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them living in the Washington
area, is the theme of the cur
rent exhibition at the Pan
American Union. through De-
cember 18.
Eugene Berman, European
born surrealist, is the best
known internationally, of the
artists. His Los Angelitos" has
typical characteristics of his
work. such as the carefully
painted signs of decay in the
architectural fragments and
even the gowns and faces of the
otherwise winsome Mexican
children in the foreground.
Prentiss Taylor's two clean
cut Mexican village street
scenes also have a suggestion
of surrealism in their empti-
ness and spotless freshness.
Theodore Kane's large "Taxco"
is another of the shows best
works. with the town rising
steeply to the magnificent ca
thedral on the summit. Ruth
Starr Roses silkscreen print
High Wind on Lake Chapala"
is also appealing. with its clip
tical forms. fresh colors, and
beauty of scene.
Two genre watercolors of
Costa Rica by Carolyn Bradley,
Edith Hoyt's Fiesta of st.
Thomas. Guatemala" and Wall
ter Hers Women of Mexico"
standardized by their shawls,
practically complete the more
traditional half of the exhibi-
tion.
William Calfee's large tenn
pera, Haitian Dancers" is an
abstraction in black and white,
brown and sulphur, conveying
a sense of motion and the stamp
of feet. Hills of Haiti" by
Richard Dempsey are simplified
to waves of dark green, framed
with blue of sky and sea. Har-
Ian Jackson's two distractions
resemble the decorative work Of
the natives, full of color, while
Paul England's Haitian subjects
are harsh simplifications in a
depressing color scheme.
Jason Seley is the shows only
sculptor, showing two bronzes
of simplifled and attenuated
figures. also inspired by Haiti,
according to their labels. But
without such notice, 1 would
never have guessed. They are
as representative (or unrepre-
sentative) of a hundred other
locales.
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soeiete Anonyme Exhibition
At Corcoron GoIIev

The Institute of Contemporary
Arts has changed its head
quarters from New York avenue
10 3l02 @ street, and will hold
lts events at the Corcoran Gal
iery. Poetry and play readings.
lectures. concerts, films, and the
ID. S. Eide Seminar, will be held
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st. Ambrose. When we take
leave of Augustine, he himself
is a bishop, an old man. devout.
spreading a great influence for
good. well on his way to saint
hood. In his final illness the
Vandals are besieging the epis-
copal city of Hippo and all seems
lost, but not to st. Augustine,
who regards the sacking of
Rome and the infiltration of the
barbarians as only episodes in
the great march of a history in
which spiritual events are para
mount.
There are some moving mo-
ments in the book, especially the
accounts of Augustine's con-
version and of his death.
Mr.. De Wohl was born in Ger
many, fled Hitler in 1885, and
became a captain in the British
Army. His last novel, 1.-The
Quiet Light" was based on the
life of St. Thomas Aquinas.
THE Restless Flame" is the sec
ond in a series of novels about
great figures of the church. He
now spends much of his time in
California and New York.
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Lutrobe Journals
Describe Early
American Scene

IMPRESSIONS RESPECTING
NEW ORLEANS
BY Benjamin Henry Boneval
Latrobe. DIARY and Sketches,
1818-1820) Edited by Samuel
Wilson, jr. columbia Press,
Ne,0 York; s8.75J
Reviewed by Hornett T. Kone
B. H. B. Latrobe is a remark
able individual about whom
Washingtonians might we'll
know more. For the observant
and perceptive (but also temper
amentaD Latrobe, sometimes
hailed as the father of Ameri-
can architecture as a distinct
profession. designed a large part
of the Capitol and the White
House.
True, this handsome individ-
ual in time Quarreled with his
associates in these construction
projects in Washington and quit.
Then, however, he came back in
1915, after the British had
turned both these buildings into
charred wrecks. to reconstruct
them. Again he fell into bick-
erings and again resigned; nev-
ertheless evidence of his inf1u-
ence remain in each case.
Here is an unusual publish
ing venture. Not long after his
break with his Washington ven-
lures, Latrobe went to New Or
leans for other important un-
dertakings; there. a little later.
he died tragically of yellow
fever. In the meantime he set
down sharp, vividly phrased
impressions Of that foreign"
city, its odd ways and odder
people.
For generations Latrobe's
descendants treasured these OBJ
servations. About a half CEN
tury ago only a part of them
appeared in a general Latrobe
work, with considerable slash
ings. It is now the good for
tune of the accomplished archi-
tect, Sam Wilson-better, the
reward Of his long study and
interest-that he present the
full Latrobe journals.
For the first time a reader
can get Latrobe's New Orleans
straight" without emendation.
The quick-eyed visitor tells of
strange African dances; of the
delectable habit of eating craw-
fish lin the Creole city, never
"crayflsh~; OF. the harsh mis-
treatment of Negroes sub
ject on which he offers peril
nent, and specific details; of
the watery bayou terrain with
above-ground cemeteries, of
peculiarities of behavior. In a
word, beautiful book, a valu-
able and delightful one for all
who like sound Americana.
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raj, U. S. Navy. William Nor
only does the Admiral, a pious
God-fearing man admit he made
mistakes. he says frankly he
does not know all the answers
now. 1t is nice to have him
aboard.
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Books in Review
ANoveI Written in Modern English
Around the Life of St. Augustine
THE RESTLESS FLAME
BY Louis de Wohl Ippncott; s3.)
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
THE RESTLESS FLAME

