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Posing as Priest,
Flyer Reqoins Faith
THE LEFT HAND OF GOD

THE LEFT HAND OF GOD
BY William E. Barrett. Double
day G. Co.; S3.)
Mr. Barrett's hero is an Amer
lean ex-fyer who has become the
mercenary of a Chinese warlord.
To escape his captor-emloyer, he
masqueraoes as a priest slain by
the warlord's men. Although an
indifferent Catholic, the sacrilege
Of his ruse weighs heavily upon
him. Through the performance
of his assumed duties, which he
performs very we'll almost in spite
of himself. he is reconverted to his
childhood faith in God and the
church.
The author apparently had in
mini a melodrama of the soul in
the manner of Graham Greene.
Ever, though his sincerity is obvi-
GUS, it does not quite come off
Due to his undistinguished style
and the introduction of a Holly
wood-type romance between the
guilty Carmody and the widowed
nurse he finds at the mission. the
story never acquires the depth
and urgency required.
X X Il
CELESTIAL ESCAPADE
BY Stella Kirby. (The Viking
Press; $2.75)
Miss Kirby's first and very
raffish novel also has an orienta.
setting. She writes, shrewdly
and scornfully, of the colonial sci
of Hong Kong, who fiddle while
the onrushing Communists burn
the country roundabout. Hel
principal character is Ralph Cos
well. an imperialistic businessman
who is making a fool of himself
for all Hong Kong to see-ovel
a vicious little Eurasian doxie
named Trixie. Their adventures
are not particularly edifying, but
Miss Kirby describes the garish
hectic atmosphere with a soaring
wit that indicates she ought to
write a good nom fiction account
of her years in China some day
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menCal nOurlSnmenC OUT Oh Ills
ideas.
The story begins with the con-
ciseness of good newspaper
"lead":: "The female of the species
vanished on the afternoon of the
second Tuesday of February al
4 minutes and So seconds pas
4 o'clock, Eastern standard time.
This disappearance was world
wide. There were no women left
The male population was intact
We find, in the next chapter, the
situation in reverse. The women
have been subjected to similar
phenomenon. The men have van
iShed. After that the story is de-
veloped on two planes. with alter
nate chapters carrying forward
the experiences of the men and
of the women.
Russia blamed the men of the
Western democracies' for the
disappearance of their women and
promptly notified America that
her harbors were mined with H
bombs, which would be set off
If this country didn't surrender.
This country refused, and several
American cities were destroyed
and a number of Russian cities
were leveled in retaliation before
the Reds decided we had the most
superbombs and quit. Our men
then settled down to their women
less existence. There was a steady
disintegration in orderliness and
morals.
Women Have Rough Time.
The women had a rougher time
from the start. Trains, suddenly
deprived of their engineers
crashed, and factories, their fur
naces and explosives unguided
caught fire. There were many dis
asters. The Russian women, who
knew how to do most mechanical
things, steamed over on warships
but a committee of our women
gave their leaders a big party and
talked them out of annexing the
United States.
Mr.. Wylis can be entertaining
He has interspersed his weightier
works. his lectures on our faults
as a civilization. with light fiction
IN magazines and books, mostly
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Poorhouse Scene
OF Novel Deft in
IChuructerizutions
THE WITCH DIGGERS
BY Jessamyn West. (Harcourt,
Brace G. Co.; $780,

