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Evening star., 1950-08-27

worker, the men In the Kremlin,
taking their cue from the chief,
Immediately fancy themselves,
once again, In the middle of a
great plot. Five dossiers are
taken more or less at random from
the great files of the Central
Committee. Five men, all authors
or creatures of the revolution,
variously versed in "the art OF
forgetting to grow greater" are
envisioned as conspirators. Ac-
cording to their executioner, "they
are the most dangerous because
they are the last. even if they are
innocent according to formal
law"
The great weapon used against
the accused is their own invinci-
BILE loyalty to the Communist
cause. The most subtle torture
inflicted on them is the argument
that mo one can resist the party
without going over to the enemy"
Only Ryzhik, the old deportee
dragged from the Arctic wastes,
who starves himself to death, and
Kondratiev, comrade of the youth
full Stain, escape the net. The
others 1t Is easy to condemn in
a regime where there Is no such
thing as a mistake, where slip-up
means sabotage. nothing else.
All the portraits are superbly
drawn. Rublev. the theorist who
believes in the peoples state with
the full force of an excellent mind
and a lofty spirit. is particularly
fine. Mr.. Serge, the son of exiled
Russian intellectuals, had a great
feeling for the countryside and
the people, so his book is more
than just a powerful indictment of
an impossible economy admins
tered by ruthless puppets. Pom
derous IN parts, it has the fire
and compassion of a first-rate
novel.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

bloody period when the ad-
ministrators were taking over from
the heroes. Victor Serge, an
ardent partisan of the revolution,
was deported to Siberia in 1888
as a Trotskyite. He died three
years ago in Mexico. stirl, appar-
emily, true to the Communist
dream in spite Of It's betrayal in
Moscow.
Mr.. Serge has reproduced In
narrowing detail the mechanics OF
this betrayal: The telling snubs
from subordinates, the footsteps
on the stair at midnight, the
round -the-clock questioning, the
systematic generalization. But
his burning interest lies in the
effects on mems souls. He studies
falsely accused, but also the Gym
ical accusers, the terrified terror
lists, the liars who want to believe
their own lies.
In the words of Rublev, the
great question in the minds of the
victims is whether or not "it was
an old mistake of bourgeois indi-
vidualism to seek truth for the
sake OF conscience" That is the
only straw left to these men who
must die. To Rublev's wife Dora
the distortion of truth in Soviet
Russia Is "like a snowstorm cover
ing a continent"
When Comrade Tulayev is mur-
dered, on impulse, by an obscure
Evening star., 1950-08-27

whole casts, then scenes and
model theaters, and finally, with
the publication of scripts, the
Juvenile drama" was born. It's
story is told in "The History of
the English Toy Theater" by
George Speaight. incidentally,
the Children's Theater of Wash
ington has been exhibiting some of
the old engravings (now collectors
items) at the libraries, along with
its demonstrations.
Miss Young expected that only
people interested in the romantic
past, comparatively small group,
would care about the toy thea
ter. But she was mistaken. Just
"a glimpse. she says, of the little
stage, is enough for drivers,
elevator operators and others of
many classes and tastes, to ask
her, Where can I get one for my
baby?"
Future demonstrations and ex-
hibitions of the old prints, will
be given at other libraries, schools
and at the Book Mart, 800 F
street NV. Dates have not yet
been announced.
Miss Young considers the toy
theater an art form which may
compete in a modest way with
the comic books and television.
Harassed parents may hope so,
for the child who participates
creatively in the toy theater, will
have something far more endur-
ing than when he is merely a
reader and spectator. respectively
of strips and programs not al
ways beneficial.
Evening star., 1950-08-27
Corcorun Bienniut

The Corcoran Gallery OF Art will
hold its 22nd Biennial EXhibition
of Contemporary American Oil
Paintings from next March 81 to
May 1S. The exhibition is open
to all artists living in the United
States and its possessions. The
w. A. Clark prize awards, totalling
$500. will be made by an i'm
partial jury. Paintings must be
original. in oil, oil-tempera or
encaustic, done within the past
two years, and not previously ex-
hibited in Washington.
Entry cards can be obtained
by writing to the Corcoran CAL
lery. The last day for receiving
them there will be February 3; by
February 8. paintings must be re-
ceived there or in New York City.
Notices of jury action will be
mailed here March 2.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

rowing reporter and was his init
mate friend for longer than that.
Nobody could have been better
qualified to write the life Of the
beloved and gallant newspaper
man.
Mr.. Miller has wisely refrained
from quoting more than occa-
sional excerpts from Pyle columns.
These have been collected in sew
eral books. Ernie was a self
effacing man, and the public that
followed him from his early home
spun columns in the '30s. through
his moving war stories to his death
on lie Shima April 1S, 1945. knew
nothing of his personal life except
what crept into his columns. Mr..
Miller has explored it fully. We
see Ernie as a slight, shy farm boy
in Indiana.
His parents did not get beyond
the eighth grade, but they sent
the boy through high school and
to Indiana University. When he
arrived at Bloomington he was
one of the most obscure men on
the campus. but by his senior year
he was big" man. Such was
the capacity for friendship and
the quiet ability which won him
quick recognition when he came
to Washington to Join the staff of
the News.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

