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Evening star., 1951-07-01
Art Book Review
HOW PAINTINGS HAPPEN
BY Ray Bethers. Nv. w. Norton
& CO.. Inc. S4.5O.j

HOW PAINTINGS HAPPEN
BY Ray Bethers. Nv. w. Norton
& CO., Inc; S4.50.J
The idea behind this sound book
on art appreciation seems to me a
particularly effective one for con-
veying to the layman the various
objectives of contemporary artists
Mr.. Bethers endeavors to explain
the structure of pictures with the
help of simple diagrams. Then
follow halftone reproductions OF
more than so paintings by So con-
temporary artists (including
Washingtonian John Chapman
Lewis, each of whom states mis-
aims On the page opposite each
painting is photograph of the
actual scene which inspired the
painting.
Mr.. Bethers' selections range
from traditional to abstract paint
ing, giving an honest cross-sectiou
of today's production. The rela-
tionship between conservative
paintings and their motif photo
graphs is easy to see, with the dis
tance between place and painting
widening on the road to abstrac-
ton. The clarity of most of the
artists explanations, along with
Mr. Bethers' helpful comments
should do much to help the be-
wildered reader trying to be OPEN
minded about modern art.
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.InQenious Formula
For Better World
YANKEE VIKING

YANKEE VIKING
BY Livingston Hartley. (Erpo-
sition;: s3.)
Mr.. Hartley, who is director of
the Washington Office of the At
lantic Union Committee and au-
thor of two books on foreign
affairs, offers here a symbolic
novel. It's theme is the necessity
for a closer cooperation among
free nations than we have ever
had, for an alliance leading even
tually to sort of United States
of the world, if wars are to end
and people are to make the most
of their lives. A young scientist
just out of college is faced with a
dilemma. Seeking solution, he
consults a psychiatrist and relates
dreams in which he played va
rious adventurous roles the last
thousand years. He was always
faced with moral dilemma. He
fitted in and out Of another life
which he called the Next Place, re-
|ceiving instructions which helped
him in each new incarnation.
The idea is ingenious, but the
dream sequence is an old and
awkward device. Sometimes, par
adoxically enough. straight fam
tasy is more persuasive than an
effort to give the supernatural a
realistic structure. But no clear
minded person of good will could
quarrel with the thesis. The au-
thor formerly was in the foreign
service and was a naval officer in
the late war.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
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Malcolm CowIey's
Lost Generation
Was Really Lost
IEXILE'S RETURN


