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Evening star., 1950-05-28

linquents on an extended tear.
Individuals stand out Of this
horde: The Tall Major. who bowed
hunting and lived in terror of the
NKVD; gentle Ignaty. who came
every day to play with the dog;
and Nicholas, the soulful philoso-
pher. Ida, as Mrs. Orme called
herself during the Red visitation,
loved these exceptions to the bar
barian rule. For their uninhibited
comrades. she gave a four-month
continuous performance as Daniel
in the lions den.
Herself a Pole, married to an
amiable Hungarian noble, she and
a Polish friend taught themselves
Russian. SO that they could greet
the liberators in their own tongue.
They came to the manor house
ostensibly for billets, but with the
scarcely concealed ulterior motive
of making it a shambles in the
least possible time. They lit fires
with antiques. slept on the floors,
tore curtains down for tablecloths,
trailed mud everywhere, splitting
sunfower seed as they went. She
soon learned that for all their
swagger and bristling defensive
ness, the Russians had no defense
whatever against the old Euro
pean game of throwing dust in
peoples eyes. She soft-soaped the
NKVD, reclted "Ruslan and Lud-
milla" at the drop of a hat, Suf-
fered herself to be dragged off in
the middle of the night to sodden
banquets, patiently answered in
terminable questions about her
sex life, just as patiently fought
of countless bearish advances.
Comedy Out Of Nightmare.
An eminently spirited. culti-
waited and witty woman. European
to the core, Ida makes a devas-
tating comedy out of the night
which was, to be sure,
always more uncomfortable than
narrowing. She discovered, to her
vast amusement. that, as the
White Russians of a previous gen.
GRAFTON were always princes or
counts, the Red Russians are al
ways engineers, factory directors
or professors. The men in the
ranks were by far more intelligent
and civilized than their officers.
All she talked to were uninter-
ested in or cynical about the re-
gime. They were disorganized
and undiciplined and the best of
them when drunk became de
generate criminals"
Quite as funny as her story of
the liberators are her accounts of
the bitter intrigues among the be-
leaguered aristocrats, who nearly
broke out in open warfare the day
Ida endangered them all by de-
flying Russian orders to turn over
her dogs for mine-detecting.
Comes the Comrade" is a WON
derful antidote for today's, grim
cold-war headlines. Lida is one
Of the few people in the world to-
day who can laugh at the Rus
slams. The great difference be-
tween them and us, as she keeps
emphasizing, is the fact that they.
cannot laugh at themselves. And
it is somehow hopeful to read that
there are times when they can be
stopped cold with cocktail party
chit-chat.
MARY McGpnpv
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Mr.. Adams Returns
To Old Familiar
Writing Scenes
SUNRISE TO SUNSET
BY Samuel Hopkins Adam
(Rdndonn House; $3.)


After an unhappy whirl at a
novel of contemporary Washing
ton. Mr.. Adams has turned back
to time and place in which he
seems more at home-the early
part of the last century in Upper
New York State. Two previous
novels of the Erie Canal in its days
of glory we're among the veteran
writer's best performances.
Sunrise to Sunset" is concerned
with the sorry condition of labor
in the textile factories of New
York and New England in the
1830s. Troy is the scene, but it
might have been any industrial
town in the Northeast. Mr.. Adams,
mindful that some readers might
think he exaggerates, prints in an
appendix copy of actual rules in
force at a Massachusetts, cotton
mill in 1880. The girls-and some
were children-worked from sun
rise to sunset in summer; in win
ter the work day closed after 8
pm. The average wage of a
skilled female weaver" was $3.50
a week, that of a child under 10
was SIPS. Most of them ate what
the management provided and
slept in its dormitories.
A factory girl named Becky
Webb is the heroine. Mr.. Adams
knows the period and has done
diligent research on it's industrial
phases. He might have written
significant sociological novel of the
times. Instead he has written
melodrama pat enough to have
been produced in a theater of that
area. The labor situation, slowly
improving even then, is de-
scribed, but it is so confused
with romance, comedy and vio-
lence, moving with the swift sue
cession of scenes in comic opera,
that you wonder whether the girls
care much how completely they
are enslaved. You might suspect
satire, but it is all told with a
straight face.
At least, the story. however i'm
plausible, never is dull. The amaz-
ing thing is that Mr.. Adams at 70
refuses to get old, but continues
with gusto and aplomb to turn
out fast-moving narratives.
& CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1950-05-28

