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her. an obligation from which
he plainly believes marriage has
freed him. : =.
It would be easy to laugh at
AlesSandra. She sounds like the
discontented American matron
who has become almost a Carl
cature in our national life. She
is perhaps a selfish and silly
woman who reacts violently in
situation to which other women
resign themselves. Miss de Ces-
pedes. however. has told the
story with great feminine insight.
If she can't make you exactly
understand Alessandra's crime.
she makes you understand what
led up to 1t. The author Is the
wife Of the former First Secre-
tary in the Italian Embassy
here. IN. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-11-02
Cryptic Forms

Some people confide their
thoughts and experiences to
diaries. in limpid English, and
run the risk of getting them
selves into a heap of trouble,
should other eyes scan the en-
tries. Not so Gene Davis whose
exhibition of drawings at the
Dupont Theater Gallery of Art
will remain through next Sum
day.
Most of us would never suspect
that Mr.. Davis distractions,
done in ink with pen or brush,
sometimes in crayon. are diary
entries. But such is the case, to
Judge from Jacob Kainen'S in
PRODUCTION to the catalogue,
from the fact that these %
drawings are not titled but
dated, and Mr.. Davis own state
ment: ''No story has been told:
only inner experience trans
formed into plastic reality"
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tered it. He writes about a
horrendous night alone In a
Greenwich Village apartment,
recollections of Flu AManchu, the
abilities Of the King of Siam as
a songsmith and the qualifica-
tions of Fleur Cowles as a mag
azine executive. And these are
only a few of his topics.
This is a book for belly
laughers who are in need of
strong meat after a yogurt-like
diet of politicians explaining
away their own vices and their
opponents virtues. It is, in
a very few words, Perelman at
his best-and need any more
be said?
Evening star., 1952-11-02
Wuter Color Annual

The Washington Water Color
Clubs members show at the
Arts Club through next Friday
is up to the clubs usual stand
ard of technical competence and
subject appeal, and generally
traditional character. Forty-five
exhibits, mostly water colors,
with a few pastels and prints.
I'LL the first-floor gallery and
reception rooms.
First prize went to Gustav
Evening star., 1952-11-02

The ObeliSk Gallery of Art.
which opened a few days ago,
is a welcome addition to Wash
ington's art galleries and exhi-
bition centers. The inaugural
display was sponsored by H. E.
the Ambassador from Italy and
Signora Tarchiani at a preview
last Wednesday, and will remain
through December 13. It COM
prises nearly 80 paintings by
recent and contemporary Italian
artists, some of established
regulations, others whose works
are being shown for the first
time in this country.
The new gallery at 3241 P
street, owned by Kathryn
Eichholtz and Janet Rubin, was
the subject of a feature article
in The Stars women's section,
October %, which gave infor-
nation about the project and
the owners, and something about
the artists in the opening show.
Earliest of the nine artists in
the group is the. late Renato
Paresce U886-193 whose two
evocative paintings have the
same title, "The Sailors Dream"
(reproduced. Youngest Is Mario
Russo, q. whose Goya-like
"Congresso" seemed to me the
best of his three works.
Most amusing are the genre
paintings by Costanza Mennyey:
in one of them, a ballerina
hilariously reads a would-be
lovers letter backstage, while
his expensive bouquet lies
neglected. Nino Cafe has found
an inexhaustible supply Of sub
jects in Italy's young priests,
particularly in their lighter
moments. a
Aldo Pagliacci has the largest
group, tempera paintings, three
of them surrealiStic in atmos-
phere, done in a meticulous ira
ditional technique, and one
beautiful crayon drawing on
black paper, outstanding In
craftsmanship.
Evening star., 1952-11-02
Rose and Crown
BY Sean O'Casey. macmillan: S4J

The fifth installment of Mr.
O'Casey's unconstrained mem
oirs is the mixture as before:
Heady, lyric and irreverent. In
recounting his years In England
and a visit to America he shows
the same wild unconcern for
dates and facts, the same airy
Indifference to chronology and
the same wonderful power for
capturing moments and per-
sonalities that elude some tidier
writer's.
In these pages. we have Mr..
O'Casey. the embattled play
wright, furiously feuding with
the Abbey and Yeats over their
refusal to enact his Silver
Tassie." We have also Mr..
O'Casey, the young husband,
wrestling like any one else with
leaking pipes. exploding geysers
and avid landlords. His little
account Of watching his baby
son at play in London Park is
an unforgettable passage among
accounts of more momentous oc-
currences.
Leaving Ireland, as he did,
sometime in the '20s, Mr..
O'Casey didn't leave behind his
Evening star., 1952-11-02
The W-Tempered CIovichord
BY S. j. Perelman (Simon G. Schuster; s2.95.)
Raviewed hv W;ll;o,, H;,.e

