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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
A Bottle of Wits
In a Not-So-Dumb
Animal Kingdom
ANIMAL, TO

ANIMAL 10
BY Vance Packard. (Dial Press;
$780,
Recent publications Of picture
books showing the striking SINH
larity between human and ami
NAL expressions have already
given ZOO visitors a new look, a
studied effort while looking in to
assume a facial expression other
than that of the occupant of
the cage which is looking out.
Vance Packard's Animal TO-
deals another shatering blow to
one of mans few remaining props
the complaceut and comfort
ing assumption Of mental supe-
riority over the animal kingdom.
Such stories as psychologists
being outwitted by chimpanzees
in their own tests make up this
collection OF authentic data from
actual laboratory experiments. For
many. what was once casual
owner and-pet relationship will
now become q somber battle of
wits, and the uneasy silence which
greets Tabby as she strolls toward
her saucer Of cream will merely
be the reader waiting for her to
demand the pasteurization tests.
S. f.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Lady Authors Of 'Moneywise
Are Busiest in Retirement

Two ladies in retirement who
have never been buster in their
lives are Mary Berkeley Finke
and Helen Knox. ex-bankers and
now authors. Both white haired
they began their joint literary
careers at an age when most
women think they have earned
the tranquility Of the rocking
chair and the embroidery hoop.
With total of a half century Of
banking experience behind them,
however, they decided they might
be able to explain the mysteries
of finance to the ordinary citizen.
So in 1948. they pooled their
knowledge. translated" it for the
layman and began writing a
book called "Moneywise." They
are also, if you please, editors
of monthly feature called Fam
lily Money" in the American Mag
aZine.
They were down here last week
to be honized by Capitol friends.
Mrs. Finke is a native of Alex
andria, who grew up in MISSISSIPPI
pi, where her father edited the
paper now run by Holding Carter.
She and Miss Knox are enjoying
every minute of the writer's whirl.
avow they never felt younger in
their lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

character. So is his favorite son
Peter, the football player, until
Peter drops out of college and
turns baff1ingly esoteric. The
arty, Harvard educated son
Francis and the wild oldest son
Joe are clear enough.
They Refuse to Live.
Mr.. Kerouac has touched
poignantly the beauty of a big
family, an old-fashioned home
where love and play and grief are
irresponsible in their turn. And
he has conveyed knowingly the
tragedy Of separation-the indif-
ference and misunderstanding
that follow the inevitable break
ing up of such a home. If he had
stopped there, he might have left
a remarkably fine novel. despite
his stylistic faults. But he has
written chapter after chapter try
ing to explain Peters later life,
his strange New York friends.
IneSe peSudo-BOneml pOSeurS
and hopheads refuse to come to
life, no matter how much descrip-
ton the author wastes on them.
When Mr.. Kerouac leaves Gallo
way, he seems as disorientated as
George Martin was.
THE Town and the City, is
overwritten in big way. Adjec-
tives are strewn with lavish ex-
travagance. Reticence and re-
straint are qualities the 28-year-
old author has yet to develop.
Even so, he writes with a COM
passion that kindles sympathy
and with an excitement that
somehow is contagious. If he will
profit by the mistakes as well as
the merits of this novel, he should
do increasingly good work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

romance than history. and per-
haps it's just as well.
\ 4 X
THE REAL BERNARD SHAW
BY Maurice Colbourne. (Philo-
sophical Library; $475.)
The author, an actor who be.
came a political influence in Can.
ada, has been writing about Shaw
since 1928. He regards this az
the fourth edition of a work which
first appeared in completed form
in 1899, although this book, con-
tanning some 10000 words of new
material, amounts almost to 8
new critique. Mr.. Colbourne re-
CARDS Shaw as, first and foremost
IAN amateur thinker" That is
the playwright "revels in cerebra-
ton for it's own sake, no matter
whittier it may lead" His plays
this critic feels, are all the better
because Shaw was not interested
primarily in writing them, but in
all sorts of ideas, like socialism
vegetarianism and creative evo-
luton. The plays were a Shavian
platform. The book makes a
unique contribution in the form OF
history of all Shaw's plays
their first productions, the actors
their critical reception at the time
and Mr.. Colbourne's own critical
analysis of each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Novel of oConodion
Minister at Grips
with His Problems

