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Evening star., 1951-07-15

paintings by Bernice Cross, all
drawn from its own collections
The % paintings hung in galleries
ID and e, will remain through the
summer.
1t is an interesting and varied
display, showing the artists de-
velopment from the late 1930s tc
the present. One regrets that the
paintings are not dated. Dates
probably mean little to artists who
so often omit them; but they
would be helpful to visitors, en-
deavoring to study Miss Cross
transition from one kind Of ex-
pertinent to another.
But from the outset she has
had imagination and a unique
way Of embodying it. a sense of
humor. a feeling for design, an
interest in new ideas. AS the
years have passed, her design has
grown stronger, and her color
more subtle. She has been infiu-
enced briefly by a number of
artists. judging from the evidence
here, but she is at her best when
she is herself" and not self
consciously primitive.
Hence there have been good
things in each period of her work
Her Interior" with three young
women. done about IL. years ago
is different from anything else on
view. Several naturalistic. some
what simplif1ed paintings OF
| flowers. are admirable. Recent
still life paintings. particularly
one Of a fish, keys and other
commonplace objects. with q
sophisticated color scheme, arrest
the attention. Her large portrait
of an ancestor. acquired by the
gallery about a year ago. is &
strong piece of satire.
There is real charm in earlier
paintings, such as 1.-The Milk
man." done in the late '30s OF
early '40s. It looks like a
memory from childhood, and fills
the beholder with nostalgia peace
Many people over 80 undoubtedly
remember lying in bed and lis
tening to the klop. klop of the
milkman's horse, and the rattle
of bottles in the early hours of
the morning. when the moon was
setting, and houses were silent
and streets deserted, as in a
dream.
For several years Miss Cros.
has been having an annual sole
exhibition in New York City. II
will be interesting to watch fe1
future production. One hopes
that she will continue OCCASION
ally to put into youthful symbols
dreams and memories common to
us all.
Evening star., 1951-07-15
Newspoperwonnun
lin Moving Account
lOf Her Conversion
I HAD TO KNOW

i HAD TO KNOW
by Gladys Baker. ID. Appleton
Century: So.
For Gladys Baker. a Southern
born foreign correspondent, the
road to Damascus" was long and
hard. Neither by nature nor en-
vironment q religious person, she
was nevertheless haunted from
childhood by IAN inexpressible
|yearning for spiritual certainties. "
Throughout her long newspaper
|experience--h her speciality was cut
ting world-figures down to size
she got many answers to her
questions about the infinite.
G. B. S. told her immortality was
q nightmare. Bertrand Russell
thought earthly happiness could
be brought closer through free
love. g. K. Chesterton, the
famed convert. Impressed her
with his spiritual security, but she
did not think Of investigating the
church which had brought 1t to
him. She tried spiritualism,
modern psychology, and a return
to her inherited Episcopalianisn.
The search was intensified
when, after her marriage, she was
laid low with a vicious and rare
blood disease which completely
immobilized her. Through a series
of linked circumstances" she met
the then Msgr. Sheen, the
foremost converter of this gen.
Grafton. From then on, after one
false start and a penultimate
panicking, due in part to the
ch-burning hostility" of her
friends. the way was made clear
to her.
Miss Baker. whose prose is
merely journalistic. has neverthe-
less written sincere and moving
book. which gives not only a
warmly admiring picture OF the
character and methods of the
eminent Father Sheen, but also
an unconscious self portrait of an
extremely gallant woman who
faced physical disabilities and
spiritual tangles with an admir-
able lack Of self-pity.
MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star., 1951-07-15
Inventor of Metal
Plane Tells Story
so AWAY I WENT
BY William Bushnell Stout
(Bobbs-MerriH;; $4J
Reviewed by Harry Lever

