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Evening star., 1950-03-05

WHICH Tic ulcSScIlgcI DOy, d yOulil wearing
green uniform and glistening puttees, arrived.
They were fast at that place, MIR. Grieg was
pleased to see. But he had told them to hurry.
The messenger said, For Miss Emily
Ingram" gave her his parcel, and left.
Emily said. For me? What lovely pack
age! What could it be?"
Mr.. Grieg, in high spirits, puffed and
snorted with the trunk, watching Emily out of
the corner of his eye. She opened the package
and found the tiny hacon of perfume and the
accompanying card on which was engraved in
an elegant script: Memo to an April Evening.
She said. why. it's perfectly exquisite! But
it must be mistake; surely it can't be for
me!' She held the bottle out for Mr.. Grieg
to see. It looked little enough to be set in
ring, Mr.. Grieg thought. She said. Just
look! But it must be some mistake"
Mr.. Grieg, with critical air, examined
the label on the package. Got your name and
address on it. he said.
Even with my cold it's divine" Emily
said. But no one could have sent it to me"
"You got card with it, " MIR. Grieg pointed
out. He took the card between thumb and
finger and read it: Memo to an April Evening.
That must be the name of the stuff, y
Emily said. "It's such fancy little bottle
they don't spoil it with label but send card
of ofintroduction along, as if it was duke"
1T might be an advertising stunt" Mr..
Grieg suggested They do fool things
but it was sent to me, and I'm nobodys
customer. I'm not even in the phone book.
And surely no advertiser is giving away ten
dollar samples"
49," Mr.. Grieg said. He took deep
breath. He wanted to give this line exactly
the right delivery. $50 then, you got secret
admirer.'
'Now you're really dreaming, Emily said
enough to say hello"
MIR. GRIEG went to the window and opened
it and looked out He said, You're only one
story up, no more, only half story if you
count it right, no higher than being up on
stage in front of an audience, say Every day
you've been home with your cold you've been
practicing your dancing.
Some young fella goes by and sees you.
When you dance you're like a princess, believe
me- He looks up and watches. He inquiries
around. Her, she does nothing but work day
and night, somebody tells him. She is sick
with cold. somebody else tells him. She is
unhappy, she cries on Sundays, somebody else
tells him.
so this young fella wants to speak to you,
in good way. He wants to tell you what is in
his heart when he sees you through the win
dow dancing. Maybe he wants you to think
about him and wonder about him and maybe
think ahead little while to some time when
you will have met him. Any of this is impos-
sible?" Mr.. Grieg was growing inspired.
He walks on down the street At Madison
Avenue there is the perfume shop. This per-
fume is in the window. with big signs that say
the most wonderful gift in the world for the
Il = -, nI
Evening star., 1950-01-06
2kaIays Sentenced TO Hang
For Stewart Assassination
BY the Assoeiotsd Press


SINGAPORE, Jan. GA dis
trict court here today sentenced
two young Malays to be hanged
for the murder last December 3 of
Duncan Stewart, governor of the
rich British colony of Sarawak.
The two youths, Rosli Bin
Dobie, 18, and Moshidi Bin Sedik,
were members Of a band agitating
for cancellation of the 1916 ces-
sion Of Sarawak to Britain. They
sought return Of the Brooks family
OF white rajahs who had ruled the
North Borneo colony for a cen
tury.
Witnesses said the pair attacked
Mr.. Stewart as he arrived at Sibu,
an inland Sarawak town. They
testified that Rosli drove a 5-inch
knife into Mr.. Stewart's abdomen.
He died in Singapore q week later.
Both youths offered to plead
guilty but Judge q. Lascelles in
sisted on hearing evidence on the
stahbing before the court found
them guilty.
Fourteen other members of the
anti-cession band to which the
youths belonged are being held on
murder conspiracy charges.
Both Rosli and Moshidi are ex-
pected to appeal their sentence.
Evening star., 1950-01-06
Man Held for Grand Jury
In Mo!esfinq Of Daughters

