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Evening star., 1952-01-13

intelligence service in World
War II was on our side all along.
Admiral Wilhelm CanariS un-
doubtedly thought of himself
(right up to the day the Gestapo
hanged him twice, once to teach
him q lesson and once to finish
him Off as a good. patriotic
German doing his best to de-
liver his people from the Hit
lerian yoke. It is less likely that
the admiral thought Of himself
in a more true-to-life fashion
as an old-time adventurer, who
loved intrigue for intrigue's own
sake.
Mr.. Colvin, a British journal
iSt with a long familiarity with
German politics, set out some
years ago to dig out the story of
Admiral Canaris. He got the
run-around for a long time, but
finally he got the story. It's
full of improbable people with
improbable names like Fabian
Won Schlabrendorff, Karl Heinz
Abshagen and Willy Jenke. The
story is just what Oppenheim
would have done in a more out
of-the-world moment-or may
be Oppenheim would have con-
Sidered the plot a little too wild
to be believable.
Canaris is dead, Of course,
and the old enemy is an enemy
no longer. One can't help but
wonder: Has our side got an in
with the Kremlin's G2, or (hor-
ribile dictuD vice-versa?
Evening star., 1952-01-13

This epic Of survival gives the
clearest picture yet of the great
Soviet purge of 1937-1940. For
this-and its humanity-it will
surely rank in the forefront of
anti-Soviet documents. The au-
thor. a world-renowned scien-
tist, and a dedicated Austrian
Communist, had worked in
Soviet laboratory in the Ukraine
for five years when he was flung
into jail by the GPU on
charges Of having plotted to kill
Stain and blow up the indus
trial works in Kharkov. It took
him three years to figure out
why.
A trained scientist blessed
with almost total recall, Weiss
berg takes his readers inch by
inch to the inner chambers Of
the terror, through confronta-
ton, examination, punishment
cell. An intellectual of infinite
resource, he bore solitary con-
flnement very well, and when
moved to a mass detention cell,
he never lost an opportunity to
quiz fellow-prisoners in his at
tempts to find the pattern Of the
purge.
His own experience, pieced
out with some flrst-hand ac-
counts, helped him to under
stand the methods used to break
down defendants at the great
. show trials in Moscow, where
the world was invited to witness
the spectacle Of old Bolsheviks
confessing they had turned on
the revolution. Throughout the
three years Of Imprisonment
which ended with his transfer
to the Gestapo under the Nazi-
Soviet pact, he used every
method possible to determine
the number of innocent people
sharing his fate. He puts the
figure at between 8 and 10 mil
lion.
Survived Ordeal.
That Weissberg survived his
ordeal. was doubtless due in
large measure to his resiliency,
which his friend and admirer,
Arthur Koestler, says in the fore
Evening star., 1952-01-13
Crime
By Miriom Ottenbera

The Black Gardenia. BY Elliot
Paul. Random House, Inc;
$2.50.)
Homer Evans, Paul's incom-
parable cosmopolite, moves from
Paris to Hollywood for this
opera bouffe. His cast includes
a coroner who knows more
about politics than medicine, a
rapidly blooming Javanese ado
lescent, a trio Of Chicago
racketeers, a Mexican senorita
and her septuagenarian fiance, a
frustrated psychiatrist and his
Amazonian nurse, a valet who
grows poisonous East Indian
plants and a couple of colossal
stars. All of them are shuff.ed
through one hilarious sequence
after another but our favorite
line is a reference to Evans
earlier adventure. Murder on
the Left Bank" II didn't know
the RedS naQ any banks, COM
mented the singing star quite
seriously.
X X y X
Behind the Crimson Blind. BY
Carter Dickson. civilian Nor
row & Co.; $2.50D
Dickson pulls out all the
stops and let's Sir Henry Mer-
rivale strut his stuff in all his
roaring. stomping majesty to
cope with a jewel thief in old
Tangier. In fact, there's more
Merrivale than mystery in this
comic melodrama, from the
opening view Of Merrivale con-
vulsing a crowd Of Tangerians
with his Arabic obscenities to
his final explanation of how a
man could make an iron chest
disappear in seconds. A varia-
ton Of the locked room" puz-
zle is there, but you have to
look for it behind a theatrical
series of adventures in the old
KaSbah.
Evening star., 1952-01-13

