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Evening star., 1950-09-17
Susan Ertz Does
Her Best Since
Madame Claire
THE PRODIGAL HEART

1f1E FRODlIAL dEARI
BY Susan Ertz. (Harper &
Bros; $3J
Miss Ertz is an English novelist
of great good taste and consider
able understanding. This present
story of a charming high-minded
young widow, named Medwin
Blair, trying to honor all the
claims laid to her heart seems to
me to be one of her best since
Madame Claire"
AS secretary to a pair of emo
tionally starved lady philanthro-
piSts who quite openly vie with
each other for her love, Medwin
must walk a tight-rope. She must
further see to the welfare of her
own troublesome family, her be-
loved little daughter and reconcile
with her conscience her affair
with a man whose marital status
is tremendously complicated.
Without ever descending to the
depths of abnormal psychology
Miss ErtZ explores gravely and
compassionately the tense rela-
tionShips between the young wom-
an and the two jealous old friends
who try to suffocate her with
offers of friendship and expensive
gifts. This takes considerable do
ing, and Miss Ertz has done it
extremely well.
MARY McGRORY
Evening star., 1950-09-17
New Books

FICTION.
FRIENDLY ANECDOTES. Collected and
arranged by Irving C. and Ruth Yer
lenden Policy. With an introduction by
Dorothy Garfield Fisher. Harper. Quak-
er Philosophy mixed with quiet humor.
S1.50.
ONE FOOT IN AMERICA. By Yurl suhl.
Macmillan. A story of Americans-in in
the-Making. $2.75.
RIVER DIARY. By Dorothea Eastwood.
Houghton Mifflin, A diary by an Eng
lish nature writer covering the months
from March to October in the country
side near the border of Wales So
THE TALL HEADLINES. BY Audrey En-
skine Lindop. Macmillan The psyche
logical effects of violence. $3
TEQUnA. By Margaret Page Hood. Cow
ard McCann. A novel of New Mexico
during the turn of the century. $3
NON-F1CTION.
HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE. BY Lawrence
Klingman and Gerald Green. Scribners
The incredible true story of South Sea
adventurer. $3.50.
ROAD WITHOUT TURNING. By Rev.
Co. The autobiography of Young
Negre's ,9I struggle to rise from a Knox
vile Slum and to reach the ministry. SO.
APH0RISMS OF SIR WILLIAM OSLER.
Collected from his bedside teachings
and writings by Robert Bennett Bean
MD, and edited by william Bennett
Bean MD. schuman. $3.50.
Evening star., 1950-09-17

f1orid rhetoric in which the novel
abounds.
But leaving aside the shortcom-
ings of his style, Mr.. Bacchelli has
created magnificent characters in
these unlettered peasants who
take on a kind of grandeur against
the steady sweep of the Po, Laz-
zaro is a splendid character, a re-
formed soldier Of fortune of Ma
poleon'S legions, who builds his
mill with blood money. comes to
repent his ill-gotten gains and set
ties down to life of industry and
fidelity with his good wife Doso-
lima.
DoSolina, a shy beauty who
grows into a steadfast wife, a
prudent manager and a village
sage, is equally .well-drawn. So
is her father, the ne'er-do-well
Princivalle, who timidly breaches
the possibilities of a self ruled
Italy before a hostile audience at
Lazzaro's fireSide.
The progress Of this pair
through flood and plague and in
vasion, their reluctant traffic with
the smugglers who enjoy the toll
erance of the lax rulers of the
Papal States, is the heart of the
book. When they die of plague
the story focuses on their disap-
pointing son, Guissepe, prof1teer
and collaboration who watches
his countrymen starve while he
sells grain to Austria. 1t loses
much in tiresome details of his
endless Vaccinations. However,
it promises to revive with the ad-
vent of Cecilia, another miller,
whom he tricks into marriage.
Mr.. Bacchelli's book is obvious
ly a labor of love. 1t is a vital
and full -blooded chronicle and
rewarding to the persevering
reader.
Evening star., 1950-09-17

