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Evening star., 1951-04-03
Pronunciation Clinic.


A pastors wife, Mrs. r. M. of
Roanoke, states: 1--WE heard a man
who is usually very accurate In
pronunciation say "HAL-uh-LOOL-
yuh" for hallelujah. Where does
he get that extra q" in the third
syllable?
A. Where indeed? Hallelujah
means praise We the Lord" the -jah
of the fourth syllable stands for
the Hebrew name Yahweh, "the
Supreme Being" Yahweh also
gives us the word Jehovah.
Garnet: viii you please tell me
why so many people pronounce
homogenized with the accent on
the second syllable? Merriam
Webster's shows no such pronuncia-
ton.
A. Standard American is: Hoe
NAH juh-nized.
Washington: People who say
"drapes," when they mean "dra-
peries," are shortening my life
Mrs. w. L. r.
Answer: Better insure longevity
by accepting the word drapes. 1t
is not only widespread in use, it
also has the complete sanction of
the newer dictionaries, the Ameri-
can College Dictionary, by Random
House, to name one.
"Drapes" for "draperies" Is quite
In keeping with the genius of the
American language. Americans are
Evening star., 1951-04-03
One-Minute Test of You
NeDS knowledge
News Quiz
By Tom Henry

I. DEFENSE - There are
100000 men In our armed
forces, double the number
since the Korean war started.
When was that?
2. GUESTS-Can you name
the President and Foreign
Minister of France who are
visiting In the United States?
3. INTEREST-How much
will a $75 Series e bond
bought in 1941 be worth if it
is not cashed until 1861?
4. PAR-What golfers life
story is the basis of the new
movie. Follow the Sum-"
5. QUOTES-To what did
scientist DIR. Harold c. Urey
refer when he said: II am
very much afraid of the crea-
ture I helped create?
Answers.
/. June Is, 1850. 2. Presi-
dent Vincent Auriol and For
eign Minister Robert Schu-
man. 3. $133.33 under the
new law that extends interest
for an additional 10 years. 4.
Ben Hogan. 8. The atom
bomb.
Tom Henry's "Quiz 'Em"
appears every Sunday in This
Week Magazine with The
Star.
Evening star., 1951-04-03
Word Come
Find Is or more words in
NOTIFYING,

meaning, "pacifying. calming" Av-
erage is %; limit, 20 minutes.
Rules-Words must be Of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letters
BY the addition Of IS" such as bats, .
word is used. Proper names are not used.
A list will be published tomorrow.
Evening star., 1951-04-03
Answer to JoCUNDITY.

Joint, Join, iocund, Juicy. otic, city. county
count, cony coin. unity, unit undo unto
nudity. dint, duty, duct. into, induct, tidy
Tiny, tonic tunic.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Makes Us Know
Each Other Better
A MAN GETS AROUND

A MAN GETS AROUND
BY John McNulty. little, BroDn
G. Co.; $275.J
Considering the season. the
most important story in Mr.. Nc
Nulty's book is Back Where
Had Never Been" which is prob.
ably the most genuine, touch
ing and honest account of ar
Irish-American taking a senti-
mental journey to the old coun-
try that was ever written. 1t is
perfect, in fact. Not a whisper OF
Mother Machree" about it, but
the man from Third avenue
makes it plain he lost his heart
to the gentle people and simple
pleasures of Ireland.
For the rest, Mr.. McNulty Is
Imodestly investigating such things
as Bellevue Hospital, which isn't
so bad; the blue grass country
which isn't so blue, and radio
jackpots, which don't bring ir
so much jack.
Mr.. McNulty never raises his
voice or rams anything down
your throat. There's a quiet ano
a simplicity about all these
stories that makes you understand
that the author is not just &
man who gets around but a mar
who gets around people, and lis
tens to what they say and ther
writes it down with loving care se
we all get to understand each
other little better.
A lovely book.
MARY McGPAPY
Evening star., 1951-03-18

