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Evening star., 1952-03-30
Suspended in Space

The keynote to Jacob Kai-
mems latest paintings. on view
in the Dupont Theater art
gallery. is sounded in Peter
Blanc's introduction to the
catalogue (available at the
gallery.
Mr.. Kainen, curator of the
Division of Graphic Arts, Smith
sonian Institution, has been a
resident of Washington more
than q decade. Those ac-
quainted with his work from
his earlier years here. will recall
that it was Simplified natural
ism. He used to paint urban
scenes and buildings. in muted
colors, notably a warm soft blue,
that impaired a feeling Of
quietude.
His work has become increas-
ingly abstract in recent years.
and the current show is COM
posed Of paintings which have
abandoned natural forms. Mr..
Blanc, in his intellectual fore
word. ties Jacob Kainen's paint
ings in with the gradual meta
morphosis Of matter, worked by
the physicists" which has been
''paralleled by an almost iden-
tical development in painting"
In reply to my inquiry as to
what influences led to his aban-
donment of natural objects as
a basis for his paintings, Mr..
Kainen said:
Il worked In q semi abstract
vein, making use of objects in
nature because they still inter-
ested me as objects. More re-
Gently l found that what I had
to say was related only indi-
rectly to natural objects. Ma
ture was beautiful and interest
ing but my primary concern
was to express my state of mind.
Therefore I moved from the
outer world, as seen by a
poetic temperament, to the
inner world. as affected by
shapes and colors distracted
from nature. ! turned into an
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Art as .Psychotherupy

Art has many useS-it is the
means by which the creative art
ist expresses his reaction to life;
it enriches life for the apprecia-
tive layman; it is a form Of rec
reation for many non-profes-
sionals, a livelihood for the tech
nically competent; and perhaps
least known, as therapy for the
mentally i'll.
Prentiss Taylor. widely known
in Washington as a painter and
printmaker, who has given gen.
erously Of his time as an officer
in various professional art Or
ganizationS, since 1948 has been
art therapiSt at st. ElizabethS
Hospital. He began as a volun-
teer during World War II.
Throughout this month, an ex-
hibition of works from art Ses-
sionS there. has been on view in
the Federal Security building
fifth floor gallery. Tomorrow
is the last day to visit this show.
A catalogue written by Mr..
Taylor has a foreword and ex-
planatory text on the 65 pictures
in various media. composing the
show. The interpretations
greatly increase the interest Of
the exhibition.
Evening star., 1952-03-30

the creator, who amplifies that
some idea Of its ultimate struc-
ture may be gained from the
National Planning Association
setup, the old War Industries
Board, ETC.. but without the ele-
ment Of government dictation."
Anybody Can Win.
The Government would func-
ton actually as an "enabler,"
says the writer in further am
plification, giving as another
analogy the Bureau of Stand
ards, which. he points out,
doesn't force any one to do any,
thing, but simply sets up guide
posts for the fabrication of such
items as nuts, bolts, screws, n.y.
Ions, electric light bulbs. in fact
a whole mail order catalogue of
things, which insure uniformity
and enable smooth operation of
the multitudinous functions of
society.
In a free economy, the Gov
eminent will need no enforce
ment powers, no controls, but
can leave them up to the con-
sumner himself, whose execution
of the weak and inefficient is
swift and ruthless" says Mr.
JavitS.
Industrial courts would be set
up to police labor relations:
property owners would organize
to give the small stockholder a
larger voice in operation, and
taxes would be cut, if the Javits
plan took hold.
With such a program, he
asserts. the party will not have
to pitch its hopes for election
victory on some "superman" or
glamour" presidential .candi-
date. Anybody can win.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Another Mr.. Morris Caused as Much
Of a Stir as His Washington Nomesoke
THE EXTRAORDINARY MIR. MORRIS
BY Howard Swiggett. Doubleday e. Co.: SIS. }