his affection and domination to
the boy. Little Nicholas was kept
within his fathers orbit every mo-
ment. Jose. the young Spanish
gardener they acquired, liked the
lonely boy and showed him how
to set out plants and took him
fishing. When Brande found out
he few into a jealous fury and
forbade the boy to speak to his
new friend.
1t developed, meanwhile, that
Garcia. Brande's butler-valet, was
q sinister character. The consul
was tipped off that Garcia was an
insane criminal hired through
forged credentials, but Brande re-
fused to believe this of his clever,
obsequious servant. And when
Garcia planted evidence that Jose
was a thief, Brande fell into the
trap and had the luckless gardener
Evening star., 1950-08-27
There IL. Of course. q great deal

There 10. Of course. q great deal
about his wife Jerry" their
happy years Of roaming together
and the tragic years that accom-
panied her sporadic physical and
mental crackups. What lay back
of their divorce and remarriage is
explained in a way creditable to
them both. They always remained
devoted, whether separated by
Ernie's war assignments or by
some temperamental impasse. Mr..
Miller has quoted at great length
from their intimate correspond
ence, particularly from Ernies let
ters to Jerry. There also are many
excerpts from Ernie's letters to
the biographer in which Ernie dis
cussed his domestic and personal
difficulties because he had to con-
flde in somebody" Even though
Mrs. Pyle, who survived her hus-
band only seven months, consent
ed to the use of this correspond
ence. 1t is debatable taste that
so much of it should have been
spread across printed pages. One
can imagine that Ernie, who
didn't enjoy fame and its attend
ant publicity, would have shud-
dered at the mere idea.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

ter House studio to view the show,
which will remain through the
Labor Day week end.
The Rehoboth Art League was
founded in 1888 as non-profit
organization designed to sponsor
eight weeks of summer art classes
and to develop the cultural in
terests of the year-round resi-
dents. 1t now has 400 members.
including many from the WASH
ington area, who spend summers
there.
The exhibition by Mr.. Jonniaux
includes character studies of Paris
and London types as well as por-
traits of Washington official and
social circles.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

arrested. The consul, fearing also
that there was something base in
the gardeners kindness to the boy,
sent for his close friend, a Partisan
psychiatrist. This doctor, as hol-
low and pretentious as the consul.
was only too happy to confirm
Brande's worst fears-without a
shred of proof except a lot of
twisted Freudian syllogisms. From
then on events swept to a violent
climax.
1t may be contended that Jose,
the gardener, is almost the only
normal character. This Is true,
to an extent, but it was natural
that Brande should have formed
an intimate friendship with a
psychiatrist as phony as himself.
And the neurotic tendency of the
boy was entirely his fathers fault.
Garcia is the only manufactured
character, and it certainly was
possible that there should have
been such a person. The author,
who practiced medicine before he
started writing best sellers, has
used his knowledge of pathology
and psychiatry to advantage in
this tense little story.
DR.. Cronin is to be commended
for failing to make a series of
jolting experiences in Brande's
life change his character COM
pletely. THE edifice of his pride,
though shattered, was not wholly
destroyed. and from the noble
ruins had sprouted this exquisite
flower of martyrdom. There is
nothing distinctively American
about the consul, though he is not
unlike certain sort of American
who has lived abroad for years.
If the boy seems strange at times,
both too mature and too imma-
ture for his age, 1t is not surpris-
ing.
Evening star., 1950-08-27
People in Satire
Taken for Ride
Leading Nowhere
FASTER! FASTER!

FASTER! FASTER!
BY Patrick Blair. THE Viking
Press; 49,
A political satire that is told
with the pace and drive of an ad-
venture thriller. Faster! Faster!"
is an enormously impressive novel
from young Englishman of
originality and skill.
Like any good allegory, it allows
several interpretations. Mr.. Blair
sees horde of people all herded
together on train, with those in
the back cars working like slaves
so the favored few in the front
cars can enjoy every luxury. The
train, which goes around in a cir
Gle in the middle of wilderness,
increasing its speed all the time,
could be almost anything from
Soviet Russia to civilization it.
self. Whatever he means it tc
represent, it is a wonderful, fore
boding invention.
The hero is Richard Chapel
an exile from the front cars, who
is forced into the hard LAHORE ot
the back-car inmates. Befriendec
by cheerful shoe e-polisher named
Shorty. he sees human devotion
and political treachery among the
drudges. The most horrendous
sight he witnesses Is the death o1
Shorty's daughter. No effort IL
made to save her. The inspectors
only concern is that her death be
promptly reported.
The incident touches off the re-
volt Of the workers. who are freec
from their masters by a crash
But with that insensate urge fol
power that is in all men. the op-
pressed quickly become the op-
pressors. The slaves hasten to re.
pair the train, the instrument o1
their slavery. Only Chapel ano
Marion, Shorty's sister, decide tt
strike out alone for the plain that
must be somewhere beyond the
wilderness where the company has
laid the. tracks.
Mr.. Bair has played out the sus-
pense so cunningly that the read
ing of the story is a one-sitting
proposition. All the details of the
fantasy are sharply drawn and
entirely plausible.
MARY McGRORY
Evening star., 1950-08-27
New Books
FICTION.