Reviewed by Harry Lever
This is Bill Stout's way of telling
of his role in bringing aviation
with its metal planes and stream
lining. up-to-date.
This pioneer devised a way OF
automatically setting of his alarm
clock when he was young; founded
the model airplane movement be.
fore the Wright brothers even
few; designed the first thick
wing airplane; built the first all
metal airplane and the famous
Ford Tri-Motor; laid out the first
commercial airline; designed the
Sky Car, an airplane for family
use with a tricycle. landing gear;
and designed the prototype Of all
streamlined trains.
He also, in his busy life, built
the Scarab. rear-engined, stream.
lined automobile, whose 1882 de-
sign is still far ahead of standard
1851 models; and designed the
first streamlined rear-engined bus
and a trailer that can be con-
verted into a house within a few
minutes. And when you go to the
average theater. you may be
sitting in one of Mr.. Stout's
specially designed push back
theater seats.
Bill Stout's career started when
he designed unusual toys fol
magazine and newspaper features
while he was working his way
through school. He knew all the
great names in aviation, rode in a
plane powered by the first Liberty
engines and worked in close CO.
operation with Henry Ford, whose
money and interest considerably
furthered flying toward t e point
it has reached today.
Mr.. Stout's fight to get investors
lat 1000 each-and they included
names now famous in Americas s
industrial history-is a feat In
itself. A well-written and inter-
eSting book.
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sympathy as they plod their way
into the middle of the unan-
nounced, unexpected thrust Of
the Bulge.
This novel is commercially free
from the propaganda of various
kinds that lowered the literary
value of our more ambitious war
novels. The authors OF these
books, earnest young liberals.
some Of them farther to the left,
were more concerned with anti
Semitism or racial hatred or
black marketing in an army of
democracy than in what the war
meant to the average soldier.
These writer's used the novel as a
vehicle for their indignation. But
good novel is work Of art, and
if one happens also to point up
some evil and even occasionally
to bring about a reform, that is
incidental to its literary excel
lence.
Swift, Nervous Urge
Though the two books are en-
tirely different, "A Time to Go
Home" has something of the swift,
nervous urge of Van Van Praag's
little masterpiece of combat, DAY
Without End" There is little
actual fighting in Mr.. Fridley's
story. The company commanded
by Capt. Carter and containing
Its. Stillman and Potnik and
Corpl. Vincente-these are the
chief characters-arriveS in France
months after D day. Our armies
are spread before the German
West wall. The division to which
the company belongs is sent to
relieve another on what is sup
posed to be a quiet front. Just as
the men take over the enemy
offensive explodes. The new divi-
sion is cut to pieces. Remnants OF
1t retreat.
1t. Potnik, the fat supply officer,
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Crime
By Miriom ottenberq