1t was a difficult task Mr.. de
Wohl set himself in this novel
to weave a fiction story around
the great theologian, st. Au-
gustine, without distorting the
known facts.
Fortunately the learned Au-
guStine was highly articulate, as
gifted in expressing as in for
mulating his impressions and
his philosophy. He is best re-
membered by lay readers for his
Confessions" and Mr.. de Wohl
has leaned heavily on them in
attempting to portray the mind
and the struggles of this early
church scholar.
The novelist has succeeded in
presenting a complex character
who readily enlists our SYM
pathy and understanding.
Sometimes the incidental story
of life in the Roman province of
North Africa centering around
Carthage in the late fourth and
early fifth centuries seems over
simplified and modernized to an
extent not altogether believable.
And yet. after all, Mr.. de Wohl
had a story to tell. general
audience to interest, and the
simple dialogue he has put in
the mouths of Romans and
Carthaginians is less tedious
and more effective than the
elaborate-and usually dull
Biblical style, with thees and
thous and rhetorical fourishes,
which some writers portraying
the era affect. And it is doubt
full if this hothouse blossoming
of the archaic conveys the true
atmosphere of the times any
more than the modern English
Mr.. de Wohl uses. At least, his
method is easier to read and less
wearing.
St. Augustine at Is.
Mr.. De Wohl starts his story
in the African town of Tagaste,
where Augustine was born in
354. Augustine appears as a
youth of 16, mischievous, high
spirited, like the other young
men, but always impelled by a
superior intellect which makes
his leader. His mother Monica
is a devout Christian, his father
a pagan, and the boy soon
turns away from both his
mothers teachings and his ia
theirs paganism. The youth
becomes Manichean, a follower
of Mani, the Babylonian, who
in the third century founded a
religion remarkably complicated
and consisting of borrowings
from all the religions he had
encountered, including Chris
tianity. There were kingdoms
of light and darkness in the
Manichean heresy which per-
vaded everything. even the veg
etable plane, and Jesus Christ
was regarded as an imposter.
Augustine and his lifelong
friend Alypius go to Carthage
to study. We follow Augustine's
adventures as a brilliant student,
dilettante, stern disciple of
Mani and, finally. at the age of
33. a lost, bewildered sou, who
wanders about Rome in search
of the truth. He finds it at
Milan, when he is baptized by
the bishop, who is to become
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and a constitutional practical
joker.
Unlike other reminiscing brass,
Admiral Gallery does not con-
cern himself with the high pol
icy or even the grand strategy
of the war. This is his own
story. personal account Of
service on an Iceland airbase
and aboard the jeep carrier
Guadalcanal. 1t is surprisingly
funny-even bawdy here and
there, for the admiral, though
an Annapolis man, partakeS of
none of the stufiness said to be
common to the breed. In fact,
his humor, runs strongly to the
Chic Sale variety. and in the
matter of horseplay, he was
pre- eminent.
But if his demand for COM
edy to break the monotony of
Arctic base life or submarine
patrols is irresistible, the ad-
miral's book is also very infor-
NATIVE in its casual, crusty way.
Readers will leave it with a
better idea of what life on a
plane carrier was like, and a
deeper appreciation of the cruel
responsibilities of the skipper
and the superhuman skill re-
quired of the flyers, who had to
take off and land by night on
a moving ship in hostile waters.
It was touch and go all the way.
In Wartime Washington.
The admiral did a short tour
of duty in wartime Washington.
where he says he was a fish out
of water. There, however, he