The WITCH DlGGERS
BY Jessamyn West. (Harcourt,
Brace G. Co.; $780,
Reviewed by Mary McGrory
In her first novel since 1.-The
Friendly Perusasion." Jessamyn
West is writing love story set in
a poorhouse at the turn of the
century. Resisting the obvious
provocations of such a theme,
place and time, she is not in the
slightest sentimental, maudlin or
even reticent. Humor crackles in
almost every sentence of the story,
despite its undertone of tragedy.
And there is robustness of ap-
proach and earthiness of detail
that would send most ladies of the
era pellmell for the smelling salts.
The title. which refers to added
inmates OF the poorhouse, a
brother and sister who are digging
for the truth, convinced it is buried
in the ground, does not really de-
scribe the tale. Miss West IS most
concerned with the two Conboy
sisters, daughters of the high
minded superintendent. Link Con-
boy. Cate. aged 18, and Emma,
aged IL. are brought up in strict
est ignorance of the facts of life,
can expect no help or quarter
from their parents when it comes
to dealing with related problems.
Miss West has drawn a dramatic
picture of the misery that she be-
lieves is the wages of prudery.
Christie Fraser's courtship of
Cate is stormy one, and it
unfoldS in a series of scenes
which are Dickensian in their
hustle and color. Miss West,
with her prancing humor, excels
in the painting of such family
festivals as Fourth of July picnics.
prayer meetings and sociables,
while never neglecting the dark
currents of ignorance, fear, re-
preston which flow beneath the
surface.
Cate experiences "a fearful joy"
in Christie's love. Emma. pre-
cocious gnome, attempts to cure
the poorhouse "peeper" by shock
ingly direct means and Cate
shares her sisters guilt. Their
brother, the housekeeping DAN
die, defies their parents and mar
ries an inmate, Nory, who has
borne an illegitimate child whose
father she refuses to name. 1t
is her disclosure of the identity
of the man that serves as a fuse
to touch off the repreSsed vio-
lence that is in all their lives.
Miss West, whose style is an
unceasing pleasure, shows great
gusto in characterization. Link
Conboy the idealistic lawyer who
gave up his practice to take over
the poorhouse and his wife. Lib,
a spirited, illogical creature well
suited to him, are particularly
we'll drawn. The penalty they
pay for their feelings as parents
seems extreme. But Miss West
has evidently wanted to make
her warning as dire as possible
on the consequences of the denial
of love. It is that, in retrospect,
and also bold. lively picture of
family life in which every reader
will recognize at least some part of
his childhood.
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Of '43. A glass case will be con-
structed to display the book, with
the name pages turned at intervals.
Fragile though this memorial
may sound, it is no more so than
thousands of medieval manuscripts
many centuries old, preserved in
public and private collections
throughout the world.
Gelfond Retrospective
Sydney Gelfand is having a 49,
year retrospective at the Arts
Club. Seventeen paintings illus
trate his career from 1881 to 1850.
omitting three years when he was
on active duty in the Navy. Seven
of the paintings have been exhib-
tied in previous Arts Club and
other local shows, as well as in
other cities. but the majority are
being shown for the first time.
1t is difficult to see the advan-
tage of displaying early works
which do not measure up to an
artists later achievement. Certain
portraits and figure paintings in
the collection appear fiat and
primitive. And the group of etch-
ings seemed to me inferior to the
paintings.
AS noted in his previous one
man show at the Arts Club, Mr..
Gelfand prefers somber tones.
Sometimes the low key provides a
romantic mood, as in Twilight:
again it seems to have melancholy
implications, as in 'The Circus" "
In his 1850 painting, Fourth Of
July" the artist made departure
toward brighter color and modern
design; the bursting fireworks re-
semble bright chrysanthemums.
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Reviewed by Creston B. Mullins

(MGcmillGn; $780,
Reviewed by Creston B. Mullins
Much has been written about
Marshal Tito's revolt against Die
tator Stain, based on more or less
wishful thinking about the conse-
quences of this deep schism with
in the ranks of world communism.
But little has been written with
such a broad personal knowledge
of and contact with this phenom-
enon and against such deep
background of familiarity with
world affairs.
The author. who. as editor OF
Foreign Acairs, has devoted
himself for many years to public
enlightenment on world problems
devotes 800 pages to a thorough
examination of the development
and the consequences-both mill
tary and political-of Tito's
heresy.
He develops several points con-
vincingly.
In the first place, Tito's revolt
was no impulsive gesture on some
isolated issue, such as collectiviza-
ton of agriculture (although this
matter figured at the very heart of
the revolt. 1t was a revolt
against submerging Yugoslav ma
tional identity and Yugoslav
economic and political life in these
of Soviet Russia. Tito was
Yugoslav before he was a Com
munist, or perhaps, more exactly,
no less a Yugoslav than ne was a
Communist.
In the second place, Stain Goes
not aim at Tito's assassination
until the Slav leader has been
thoroughly discredited and driven
from power. for the killing Of a
national hero at the height of his
power. Mr.. Armstrong makes clear,
would only convert him into a
Yugoslav-and perhaps a nation
alistic Communist martyr.
Ina the third place. Titoism has
spread through all the lands where
communism prevails and threat
ems to undermine Russian con-
troll over all its satellites. This
should not be ruled cut. he con-
tends, in the case of Mao TIE
tung and Communist China, al
though the forces of Mao at
present are pursuing Russia's goals
for her in Asia.
Mr.. Armstrong has produced a
work which is the closest thing
now available to a definitive his
tory and appraisal of Marshal
Tito's revolt against Goliath, i.e.,
Dictator Stain.
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Current Exhibitions
GALLERY OF ART. Con-

stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings, sculptures by masters.
Gulbenkian collection Of Egyptian
sculpture and European paintings.
Vollard, Connoisseur, print eXhtbi-
tinn.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
lection of Fine Arts, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Amer-
ican paintings and old masters.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
of Graphic Arts, Independence ave-
nue. and Tenth street-Exhibition
by Printmakers' Group.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Orien-
tai and Far Eastern arts. Paint
ings and etchings by Whistler and
other American artists; changing
exhibits
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteerth street between New York
avenue and z street-American
BY. Lucille Evans and Barbara Fer
rell: PROGRESS of a Collection"
exhibition OF recent acquisitions.
PHILIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1900 Twenty-first street-Paint-
ings and prints Exhibition by
John Piper. through Tuesday.
ARTS CLUB. 2O17 I street-Exhibi-
ton by Ruth osgood and Sidney
Gelfand.
DUMBARToN OAKS COLLECTION,
1903 Thirty second street NV
Early. Christian and Byzantine Art,
Tuesdays through Sundays. rs.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Cap
itol and First streets-Print col
TEXTILE MUSEUM. 1890 s. street
NV. Rugs, tapestries and other
textiles of the Near East. Far East
and and Peru; Open Monday Wednes-
sion by card obtainabIe at the Of
fee of George Hewitt Myers. 730
Fifteenth street NV.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIvER-
SITY LIBRARY, 2O23 G street
N.W-:Exhibition by Richard Lahey.
through January.
WHYTE GALLERY, 1918 Connecticut
avenue NW-Exhibition by Pietro
Lazzari. through January.
WATKINS GALLERY. Massachusetts,
and Nebraska avenues NW.-Con-
temporary sculpture. to open jan
uary 81.
GTNN'S ART CENTER, 1914 Georgia
avenue. Silver Spring-Group show
by local artists.
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY,
9216 Flower avenue-Paintings by
washington area artists.
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ARTS, ] 322 New York avenue NV.
Exhibition by Joan Miro.
UNITED NATIONS CLUB, Nineteenth
and r streets N.W.-Exhibition by
Andree Roullion
LEE ATKYNS STUDIO GALLERY.
47l2 Wisconsin avenue N.W.-Con-
temporary paintings. Sundays. 2-5.
GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY,
wisconsin avenue and r street NV.
Exhibition by Josephine DAN
forth.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY, 127
Randolph place NW.-Trio exhi-
bition, through January.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL
LERY, Founders Library. on cam
pus-Drawings by Turkish chill
dren. through tomorrow.
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New Books

FICTION.
NEVER GIVE THE HEART. BY Ann vii.
lets Random House. romance So
POINT OF HONOR. BY M. r. Kadish
Random House. drama Of salvation
S3
THE STORM CLOUD. By Lettie Rogers
Random House A novel of China In
revolution. So.
NON-FICTION.
RED MEN CALLING ON THE GREAT
WHITE FATHER. BY Katherine C
Turner. University Of Oklahoma Press
Volume number 80 in the Civilization
of the American Indian Series 1915
REVOLT OF THE REDNECKS. BY Albert
D. Kirwan. University of Kentucky
Press. Mississippi politics from 1876
to 1928 $3.50.
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War Memorial

