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Evening star., 1949-08-14


barge and found himself outside
the castle. Somebody had left a
gate in wall unlocked, and the
boy slipped in. Wandering about.
he fell down an open coal chutes
and was shot into the castle base
ment. Cropping and climbing
warily, he made his way into the
lustrous room where her majesty
soon came to dine with the Prime
Minister, her secretary and a maid
of honor.
When the boy, called Wheeler,
was discovered hiding behind a
curtain and fled in terror, pursued
by servants, there was set in mo-
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litical psychiatrist," writes on
Personality, Group and Culture,
Elliott Dole Hutchinson on the ar
tistically creative process. and
Kingsley Davis criticizes some Of
the underlying concepts of men
tai hygiene" and their relation to
class structure.
Mr.. Mullahy, for many years
closely associated with DR.. Sulli-
van and a faculty member of the
Washington School of Psychiatry.
contributes an Illuminating intro
duction. The book is a valuable
compilation of significant studies
in a rapidly developing field.
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main one. The plots and subplots.
however, are well handled and
each boasts Of enough lively char
acters to warrant its inclusion.
This is the story of Barsetshire
and its inhabitants during the
postwar era. We have the old
landed gentry trying hard to dis
charge its duties and to hold on
to it's prerogatives at the same
time and the nouveau richie who
buy the Bank House and bring a
new vigor to the community with
out disturbing it's old ways. On
the whole this is an entertaining
novel which, although not up to
the authors previous standards,
is still ENJOYABLE.
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AIcotroz Warden, Now Here.
Tells of His Book on The Rock

James A. Johnston. who used to
be q bank vice president and a
lawyer, but who became much
more famous as the first warden
of Alcatraz. has rendered an &C
count of his 14-year stewardship
in "Alcatraz Island Prison." which
will be published in two weeks.
Now q member of the Federal
Board of Parole. Mr.. Johnston
works at the Department Of JUS
tice here. One of the country's
outstanding penologists is grand
fatherly gentleman with cottony
white hair parted in the middle,
rosy cheeks and mild blue eyes
behind steel-rimmed glasses. He
hardly looks the part of custodian
OF some of the toughest criminals
and escape artists ever put behind
bars. He trimmed many big shot
down to size in his 20-odd years as
warden in various Federal peni-
tentiaries.
A great Lincoln scholar, War
den Johnston takes pride in the
fact that he wrote every word
OF his book himself. The same is
true Of his first book. the story
of his 111a-year stretch" at San
Quentin, which was called Prison
Life Is Different"
Prison Library.
The library service is flrst-rate
at AlcatraZ, and far more avail
able to it's clients than many a
big-city library. Prisoners are
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NINA PEMBERTON.


Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.
Marguerite Steen is making a
habit of writing very long best
selling novels about the West At
rican Gold Coast and a family OF
fiction named Flood. She did
it in THE Sun Is My Undoing" and
she probably has done 1t again
in this sequel. In any case, the
SEQUEL deals with the same family.
in the same place and at compare
BILE length. Whether or how long
it may be a best seller will de-
pend somewhat upon how many
readers have the required pa
tience for some 800 pages and
the imagination to fancy them
selves transplanted to the colorful
African coast.
Miss Steen has writing style OF
the old school, reminiscent OF
Conrad in it's flavor of places and
of Galsworthy in it's preciseness
of Characterization. Its weakness,
to some, is a sacrifice OF action
to description and to long elocu-
tionary exercises in quoted dis
sertations by her characters. She
does, however. have a story tell
er's gift and Johnny Flood, a de-
scendant of the robust Matt OF
her earlier novel, has all the re-
uuired instincts of derring-d
that are needed of red-blooded
adventure.
Johnny's preoccupation with
the Gold Coast occurred around
the turn of the century-a high
period. in British economic i'm
perialism and we'll before the
time of such new-fangled notions
as self-determination of native
peoples. The coastwise jungle
life of that day was uncomplicat-
ed by Singer sewing machines and
only the ground work was being
laid for Barclays Bank and Lever
Bros. The sounds. the smells
and the brooding atmosphere so
easily colored with romance were
not substantially different from
today, however, and the author
impregnates her 800 pages with
all of them.
1t will be interesting to see
what goes on when the next gen.
Grafton of Floods drops in at
Accra
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tlOn Il SCI leo
of events which.
as the pub
fishers of this
book say on
the &C k e t.
changed t h e
destiny Of Vic
toria'S empire"
So much, it
seems, is his
tory. There was
such a boy. and
fantastic stories
of W hy h e
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IRIS IN WINTER
BY Elizabeth Cadell. (Willit
Morro,D & Co.: $3.)