A 42-year-old unemployed
laborer was held for grand jury
action yesterday. charged with
molesting his two daughters, age
10 and IL.
Michael A. Comas. Of the 100
block Of Twenty-fourth street
NV. was held under SIC. 1000 bond
by Judge Almond w. Scott. Judge
Scott commented that the defen-
dant had appeared before him
previously on similar charge.
A recommendation of psychia-
trio examination will be made.
when the case is presented to the
grand jury, according to Assistant
United States Attorney Martin j,
Mcnamara
In another case. an 1s-year- -old
youth was held for grand Jury
action under $4,000 bond on a
charge of carnal knowledge In
volving an 1i-year-old girl. He is
Bernard Arlington. .colored. OF the
600 block OF Kenilworth avenue
NE.
Evening star., 1950-01-06
Faye Emerson on Way
To Mexico 10 Divorce
Elliott Roosevelt
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. -6.-Actress
Faye Emerson was on her way to
Mexico City today hoping for a
quick divorce from Elliott Roose-
welt.
There is definitely no other
man." she told newsmen as she
left by plane last night.
Her estranged husband has
been seen recently with George
anne (GigD Durston, a pretty cafe
singer. -,
Miss Emerson said she and the
late Presidents son both "are very
sorry our marriage came to an
end"
She said property settlement
has been made, but she declined
to reveal the terms.
"The reasons for the divorce
were formulated long time ago
and are very private" she said at
an airport news conference. IT
understand" she added, that
Mexican divorces don't take very
long"
Decision t'Took Long Time"
Miss Emerson did not say what
grounds for divorce she would
claim.
Asked about her break with Mr..
Roosevelt, she said: "It took a
long time to make the decision.
It's not the kind of a decision one
makes overnight"
She said she does not know
whether Mr.. Roosevelt plans to
marry again, but declared, "I wish
him all the happiness in the
world" :.
Gigi Durston's mother, Mrs.
Gladys Durston, said shortly be-
fore Christmas that her daughter
and Mr.. Roosevelt were "inter-
ested in each other"
Mr.. Roosevelt declined at that
time to discuss his reported inter-
est in Miss Durston. And he could
not be reached last night for COM
ment on his wife's departure.
Miss Emerson, who travelled
alone, did not wear a wedding
ring. She and Mr.. Roosevelt had
been living apart for some time,
and she recently revealed her in
tention to divorce him.
Marriage Was His Third.
The marriage - performed in
December, 1945, at Grand Canyon,
Ariz.-was Miss Emerson's second
and Mr.. Roosevelt's third.
Miss Emerson said last night
that her son by her first marriage
is the zone important man in my
life"
The boy, now 8 years old, was
born of her marriage to William
Wallace Crawford of California.
The son has been making his
home with his mother in New
York.
Miss Emerson said her divorce
attorney will be Francisco Lopez
Figueroa, an old personal friend
in Mexico.
Evening star., 1950-01-06

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Evening star., 1950-04-16
George Simpson Beeon
With MuiI-Order Books

Another Washingtonian who
never takes a book for granted is
George Simpson, whose seventh
fact-packed volume. "A Book
About American Histroy." is re-
viewed on this page. This we'll
known Washington newsman got
his. first set of Shakespeare when
he was IA from bounties collected
on pocket gophers around his
Iowa farm and for the last
43, years he has read in the Bard
every single day except for 3 days
he was unconscious in Garfield
Hospital
With enough material stacked
up in his Press Building Office to
last him until he is 90, Mr.. Stimp-
son is trying, although somewhat
reluctantly. to finish his book
about Shakespeare.
Between times, he is working on
a book about American politics,
subject with which he is entirely
at home, having been a Washing
ton correspondent for some %
years.
Somewhat less active now, due
to failing health, the author of
"A Book About a Thousand
Things" finds his book work pleas
antly stalled, a good deal of the
time by queries from such high
places as the Library of Congress
and the State Department. He is
always so flattered by their faith
in him that he drops everything
to go beagling after the informa-
ton.
Evening star., 1950-04-16

