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Evening star., 1951-06-17

A large retrospective exhibition
of work by Jack B. Yeats. dean Of
Irish painters, opened last Sunday
at the Phillips Gallery, to remain
through June 26. This major
display is another project of the
gallery in collaboration with others
throughout the country. Assem-
bled by James S. Plaut, director of
the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Boston, the exhibition had its in
itial showing there in April, and
will go from the Phillips Gallery
to San Francisco, Colorado
Springs. Toronto, Ottawa, Detroit
and New York City.
Although Mr.. Yeats had one
man show and exhibited with
groups in New York City as long
ago as the 1920s. and although he
belongs to a distinguished family
whose beSt-known member is his
brother, William Butler Yeats.
playwright and poet, Jack Yeats
paintings will probably be a new
experience for most visitors. They
Impressed me as epitomiZing Irish
racial quality with unusual elo-
quence.
Whether the canvases are small
or large, the paint appears to have
been applied as f1uidly as If it had
been watercolor. The paintings
are composed of rich smears and
daubs, heavy tube squeezes here,
thin color barely covering the can
vas there. Yet landscapes and
skies, elegant, tragic and dra-
matte figures take shape and sub
stance from this swift, haphazard
brushwork. done with apparent
passion. Flaming color, romance,
swirling mists. unpredictable peo-
pie, poetic imagination and other
qualities that make UP a mental
concept of Ireland, dwell in these
paintings; at least, they do for
me. One seems to see images and
objects which may or may not be
there. as in cloud formations. :
Visitors will find a catalogue
with a glowing. appreciative fore.
word by Mr.. Plaut. who spent sew
eral years and a number of trips
to Dublin, in assembling the show.
He gives a few vivid glimpses of
Mr.. Yeats, among them the art
lists reasons for refusing to allow
his paintings to be reproduced.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Crime /
By Miriom ottenbero
The Aleutian Blue Mink, by jaime

The Aleutian Blue Mink, by James
M. Fox. Little. Brown & Co.;
$2.50D
John Marshal, private detec-
tive, is hired simply to locate and
return an Aleutian blue mink, as
distinguished from the royal pas
tel variety. A cool blonde wants
it back, preferably with the man
who gave it to her. In quest of
man and mink, Marshall happens
upon an incidental corpse and is
caught before he can square him
self by calling police. Thus i'm
plicated, he naturally has to solve
the murder with the usual assist
from his enchanting wife and
their Great Dane Khan. A hotel
detective whose mincing manner
bellies his masculinity, contributes
a piquant touch to the proceed
ingS.
The Black Eyed Stranger, by
Charlotte Armstrong Coward
McCann, Inc: $2.50.)
Sam Lynch, a kind Of news
paperman. wasn't one to join the
passing parade. AS a spectator
he could enjoy the confidence of
the underworld and toy idly with
the idea of writing a book some
day. But even the world-weary
Sam couldn't take the prospect
of a probably fatal kidnapping
How he moved further and fur
ther from his personal code in
the face of the stubborn stupidity
of the Sir Galahad he tried to
warn provides the kind of emo
tional conflict Charlotte Arm
strong handles so adeptly. This
one is less nerve-racking than
her classic, Mischief but it
definitely has its moments.
Now or Never, by Manning Coles.
doubleday & Co.. Inc; $2.50.)
Crime Club
Tommy Hambledon plays his
usual competent role in breaking
up a postwar Nazi plot Matched
in battered Cologne. But it's his
buddies, Forgan and Campbell,
who make this the brightest Man
ming Coles yarn in years. Mas
querading as Spanish Fascists-
and how they assume the mas
querade is the books most rollick-
ing sequence-the amateur sleuths
stroll into the headquarters of
the Silver Ghosts. Mass kidnap-
ing, assorted mayhem and the ar
rival of the real Spaniards keep
the pace suitably hectic up to the
finale on the grounds
of a remote schlos..
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Art Films

In place of its Sunday afternoon
lectures, the National Gallery of
Art has been showing outstanding
art films. Today at 4 o'clock,
'Rubens" will be presented. This
film is said to employ a novel
technique in displaying the work
|of the great Flemish master.
Next Sunday, a lecture will be
given at the same hour, on
American Folk Art at Coopers-
town." Guest speaker will be
Louis c. Jones, director of the
New York State Historical Asso-
citation, Cooperstown, N. Y.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
It's San Francisco
Again, This Time
In Cable Car Story
Reviewed by William Hines
CABLE CAR CARNIVAL
BY Lucius Beebe and Charles
Clegg. fGrGtame Hardy, Oak
land, Calif.; $6.)