his obvious lack Of sympathy
for the French Revolution, he
returned to America, where he
was appointed to the Senate.
Then, at 81. he secured his
reputation for dashing disdain
of convention by marrying
Nancy Randolph, central figure
in the most celebrated infanti-
eide case of the century.
In the writing of this long,
unselectively detailed biography,
Mr.. Swiggett has had recourse
to hitherto unavailable diaries.
This proves to be rather a mixed
blessing It makes it possible
for him to give a tedious, almost
day-to-day account of Morris
life on the continent but ap-
parently excuses him from the
obligation Of summarizing ef-
fectively Morris motives,
achievements and principles.
The work suffers. too. from a
lack of organization and being
disconnectedly written. Mr..
Swiggett should curb a tendency
to write of century-old events in
current colloquialisms.
Mr.. Swiggett is sympathetic
to Morris, finding him urbane,
generous and enlightened. If
demonStrably indiScreet at
times. He can't imagine why
he set his contemporaries teeth
on edge, and gives so little de-
tail on the charges or their
possible foundation that he fails
to clear the air.
MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star., 1952-03-30

mother. the beautiful and half
mad Catherine Bellingham, is
a widow. Her husband, the colo
mel. a hero Of World War I, was
drowned mysteriously in q lake
on the estate. or SO it was sup
posed. It is David's lot to
struggle through the years to
escape the dominance of the
woman he calls mother, and q
bad lot she is, as the servants
know and as David learns for
himself.
BY exacting standards of plau-
sibility and logic the tale might
fail on several counts. But the
test wouldn't be fair. The writ
ing is crisp. the story moves
swiftly and the mystery Of
VenableS Is not cleared until the
final pages. What would you?
If the author wants to call on q
deus ex machina to get him out
Of his last dilemma, that's his
privilege. He has written q di-
verting melodrarna. I do not say
1t Is any masterpiece. To criti-
cize q book because it Is not
something it never pretended to
be Is, after all, to indulge in o
sort Of literary snobbery.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Donald Doy Describes His
Biographical Technique =

In his orderly progress back
ward through American history,
Donald Day has just passed
Woodrow Wilson. Mr.. Day
edits a humor page for the
Readers Digest, and he is on
his way, naturally. to George
Washington. He took a cam
paign year detour recently to
write How We Elect Our Presi-
DENTS" a compendium Of the
entertaining things Will Rogers
said about the political madness
that overtakes the Nation every
four years. While in Washing
ton recently. he showed the
manuscript Of Woodrow Will
sons Own Story" to President
Wilson's widow. She approved
it Fundamentally and said she
wished the book could be pub
nshed Immediately.
Mrs. Roosevelt was equally
enthusiastic about the book Mr..
Day wrote about her husband,
Franklin D. RooSevelt's Own
Story" In that. too, he utilized
his particular technique of GO
ing through a mans writings,
plucking out photographed
passages and putting them in
chronological order to make q
connected narrative of the whole
life.
Once the definitive collection
OF Lincoln papers Is made avail
able. Mr.. Day will go into them.
After that comes Jefferson, and
the series win end with WASH
ington. Then Mr.. Day, Texas
born former editor Of the South
western Review and author Of
The Autobiography Of Will
Rogers" will write Q novel
which he hopes win illuminate
Evening star., 1952-03-30
' Art
Fine Exhibition
BY Ruth Sofford
At Arts Club
By Florence S. Berrymon

Nearly 20 Portraits Of In-
teriors." the majority Of them
in the Washington area. COM
pose the exhibition by Ruth
Perkins Stafford. to open this
afternoon in the gallery of the
Arts Club. These are the artists
latest work and. it seems to me,
her best. She Is working on q
larger scale, while retaining her
painstaking attention to detail
and her sensitivity to glowing
color that has distinguished all
her gcuaches.
Three views of the National
Gallery Of Art capture the two
garden courts with the Ver-
sailleS fountains and blooming
plants and the rotunda with
silhouetted Mercury. Four Of
the historic Octagon House,
headquarters of the American
Institute of Architects, include
two unusual views of the stair
way, with sunny glimpses Of
the garden. Dumbarton House,
headquarters Of the National
Society. Colonial Danes OF
America, has q beautiful golden
tonality.
The old Senate chamber,
Annapolis: glimpses Of Ken
more, Fredericksburg. Va; Of
Fort Hunter Museum. Harris
burg, Pa. the ancestral home of
Mrs. Edward Meigs Of WASH
ington; the Lee Mansion in
Arlington, Washington's Parish,
Falls Church; the King Hooper
house in Marblehead, Mass,
and a private home there; the
Harrison Grey Otis house,
Boston. and finally, the drawing
room in the Georgetown home
of the Hon. Richard Wiggles-
worth, complete a beguiling
series OF beautiful interiors.
Mrs. Stafford. a native Bos-
tonian, has long been a resident
of Washington. She is a mem
ber of the Arts Club, the Guild
of Boston Artists, the American
Water Color Society and Grand
Central Galleries, New York
City. She has exhibited extern
sively throughout the country.
Last month she had q solo ex-
hibition at George Washington
University. She received a BIS.
from the Massachusetts, School
Of Art.
The second exhibition to open
this afternoon at the Arts Club,
is composed Of prints by emil
nent British and American
printmakers, to be reviewed
next week.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
True Tale of Grim
Adventure at Sea
LAST VOYAGE