THE TOWER AND THE TOWN
BY Grace Campbell. (Duell
Sloan & Pedrce; So
A reverent if slightly sentiment
tai picture of a young Canadian
war veteran in the first year of his
ministry, this follows Rorie Munro
in his progress toward spiritual
leadership of a community. His
concerns embrace a wide variety
of problems from alcoholism to
labor problems, but Rorie comes
manfully to grips with them all.
Mrs. Campbell writes smoothly
and readably. Her minister is an
admirable man and shepherd, his
wife a spirited helpmeet; but the
troubles which beset them and
his flock fall with an almost soap
opera-like regularity.-M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Influence of Mr.. Roberts Felt
In New Tale of South Pacific
nj KING OF FASSARAT
.cmilldn Co.. 49,

IHE KIM Ot tASSARAl
BY David Divine. 1.-THE Mdcmilld
Mr.. Divine, a well-known Brit
ish author of several pen names,
has come mildly under the inf1u-
ence Of "Mr. Roberts" In this
pleasant, earthly tale OF an Ameri-
can Navy doctor who pines for
action, but who fetches up on a
South Pacific island, charged with
putting the heart back into ma
tives demoralized by the Japanese
kidnapping of their young people.
With the help of a profane phar-
macist's mate and a teen-age Dor
othy Lamour type, 1t. Refs is able
to bring down the death rate, to
make the little paradise sanitary
and to encourage the dispirited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
A Teen-Age Career
(which Might Well
StortIe Parents

MEI
BY Theodore Keogh. (Creative
Age Press; $3.)
Meg is a little girl of IL who
learns a shattering amount about
life in a very short time. A fey
little character who is the daugh-
ter of a wealthy Beekman place
family and a student at a select
private school, she runs around
with a gang of street urchins after
school. The leader initiates her
into the mysteries of sex soon after
which she discovers that her
history teacher is a lesbian. A
friends father teaches her how
to use this knowledge to gain a
passing grade. Meg accepts all
this with a matter-o factness
which her readers may not always
be able to summon. Mrs. Keoghs
portrait is shrewd and naturalis-
tic, and should prove, I would
think, utterly discouraging to
parents of teen-age daughters.
M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

to their long wait in a deserted
Nevada village that is covered
with rust and dust, where every
day "the conniving snake and the
barbarous bear" become more bold.
Miss Chidester has shown much
delicacy and compassion in the
portrait OF her heroine, who has
only her marriage license and her
memories of a cultivated, stout
hearted Yankee mother to sustain
her in her ordeal against her IA
theirs greed, the encroaching
rodents and serpents and the mad
dening loneliness of Moon Gap.
But the stuff OF the full novel Is
not here. Miss Chichester has in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