MOrrOD & Co.; S3.)
The plot of Iris In Winter
is cluttered with 101 characters,
as are most English social COM
edies.
Their conversation. rambles over
a score of pages and on the 18th,
come the bon mots.
Elizabeth Cadell writes her third
simple. gay novel. This time there
are hundreds of little boys-pri-
vate school students, an aspiring
female newspaper reporter. a bad
tempered cat. an old Army Off
GER, a raft of spinsters and eligible
schoolmaS SterS. j. R.
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Tparently knew nothing OF weaving
and had no domestic animals. He
did clothe himself with the skins
of wild animals. His chief weapon
was a barbed-bone harpoon, and
he had small flint tools.
Mr.. Knight says of Cro-Magnon
artistry that I'VE detect in the his
tory of this splendid race the
Towering of a supreme impulse
and one which, in the centuries to
come, was to result in works OF
beauty and grandeur beyond the
scope of his widest imagination"
This earliest approach OF man
to art was realistic, not conven-
tional. Even many thousands OF
years later such refined art as the
Egyptians turned out was inhibited
by the religious and social customs
of the Pharaohs and there was
little freedom of expression.
Mr.. Knight writes authoritative
ly of primitive art, for he is IA
nous as an artist-naturalist. His
murals are found in leading mu-
seumS. He has illustrated this
book with halftone reproductions
of 81 of his finest imaginative
paintings of primitive men and
animals. There also are numerous
line drawings. some showing work
left by Cro-Magnon artists.
The text of the book deals fasci-
natingly with the cultures of va
rious periods before written his
tory and with the significant fossil
discoveries of recent times, such
as remains of the Pithecanthropus,
the Neanderthal. the Peking and
the Piltdown men.
FRONT PORCH FARMER
BY Charming Cope. Turner E.
Smith, Atlanta, ST.
You don't have to be farmer
to appreciate and enjoy this un-
conventional story of how farm
which could we'll serve as a model
for all the milder climates of the
United States was developed in
Georgia. The city reader, any
reader who is interested in fact
ual account of a successful enter
prise should find this brief book
absorbing. But farmers will want
to keep it handy for reference.
Louis Bromfield contributes an in
PRODUCTION.
Mr.. Cope has made his Yellow
River farm, 40 miles from At
lanta. highly profitable under
taking through scientific study
and common sense. When he took
over this land % years ago, it was
considered unproductive; he was
warned he couldn't make a living
out of it. 1t had been idle for
seven years. But he put in ero-
sion controlling, drought-resist-
ing, nourishing grasses, all peren-
malls, all succulent food for live
stock. There were kudZu. which
can Withstand the severest
droughts; ladino clover. Kentucky
81 fescue. serecia-forming to-
gether ear-around food for cat
tie. horses. sheep. hogs. chickens,
turkeys.
Life on the farm can be easy"
says Mr.. Cope, and proceeds to
prove it.
The author. sometimes called
"the Kudzu Kid" is a colorful
character. In his youth he was
at sea for years. in the Navy
and on merchant ships. He broad
casts every day from the porch
Of his farm program heard all
over the South. He has a law
office in Atlanta. He writes for
the Atlanta Constitutions col
umn which is widely quoted.
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A Highly Entertaining Novel
Of Mid-Victoriun England
THE MUDLARK
BY Theodore Bonnet. doubleday; $3.)

. Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Time the for 80 years ana
make her Empress OF hola
Abert death the widowed queen
nursed herer seclusion at Windsor Castle
7yearold urchn from the onoon COCKS
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New Bill to Reduce
Book PostoI Rotes

