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Evening star., 1951-05-20
S. w. A. at Arts Club

The District of Columbia's old.
est professional organization oil
painters and sculptors, the So.
ciety Of Washington Artists, il
marking the beginning of its
sixtieth year, with its, annua,
members show at the Arts Club
The society recently elected q
woman president for the first
time in its long history-Mrs
Mary Ruth Snow, concerning
whom a biographical article was
published in last Mondays Star
The exhibition is composed o1
"A works by as many members
of the society. All but three are
paintings in oil or watercolor, the
sculptor members being conspicu-
GUS by their absence.
Henry B. Caldwell, assistant di-
rector of the Corcoran Gallery OF
Art, selected four paintings fol
honor awards: Samuel Bookatz
Might Glow" a markedly ver-
Itical composition with spotting OF
brilliant color: Peter Blanc's DE
Icanter," the objects in which are
shrouded in a pervasive greenish
blue; Robert Willis BLACK Dove >
an abstraction with a design OF
thread-like lines, and John Chap
man Lewis Southern Fish," con-
siderably more subdued in color
than his prize-winning fish COM
position shown at the Whyte Gal
Ilery last month. These selections
are all in modern idioms, whereas
the exhibition as a whole has
more traditional than modern
works.
Evening star., 1951-05-20
Cardinal SpeNmon
q Novel
THE FOUNDING

IdE FOUNDING
BY Francis Cardinal Spellman.
(Charles Scribner's; $2.75.)
This first novel by Cardinal
Spellman, whose previous literary
efforts have been in the poetry
and non-fiction fields, is a simple
not to say sentimental, story of a
baby left in a Christmas crib to
be discovered by disabled World
War I veteran who leaves him in
the care Of a religious institution
Although because of a difference
in religion the veteran and his
wife are not able to adopt the
baby, they remain his friends as
he grows up in the care of the
nuns. Like his would-be foster
father, Paul goes to war, comes
back manned and finds the girl
he loves still loves him.
"The Founding" is full of good
feeling, but it lacks the character
development and conflict of first
class fiction. It has been chosen
as a Literary Guild selection, and
all rights will be given to the New
York Founding Hospital, which
cares for children regardless of
tace, color or creed.
Evening star., 1951-05-20
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
GulbenEian COLLECTION Of Of Egsptian gsTtfaIi
sculpture and European paintings.
BY Kress Foundation. 1s45.i95I.
Flower prints. paintings and color
plate books from collection of Mrs.
Roy Arthur Hunt.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
lection Lection Of Fine Arts. Constitution
ican paintings and cid masters.
Painters, Sculptors and Gravers
society. through, May. Dewing
Centennial through July.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
lngs and etchings Dy Whistler and
other American artists: changing
exhibits, Gallery ". Dewing Gem
tennial through July
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. Sew
enteenth street between New York
paintings and sculpture.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
ings and prints, Exhibition by
Raoul Duty, through June 6.
ARTS CLUB, 2O17 I street-Exhibi-
ton by members of Society of
Washington Artists, through May.
DgMBARTON OAKS Collection, 1908
Tb1Itiisn TTbhlftySecond ond ptIe street NW-Esrly
days through SUNDAYS. 2-5.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Cap
1tol and First Streets-Niuth annual
exhibition OF prints.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
administration building patio. Rural
Art Exhibition: water colors by Byron
c: Jorns Of the University OF Wis
consin. Through May 2S.
TEXTILE MUSEUM, 1890 s street
textiles of the Near East. Far East
and Peru. Open Monday. Wednes-
day and Friday, 2-5 pm. Admis-
sion by card obtainable at the Of
nee OF George hewitt Myers, 730
Fifteenth street NV.
WHYTE GALLERY, 1918 Connecti-
cut avenue N,W.-3Faintin5s by
Washington artists. through May.
WATKINS GALLERY, Massachusetts
Spring annuai Of contemporary
paintings, through today.
SILVER SPRING ART CENTER,
9216 Flower avenue, Silver Spring
MMFour1srtiists exhibition; through
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ARTS, 1922 New York avenue NV,
Exhibition by Alexander Calder.
UNITED NATIONS CLUB, Nineteenth
and r streets N W.-Exhibition by
Joe Henry.
TRUXTON-DECATUR NAVAL MU-
scum, 1910 H street NW.-"Naval
Aviation" exhibition to September.
THE NEW GEORGETOWN GALLERY,
1924 Prospect avenue Sculpture by
Katherine B. Hobbs.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY
OF ART, 2401 Sixth street NV
American Lanscape Painting.
/. r. A. GALLERIES, 1929 Connecti-
cut avenue N.W.-Paintings by area
artists selected for Metropolitan
Museum show.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY. 1877
Randolph place N.W.-Anniversary
exhibition.
Evening star., 1951-05-20
Tales Finely Etched
In the Celebrated
O'Connor Acid
TRAVELLERS SAMPLES
BY Frank O'Connor.
(Knopt; $2.75.)