Inc Great Mail Robbery. BY
Clarence Buddington Kella n d
(Harper & Bros; $2.75.)
The impossible was happening
Parcels were disappearing from
the parcel post. Just to make Il
more impossible, the thefts all in.
volved duly mailed merchandise
from the same store. BY a series
of condolences only Kelland
could get away with. Postal In.
spector Will Scarlet stumbles on 9
gang sinister enough to have done
the deed. The problems: To fine
out how the thefts were accom-.
plished and to catch the gang ir
action. Uncovering the modus
operandi gives Kelland a chance
to take his readers on a conducted
tour Of the post Office production
line. Nabbing the gang assures
the usual slick climax to a Kellano
yarn.
The Green Plaid Pants. BY
Margaret Scherf. Doubleday &
Co.. Inc; $2.50)
Crime Club
Emily and Henry, the hilarious
decorators of 1.-THE Gun in Daniel
Webster's Bust" preside some
what less mirthfully over this i'm
probable anecdote about an Eng
lish family that decides abruptly
to fly to America. The papa OF
the family gives Emily a pair o1
green plaid pants that once may
have belonged to Bonnie Prince
Charlie. The pants figure i'm
portantly in the subsequent mur-
der, mayhem. smuggling and
pants-stealing.
Lament for the Bride. By
Helen Reilly. (Random House:
$2.50.)
Victorian melodrama gets only
a slight dressing-up in these har-
rowing adventures of the pure
heroine who marries the wicked
capitalist because she thinks her
true love has deserted her, only
he's really tied to his crippled
f1ancee. Then the husband en-
slaves his bride by telling her the
man she loves took a potshot at
him and If she tries to leave, the
husband will turn the true love
over to the police. This is billed
as an Inspector Mckee mystery
but the inspector doesn't get much
chance to inspect what with all
the romantic shenanigans detour-
ing the plot.
X HH
Bird Of Prey, by Victor Canning.
(M. s. Mill Co.. Inc, and Will
liam Morrow & Coz
Edward Mercer's assignment
called for him to locate one Clan
Uccello to reward the missing man
for wartime act of heroiSm.
Mercer could have gone back to
Paris with sound evidence of Uc-
|cello's death but for the uncom-
Portable conviction that too many
people were eager to get him out
of Venice. There was the disap-
|pearance of q man with inforna- :
ton to sell, preferred bribe and
the lady who pleaded with him to
take the next train. While the
adventure story with its over
tones of political intrigue pre-
dominates. the author also makes
"a stab at picturing the psychologi-
cal rehabilitation Of a somewhat
shabby agent.
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Paulo. This would appear to in
volve considerable expense for a
very long shot, with all advan-
tages on the side of the artists Of.
flcially invited by the Museum Of
Modern Art.
The museum has just an
nounced the names Of 80 painters,
16 sculptors and 10 printmakers.
by whom it will send a total Of
approximately 100 works. Thirty
one are American-born, 10 for
eign-born; the origins of the eight
others do not know. The foreign
born whose careers are actually
American, are very properly in
cluded; but a number. Max Ernst,
Yves Tanguy and Jacques Lip
chitz, for example, although they
have been here for some years,
and have had considerable influ-.
ence, do not impress me as legiti-
mate inclusions.
With less than so artists in
three fields to represent us, It
seems as though there Is suf-
ficient number of authentically
American painters, ETC.. to pre-
clude falling back on artists, how.
ever distinguished their interna-
tional regulations. who grew up
and made their names in Ger
many, France and elsewhere.
TWO LEGENDS:
IOedipus and TheSeus.
BY Andre Glide. Translated by
John Russell. (Altred A. Knopt,
Inc, Ne,D York: $3.J
Two recastings of classic legends
by Andre Glide. Fragile musings
on old themes, they reveal Glide
as perhaps the greatest escapist
of them all.
II
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Current Exhibitions

| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings, sculpture BY masters.
scnDtFe ans sosstSn Of sgsRan
PAINTINGS and sculpture acquired
American paintings from the col
lection, through August.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
lection Of Fine Arts. Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
can paintings and old masters. Dew
ing centennial, through July.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
OF Graphic Arts, Tenth street and
Jefferson. drive - Engravings By
Herb FIGHTER, ends today.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint
ine exhibits. DewinEs s'' centennial
through July.
CORcORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
paintings and sculpture.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1000 Twenty-frst street-Paint-
Jack Yeats and robert ttSsSa Gates. y
DUMBARToN OAKS collection, 17oa
Thirty-second street N.W.-Early
Christian and Byzantine art, Tues
days through Sundays. 2-5.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Can't
tol and First streets--Ninth an
nual exhibition Of prints. through
TECTS. 1741 New York avenue
N.W.-Joint exhibition BY Artists
Guild and Washington Sculptors'
sayER ay1s v,sIssI ,sPRING & ART ,,, GALLERY.
Summer exhibition. paintings
ana sculpture.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ARTS. l322 New York avenue NV.
TRUxTON-DECATUR NAVAL Mu-
NAVAL Aviation" to September.
BARNETT ALDEN GALLERY. 127
Randolph place N.W.-Summer
group exhibition.
PAN-AlIERICAN UNION. Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
N.W.-Exhibition Of photographs.
THE NEW GEORGETOWN GALLERY,
1924 Prospect avenue N.W.-Sum-
mer group show.
COLONY RESTAURANT. 1887 De
students Of James Cupoli
e
Evening star., 1951-07-15
Books in Review
Impact of War on Intelligent Men
Described in Swift Moving Novel
TIME TO GO HOME
BY William c. Fridley. (Datton; $3J
Reviewed bY corteF Brooke Jones

