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Current Exhibitions

(Most galleries will be closed today:
some will be closed tomorrow
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
GuIbenEian collection Of Egyptian
sculpture and French 18th century
art: Vienna masterpieces through
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
Lection Of Fine s,th Arts, ss,.reshsfin constitmsiein
can paintings and old masters;
snnSsI s1SlssyI throusn 20 n1snA Fridsy. '''''
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division
of Graphic Arts, Independence ave-
nue. and Tenth street@prints sa,.1I BY
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
inss tns am and : etchinss Il s By " Whistler and
other American artists; changins
s;l;I exhibits aS IhayeT .s.tsnr centennial exni-
CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART, ssy- ys
avenue and E street-cli1ord Z.
paintings and scnAsture and the
w. A. Clark collection. Photo
crime Young.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
ines and prints. Exhibitions by
Villon and Feininger.
ARTS CLUB, 2017 I street-.Indian
Christian paintinsss BY 1rindade'
DuMBARToN OAKS COLLECTION
lT9s hyesntIn. Thirty1second srt' street NV
PUBLIC LIBRARY. Eighth and =
streets N.W.-Collection Of los
Exhibition - by John Galloway
through Saturday.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Cap
itol and First streets - Prints
RUGS, tapestries and other textiles
Peru. open Monday. Wednesday
and Friday, 2 to Pm Pm: ,,.c. AZ.
'sa 81 asorss By asste saess so & 0fe
teenth street NV.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIvER-
-saintinas By R. Mcdin Msckaii.
WATKINS GALLERY, American Uni
versity campus - Sculpture show,
through ,Tussday., Drawings by
CagH to January /.
Christmas group show.
PAN AMERICAN UNION. Seventeenth
and c streets N.W.-Paintings bS
Cantu.
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY,
9216 Flower avenue, Silver Sprtng,
Md.-Works BY Lyon, Van Natter
and Fontanini.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ART, 1922 New York avenue
Moholy-Nsgy memorial through
GINNS ART CENTER, 1914 Georgia
avenue, Silver spring-Exhibitton
by Vernon Nye through December.
STUDIO GROUP. No. Hillyer court
N.W.-christmas show.
A. v. c. CLUBHOUSE, 1871 New
Hampshire avenue N.W.-Artists'
cooperative Christmas show.
BARNETT -ADEN GALLERY, 127
Randolph place N.W.-Paintinss BY
Sylvia Carewe.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL
LERY, Sixth and Howard place
N.W;-Five centuries Of print
DUPONT THEATER ART GALLERY,
Connecticut avenue near n Stleet-
One-man show BY .Permuttef,
through January Ii.
PLAYHOUSE THEATER ART CAL
LERY, Fifteenth street near New
York avenue N.W.-lCnststmss ex-
HEBREW aiRas1S4 coNaREdAT1oN - Group
show.
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Evans Gambit.
Pilgrims During Holy Year
To See Worlds Best Art

are magnificent examples Of Ba-
rogue . which through Spain en-
tered Latin America and influ-
enced Importantly architecture
and painting south Of the Rio
Grande.
The dome by Michelangelo
crowning st. Peters; the dome by
Brunelleschi, as we'll as Giotto's,
tower, on the Cathedral Of Flor
ence; the baptistry doors to
which Ghiberti gave % years Of
his life: non-Christian antique
monuments like the Pantheon OF
Second Century Rome, the Colos-
scum and the Triumphal Arches;
the palaces Of Versailles and Fon-
tainebleau; the Roman ruins
spread through Southern France
these will be among the tour
lists delights in the Holy Year, as
they have been in the past.
Masterpieces of painting will be
found everywhere, in the Louvre.
the Pitt, the National Gallery.
and often on the walls where alone
they can be seen, as Giotto in the
arena chapel at Padua and Piero
Della Francesca in the Church of
San francesca in AreZZo.
In addition, of course, there will
be much purely secular cultural
activity. The opera season has re-
Gently opened in Rome and Naples
and will open Monday in Milan'S
La Scala. There will be ballet
companies from Paris and Lon
don in Italy.
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BY the Associated Press