Publishers, who have been brac-
ing themselves for blow in the
matter of increased book postal
rates. may be surprised by a pat
on the back. Representative Nc
Carthy, Democrat. of Minnesota
introduced a bill last week provid-
ing for a reduction in book rates.
bringing them down to cents on
the first pound and l cent on all
additional pounds. He is hopeful
of favorable action during this
waning session.
Local Men at Work: John M.
Redding. publicity director of the
Democratic National Committee,
is halfway through a manuscript.
as yet untitled, which, by the
merest coincidence, is an apologize
for the publicity man.
Robert S. Allen. veteran WASH
ington neWsman, is busy editing
the various chapters of Our Sow
ereign State" a natural outgrowth.
he says, of his previous book, Our
Fair City"
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castle spread over England. Scot
land Yard determined to find out
what desperate crew of asSassins
had sent him to case the castle
There was much unrest at the
time, and Victoria, because she
had hidden herself away from the
crises of the day, was not toe
popular. The trades union move
ment was tempest in Parliament
Fenian terroristS were plotting
Ireland's independence. Poverty
was increasing in the cities, and
seditious voices even demanded
a republic. The truth of how a
curious boy was able to sneak
into Windsor Castle and why he
wanted to see all he could before
he was chased out was too simple
for any one to accept. Wheeler
was questioned mterminably, and
every one who knew him, from
the East India docks to the Pool
young and old, was rounded up.
Mr.. Bonnet has written a highly
entertaining novel around this
historic episode and its repercus-
Sions.
The Queens Household.
He has not taken any of his
characters too seriously. and he
has squeezed out all the humor in
a humorless household hierarchy
a royal establishment of 1000
guarding, serving and advising
the queen. There were the Gren-
adler Guards, the elite regiment
of the whole army. made ridicu'.
lous because a child had slipped
by them. There were the majors
domo of various classif1cations,
each jealous of the others and
eager to cast the blame from him
self. There was the Scottish sery-
ing man so close to Victoria that
he had been heard to address her
as woman" He had the nerve,
fortified with wee drop or so, to
spirit young Wheeler away from
the others. show him the throne
room and actually sit him on the
throne-where the Prime Minis
ter and others found them.
But Disraeli really is the hero
of this novel. The author por-
trayed him sympathetically from
his youth. when he wrote roman
tic novels, to the zenith of his
power. He was Victoria's favorite
Prime Minister. At last. the
Wheeler case got into Commons,
and Disraeli, in a powerful speech,
defended the boy and so defended
all the youth of England who were
being denied chance in life. and
so pressed for the social reforms
his party was urging at the time.
Mr.. Bonnet has sketched the at
mosphere of mid-Victorian Eng
land skillfully. The long Disraeli
fashbacks interrupt the more
amusing events of the "mudlark'
case. The author has dredged up
two stock Irish comedy characters
in Slattery, the royal Granddaughter,
and Noonan. a scullery maid. The
forbidden romance of the young
Guards officer and the maid-of-
honor is of a hackneyed pattern.
But such elements are supposed to
endear book to subscribers OF
the Book of the Month Club,
which is distributing THE Mud
lark" Yet more critical readers
than those at whom editors OF
book clubs apparently aim should
find much to enjoy in this breezy
story.
PREHISTORIC MAN: THE
GREAT ADVENTURER
BY Charles r. knight. (Appleton-
Century-Crofts; So
The celebrated Gro Magnon
man of unrecorded antiquity was,
as Mr.. Knight brings out, a Curl
Gus paradox along the road be-
tween the primitive and civiliza-
ton.
He had great artistic ability,
evidenced in the carvings of ami
mails which he left in caves
greater talent in this field than
his later, more inventive prehis-
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present-day Greece came to Wash
ington last week. He turned out
to be an enormously cheerful,
bronzed little man by the name
of Elias Venezi, who works in a
bank, chews gum flercely and is
dying to meet Betty Smith.
The glow of his personal dis
covery of America was still on Mr.
Venezi when we met in the lobby
of a downtown hotel the other aft
ernoon. We conversed in French,
because he has little English, and
I have no Greek. My French has
never been tried nearer Paris than
Cape Cod, so Mr.. Venezi had
brought along a friend from the
Greek desk of the State Depart
ment. Whenever the converse
tion got tangled in subjunctives.
Mr.. Venezi and his friend would
burst into torrents of Greek which
would then be rendered into Eng
lish for me.
In this fashion, I learned that
Mr.. Venezi considers America "a
fairyland," that he will be here
for three months, that he plans
to write a book of his impressions
upon his return.
Praises American Women.
After two weeks here. Mr.. Venezi
himself "enchanted''
with the country and the people.
"They are SO honest, so happy" ."
And your great material pros
perity will soon be followed by in
tellectual prosperity. This me-
chanical civilization will be tran
slated into poetry" he declared
confidently.
Life in Greece is at the moment
very hard, even for a popular
writer. Mr.. Venezi said, his face
growing sad. People need butter
more than books, and the highest
sale of any of his works is $4,000
Nevertheless. there is a heartening
amount of literary activity.
To evade Nazi censorship dur
ing the occupation, Greek novel,
lists took to writing historical
novels. The vogue continues.
Two of Mr.. Venezi's best known
works came from his experiences
with enemies of Greece. His first
and most popular novel. "Aeolia. ~
which has been published in four
European countries. and which
was recently translated into Eng
lish by a descendant of Sir Wal
ter Scott. tells of the tragic Greek
exodus from Asia Minor in 1922
Mr.. Venezi, then a boy of 18, was
imprisoned by the Turks for IA
months. In 1912. he was detained
by the Nazis for Is days for his
part in arranging a memorial
mass meeting at his bank. He
wrote a play about the occupa-
tion out of this. 1t was produced
by the Greek National Theater
He has written two other novels
and five volumes of short stories
a form at which his friend says
he surpasses.
French Models. 'r '"'
Like most Greek writers, Mr..
Venezi takes the French for
models. He greatly admires
sartre's writings but not his phi
losophy. Existentialism has taken
no hold in Greece.
Betty Smiths "A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn" was a smash hit in
Athens. Mr.. Venezi is lyrical
about it. "Such simplicity. Such
humanity. I should so like to
meet the author"
The political situation in Greece
does not trouble him. With the
aid of America. the Communists
will soon be a finished story.
With that. he bowed deeply,
smiled brilliantly. said Good
and hurried off to see
the Greek Ambassador.
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The shackles of the body-its
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off and mans mind can be affirmed
to the Infinite Wisdom for fash OF
a second. During this brief interval
intuitive knowledge, great inspira-
ton, and a new vision of our ife's
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experience a psychic phenomenon.
But the ancients knew it and taught
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merging of mans mind with the
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Let This Free Book Explain
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Reading and Writing
Greek Author on Visit Here Says
American Aid Will End Communism
By Mary MeGrory