Again the Phillips Gallery has
brought to Washington an i'm
portant retrospective exhibition,
which will open this afternoon. 1t
is the first definitive survey in the
United States of work by the great
Norwegian painter. Edward Munich,
and is composed of I'll oil paint
ings, water colors and prints, rep
reSenting his entire career of 60
years. All are loans from Nor
way, the National Gallery, Oslo,
the municipal collections of Oslo,
Bergen's Gallery of Painting and
eight private owners in the two
cities. The Norwegian govern
ment shared the expense of pre-
pairing the exhibition and the
Phillips Gallery is one Of 10 Amer
lean art institutions which COL
Elaborated in bringing it to this
country and the second to show
it. The exhibition started in Bos-
tons Institute of Contemporary
Art and will go from here to New
York City, Chicago, Detroit, Min
neapoliS, st. Louis. Colorado
Springs, Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
Munich was an artist because of
inner compulSion to express his
ideas and feelings about and re-
action to life. He was at the op-
posite pole from the many who
become artists because they want
the prestige and perquisites of
success in this field, without really
having anything to say in paint
Cor other medal. Munich was an
enormous producer. More than
i 900 paintings are known, count
less others must have been sold OF
given away during his long career
d880 to 1944 and water colors,
drawings, engravings and Sculp-
ture. CThere was an exhibition
of his prints at the National Gal
lery here a couple of seasons ago.
His Themes Not Happy.
A forerunner of the expression
lists, and sensational in his own
era. Munich did not reach the
radical extremes of the German
and later expressionists. His
themes are not happy. His work
deals somberly with the mystery
of life, love and death. Man in
his relation to the universe and
his inner self, interested this Nor
wegian artist, who wrote before
he was 80 concerning his objec-
tiveS):
There must be living beings
who breathe and feel and love
and suffer. I would paint such
pictures in cycle"
This idea grew into his "Frieze
Of Life" with many motives, on
which he worked until the end
Of his own life, hoping always but
in vain, that he would have the
opportunity to embody it in one
great decorative scheme.
Munich came from a distin-
guished family, and had a devoted
aunt and sister. But illness and
death of other relatives while he
was a child, and the peculiarities
of his father, had a haunting ef-
feet on him.
Early Studies.
He began to study art in Oslo
when only II. soon made a local
became associated
with a group of esthetic radicals,
and his interest in social, psyche
logical ana political problems was
strong.
He went to Paris on govern
ment grant from 1889-1892. There
he was influenced in turn by i'm
pressionism, by Seurat and by
Gauguin. taking from each, how
ever, only what would combine
with his own objectives. Unlike
Evening star., 1950-05-28

friends, Repre-
sentative Nc
Carthy of Min
neSota and Mrs.
Mccarthy. He
talked a lot of
p olitics, not
just as a con-
cesSion to local
mores, but be-
cause he re-
Gently became
c h a ir man of
the Sc on d
D e m ocr a tic
town commit
%ao ho far0ool
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Historic Sister-Act
THE BIZARRE SISTERS
BY Jay and Audrey Walz. (DueH,
Sloan & Pearce, Inc; $780,

Reviewed by Miriam Gutenberg
Great figures of Americas past
move through the pages of this
historical novel-John Marshall,
John Randolph of Roanoke. Pat
rick Henry and Thomas Jefferson,
to name a few-but the plot is
dominated by two sisters.
1t is the bitter, though half
hidden. feud between Mrs. Judith
Randolph and her sister Nancy
that provides the mounting sus-
pense, the motivation for murder,
the ultimate in tragedy and
betrayal.
Jay Walz of the Washington
staff of the New York Times and
his wife Audrey. who writes ex-
cellent mysteries under the name
of Francis Bonnamy. found in the
ancient scandal of the Randolphs
of Virginia a made -to-order plot.
one Hollywood should find hard
to resist.
Evening star., 1950-05-28
New Books
FICTION.