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THE Gagged BIRDS. BY Leroy Leather.
man. Harcourt, Brace. Love and loneli.
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CATSPAW. BY Mary Borden. Longmans
Green. What goes on inside the head
and heart Of Communist. So.
FLOWERS ON THE GRASS. By Monica
Dickens. McGraw-Hill witty com
mentary on the foibles of our modern
CORNBREAD ARIsTOCRAT. By Claude
Garner; Creative Age Press, The legend
I,,s Of s..r frontier Samson who meets his
GO HOME AND TELL YOUR MOTHER.
BY Max Wylie. Rinehart memorable
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NON-FICTION.
CHARLES DICKENS. BY Jack Lindsay.
The Philosophical Library. biograph-
icaI and critical study. S475.
CRACKER PARTIES. BY Horace Mont
Eomery. Louisiana state University
Press. A study of the development of
Georsia's political parties. S4.
Evening star., 1950-08-27
Toy Theuter Demonstrations

The Chlldren's Museum Of
Washington has been holding
demonstrations lately, by some of
it's boys and girls, at the Central
Public Library and several branch
libraries, of the Toy Theater.
This venerable art form is having
quite a revival in Great Britain,
where Sir Ralph Richardson well
known to movie FANS is serving
as president of the Toy Theater
Clubs.
Matilda Young, director of the
Children's Museum of Washing
ton, says that a plan is being
developed for a similar setup in
this country. and that Fredric
March and his wife, Florence FL
bridge, have just accepted an in
vitation to be co-chairmen for
the United States Toy Theater
Clubs and say they are enchanted
with the idea.
President of the Toy Theater
Club of the Children's Museum is
Lowell Swortzell, whose interest
in the toy theater extends back
six years, when he was IL years
old; his picture appeared in The
Star in a story about it. He is
|now production manager at Cross
Roads, also a student at George
Washington University. and hopes
to interest both in forming toy
or paper theater" clubs.
The Toy Theater was a family
affair in Victorian England. In
the shadow Of st. Paul's Cathedral,
London, was Pollock's Toy The
ater (the Penny Plain, Tuppence
Coloured" Of Robert Louis Stew
enson) a century old, which by
happy chance escaped a direct hit
during the years of bombing. The
Children's Museum of Washington
was instrumental in calling the
attention of the British to the
plight of the little shop in 1914
and has been appointed it's repre-
sentative in the United States.
This London firm of toy theater
makers launched the club move
ment and now publishes a quar-
terly magazine containing new
plays. instruction and advice.
The Toy Theater Clubs of
Great Britain and the United
States are planning to compete
with stage sets. scripts and char
acters. and will be joined by clubs
OF Ecuador. for Pedro Leon, di-
rector of the fine arts department
of that republic, (whose one-man
show Of watercolors at the Pan
American Union was reviewed in
these columns July 16) was in
trigued by the project here, and
says he is going to start Toy
Theater Clubs in Ecuador's public
schools. He will send the best of
his theater sets to the final COM
petitions here and in Britain.
The little theaters, made of
wood and cardboard, are l foot
high, / wide and more than a
foot deep, with slots for sets.
They had their origin in theatri-
cal portrait prints of the late 18th
century in England; these first
depicted principal characters, then
Evening star., 1950-08-27
Art
By Florence S. Berrymon