| Western High School has solved
in felicitous manner the problem
of an educational institution de-
string to commemorate its heroes,
but with limited funds for such a
purpose. Eight graduating classes
| Cl943-195O have donated money,
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many OF the exnlDltS, from earlier
one-man and group shows here.
To the university's students, for
whom these art exhibitions are
primarily intended. the show is
new. Available for visitors are
catalogue list and detailed bio
graphical sketch.
The exhibition. lent through the
courtesy of the C. w. Kraushaar
Galleries, New York City, gives a
comprehensive idea of Mr.. Lahey's
versatility, in subject matter as
well as media. Landscapes, por-
traits. figure paintings. marines,
urban scenes, flowers and still life,
satirical and illustrative drawings
are soundly executed, realistic and
vital. Some are straightforward
representations of the respective
subjects. Others are infused with
mood and implications, as for ex-
ample. "The End of Summer"
stark reminder of vanished
pleasures.
Mr.. Lahey's most recent paint
ings. such as Still Life With
Hooked Rug Q95O, are broader
i'll handling, more abstract in
treatment, and bolder in color.
But those who know the artist
are convinced that any expert
nlentation in his work is done be-
cause he is personally interested
in trying something new, and not
because he feels the need to climb
on a contemporary bandwagon
just because avant garde idioms
happen to be on the crest of the
wave at present. His work still
accords with a belief he once ex-
pressed. quoted in Peyton Bos-
wells Modern American Paint
ing"
II believe art should be enjoyed
by the artist as well as by the
public. 1t should not be a deadly
serious thing, so sophisticated and
grim as to frighten off the 9ver-
age layman."
Intimate Captures
Ruth Osgood's Retrospective at
the Arts Club of more than 20
works has an intimate character,
as though she had noted down
her observations of her subjects
before they were aware of it.
About two-thirds of the show is
composed Of charcoal. dry brush
and crayon drawings, simple
linear captures of young mothers,
children with pets or toys or other
preoccupations. These have an
imposed look. Some of the por-
traits were obviously posed, but
with the subjects very much at
ease.
The watercolors, too, are simple
and undetailed, and have unusual
carrying quality for their size.
Miss Osgood, native of Mime
apolis, has long been a Washing
tonian. She studied at the Cor
coran School, also at the Art
Students League of New York, on
a national scholarship under
Robert Henri. She subsequently
had instruction from other noted
painter-teachers. Carlson, Haw-
thorne, Henry B. Smell and Eliot
OHara. She exhibits frequently
with professional artists groups
here, of several of which she is a
member, and has also exhibited in
other cities.
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Books In Review
Philip Wy|ie Plays New Variations
An Old Theme in Major Sotiric Novel
THE DISAPPEARANCE
Philip Wylie. (Rinehart; $780,
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jone!

Wyles novel satiric force containing
than little of everything his literary and philosophical repertoire
who admire Mr. Wye and stimulated by his eec
should like this lot Others should
entertaining, part they fail
Evening star., 1951-01-14

Seven solo exhibitions have
blossorned in Washington galleries
in the past nine days, ranging
from naturalism to various mod
ern idioms. Gallery-goers can
see comprehensive exhibitions OF
work by Richard Lahey at George
/ Washington University's library;
by Ruth Osgood and Sydney Gel
fand ct the Arts Club: Pietro Laz-
zari at the Whyte Gallery, Joan
Miro at the Institute of Contem-
| porary Arts; Andree Roullion at
United Nations Club, and Joseph
Inc Danterth at Georgetown Pub
lie Library. These, along with the
Corcoran Gallery's impressive dis,
play of three years acquisitions:
the Evans and Ferrell duo, and
the avant-garde printmakers at
the Division sof Graphic Arts
Smithsonian Building, provide
plenty of eye and footwork for
local art lovers.
| Ancient World Revisited
Going to Rome, Ostia, Pompeii,
and to Tarquinia, Cerveter, Clu-
swim, J. just melted into the
drean,-like pattos of ancient art
in which l had been basking nos
talgicallv from affair."" said Pietro
Lazzarl, whose first one-man show
since his return from Italy last
November, has just opened at the
Why!e Gallery. Accompanied by
his wife and daughter, he went
there on a Fulbright fellowship
with, the major aim of developing
new technique, using tempera on
an oil base.
Seventeen paintings on view re-
veal MIR. Lazzari's new interest in
the spaciousness and simplicity
also the serene color schemes, OF
ancient art. The Greco-Roman
genus reappeared to him, he said
naked and simple, with pointed
tools, with earthly pinks and lapis-
lazu:i blues, and smoky blacks.
Al any rate, these colors appear in
some of Mr.. Lazzari's new paint
ings, and very ingratiating they
are Thc quality of his work va
ries considerably. But. as ex-
pressed in the nursery rhyme
"when he is good. he is very, very
good
He continues to be preoccupiet
with horses, whose flowing name.
and tails recall the baroque steed:
of Chirico. Mr.. Lazzari's horses
however, are wraith-like in the
way they melt into Cor emerge
from) their intense blue, or aqua.
marine green or coral pink back.
grounds.
| He is also showing heads anc
figures. done in painted outline
an expressive line which he mar
rows to a thread or thickens to q
rope. with apparent ease.
Franz Bader. director of the
Whyte Gallery's art division, re-
ports that paintings totalline
$4,000 were sold from the gallery
during December, and that mos1
of them were $100 or less each
These figures provide consider.
able food for thought by artists
dealers and public.
Il
Art for Enjoyment
Richard Lahey. principal Of thu
Corcoran School of Art, affiliated
with George Washington Univer.
sity, is having a one-man show al
the University's library, through
January. Forty oil paintings
watercolors. drawings and etch-
ings give a survey of his work
during the past 20 years. Wash
ingtonians who have followed ii
during his Is years with the Cor
coran, will recognize with pleasure
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7ito's Revolt Is
Explained in Book
By Informed Writer