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Evening star., 1950-05-28
Fighting Ships
JAMES FIGHTING SHIPS
10dO 10En

1949-1950
Edited by Francis e. McMurtrie.
(Whittlesey House; $16.50.)
This 51st edition of the encyclo-
pedia of all the navies of the
world has been compiled with the
usual thorough and authentic
care. Over 500 new illustrations
have been added to illustrate the
detailed information, which was
obtained through official sources
as well as from special CORES
pondents. The volume contains
all of the available information
on the worlds major warships,
either af1oat or on the way.
SAM EASTMAN.
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Harry Sylvester Here
TALKING Politics

Harry Sylvester. ck-browed
author of controversial novels,
came down from his Cape Cod
home recently to visit his old
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Reading and Writing
German Editor Inviting American Writers
To Cultural Freedom Congress in Berlin
By Morv McGrory

talent scout unusual mission paid brief visit
Capital recently He Melvin Laskey, editor of
American Germanlanguage monthly who has
America outstanding writer's thinkers
Cultural Freedom which
next month from June 26 through June 80.
native of with goatee Iaskey
Evening star., 1950-05-28

rugged noun
tains and high
deserts t h a t
now form sew
eral Southwest
ern S t a t e S,
vast, loosely de-
fined trac t S
sometimes were
granted favored
dons by the
K in g. These
grants still had
a certain valid
ity en- t u rieS
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Alexandra Orme Compares Red Army
To Bunch Of Juvenile DeIinquents
COMES THE COMRADE!

BY Alexandra Orme. (Wnliann MorroU & Co.. 50
Alexandra who entertained the Russians for four months
1914 194 the Red sound less like
undcpned soldiers who swarmed
villa arstocratic naws collectively
tribe who raped looted stole and lied
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Books In Review
Harvey Fergusson's First Major Novel
In q Decade Proves Worth Waiting For
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
GRANT OF KINGDOM
BY Harvey Ferguson. (MorroU; $3J

happens that of the best American
have been about the West Harvey
Ferguson native Of New Mexico writing
for nearly 80 that
of the Conquerors" introduced important writer
In recent he has writing
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Author Finds
Iron Curtain
Full of Holes

THE CURTAIN ISN'T IRON
BY Joseph c. Harsch. Double
day: ST.
Evening star., 1950-05-28

of Kingdom" is his first major
novel in more than decade. It
is we'll worth waiting for.
In the old days, when Spain
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17

Reaction and rigor mortis set in
as Ruth Perrott learns that Lucille
Balls CHS comedy airer "My Fa-
vorite Husband" is moving from
it's current Friday night spot to
Sundays over CHS, starting March
5th. AS the maid on the show, Ruth
bemoans the fact that she'll be
responsible for moving Liz
Cooper" (Lucille Ball( and
George" Orchard Denning.)
However, it's not the first time
Ruth has looked glum. In 1870,
when she set out to be model,
Ruth was sent to Atlantic City for
a job and envisioned herself parad-
ing across the stage of Convention
Hall in bathing suit to the strains
of "A Pretty Girl Is Like A
Melody" But instead of a
bathing suit she wore shroud
the music was a dirge :. and the
audience was composed of under
takers at their annual convention!
The first time Ruth met Lucille
Ball, she had the same glum ex-
preston on her face. When she
auditioned for her current role of
katie" on "My Favorite Husband"
the producer said he liked her
work but was afraid of the fact
that she had the same reddish
orange tresses as Lucille, which
would confuse the studio audience.
This might not meet with Miss
Balls approval.
When Lucille Ball first met Ruth,
however, her reaction was definitely
the unexpected, for she came out
with: "Hey, what beautiful head
of red hair and hers is real"
Thus, Ruth got the job-and the
moving job on March 9th.
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17
Announcements FOR
Tanner Chapel
A.M.E. Church
BY Rev. f. ID. L. Mcdonald

At $50 o'clock Sunday School;
morning worship, HOO o'clock,
Subject, "The Means Employed,
Failed to Justify the Ends OBJ
tanned" 800 o'clock pastor and
members are invited to Ground
Breaking Service" of the First In
stitutional Baptist Church, Rev. l..
Butler Nelson, pastor.
Evening worship at 7:30, the
Senior choir on duty, Chas. Wheel
er, president; Alfred Smith, direc-
tor; Prof. John C. Alnutt, pianist.
Beginning at 10:15, in connection
with the Sunday School, a film
bearing on the Sunday School les
son will be shown; Prof. Alnutt is
in charge. Thanks to Prof. Corbin,
instructor at Carver High School,
also Willie Steed and John Lynch,
students at Carver for their assist
ance in this phase of the service.
Trustee board meeting Monday
evening 800 o'clock. The schedules
otherwise will be as usual.
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17

quite simple: The church is kept
alive by faith. What is Christian
faith, the faith of the church? A
study of the Scripture for this
week, or a broader search through
the New Testament from end to
end, will convince any impartial
reader of the falsehood of some of
the notions about what Christian
faith is.
Some have claimed that it is
nothing but faith in the Fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood of man.
Let the reader try to find this in
the New Testament if he can.
II you had said this to an early
Christian, he would have replied
along this line: That is just the
problem-how can we become sons
of God? How can men achieve
brotherhood? Others tell us that
faith is belief in a series of doc
trineS.
Let the reader search the
New Testament and see if he
can find there anything about
faith in a creed. Sometimes
this notion takes another form
that faith originally was
belief that Jesus beliefs were
true; In other words, that
faith is accepting the religion
of Jesus"
Now the church from the ,egin-
ming bells ed that Jesus tno.ghts
were true thoughts; but faith was
never a simple secondhand ac-
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17
You Stand To
Lose Even IF You
Win The Jackpot