ETOm Tie hlSIlLQ NHClOQdl Gx-
hibition Of Prints at the Library
Of Congress (Which will close Fri
day. SO etchings. engravings,
woodcuts, Autographs and items
in other media have been pur-
chased. This is a larger group
than was acquired from any
earlier Pennell shows, and COM
pensates in some ways for the dis
continuance of the three 500
prizes.
More than half the group of
purchases are in the naturalistic
tradition. Another 20 or so are in
various modern idiomS, and five,
are comic or satirical. Not few of
the So artists whose prints are new
acquisitions. were top winners in
previous Pennell shows. Two
prints by each of six artists in the
present shows were acquired: Sur
realistic color etchings by Vera
Berdich, color Autographs by
Lawrence Barrett (of which mi
grafton" impressed me as much
the more Interestingly, Clare
Leighton's admirable wood en-
cravings, both circular designs:
Kiehl and Christian Newswanger's
primitive Amish figures, Nora Un-
wins compact wood engravings of
things. and William Lib
by's velvety Autographs. an in
terror with figure, and an archi-
tectural subject. Were one to
compare other new acquisitions
with earlier purchases of prints by
the same artists. this sort of dupli-
cation would be considerably ex-
tended. But in the future, groups
OF prints by each artist will be
Of greater value in assessing their
achievement than would single
items.
The public will undoubtedly ad-
mire many Of the new acquisitions,
which are technically excellent
and pleasing in subject matter.
Autographs in this class include
(besides those already mentioned
Stephen Csoka's Approaching
Storm" on a seacoast, with many
bathers; Maxim Gottlieb's Hunt
er" in a far-reaching landscape
Reproduced in these columns
April 80 after the show opened;
Helen Stroud's House in New
Orleans" Burr Singers Circus
Performers" and Francis Chaplin S
Bull Fight: The Kill" (Which
gives the bull considerable pathos) i.
Incidentally. the aforementioned
provides contrast to another bull
fight subject. Misch Kohn's large
wood engraving, full of action,
varied textures and decorative ef-
feet, one of the best prints in
the new group. Edwin Fulwider's
lithograph, Morning Work
Train with its group of sprint
ing commuters. will strike a re-
sponsive chord in many observers.
Washingtonian Jack Perlmutter's
modern lithograph, Trees is
among the acquisitions.
Martin Lewis drypoint, Late
Traveller" displays his adroit
handling of night illumination.
Gwyneth Kings color monotype,
Winter Afternoon" is the sort of
print many will want in their
homes. Norbertine Won Bresslern-
Roth's color blockprint. 1.-THE
Drummer" (African), is admirably
designed. s
Outstanding wood engravings
and wood cuts are newly acquired: !:
Grace Albee's Suburban Charles
Evening star., 1950-08-27

oy nC11hCtA w. o11Oy. tDOuOLSt
The conflict between Israel and
the Arab states has advanced
from the military to the eco
nomic sphere" Mr.. Bilby reports.
He adds that the menace of
further armed conflict is not end
ed as the rival claimants to Pales-
tine maintain an uneasy truce,
and Israel, though it has won a
war, still faces "a prolonged chal-
lenge to its existence"
Mr.. Bilbys' book is based on
his two years as Near East cor
respondent of the. New York Her.
aid Tribune. He is frankly par
tisan to the Israeli, and he speaks
constantly of the feudalism and
tlliteracy of the Arabs and of
the high educational average of
the Jewish emigres as arguments
for the Israeli cause.
But Mr.. Bilby is a cogent re-
porter. and he has tried at least
to view the new state realistically
by pointing to its mistakes as
well as to its merits. He con-
cedes that both the Jews and the
Arabs had "a moral right" to the
country from their respective po-
sitions. He is aware of the To-
century Arab tenure, but points
out that the Turks had ruled
the Arabs for four centuries, and
that it was the British, not the
Arabs. who kicked out the Turks.
The present regime of Israel is
called socialistic, but actually is
more capitalistic, Mr.. Bilby writes,
and foreign capital is given every
encouragement to invest in the
new country.
Speaking of the charge that
Israel "is a nest of Communist in
trigue" and the prediction that in
q showdown it would swing to the
Soviet Union, he calls this "a
grossly exaggerated concept" He
adds, however, that ut is true that
the present Israeli government
Evening star., 1950-08-27

The Adventures Of Peter Cot
tontail, by Thornton w. Burgess
(Grosset; IS cents. s.)-Twenty six
of Peter Cottontail's adventures
are retold here with new illustra-
tions by Harrison Cady. These IA
nous nature stories are primarily
for the very young readers.
Evening star., 1950-08-27
Portraits at Rehoboth

Since many Washingtonians
visit Rehoboth Beach, they may
be interested to know that an
exhibition of portraits by Alfred
Jonniaux of Washington, has just
opened at the Art League there.
The league cordially invites all
visitors to it's 250-year-old Pawn
Evening star., 1950-08-27

to be old revo-
lutionaries is
f a m ar to
readers of Ar
thur Koestler.
But the treat
ment, rich and
deep, recalls the
great Russian
masters.
The materials
of the story are
taken from his
tory and from
t he authors
own experience
d u ring the
Evening star., 1950-08-27

ton," Fisk Boyd's Flight" partly
traditional. partly abstract, and
Helen West Heller's Bird Hops
Along the Wall" with repeated
motifs and textural effects.
The purchase of these and
many other prints by the Library
of Congress is the best sort of
encouragement to living artists.