of to the wars. Her definition of
love: Friendship with SEX"
Although Miss Winsor is still no
stylist and her characters address
each other in the plainest, often
profanest. terms possible, this pres
ent opus, like Forever Amber" has
a bulldozerlike thoroughness. Dog
gedly, unblinkingly, Miss Winsor
records what happens to the liter
airy Cinderella: The lionization by a
bitterly envious public. the brushes
with a jeeringly hostile press; the
screaming meemies at the thought
OF having to write a second book.
It is all here. Miss Winsor is less
specific. in her love scenes, unlike
other clinically minded modern
authors. The buildup is frankly
described but a kind of occurrences
overtakes her as matters progress.
In fact, you keep expecting to see
asterisks.
Shireen blames her unhappiness
on having been brought up on the
American gospel of success. But
it's little hard on success to say
it could do that much to a girl.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1950-04-16

CIldt lldVC SOIlC
into his book" he remarks in the
preface, covered a period OF
nearly 80 years."
Despite it's quiz style-question
and snswer-despite it's excur-
sions into paths often ignored in
more formal histories. it is not
merely a collection of historical
Oddities. nor is 1t one Of those
oversimplified treatments Of pro-
found topics which are supposed
to reach the unlearned reader. It
contains a great store of sound,
carefully documented informa-
ton. much Of 1t unusual and fas-
cinating, and it is presented in an
absorbing way. And there is a
great deal of American history to
be learned from this book. More
important even, more nearly
unique, the author has blown up
number of historical myths and
has disclosed that other generally
accepted episodes and sayings
either are without proof or are in
the doubtful category-they may
or may not have happened.
Mr.. Simpson explains that his
book contains such information
las historians are prone to regard
as beneath the dignity of history
and mention only briefly in foot
notes. if at all" And yet many of
the questions he raises and
answers-such as, "Why did
Russia sell Alaska to the United
States?-are of historical i'm
portance. Others, like the origin
Of State names, are of genearl
interest.
The answers are long enough
to explain fully. Sometimes they
are scholarly eXpositions of back
ground and origin. Often there
are brief biographical sketches of
the chief figures in an incident.
Frequently the derivations of
phrases that centered around
historic episodes are traced.
We learn, for instance, that
Evening star., 1950-04-16
Robert Wilder Writes of a Degenerate
Society Living in Mechunized JunoIe
WAIT FOR TOMORROW
BY Robert Wilder &C. P. Putnanl's Sons; $500
Reviewed by ROBERT K. WALSH,

Almost every character in this
realistic" novel is a heel, degen-
crate. weakling, cynic or ruthless
self seeker. So deftly and dra-
matically does Mr.. Wilder tell the
story. however, that it seems more
fascinating than fantastic.
An ex-king and his peculiar
retinue of mistress, major domo,
financial adviser and strange girl
secretary take up most of the
pages trying to get from Mexico
into the United States. They all
but get away with it with the help
Of a hard-driving Texas oil opera
tor and a terribly hard-boiled
New York newspaper reporter.
But the clever. irresistible,
amoral reporter, who had hired
himself out as press agent for the
bottom Of the barrel royalty en-
tourage. suffers a last-minute
sting Of unsuspected principal or
something. He wrecks the scheme.
With a smile on his face and the
inevitable highball glass in his
hand. he waits for you-know-
what.
Besides his skill as a fiction
writer, Mr.. Wilder. author of
"Flamingo Road" and written
Evening star., 1950-04-16


In the unproductive YEARS of
his life. Proust studied law for
the consular service and even
thought of teaching. but he was
able to live without doing any,
thing and he did just that. He
made a career of society. Mr..
Maurois absolves him Of the
usual charge that he was a snob
because he sought the company
of the rich and famous. It was
a part of his need to know people
and to know the machinery of the
society that brought them to-
gether, says Mr.. Maurois. There
was a note of ffivolity, or at least
insincerity, in ProuSt's care in
developing friendships that would
open certain doors to him. It
is perhaps justified in attributing
to him only a professional motive.
Certainly it is harmlessly char
liable.
But, TO go back TO the person.
ality behind the remembrance, Mr..
Maurois is frank about his hero.
He does not blink at describing
the personal tragedy of Proust's
private life, his intense friend
ships with young men who
brought him only unhappiness.
He attributes much of the COM
plexity of Proust to the battle
that ragged within him against his
desires and his adherence to the
conventional proprieties.
After he was about 80 Proust
retired to his room and spent the
rest of his life Che died at 52)
writing the volumes that are
called Remembrance of Things
Past" 1t was a new departure in
Evening star., 1950-04-16

