
discipline is severe-but prisoners
are treated fairly and decently,
Mr.. Johnston says.
Battle of Alcatraz.
He has an exciting chapter on
"the battle of Alcatraz" in 1916.
There are interesting accounts
of AL Capone, Roy Gardner,
Machine Gun" Kelly and other
headline convicts. Capone tried
to bribe guards for special priv
ileges and wanted to carry on his
rackets from the prison. When
he realized he was just another
"con" he made fairly good"
adjustment"
Mr.. Johnston has found, as
other crimtnologists have, that
youth is the time to reform way
ward men. To try to rehabilitate
them after they have become
stepped in crime strikes him
about the same as if a farmer
took no notice Of his seed, neglect
ed his soil and attempted to sort
the weeds from the crop at har-
vest time" &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
The Restless Hands, by Bruno
Fischer; Dodd. Mead & Co.;

The Restless Hands, by Bruno
Fischer; Dodd. Mead & Co.;
$3.50.
Red Badge
AS in his earlier More Deaths
Than One" Fischer looks over the
shoulder of one character after
another. Since one Of them is
obviously the murderer, this tech
nique of shifting viewpoints is
tricky business but Fischer man
ages it nicely. Through his sleuth,
Ben Helm. and his trio Of sus-
poets, Fischer tells the story Of a
stranger who does away with
three women and attacks a fourth
without apparent motivation.
Helm has to rely more on Freud
than fingerprints to solve this
The Tongue Tied Canary, by
Nicolas Bentley: (Duell. Sloan
g. Pearce, Inc; $3.50.
Bloodhound
The son of L. C. Bentley Of
"Trent's Last Case" fame makes
his bow with a spy yarn that
leans heavily on humor and a
sturdy prop that is, too. An ex-
Military Intelligence agent is as
signed by q hush-hush outfit
known as "the Branch" to catch
up with a courier who, it is hoped,
will lead him to a character intent
on reviving Nazi domination in the
postwar world. Half the time, our
hero Is chasing plotters. The rest
of the time they're chasing him.
It's good fun, partly because the
agent is admittedly something less
than infallible.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Ottenberq

Shoes for My Love, by Jean Leslie.
doubleday q Co., Inc: SO
Crime Club.
When Barry Barlow saw a
strange but beautiful woman
standing over the dead body Of his
friend with a smoking gun in her
hand, he assumed she had done
the foul deed. But he hid her,
anyway, being sucker for beauty
as the author carefully explains.
Questions to be answered: Who lit
Ia fire in the dead doctors apart
ment? What was the vanishing
beauty trying to hide? And how
come the coroner said the doctor
was killed three hours before Bar
low saw the girl with the smoking
gun? Barlow. a competent chap,
designs a new pair Of shoes while
getting the answers.
4
Suddenly q Corpse, by Harold @.
Masur: (Simon and Schuster;
$2.OO.
S1nctun1.
Private Detective Victor Grove
died of an overdose Of information
(and a shot in the back), but Pri-
vate Detective Scott Jordan wished
the fat man hadn't chosen his
apartment as the scene Of his de-
mise, particularly when the police
were so unwilling to believe Jordan
didn't know him. But Jordan
found out soon enough that he
and Grove were supposed to be
working on the same case-which
led, naturally enough, to en-
counters with two charmers, a
jealous husband. a tight-lipped
racketeer and an aged character
trying to figure out some way of
losing a million dollars. The clues
are somewhat obviously planted
but the pace is hectic.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
This Was America
Caught Between
Two World Wars
THE ASPIRIN AGE
Edited by Isabel Leighton
(Simon G. Schuster; $685.