word to the book is an outstand-
ing characteristic. Thus he sur
vived seven days of continuous
examination on the "conveyor"
"a system of round-the-clock
Interrogation with relays of ex-
aminers). Finally, he confessed.
But the next day he was there
with a reputation. Alexander
Semyonovitch, why do you keep
torturing us?" asked one of his
torturerS.
His account, as Koestler
points out, is remarkably unem-
bittered. He seldom gave in to
depression. never to panic, al
though the chance that he would
be dragged out and shot was al
ways present. He and his CELL
mates played dominoes, told
stories, conducted dialectic dis
cussions, gave lectures. Also, he
was enthralled by the procession
of prisoners, all with the same
expression of bewildered in
nocence: Religious men, anarch-
lists. peasants once wronged by
the government. "Who recruited
you and whom did you recruit?"
were the questions dinned into
them for hours on end.
To Weissberg, it was not an at
tempt to countercheck rebels
or even to recruit slave labor. It
was simply a -blooded and
self-perpetuating scheme to
wipe out every last vestige of
freedom in the Soviet. Every
man who had ever heard of
liberty was potential enemy to
Stain. 1t IS well for the rest of
us that one witness such as
Weissberg survived.
MARY MCGRORY
Evening star., 1952-01-13
Art of Most Primitive Living People
On Exhibition at National Museum
By Florence S. Berrymon

The art of some Of the most
primitive people living today, is
shown IN an exhibition just
opened in the foyer of the Nat
ural History building, National
Museum. Entitled art and
Magic of Arnhem Land, Aus
tralia," it is a collaborative pro-
duction of the Department Of
Anthropology and the National
Collection Of Fine Arts, Smith
sonian Institution. It viii ex-
tend through February q.
The exhibitions revelation of
the character of primitive art
gives the show considerable in
terest for the art world, al
though its major Importance is
chronological. On view for the
first time are objects collected
by an international expedition
to the aborigines of Arnhem
Land, on the northern coast of
Australia. The Smithsonian's
leader on the joint expedition
was Frank M. Settler, Head
Curator of the Department of
Anthropology, who with Thomas
M. Beggs, Director of the Ma
tional Collection of Fine Arts,
has installed the exhibition in
such a way, and provided labels
OF such clarity as to give it the
widest possible interest to the
public. Visitors should read the
labels through, in order to get
the most out of the show.
Photographs of natives, their
country, some of their cere-
monies and dances, and burial
places, furnish a background
for the actual objects used in
utilitarian and ceremonial func-
tions. A special feature of the
show is an 8-foot "Yermerlindi,"
or totem, which seemed to me
less interesting from the esthetic
standpoint than the majority of
other objects. bark paintings,
spears, spear-throwers, carv-
ingS, baskets, fish nets, canoe
paddles, and large termite-
followed log, painted in yellow,
red, white and black mineral
pigments. used in one of the
ritual dances as a drum repre-
senting the voice of a mythical
being, Balnuknuk, which wom-
en- and uninitiated men are not
permitted to hear.
Symbolic Representation.
One point the labels make,
which should be kept in mind,
is the Importance Of art in soci-
eties lacking an alphabet or
kindred means of recording and
transmitting ideas. Art recre-
ates for such primitive peoples,
the legends accounting for the
mysteries Of life. in pictorial and
symbolic representations. Every
dot, every line and pigment has
esoteric significance, conveying
to the initiated. magic meaning
and awakening intense emo
tional response. In other words,
art Is a vital and indispensable
means of communication to the
primitive man. and he would
find out enjoyment of esthetic
elements amusing. t
Special methods of hunting
are employed for the different
kinds of animals and birds, and
the weapons are decorated more
for the magical power conferred
than for esthetic effect. The
same is true Of the spears used
in fishing, and other artifacts
for still other employment.
Body and face painting is a
phase of art represented in
photographs of natives, some Of
whom appear to be wearing en-
broidered jackets and breeches.
In view of our own use of eye
shadow, lipstick and other cos
metics, we should not find body
painting peculiar. If initiation
gets worse, this aboriginal art
might become one to emulate.
Evening star., 1952-01-13
Noted Ballet Dancer and Choreogropher
Writes Her Exhiloroting Memoirs
DANCE TO THE PIPER
BY Agnes De Mile. (Atlantic-Lahe Bro,on; So
Reviewed by Mary MeGrory