Another novelp Yes but far than just that
"A Time Go Home" deals with intelligent of them
Junior officers why they the
wanted to do their part but confused
the ambiguous precision orderly Army
credible human beings they doing their best they
Evening star., 1951-07-15
Story of AdoIescent Steers Awoy
From Muwkish Into Something New
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
BY ]. D. Salinger little, BrotDn & Co.; So
Little, Bro,Dn & Co., $3.J
Reviewed by Mary MeGrory

Novels about adoescen be facetious like
een excrucatng like the every
about sensitive minds qveng threshold Of maturity
The Catcher in the which funny and painful is s
not like other fiction about
inside story the autobiography over-age problem child who
Evening star., 1951-07-15
Cross Retrospective

The Phillips Gallery has opened
a retrospective exhibition of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-01
20 YEARS AGO fME TIT EMPIRE
AUGUST l, 1881

AUGUST ], 1881 Pacific International headquarters took sailed the steamer 
 left this afternoon Dorothy Alexander combined and will return Admiral
 A born to Mrs A. E. Smith night at St. Ann's Hospital
 Personeus daughter Anna Mae
 
 arrived Ranger a
  the captains aings pounds Sadie Young, 30O0 decidedly cooler with 50 usual R. C. Mize Weather the the There three sunshine partly cloudy Weather High GA; low 54; cloudy s..-a .3~<}ts .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-01
Old Editorial "We"
,rd N CO

.r (The Sanford Herald, Sanford, NCD
 Some readers have wondered why an editor uses the word we in writing editorial.
 Close to 100 years ago the following explanation appeared in the Williamson Iowa Advocate for the editorial we"
 "A country editor-is who reads newspapers, selects miscellany writes articles all subjects sets type reads proofs folds papers, and some times carries them errands works in gardens talks to all patrons who call patiently receives blame for thousand things which never were and never can be done
 Gets little money, has scarce time and materials to satisfy his hunger, enjoy the quiet ot natures sweet restorer sleep and esteems himself peculiarly happy if he is not assaulted and battered by some demagogue
 "A man who does all this and much more, not here recorded, you know must be a rather busy animal and as he performs the work of so many many different persons he may justly be supposed their representative and to have ndisputabe right, when speaking of himself to the plural number, and to say we all occasions and in all places
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-01
Yankees May Gel Righi-Hander Of .Si. Louis Browns

NEW YORK, Aug. 1-tR-T The New York Journal-American said today the New York Yankees have made tentative agreement with the St. Louis Browns for acquisi- tion of Ned Carver, ace righthander of the tail-end club. NM
 3a''The only thing that can cause the deal to fall through iS7failure of the bosses to agree upon the players to be swapped for theright- handler at the end of the current campaign" the paper added..s
 The Journal-American said Bill Veeck, new owner of the Browns, has promised the Yankees first choice on the pitcher who has won 13 games and lost five this year.
 In return, Veeck is reported ask ing for infielders Gerry Coleman and Bill Martin; catcher Clint Courtney of the Kansas City club and three other players.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-01
ELMER FRIEND

For long most of us can remember, Elmer Friend has been at his desk in the Empire news room Est ..edv+.9 h-o', '' To most of us Elmer and the Empire are syn onymous t1j.s 1@;i4. 1.s - In an association of more than 35 years with this newspaper, Elmer has; most of Juneaus lbusi- -unessmen grow up with the town He can recall the days when many of Juneau's present merchants carried Empire routes And he remembers their wives before they started putting up their hair And his memories are, we think pleasant ones
 Elmer came to Juneau and the Empire in January 1916 and for three years at Seward editing and managing the old Gateway, has been here ever since. l.-4suu rcd a0 And TOW after all these years, Elmer is retiring Or maybe that isn't the right word because we have serious doubts that Elmer will ever retire i
 Anyway, Elmer won't be at the city deck anymore He'll be taking a little easier spending more time with his grandchildren spending more time at his beach home and, for the first time in long time doing the things he wants to do -- Elmer is going to keep his hand in, though. He has agreed to do weekly column for the Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-01
DON'T TRY TO FOOL FEM