In this modern age of television,
you stand to lose even if you win
the jackpot on the "TIit the Dough"
show.
And it is all because of a new
disease called spectatoritis.
According to J. Morris Jones,
managing editor of Childcraft
books, little Johnny and his grand
pa may get a kick out of watching
Howdy Doody and Milton Berle,
but if they make it a full time oc-
cupation they are going to miss a
lot.
It is a good deal easier to sit back
and watch a group of professional
entertainers than to do anything
musical or artistic ourselves. Any
way, we would only be amateuriSh
in contrast, so why bother?
That's the sort of thinking that
Jones protests. Television, radio
and the movies, he claims, tend to
smother individual creativeness.
He points out that most persons
require some form of creative ex-
preston in order to enjoy life and
contribute to it, and that the time
to foster constructive interests is in
childhood.
The group songs, home theatri-
Gals, and recitations of so years ago
gave the young Johnnies of that
era much more chance to develop
their personalities and experience
a warm, united family life than
any child has today.
In acknowledging the great ad-
vantages of modern entertainment,
Jones warns:
"Many chronic invalid has for
gotten how to walk. There is an
equal danger that we chronic spec
tators may forget how to be partic-
ipantS.
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17

class opiate; it is
a social club, 1t is
a burial society;
it panders to pride,
or it is a perverse
form Of self-tor-
ture; it is kept
alive by a we'll
run organization.
Such explanations
do not explain. The
truth is at heart
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17
Attend the Church
Of Your Choice

Antioch Baptist Church, 18th ant
East Monroe Streets. Rev. r. N
Holt, pastor.
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17
The Living Faith
Lesson for March 10, 1850

MANY a funeral sermon has
AV4 been preached over the Chris
tian church, but somehow the corpse
never stays put. What keeps 1t 60
ing? All sorts Of explanations have
been given by unsympathetic out
siders. The church 1--WE are told) Is
an upper-class hobby, or q lower
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17


East Monroe Streets. Rev. r. N.
Holt, pastor.
Bethlehem Baptist Church, 18th
and East Adams Streets. DR.. Joshua
R. Miner, pastor.
First Instituti tional Baptist
Church, 5th and East Jefferson.
Rev. L. Butler Nelson, pastor.
Memorial Baptist Church, 5th
Ave. and Apache. Rev. ]. H. Payton,
pastor.
New Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
Pueblo between 18th and 18th
Streets. Rev. j. H. Adkins, pastor.
st. John Baptist Church, 18th
Ave-, between Yuma and Gilbert.
Rev. L. J. Dunbar, pastor.
Union Baptist Church, 2SOO E.
B'way and Chapman Road. Rev. C..
Is. AllDr1ItOn, pastor.
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church,
901 w. Buckeye Road at 9 Ave. ].
D. Daniels, pastor.
Saint James Mission A.M.E.
Church. Services Sunday at II am.
Jr. Elks Building at 7th Avenue and
Tonto. Rev. c. o. Greenfield, pas
tor.
The Greater Friendship Baptist
Church. 10 and E. Jefferson. Rev.
D. D. Dockery, pastor.
Beacon Light Seventh Day Ad-
ventist Church, Eleventh and East
Monroe Streets. Elder w. C.
Mills, pastor.
st. Paul Missionary Baptis t
Church. 1909 w. Sherman. Rev.
B. ]. Stanton, Pastor.
Arizona sun., 1950-03-17