long resided in Chevy Chase, and
her work has added periodically
to the charm of local exhibitions,
and needs no introduction to
Washingtonians. About IL works
are on view in the current show,
all of them miniature figures, nat
uralistically colored and glazed.
They represent George Washing
ton on horseback as commander
of the Continental Army "a good
likeness, too, in his miniature face
as we'll as uniform), Paul Revere
on his famous ride, British horse
guards, handsome horses, mares
and foals, hunting groups with
hounds, hunters and grooms and
a few other items.
Twenty water colors by Mrs.
Mack constitute her first solo
exhibition anywhere. A native of
Boston, she came to Washington
recently with her husband, Wilbur
H. Mack, who is an attorney with
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission.
She has been painting only a
few years. Her glimpses of the
rocky seacoast of Maine, sand
dunes, inland pools, old trees, and
a few landscape and wharf scenes
O or0lYnd VYo cbi10@o- a,,a L.~ IL.
handled aquarelles. naturalistic
but simplif1ed. They are generally
pleasing and show promise.
X X ~
Lee Atkyns opened last Sunday
afternoon a new studio-gallery at
4712 Wisconsin avenue, inaugurat-
ing an open-house for the pubic,
to continue through the season,
every Sunday from 2 to S. There
will be occasional exhibitions de-
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Truman Copote, Still the Boy Wonder,
Takes q Flight Into Non-Fiction
LOCAL COLOR


BY Truman Capote. Random l
Having reached the ripe old age
Of "a, Truman Capote, who re-
mains the boy wonder of contem-
porary letters, has momentarily
deserted fiction for non-fiction.
Readers will hardly notice the diff
ference. Mr.. Capote's bizarre
stories evidently did not come en-
tirely from his imagination. Life
if one can judge from this
handful of travel Sketches-is like
that to him.
A case in point is his evocation
Of Brooklyn. You must admit
that the borough does not usually
strike the observer as baroque.
Yet Mr.. Capote with that par
ticular forked stick he uses for
divining f1ashy decay, heads
straight for an old folks hotel
that might have come out of one
of his stories. There are no
Dodgers in Mr.. Capote's f1tfully lit
world.
He is frankly diSdainful Of
Hollywood. He makes New Or
leans sound like a place where
something like "a Streetcar
Named Desire" was bound to hap
pen. Hurrying to Europe, he and
q travelling companion were fol-
lowed around, in Venice, by an
importunate wench who gave
them a dead cat as a farewell
present. Things like that happen
to Mr.. c.
He seems most at homes as a
writer, on the little isle of Ischia,
a volcanic neighbor of Capri. He
says felicitously, or embarking on
an island: 'It seems nothing un-
kind or vulgar can happen to you" ;"
To him, Tangier is "a basin that
holds you, a timeless place." He
was happy there.
Say what you will about Mr.
Capote's vision. his style is an al
most fawless thing. Metaphor
after metaphor rings with abso-
Evening star., 1950-09-17
What Infontrymen
In Italy Did Not
Write Home About
BRAVE COMPANY
BY Guthrie Wilson. (G. P. Put
nem'S Sons; $3J
Reviewed by Sam Eastman

Reviewed by Sam Eostmon
."Brave Company" is another
novel in which the author at
tempts a comprehensive portrayal
of the combat infantryman dur
ing the last war. In most re-
spects, this New Zealand school,
teachers first book compares IA
vorably with similar stories which
have come out of the war.
Guthrie Wilson focuses his story
on a group of infantrymen dur
ing a few weeks of the bloody
Italian campaign. The authors
four years experience in the in
fantry gives this detailed descrip-
ton of life and death on the front
lines an authentic stamp.
The passages in which the CEN
tral character slips into reflec-
tive ,appraisals of men and events
tend to detract somewhat from
the movement and impact of the
story. But this is a minor flaw
in a f1rst-class piece of writing.
Evening star., 1950-09-17