BY Malcolm Cowley. The Viking
Press; $780,
With the Fitzgerald revival 60
ing full swing, it is worthwhile tc
have this reissue of a picture Of
his times, which was first pub
lished in 1884. The most valu-
able service Mr.. Cowley performs
is to prove that the phrase-sc
glibly used-"the lost generation
actually contained more truth
than poetry. His generation was
truly dislocated. says the eminent
critic, and draws upon his owr
experiences at Harvard, in the
Ambulance Corps in World War
and as an expatriate in France
to illustrate how he and his fell
lows were "uprooted, schoolec
away and almost wrenched away
from attachment to any region
or tradition" These factors lee
to "Bohemianism. the religion o1
art, the escape from society. the
effort to defend one individual.
ity even at the cost of sterilitJ
and madness, then the final pc.
riod of demo slization ;" Mr.
Cowley contributes a prologue
and an epilogue. both in keeping
with the lively and honest tone
of his "reminiscences.
MARY McGRORY.
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of other art property. Works OF
the modern school. still surpass-
ing all others In popularity. were
available in several sales. Paint
ings by Renoir. Sisley and Pissarrc
received high bids. Works by the
School of Paris. particularly by
Picasso, Miro, Girls, Rouault ano
Braque continued to attract many
ouyers, drawing the largest crowds
at exhibitions and sales where
they were available.
In the old master field, the
French 18th century school wa!
especially well represented in the
dispersal of the Stehli collection
last November, and the Comte de
La Rochefoucauld sale. Hence the
years highest prices for paintings
were fetched by "Pastorale" BY
Boucher, $4,000; "Fete au Diel
Pan" by Watteau. $12,500; Nat
tiers portrait of the Marquise dt
Ligneris, $1,000; Pater's "The
Swing" $4,000; Greuze's portrait
of Mile. Ledoux and Vigee-Lebrun's
"Etienne Nicolas Landry de st
Aubin," $4,000 each; and David!
Nine. de Saint-Sernin," $4,000
Nineteenth century Romantics
IDelacroix' Academic de Femme
fetched $10,500. Paintings by Sis.
LEY and Pissarro went for $7,70(
and $4,000 respectively.
Paintings of the Florentine ane
Sienese schools. offered in tht
Meinhard and other sales. foune
ready buyers. Guards View o.
Venice" brought $6,750 and Simon.
Martins small retable panel "Ar
Apostle" $500.
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The above prices are modest in
deed. when compared with the at
Economical sums paid in the 1920s.
and number Cup to SITS, 900 for a
Rembrandt) in the sale in 1945 Of
the WHY'S collection, the finest
|priyate one offered in nearly two
decades before that year. Besides
the WHY'S paintings, four others
brought from 20 to 80 thousanl
each. Three paintings in the 1949-
SO season topped this years high
est painting price.
Highest totals for the Galleries
entire season were made by books
from the library of the late Lucius
IWilmerding. One item which also
belongs in the painting category,
la 18th century French illuminated
manuscript fetched the second
highest individual book price.
$1,000.
Original prints reached substan-
tial figures in some cases: Tou--
louse-Lautrec's lithograph "Partie
de Champagne, $1,000; an engrav-
ing by Bonnet, "Tete de Flora, I"
$1.100; Rembrandt's etching
Landscape With Three Gabled
Cottages Beside a Road, $3.50:
Christ Bearing the Cross" by
Schongauer, $3.50. and a set Of IL
etchings and drypoints from Pi-
casso's "Saltimbanques" series,
S760.
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and generous as well as ruthless.
It would have been easier for
M. Simenon to have satirized his
characteristic self -obsessed ac-
tor who accepts praise and money
as his due. a figure lending him
self to facile ridicule. But the au-
thor is too penetrating a novelist
to turn out any such superficial
job. He knows that there is more
to any man than that. He looked
deeper and found a complex ma
ture little known to Maugin's
acquaintances or even his nti-
mates.
His Private Conscience.
Maugin is on the surface the
typical successful actor, at least
the general impression of one.
He is often curt. high-handed.
Off the stage he plays the role
that seems expected of him. Ac-
tually he is tired of having every
bartender and every taxi driver
say ingratiatingly: eyes, M.
Maugin?" He would like to escape
recognition for a while. He would
like to separate his private life
from his professional life just
once. He is always wondering,
cropping. And he readily enlists
your sympathy and holds it, for
all his maddening ways. He has
an artistic conscience and-well
concealed-a private conscience.
There are few praeticing novel;
lists who can tell a story better.
M. Simenon touches occasionally
on sex with Gallo candor and
unsparing realism, but it is, as it
became to Maugin. a casual thing.
The translation by Louise Varese
is admirably unobtrusive: she
never seems to get between the
reader and the authors swift
flowing prose.
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not yet identified. prevails.
This submarine noise was dis
covered, as were so many other
important facts about the private
life of the sea. during wartime,
when urgent efforts were made to
counteract what one naval officer
called IAN almost desperate lack
of basic information on the
fundamentals of the nature of
the sea-" Miss Carson points out,
however, that while the knowledge
of the surface of the sea was
laboriously pieced together through
the ages, mans comparatively re-
cent forays into its depths have
been swiftly reWarding.
She has incorporated the find
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Current Exhibitions


NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Gulbenkian collection Of Egyptian
sculpture and European paintings
Paintings and sculpture acquired
BY Kress Foundation, 1945-1951.
america american paintings from the col
Centennial through July
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
lection of Fine Arts. Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
can paintings and old masters.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
OF Graphic Arts, Tenth street and
Jefferson drive-EugraFing by
Herb FIGHTER through July l5.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint
ings and eachings by Whistler and
other American artists; chang
ne ,ng exhibits Dewing Centennial
CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
evenue and E .street-American
paintings and sculpture.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1900 Twenty-first street-Paint-
ings and prints. Exhibition by
Jack Yeats and Robert Gates.
ARTS CLUB, 2017 I street-Exhibi-
ton Of Indonesian art. throegh
DUMBART0N OAKS Collection. 1903
Thirty-second street N.W.-Early
Christian and Byzantine art. Tues
days through Sundays, 2-5.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Capt.
tol and First streets-Ninth an
nual exhibition of prints. through
July.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
N.W.-Two artists of Guatemala,
through next Saturday.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHI-
TECTs. 1741 New York avenue
Guild and Washington Sculptors'
Group.
WATKINS GALLERY, Massachusetts
and Nebraska avenues NV
Exhibition by M. D. Barbot
through today.
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY.
9216 Flower avenue. Silver Spring
Summer exhibition. paintings
and sculpture.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ARTS, 1922 New York avenue NV.
Exhibition by students.
TRUxTON-DECATUR NAVAL MU-
scum, 1910 H street NV
Naval Aviation" to September.
IF. A. GALLERIES. 2629 connecti-
cut avenue N.W.--American prize
prints, through July IA.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY. 127
Randolph place N.W.-Summer
group exhibition.
COLONY RESTAURANT. 1887 De
Sales street N.W.-Exhibition by
students of James Cupol
Evening star., 1951-07-01
|EIinor Grohom's S Life
On a Saltwater
Farm in Maine
my WINDOW LOOKS

MY WINDOW LOOKS
DOWN EAST
|By Elinor Graham. fThe Mac
milan Co.; $3.)
Elinor Graham's book Is the
third installment of an intensely
subjective record Of her life on
Casco Bay. Me-, Of the chang
ing seasons and her changing
moods. A restless. Southern-born
|sophisticate, Mrs. Graham does
not have the maddening self
righteous attitude so often
affected by the transplanted city
Idweller. For all its compensations
of fiinty. natural beauty and
tough-fibered neighbors, she still
finds Maine something to cope
with. Or rather, she finds that
leaving Manhattan for the country
lis no guarantee of peace Of mind
Ior proof against self-pity.
OF her neighbors, Mrs. Graham
writes with the envying admira-
Ition the gropers of the world have
for the whole-souled. IF they
seem to have more character than
the general run Of people that
may be because they have had
more to contend with In fog and
wind and loneliness" Although
laconic in the extreme. they are
capable of the most imaginative
kindness. So in spite of the des-
perate winters and the exasperat-
ling springs, Mrs. Graham regards
Maine as the State where she
and her sensible husband and her
elf1n daughter had best stay put
for a spell.
| MenDnpv
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journal brought the Westlng-
house Science Writing Award
most recently, a major portion
was printed in the New Yorker
Miss Carson, a resident Of Silver
Spring, is the editor of the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Refreshing Entertainment.
Only the scientists, of course,
can judge its permanent value.
But to a land-locked, sweltering
reader, Miss Carson's coolly fac
tual account of the continuing
marvels beyond the waters edge
is refreshing entertainment. Not
one of the Gee -Whiz" school of
science writer's, Miss Carson writes
in a style sedately academic,
wisely considering her material
quite dramatic enough in it's own
right.
It is only when she describes
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Polish Novelist
Traces Evolution
|Of Abraham
THE COVENANT