latter, of course, driven under
ground at present, but ready to
take over at the slightest oppor-
tunity. Some characters who
fought against Franco in the civil
war cling rather hopelessly to an
ideal of a free republic.
The district police commits
sioner. the young Falangist thugs,
who go around beating up
suspected liberals for the fun of
1t and the unsympathetic priest
who is only q stooge for the gov
eminent are stock figures. de-
signed to carry out the author's S
impressions Of his country. What
ever the degree Of accuracy or
distortion in such a picture, 1t
does not affect the inner portrait,
the devastating likeness Of the
Moreno family. That is a first-
rate fictional achievement.
The father, Antolin Moreno, re-
turned to Madrid after 10 years Of
exile in England. He had fought
for the Loyalists and had to leave
the country when they lost. In
London he started out as waiter,
but became head waiter in time
and saved money. some of which
he sent his family from time to
time. He became a British sub
ject. and finally it seemed safe
to return home under British
passport. He found his children
grown. as he had hardly realized
they'd be, and the family living
In a mean flat in a slum district.
The mother, despondent, had
turned to spiritualistic seances for
comfort. The daughter was about
to become a nun. The elder son
was making a living from vice
and black market operations. The
other son, working in a factory,
had Joined Communist cell.
Antolin found that his wife and
children had become strangers;
he could find no point of contact
with them. The brothers despised
each other. Pedro, the under
world operative. in fit of temper
denounced his brother Juan to the
police, while Juan agreed to carry
out the order of a Communist
leader to spy on his father. Pedro
put his father in touch with some
businessmen" who turned out to
be black marketeers. and worse.
But Antolin was honest and would
have nothing to do with their
plans for him to invest his savings
in crooked schemes.
The simmering family conflict
fiared into a violent but plausible
ending. Each of the Morenos
emerges from these pages clearly
observed human being, however
erratic and warped some of the
family are. Aside from the politi-
cal background, which may be
overdrawn-no one who does not
know Spain can say-Mr. Barea
proves himself a novelist of great
ability. The writing is lucid and
the atmosphere and detail are
vivid and always relevant to the
story. The translation by lisa
Barea is clear and unobtrusive.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Gathering Flowers
Around AIgonquin's S
Famed Round Table
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
BY Margaret Case Hartman
(Rinehart & Co.: $3.J


BY Margaret Case Hartman
(Rinehart G. Co.; $3.J
Margaret Case Harriman's mem.
ories of the famed Algonquin
Round Table are all mixed ur
with her memories of home ano
father. She grew up in the hotel
and names that were household
words were members of hel
fathers transient household. 81
she was never overawed by the
dazzling collection of wits anc
geniuses who foregathered daily ir
the dining room.
In fact, in this history she Il
a little proprietary about them
and sometimes just a little gush-
ing. The tone of her book is or
the whole sentimental and admir-
ing. She makes out a good case
that while Woollcott, Broun
Benchley. George S. Kaufman
Dorothy Parker and other leading
lights of the circle fiourished dur
ing the mad. gay '20s, they
worked hard and steadily, pro-
duced with consistent brilliance al
pace and a pitch that no other
group in American letters has
surpassed.
Inevitably. Alexander Woollcott
takes a lions share of the space
with his quips and feuds and en-
thusiasms. Many of the tales are
thrice-told by now. and thread
bare. The cult of mockery, which
found its fullest flower in the
New Yorker was never better
served than every day in the Rose
Room of the Algonquin, when the
sharpest minds in town went to
work on each other.
MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

was an American edition, but it
has long been out of print. The
reissue of this novel makes all his
books available in the United
States. Like his six other novels
"The Place of the Lion" is a
highly symbolic tale, with strong
religious overtones. And, as in
the other novels. the struggle be-
tween good and evil-never over
simplif1ed into mere maxims-is
constant. British writer's like T.
S. Eliot and w. H. Auden have
written of Mr.. Williams as a lead
ing exponent of the recent re-
vival of religious themes by top
ranking novelists. To Mr. Will
liams, said Mr.. Eliot, 1.-The super
natural was perfectly natural and
the natural was also supernat-
ural."
Evening star., 1951-03-18
This Is MARRIAGE
In the Process
OF Breaking Up
A wONdAN I'M poSsES