showed some disappointment in
the book Miss Allen had brought
him. 1t was called "Short Cuts
to Japanese" and he complained
that it was mot advanced
enough" Pvt. De Angels, who
got knocked off after one month
in Korea" wants to improve his
japanese because his wife, who
is in Tokyo. is a Japanese.
Its not legal yet. but it will
be in a few months" he said,
explaining his marriage has yet
to be recognized by United States
authorities. Meanwhile, he wants
to learn to write Congen. an i'm
mensely complicated system of
characters. His wife also speaks
English and Italian.
Another foreign language STU
dent is Pvt. Emil Sartori of
Claridge, Pa, who got an Italian
grammar. He wants to brush up
so he can converse more easily
with friends and family.
Next to him, 21-year-old cor
poral who asked us not to use
his name returned Jean Gira-
doux's Simon lie Pathetique. %
The corporal, whose family is
in Canada. is a French scholar
and he told Miss Allen to bring
him something deeper next time,
something classical, say Racine.
or perhaps "Cyrano de Bergerac. :"
Was 1t Chingching?
An 18-year-old private from
Trimountain, Mich, who also
asked not to have his name men,
toned, took a copy of THE
Outdoorsman" and a couple
of Zane Greys. He was hit in
the arm-at "Chingching or some
place." He looked questioningly
at the boy in the next bed.
THAT right? Chingching?"
"Chingchong. maybe" said his
friend. II don't know"
One white faced lad bandaged
up to his chin looked disinter-
estedly over the books. Rather
half-heartedly he at length chose
"Mr. ADAM" by Pat Frank. He
was a 21-year-old Pfc. from In
diana who also prefers to remain
anonymous.
When Miss Allen had gone on,
he looked up and smiled family
"She don't know it, but I've read
three-quarters of what she's got
there. When I was in school ]
used to read book a day-any-
thing I could get hold Of"
Did he look forward to a lot OF
reading while at Walter Reed?
No. he said. he didn't feel much
like it. He was still tired. He
had arrived only two days ago
He was hit at Taegu.
Miss Allen jotted down a re-
quest for Red Badge of Courage
The CT explained a buddy of his
had read it, and he had just
learned it was going to be made
into movie.
She passed by several comic
book readers who waved their
books in friendly fashion but de-
clined any wares from the cart
She came to a porch where sew
eral card-players looked up from
their game.
You didn't come last week.
said one.
"Oh, yes, I did, she said, "you
were asleep"
You should have walked me UP
You should always wake me ur
when you come" he replied gal
lantly.
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Exhibitions Listed ON Page CO.

court at the crossing of a 750-
foot-long cross composed of formal
paintings of greenery. News of
this important undertaking re-
minds us that one of Washington s
greatest sculptures, Saint-Gaudens'
Peace of God" makes another
cemetery mecca for art lovers.
Carl Miles was born in Sweden
(1875). He early achieved an in
ternational reputation and won
many of his greatest triumphs in
his homeland, where he lived and
worked until middle age. I was
privileged in 1888 to visit his house
and garden at Lidingo near Stock
holm. which was a setting for
many of his sculptured master
pieces. He had come to the United
States in 1929, and has since spent
most of his past two decades
working and teaching at Gran
brook Academy of Art, Bloomfield
Hills, Mich. He became a natural
1ACo N1CA6CI1 LII 1870.
His sculpture is modern in the
best sense. strong, simple and
vital. He has created major
works in this country. New York
City. Worcester, Philadelphia
Harrisburg. Chicago, Detroit, st.
Louis and many other cities have
public monuments or small pieces
in their museums. The largest
project completed in the United
States is the fountain, wedding
Of the Rivers" mississippi and
Missouri in st. Louis. 1t was too
imaginative for some of the good
people of that city, however, for
when the models were first set UP
they created a furor among those
accustomed to think of sculpture
in terms of the academic ideals of
the 10Th century.
The IA figures recently arrived
here have not yet been unpacked,
and unveiling will be announced
later.
An exhibition of ceramic sculp-
ture Of horses and dogs by Kath-
leen Wheeler, and water colors of
New England by Lois Proctor
Mack, opened last Sunday at 4
Hillyer court, to remain through
the month.
The English-bo ceramist has
Evening star., 1950-09-17