(Knopt; $2.75J
If the first five stories in this
latest collection by Frank O'Con-
nor can be taken as autobiography
zealand they sound that way
they might go long way toward
explaining the others, which are
etched in the celebrated O'Connor
acid.
Humor is the common denomi-
nator in all the stories, and some
of them are funny enough to make
you laugh out loud. The difference
is that in the stories of childhood
MIR. O'Connor is laughing ruefully
with the children. and in those
dealing with their elders he is
laughing sardonically at them.
The little boy Mr.. O'Connor
describes is an infinitely pathetic
one. His poverty-Soured existence
is further shadowed by drinking
father, humbled mother, self
righteous older brother and sister
and a bullying schoolmaster. The
most typical story is of the lad
who learns the hard way that the
code of the English public school
cannot be practiced across the
Channel. since the master, aptly
called Murderer" Molony, OBJ
viously knows nothing about play
ing the game and either lifted
you by the ears or Dashed you with
a cane" He was "heart-scalded."
to use one of his favorite words.
AS he grew older apparently Mr..
O'Connor saw no reason to alter
his dim view of the people around
him. The main trouble, as he sees
it, is that emotion is ever at war
with, and inevitably conquered by,
practical considerations. In love
the Irishman is so devious and
cautious as to be virtually para
lyzed, so roundabout in his ap-
proach that the poor girl has long
since given up trying to under
stand by the time he reaches the
pOlnC.
A master of dialogue, Mr.. O'Con-
nor Wrlngs every last meaning out
OF the incidents he chooses. to
illuminate the national character
The Irish are mercurial, but he
can always keep his finger on
them. The stories are actually
much more touching than YOU
might think and have much
humanity. Mr.. O'Connor is plain
ly exasperated by Calculation and
greed and cunning" but he is
never merely snide.
Evening star., 1951-05-20
"A New England
School M'orn
KTNDLING
BY Frederick Wight.

BY Frederick Wight.
(Atlantic-Little, BroUn; $3.)
Madge Newell is a full-blooded
headstrong schoolteacher who
takes on a New England COM
munity single-handed and sends
1T reeling back. Madge shows a
contempt for public opinion that
IN any other girl would spell social
suicide in Cape Cod town. But
Madge f1aunts her love affair in
the face of Marshbrook, rescues
a girl in trouble. secures a peace
full end for a hag-ridden old sea-
captain, marries the towns richest
man and almost manages to be
happy with him though he is a
hopeless drunk. This is a large
order for any girl, even if she is
from Rutland, VT, but Madge is
equal to it. Mr.. Wight gives a
good idea Of small-town atmos-
phere and dispassionately uncovers
the skulduggery that goes on in
unexpected places. The only trou-
BILE is that Madge is the indestruc-
tlole, thick-skinned type and the
outcome of her struggle with va
rlous local giants is never really in
doubt. The story is briskly told.
MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star., 1951-05-20