441 w
BY Zof1a KoSsak. (Roy; $500.
The last book by this Polish
novelist to be translated into
English. Blessed Are the Meak, "
the final volume of a trilogy,
dealt with the life of st. Francis
Of Assist: In her new novel, The
Covenant" she goes far back in
time and writes Of Abraham and
his era.
Nine. KoSsak has traced the
evolution of Abraham, father of
all people," from Ab-Ram, the
simple leader of Hebrew shep-
herds. who clung to belief in
the one God while pagans. with
their scores Of gods, pressed all
around the tribe. The story is
developed boldly. with an i'm
mense perspective. Ur of the
Chaldees comes to life, with its
dazzling art, its teeming trade
and cruel gods. Abraham's
nephew Lot, his greedy wife and
their children go to doomed
Sodon1. The destruction of Sodom
and Gomorrah are described.
Abraham, leading his tribe away
from the Babylonian King Ham
murabi and his tribute takers,
eventually brings them to a fertile
land and to the old religion they
had lost.
The author follows the Old
Testament account closely. De-
spite the length and detail Of her
story, she never let's it drag. She
has an unfailing sense of narra-
tive and an obvious mastery of
her historical material. 1.-The
Covenant" is an impressive novel.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
New Books
NON-FICTION.

AFRICAN CONTINENT OF THE FUTURE
BY George E.. Haynes. (Associatee
Press.) A study of the territories oi
the eastern. southern, central and west,
BY the Worlds Committee of Youns
Mems Christian Associations, Geneva
Switzerland. $3.50.
THE ANATOMY OF HAPPINESS. By
Martin Gumpert, M. D. (McGraw-Hill. J
An analysis of the leading physical and
emotional causes of unhappiness by 0
prominent doctor. $3.50.
THE SUCCESSFUL sPEAKER's HAND
BOOK. BY Herbert v. Prochnow
Prentice -Hall) step-by-step guide ia
speech and conversation. $3.50.
SAILS AND WHALES. By Capt II. A.
Chippendale. (Houghton-Mif1in Coz
A personal account of whaling by a
seafaring man of vigor and courage
who survived to serve on the seas with
distinction in. three wars, and has re-
tanned the flavor Of his varied and dan
gerous life.
THE HOMES OF AMERICA. BY Ernest
Pickering; (Crowell) The biography
lustr trationB. S6.76.
Evening star., 1951-07-01

the country, lovely women for the
asking. But when the doctor told
him he had the heart of a man
of rs, despite his wrestler's build,
his whole structure of wealth
and position swayed, suddenly a
fiimsy thing. Well, some men OF
rs lived quite a while. Others
didn't. Few lived very long. What
should he do with himself now?
Keep on drinking heavily and
making movie scenes in the morn
ings and playing at the theater
every night? Or slow down and
conserve whatever life remained? ?
AS a matter of fact, Maugin
was not what he appeared. He
was not happy. He had never
been. He had enjoyed life, but
only in flashes. He had been a
country boy brought up in the
direst poverty. His rise had been
slow and unspectacular. He had
been a cabaret singer. His first
wife had been a noted actress, but
it was a long time and he was
a mature man before he caught
on. All his life, as he realized, he
had been running away from
things-from school, from the
church, from various women, from
towns and situations. Why?
A Complex Nature.
He did take prolonged vaca-
ton, the first in years. He and
his current wife, a charming girl
of a., went to the Riviera and
took a villa. He went fishing and
tried to take care of himself. drank
somewhat less. Almost no one
knew that the baby was not his
or that he had married this girl,
o bit player on the stage. to pro-
tect her and give the chile name,
For Maugin could be cnivalrous
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Crime
By Miriam Ottenbera
An English Murder, by Cyril Hare