he a0F F1N4N ASG
Edited by Isabel Leighton.
(Simon G. SchuSter; $685.
Reviewed by
JOHN L. SPRINGER.
It was an age of weird and
wacky, socially insignificant news,
and news the social significance
of which we almost invariably
failed to grasp. During most OF
those % years from the end Of
World War I to Pearl Harbor and
our beginning of World War II.
the Nation could whip itself over
Channel swimmers, the mysterious
death of Starr Faithful, and the
long count of the Dempsey-Tun-
MY fight. But it was period
long enough for America to grow
up In.
Isabel Leighton got the idea Of
having % writer's tell the story OF
the era by treating its high spots
in individual pieces. In most
cases, the authors were on top
of the events as they happened.
Gene Tunney recalls his fights
with Dempsey, Holding Carter
profiIes "Huey Long: American
Dictator" and Thurman Arnold
analyses the crash and what 1t
meant. It is still too soon, by
common consent, for an adequate
historical appraisal of the per-
sonalities of the times, but the
authors take few cracks at 1t
anyway. Harding and Coolidge
are treated somewhat roughly,
and Wendell WILKES greatness
in political defeat" we are told.
was a decisive factor in enabling
America to win the war;"
There Is much f1rSt-rate reading
in this volume. I especially liked
Herbert Asbury's hilarious account
of those two demon prohibition
agents, lizzie and Moe; Robert
Coughlan's revelations in the
"Konklave in Kokomo" and Will
liam McFee's discussion of the
famous Moro Castle disaster.
During the '20s and SOS. says
Miss Leighton, I'VE seem to have
fuctuated between headaches,
sometimes induced by prohibition,
more frequently by the fevered
pace Of the times. During these
throbbing years we searched in
vain for a cure-all, coming no
closer to it than the aspirin bottle.
Hence: 1.-THE Aspirin Age" Readers
will await a sequel to this book If
only to learn from the title what
an adequate prescription for these
times might be.
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of the book, that fear vanishes
before "the invincibility Of love"
This novel is really series OF
vignettess all threaded together
rather loosely by some light con-
tact with the young mother. Some
of the sketches show great warmth
and insight. others are merely
trite. In the good ones, Josephine
Lawrence writes with perception
and delicate human understand
ing; and she produces few Won
derful characters, like Great
grandmother Toller. who visits a
friendless unmarried m OF h
whom she has never seen before
because "she was no stranger to
any one who had heard her story,
and what woman had not?"
On the whole, however, the
book has a ring too familiar to
be offset even by such delightful
characters as Mrs. Toller.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Reviewed by
MARK GNERRO.

and the world. It is a simple re-
cital of the everyday doings of the
teeming thousands who inhabit
that great port city. Naples
caught between the vagaries of
sea and VOLCANOES a city Of
tragicomic contrasts, moody,
changing yet everlastingly the
same. Its tickle influence seems
to engender in the inhabitants a
passionate, excitable concern with
the fleeting activities Of this life
and keen awareness of eternity.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Bridge Players
By Violet M. thinner