I'm no bloody hero. and when
the Princess Pats stood at Pass
chendaele in IT. I was damned
careful to be IL years old
and three thousand miles to the
rear
Thus, this week. S. j. Perel-
man opens his latest book. He
closes it. 244 pages later. with
the remark, "You never know
what they're thinking - and
maybe it's just as WELL"
Between these two sentences
are packed % examples of the
Perelman wit-examples that
prove again that Perelman. of
all people, has met the cliche
on its own ground and mas
Evening star., 1952-11-02
Books in Review
This New Tale Of Texas, q First Novel,
Seems as Vast as the Entire State
Sironio, Texas
BY Madison Cooper (Houghton Mi67in; uoumes; s1oJ
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones

Fairness should compel a
beaten-down critic, who had to
read the 1.731 pages of this
novel in three weeks, along with
10 or IL other books, at the
busiest publishing season of the
year. to consider its literary
qualities before discussing its
amazing length.
"Sironia, Texas" a first novel
by a 58-year-old Waco busi-
nessman, has decided merit.
Mr.. Cooper has developed doz-
ems of characters perSuasively.
He writes unaffected, vivid de-
scriptions and colloquial dia-
logue that never falters or seems
strained. He has sweeping. if
undisciplined. imagination.
This is the story of a small
town between 1900 and 1921. It
is not. however. an epic of
growth and change in two ka-
liedoscopic decades. It is more
the saga Of certain families and
of stressed individuals.
More of the South
This is not the Texas of the
frontier, the old West which
had not entirely faded at the
turn of the century. Nor is it
the Texas of the cattle kings
and the new oil empires, which
Edna Ferber recently satirized.
Sironia, in a rolling farm coun-
try, is more conservative, less
distinctively Texan. It could be
one of the older, more tradi-
tion-bound communities of the
East. Wealth counted, as it
does everywhere, though there
were none of the new oil-cattle
rich. Family-what the colored
servants called quality-was
more important. The town par
took more of the South, with
its outmoded gentility and di-
minuendo sighs for the Lost
Cause. than of the West, which
never cared about the past.
Not that Mr.. Cooper has SEN
timentalized his Hill families,
the great of Sironia. He prob
ably has gone too far in the
other direction. The earthiness
of their sons and daughters are
appended in untiring and some
times revolving detail. And yet
it is not from the Storrows, the
Haydns and the Thaxtons that
the towns worst impulses come,
the spread of a phony white
supremacy issue through the
Ku Klux and a successor,
the Southern Patriots.
The main character, however,
is not of the Hill. He is Tam
Lipscomb, son of the towns
biggest merchant. The father
had been Tilted by a Thaxton
heiress and in pidue had mar
ried Mora, an Irish maid in
a Haydn household. Marshall
Lipscomb regained his standing
on the Hill through success and
force of character. Tam, be-
cause Of his likeable qualities,
was not snubbed, but when he
and Nelia Hadyn fell in love.
they were persuaded it simpl,
wouldn't do for a Haydn to mar,
ry a Lipscomb.
No more of the complex stor,
can be told in a brief summary
Mr.. Cooper's method is largely
naturalistic. His people are pro-
PEELED by various influences, in
herited and environmental. Few
Of them are able to escape their
Evening star., 1952-11-02

under the Communist yoke.
From what I have seen hap
pen." he writes, II am convinced
that the nation is completely
powerless in the fist Of COM
muniSm. It is the system of
communism that applies fire to
the soul and breaks the spirit
Of a people. =. 1t is wrong to
say there is no heart for re-
sistance and rebellion. But it
will not arise until a. mighty
invasion from the outside gives
promise of sure success"
You come away feeling that
Father Tennien had to fight
himself to keep from openly
advocating just such a full-scale
invasion by the West.
Evening star., 1952-11-02
The Best of Husbands
BY Alba de Cespedes. fMacnilian;; $375)

by A4Ud Qe NcSpcueO. tMUEHttt
The title is ironic. The hero
inc Of this novel shoots her
husband because he refuses to
court her after they are married.
She is an unrelenting and de-
manding romantic doughter of
a beautiful Italian, Nine. Bo-
vary. who died for a love that
might never have existed. When
Alessandra meets and marries
Francesca, she believes that
a lifetime of bliss is in store
for her. Instead, the daili-
ness Of life asserts itself
he begins to take her for
granted, he will not let her
share in his partisan activities.
She begins to daily with a friend
OF his, but this does not satisfy
her. What she wants is for
francesca to pay attention to
Evening star., 1952-11-02
No Secret Is Safe Behind the Bamboo Curtain
BY Father Mark Tennen of Maryknou Farrar Straus g.
Young, Inc: $780,
Reviewed by krI H. Voss