voted to "art for the home" a
show theme in which Mr.. Atkyns
has been actively interested for q
number of years.
This Washington artist acquired
studio in Puzzletown, Pa, in
1945, and since then has spent
most of his time in rural Pennsyl-
vania, conducting art classes, and
galleries in Johnstown and In
diana as we'll as Puzzletown.
His inaugural exhibition is com.
posed of about 40 of his own paint
ings, and a group by Pennsyl-
vanians who have been working
in his several studios in that State.
Most of them, he says, have been
painting only a few years.
Evening star., 1950-09-17


turned books with magazine racks
on either end. Miss Aliens first
call was in Ward 36. an orthopedic
ward.
In the bed nearest the door
lay a slight, blond boy who looked
up shyly in answer to her greet
ing and at once reached into a
bedside cabinet and drew out sew
eral books.
One of them was Constance and
Bud Helmerick's I'VE Live in the
Arctic"
The CT, Pfc. Richard Daley, 10,
Of Montrose, Pa, is interested in
animals. With that in mind. she
had brought him 1t. Col. j. H.
Williams Elephant Bill"
Going to Alaska.
But Pvt. Daley turned it down,
on the grounds that these were
not North American animals. you
got anything else by the Hell
mericks?" he wanted to know.
Private Dailey's postwar plans
have him going to Alaska. "All by
myself" he added.
He finally settled for A. B. Guth-
rie jr.'s THE Way West" book
he had not heard of, and Miss
Allen went on to Pfc. James Bat
tie. whose favorite author is Zane
Grey.
mo, ma am, I'm a rebel from
North Carolina, but I sure do like
westerns. A friend, who boasted
he was the man in the ward to
discover it, recommended Joseph
Gies' story of a old-bricking GI
in the last war called "They Never
Had 1t So Good" Pvt. Battle
took it.
Meanwhile, Pvt. Daley had
hobbled around to take another
look at the cart. After some
thought, he picked up George Nc
Cune's Korea Today" He had
decided, he said, to look into the
political situation of that country.
What Was the Fighting For?
II was only there for Is days,
so I didn't find out much what
it was all about" he explained.
Pfc. Leroy Skillings of Portland,
Me-. put in a bid for a book on
football rules. He wants to be a
professional football player and
has had experience, first as a
halfback and later as a fullback
with the 1st Cavalry team. His
brother played on the team, too.
He's missing now.
He'll turn up," said Pvt. Skill
ings.
Pfc. Francis Small of Hins-
dale, Mich. asked about a recent
issue of the Saturday Evening
Post which had story about the
fighting around Mason, where he
was nit by machine-gun fire.
In the next ward, where most
of the cases-amputees-lay in
traction Splints, the first patron
was Pfc. Eugene w. Losey, 18, of
Miami, Fla, who asked Miss
Allen eagerly if she had anything
new on "hot rods"
That's the only thing I'm in
terested in," he said. Sitting up,
he picked up a copy of Speed
ways" and pointed to picture
of a man in souped-up racing
car. II once raced against this
guy. Soon as I get out, I'll get
me hot rod. all right. They
can't pin me down with one Leg
Pfc. Melvin P. Hood of La
Grange, N. c., VINO survived only
Is minutes of his first day in
combat before being hit by a
hand grenade, requested some
reading on psychology. A school
teacher in civilian life, he hopes
now to catch up on the technical
journals he missed.
Next to him, Pvt. Henry De
Angels, 81, of Melvindale, Mich,
Evening star., 1950-09-17

I o ry througn
the life of a
miller on the
Pc. Living at a
time when pa
triotism W a S
not particularly
a virtue, the
Scacernis took
no part and
little interest in
Italy's bloody
stru g G lie for
unity and inde-
penden c e. He
celebrates "the
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Books In Review
First Two Volumes of Riccordo BuccheIIi's
Epic TriIoey Prove to Be q Labor of Love
THE MILL ON THE PO

BY Ricardo Bacchelli Pantheon; $4J
Rccado Bacces trogy which the first two
presented here) has been hailed his native Italy national
warmly other critics mentioned
Nobel Prize material It powerful and heartfelt fiction
though its laborous tgd STYLE awkwardy
its schoolmasery may
Evening star., 1950-09-17

lutte aptness. These sketches for
all their deliberate slightness are
drenched in atmosphere. Local
color comes easily to him, even If
the book may never be snatched
up by Chambers of Commerce. He
is still precious, still precociouS;
but he can write.
Evening star., 1950-09-17