The Federal Bridge League s
open-pair title match today pro-
vides two sessions of keen COM
petition at the duplicate boards
Participation is open to any men,
Der of the American Contract
Bridge League The contest will
be held at the Hotel Burlington in
order to accommodate the
Widened field.
The first session is set for l
pm, finals getting under way at
II. All entrants will play through
both sessions. James G. Stone
will pair with LEWIS G. Tubbs in
defense of the title won last year
with Col. r. H. Skinner,
The Bennett Cup contest rounds
out the weeks bridge activities.
The Women's Auxiliary of the
Washington Bridge League holds
it's yearly title bout next Satur-
day, also at the Burlington. Only
WA members may participate.
Defending champions are Mrs.
j. A. bearing and Mrs. Ida Ter
rant who first annexed the cup
in 1948.
The title match will be preceded
by the clubs bi-monthly business
meeting and luncheon at HAS
am. Hostesses for the luncheon
are Mrs. Joseph Herlihy and Mrs
Edward Hruby.
Master points were the bait for
more than 100 Washington Bridge
Leaguers last Wednesday night
In Section A, j. D. Boyd-H. A
Mayer and former "Quiz Kid
Richard Freeman Vic Zeve
turned in top scores, seconds 60
ing to Mrs. Mary Goldstein-Mrs
Thelma Surkin and Mrs. Mari
anne Boschan-Mrs. c. w. Zim-
mer.
Life masters Charles johnson
and DR.. A. j. Steinberg took first
honors Ms in Section B, Mrs
Walter O'Loughlin and Mrs. Mar
ga1et L. Fisher winning compar-
able awards E-W. Next best
scores went to Mrs. Kathryn
Johnson-W. M. Lingley and Mrs
A. j. Steinberg-H. R. King.
In Section C, George Kathan-
Miller Roberts topped the Ms
field, second awards ending in a
tie between Daniel GoalWin-R
S. Head and Walter O'Loughlin
James G. Stone. Mrs. James
Lazard-W. A. Poissant were E-W
winners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

in New England industrial town
the author calls Galloway. The
earlier portions of the book are
much better written and more
persuasive than the latter part.
The father, George Martin; the
mother, Marge, and the three
daughters and six sons emerge
into a lusty, turbulent family,
deep in their sorrows, raucous in
their joys. Even the delicate boy
who dies early Is never quite for
gotten as the other children
grow up.
Hard Times.
Their house on the edge of
town Is as memorable as any
member of the family. The father
has job-printing business that
thrives reasonably for 20 years.
But he is man who can never
get enough of life. He CANDLES,
drinks and socializes as hard as
he works. A time comes when his
business slips away from him be-
fore he realizes it. At SO, he is
suddenly broke and must go to
work for somebody else. But he
takes this misfortune as he has
taken his good years. The parents
and the children still too young
to have left home must move into
q nat in town. Later the father
has to go to the strange, terrify-
ing city Of New York to get job,
and the best he and Marge and
Mickey. the only child still at
home, can afford Is a basement
apartment in Brooklyn. There the
father, once a leading citizen of
Galloway, lives out q life turned
empty and futile.
George Martin is a thoroughly
developed and entirely credible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Treason Trial Books
Beoin to Hit the Stands

The case of Alger Hiss and
Whitaker Chambers will prob
ably be discussed as long as men
have breath, and there will be,
before the year is out. several
books for the debaters to refer to.
First to hit the stands will be
1.-THE Seeds of Treason" due
April 7. 1t is the work of Victor
Laskey of the New York World
Telegram and Sun and Ralph de
Toledano of NeWsweek. Both
longtime students of subversive
activities, they covered the case
from the start for their respective
journals and are agreed on Hiss
guilt.
Alistair Cooke, American cor
respondent of the Manchester
Guardian, is being somewhat more
leisurely about getting into print.
THE Trials Of Alger Hiss" is due
for fall publication. Mr.. Cooke,
who also covered both trials,
trusts that the writing of the
book will clarity his own ideas
about the case, about which he
does not feel we know the whole
story. His objective account of
the trials is inclosed in the frame
work of an opening chapter on a
history of the 1930s and an cpl
logue on loyalty and the law to-
day.
An 80,000-word manuscript,
which may or may not be COM
pleted, languishes on the desk of
Bert Andrews, New York Herald
Tribune Washington Bureau
chief. His publishers, leery of
libel, want him to hold off until
after the expected Hiss appeal to
the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, he reports, he re-
ceived a cable from Rebecca
West, the worlds No. l treason
reporter, requesting page proofs
of his book. Since the manu-
script has not been set in
type, Mr.. Andrews very obligingly
sent off a $3.50 airmal package of
duplicate manuscript. The sup
position is that Miss West will do
one of her sumptuous essays on
the matter.
Available March % will be
Nathaniel WeylS Treason"
which has Hiss Chambers chap
ter. AS we go to press, The Stars
Newbold Moves, jr., an alumnus
of both trials, says positively he
will not write a book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