An English Murder, by Cyril Hare
Little, Brown g. Co.; $2.50.)
A more ill-assorted group
couldn't have gathered for a
Christmas house party, to say
nothing of being stuck there by a
snowstorm. There was the chan
|cellor of the exchequer. his Scot
land Yard bodyguard and the
woman who wanted her husband
to be the next chancellor. There
was also the leader Of a Fascist
league, a Czech refugee scholar
and an unlimited guest" When
murder was done, the bodyguard
reluctantly took charge, but ii
was the Czech scholar who finally
Explained why this could only be
AN English murder. Some good
Ihumored cracks at naturalization
and taxes enliven this urbane
novel Of manners and murder.
The Case of the Frightened
Mannequin, by Christopher Bush
Macmillan Co.; $2.50D
Mrs. 'Stonehill. of Malfroi Arms
suspected her nephew was intent
on numbering his wife and wanted
Ia detective agency to prevent it
When the nephew visited the same
agency only a short time later on
la different errand, Ludovic Travers
decided it would be nice to take
la holiday-at Malfroi Arms. Ex-
|cept for two seemingly irrelevant
incidents, it was quiet holiday
but Travers finally did get MUIR
der to solve. and not the one he
expected.
X ~
Easy to Murder, by Nancy Rut-
ledge. doubleday & Co.; s2.500
Crime Club
Onalee Rhodes, unscrupulous
Iegomaniac with a driving ambition
to make her husband a Senator
kills him when he decides he
doesn't want to play politics her
way. She nearly has the appoint
ment in her own hands when a
pair OF young people begin to get
in her way. They don't know she's
ia murderess. but they do know
she's trying to pin murder on one
OF them. The suspense in this one
is supposed to derive from Ona-
lees evil genius in action. It's not
handled quite skillfully enough
however, to compensate for the
absence of mystery.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
THE STATE OF ASIA

BY Lawrence K. RoSinger ant
Associates. (Knopf;; $6.J
A comprehensive survey of East
ern Asia today, with emphasis OF
political and economic develop
ments since the end of World Wa.
II. The books 13 chapters, pre-
pared independently by specialist
in the countries covered, round VI
into a full picture of a troubled
continent. Issued under the aus.
pices of the American Institute O.
Pacific Relations.
BELMONT FAIRIES.
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ulSS VI SuCA ILL.,
vestigations as
late as 1850
into her fasci-
mating record,
which inciden-
tally, c a u S e q
extraord airy
pre- = publica-
tion ex ! t E.
ment. In prog
ress, it won her
a Eugene Sax
on F clio W
ship; one chap
ter published
in a scientific
Evening star., 1951-07-01
BY OCEAN

APPLES BY OCEAN
BY Robert P. Tristram Coffin
1.-THE Macmillan Co., NeaD York,
$2.75.J
Mr.. Coffin's tangy New England
verse on the delights of nature
and the simple life are by now
"a staple produce.
EDWIN TRIBBLE.
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Poetry

IDECLENSIONS OF THE AIR.
by Louis Kent. fE. P. Dutton G.
Co., Inc; $2.75.)
Mr.. Kent, a Washington resi-
dent, is the 1949 winner of the
Shelley Memorial Award for
poetry. He shows himself in this
slim volume to be a poet of un-
common versatility. Two of the
poems. Afternoon Call" and
CLERK Saunders" are absolutely
Ifirst-rate ironical portraits. Per-
Ihaps the finest verse in the book
is in midsection on classical
themes, Balthasar and King
Claudius. 1t is seldom that the
modern idiom (for Mr.. Kent is a
very modern poet in spite of the
apparent conventionality of his
language and form has been en-
Iployed 80 delightfully."- on tradi-
tional themes. His shorter, ma
ture or love poems, while profess
sional and workmanlike enough,
are less impressive.
FntxTN rprppyr
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e THE POETIC PARROT
BY Margaret Mackay. (John Day,

S2.50.)
Percy the poetic parrot lived in
the Central Park Zoo. One day
Percy got out of his cage and had
many wonderful adventures with
the seals in the pool and the mon
keys in the cage before he was
caught. Illustrated by Kurt
WieSe.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Art
Porke-Bernet
Report Reveals
Lively Art Year
By Florence S. Berrymon