there is the blame he feels fol
getting the boy that air rifle
years ago. If the boy hadn't
learned to shoot, then to hunt
with more formidable weapons
he might not have run off and
enlisted when he was too young.
Mother. of course. has her study
of birds, her radio speeches and
other activities to divert her.
Humor and PathOs.
The happenings are seen most
ly through Mr.. Ormsby's eyes.
Now and then the focus shifts to
Mother. You will not be surprised
to find her rearranging the pro-
gram when it does not suit her.
They are met at the train by a
commander, and despite his in
sistence that they haven't time
they drive by a slummy street to
pick up her old friend, Mrs. Di
Dardo. Nor is Mother in the least
abashed by the pageantry of the
christening and the presence of
the admiral. She has her way,
even if it means smashing a Navy
tradition or two. A few untoward
things occur, but as Mr.. Ormsby
reflects, no matter what happens
to Mother what happens to you is
worse.
If it seems incongruous, entire
ly inappropriate, for ludicrous epi-
sodes to intrude at such a time,
it might be recalled, as more than
one sage of the past has pointed
out. that humor and pathos are
close kin. Indeed, spontaneous
humor is more apt to gleam out of
a solemn procession than to ap-
pear detached.
This, it seems, is Mr.. Morris
sixth novel. It is the first I've
read, but will not be, I hope. the
last. AS I came to the final page
OF Man and Boy" found myself
wanting the author to 60 on. It
was in distinct contrast to the
feeling on ending the average
novel, which is something like,
We'll. thank heaven"
Evening star., 1951-05-20

Day, in the Division of Graphic
Arts. print gallery, Smithsonian
Building. Her initial solo exhibi-
tion was held in the early 1940s
Iat the G Place Gallery, when she
was still in her 20s.
The present show surveys the
past seven or eight years. It in
cludes aquatints of 1914 dealing
with workers, and later line en-
cravings, color woodcuts, seri-
graphs and prints in combined
media. Consequently, the collec-
ton is composed Of comparatively
Irepresentational prints such as
Drought Moon," conveying a
somber mood. and distractions
such as Affirmation of Self
Jacob Kainen. curator of the Di-
vision Of Graphic Arts, said Of
her:
"The artist evidently finds q
relationship between primordiaI
man, beset by the terrors ano
wonders of the unknown, and the
sensitive person in the present
world"
Evening star., 1951-05-20
Actors 7st Novel
Reveals New Talent

OR CALL 1T WINTER
BY Donald Stevens. (Harper:
$2.75.)
Mr.. Stevens is an actor of
prominence. But his first novel
has nothing to do with the theater.
1t concerns an artist who has gone
to an island in the West Indies
with his wife because, owing to the
favorable exchange, he can get
along on his small income and de-
vote his time to painting.
The island, with it's splashing
colors and colorful people, seems
ideal to John. But to Zelma it is
a sWeltering, mosquito-haunted
place. with funny food and moth
ing to do but drink with a handful
OF North Americans" she is
heartily sick of. She suggests
they go to Winnetka, ILL.,, and ac-
cept the standing invitation of her
father for John to enter his
brokerage firm. John could paint
in his spare time. John can't see
the brokerage Office or 'that life"
Result, a domestic impasse which
|zelma breaks in a dramatic way.
Meanwhile, Johns mother and a
younger woman friend, who once
was interested in John, come
down from Boston for a visit.
All this does not culminate in
exactly the way you might imag-
Inc. 1t does add up to an
amusing and discerning story.
The situation and its results seem
natural. The dialogue, which
might suggest q familiarity with
the stage. is fast and sharp. Mr..
Stevens has proved that he has
|another gift, a creative talent that
will be worth watching.
.- CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-05-20

6y raul blanSnarQ. (BeQc0n Pr
Mr.. Blanshard's previous con.
tribution to the harmony of the
free countries and the fight
against communism was called
American Freedom and Catholic
Power" In that book he tried
to show that catholicism was q
menace to Americas liberty.
In the new book, he seeks to set
up an analogy, in totalitarianism
but not in method, between the
Vatican and the Kremlin. The
parallel is so thin that it breaks
down constantly under the weight
of his own prejudices. Although
he decries such anti-catholicism
as the Ku Klux Klan has prac-
ticed, his reasoning moves in q
sheeted and hooded orbit in which
like the Klan, he assumes certain
premises and moves on from there
For instance, in speaking of the
postwar situation in one satellite
country, he says: ITO many an
outsider it also looked like fight
between two foreign powers, the
Kremlin and the Vatican, for q
Hungary that belonged to neither >
The Pope, Mr. Blanshard writes
"has become a synthetic goc
whose Semimythical qualities re.
semble the qualities conferred or
Stain by Communist propa.
ganda." The author admits thai
Catholics are allowed to be "gooc
patriots" in both Fascist anc
democratic countries, but insist!
that the Vatican docs assert ex.
plicit SUPREMACY over all Cath,
Evening star., 1951-05-20
Watkins Choices