did learn about the fantastic
industrial production that, to
his way of thinking. clinched
the victory. He says character
istically, when I read some of
the tripe that has been printed
about the strategy and plan
ming of World War II, I have
a tendency to throw up" He
found planning to be often a
matter of ordering a hundred
when 10 were needed.
Back at sea on the more con-
genial bridge of the jeep-car-
rier, Guadalcanal, subtitled
Can d." he found activity
more to his liking; sub-chasing
in the Atlantic. He ran up a
fine score, three kills in two
cruises. It was on the third
time out that they performed
their greatest exploit. For the
first time since 1915, the United
States Navy boarded a foreign
enemy man-of war, when Gal
lery's men took over the U-505.
They towed it proudly back to
Bermuda. 1t was a spectacular
stroke, and the admiral tells it
with just the right blend OF
pride and modesty.
Clear the Decks" is in all a
most refreshing memoir. Not
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in the Corcoran's auditorium,
and exhibitions installed in gall
lery 43 on the first floor.
The institute inaugurated it's
exhibition season November "a,
opening a selection of 80 paint
ings from the Collection Societe
Anonyme on loan from Yale
University Gallery of Art, to re-
main through January /. 1t in
cludes works by Picasso, Masisse,
Braque. Duchamp, Villon and
other European founders of
modern art.
The Societe Anonyme was
founded in 1920 by Katherine
S. Dreier. an American artist,
with Marcel Duchamp, seven
years after the famous Armory
Show introduced modern art
to the United States. The
Societies objective was "the pro-
motion of the study of the pro-
phetic in art. based on the fun
damental principles"
The current selection of about
30 works, paintings, drawings
and few in other mediums, in
cludes representative examples
OF various movements of the
first quarter of this century.
There are distractions by Kan
dinsky, who painted with the
conviction that paintings main
relationship was to music, and
that color should have a mes
sage for the eyes that sound
does for the ears. Joseph Stella's
decorative Heron" is a paint
ing by one of the "Synthetists."
Duchamp, famous for his de-
scending nude, is here repre-
sented by Bachelors" delicate
orange and white shapes that
suggests dispensing machines at
a gas station. Klee, with a solid
international reputation for his
"whimsy. enchantment and sub
tlety," continues to be one Of my
blind spots. His paintings, such
as the King of All Insects" in
the current show, still seem to
me incredibly foolish and incon-
sequential. Equally trif1ing Ito
me) as an art offering, is Apps
Torso" resembling a jigsaw
worry bird"
1t is interesting to study these
works of the recent past and see
how they hold their own Cor
don't). The drawings by Picasso
Q906) and Matisse c25) do not
seem very important, possibly
because the Phillips Gallery has
shown Washington these "old
masters of the moderns" in more
impressive performances. Mars
den Hartley's Rubber Plant, :"
on the other hand, stands out as
a handsome, covetable painting.
I also liked Survage's Land
scape." with its sharply outlined
buildings, trees and sea. And
I have always found Chirico's S
metaphysical probings on the
unreality of appearance,
strangely haunting, as in his
nightmarish Lovers"
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beginning in the Civil War, and
Mathew Brady, the first great
action photographer, was on the
Union side. There were few
photographers in the South. and
Photographic supplies were in
creasingly difficult to obtain.
Despite these distractions, Mr..
Buchanan has dug up some fine
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The Story of the Confederate States Told in Pictures
A PICTORIAL HISTORY