FOR PARTLY PROUD PARENTS.
BY Richard Armour. Introduc-
ton by Phyllis Mckinley. Draw
ings by Leo Hershf1eld. (Harper
& Bros; ST.
Light verse on the joys CD of
parenthood. -E. r
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Reading and Wiring
Journey With Book Cart at Walter Reed
On q Visit to the Lads From Koreu
By Mary Mc6rory

Every Tuesday afternoon Library
around with her book the where
Is hospitals approximately
confined. Last week, went with her.
Segt David Steele ploted the book which
affair with books revolving
Evening star., 1950-09-17
Art
By Florence S. Berrymon

The Washington area some
time in the near future will have
a large group of sculpture by Carl
Miles, one of the foremost con-
temporary sculptors of Europe
and the United States. Fourteen
of So heroic bronze figures to
be installed in the Fountain of
Faith in National Memorial Park,
cemetery outside of Falls
Church, Va, arrived the first week
of September. Mr.. Miles has
been working on this project for
the past decade; only the casting
of the rest of the statues remains
to be done before the fountain
can be completed.
The theme of this extensive
group embodies the sculptor's S
conviction that death is not the
end but the beginning. The
Fountain of Faith" will represent
the reunion in heaven of the
recently deceased with those who
have gone before them. Figures
of men, women and children will
appear to be poised on the surface
of the water in large basin and
will be seen through a veil of mist.
The fountain will be in a memorial
Evening star., 1950-09-17

obstacles to the complete enjoy
ment of American readers.
Mr.. Bacchelli covers the turbu-
lent 10Th century of Italian his
Evening star., 1950-09-17

Random House, $500
Evening star., 1950-09-17
'Burnie' Buruch,
TheMunB Behind
The Legend

BERNARD BARUCH-
Portrait of a Citizen
BY w. L. White. (Harcourt, Brace
& Co.. S2.)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-26
TWO JUNEAU TEACHERS
RETURN FROM COLLEGE

Two Juneau school teachers have
returned here after attending the
summer session at the University
of Alaska
Mrs. Norman Cook, commercial
department instructor at the Ju-
neau High School, and Mrs. Edna
Borigo, formerly teacher at the
Tee Harbor school and assigned
to the Juneau Grade School for
the coming year, were two OF 65
persons attending the University
summer sessions.
Most of the students were from
the states, Mrs. Cook said.
The two teachers were accom-
panied by Mrs. Mary Schnare, Mrs.
Borigo's mother. They took 10 days
to travel from Juneau to College
by car, sightseeing on the way.
1--WE were bothered by the heat
up there" Mrs. Cook said. I'VE
couldn't get used to the hot, dry
and dusty weather"
They returned to Juneau aboard
the Juneau-H aines ferry.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-26
AUTOMOBILE Men
ARRIVE this AFT.
ON YACHT ERODE

Arriving aboard the yacht Brodie
of Los Angeles yesterday were
Henry F. Haldeman, automobile
dealer of Los Angeles and owner of
he yacht; Harry j. klingler. vice
president and general manager of
Pontiac Motors Division, General
Motors, Pontiac, Michigan; G. j.
Thompson car dealer, Los Angeles
Charles R. Gallagher and Frank w
Pearson, oil men from the California
city; Frank Sicinner, General Mo-
tors advertising executive of Detroit
md Dave A. Wallace.
Pleasure bent, they have been
cruising through British Columbia
and Alaskan waters since boarding
he Brodie in Seattle two weeks ago.
The yacht will be in and out of Ju-
neau for the next few days.
Klingler and Wallace left aboard
General Motors Douglas DC-3 to
this morning for Seattle, Capt.
H. P. Henning, pilot, and Don Mac
Donald, co-pilot, have been here
this week with the plane.
On August 81. Thompson, Gall
agher and Pearson will leave the
yacht in Skagway for the return
to Los Angeles. Haldeman will meet
his wife, daughter and grandson
in Skagway September l for the
return to Seattle on the yacht. Also
Joining the party for the return
trip will be Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Thompson and Mr.. and Mrs. Burch
E. Greene.
Thompson is western district man
ager for the Coca Cola Co., while
Greene is president of the Greene
Haldeman Pontiac Co., Los Angeles.
Haldeman, an authority on fishing
in Mexican and southern California
waters, said that the salmon fish
ing in Alaska compares favorably
with sport fishing in waters below.
He has been in British Columbia
waters before but this is the first
season for him in Alaska.
Yesterdays fishing Melted him
52la pound salmon. Places visited
on the northbound trip have been
Freshwater and Warm Springs Bays
and Ketchikan. Haldeman and parry
leave the Brodie in Seattle for the
return to California.
The Brodie is 100 feet long and
powered by twin Winton dieselS
with twin screws. Cruising speed IS
1872 to is knots. The yacht carries
a crew Of nine.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-26