American University recently
ANNOUNCED its selections for the
annual purchase of paintings for
it's c. Law Watkins memorial COL
lection, from the exhibition Of
contemporary work which opened
April %, and was noted in these
columns on that day and May s.
This afternoon is the last time to
see it.
The faculty of the University's
art department and the advisory
committee for the collection Sc
lected three paintings-two by
Keith Vaughan, THE Bee Keeper"
and Man With Pruning Knife"
and Composition" by Pierre Pal
Hut.
Mr.. Vaughan is a native and
resident of London, where he is
now teaching, illustrating and
painting. During the war he
served in the British Army. He
has had two exhibitions in New
York City. His two paintings are
jgouaches, depicting single figures
in a simple color scheme of black,
white and citron yellow.
M. Pallut is a young Partisan
whose work received two awards
last year. His still life Com
position" is abstract.
Evening star., 1951-05-20

olics in all nations in matters OF
education. marriage, religion, CEN
sorship and general morals" The
same might be said of any church
that takes its tenets seriously
though the success of none in en-
forcing its doctrines has ever been
100 per cent.
Gives no Credit.
Mr.. Blanshard refuses to give
the Catholic church credit for
being on the side of freedom in
the fight to prevent Italy, France
ana other countries from going
Communist. The church, he con-
tends, was moved by desire to keen
It's power. With the familiar rea-
sonlng of a certain type of mud
died liberalism he argues that this
country should not ally itself with
reactlonary elements" in Europe
such as the Vatican and Franco
even II they are fighting Soviet
ism. Where We would get confinine
our friendship to left-wing factions
ne does not explain. He actually
questions whether the Vatican "is
a liability or an asset in democ-
racy'S war against communism >
Can ne think the Red flood coulo
nave been damned in Italv n,
even in France without thu
church?
Nowhere does Mr.. Blansharc
SHOW the slightest comprehension
Iof the devotion of catholicism tf
the dignity of the individual, He
does not seem to understand thai
the church is a faith to its be-
ileVers. not an organization, and
that the prince and the beggar are
equals before it's affairs. In irvine
to prove the church is LOSING
ground, he does not mention the
thousands of converts in this
country and England, nor, in ac-
Icuslng it of mental medievalism
does he acknowledge the intellec-
tual leaders who have come over
to it in recent times.
Mr.. Blanchard's book is heavily
documented. You can prove any,
thlng by documentation-it de.
Ipends on the sources and the way
they are quoted. He uses much
space to show the tyranny of the
Ihremlln. How he can imagine
the type of defamation he is
spreading helps combat the RED
aggression he processes to abhor
is beyond understanding.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-05-20
Art
Local Galleries
Join in Tribute
7oNoted Artist
By Florence S. Berrymon

The Freer Gallery of Art and
|the National Collection of Fine
Arts. in collaboration have just
|opened an exhibition commemo-
rating Thomas Wilmer Dewing,
who was born 100 years ago this
month, May 4. These two national
institutions have the largest hold.
|ings extant of his paintings, and
hence can give the fullest account
|of his art, as was. the case with
their joint centennial exhibition
Iof Abbott H. Thayer's work two
Years ago.
Dewing. like Thayer, immortal
|ized an ideal type of American
woman: an aristocrat, elegant in
Ia restrained way, fastidious,
serene; a lady, with all the subtle
Iconnotations of that term half
century ago. He usually painted
her in an interior where, as one
of his admirers said, lit was always
Afternoon"
OF course. his subject matter
per sc was not the reason for his
reputation. 1t was his way of
dealing with his theme. Because
his work had qualities which Freer
considered linked it with Oriental
lart. he acquired many examples
of it. The Freer Gallery owns 27
oils, II pastels and 3 silverpoints.
The Gellatly collection also has
an outstanding group of Dewings.
Through July Washingtonians
and visitors can study Dewing's
work in the two museums, and
perhaps mediate wistfully on the
comparative security, contentment
and optimism which made the
decades Of Dewing's prime so
much pleasanter than our own
nerve-wracking era.
|
Evening star., 1951-05-20
Feuchtwoneer Tells Story Of Goya's Love
For Duchess of Alba in Turbulent Spain
THIS IS THE HOUR
by Lion Feuchtwanger. Viking; $685.
Reviewed by Mary MeGroy
THIS rs THE HOUR