A PICTORIAL HISTORY
OF THE CONFEDERACY
BY Lamont Buchanan. (Cro,on;
So
The book represents diff
cult and immense research and
is an excellent job of selection.
The art of photography was just
Evening star., 1951-12-09

photographs of scenes and per-
sonalities. There are added
many sketches and paintings de-
picting battles and activities be-
hind the lines. The pictorial
story is arranged in sequence of
events, and it makes an extra
ordinary pageant of the times.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-12-09
Reading and
Writing
No ReprisoIs Against
Behold Vireinio' Author
Ru Mnru MeGron.

George Wilson is the author
of Behold Virginia." and a lot
of people thought that when
Virginia beheld him, there would
be trouble.
Brave man that he is, Mr..
Wilson invaded Richmond,
the stronghold of the Old Do
minion on The day his disre-
spectful history appeared in the
bookshops. But though they
were already sputtering and
fluttering from his idol-smash-
ing of their ancestors, the
FFVs INDUCED in no reprisals.
In fact, he reported as he
mopped his brow that same
afternoon in Washington, the
whole visit went off without
incident. That is. if you didn't
count the review in a Virginia
journal complaining that he had
turned the John Smith a Poca-
hontaS romance into travel
ing salesman farmers daughter
kind of encounter. Or, if you
leave out the call that came to
the radio station after broad
cast saying simply that That
man doesn't know the first thing
about Virginia" Otherwise, it
went perfectly smoothly.
A breezy kind of a scholarly
type with a brush of yellowish-
white hair, Mr.. Wilson is un-
disturbed by these outraged
howls from people who are told
for the first time their ancestors
may have included a generous
sprinkling Of prisoners and pros
titutes and waits from London
streets. In Saints and Strang-
ers," he took the pilgrims out
of their pious stereotype and
made them into lusty lively hu-
man beings. a service which
some appreciated and some did
not.
AS a writer Mr.. Wilson
started out in his native Colo
RADIO with Here They Dug for
Gold" But three years in
Provincetown, where the Pill
grims first landed, and the in
Vulnerable questions of his then
6-year-old son Malcolm got him
started on Colonial history, and
he's been at it ever since.
Right now in his upstate
New York farmhouse, where he Z
writes at night to avoid the
temptation of stopping in the
middle of a chapter to do a
chore, he is busy setting down
the inside story of the Massa-
chusetts Bay colony.
He is. in his own words, "try-
ing to describe the bust up of
the theological government up
there, and to show how those
witchcraft trials were no acci-
dent or alteration, but newt
able under such fanatics as the
Mathers."
With that out of the way,
he'd like to do a biography of
Roger Williams.
While here Mr.. Wilson held
a series of reunions with old
friends. He spent a total of
eight years in the Capitol,
progressing from the Writers
Project to the CAA to the Dem
ocratic National Committee,
where he served as assistant
publicity director.
The experience left him with
a permanent taste for politics.
In the Republican stronghold of
Malta he ran for school director
on the Democratic ticket. He
didn't win, but he's ready to try
again.
X X X n
w. w. Norton & Co. have
signed a contract for the pub
lication of Ellen Knauff's own
story of her three-year fight to
gain admission to the United
States as a war bride. "The
Ellen Knauff Story" is scheduled
for publication in the spring of
1852.
Evening star., 1951-12-09
A HuIf-Century
Appraisal of the
American Novel
so YEARS OF THE AMERICAN
NOVEL: 1900-1950

so YEARS OF THE AMERICAN
NOVEL: 1900 1850
Edited by Harold C. Gardiner,
So. (Charles Scribner's Sons;
$500
The hunger for a point of
view is well-marked these
days. Our generations feverish
search for certainties makes
this collection of Christian ap-
praisals of novelists of the past
half-century particularly apt
and valuable.
1t is the opinion of Father
Gardiner, distinguished literary
editor of the Catholic weekly,
America, that while "a critic
has no right to demand that
the novelist write on the critics
terms" that critic 80 steadied.
so guided by his own precon-
ceptions, will be enriched with
keener insight" The book bears
him out in varying degrees.
OF the IA noveliSts given
lengthy consideration, only two
Fitzgerald and Farrell-were
born Catholics, and EACH for
sock his faith. But they are
not, of course, measured by
their apostasy. even though all
of the critics represented are
Catholics. They are treated
not from an arbitrary. sectarian
point Of view, but, rather, in
the light of Father GARDENERS
thesis that literature is essen
TALLY religious"
In some cases-notably that
of Edith Wharton and Ellen
Glasgow-both of whom had
strong human values but no
bent for the supernatural, re-
marks about their shortcomings
in that respect seem a bit gratui-
tous. The estimates of both
noveliSts as such, however, are
excellent. Where the point of
view and the subject merge. as
they do in Francis x. Connell's
discussion of Villa Gather, the
method of assessment is per-
feet, and the result is superb.
Here the goal was spiritual and
the analysis of it's narrow failure
leads, in Father Connell's hands.
to brilliant insights that go far
beyond the call of mere literary
criticism.
Hemingway, Steinbeck and
Dresser, given their artistic due,
are shown in their defective at
titude toward the dual nature
Of man. Marquand and Faulker,
for different reasons, both get
very good marks. The essay on
Dos Passos struck this reader as
being too heavily larded with
critical jargon, and that on
Sinclair Lewis far too conten-
tious from the outset. The brief
discussion of war novels is first
class, as is the final entry, "Was
All for Naught?: Robert Penn
Warren and New Directions in
the Novel,"
The collection ends on the
hopeful note that this genera
ton may see the rise of Catholic
American novelists who will put
down further afflrmations like
those of Crawford Power and
Robert Bowen.
MARY McGRoRv
Evening star., 1951-12-09
Life on a Plane Carrier Laid Bare
In Admiral GoIIeY's Salty Memoirs
CLEAR THE DECKS!

