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Evening star., 1950-10-22

name-he had taken his fathers
assumed name of Prentice-waS a
public charge. A fine man, a car
penter, and his well-meaning but
miserly wife, took the boy in and
raised him. So Ludar became part
of the town, with its great family,
split in two by feuding brothers
and their clawing wives; it's large
cast of people, great and humble.
We have such familiar char
acterS as the er-hopeful and
never successful inventor with
big heart, the drunken reporter,
the sharp-tongued old lady who
uses her money for innumerable
hidden charities, the proud
publisher, the snobbish scions of
the wealthy families. The writing
is not always inspired. but then
Mr.. Costain set himself to fill a
lot of space. The story holds up
very well, though, and in the end
everything turns out for the best,
as you knew all along it would.
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Mr.. BoIitho Finds
Choice Gleuninos

A BIOGRAPHER'S NOTEBOOK
BY Hector Bolitho. (The Mac
milan Co.; $780,
These are fragments which
never found their way into the 80
books of Mr.. Bolitho, who at one
time thought he was ''in danger
of becoming a tame apologist for
monarchy" From these royal
gleanings, one would say he had
not entirely escaped the danger.
What he saw of princes he pat
emily approved. The most interest
ing passages by far come from the
pen of Queen Marie of Romania,
an extraordinary woman-queen
or no-who for years maintained
a candid correspondence with an
unseen American friend.
The mixture is very, very bland.
MOONEY
BY William Brown Meloney. ID.
Appleton-C n-Century-Crotts; $3.)
A particularly unappetizing
study of the sex life of a small
town as speculated on by the local
undertaken, a bibulous character
named Mooney. He is set off in
his musings by the necessity of
preparing for burial the body of
the local school teacher, a fine
young woman about whose vir-
ginity there was violent curiosity.
1t is all very earthly. Mr.. Meloney
shows a good relationship between
Mooney and the unhappy boy he
adopts. Otherwise, it is little
hard to see just why he wrote the
book. Novelists ought to leave
this sort of thing to Kinsey.
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French Printmukers
At Phillips Gallery

The Phillips Gallery and United
Nations Club are showing exhibi-
tions of graphic arts by French
artists, both shows having been
lent by the George Binet Gallery,
New York City. 1t was mere CO.
incidence that both were arranged
for this month. Agnes De Lano,
director of exhibitions at United
Nations Club. said Il only hope
the two shows will stir up double
interest"
AS a matter of fact, the two
shows do not overlap, but supple
ment each other. The Phillips
Gallery's selection, Five French
Masters" enables one to study in
detail the work of Jacques Villon,
definitely the star of the show,
and to see small groups by the
others. The collection of 80 prints
at United Nations Club consti-
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Art
By Florence S. Berrymon

"The Artist in American His
tory" is the subject of a SYM
postum to be held at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art next Friday and
Saturday, in conjunction with it's
unique exhibition, American Pro-
cessional," and under the auspices
of the Gallery and the National
Capital Sesquicentennial Com
mission.
Participating guest speakers are
an eminent group, to be intro
duced by Hermann Warner Will
liamS, jr., director of the Corcoran
Gallery. Elizabeth McCausland,
art historian and critic, author of
George Inness" and many other
books and brochures. and editor
of the catalogue for American
Professional" will give a survey
talk on the exhibition at 3 o'clock
Friday. At $3.50 pm, the "Pano-
rama of the Sioux War;" painted
by John Stevens during the 1870s,
will be shown and the original
text which accompanied it will be
read by John Palmer Leeper, as
sistant director of the Corcoran
Gallery.
Saturday at 1890, "The Artist
in American History" will be dis
cussed by Lloyd Goodrich, as
sociate director of the Whitney
Museum of American Art, New
York, lecturer and author of def
nitive books on Winslow Homer
and Thomas Eakins; Edgar Preston
Richardson, director of the Detroit
Institute of Art, author of Amer
lean Romantic Painting" and CO.
editor of The Art Quarterly, and
Henry Steele Commager, profess
sor- of history, Columbia. Univer-
sity, author of THE Growth of
the American Republic" and other
volumes.
After luncheon (for which res
ervations must be made with
Eleanor B. Swenson of the
Corcoran Gallery the group will
reasSemble at 2;30 for a panel
discussion on the symposium
theme. Edward Boykin of the
National Capital Sesquicentennial
Commission will be chairman, and
Holger Cahill. writer, adviser and
expert on American Art, will act
as moderator. Members of the
panel will include the four guest
speakers, also John I. H. Baur of
the Brooklyn Museum, Mr.. Will
liams, Miss Swenson, and Charles
Edward Buckley Of the Corcoran
Gallery, George C. Groce, and
Macgill James, associate director
OF the National Gallery of Art.
~ u -
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few neWspapermen visited he saw
the old Chinese society decaying
beyond the point where it could
survive. The corruption of the
Kuomintang was not an abstrac-
ton but something he witnessed
in operation at the lowest level
the constant squeeze on the peas
ants.
Two Kinds of Time" is a long
book-725 pages-with, as the au-
thor puts it, something of a split
personality. But its massing of
what may seem trivial incidents
adds up to an impressive picture
of China and its people in the
midst of a social revolution.
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Sickening Exploitation
Not Far From Slavery
A WIND is RISING