the murders by Landru, the mod
ern Bluebeard. and the reign OF
terror by the Bonnet gang, to
the assassination of King Alex
ander Of Yugoslavia. OF special
interest is the authors feuding
with the Gestapo, both before and
after the invasion of France by
the Nazis. His position as COM
missioner of police under Petain
finally became so difficult that he
quit in digust. Since the war he
has been writing his memoirs and
contributing articles on law en-
forcement to leading periodicals
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

troduced a plane crash, whose vic
Tins are rif1ed by the old man, and
an Indifferent brother and SIM
pie minded sister, who leave Moon
Gap. These events and characters
seem extraneous, brought in to
pad what should have been a long
short story about girl longing for
love and an old man greedy for
gold. Individually and in their
relationship to each other, bound
together only by the vision of the
woman who had been the heart of
their lives, Miss Chichester has por-
trayed them surely and even
lyrically. She should have left it
at that. M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

For 80 action-packed years Jean
Belin matched wits with Frances
criminals, anarchists, Commu-
nists and Fascists. Retiring as
commissioner of the famed surete
during the Vichy regime, M. Belin
has set down in colorful and ex-
citing detail the highlights of his
extraordinary career as an officer
of Frances Scotland Yard.
Detective story lovers will find
1t hard to put this book down,
once they have begun reading
it. Each chapter is a case history
of some notorious crime from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

man escapes her in drink, and the
children leave home when the
chance comes. But Yande remains
untamed. She relents only to the
extent Of making peace with God
Whom she denounced and kept
at His distance after she lost he1
father.
1.-The Easter Fleet" lacks the
dramatic impact Of Northern
Lights" Mr.. VerceIs last novel
There are long descriptions of the
oyster hauls and the little fishing
port. And yet it is an appealing
perceptive story that leads quietly
to its amusing and climactic mo-
ments. It's people are clearly seen
and cogently described. The
by Katherine Woods
is adequate, though there is some
difficulty with slang. which is a
hard thing to translate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

residents to resume their old Gus
toms and look to the future.
Once Mr.. Divine's, story is fairly
underway-the beginning Is very
choppy, with bewildering shifts
from Navy base to Japanese-held
island-it moves broadly and
briskly to its climax which shows
1t. Refs blocking the brass to leave
a fitting memorial of his brief
reign in the shape of purloined
water tank. Many engaging minor
characters of both American and
South Pacific extraction, drift
through the narrative, which has
a warming, brusque humanity
about it. M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Richly Human Novel

PULASKI PLACE
BY Ruth M. Tabrah. Harper G.
Bros; 49,
Discrimination against hyphen-
ated Americans-in this case
Polish ones-is the theme of this
richly human first novel, which
follows the career Of two brothers
born in Milltown's Pulaski place.
Without mincing words, the author
makes it quite clear how the lives
|of native-born Americans with
foreign names can be warped by
blind prejudice. M. O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

Mr.. Vercel is one OF the most
able Of contemporary French
novelists. He draws character
with deft, spare strokes and his
books saturate you with the at
mosphere of their locales.
In 1.-THE Easter Fleet" he turns
back to the Brittany coast he
dealt with In 1.-THE Tides Of Mont
st., Michel" And he is concerned
again with fishermen and their
families. Oysters are the prize
crop harvested by Goulec and his
comrades. But Goulec's wife
Marie-Anne. known locally as
Yande, is the overpowering char
acter of 1.-THE Easter Fleet" She
dominates her husband and her
grown children, Little Louis" and
Roseline. Her influence, however,
goes no deeper than the bullying
obedience she can exact. The old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
ELIZABETHAN LYRICS