will enjoy her book. It's all a
touch exaggerated. as good
theater is bound to be. but it
comes over fine.
Now revered as the composer
OF "Rodeo" and. the choreog-
rapher Of such hits as Okla
homa!" Miss De Mile definitely
had her ups and downs on the
way up. Born into a family that
was both rich and famous-her
grandfather was Henry George,
her uncle Cecil B. De Mille-she
found out early In the game
that mere prominence was not
enough. Her adored father
simply couldn't take his daugh-
ter's artistic ambitions seri-
ously. Her mother could sum-
mon up almost any luminary
from Rebecca West to Charlie
Chaplin for Agnes audience,
but "the boys" said her dances
just weren't commercial.
Miss De Mile. had a wonder
full childhood, which conceded
with the youth Of Hollywood.
Geraldine Farrar came to tea
and whenever Uncle Cecil had a
big scene going, the whole family
picnicked Importantly on the set.
They made good pictures. too,
says Miss De Mile, with the
"zest and sincerity of true
primitiyes." Once she had met
Pavlova, however, amid tears and
kisses, she knew her life was In
dancing.
After artistic successes, in
Santa Fe and Hollywood. Miss
De Mile embarked for Europe,
where by the greatest good for
tune, she wandered into the
Renaissance of ballet sparked
by Antony Tudor and Hugh
Laing. Encouraged by the
British critics, she tried again
to storm her native country,
but a combination of bad luck,
and bad taste on the part of
the producers she worked for,
kept her, at 80. still an outsider.
But Martha Graham told Agnes
her dances had give her cour-
age. On the brink of calling
the whole thing off, she decided
to try again. Her triumphant
"Rodeo" was the result.
Miss De Mile writes with con-
siderable asperity about theatre
cal personalities she has known,
although she does speak of
Oscar Hammerstein at rehear-
sal giving off intelligence like
a stove" She describes with
passion and accuracy the life of
the ballet dancer, stripping off
the glamour, leaving the core of
work and love. It is all vastly
entertaining. Miss De Mile is
both candid and literate, intense
and humorous-qualities rarely
mingled in theatrical PERSONAL
tiles. Her book is a first-rate
performance.
Evening star., 1952-01-13
Novel of Turkey
Between Wars

THE DARK MOMENT 3.
BY Ann Bridge. (Macmillan::
$3.75Jl
The author of "Peking Picnic"
and other books has written a
historical novel around the revo-
luton in Turkey that followed
the First World War and the rise
OF MuStafa Kemal. The hero of
the war against Greece, who
overthew the Ottoman Empire
and modernized Turkey, is an
important character in the story.
The story is mainly about
Feride, a daughter of the old
Turkish aristocracy. There also
is Fanny, an English girl. who.
with her father, a scholar, spent
part Of every year in Turkey be-
fore the war. Feride and Fanny
were inseparable friends as teen
ayers. During the big war Feride
married an officer on Kemal's
staff. In the Greek invasion that
followed the armistice of 1918,
Feride joined her husband in
Ankara, with her brother, also
a Kemal aide, and his wife. Later
Fanny returned to Turkey, met
Kemal and fell hard for the
great man, who, it seems, took
his women rather lightly.
Miss Bridge knows Turkey and
no doubt her history is reason
ably authentic. But she has not
written much of a novel. The
characters. including Kemal, are
wooden and appear turned out
merely to illustrate what was
going on. The story abounds in
long-winded. Victorian descrip-
tions. Even the tense weeks when
Kemal's army faced destruction
manage to be dull. 1.-The Dark
Momer'' is a Literary Guild
selection.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
VIRGINIA vENTURER: WILLIAM CLAI-
BOkNE, 16O0-167S. By Nathaniel c.
Hale: Hale SDietz Press; S5o A historical
A g.SilssHfi TsEAssHfkiY oF JEWISH HOLIDAYS.
By Hyman e. Goidin. (Twayne;
$500 Hebrew history. legends and
Evening star., 1952-01-13

Miss De Miles memoirs are as
exhilarating as one Of her own
ballets. The marvel is that a
woman who spent practically
every waking moment since
adolescence learning to dance
should write so well. Even those
who find her dances a bit too full
Of stomping and Freudianism
Evening star., 1952-01-13
New Books
NON-EICTION