ny comedy sessions on CHS.
ceptance of any ones creed, not
even that of Jesus. The faith we
find in the New Testament is none
of these things. Still less is it faith
in the saints, in Mary, or in an
''infallible" church.
Faith: Not About, But In -.
THE FAITH that broke out in
l. glorious light in those early
days of the church, and has con-
tinued shining down through the
centuries, was not belief about any
thing or anybody, it was belief IN
Some One; and that Some One was
Jesus Christ.
There is a simply astonishing
variety of ways in which he is
spoken of in the New Testament.
He is Son of Man, he is teacher
and healer, he is the first-born Of
many brothers; he is Priest and
Sacrifice, he is the Precipitation, the
Reconciler of men to God; he is
Master and Lord, he Is the Word
that is, what God has to say to us;
he is the Son Of God, he sits on the
throne of the universe. he will
Judge every man.
To put it quite bluntly, the church
believed (and still believes) In
supernatural Christ and not only
in human Jesus. They believed
in him as teacher, as the Teacher
indeed; but not merely as one
whose teachings had been inter-
rupted by an untimely death. They
did not "play down" his death, on
the contrary they played it up.
Christ crucified for us is al
ways strongly in their minds.
But they were far from leaving
him as it were on a crucifix.
Any form of Christianity that
thinks of Jesus chiefly as Christ
mas baby; or starry-eyed ideal
list; or as a pathetic figure hanging
on a crucifix is a perversion of
New Testament ways of thought.
Everywhere in the center Is the
Christ who twas dead and Is alive
forevermore."
There Ts No Other
X YOUNG MOSLEM who became
"A a Christian and is very happy
about it, was asked what It was
that changed him, for Moslems are
hard to change. It was not an argu-
ment, he said, it was the lives Of
some missionaries in Iran whom he
knew.
He wanted what they had-it
was as simple as that. And he
went on to say this: Christian
ity doesn't have much In the0l-
Ogy that M0hammedanism
doesn't have. There is just one
thing Christianity has that we
didn't have, nor anything like
it: Jesus Christ"
That is what-that Is who wins
men today, and that was the secret
of the early church, and that is the
secret today of the living church
everywhere: Christ alive by faith
in the lives of those who love him.
Copyright by the Interna tional councI
If Religious Education on behalf oil 80
Protestant denominations. Released by
WNU Features.)
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-04-20
BY RUTH E.

Frank Richard Homsher, after
spending two weeks with his
mother and sister, Joan, left
Sunday for San Francisco. From
there he will 60 to Honolulu,
where he is stationed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Black, Hotel
Apis, returned home from Pom
eroy after spending Easter with
their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Homsher, of
Columbus, were Tuesday after
noon and evening callers of Mrs.
Nora Homsher, Mrs. Cary HON.
sher and Mr.. and Mrs. Knight
Kimball.
Auxiliary to v. F. w.
Installs Officers
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary No. 1899 of Milford
| Center, met in /. o. o. F. Hall
Monday evening, April 10, with
II members present. Past Presi-
dent Grace Simons installed the
following officers for the enSu-
ing year:
President, Mamie Brill; senior
vice president, Prudy Slaughter;
Junior vice president, Joan Hill
treasurer, Edna Wood; chaplain,
Vernetta Overacker; guard, DeS-
sic Davis; 3 year trustee, Christ
inc Goff; secretary, Bertha
Hartsel; historian, Betty Barger;
patriotic instructor, Christian
Kaufman; musician, Phyllis
Spradler; assistant musician,
Ruby Fisher; color bearer Wyllie
Trees, Christine Golf, Betty Wy
koff and Lillian Reed.
After the regular procedure of
the business, the meeting closed
in ritualistic form. Sisters
Christine Kaufman and Wyllie
Trees then served refreshments
| of ice cream, cake and coffee.
DR.. and Mrs. George Coe, who
have been spending most of the
winter in Florida, have returned
to their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Harris
entertained at dinner, Friday
evening, MI. and Mrs. Walter
Houser, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Ohnsman, Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart
Coe, Mr.. and Mrs. Hartzel Bes-
grove and Mrs. Edith Orahood
The occasion was in honor OF
Mrs. HouSer's birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Gross
! visited Mr.. Gross uncle, Mr..
Howard Gross, at Grant Hospi-
! tai, Sunday.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Thompson
were Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Collier.
, of Detroit; Mr.. Martin PURCELL
and MIR. and Mrs. Fred Simpson
and little son, Dennis.
MI. and Mrs. Andrew Payne
and family were Sunday after
noon callers of Mr.. and Mrs
Bernard Wilson and family, OF
Cardington.
Mrs. Christine Golf and Miss
Janet Clemans have accepted po-
sisions at ISaly's in Marysville.
Orison Clemans, of Columbus,
spent Sunday afternoon with his
mother and family.
Mrs. Christine Golf and Miss
Edna Gordon were calling on