ABdLu GllC SCdSOu 1ldS dIAlsCO
for a backward glance at the clos
ing years activities, and an effort
Ito understand their significance.
In accordance with a long -estab-
lished custom, we are giving here.
Ia digest of the annual auction re-
port of the Parke-Bernet Cal
leries. Inc, New York City, the
largest art and book auction
house in the United States. This
report supplies concrete evidence
of trends, and data Of consider
able interest not only to persons
with important collections. but
also to the owner Of q few items
|of value. as well as to dealers.
economists. sociologists and others
lin special fields who build up a
picture of the state Of the Union
|by assembling information from
many sources.
Parke- -Bernet sales for the Pc
Iriod September 1850 to mid-June
1851 crossed $5.547.525. an in
crease of 81 million over the
preceding season. In his sum-
mary of the year." Hiram H.
Parke, president Of the firm, men,
toned a number Of trends. He
pointed out that the offering of
rs single-owner private COL
lections. an unusually large
representation of this type of
sale. suggested something Of a
renaissance in the liquidation Of
important private collections.
Attendance Large
Attendance at exhibitions and
sales and the number Of individ-
ual buyers continued to climb" he
said, mentioning as particularly
noteworthy the steady increase in
the number of buyers outside of
New York City. The spread of
buying was both national and in
ternational. with European COL
Ilectors acquiring many important
items offered, bidding through
agents from Paris, London. Gene
va and Brussels. who attended the
sales in person.
whether this cresting wave of
acquisition was due to esthetic
Interest in owning rare and beau
Itiful objects, or to the fast-fall-
ing value Of money. Mr.. Parke
hazarded no guesS.)
South American, Cuban and
Mexican collectors also provided
considerable competition in many
of the more important sales, par
ticularly of paintings and books.
With regard to price levels for
art. antiques and literary prop
erty. prices for the finest objects
in practically all categories in
creased: prices for average ma
terial remained steady. But there
were marked increases in some
decorative arts fields, and de-
creases in others, which Mr.. Parke
cautioned cannot be interpreted
with precision.
For those categories which
show marked increases he said,
"the public has been presented
with exceptionally fine examples
to be purchased at auction, and
I for those which show decreases in
prices paid, no very excellent ex-
amples were available at auction
during the past season"
In the nine month period, the
Parke-Bernet Galleries held 88
sales with III sessions.
Prices for Pointines
Paintings were important in the
seasons schedule. Twelve sales of
paintings, alone or with small Sc
lections of sculptures. fetched a
total of $640,160; and paintings
also were included in many sales
Evening star., 1951-07-01
CELEBRATION AT DARK

by William Jay Smith. (Harrar,
Straus G Co., Inc; $2.J
Excellent lyric poems of much
Originality and force. The poems,
individually, are better than the
book because there is certain
similarity of mood. They should
be read one a day; but they should
be read.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Rachel Carson Writes of q Vast, Complex
And Infinitely Mysterious Sea
THE SEA AROUND US
n nNoL@f 2 Na~,1~
rtord University Press; $500
Reviewed by Mary McGrory

Perhaps the most intriguing revelation that comes out OF The
Sea the fact that the such busy we'll
place idea of the ack wastes the silent
depths completely routed Miss Carson explains how horizontally
vertically TERED while IAN
extraordinary produced fishes rmps and other species
Evening star., 1951-07-01
Books in Review
Georges Simenon's Psychological Novel
Looks Inside the Heart of an Actor
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones

THE HEART OF MAN
BY Georges Simenon. (Prentice-HaU; $3J
noves psychological portrait OF famous French
a drst-rate achievement .
Maugn equally popular the stage OF Paris and
the looking powerfully built and
his People thought his life was charmed
than he could possibly spend the aduaon OF