LaO1 VOXANIG
BY Ann Dawson. (Willian,
Sloane Associates; 81
Ann and her husband, Frank
Dawson. bought an island in
the Loch Lomond Of Scotland
during the war, which they
couldn't get into. They waged
a losing fight to make a living
by raising goats and other
things. But they both were ad-
venturers, ex-flyers, and they
longed, with the war over, for
q more dangerous, interesting
life. The answer was a boat. for
Frank knew we'll how to handle
one. After long search they
found one within their means
at the western port of Fleet
wood. It took them two years to
refit the stanch old Reliance
for the trip around the world
they planned. BY that time
their. money had run out and,
the mortgage holder was about
to foreclose on their boat. They
couldn't sell it and pay their
way out, so they decided to
sneak of, hoping to better their
fortunes in foreign waters.
After running into a terrible
gale and enduring sleepless days
of fighting with sail and engine
to keep their craft afloat and
away from reef-strewn shores,
their luck ran out one night and
they crashed into a cliff on
Portland Bill in the English
Channel. Only Ann made shore.
This is not a novel, but a
factual account. It is one of
those rare true stories which
are exciting as fiction and seem
to come straight from the heart.
The author minimizeS her own
part and exalts, the memory of
: her husband, but obviously she
is girl of tough fiber and great
courage. The first part of the
book is on the discursiye side,
but the later chapters. describ-,
ing the voyage, written with
simple clarity and without pre-
tense. are thrilling and poignant
in turn. Last Voyage" deserves
to be read widely, as no doubt
it will be.
Evening star., 1952-03-30

Although it well might. the
title does not refer to the ex-
traordinary Mr.. Morris now en-
livening the Washington scene.
1t describes an eXuberant for
bear, who caused quite as much
stir in the political life of his
day, which was. Of course, the
Revolutionary period.
One of the youngest members
Of the Continental Congress,
Mr.. Morris was also one of the
most unpopular. His ariSto-
cratic principles then and later
earned him the emnity of his
more republican colleagues.
They also found him ''brassy"
and IAN eternal speaker"
OF his ability, there was never
any doubt. He invented our
coinage system, served brilliantly
in the Federal Convention. be-
ing mainly responsible for the
final draft Of the Constitution.
Going to France on private busi-
ness, he was later appointed
minister to that country by
Washington. who was always his
friend and partisan. During
his long stay, he was the lover
of Nine. de Flahaut. a beautiful
aristocrat whose favors he
shared with Talleyrand. 1t was
an affair Of much passion, little
love. Like his contemporary,
Boswell. he kept a diary and.
like him. too, was tireless in
the pursuit Of love. If slightly
more choosy.
Relieved from his post for
Evening star., 1952-03-30

Republican ranks could mean
the difference between winning
or losing, Mr.. Javits comedies
that his blueprint probably will
take decades for adoption, and
he is probably right. But the
G. o. p. should adopt it, he con-
tends. and the quicker the
better.
The present scheme of govern
ment would be junked, under
the JavitS plan. He argues that
there is too much government
control over everything now,
and he wants the people-or
consumers-to take over under
a new economic" government,
which adds up to an ambitious
self-policing proposition. There
would continue to be rules and
regulations, but politicians would
go.
The detailed structure of this
organization need not be dis
cussed or determined here" says
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Ellen Knuuff Tells
Her Own Story