The wordS-and-p pictures team
Of Beebe and Clegg has scored
again ~ almost - with another
work in the field of early Ameri-
can transportation.
The casual visitors to San
Francisco will welcome this book
as a compendium of odd facts
about an odd mode of transport,
and the former San Franciscan
(of whom there must be millions)
will take it as a nice. stiff jolt OF
nostalgia.
But to the true aficionado of
the cable car, much is lacking in
the latest Beebe- -Clegg book.
There is, for instance, no clear ex-
PLANTATION of the mechanism that
has been dragging cable cars up
and down the steep San Fran
cisco hills for three-quarterS of a
century. Nor is there more than
passing mention of the most un-
usual cable car of them all-the
Fillmore Hill funicular of blessed
memory.
Messrs. Beebe and Clegg seem
more preoccupied with the smell
|of steam beer that pervaded Pa
ciflc street before the fire than with
the fresh odor of fog that over
lays the hills Of one of the worlds
most colorful cities. It is this
misplaced preoccupation that
leaves the confirmed cable car ad-
dict with the impression that in
this book, at least, there is an
awful lot of froth on a mighty
small glass of brew.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Russian Expansion
OF 1916 Described
THE MISSION OF JEFFREY
TOI ,AMY

THE MISSION OF JEFFREY
TOLAMY
BY Darwin Teilhet. William
Sloane Associates: $3.)
The Russians, it seems, were a
menace in the Pacific 1876 years
ago. In this lively historical
novel the author has described the
attempt of a Russian fleet to take
over Hawaii, then known as the
Sandwich Islands, in 1916. James
Monroe, then Secretary of State,
had been informed that it was the
British who were trying to annex
the islands. Although Americans
had little interest in the Pacific
then, Mr.. Monroe realized its i'm
portance to the new republic. In
Mr.. Teilhet's story young man
named Tolamy is sent to the
islands on a secret mission, with a
concealed cargo Of arms. Instead
of British, he finds Russians about
to take over. The author has in
jected romance and adventure
into very readable story with a
factual foundation.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Ex-Secret Agent of
EnqIish Reds Tells
OF Her Adventures
TRIITH WIII. OIIT

TRUTH WILL OUI
BY Charlotte Haldane. Van
guard: $780,
These are memoirs Of another
prominent British public figure
but in a quite different mood
The wife of j. B. S. Haldane, one
of England's top scientists. who is
also one of her leading Commu-
nists, Charlotte Haldane was her.
self secret agent for the party
from 1887 to 1941.
A self-styled middle-class in
tellectual, the author is a formida-
BILE woman quite apart from her
revolutionary activities. An ar
dent feminist. an agnostic, an
enthusiastic amateur scientist
and a diligent journalist. she came
to the party, not through her hus-
bands influence, but through her
reading, especially in Engels.
Her account of her long fanati-
cism, which ended with a visit to
Moscow in 194l, differs from other
such confessional documents in
its matter -of-factness, which is
welcome, and its tdidacticism,
which is less attractive. Though
a novelist until she set aside all
else to devote herself to the party,
she does not dramatize situations
nor even fully characterize the
people to whom she was closest.
The most interesting phase of
her "reminiscences concerns her
stewardship in Paris during the
Spanish war, when she was in
charge of expediting the departure
to Spain of young idealists from
all over the world who were join
ing the International Brigade.
The Americans, she thought, were
motivated far more by the writ
ings of Hemingway than those Of
Marx. Her adventures in Spain
are absorbing, too, particularly her
encounters with such incandes-
cent personalities as La Pasionara.
the woman leader, whom she was
to see again in Moscow. Her
duties also took her to China.
She Finally Recanted.
When the party line veered
abruptly with the signing of the
Moscow-Berlin pact, Mrs. Haldane
took it briskly in stride. It re-
quired second visit to Moscow
as war correspondent. with
much harassment by Soviet bu-
reaucrats. a fruitless search for
one Of her husbands scientific
colleagues and the sight of endless
suffering that finally caused the
scales to fall from her eyes.
At the end of her book, Mrs.
Haldane explores the social back
ground of the typical amateur"
Communist and also goes deeply
into the Lysenko theories of ge-
netics, which brought home to her
the full outrage of Soviet intel
lectual perversion.
Truth Will Out" is an inter-
esting elf-portrait of strong
woman recanting militant
beliefs. It does not have the hui
manity of a similar account by
Douglas Hyde, onetime editor of
the London Daily Worker.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Contrast at the Arts Club