CLEAN The DECKS!
BY Daniel v. Gallery, Rear Adm
roiU, $780,
Since the public has over
whelmingly preferred books with
barnacles this year. Admiral
Gallery's salty wartime memoirs
Evening star., 1951-12-09

S h oul d find
h i G h fav or.
Not exactly a
finished liter
ary prod u c.
ton. "Cle ar
the Decks is
a bluff, lively
account of a
regular N Wy
man "a pio-
neer of naval
aviation. by
the way) who
was a profess
sional fighter,
a tough boss
Evening star., 1951-12-09
United Stotes Artists
In Lotin America

How Mexico. Haiti and a few
other places south of the border
look to a group of Is United
States artists, about half of
Evening star., 1951-10-14
ON THE WARPATH FOR BUGS
By Emily '1Owc

A NEW method Of protect
n ing plants against crop
blighting insects has been
tested successfully at the
Agricultural Research Center
at Beltsville, Md. If subse-
quent research proves the In
secticides can be used on food
crops, agricultural scientists
will make gigantic strides In
cutting down the one-tcnth
total annual agricultural out
put in the United States now
claimed by bugs.
Agriculture Department en-
tomologists are applying re-
Gently developed solutions OF
chemicals to the seed and to
soil surrounding the roots of
plants, In addition to spray
ing the foliage. The treated
plants absorb these insecti-
cides and distribute them to
all parts through the sap.
Insects feeding on the treated
plants are killed
The new compounds have
been applied SO far only to
flowers, shrubs and cotton.
No food or livestock forage
plants have been used in the
tests. The chemicals appear
to be highly selective in the
insects which they kill. For
example, one solution kills
aphids and mites and appar-
emily one of the other insects
Oh the plants.
Another chemical applied
to the soil kills European
corn borers. Still another
kills aphids and mites on cot
ton when tiny amounts are
applied to seed prior to plant
ing. A solution sprayed on
growing wheat kills green
bugS-an agricultural para
site that has cost American
farmers millions of dollars of
loss In small grains during
recent years.
Chemists report that the
insecticide materials appear
to break down into harmless
substances in the plants
within several weeks. How
ever, these systemic poisonS"
will not be released to the
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katy Is Painful
To Kuty's FINGERS
HOLLYWOOD.

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| Some temperamental actresses
cuss like sailors when they muff
their lines. Others tear their hair.
But Katy Jurado. Mexico's latest
and most likely--answer TO the
late Lupe- -Velez, Is different.
4 Katy breaks her finger when she
blows up.
| She tells it in such q way to
make it seem logical--alrnost.
What for hide when you're an
jgry?" she asks.
| The finger-breaking episode
took place during the making OF a
film in Mexico. She muffed the
scene, then angrily grabbed fin
(ger on her right hand and
snapped it.
i II break my finger to teach my
self a lesson" says the boson1y
Latin.
| "A great actress always knows
her lines. When my finger pains
me now, I say to myself: See, If
you would know your lines all the
time. the finger is not broken and
lyou do not paint"
i She held up the finger to ac-
cent her remarks.
Evening star., 1951-11-11

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ton N. Y. veteran philatelist who
occasionally visits in Washington,
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Even Actor Peck
Lost to the Seal
BY the Assoeioisd Press
.N unJIvWnNn

u" HOLLYWOOD.
An Alaskan seal hammed him
self out of a movie this week.
More than 10000 feet of color
film was shot at seal rookerie:
along the Alaskan coast for back
ground scenes in 1.-THE World il
His Arms" Rex Beach tale. One
Iof the seals proved such a show.
off that his part was discarded
Director Raoul Walsh said he sc
completely stole the scene thai
I"the dialogue between Gregory
Peck and Anthony Quinn-an i'm.
portant story point--would have
been ignored"