were also guests OF the Library ana
the AGA, say he is very. keen
and very discriminating"
The ex-Secretary Of Agriculture
first took up book collecting as a
refuge from official cares in 1885.
when he was relief administrator
in San Francisco. and sorely
troubled by the desperate situa-
tions always before him. To get
away, he took a walk every noon
and on one of these rounds dropped
into a bookshop. The proprietor.
after inquiring his homeland,
showed him a shelf Of books re-
lating to New Mexico. none of
which Mr.. Anderson had.
That was the beginning Of a
collection which is now over
flowing in Anderson homes in both
Washington and Albuquerque and
threatening to edge the Senator
out of his Capitol Hill Office. He
is giving his collection piecemeal
to the University of New Mexico,
finding it hard to part with certain
items but comforted by the
thought that he can always start
collecting in new fields.
AS a matter of fact, since 1941
he has been hot on the trail of
Roosevelt material and is an
organizer and director of the
Roosevelt Collectors Association.
Among His Treasures.
Like every collector. the Sena-
tor has his treasures. One Of
these came to him as a result of
a trip to Doylestown, Pa. where
he went to pay tribute to a native
of the town. w. w. H. Davis, who
had been Governor of New Mexico
from 1850 to 1856. Mr.. Anderson
praised Davis zeal in having the
documents of the Spanish con-
quest copied and translated. Dur
ing the speech an old man in the
back of the hall went out. He
returned somewhat later bringing
with him an old volume. The man
was Davis son and the book was
Davis journal kept during his
New Mexico days. He gave it to
the Senator.
Now Mr.. Anderson is hard at
work on the foreward for 1.-The
Journals of Micajah McGehee," !"
which the University of New
Mexico will publish at his sugges-
tion. An account of Fremont's
fourth expedition to California, it
is called Rough Notes of Rough
Times in Rough Places"
Evening star., 1950-04-16

half years OF her life to write THE
Falcon" is utterly unvarnished.
Readers will quickly find a word
for Shireen. who would be really
happy. she says, "if there were no
other women on earth Her
friends and lovers tell her that her
most endearing, if not one saving,
trait is honesty. Some readers
may like her for that. too.
Shireen does not kid herself
that she had a message when she
wrote her fantastically successful
book. She wanted to write best
seller. and she did. Later, when
she is established in a plush
apartment, and up to her eyes in
furs and jewels, she kept reading
books about Asia, it's history and
present politics. in order to cor
rect her ignorance so she could
talk to the people she met at cock
tail parties" She asks for her love
letters back because, as she tells
the Tilted one, they might be
useful some day if I ever decide
to write another book"
In the matter of morals, Shireen
inevitably invites comparison with
Amber, the heroine to a million
and three readers, In af-
fairs of the heart, Shireen is also a
buccaneer and no better attuned
to "the still small voice of con-
science" although required to turn
Evening star., 1950-04-16

Columbus "did not die in prison,
as many suppose" This is dis
closed in the course of pages dis
cussing some of the most con-
troversial points in the great
navigator's career. Mr.. Simpson
does not believe that Gen. Nathan
Bedford Forrest ever said that
the way to win battles was to git
thar fustest with the mostest
min." because the colorful Con-
federate cavalry leader. despite a
meager education. could write and
speak decent English. And how
many people know that the key to
the Paris Bastille, taken when it
was Stormed at the start of the
French Revolution and presented
by Lafayette to Washington, can
be seen today under glass at
Mount Vernon?
But you could go on endlesSly
with citations from the results
Of Mr., Simpsons years among
neglected, disputed and distorted
archives of American history.
There is an index to help the
reader find the stories of men,
places and events that interest
him most. 49,
GARTER pRn0Yw ,oNrs
Evening star., 1950-04-16
The American West
VIRGIN LAND: The Americ