THE ELLEN kNAUtt STORY
BY Ellen Raphael Knauff. Nor
ton; $780,
The subject of a celebrated
immigration case tells her story.
Mrs. Knauff, the wife of a for
mer GI, who was serving as a
civilian employe of the Amer
lean Government in Germany.
reached New York in the sum-
mer of 1948. She was held at
Ellis Island. She didn't know
why-no one would tell her and
she was refused a hearing. She
had been cleared in Germany
by our Counter Intelligence
Corps and other organizations
concerned. Born in Germany,
she was a Czechoslovakian citi-
zen and during the war served
in England in the women's
auxiliary Of the Royal Air Force.
Her case dragged on, and her
lawyer appealed to the courts.
The Supreme Court. over a
strong dissent, upheld the right
Of the Attorney General to ex-
clude her without giving a rea-
son, other than that she was,
in his opinion, q security risk,
and to refuse q hearing. Her
case got into Congress, and bills
were introduced to admit her.
Finally the Attorney General
granted her a hearing, but q
board, on hearsay evidence
alone, upheld the immigration
authorities. The Board of Inn
migration Appeals reversed the
ruling, holding there was no
credible evidence against her.
At last. more than three wears
after she arrived, she was ad-
mitted. Mrs. Knauff's experi-,
ence is story that should cause
any fair reader to wonder at
the workings of a bureaucracy
which a democracy set up to
protect itself.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Mr.. Prescott Looks
Into the Novel
IN MY OPINION

IN MY OPINION
BY Orville Prescott. (Bobbs-
Merrill; $3J
The able daily book critic for
the New York Times pursues
here what he subtitles an in
Quiry into the contemporary
novel. Mr.. Prescott always ex-
presses himself exactly and in
tereStingly. His taste is on the
traditional, the conservative side,
but surely such an influence is
needed at a time when the de-
cadent, the experimental and
the precious are exalted in other
quarters.
MIR. Prescott is for John p.
Marquand's urbane satires. He
halls A. B. Guthrie, jr., and
Conrad Richter for painting the
frontier at last with art and
reality. But what of Walter
Van Tilburg Clark and his
masterpiece Of a more modern
West. "The Track of the Cat?
No mention. And Mr.. Prescott,
after eXalting THE Grapes Of
Wrath" condemns John Stein
beck's delightful "Cannery Row"
as feeble and foolish and
worse. The critic indicates that
derelicts and moochers are not
proper material for literature if
they are presented sympathe-
tically-he accused Steinbeck Of
exalting those. And yet Mr..
Prescott finds some Of Joyce
Cary's buns irresistible. Mr..
Cary is English; perhaps that's
the difference. But every book
reviewer is entitled to his spe-
cial inconsistencies, as well as
his favorite prejudices.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Written Mainly
For entertainment
BIRD OF PARADISE

BIRD OF PARADISE
BY Ada LeverSon. (W. w.
Norton; $3.)
Ada Leverson was introduced
to the American public last sea-
Son-some 20 years after her
death--with a delectable trifle
called 1.-THE Limit" The sus-
picion that so happily dawned
on readers of that book is con-
firmed here. Mrs. Leverson cares
not a straw for plot, has no
message for a breathless world,
never heard of Freud. She
merely wants to be entertain
ing. She is.
Bird. of Paradise" is just as
absurd as its predecessor, just
as unlikely. just as beguiling. 1t
floats on for page after page
with witty character analysis,
delightful dialogue and dry
commentary. 1t has nothing
more profound to say than that
love is a wonderful thing and
that you never know how it is
going to affect people. She
takes three oddly assorted Lon
don couples. two married, one
courting, and shows how they
work out their uncrushing prob
lens simply by being candid,
by admitting that their attach
ments may not be entirely rea-
sonable and going on from
there.
"A contemporary and loyal
friend Of Oscar wilde, Mrs.
Leverson Is very right-minded,
II Ight-hearted. and all for the
sanctity Of the home. She
plainly believes 1t Ii possible 70
be happy. though married.
NARY MeoRoRY.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
By Mary MeGrory