Prospective travellers to foreign shores who on their return to this country must pass through the US. Customs might profit from the advice implicit in a feature story which appeared recently in the New York Times. The advice-or, rather, the warming is don't try to smuggle. You almost certain to be caught.
 The story points out that, after their six weeks course in a special school customs inspectors have been taught to detect all the smuggling devices so far devised They are on to everything. More than that their training inexplcably turns them into living lie detectors with the additional gift of second sight or something fairly close to it.
 Customs officials work on the theory that 95 per cent of the people who pass through their hands are honest Their chife interest is in the professional smugglers who are trying to get through them with really important stuff like jewels contraband drugs Amateurs and other small fly who try to hide few harmless things in order to avoid paying little duty they like catch just for the fun of it and for the sake of practice. The victim ends up with tidy fine to pay and bright red face So it really doesn't pay to try to fool the boys.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-01
ROSIE MAYER ON
 CALIFORNIA VACATION

Miss Rosie Maier, clerk in the office of the US. Commissioner flew to Seattle Tuesday enroute to San Pedro, Calf.
 In San Pedro, Miss Maier will be joined by her parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank Maier, who have been" mak- ing an extended automobile trip through the States. The family will visit relatives in San Pedro, among them Mrs. George Danner. who, with her husband, operated a dairy on Glacier highway for many years. Following their California visit, the. family will drive to Seattle to spend some time before returning home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-01
Senator Engsirom
 Returns from Family Reunion in WranqeIl

After attending a reunion of the four Engstrom brothers and their father, Adolph Engstrom in Wrar- gell, Sen. Elton Engstrom returned to Juneau Monday.
 Meeting of the four, Elton of Ju- neau, Adolph of Seattle, Lennie and Andrew of Wrangell was the first time in three years they had gath cred at the pioneer Engstrom home in Wrangell with their father.
 Adolph Engstrom, Sr., first went to Wrangell in 1894 as an employee of the Alaska Packers Association. He returned south and then went back to Wrangell in 1900 to make his permanent home. He has not been Outside since.
 The elder Engstrom operated a general merchandise store in Wran- gell until Q few years ago when ne retired. The sons have been prom inently identified in the fish busi- ness, as Engstrom Brothers, fish buyers. Headquarters for their company are in Wrangell and Ju- neau.
 Senator Engstrom, served in the last session of the Territorial legis- lature and, as he was elected for four years, will be in the 1853 ses- sion.
 His wife, Mrs. Thelma Engstrom, has served in the Territorial House. She is a former Wrangell high school teacher.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-01

nominate Evita had come from several labor unions and was strictly something for the Peron- ista party convention to decide, Furthermore, they must realize that acceptance of such a postu- lation would depend on his own decision about standing for re- election-and that hadn't been made yet.
 This. of course, brought urgent exclamations of 'Oh. but you must" The country needs you" and so on, from the visitors.)
 Finally, Peron concluded with his most ingratiating smile, Evita really shouldn't be thought of as woman at all; she was above and beyond considerations of sex in her su.fless service to Argen- tina. He did not see why she couldn't carry on perfectly well from any high office that the people might insist on elevating her to, Peron added.
 That was a broad enough hint for the army men, who went away from the interview with the con- viction that the die was already cast and Evita would certainly be Peron's running-mate in the next election, recently moved forward from Febraury, 1852, to November of this year.
 Note: It now seems fairly cer- tain that all Argentine opposition parties will agree to boycott this election, rather than present cam didates who would have no chance to campaign freely, no publicity outlets of any kind, and little or no possibility of winning, anyway, under the new voting laws.