A WOMAN IN POSSESSION
BY Halle Southgate Burnett
(Dutton; s3.)
Mrs. Burnett. known for hel
short stories. has written a sharp
first novel about a marriage ir
process of breaking up.
The subject has been tackled by
too many third-rate novelists. But
Mrs. Burnett Is no third-rater-
she observes closely and writes
sensitively-and her story is de-
cidedly different from most OF
those dealing with the familiar
domestic wreck.
Judith Moore, cast ironically in
the role of wronged wife, is not
likely to wiring a single sigh OF
sympathy from the most indulgent
reader. She is a cold. selfish, un-
scrupulous young woman - as
subtly mean and slyly wicked as
any character I've encountered in
a whole roomful of novels. She
pretends to love her husband. a
college instructor, and she steams
open his mothers letter to him
only one of her devious ways.
Phil is unhappy-fed up. though
he does not fully realize it until
he meets Betty at vacation on
one of the Thousand Islands. Betty
is a cousin of another instructor,
who, with his wife, has accom-
panied Phil and Judith to the is
land. They are the guests OF
Betty, youthful widow.
The author has not been as sue
cessful in thinning Betty. Somehow
she never seems as real as her an
tagonist, Judith, and Phil is a
harmless, Intellectual young fellow.
But Mrs. Burnett never lets her
story flag from its nervous begin
ming to its dramatic ending. And
she has managed to write frankly
of sex without being either sordid
or clinical.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
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BY Martha Albrand. random
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This is a melodrama of postwar
Europe. 1t concerns q French
youth, a veteran of the resistance
and Of various concentration
camps, who is serving a life term
in a German penitentiary for the
murder of an American MP. He
did not kill the soldier. it develops.
but confessed the crime to save
some companions. believing his
sweetheart. the last surviving per-
son he cared about, was dead and
ne had nothing to live for.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
RANT FROM 1LLINOIS

When q constituent wrote to
Representative Nathan Hale for
a copy Of the House rules, Hale
sent In return a photo of Joe
Cannon. Speaker of the House
from 1908 to 1910.
In an era Of great change, the
70-year-olG despot held a job that
has no counterpart on the Hill to-
day. AS Speaker. Cannon was not
only chairman of the Rules Com
mittee, but also chose all members
of all committees from all parties
AS a standpatter. he fought off
almost single-handedly the tide of
reform which eliminated in his
being toppled from power 40 years
ago tomorrow. AS undisputed
leader of his party in the Con-
gress, he bucked two Presidents,
Theodore Roosevelt and William
Howard Taft, by seeing that any
of their progressive measures died
a slow death in committee.
It is the thesis Of Mr.. Bolles'
lively and thoughtful book that
Cannon was the living symbol of
all that the New Idea Republi-
cans, largely Midwestern, led by
Robert La Toilette and George
Norris, were fighting to uproot,
and that his defeat made straight
the way for the New Deal and
the Fair Deal. Cannon's theology
could be summed up in two SEN
tences: America is a hell of a
success. Why tinker with it?" AS
the cries mounted that he was
distinctly the friend of the GRIM
inal rich and the oppressor of
labor" he became a kind Of Marc
antonio OF the right of his day,
with members all through the
Midwest trying to extricate them
selves from the charge of
Cannonism.
Personally "a virile, racy and
racy and magnetic personality"
Cannon was enormously popular
with the members at the start of
his despotism. For all his czarist
tactics, he cultivated uncouthness
and thought of himself as the
folksy type. Many strange bed
fellows were allied in his down.
fall: Newspaper editors, temper
ance workers, trade unionists,
conservationists c'Not one cent
for scenery" said joel, low-tar-
iff advocates, as we'll as reformers
who wanted to see the central
government as a defender against
inequality and privilege"
"Tryant From Illinois" for most
Of It's length is fascinating
story. But as Mr.. Bolles leaves the
personality Of Cannon-there is
not nearly enough about the
man-for a more detailed dis
cussion of issues and maneuvres
1t lags. Still, 1t is an extremely
meticulouS and instructive study
Evening star., 1951-03-18