"They strangle you. but very
slowly" That Is an eyewitness
description Of how the Commu-
nists proceed once they have
taken over . country.
Father Raymond de Jaegher,
a Belgian priest. watched the
Reds move into China from his
mission post in the province of
Hopei in North China. where
infiltration began in 1887. At
first. it was all quite painless.
and the people got an impression
that they were going to have
more freedom than before.
Father de Jaegher has told
the whole sorry story of disen-
chantment and death in THE
Enemy Within" which he wrote
with Correspondent Irene Cor
bally Kuhn. at the suggestion of
his friend, Bishop Fulton j.
Sheen. The missionary, a tall
voluble. vigorous man with white
hair and rosy cheeks was here
recently, staying at the Institute
of Chinese Culture. During his
visit he lectured at Georgetown
on Communist strategy.
How Repression Works.
That strategy apparently is
based on a tactic OF repression
that can be excused as coinci-
dence, a favorite totalitarian de-
vice. For instance, Father de
Jaegher said they never actually
closed his church. All they did
was to hold Communist meet
ings there, while he was saying
mass, thereby forcing him to
hold services in private homes.
1t was the same way with the
40 schools he and other mem
berS of the mission band had
blished throughout the prov
ince. Nothing was said about
Communist objection to reli-
giouS schools. ALI the Red
authorities asked was that his
teachers undergo Is days of
civic training" to fit them for
Guty under a peoples govern
ment." No one was particu-
larly surprised to learn Father
de Jaegher's teachers didn't
measure up. When the author
tiles sent over their teachers he
closed the school on his own.
Something of the sort happened
to all the Catholic clinics and
other establishments through
out the province.
During the war, from March,
1943, to August, 1945. Father de
Jaegher was interned by the
Japs-an interval about which
he is Enthusiastically cheerful.
After his liberation he returned
to China to work among the
refugees. It.. was during this
period he thinks that the Unit
ed States could have wrested
China from the Communist
grasp. Now he feels it can only
be done by invasion with United
States help, since any possibility
of internal revolution is totally
out of the question. The people
don't even dare tell each other
how they feel about the regime
any more, and one whole gen.
Grafton has been thoroughly in
doctrinated.
Father de Jaegher was black
listed by the Communists in
1949, took the last plane out of
Tientsin to Formosa, where he
is currently stationed. Like the
army Chang Kai-shek has or
sanized on the island, he hopes
one day to return to China.
1T was my life there" he
says. And the Chinese are
such nice people. Very nice
people who have many virtues
and enjoy life"
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Grand Strategy
In World War II
Well Appraised

THE STRUGGLE FOR EUROPE
BY Chester Wilmot. Harper;
So
Reviewed by Belmont Fories
In this thoroughly readable
one-volume history Of the war
In Europe Mr.. Wilmot has set
himself a double taskto tell
how Hitler was defeated on the
battlefield and why most Of the
fruits of victory fell into Stalin's
hands.
His view on both topics is
definitely British, which is
hardly surprising since he is a
former BIC correspondent who
jumped with British para
troopers on D-Day and later
was assigned to Montgomery's
headquarters.
1t would be hard to deny,
from the perspective Of the
l950s, that Churchill may have
been wiser than the American
leaders who opposed his efforts
to fight the war against Ger
many in such way as to hold
Russian expansion to q mini
mum. Roosevelt. Marshall and
Eisenhower set themselves a
simpler task-to defeat Hitler as
quickly and as directly as pos
sible.
But it will be more dificult
for most Americans to accept
Mr.. Wilmot'S thesis that the
war could have been won in
1914 If Montgomery had not
been hampered by Eisenhower's
uncertainty or his failure to
impose his will on "the evasive
Bradley or the intransigeant
Patton" It seems hardly likely
that everybody was out of step
but Monty.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
lsruel's Problems

ISRAEL: THE BEGINNING
AND TOMORROW
BY Hal Lehman. (Sloane:
$3.75.J
Writing sympathetically of
Israels problems. MIR. Lehrman
takes a critical look at some Of
the patterns being set in the
new nations infancy. In con-
traversial fields such as the re-
lationship Of church" and state
In q country governed by q
coalition Of socialists and rabbis
-he Is careful to present OPP
posing viewpoints. but leaves no
doubt where he stands. His
sound interpretive reporting
contributes q great deal TO an
understanding Of Israel today.
-DELMoNT EARIRD.