given catalogues of all the books,
and loose-leaf sheets of new titles.
These are brought around to the
cells and the prisoners check their
choices. Al Capone, Warden
Johnston's most famous charge at
Alcatraz, once worked as courier
for the library.
Warden Johnston was preparing
the other day to take off for a
swing around Is Federal peniten-
tiarieS to hear parole cases.
Evening star., 1949-08-14
AnqeIo ThirkeII Offers an Entertaining
Novel of Certain Postwar Nouveuu Richie

THE OLD BANK HOUSE
BY Angela Thirkell (Altred A. Knopt; $500
Reviewed by MARGARET BLAIR sHUMAKER
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Novelist Steen
Writes Sequel
ToFIood Suqu

TWILIGHT ON THE FLOODS
BY Marguerite Steen. double
day G. Co.: $685.
Evening star., 1949-10-03

ADVANCE SHOWING OF NEW FURS.
Miss Margaret Paansch Get and Miss adelaide Hummer
of the coats to be so at the luncheon fashion
shoap of Trinity College Washington aun,nae Saturday at Hotel
Miss Palansch is the general chairman for the euent
In charge OF the shoo Recent graduates
college be the guests of honor Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1949-10-03
LuncheonS Set
For Saturday

The Puerto Rican-American
Women's League will have Edward
Tomlinson as it's guest speaker at
a luncheon meeting to be given
Saturday at the United Nations
Club.
Mr.. Tomlinson is an author,
|newspaperman. radio commentator
and an authority on Inter-Amer-
lean affairs. He recently returned
from six weeks in Mexico and will
speak on Vacation in Mexico and
the Caribbean"
In recognition Of Mr.. Tomlin-
sons services to democracy, the
government Of Chile has awarded
him the Order al Merito Bernardo
O'Higgins.
Mrs. Rafael Aveleyra, wife Of
the Consul General Of the Mexican
Embassy, will be an honor guest
at the luncheon. Invitations also
have been extended to Sonora
Oscar Cans, wife of the Cuban
Ambassador. and Sonora Felix
Nieto del Rio, wife of the Am
bassador of Chile.
Mrs. Virginia Rollwage Collier
will. preside.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Modern Marriage
Mother Is Overly Worried About Her Son,
Who Is Trying to Find Male Life Pattern
By Dr.. PouI Popenoe