"A V4AND 40 1l4k41N1
BY William Russell. (Charles
Scribner'S Sons, $3)
Mr.. Russell's novel is entirely
devoted to the race question. It
is a grim. sickening account of
exploitation and injustice, a raw,
unrelieved picture of Delta share
croppers living under conditions
that are virtually indistinguish-
able from slavery.
Only the title, "A Wind Is
Rising" suggests any hope. And
since Beal Jackson, the humble
Sharecropper. unconcerned with
minority rights, is rebuffed in
trouble by the people most likely
to help him, it is hard to decide
whether or not the author is being
lronic even in that.
Beal, at the outset. is willing to
accept life as he finds it, although
he is dlmly aware that the plant
ers keep false books, withhold
wages, and keep their workers in
the bondage of debt by charging
them 500 per cent interest. But
when his brother is falsely
charged with the murder of a
sheriff. Beal feas to New York in
what turns out to be the futile
hope of interesting the "Asso-
citation" in the case.
The one decent white man in
the book is only passively so. The
degenerate whites in New York
exploit Beal quite as mercilessly
as the Southerners, even If in the
name of civil liberties.
"A Wind Is Rising" which in
cidentally omits no part of Beal's
active sex life, is an explosive book
on an explosive theme, not likely
to reassure either those Ameri-
cans who are the victims of the
race problem or those who strive
for its solution.
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found herself a severely aggra-
waited case. Transplanted from
Boston by a dominating patriarch,
who devotes his life to the educa-
ton of Negroes and envisions the
intermarriage of black and white,
they live isolated in the South,
Stunned by their neighbors. Ironi-
cally enough, when the two beau
tiful sisters with their amiable
mother and picturesque brother
decamp to the North, they cause
an immediate and lasting sensa-
ton in cafe society as the epitome
of Southern charm.
Hope, the more beautiful of the
two gorgeous sisters, has SUBJ
scribed fieetingly to her grand
fathers ideas on miscegenation,
but she recants to marry a rich
and stupid worshiper who allows
her to give her child to a neurotic
cousin, an alcoholic ridden by the
furies of a father-fxation. Even
tually. the trio. defeated, return to
exile. Only Sybil, the drunken
cousin. wins through, rehabilitated
through her love for Hopes child
and the ministrations of Jungian
(not FreudianD psychiatrist.
Well Shaken Characters.
Miss Hale shakes her charac-
ters until their teeth rattle and
labors to overlay the swish sordid-
ness of their lives with glamour,
but nothing can disguise the fact
that Hope is the familiar type of
modern woman, all chromium and
concrete. Felicity, creature of her
sister then her husband, is a SIM
pleton. The mother is a self
indulgent weakling. Edward is
fotsam. The most merciless and
in some ways most interesting por-
trait is of Hopes second husband,
a Southern politician.
In the presentation Of their en-
vironment. against which they
have no defenses, Miss Hale is more
convincing. if repetitive. She is
most effective in her picture of
the South C"the ruined lords in
the ruined castlesD, which she
apparently thinks requires mass
psychiatry for it's ills. The Sign
of Jonah" stirs up some muddy
waters, to no great avail.
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of the 1905 was as careful as
the research that went into his
novels of more ancient periods.
The story has a balanced assort-
ment of observation-disclosures,
pathos, whimsy-which is sure to
please a lot of readers. 1t was
the inevitable selection of the Lit
erary Guild as it's novel of the
month.
A Public Charge.
There are many characters, but
the chief one is Ludar. AS a boy
of 7 he was sent from England
by a Skinf1int, thieving aunt to
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Nine Little Buldwins
In FeuduI Luxury

FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE
By Joseph Clark Baldwin. (Co1U-
ard d-McCann;; $780,
Joseph Clark Baldwin III. a
direct descendant of William the
Conqueror, served in the House
of Representatives from 1941 to
1916, sent there by New York S
silk stocking" district. He makes
scant mention of his congressional
career, though, in these memoirs
which are an elegant combination
of Life With Father" and Cheap
er by the Dozen" Fortune smiled
on the nine little Baldwins, who
were brought up in feudal luxury
in Mount Kisco Castle. Their
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In a time of revolution, what
ordinary people are doing and
thinking can be as important as
the more obviously historical
events. 1t is from this point of
view that Mr.. Peck has presented
China in the years from 1910 to
1947.
The author, an artist who has
illustrated his book with dozens
of pen-and-ink sketches, is con-
vinced that the Communists took
over China by default-that their
success was not so much a victory
for Russia as a failure for Amer
lea and democracy.
In the provincial towns which
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tutes little survey, from Daumier
and Manet to several contempo-
rary artists born since World
War I.
Twenty-three Of the AZ prints at
the Phillips Gallery are by Villon
and fill the larger of the print
rooms. Beginning with a beauti-
fully handled water color of a
seated woman Q902) the visitor
can study Villon's development
through the years. Most of the
prints are of heads or figures with
a smaller number of still-life SUBJ
jects. His cool, clean-cut rational
way of working in straight lines
with careful linear cross-hatching
is carried through comparatively
traditional to cubist near -abstrac-
tions.
The majority Of Rouault's prints
at the Phillips are etchings and
aquatints in brilliant color, akin
to the large exhibition of Rouault
prints there several years ago.
Matisse's Autographs of women
include lifelike capture of a girl
reading, in striking contrast to
the much simplif1ed outline heads
and figures of the others.
Picasso's two prints also present
contrast: The delicate outline
heads and figures in one are
classic, whereas the head of a
young girl resembles a chalk
drawing. It is one of the so
Autographs he has done in the
past few years. Picasso resumed
working on the stone after lapse
of Is years. and has experimental
boldly with the medium, using oil
crayon. also chalk, metal and his
own thumb.
Dufy's several Autographs are
chic social satire.
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Carnegie international
Painting Exhibition

Eleven nations are represented
in the international exhibition
OF paintings just opened at Car
negie Institute, Pittsburgh, after
a lapse of one decade, because of
the war. 1t will remain through
December 81, and undoubtedly will
be well worth a trip. The United
States, England, France, Italy,
Spain, Germany, Austria, Holland,
Belgium, Norway and Sweden are
represented with approximately
$50 paintings. Eight prizes total
ing $500 were awarded by a
jury of two European and two
American artists. and the popular
prize of 5000 will be awarded by
public vote during the show.
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Portuguese and Brazilian
Colloquium at Library

Experts on Portuguese and
Brazilian culture from many parts
OF Europe and America assembled
during the past week at the Lii
orary OF Congress for an inter-
national colloquium on Luso-
Brazilian studies. The meeting
co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Uni
versity, is part of the Library's
sesquicentennial celebration. AS
noted here last Sunday, it opened
with a lecture by DR.. Reynaldo
dos Santos at the National Gallery
and closes today with another
lecture there at 4 o'clock, when
DR.. Joaquin Souza-Leao Filho,
Brazilian Minister to the Neither
lands, will speak on Brazilian art.
Evening star., 1950-10-22
Thomas Costoin Moves
Up q Few Centuries