sos Father Tennien was on the
inside Of Communist China
looking out when North Ko-
reans crossed the 38th Parallel
in June. 1850. when Gen. Mac
Arthur's forces drove to the
Yalu River, and when the Chi
nese Reds came to North Ko-
rea's rescue. He tells what the
home folks have been sacrificing
voluntarily and involuntarily
so that Mao could prosecute
the war while at the same time
setting in motion the commune
zation Of that great, populous
country.
An especially keen observer
who speaks. reads and writes
Chinese. Father Tennien got
most of his closeups of Red
techniqueS while under house
arrestsat his mission in Kwangsi
Province, South China, and in
the unspeakably wretched jails
of the same district. The local
Reds even tried to make q Com
munist Of him. They subjected
him to the full indoctrination
treatment.
Becomes Grimly Reol
Not much of Father Tennien's
story is new, except in personal
details. The pattern of Red 're-
form" Is pretty we'll known. But
the narrative makes the cruel
life under Chinese communism
grimly real.
The author gives the Commu-
niSts their due. He says they
have done more than he thought
possible to shake the lackadaisi-
cal Chinese out of their Mile
niums-old lethargy. Most Of the
graft has been wiped out, Chi
nese are doing things on sched-
ule, an unheard Of development.
Opium has been suppressed.
Father Tennien calls this the
most remarkable Of all Com
munist achievements"
But he believes that reforms
have only penetrated the sur
face. so far. He points out that
taxes are much too high.
breaking down the whole econ
omy of China" The widespread
purges and other crueltieS are
making enemies. Chinese slave
labor camps are filling up fast.
And the open policy of reducing
the country's huge population is
bound for trouble, in his view.
He found Red officials openly
admitting that they intend to
reduce the population drasti-
cally.
Hard to Believe
Such brazenly murderous in
tentionS at first were hard for
Tennien to believe:
when communism had con-
troll Of only about half of China,
the Nationalists claimed that
the Communists were planning
to cut China's population down
by 100 million. At that time it
sounded like one of the widest
claims propaganda could manu-
facture. After seeing the Com
munists at work for nearly two
years. I am ready to congrstu-
late the Nationalists for their
merciful understatement."
Father Tennien is extremely
pessimistic about China's short
range future. especially about
its chances Of getting out from
Evening star., 1952-11-02

tendencies. There is little of
idealism and small sense of
beauty in any Of them. Their
lives sometimes are swept into
violence. Murder and suicide
are woven into the pattern.
Three quarters through the Sec
ond volume there's a lynching,
a powerful and ghastly evoca-
ton Of bestialtty and torture.
Despite the pretensions of the
Hill, real culture seems lacking
in the community serious books
and good music are hardly men,
toned by any one.
Too Many By-Poths
The novel says under the
sheer weight Of its words.
There is too much Of everything.
Z Instead of reading only about
Tam's adolescence we have to
read also parallel accounts of
how manhood came to his best
pals, their first sexual expert
ences in all the sordid details,
their youthful capers and their
early dates. While Jared. COL
ored youth. is an important
character and could well have
been developed at length, all his
family and associates, as well as
many other minor characters,
white and colored, receive ex-
tended treatment.
Certainly there are many sue
cessful literary portrayals which
run to great length, but most
of them, like GalSworthy's For
syte saga. are series of novels,
each rounded and complete, lat
er perhaps gathered in single
volumes. Great novels Of ex
traordinary length can be cited.
But "Sironia" is no War and
Peace" nor. to be fair. was it
intended to bets
While Mr.. Cooper probably
could have developed his Siro-
mans more effectively in a series
Of novels which could be read
separately, it is a serious ques-
ton whether they are interest
ing enough to rate all that. Even
Tam. engaging enough. is de-
liberately made ,mediocre-liked
and admired. as another char
acter observes, because he is so
close to the average of them.
There can be little doubt that
if Mr.. Cooper had edited himself
sharply. he'd have had a better
novel. He could have drawn
together the main threads of
his story in a fraction of the
$4,000 words he has expended
the length of eight novels of
ordinary size. The author is
said to have worked on the book
in his spare time for II years.
It probably will take the aver
age reader six months to finisl
it.
Cult Of Long Novels
But publishers seem to have
ncouraged a cult of long novels
,ver since Gone With the
Wind" sold so phenomenally.
If the trend continues, books
nay yet be weighed and sold
~ the pound.
All this is not to disparage
1r. Cooper's undeniable gifts.
>ut to hope they will be chan
neled in the future. The author
attended the University of Texas
and was an infantry captain in
World War /. "Sironia, Texas. ;"
won a Houghton Miffiin Liter
ary Fellowship.
Evening star., 1952-11-02