The hundreds of thousands OF
pilgrims going to Europe during
Holy Year, which begins today,
will find, in the places where they
worship, that the Western Worlds
greatest artists, architects and
composers have been there before
them.
A tour Of religious shrines in
Catholic countries like Italy, Spain
and France is a tour of art shrines.
The Holy Door in st. Peters,
opened for Christmas Eve by Pope
Plus XII, was opened in the basi-
|lica constructed successfully by
|Bramante, Raphael, Sangallo and
Michelangelo: it was opened to a
world Of the spirit which is glori-
fed in the works Of these four
artists and builders and many
others of comparable renown.
Music to be heard in st. Peters
and Rome's 400 other churches
goes back to Palestrina of the 18th
Century, and back millennium
before that to Gregory the Great,
under whom the form of the lit
urgy was established and for
whom the Gregorian Chant Is
named.
Setting a matchless model for
the press which will cover this
years events, Dante witnessed and
described the first Holy Year, pro-
claimed by Boniface in 1900.
Romanesque architecture. which
is inseparable from the Christian
church, may be seen at its great
est splendor in Italy in San Am
brogio, Milan: or in the Bayeux
Cathedral in France, and in many
less well-known buildings in
Southern France. In England the
style can be enjoyed In Durham
Cathedral, and at Canterbury.
Gothic architecture, the most
glorious evolved by Christians. is
Protestant. as at Lincoln, in Eng
land, but better known as Catho-
lie at Chartres, Rouen. Amiens.
Notre Dame and the Sainte Cha
pelle In Paris, and In Italy, in the
Cathedral Of Milan.
Baroque, a style favored by the
Jesuits as Sienese painting is
In the Franciscan spirit >. is con-
nected in building and sculpture
principally with the name Of Ber-
mini, who did the colonnade Of
st. Peters Square, the chair Of
st. Peter in st. Peters, and the
eastern facade Of Sta. Maria
Maggiore, one Of the four patri-
archal basilicas. Venice's Sta.
Maria Della Salute and the west
pavilion Of the Louvre In Paris
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Hudson Memorial
THE BEST OF w. H. HUDSON
Edited by Odell Shepard. (Dut

THE BEST OF w. H. HUDSON
Edited by Odell Shepard. (Dnt-
ton; 81 T ..
w. H.. Hudson's reputation does
not seem to have suffered during
the years since his death. Perhaps
he is not mentioned as much as in
the '20s. Perhaps he will be for
gotten in the next few decades and
then revived, which has happened
to the work Of so many writer's. At
his best, Hudson wrote with q rare
perception Of what he saw and felt
and a classic beauty of>phrase.
DR.. Shepard has collected in an
anthology Of reasonable length
some Of the finest examples. It is
not generally known, the editor
points out In his introduction, that
Hudson's parents both were ma
tives of New England. His boyhood
was spent in Patagonia, on the
South American pampas he was to
write Of 50 memorably In Green
Mansions" and Far Away and
Long Ago" He became natural
lied Englishman. Ordinarily he
seems absorbed in the outward
spectacle" DR.. Shepard writes,
"but his main interest lay in the
human mind. to him the most mys-
terious and wonderful thing In the
world. He was, I believe primarily
q psychologist, as william James
OWNED long ago, and he watched
his own thoughts and moods more
closely than he did the creatures
Of earth and air" &C. B. ].
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Capt. Morrison, who left his Har-
ward prcfessorship in history to
don a Naval Reserve officers uni
form during World War II and who
is writing a 14-volume history
of naval operations in that
conflict, prefaces his fifth volume
in the series by quoting an earlier
historian, Polybius. The Greek
chronicler wrote: That historians
should give their own country a
break, I grant you; but not so as
to state things contrary to fact.
For there are plenty of mistakes
made by writers out of ignorance,
and which any man finds it diff
cult to avoid. But if we knowingly
write what is false, whether for
sake of our country or our friends
or just to be pleasant, what differ
ence is there between us and hack
writers? Readers should be very
attentive to and critical of histori-
ans, and they in turn should be
constantly on their guard"
= It is in the objective tradition
of Polybius that Capt. Morrison
has written this critical review
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George Mcmillan Had 1t
Just Like Ii Was

George Mcmillan, onetime
Washingtonian. resolved in writ
ing THE Old Breed: A History Of
the First Marine Division" that it
would be a one-unit history quite
bare of the usual "At 0863 Com
pany A jumped of for Hill 345."
A social history, one that would
tell how the First got its distinc-
tive personality of "a crotchety,
canktankerous, prideful and in
tolerant, but wise and fearless old
man" was what he had in mind.
To find out, he began to travel,
searching out men who were
during the war in the right places
at the right time"
II struck one Of my richest
lodes," says ex-Serg. McMn-
Ian, "in the late afternoon dark
ness of a small-town parlor where
the man I had come to see sat
helplessly crippled in an easy
chair in the corner, his face
masked with shadows, his story
so touching I continued to take
notes when I could not see rather
than ask him to switch on the
light"
Mr.. Mcmillan, wartime OEM
section chief and former Capital
reporter, wrought better than he
knew in setting down the COM
mon experiences of these men.
All over the country, "The Old
Breed" is being hailed as the best
unit history to come out Of the
war.
One palm pleases him more
than all others. It came from
the wife of q Marine friend who
said:
ED said you had it just like
1t was"
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What Can Happen
If Saints Come
Back to Earth
THE MERRY MIRACLE.