VIRGIN LAND: The American
West as Symbol and Myth
BY Henry Nash Smith. (Har-
Udrd;: $4.5O.J
The great hold that the West
has always held on the American
imagination is given a critical and
knowing analysis by Prof. Smith.
The grip got it's start in the
18th century. but it was the 10th
which fused concept and emotion
into an intellectual entity-the
myths or symbols Of the Great
West. Prof. Smith, carefully trac-
ing through the years, shows how
these myths motivated whole pop
ulations.
-mETCHER YSpEIy
Evening star., 1950-04-16

the novel and one for which the
public was not prepared when the
books started appearing in 1911.
Proust proceeded on the theory
that the real world has no inde-
pendent existence, that it is each
mans creation. according to what
life has done to him. Time is
the real protagonist. The style.
likened by Proust to the building
of cathedral. was more like a
river of memory. A thing existed
only in relation to the stream it
flowed in. The years of reading
and observation of the author
poured into it, giving it a rich
ness out of proportion to it's SUBJ
ject matter, which was often only
routine. And thus it is that we
have what many critics consider
the finest of modern novels, a
work of such prodigious humanity
that its reefs of responsiveness and
its backwash of despair cannot
prevent it from being, in the end,
a book that exalts rather than
depresses. Only a genius could
have made reality and the world
of the imagination so completely
one.
Mr.. Maurois, one Of our most
popular and gifted biographers,
has had access to many previous
ly unpublished documents from
Proust's relatives. They are in
teresting, but they do not change
the idea of the man that has been
held generally. The most notable
element here is Mr.. Maurios' own
enthusiasm for his subject. It il
Eliminates the book. The result
is a literary biography of dis
tinction.
Evening star., 1950-04-16

1SOOoCNClt aNiliiAAAobA otAOAA AA Ava
eisn affairs during the three mo-
mentous years preceding our in
volvement in World War II. His
judgment is an approving one in
which he admits frankly that the
anti-Roosevelt writings Of DR.,
Charles A. Beard and others
turned him from his original plan
for "a survey without any particu-
lar Interpretation" to a presenta-
ton Of the internationalist argu-
ment in favor Of President
Roosevelt's conduct Of foreign re-
lations."
While the resulting defensive
ness Of certain portions of the
book may be considered something
Evening star., 1950-04-16
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Evening star., 1950-04-16
Naval Warfare
In the Pacific.
COMBAT COMMAND

COMBAT COMMAND
BY Admiral Frederick c. Sher-
man, U. S. N. (RetD E. P. Dut-
ton & Co., Inc; S5J
This is the story of the naval
war in the Pacific. with special
emphasis on the role of the fast
carrier task force. by one of the
Navy's outstanding commanders
in that field. Starting with Pearl
Harbor and the events leading up
to it. Admiral Sherman unfolds In
chronological order the successive
naval campaigns in the Pacific
and how q new strategy and
naval force evolved amid the in
itial wreckage.
JOHN A. GILES
Evening star., 1950-04-16

WV S"tSS' SstS " "OW 1tSItIOs
house." a 24-by-36-foot structure
which is jammed to the caves with
some 10000 books and pamphlets.
most of them relating to Western
history.
An able champion Of the re-
Gently and narrowly defeated
Library demonstration bill, Mr..
Burdick is the author Of some 81
books and pamphlets on early
Dakota history. The son of home
steaders, he was 6-foot-1 before
he went to school. After studying
law at the University Of Mime
sofa. he began to set down the lore
of the old West. He talked to
1873 old-timers for the book he is
now seeing through the press,
The Cattle Trade of the Dakotas." +"
MIR. Burdick likes to boast he
hasn't got a single book he has
never read. and that includes 1.700
volumes on the Sioux Indians.
whose language he speaks. He
also prizes a collection of letters
from Franklin Roosevelt.
Nov there was q bookman,"
he says admiringly.
Evening star., 1950-04-16

Of weakness, it is equally true
that Prof, Rauch has been etIec-
tive in his svowed purpose.
1t is a work which deserves an
important place in the growing
library of pro-and con discussions
of emergence of the United States
as leading participant in world
politics.