Literary rows had plenty of
watchers in the bleachers. too.
Their causes were insignificant,
but the interest they stirred up
was not.
Yes, it was a happy time for
the wordsmiths, and Mr.. Hutch
ems judicious sampling Of their
output will make you see just
how good it was. In making
his selections. he has been
guided not so much by personal
leanings (although readers of
his Herald Tribune book col
umn would gladly have risked
that as by a hope of giving an
idea of the pattern of the pc
riod. It is a rich representation,
as varied and as hospitable to
different voices and different.
forms as the '20s themselves.
The giants are here, of course:
Hemingway. Fitzgerald. Dresser,
Ring Lardner. Mr.. Hutchens
has painlessly excised repre-
sentative chapters from the
novels Of Sinclair Lewis, Ellen
Glasgow and Thomas Wolfe.
O'Neils emperor Jones" has
been included in its entirety.
Serious poetry. which one would.
expect, from Elinor Wylie. Edna
st. Vincent Millay. has Sec
ton. Unexpectedly and very
pleasantly, there is a section of
light verse. Newspaper clip
pings Of such stories as Damon
Runyon's description of the
Snyder case and H. L. Menck-
ems account Of the Stokes trial
deserve the space they get.
The tour in short is instruc-
tive and entertaining, no mat
ter if certain choices. like James
Thurber's short story cause dis
agreement. Mr.. Hutchens more
than bears out the point he
makes in his admirable fore
word: "One Of the few entirely
safe generalizations about the
'20s is that they had an aver
sion to dullness." So, happily,
has this editor.
Evening star., 1952-11-02

Mr.. Hutchens is himself a
survivor" Of the '20s, and at
the outset warns of the danger
of sentimentalizing about them.
He goes on, however, in a quietly
exhilarating foreword, to re-
capture the spirit and excite
ment Of the times in such a way
as to make any writer wish that
he had been in his 20s and in
Greenwich Village when "the
young knew kind of delight"
1t was. as Mr.. Hutchens points
out, a time of fierce disillusion-
ment and Of rampant material
ism. But the scribblers of those
days had a fine fevered time"
with their lost dreams, and they
baited the materialists with a
gusto that the dreary '3Os could
not summon.
II it. was. "the Jazz Age" it
was also incontestably. he ad-
mits, the best time for a writer
since New England's Golden
Age. If some of its writer's were
self-consciously liberated in their
private lives. they were also me-
ticulously concerned with the
discipline Of method and form
IN their work. The effects of
this concentration" says Mr..
Hutchens, hereby bidding
strongly to be called "admirer"
as well as survivor of the pc
riod. "are fortunately still with
u.s."
How Good 1t Was
Nor was this generative ex-
citement confined to an "art-
colony sterility." The individu-
alism, the intense flavor filtered
down to any man in the street
who had 3 cents for a news
paper. F. p. A., Don Marquis
Christopher Morley took up with
their readers matters of literary
moment, COUGHING their COM
ments with a trenchant ele-
gance that has virtually disap-
peared from the daily press.
Evening star., 1952-11-02
Prints Invited

The Society of Washington
Printmakers will hold its 18th
Evening star., 1952-11-02
Letters Of Edno St. Vincent MiIoy

Edited by Allan Ross MacDougall (H1rper BrOS $50
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-12
Gaithersburg $50

he had sent. No doubt, he was
checking to see if the U. S. Mail
was still on the job.
Donald Jackson attended the SEN
ior prom of Barnard College re-
Gently when he was the guest OF
the class president, Miss Nancy
Hefflefinger of Pittsburgh, Penna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Upton Sheets and
son Tippy will leave Saturday for
a two weeks vacation in Terre
Haute, Ind, where they will be the
guests of Mr.. Sheets mother, Mrs.
E. B. Sheets.
Mrs. George Darby and children
will also leave on Saturday for
weeks visit with Mrs. Darby's
mother, Mrs. H. S. Davis, of North
East.
Grover Walker has returned
from Roankc, Va, where he attend
ed the National holrtain Conven-
+"n Sa'e. Mr.. Walker was in
Roanoke for week. Others from
this vicinity who attended the ban
quet on Wednesday night and the
sale on Thursday were McKendree
Walker, Ralph Walker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Allie Messer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Fry, Jr., and Mr.. and Mrs.
William King.
Friends of Mrs. Ralph Walker
will be sorry to learn that she has
had another setback.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Jackson
attended the Commencement at the
University of Maryland on June Z,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-12
Asbury Methodist Home History Shows
Continuing GroWth, Progressive Service