THE MERRY MIRACLE.
by Mary Milan. (Houghton, Nit
fin Co.; So
Frothy satire about a flock Of
saints who are induced to come
back to earth to a sanctuary for
tired saints prepared by some
French peasants. Back in the
world, they resume all their hu-
man frailties: They squabble
among themselves, exhibit pride,
gluttony and a lust for publicity.
When the devil appears in the
house stalking such choice quarry.
it is only the native wisdom of a
sturdy farm girl which saves them
from appearing quite mad.
Miss Mans theology seems a
trif1e askew here, due perhaps to
the fact that she is dealing with
saints whose halos are slipping
The point appears to be that
nothing, not even sanctity, can be
taken for granted. M. MEG.
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of the naval, land and air oper-
ations incident to what the Ma
rines on Guadalcanal called Oper-
alton Shoestring. There was plenty
of glory for the men of all services
in our first big offensive operation
of the Pacific war-but there were
mistakes aplenty. too. Capt. Nor
ison has been ION guard" to pre-
sent as nearly a factual account
as possible of the errors as well as
the achievements of the bitter,
bloody struggle for the steamy,
malarial Solomons.
The Savo Island Debacle.
Here is presented the most COM
plete story and hindsight-analy-
sis of the Savo Island debacle.
This night battle in August of
1912 is held by the author to have
been "one of the worst defeats
ever inflicted on the United States
Navy" We lost three cruisers and
the Australian Navy lost another
through what Capt. Morrison says
was our lack of alertness, absence
of "battle-mindedness," overcon-
fldence in early model radar
equipment and all-around bun
Cling by high officers. Savo Island
was a grim and costly lesson,
from which, in the end. we profit
ed greatly.
Our shoestring fleet in the
Southwest Pacific could i'll afford
the Savo Island losses, but we
went on from there to fight our
way to victory, step by step. The
book contains wealth of tactical
detail concerning the carrier bat
tie of the Eastern Solomons, the
battle of Cape Esperance, the car
rier action off the Santa Cruz Is
lands, the vicious three-day naval
battle Of Guadalcanal, the Tassa-
faronga engagement and the bat
tie of Rennell Island.
The reader is taken ashore with
the Marines at Gauadalcanal, to
share in his minds eye the night
and-day ordeal Of the Marines
and the Army in their efforts tc
cling to their Henderson Field toe
hold. The volume carries the story
through the six awful months te
February, 1943, when the island
was declared finally secured. The
next volume will cover the Navy's
battle for the BismarckS.
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Art
Indian Madonna
Is Serene Work,
Comparable to
Western Styles
BY Florence S. Berrymon