SON OF A HUNDRED KINGS
BY Thomas B. Costain. Double
day; $3.)
This is leisurely, warm
hearted novel, appropriate in plot
and treatment to the late VIC
torlan period in which it happens
the so-called Gay Nineties.
Mr.. Costain thus moves forward
several hundred years from the
times OF his popular historical
novels, THE Black Rose" and
The Moneyman" and the more
recent High Towers" His study
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mother was beautiful, their father
tempestuous, their governesses
many and short Lived.
Mr.. Baldwin skips around a
good deal in recalling his gilded
childhood, his World War I serv-
ice, his successful role in Repub-
lican politics. He keeps coming
back to those golden years, and,
to be sure, there was nothing
mean or stingy in that life.
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other young artists and has had
one-man shows of drawings at the
Public Library here and elsewhere.
He has also exhibited frequently
in group exhibitions.
Born and educated in Newark,
Mr.. Maurer served more than four
years with the Army during World
War II. in this country and Eu-
rope and while abroad decided to
make painting his career. Draw
ings he made as an infantryman
were included in exhibitions which
toured the British Isles.
After the war, Mr.. Maurer came
to Washington to attend Amer
lean University, where he studied
art under William Calfee, Robert
Gates, Sarah Baker and Jack
Tworkov and briefly with Karl
knaths.
The exhibition will continue
through next Friday.
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1 Z
An interesting cross section of
opinion, often sharply divergent,
emerges from this critical survey.
For a brief biographical sketch
of the man and an impression of
his habits and tastes you could
not do better than read Malcolm
CoWley's "a Portrait of Mr.. Papa. :"
Mr.. Cowley, whose article is re-
cent, feels that "A Farewell to
Arms" is still the best novel to
come out of either war. Gertrude
STEMS impressions of Mr.. Hem
ingWay's days as literary ap-
prentice in Paris are amusing.
Maxwell Geismar, who the other
day had some harsh things to say
about Across the River and Un-
der the Trees" devotes much
space to For Whom the Bell
Tolls" Mr.. Geismar does not ap-
prove altogether of the Spanish
Civil War story, but halls it as
showing that at last Mr.. Heming-
way felt impelled to recognize the
developing social conflicts that
were to shake the world. Ed
mund Wilson, on the other hand,
calls it IAN error of the polit. ,os"
to accuse Mr.. Hemingway of IAN
Indifference to society" Mr. Will
son adds: His whole wo+A is
of society; he has re-
sponded to every pressure of the
moral atmosphere of his time, as
it is felt at the roots of human
with a sensitivity almost
unrivaled." James T. Farrell,
the novelist, confines himself to
Mr.. Hemingway's first novel, THE
Sun Also Rises" which Mr.. Far
rell still considers his best. But
Mr.. Farrell sees Mr.. Hemingway
as "a writer of limited vision, one
who has no broad and fertile per-
SpectiVe on life"
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variety to the collection. Via
mincks Church and Village
Street" and Chagall's fox embrace
ing statue are also engaging.
Nearly third Of these print
makers are new names to me, and
prints by several of the younger
are markedly traditional, among
them Michel Ciry's beautiful large
etched Landscape, Suzanne Hum
bert's two Autographs in delicate
colors, and Beaufrere's land
scape. I als) liked Pierre Clairi's
color lithograph of a woman
against red drapery.
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Twenty-Five Artists
In u. N. Club Show