Krist Peterson, Donald Royce, Mary
Albert and Edward Seaton, George
s'tober, Clifford, Edna, Walter and
Ralph Swap.
Going to Seattle were: II. Meade,
Arthur Poole, r. Fuesis, A. D. Touc-
igny, E. w. Christensen. Ed Deiner,
Gary Deiner, Pete Neland, Joe
Tassell, DR.. R. Smith, M. McGil.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Daubenspeck, How
ard Fry, Ed Dolphe, DR.. P. j. True.
blood, Bjarne Olson, W. E. Daven-
port, Larry Hagen, Martin Ander-
son, o. v Crun, J. H. Chamberlain,
T. Conrad, Eunice Fiien, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. M. Hamilton, Mr.. and Mrs
James Norrington and three chill
dren.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-26
MET(ALF WILL SPEAK
ON ROADS AT Defense
MEET IN ANCHORAGE

just back from his annual m
spection tour of Alaska highways
in which he drove some 1000 miles,
Territorial Highway Engineer Frank
A. Metcalf is busy clearing the
decks-and his desk for anot--.sr
trip.
Metcalf will participate in the
Civil Defense program OF the May
ors' Conference, which meets Aug
ust 1881 inclusive in Anchorage.
Besides his post as Engineer,
Metcalf also is Chief OF the High
way Patrol and superintendent CT
Public Works for Alaska.
In the Civil Defense set-up, Dep
uty Director Metcalf has numert1s
responsibilities, including those OF
air raid warning, observation, COM
munications highways and utilIt,
repair coordination.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-26
.BpW TO HEAR FROM
Commissioner OF
LABOR ON MONDAY

At the program meeting Of BPW
on Monday, August oath, on the
terrace of the Baranof Hotel,
Henry Benson, Commissioner OF
Labor, will tell about wages and
hours for women in Alaska" The
meeting will be in charge of the
public affairs committee, Mrs. Kate
Smith, President, will preside.
Guests are invited for this meet
ing. Reservations should be made
by calling 677 or 541 rot later than
10 am Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-26
Alaska Soufhbound al
f1:45 This Morn; 10
Arrive from Westward

The S. S. Alaska, scheduled to sail
for Seattle at HAS this morning,
when it locked at tbs am. Master
Of the ship is Capt. Henry Burns.
Arriving from Seward passengers
were: Miss Alaska Anderson, John
II. Graf. Emil Hanousek, c. M. Null,
Aobert M. Spitaels.
From Cordova: Cecilia Barnes,
Dora Brizgaloff, Francene James,
Irene Saska, Arlene Totemoff.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-26
SIXTY PASSENGERS
TRAVEL YESTERDAY
Via PAN AMERICAN

Sixty passengers were carried in
and out of Juneau yesterday by
Pan American Always. Arriving
from Seattle were Frank Williams,
Robert Anderson, George Beasley,
Donna Campbell, Dorothy Davis,
Mrs. e. Goodman, Sherry Gray,
Sylvia Jones, Arthur johnson, Aud
rey, Patrick and Ray Kirsch, Grace
Marshall Amy Milton, Don Nc
Moran, Earring and Beverly Oswal,
Mrs. Rudy Pusich and Rudy, Jr.,