merger of these three homes, ac-
complished in a statesmanlike way,
was one of the finest fruits of
Methodist Union.
In 1913, a new wing, Cassell Hall,
was bull at Gaithersburg and the
Homes in Westminster were closed
during 1948 and 1949 and the fam
lies moved to Gaithersburg. The
Home now has a capacity of 100
and building plans call for the con-
struction of two new wings in the
near future and the enlargement of
the dining room. One wing will be
Westminster Hall and the other
will be the Young Memorial Build
ing. The dining room will be known
as Guild Hall.
Beginning with debt of $685.
900 the Home is now debt free and
has developed into a million dol
lar institution. 1t is recognized as
one of the outstanding Homes for
older people in the United States,
and other Conferences throughout
the country have sent delegations
70 Gaithersburg to study it with
the hope of establishing a Home in
their own Conferences. DR.. Norman
L. Trott, District Superintendent
of the Baltimore South District, is
President of the Board of Trustees
and Mrs. A. w. Mears of Baltimore
is President of the Woman's Guild.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-12

vote to go is always an enjoyable
event.
Other outings to special events,
such as the cherry blossoms, are
planned from time to time. T h e
Red cross provides transportation
for our outings.
"The Best is Yet TO Be"
Our big job is adding life to
the added years which science has
given us = making the last of life
the best.
We respect ones personality and
position in life.
We try to make our people know
and believe that they are still some
body, that they are still wanted,
that they are still needed, that
they still have job to do and
enjoy doing it = all of which we
are doing in the name of Him
who came that we all might have
life and have it more abundantly.
we Are UTOWlHS
Work on the new Young Memo
rial building is progressing nicely
and we have high hopes of opening
it this f;E. Plans are being drawn
for the new Westminster and Guild
Hall buildings.
The Asbury Home is owned and
operated by the Baltimore Confer
ence of the Methodist Church and
its Trustees are elected by the An
nual Conference.
1t is maintained by the gifts of
love of our people.
There is not, and never has been,
ar assessment or levy of any kind
for this work.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-12
Forest Oak Lodge
Plans Grab Feast
At Briggs Farm

Forest Oak Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, will hold Crab Feast,
Skeet and Still Target Shoot at
Sam Briggs Farm, Sunday, June
18th, at 100 pm. If raining, the
.ext Sunday, June 22nd, will be
the date.
All you can eat and drink is in
cluded in the admission price.
Bring all the children as pony
rides. ETC., will be featured. All
children under IL years of age win
be admitted free.
Come! Bring your entire family,
as there will be something to in
terest all, from six to sixty.
All Funds from this affair will
be used to expand the activity of
this organization in the community
of which we are so justly proud of
our accomplishment of the past and
will continue on in the future.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-06-12

Twenty-Five years of stead y
growth and progress mark the de-
velopment OF The Asbury Method
iEt Home.
1t opened in Gaithersburg, Mary
land, on AprIl Is, 1876, ulluer the
name of Inc Home OF the Aged &
Orphans of the Baltimore Conner
ence M. <. Church, South, Inc, and
five people entered that day. The
family soon grew to 70, the capa-
city of the lovely, newly construct
ed building on the l25 acre estate
known as Rolling Acres. In 1928 a
new wing, known as Epworth Hall,
was built by the Young People OF
the Baltimore Conference. T s
building provided bedrooms for IL,
chapel, library, drawing room,
social hall and sun parlor.
In 1910, in keeping with the
spirit of Methodist Union, the char
ter was amended changing tn e
Atshliic " uC hGlHOulSL I1OlilG, lIlC.
Then in 1945, the Baltimore Con-
fersncv wmeTged the Gaithersburg
Home with two other Methodist
Homes, both located in Westmin-
ster; one known as the Cassell
Home, former M. E. Home that
opened December 10, 1926, and the
other as the Methodist Protestant
Home for the Aged which opened
Oh July Is, 1896. DR.. Herman M.
Wilson, who had been connected
with the Gaithersburg Home since
its inception and was Superinten-
dent since 1928, was made Super
intendent of the three merged
homes. The name chosen for the
new Home was The Asbury Meth
odist Home for the Aged, Inc. The