event is next Sunday at 2:15 pm.
There will be a qualifying round.
The second session will be at 8:15
pm. on Sunday. A special game
will be held for non-qualif1ers
simultaneously with the final ses-
sion and any one else desiring TO
enter may do so.
The open teams of four con-
cludes the tournament in two
sessions on September at 1890
pm. and 6 pm. all teams to play
through both sessions.
Those desiring information con-
cerning available partners. etc..
may contact members of the va
rious committees: Women's pairs.
Mrs. c. w. thinner; mems pairs,
Miller Roberts; mixed pairs. Mr..
or Mrs. J. r. McGhee, jr.;; open
pairs, DR.. N. J. McHugh, and team
of four, DR.. w. S. Benedict.
It should be a photo finish at
the conclusion of the annual
mixed-pair championship of the
F. Arthur Walker Club tonight
at 1911 North Quincy street, Ar
lington. When the scores bal
anced after the first session there
was the difference of one point
between the leaders, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Blasangame, 1885, and 1t.
Col. Henry Walker-Mrs. Dixie T.
Wright, 1878.
At the Arlington Farms contest.
held on August 10, there was one
master point for 1t. Col. and
Mrs. John Geddes, Mrs. Geoffery
Woods-Mrs. Philip Talbot; half
points to Mrs. Alice Beasley-Mrs.
T. E. Turner, Mr.. and Mrs. AL
fred Barnard. 1t. Col. and Mrs.
Geddes will be missed from among
this group in the future as they
have been transferred to Fort
Monmouth, N. j.
V1ctors at Mrs. Stephan's Eu-
cid street studio on August 20:
One master point to Mrs. Marian
Barre-W. A. Pestell, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Kathan; one-half point
to Mrs. Pestell-Mrs. E. Boschan.
Miss Laura Hunter-Mrs. Howard
Campbell.
Adding to their collection Of
rating points at the Washington
Bridge Leagues open game on
Wednesday, August "a were:
First place, r. A. Ashton-Mrs.
VIM. Mcintyre, T. E. Taylor-A. E.
Camire, Mrs. T. M. Boyle-Dr. c.
C. Mcdonald, v. M. Dunn-Mrs.
Ruth Broadfoot; second place.
Mrs. w. H. Gorton-Mrs. VIM.
Poissant, Mrs. Dora Schwartz
H. j. Horn, Mrs. E. A. st. john
M. Sobernheim.
Master points will be the reward
for winners at the Federal Bridge
Leagues last Monday in the
month game tomorrow evening.
Announcement has been made
by Mrs. Stephan that the Agricul-
ture Clubs master point game
usually held on the first Saturday
of the month will be postponed
until the second Saturday in
September SO as not to conflict
with the Alexandria tournament.
It was "Buie" night at the Chess
Clubs Saturday night game on
August 20. Miss Maize Bule,
who has been hostess to Capital
duplicate fans for more than
Is years will soon return to
her former home in Mississippi.
Chess Club members and holders
of guest cards are reminded that
those desiring to enter the clubs
annual individual championships,
which will take place on the Tues
day evenings of September 20-27
should register as soon as possible.
Lloyd Tubbs is present holder Of
the title.
Evening star., 1949-08-28

It is not unusual for Washing
ton players to return from a
neighboring tournament with more
than their share of awards. Such
was certainly true for those who
made the trek to the Piedmont
Virginia Annual, which convened
at Natural Bridge, Va, last week
end. The entire contingent fin
ished in honor positions. Most
successful was the twosome OF
James G. Stone William Poissant,
who led their section in the quail
flying round OF the open pairs
and became champions by sub
stantial margin.
Chance partnerships proved no
handicap. Wallace Ashby and
David Murray finished first and
second, respectively, in the mixed
pairs with partners from Rich
mond and Staunton. In chance
partnerships in the eam-of-four
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. McGhee. jr.,
were runnersup and Mrs. Kitty
Boyle-Miss Kathleen McNutt,
third.
Four Capital fans, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Lazard, David Murray and
Larry Reynolds. are spending this
week end taking part in the
Southern Appalachian champion
ships at Asheville, N. C.
Fans who desire to spend their
Labor Day week end at the bridge
table may do so at the George
Mason Hotel, Alexandria, Va,
when the 11th annual Cumber-
land Valley championships take
place. The tournament is being
sponsored by the Washington
Bridge League. Starting time is
Friday at 8:15 pm, when the
concurrent women's and mems
pairs begin. On Saturday at 2:15
the whistle blows for the first ses-
sion of the mixed pairs, the eve
ming session getting under way at
8:15 pm. All players play through
both sessions.
In 1948 this tournament was
held at Hagerstown. Md. Local
fans were champions in every
event but the open-pair, which
was won by Charles Shapiro
Irwin Fisher, Baltimore stars.
This year Capital players would
like to see a local pair annex this
trophy. Starting time for this
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THE WELL O. THE WORLDS
'y Seumas MacManuS. (Th
Din-Adnir Co. $250)
Reviewed by
JOHN L. SPRINGER.

BY SeumaS MacManuS. (The
Deuin-Adair Co.; $780,
This collection of Gaelic tales
are remembered from the authors
youth, when he heard them at
the nightly storytelling by cot
tage turfsides in the Donegal
Highlands. They all begin with
"Once upon a time, and a good
time it was" and end with "and
they lived happily ever after"
They make wonderful reading as
antidotes to headlines.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Reviewed by
HOWARD P. BAILEY.