The Christmas theme is beauti-
fully and reverently interpreted In
paintings by Angela Trindade on
view at the Arts Club through jan
uary 6. At the same time, it is an
Interpretation different from what
most Occidental Christians expect,
for the artist is an east Indian
whose Brahmin family was con-
verted to Catholicism five centu-
ries ago by st. Francis Xavier.
Members of the family assumed
Portuguese names but otherwise
retained their Indian identity.
II have tried to paint the Ma
donna as an Indian with an In
dams sentiments and feeling" said
Miss Trindade. Having Western
culture and an Indian background,
I have aimed at bringing out the
pure and simple dignity of the
Madonna with all her spiritual
beauty"
The serene and contemplative
east Indian Virgin is as acceptable
in every respect as the Renaissance
Italian, Spanish. Flemish, Dutch,
German and other racial types,
which have the advantage Of be-
ing familiar to us. Sticklers for
realism would have to eliminate
all these, and portray a Jewish
girl of Galilee of over 10 centuries
ago. I imagine she would have
been somewhat Oriental in ap-
pearance. and hence nearer to Miss
Trindade's Virgin, than to the
western European types.
The Sermon on the Mount, sew
eral miracles of Christ, and other
Bible stories are also depicted in
the nearly so paintings in oil and
water color, which occupy all the
Arts Clubs temporary-exhibition
space on the first floor. Approx
mately half of the show Is re-
ligious In theme and painted in
Indian style. Persons acquainted
with Mughal miniatures of some
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GA1Cy 1Aca1lo Vic "4oPpSo PoShooS
in name only; wait for the smile
relieve the recipient of the burden
and then 60 of into a corner with
it, gloating.
They justify such Indian giving
with the contention that like the
quality of mercy it is twice blessed.
And in the general benevolence
of the Yuletide, they are forgiven.
In fact, the only long face
around the tree is apt to be that
of the book reviewer, who wishes
he got more books for Christmas.
Not in his stocking naturally, but
from the publishers, who bury
him in books during the fall and
then leave him eying such vol
umes as 1.-The History of the Sew
ing Circle in Western Illinois for
possible review during these lean
weeks.
It Is understood, of course, that
the book trade relies great deal
on it's Christmas sales, maintain
ing that book that doesn't sell
then never will. But at the same
time, certain good novels by un-
known authors which might very
well be overlooked in the autumn
flood and not have much OF a
Christmas sale anyway, would, If
published during the sparse days
between mid-December and the
New Year, get the attention from
the press they deserve. and fur
thermore might figure respectfully
in the brisk return trade which
will shortly be flourishing.
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his stories were in so little de-
mand that he was known largely
as a poet. Washington Irving
his best work behind him. was
the dean of American letters.
while James Fennimore Cooper,
the most popular, did not produce
much worth while in the sos.
Except in dealing with the more
obvious follies of the times, DR..
Riegel usually steers a middle
course. Yet he is not without
bias. For instance, in discussing
the wave of immigration that al
ready was under way, he says the
Irish were a shiftless, intemperate
lot who flocked to the city slums
and were not much good even as
servants. He describes the Ger
mans as clean, thrifty and indus
trious. He does not mention the
many Irish who came here penni-
less and climbed to eminence in
the professions and industries.
X X X X
FAMILY ALBUM.
BY Paul Chavchavadze. (Hough-
ton, Mi61in; 49,
Paul and Nina Chavchavadze
live on Cape Cod with their son
David. But there was a time when
husband and wife lived in impe-
rial Russia, both members of great
families.
Family Album" is Mr.. Chav-
chavadze's account of some early
memories. He belonged to the old
aristocracy of Georgia, while Nina
was a cousin of the last Car.
Paul's father was executed by
the Communists. It was culmi-
mating irony when Paul Chavcha-
vadze as an American officer in
World War II was sent to the
Soviet forces on a liaison mission.
He says of his 10 months among
these later Russians: Without
doubt there was a close affinity
between us-We understood each
other. I knew instinctively what
made them tick. While they re-
sponded with their trust. and
sometimes their affection. But
there was an element that held us
apart, though at times, it helped
to balance rather than hinder our
relationship. This element was
the difference between feeling
American and feeling Soviet"
He had spent 18 years develop
ing into an American. He added:
When the war ended and I got
shipped back to the States, I knew
I was returning to a place where
I belonged"
The authors various aunts,
uncles, cousins, grandparents and
others become hard to identify
at times-there are so many of
them-and yet there is much in his
story that is interesting.
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and other recent books, like Lloyd
Morris Not So Long Ago." show
not only that history need not be
the dull procession Of events it too
often has been, but that there are
many phases of history still to be
explored. Obviously these books
cannot supplant the records of
wars, governments, migrations and
other human mutations, but they
certainly can supplement and ex-
plain, meanwhile attracting to the
field many readers who have found
history stiff, colorless study.
The author of this absorbing
tour OF the fourth decade of the
18th century stays away from ma
tional politics and international
affairs. He is concerned with the
customs and manners of the 1905
with what the average citizen
was doing and thinking, with what
was happening to the cities, the
rural stretches and the expanding
frontier of the lusty young Nation.
1t was a time of transition
when the artisan, with his small
shop, was finding he could not
compete with the factories that
were going up all around him.
How could shoemaker compete
with a shoe factory?"
A Young Dream City.
Such cities as New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia had some
respondent edifices, and yet
hordes of pigs ran wild on their
streets, cattle were driven along
them, and tough gangs, hardly
hampered by the police, made
them unsafe at night. Wash
tngton was "a young dream city"
with vast aspirations" mostly to
be realized in the future.
Education was spreading, but
even colleges had narrow and re-
stricted curricula. Medicine,
though complacently proud of its
achievements, had not developed
pCCHO4Ss xl41CoCklCS1d n1lo l&1CatCd1
schools were just coming in. Peo-
pie were intensely religious and
conspicuously intolerent. Re-
formers were not content with
attacking liquor, but tried to pro-
scribe tobacco. coffee and tea and
condemned dancing. the theater
and novels as trivial and goddess.
American music had not made
much progress. Painting was
confined largely to portraits.
which, in the absence Ct any
photography except daGuc-'rco-
types. offered artists the only
source of profit. It was not a
decade of great literary achieve
ment. Bryant and Halleck had
about completed their work.
Longfellow and Holmes were just
beginning, and Emerson was not
widely read. Poe stood above
other contemnrorarv writer's HIT
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Other Results and Standings.