This is a novel on the grand
scale. It's hero. Francisco Goya,
lis a towering genius; its theme,
a vast love affair between him
and the premier noblewoman of
Spain, the Duchess of Alba, and
its background the struggle of in
quisition-ridden Spain to keep her
balance while the revolutionaries
across the Pyrenees shouted their
seditiouS doctrines of liberty,
equality and fraternity.
A German historical novelist of
the old school, Mr.. Feuchtwanger
draws all his characters right
from history and goes to great
pains to untangle the snarl of
politics and sex. Unversed in our
democratic ways, he holds that
affairs of state are settled, not
in smoke-fllled rooms but in the
boudoirs of beautiful women. He
is tireless in the lifting Of silken
curtains to show how, for in
stance a widow with green eyes
and a guitar can unwittingly be
the key to a nations foreign pol
icy. No great debates ragged then;
but great passions did.
Actually the author is at his
best when he concentrates on the
huge figure Of Goya. and his tran
sition from court painter to po-
litical artist. A shrewd and lust
full man, he regarded himself as
a bystander in the intrigues that
were so busily woven around him
But his work brought him into
intimate contact with the loftiest
grandees of his day, and his eye,
so to speak, betrayed him.
He saw them for the dissolute
decadent. conniving mortals they
were and painted them with a
IfrankneSs that was seditious
While as cautious as brooding in
QUESTION and absolute monarchy
could make a man, he became
without knowing it, something of
a liberal. His contempt for Holy
Office and throne, for the fanati-
cisms and darkness which covered
Spain. reached its final expression
in the Caprichos. the Satires
which he quakingly presented to
one Of their chief targets, the las
|civious Queen of Spain.
The romance between Goya and
the bad. beautiful Duchess
(subject of a famous nude paint
|ine) is of secondary interest, in
spite of good deal of huffing and
putting on the part of the author.
Although the way he tells it, the
affair never became exactly hum
drum, the telling is repetitious
there being little resistance either
from themselves or the outside
world.
The author succeeds wonder
fully well, however. in showing the
processes of creation and traces in
exciting detail the translation of
an idea into line and color. Bor-
Evening star., 1951-05-20
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Slick Underworld
LITTLE MEN, BIG WORLD

LII LIE MEN, b1I WORLD
BY w. R. Burnett. (Knopt; $3J
Mr.. Burnett's first novel was
Little Caesar" published % years
ago, the story of a gang chieftain
in prohibition days. His most
recent was "The Asphalt Jungle. i"
Like most of his other books, his
new novel Is concerned with life
in its more sordid aspects, with
characters who live outside the
law.
Little Men, Big World" moves
swiftly and never fails to hold the
interest. The same might be said
for any good mystery or novel of
suspense. The story deals with an
underworld empire in a Midwest
ern city that sounds remarkably
like st. Louis, though it remains
anonymous. The characters are
pretty we'll typed. There are
slow-witted policemen, the gam
bling boss with kind heart, the
comedy mobster. a 5-footer who
is feared by the toughest hood; :;
the secret overload of vice, who
lives in splendor and respecta-
bility; the newspaperman with
ulcers and ideals, who works for
clean city.
Mr.. Burnett comes nearest to
producing a real character in
Arky, the shrewd hillbilly who is
the big boss No. / collector of
gambling profits and protection
money. He inspires sympathy,
whereas the honest commissioner
of public safety who eventually
wrecks the underworld empire,
under the guidance of the ideal
istic newspaperman, seems a
rather dumb prig. The reporter
turned columnist is confused and
colorless. What this proves, if
anything, I do not know.
The book is slickly written. In
fact, it made one of the top slick
magazine markets for a condensed
serialization.
GARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-05-20

derous pages Of bitter REJECTION.
Finally Mr.. Morris has explored
his theme adequately in a very
short space. Most novelists of to-
day would have taken at least
$50 pages to bring about like
result. This author has. needed
only 212 pages, and small ones
at that.
1t is difficult to convey the pc
culiar charm of this book by
touching on the story, so far as
there is story. 1t concerns Mr.
Ormsby, a village storekeeper, a
self -effacing man made more so
by IS years of marriage to an