Every one who plays bridge
(and who doesn'tD will find this
book not only interesting but
highly instructive.
Little character studies, init
mate revelations of how the ex-
perts tick, are presented here with
sample hands showing the bid
ding and play by 13 of the
Nations greatest bridge players
Charles H. Goren. possessor OF
more master points than any
other player, who conducts a daily
bridge column IN The Star, comes
in for a great deal Of attention.
So does Helen Sobel, ranking
woman player whose wizardry per-
mitted her to hold East, who had
the king, queen. jack and two of
spades, which were trumps, behind
the ace, ten, nine and five to
two spade tricks.
Culbertson, most controversial
figure in bridge; Jacoby, clown of
the game but possessed Of great
skill; Won Zedwitz, Sims, Fish
bein, Schenken, the precocious
youngster, Crawford; Hazen,
Olive Peterson, Mrs. Margaret
Wager and Mrs. Sally Young are
all painted with interesting and
technical skill.
II don't see how they do it"
will be the average reaction to the
magic Of the masters, but you'll
find it all there, explained as to
bridge philosophy and recorded as
to actual card holding, bidcing
and play.
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Ancient Challenge Of Ethics
Is Theme of Vivid New Novel
THE RIVER LINE
Re Macmillan Cog $275.)

Reviewed by MARGARET BLAIR sHUMAKER.
Line" tensely and poignanty question that
beginning Of thoughts
permissible to sacrifice life mems lives? The
stated these simple terms OF the most
the dof ethics but stated by Charles Morgan
complex for he allows there to be
Evening star., 1949-08-28

A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN
LITERATURE

BY D. s. Mirsky. (Knopt;; $3.)
In this volume an editor has
combined, annotated and brought
up to date Mr.. Mirsky's two
books. "A History Of Russian Lit
erature" and Contemporary Rus
sian Literature" considered au-
thoritative in their acld. The COM
bine6. abridged. revised book is
the work Of Francis j. Whitfield.
Mr.. Mirsky once was a member
Of the Union Of Soviet Writers S,
but the publisher says his pres
ent whereabouts" Is unknown:
there have been rumors that he
died In exile In Siberia, and coun-
ter-rumors have placed him in
Moscow aS late as the summer OF
1s4s.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
British Novelist Gives Us New
Slant on Troubles in Greece
SECRET VALLEYS

COUSINS.
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES. 3
Perhaps propagandsts have oversmp1ed the little wars
that ga on endlessly IN countries like Greece.
especially it supposed to be simple issue OF com
mists against reading this book you wonder
there are enmities involved in the guerra
mountain than doctrina disputes could wholly
Evening star., 1949-08-28
This Is Pure Stein,
And dAnyOne's Guess

LAST OPERAS AND PLAYS
BY Gertrude Stein. Edited and
with an Introduction by Carl Van
Vechten. (Rinehdrt G. Co, lnc.,
NeD York, So
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Bridge Experts
Take the Game
Apart for You

CHAMPIONSHIP BRIDGE: AS
PLAYED BY THE EXPERTS
BY J. Patrick Dunno and Albert
A. Ostrom. (Whittlesey House,
Evening star., 1949-12-07

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Evening star., 1949-12-07
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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-04-07
: Valley Road
BY MRS. EFFrE DAVIS

Several friends and parents ol
this community attended the
Senior play on Tuesday evening
at the Redwood auditorium, in
which several of the pupils had
the leading parts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Thompson
and other relatives attended the
funeral of their cousin, Mrs.
Moore, at the MaSkill cemetery
on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Webster
spent Friday evening at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs Glenn Davis.
A number from this communi-
ty attended the jamboree on Fri
day evening at the Magnetic
Springs school auditorium. The
Pharisburg Grange sponsored it
for the benefit of the Cancer
drive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Thompson
spent Monday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Earick. Mr.. George Earick, the
father, who has been sick for d
number of weeks at the sons
home, passed away on Monday
evening. The family has the
sympathy of the community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Styer and
children entertained several rela-
tives for dinner Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Webster
called on Bertha Matlack Sun
day afternoon and attended the
funeral of Mrs. Matte Coe at
York Center.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Davis
called on Harry Cunningham,
near w. Mansfield Sunday after
noon. He suffered with a slight
cerebral hemorrhage while work
ing in their barn. He is improving