The splendid panorama OF
Italian Renaissance painting. 18th
to 18th centuries. Is seen in the
116 paintings, which with other
important groups, comprise the
major exhibition which opened at
the National Gallery of Art last
evening with an invitation pre-
view. This superb collection. Gel
ebrating the 10th anniversary of
the gallery's opening. Is COM
posed of works acquired only in
the last five years by Samuel H
Kress and the foundation he
established. 1t will be opened to
the public beginning this after
noon.
This Is the fourth donation
made by Mr.. Kress to the Ma
tional Gallery of Art (for it is ex-
pected that the greater part OF
this group Of paintings. sculptures
and bronzes will become part OF
the Kress collection in the gal.
lery). Each donation, in fact
has been Of such character that II
could have stood alone as a col.
lection Of exceptional quality
Added to the three earlier gifts. il
makes the Kress collection one oi
the most important art collection.
in the world.
It contains not only an extraor.
dinarily large number of master.
pieces by important painters ano
sculptors, but also examples oil
the work of practically all artists
who were responsible for innova.
tions and influence in Italian
painting during the five centurie:
Of its pre-eminence. The Kress
collection also includes outstand-
ing works by many French artists
from the 18th to the mid-19th
centuries. and a number of Flem-
ish and German paintings which
greatly enhance the gallery's
representation of these schools.
An Extraordinary Achievement.
David E. Finley, director OF the
National Gallery. emphasized the
extraordinary achievement OF
Samuel Kress and. his brother
Rush. and the other trustees OF
the KresS Foundation, in obtain
ing such a large number of rare
and celebrated works of art, dur
ing the past decade when every
year has brought increasing diff
ficulties. He mentioned such OBJ
stacles to ease of acquisition to-
day, as the fact that most of the
great private collections have
gone into museums or have been
dispersed; the restrictions imposed
against the expectation of works
Of art from nearly all countries OF
Europe; rising prices resulting
from scarcity of available master.
pieces, and increasing necessity o1
expert knowledge to avoid pitfalls
in acquisition.
The earliest painting in the ex-
hibition is a Madonna and ChilC
with Two Angels done by a fol-
lower of Cimabue, about 1890. Ot
much. greater Importance is an
other early painting, a polyptyct
by Giotto and his assistants date
18th or early 14th century, for
the Peruzzi Chapel; the current
exhibition is it's first showing.
Among Worlds Greatest.
The tondo by Fra Angelica and
Fra Filippo Lippi from the famous
Cook collection in Richmond, Eng
land. ranks with the greatest
Italian paintings in the world
said John Walker, chief curator o1
the National Gallery. A portrait
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Warm Welcome
ToChorIes Williams

THE PLACE OF THE LION
BY Charles Williams. (Pelle-
grini G. Cudahy;; $3.)
Since Mr.. Williams death in
1e45, his reputation, already high
in a discriminating English liter
ary circle, has grown steadily,
especially in America. where in his
lifetime he was little known. "The
Place of the Lion" was published
in England in 1881. There later
Evening star., 1951-03-18
By Florence S. Berrymon