The Arts Club is showing
through next Saturday two one
man shows by artists with strik-
ingly different backgrounds:
Ralph de Burgos, who lives here,
and Pleasant Oliver, who has
spent all his life in the Ozarks,
travelling between Oklahoma and
Arkansas as a country school
teacher. His work is genuinely
primitive. Uninstructed in art,
he took up painting, also writing
and music as hobbies, and now
Idevotes all his time to the first
mentioned. His landscapes with
fiat areas Of earth and sky, pune
Ituated at intervals with trees,
buildings, streams and OCCASION
ally other objects. would be more
effective taken singly.
Ralph de Burgos, born in Shang-
hal of Spanish-Fre parents,
began his art training in Japan,
attended several of New York
|City's outstanding art schools,
was an official combat artist dur
ing World War II with the Amphi-
bious Forces Of the United States
Coast Guard in the Pacific theater.
He has travelled extensively in the
Far East, Canada and Mexico.
Mr.. de Burgos is showing about
Is works, the majority oils. He is
versatile in choice of subject and
treatment. Included are several
traditional paintings, including a
self-portrait; semiabstractions in
rich color and emphasis on design,
and one or two works such as
Angel" handled as studies for
mural paintings.
This is Mr.. de Burgos' first one
man show, although he has ex-
hibited frequently in group exhibit
tions, and for four years has di-
rected his own art school.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
ROADS TO AGREEMENT
BY Stuart Chase. (Harper

by Stuart Chase. (Harper;: ):
$780,
1 Mr.. Chase. who has a gift for
clarifying difficult subjects, has
assembled here most of the avail
able information on one of the
most pressing problems of the day:
How can people get along together?
\ In book which is an explora-
ton rather than dogmatic
answer, he reports on progress in
both the social science and the
practical art of reducing conflicts.
The principles of agreement he
Outlines promise no immediate
cure for the ills of the world. But
they can be helpful in solving
many day-to-day problems in
human relationships.
BELMONT FARIEs.
Evening star., 1951-06-17

along at a deliberate pace. with
many asides, some of them rather
doggedly playful. On the whole
though it is a rewarding excursion
with man who is public-spirited
as well as high-spirited.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Solo at Truns-Lux

Mary Ruth Snow, president of
the Society of Washington Artists,
has lent a small group of her oil
paintings to the Trans-Lux Thea
ter, where they are on view in the
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Star Stan Photo BY John Mueller.

lounge through June. The coll
lection includes several still life
and flower paintings, and an equal
number of landscapes and sea-
coast themes.
Evening star., 1951-06-17
Whimsical Author Writes in Same Vein
OF His Experiences in Purlioment
INDEPENDENT MEMBER
BY A. r. Herbert. Doubleday q Co.; So
Reviewed by Mary MeGroy
Reviewed by Mary McGrory

Mr. Herbert served proudly not to say oyousy in heI
Mother Of Paraents for "a Independent member
from Oxford He his seat with great reluctance 1885,
rather taken out from under him the House of
Commons voted abolish the university representatives
Although his parliamentary embraced
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-12-07
West Palm Beach, Florida
EIoridion Dies in
Israel PIone Crash

TEL AVN, (JTA) - A group
of government and company Off
Gals left LYDIA airport for Zu-
rich to investigate the crash of an
Ell Al DC-4 freighter plane three
miles north of the Swiss city, in
which six of the seven crew
members persisted. Three of the
dead and the survivor are Ameri-
cans.
The dead are: Pilot Captain
Theodore Gibson, of Miami, Fla;
Co-pilot Captain Robert Con-
slant, of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire; Navigator George Hen
ninger, of Flint, Michigan; Nor
gen Jensen, of Copenhagen, Den
mark; First Officer Terence
Nelly, of johannesburg, South
Africa; and Shlomo Levite, of
Rehovoth, Israel. The survivor,
radio operator Michael Querzia,
is from Brooklyn, N. Y.
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FACTS ABOUT SWEDEN
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"DEFEND MY MOTHER"
BY AGNES ROISDAL

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THE SAGA OF HRAFN
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Books and Articles

tents, I found the letters, soaked.
I dried and ironed them and de-
cided not to risk the complete loss
again. They must be copied
LAS l was tipping the letters
night after night. the background
and the events leading up to them
absorbed me more and more. l
began to write little descriptive
pieces at random and it was fun.
l don't know when I realized that
l was writing a book.
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an intention to write a defense Of
my mother; that came gradually.
In later years l knew, or believed,
that my mother would have been
condemned by the courts and the
public on circumstantial evidence.
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they knew my mother? I must
make her known. In so doing. I
think l have defended my father,
too.
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