Twenty five artists including
Picasso, Matisse, Rouault and
Duffy, are represented in the show
at United Nations Club, with one
or two prints each. Earlier
painters Renoir, Cezanne Ia vital
self-portrait). and Redon, sculp-
tors Rodin with his famous dry
point Of Victor Hugo, and Maillol
with a seated nuoe, and Toulouse
Lautrec. all give strength and
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combined form, Burning Bright,
no doubt is successful. Unfortu-
nately it is not another "Of Mice
and Men" that poignant picture
of kindly oaf blundering his way
through an unfeeling world to dis
aSter. Nor has it any of the ap-
pealing drama of The Moon Is
Down" 1t is a strange story Mr.
Steinbeck has written, and it is
hard to describe the confused
effect of Burning Bright"
Burning Bright" obviously is
an allegory, not intended to be
taken literally. Even so, the idea
back of it seems tenuous and the
way it is carried out does not tend
to strengthen it or to give it that
dramatic impact which makes a
theme memorable.
There are four characters
three men and a woman. Joe
Saul and Mordeen are married.
Friend Ed, an older man, is, as his
title implies, simply a wonderful
friend to them both. Victor is a
strong g-muscled young man with
out scruples or delicate percep-
tions, who wants Mordeen and
feels she is wasting herself on her
older husband. Joe and Mordeen
have never had child and have
always wanted one. Mordeen is
certain their love will never be
complete and Joe will never be
entirely happy without a child.
She knows from a past experience
that it is not her fault. She de-
termines to have the baby by
Victor and let Joe think it is his.
Dramatis PerSOnae.
The characters, though they do
not change basically undergo an
external metamorphosis in each
of the three acts. The first is the
circus. Joe and Mordeen are ira
peze artists. Victor is a newcomer
to the art. Friend Ed is a clown.
In the second act they are all
farmers. Act three finds them on
docked ship. Ed is the captain,
Joe and Victor are mates. The re-
lationship among the four other
wise is unchanged, and the story
progresses. Joe learns, at the
opening of act two, that he is
to become. as he supposes, a IA
ther. In the final act he discovers
as the result of a physical check
up that he is sterile. He is in a
towering rage until, after a tragic
occurrence, he realizes, as he sits
beside his wife and baby in the
hospital room which is the clos
ing scene. that every man is IA
ther to all children and every child
must have all men as father"
1t is hard to understand why
Mr.. Steinbeck has chosen to tell
the story in this tortuous way.
The local color is wasted. The
characters. whether they are cir
Gus performers or farmers or sail
ors, talk in the same high flown
way. They might as we'll be mem
bers of Socrates philosophical
circle or disembodied spirits. For
instance, Joe Saul as the farmer
exclaims: There's going to be
a child playing in that dust.
There's going to be a growing
thing discovering the sky and
kicking the chickens aside and
finding eggs!" And this from a
master of down. dialogue
from the author who made the
Okles SO real in THE Grapes of
Wrath" and had such a sharp
ear for the speech of poor Mexi-
cans in "Tortilla Flat" and of an
assortment of derelicts in Can
merry Row" Moreover, much the
same idea, though it was worked
out differently, was used with
vastly greater effect by Eugene
ONeill in Strange Interlude,"
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join his black
sheep father in
a small city in
Ontario. TIL e
d a y Lu d a 7
reached Bal
four, his down.
and-out father,
who had not re-
ceived the tele-
gram inform
ing MIN Oh tIllS
event, kill e d
himself. T h u S
L u d ar, W h o
didn't ev n
krnu, hic rioht
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ing across it,
this is a timely
book, although
some of its re-
printed essays
go back Is years
and more.
Articles that
some of our
leading critics
a n d novelists
n a V e written
about Mr.. Hem
ingWay at one
time or another
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Mourer One-Mun Show
At Watkins GuIIen

Leonard Maurer is having his
first one-man show including both
paintings and drawings, at Wat
kins Gallery. American University.
The artist had a small group at
the Whyte Gallery in July, with
Evening star., 1950-10-22

easier - ana a
story intended
for both me-
diums can be
S t a 6 e d with
greater facility
because the de-
scriptions en-
able actors and
producers bet
ter to under
stand the char
acters and the
settings.
Strictly as an
example in the
technin of t}1e
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Nancy Hale Writes q Powerful Novel
Against q Bitter RocioI Background
BY Nancy Hale. (Charles Scribner's Sons; $500
THE SIGN OF JONAH
Reviewed by Mary MeGrory

Nancy Haes second novel feverh the gttering
family
sometimes urid Poe clinical psyche
analysts report.
Miss Hale her short exceed
of the emoonay displaced the
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The Storm Flags Are Up
On Heminqwoy's Course
ERNEST HEMINGWAY:

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
THE MAN AND HIS WORK
Edited by John K. M. McCaffery
world; $780,
In view of the recent publica-
ton of Mr.. HemingWay's new nov
ell, Across the River and Under
the Trees" and the, critical con-