@. He has no manners. He is IL
years old. Maybe he's on his way
to becoming q juvenile delinquent.
And just a year or two ago he
was such q nice boy! He has be-
gun to use bad language. He speaks
impertinently to me. He is noisier
than he used to be. Yesterday I
smelled tobacco on him and when
I mentioned it he coolly replied,
Sure, I'm chain smoker now!' "
A. Make him behave decently
around the house-dont compro-
mise on that. Maintain a firm but
kindly discipline. but don't try to
insist on company manners when
he's out with the gang. Right now
he needs to reassure himself that
he is, like the rest Of them.
Probably his behavior pattern has
been modelled after woman up
to now. If he has some good
masculine patterns with which he
can identify himself. he'll have
little difficulty. That's where q
father comes in. II he hasn't a
father, make sure he has some
sort Of q substitute in the Boy
Scouts, YMCA, neighborhood play
ground or school. Then hold your
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Sorority Dinners Planned

ington area and June graduates
Of local chapters will be honor
guests at a buffet supper to be
given by the Washington Alumnae
Association at Z p. m. tomorrow
at the home of Mrs. Richard
Blackwelder, 3728 South Second
street. Arlington. The supper will
be followed by bridge.
Miss June Kullberg is the new
president of the association. Other
new officers are Miss Jean
Proetsch. vice president; Miss
Mary Cleary. recording secretary;
Mrs. Richard Blackwelder, CORE
spending secretary. and Miss Janet
Able, treasurer.
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breath and wait for him to
grow up.
@. Do you think a person can
love more than once?
A. Certainly.
@. Do you think it is all right
for a girl Of is to marry a boy
OF %?
A. AS a general rule don't
think it is all right for a girl OF
16 to marry-period.
. @. I claim you should first find
love, then develop companionship
with q partner. My friend says
you should find the companionship
first and then let love grow out
Of it,
A, Either is possible in some in
stances, but the second plan is a
surer bet.
@. What should be the difference
in age between q couple Of equal
education and intelligence?
A. Makes no difference.
@. We are facing an inevitable
death in our family. How can
our two children, 4 and 7, be car
ried through it with the least
damage.
A. Actually they are affected
Evening star., 1949-10-03
CollegeClubs

Alumnae of the Woman's Col.
lege Of the University Of NORTH
Carolina will observe founders
day of the college at 7:30 pm
Wednesday with a buffet supper
at the Woman's National Demo-
cratic Club.
Miss Mary Wood Wolfe, 1901
Harvard street NV, is in charge
Of reservations.
DR.. James Madison Wood, for
mer president of Stephens Col
Iege. will be guest of honor at an
informal supper to be given by
the Stephens College Alumnae
Club Of Washington at 4 pm.
Sunday at Pierce Hall, Sixteenth
and Harvard streets NV. DR.,
Wood is now president of the
Women's Foundation.
Mrs. John H. Moorehead, presi-
dent Of the Washington club, will
preside. Members of the Mont
gomery County and Arlington
groups also will attend.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
W0n1en's Clubs
League of Women Voters Conference
To Discuss Duties of Citizens

seph Hirschmann Of Baltimore
and Mrs. Hersey E. Riley of Ar
lington.
Mrs. Paul Douglas, former Rep
resentative from Illinois and the
wife of Senator Douglas, and Mrs.
Leona Rush. Montgomery County
delegate to the General Assembly
of Maryland, will be the luncheon
speakers. They will discuss Par
ties,- Politics and People"
The afternoon program will fea-
ture a panel discussion on the
leagues new publication for
political education. Moderator
will be Mrs. Arthur Ransohoff of
Stamford, Conn, the publication S
author.
Participants will be John E.
Conley, Mccormick & Co.: Tilford
Dudley, CIO; DR.. Merrill Hart
shorn, National Education Asso-
citation: William McSorley, AFL;
Waite. D. Myers, jr., University
of Mari land; Joseph Rauh, Amer
leans for Democratic Action; Miss
Venice Spragg, National Council
of Negro Women, and Robert
Van Deusen, National Lutheran
Council.
Wednesdays session will be
opened by an address by Miss
Strauss on Making the Most of
Our Voters Service" A summary
will be made by DR.. Mavis Mann
and DR.. Louise Young.
Mrs. Aaron j. Brumbaugh is
chairman of the Washington Con-
ference Committee. She Is being
assisted by Mrs. Fisher, Mrs.
Leroy D. Clifford, Mrs. D. l..
Gordon and Mrs. Dalton Myers.
Evening star., 1949-10-03

Members of Phi Mu Sorority
who are newcomers to the Wash