Chosen, edited and arranged by
Norman Ault. (WilliGn1 Sloane
Associates; So
Mr.. Ault went to the original
texts for these Elizabethan poems
and offers them in a sensible
chronological sequence. Most are
love lyrics and many are by too
little known writer's. e. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

hoped to keep the politics and the
over the phone the other day
II hoped people wouldn't identify
the two, because I wanted the
book to be judged on its own
His disappointment is an occupa-
tional hazard faced by many
Washington authors.
His first novel, "Son and
Stranger" he admitted, was writ
ten in the summer of 1947, went
begging to IS publishers before it
was finally accepted by Houghton
Mif1in Co., who will bring it out
on May %. The story of an
American couple who go to Eng
land to claim the body of their
son and discover the boy had a
life they knew nothing about, it
will be published simultaneously
in England, where Mr.. Lloyd was
most recently with the Embassy
in 1916.
For the benefit of senatorial
viewers-with- alarm, who might be
uneasy at the thought of a novelist
in the White House-and one who
helps write speeches at that-it
should be said that Mr.. Lloyd, who
intends to continue writing fiction,
has no idea of writing about Wash
ington life-at least not until his
retirement, which is no immediate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Hope Springs Eternal in Godforsoken
Ghost Town of Ann Chidester's Novel
idester. Doubleday & Co.; $2.75.)

BY Chichester. doubleday & Co.; $2.75J
bride godforsaken ghost provided
Ann Chichester Of sensitive writer's with the
tera Of simple story about those whom dream
ubborny that roaming
will her DID, roguis father that the
hills will yield gold Mutually disappearing they settle down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Ghost Writer Robertson
Speaks for Himself

Archie Robertson made the
transition from ghost writer to
public speaker very gracefully the
other highland to music, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Reading and Writing
David Lloyd, White House Aide,
Turns Out to Be q Novelist, Too
Bv Moy McGrory

David Demares Lloyd the White House aide who FASTENED to
identify himself McCarhys portfolio
doyay charges shown reluctance claim another
label which is rightfully his. He is novelist
He is not trying conceal it, mind It's just that II had
hoped keep the politics and the writing separate he said Wistf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
| Books In Review
John kerouuc's First Novel
Reveals Vigorous New Talent
THE TOWN AND THE CITY
BY John Kerouac. (Harcourt, Brace; $500

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES'
youthful his
first novel there ample evidence talent
This down with gsto the undiscpned
His 500page deeply moving and
rhetoric his characters completely alive
only artculate shadows
City, story Martins. family
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
HighIighting On Extraordinary Career
In Frances Own Scotland Yard

SECRETS OF THE SURETE
BY Jean Belin. 90. P. Putnams Sons; $780,
Reviewed by REX COLLIER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Noted Contemporary Frencf, Novelist Tell
Story of FisherfoIk on Brittany Coast
THE EASTER FLEET

BY Roger Vercel. Random House; s275J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

1t. Col. and Mrs. Robert A. Bar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

analysis OF each
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-11-17
Charles Young Post
AVxilIory Celebrates
18th AnnlN0rSur,

The Charles Young Post Wo-
mems Auxiliary Spanish War Vet
Grams celebrated It's 25th anniVer-
sary with a party held Nov. II at
the South Central branch OF the
YMCA in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Minnie CASTOR was chair
man of the affair. Mrs. Eliza
beth Rogers presented Mrs,
Wayne BurrcIl Lytlc. who acted
as mistress OF ceremonies.
Appearing on the program were
the following persons Mrs. Hat
tie Surman, Mrs. G. Nixon, Mrs,
Velma Williams, Mrs. May Han,
Mrs. Alice Epperlty, Mrs, F.
SChOenemAn. Mrs. Birdie Meade
Mrs Avs Sundbcrg. Minnesota
Department Auxiliary president
Dolores Hail. Sarah Edwards,
Mrs. Dora Brant, Mrs. Eva Neal
Mrs. Fannie Pierre Lewis, and
MeSsrs + Wigington, w. NJ
Curtis, a. Todd. and James Mic.
hOls
Mrs Pansy PRnzram Of Vase
ca, Minnesota, who presented the
Auxiliary with its first flags. sent
large bunch Of American BeA'
uty roses to the anniversary OBJ,
serVance