TITO AND GOLIATH
BY Hamilton Fish Armstrong
Macmillan; $780,
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Art and Artists
Seven Solo Gallery Exhibits Offer
Wide Range of Croftn1onship
By Florence S. Berrymon

Seven solo exhibitions have many of the exhibits
bossorned Washington galleries group
past universitys students To-
from natam to various mod whom these
dons. Gallery-goers primarily intended the
exhibitions Available
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Ancient World Revisited

Going to Rome, Ostia, Pompeii,
and to Tarquiniay Cerveter. Clu-
swim, just melted into the
dream-like pathos of ancient art
in which l had been basking nos
taleically from afar," said Pietro
| Lazzarl, whose first one-man show
Evening star., 1951-01-14

MARY McGRORY
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1951-10-06
The Voice OF The New South
By
j. ANDREW PATTERSON,
Author and Lecturer
THE NEGRO TO VOTE IN LOUISIANA

Democratic elections thrown to the Negro This
that propagandists who preach
world the America the nder dog
chance, especially down South.
the have been making another survey
splendid buildings under construction for the
Negro that shall be able
opportunity comes
making progress
the right ballot in the state of Msss
election Negroes 10 counties of
allowed definitely
number will be allowed the
voting time in Mississippi loud enough and long
able boast that the good people of the
of Mississippi has opened all doors to the Negroes in
the great state of Mississippi when it voting
The paragraph introducing the Negro to the
rights follows He shall be registered member of
the Democratic party The paragraph further
shall have been member of any
communist front listed
gressional department
justice shall he have advocated
the constitution the United America,
have such
without dissent.
The right of ballot is the
citizen under the constitution the
who has he right of ballot may
day be found Americas most vicious traitors
the glorious message larger for the
Negro coming from great Louisiana hear
the immortal ringing battle
ground of Gettysburg That
people and for the shall perish
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1951-10-06
market, and farmers are urged to
put such cotton into the loan, Mr..
Shaw cautioned

market, and farmers are urged to
put such cotton into the loan. Mr..
Shaw cautioned.
We cannot relax in this orderly
marketing effort until the cotton
harvesting season. is over the Ex-
tension leader stated.
THE farmer is thinking about the
possibility of getting the 40 cents
or more per pound he had in mind
when he planted a big acreage in
response to the 100000 bale ma
tional goal set by the Secretary of
Agriculture.
Orderly marketing is the only
way he has chance of getting this
price. and the CCC loan is for most
farmers the most readily available
means of holding cotton off the
market
Stockpiling is being considered
by the government, to provide a
cotton reserve for possible defense
needs and to help the farmer get
fair price for crop which was
unusually expensive to produce.
Mr.. Shaw pointed out
But extensive use of the loan
should have the same effect as