Other recent league results:
Federal, s; Paragon, 2; Bald
Eagle, 8; Army Map Service, 2:
Government Printing Office, 612;
Naval Gun Factory, 312; Univer-
sity Of Maryland, 712; Library OF
Congress, AZ.
The present standing Of the
teams: Divan and Federal, SO;
Bald Eagle, 5-1; Naval Communi-
cations, 81; Government Print
ing Office, 80; George Washing
ton University, 11a-1h; Paragon.
2-3; University Of Maryland. 1-2;
Naval Gun Factory, 11a-31a; Lii
brary of Congress, IA; George
town University, o.; Army Map
Service, 0-6.
The following lively game was
played on board 6 in the recent
Washington Philadelphia match:
White: v. L. Eaton. Black: D. G. Weiner.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Creative Explorer


by the noted industrial designer,
photographer. painter. author and
teacher. the late Laszlo Moholy-
Macy. opened recently at the In
stitute Of Contemporary Arts and
will remain through mid-January.
It comprises more than so works
ranging from abstract paintings to
space modulators." Assembled by
Mrs. Sybil Moholy-N Macy for Ma
tion-wide circulation under aus
pices Of the American Federation
of Arts, the exhibition is visiting
some is outstanding museums and
art galleries throughout the Ma
tion.
The exhibition reflects the ex-
'plorations of a truly creative
artist. beginning with the first of
his representational drawings
CDR. Ferenc," 1919 and cul-
minating in his space modulators
and plexiglass sculptures. Moholy
created an actual third dimension
in painting without resorting to
the conventional use Of perspec-
tive.
The show also includes exam
pies Of photograms, photographs,
collages, linoleum cuts and litho-
graphs, as well as q selection Of
catalogues Of important earlier
exhibitions by this artist, and two
Of his books.
Iaszlo Moholy Macy was born
in Hungary in 1895. He obtained
a degree in law, but never prac-
ticed. While recovering from a
severe wound received during his
service in the Hungarian Army in
World War I, he began to draw.
During most of the 1920s he was
a professor at the famous Bau-
haus in Dessau and also carried
on his own experimental work. In
1928 he resigned from the Bau-
haus to have time to design stage
settings for the Berlin State OPP
era. In the next decade he made
documentary films and travelled
extensively In Europe. He came
Ito Chicago to become director Of
the new Bauhaus in 1887. The
next year he opened his own
School Of Design" which he di-
rected until his death in 1916.
Perlmutter Solo ....,
A major tenet Of artists who
work in personal, contemporary
idioms, is that they are express
ing the present age. There Is no
doubt that the chaotic. clamor-
Gus, bewildering. depressing as
poets. of today's sick world, are
present In much artistic produc-
tion. It is difficult for the aver
age person to understand this
epoch, and even more difficult to
grasp some Of the esoteric inter-
pretations Of it.
But Jack Perlmutter is an artist.
indubitably contemporary, VINO
vet paints In q Language" nearly
every one should be able to under
stand. Some Of his paintings hit
the observer with the force OF q
blow, because Of their bold lines,
slashing diagonals and strong
primary colors. But there is moth
ing mumbling or confusing about
them. They are fortnight state
ments, as can be seen from his
exhibition Of more than 20 works,
most of them paintings, at the
Dupont Theater Art Gallery.
Mr.. Perlmutter was educated
and resided In New York City for
some years. He has lived here
since the early 1o40s, and this y
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be able to look forward to sharing
the harvest"
Newly enfranchised Italian
women, she says, many Of whom
bore the full brunt of war while
their husbands were away, are
more and more demanding full
partnership in marriage.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
This Was the Everyday America
Our Greut-Grundfuther Knew
YOUNG AMERICA: 1830-1840.


BY Robert Riegel. UNIVERSITY of Oklahoma Press So
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
undoubtedly learn intimate details fewer
epocha from books this than
histories they supposed study in school,
Rieg professor of history at Dartmouth does not
authority because he writes with delightful informal
which, in his opinion been neglected His book