of a clergyman and a Madonna
and Child, both by Albrecht Durer,
obtained from famous collections
abroad. he continued. ARE the
most important paintings to be
acquired for America in the last
decade" Tie Durct5 a2d two
landscapes with religious themes
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. con-
stiture the Ganery's first repre-
sentation of these masters. ct
has had one painting tentatively
attributed to Durer)
Other works of exceptional sig
.nificance which Mr.. Walker men
toned are (among French primi-
tives) the two paintings by the
st. Giles Master. both of unusual
interest in the history Of the city
of Paris, being the earliest accu-
rate views of the district around
Notre-Dame and Ste. Chapelle;
Poussin's Holy Family on the
Steps" from the Duke of Suther-
lands collection: two lovely little
Chardins, THE Attentive Nurse
and THE Kitchen Maid; and the
Lancret hunting scene, once
owned by Frederick the Great
which remained in the Hohenzol-
lern family until the end of World
War I. incidentally, the Chardins
mentioned above and a portrait OF
la knight by Savoldo, early 18th
century. were acquired from the
world-famous collection of Prince
Liechtenstein, the third only since
the first of this month.
This exhibition contains other
"firsts" besides those already men
toned. 1t is the first showing of
works by certain Venetian painters
not heretofore represented: A
quadruple portrait by Sebastiano
del Piombo Of Cardinal Bandinello
SAUL, his secretary, and two
|geographers: and THE Triumph
OF Caesar" a Roman procession,
by Palma Vecchio.
There is no doubt that paintings
constitute the greatest drawing
card for the public. However,
there are in addition IA pieces of
18th century French sculpture, all
of which have come to the United
States in recent years. q work at
tributed to Michelangelo and an
Apollo by Ella Candido, Neither
lands -Florentine school, second
half Of the 10th century. Many
of the sculptures are large figures
and life-size busts by such famous
Isculptors as Bouchardon, Falconet,
Pajou, Clodion (six works. and
Coysevox. Along with statues pre-
Isented earlier. these make the Ma
tional Gallery one Of the two or
three greatest centers outside of
France for the study of this i'm
portant aspect of French art.
Another feature Of the exhibi-
ton is the celebrated group of
medals, plaquettes and small
bronzes assembled by the French
connoisseur, Gustave Dreyfus.
Perry B. Cott, assistant chief cura-
tor, in charge of sculpture, said
that this collection is distinguished
not only in numbers Q,306 OBJ
jects) but also in the high quality
|of individual items, many of them
unique, ranks with the holdings
of the Bargello in Florence and
the museums of Vienna and Ber-
lin. The Kress Collection is un-
rivalled with it's 460 reliefs and
lplaquettes and 708 medals. The
average visitor will probably have
to cultivate a taste for these. But
Evening star., 1951-03-18

KEYNES
BY r. F. Harrod. (Harcourt,
Brace & Co.: $780,
Reviewed by Edwin TribbIe
This is an fashioned bi-
oglaphy of d very modern man
Mr.. Keynes, the British economist
was a product of the standard
golden-oak Victorian age. A bril-
liant student at Eton and at Cam
bridge, he was to spend all the
years of his long life alternating
in the best British tradition be-
tween his university and public
life.
A large part of this generally
admiring life story is devoted to
Mr.. Keynes intellectual life. For
he was an intellectual in the
broadest sense. Philosophy. re-
ligion, the classics and modern
writing and painting were neces-
sary to his enjoyment of life. He
was a friend of Lytton Strachey
and Virginia Woolf and others of
the Bloomsbury set. He was no
less at home in the most rarefied
economic circles. He was truly a
versatile man and this picture of
erudition and action is the prin-
cipal charm Of the present life.
In economics, Mr.. Keynes
found his real role in public life
His service on the British delega-
ton to Versailles gave him the
chance for his first notable book
the Economic Consequences o1
the Peace" This disquisition or
the folly Of exacting enormous
reparations from defeated Ger
many excited the world Of eco
nomics and politics as few books
OF its kind have. Thence forward
Mr.. Keynes was active as author
'pamphleteer, columnist and speak
er. 1t was followed by other books
Iof wider range. His position as
an economic commentator was
assured.
Mr.. Harrod. himself an econo-
mist, has written lucidly and fully
about Mr.. Keynes views and his
book is valuable contribution to
the history Of recent years, both
in England and here.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

ScO ~ dPPCdi .
from the novel
that he has no
more confidence
in Communists
than he has in
F a | a n 6 Is t s.
There are indi-
cations that 1T
regards Spain
as a b a t tic =
ground between
the m iii t ary
dictatorship Of
Franco and The
autocracy OF
Stain with the