NON-FICTION.
OUR BISHOPS SPEAK. Edited by the
Rev. Raphael M. Huber Bruce; $6)
Statements of the hierarchy OF the
United States and Of the administra-
Welfare Conference.
THE ENGLISH PAST. BY A. L. Rowse.
Macmillan; $3.50 People and places
NELL GWYN: ROYAL MISTRESS. BY
John H. Wilson. (Pellegrini g. Cud-
ahy; SD A biography.
FICTION.
THE SUN IN MY HANDS. BY Dymphna
Cusack. Morrow; $500 A novel
Of love, adventure and hardship.
SON OF A TINKER. BY Maurice Walsh.
Nipoincost; So Romantic sdven-
ture.
LEOPARD m THE GRASS. BY Desmond
Stewart. fFarrar, Straus & Young; S3)
A story Of intrigue set in the Middle
East
Evening star., 1952-01-13

II 0 5 e II DergSs
man and wife,
s t u n n e d
Americans, to
whom traitor
Gus conniving
with the enc
my is beyond
C o m p r chem
sion. Yet most
Americans will
be happy to
learn-if they
don't know It
already that
the chief of
t he German
Evening star., 1952-01-13

A11c oAlOW Is eAIT6Wely 1QCer.
esting, not only for it's examples
Of aboriginal art, but also for its
revelations of prehistoric man."
= 4 + X
Dragon Rugs Exhibition
Caucasian dragon rugs and
related embroideries from the
collections of the Textile NIL
scum of Washington, of which
George Hewitt Myers is founder
and president, are on exhibi-
ton in George Washington
University's Library through
January. The show is the first
in planned series of loan
exhibitions to the university
from the museum. which is the
only one in the United States
devoted exclusively to textiles.
Besides acquiring, preserving
and exhibiting tapestries and
other textiles Of the Near East,
Far East and Peru, the Textile
Museum participates actively in
furthering study and increas-
ing knowledge Of subjects with
in its scope. In the autumn of
l948. 1t held an exhibition of
dragon rugs, the first of it's
kind in this country or abroad,
and assembled 81 of the 81
known dragon rugs, including
almost all those in American
public and private collections.
The Textile Museum owns
seven dragon rugs of the 18th
and 18th centuries, the largest
single group of the type in this
country. which is the feature
OF the current show at George
washington, supplemented with
10 embroideries of the 10th to
18th centuries, having a re-
lationship to the rugs.
Opportunity for Study.
The origin of dragon rugs has
been the subject Of controversy
Tor more than half a century.
according to MIR. Myers. The
1oreword to the catalogue of the
l948 dragon rug show (included
IN the current exhibition) men
tions few important shows.
1910 to 1947, which included
from 2 to 4 dragon rugs. Pre-
sumably a few smaller exhibi-
tlons have boasted one dragon
rug. as was the case with the
Brooklyn Museums Persian ex-
hloitlon in 1881, which although
running to nearly 1000 items
had only % rugs, one a dragon
and phoenix.
Consequently. the presence of
seven dragon rugs at George
washington University, pro-
vides exceptional opportunity
Tor the students, and for visit
ors, who are always welcome.
The subtle beauty of the
colors, rich maroon, blue, brown.
gray. green and black, with
otner colors playing subordinate
roles. and contrasts between the
rugs, some Of them of great
Evening star., 1952-01-13
Creator of Dime
Novel OutrivuIed
His Characters
THE GREAT RASCAL:
THE EXPLOITS OF THE

THE GREAT RASCAL:
THE EXPLOITS OF THE
AMAZING NED BUNTLINE
BY Jay Monaghan. little,
Bro1Dn; $780,.
Ned Buntline, whose real
name was Edward z. C. Judson,
is credited with inventing the
dime novel which sold in such
prodigious quantities during the
latter half Of the last century.
It was he who met William Cody,
an obscure scout, on the plains
and made him famous as Buf-
falo Bill, whose fictitious ex-
-ploits the writer narrated in in
Vulnerable paper backs.
Ned Buntline made $4,000 a
year from his writings in an era
when it was real money. But
he was not merely a writer. Nor
was he exactly an admirable
character. He was in for any
scheme that would increase his.
reputation and his bank ac-
count. He organized the first
Wild West shows, with Bill Cody
as the star. Ned also dabbled
in politics, fooling around with
the Know Nothings and tanning
anti-foreign prejudices into at
least one fearful riot. His sue
cess with women got him into
more than a little trouble. Once,
after he outshot and killed an
outraged husband in Nashville,
Tenn. Ned was taken from the
Jail by a mob and actually
hanged from a post, but friends
cut him down, revived him and
later got him out of town. He
was a New York Slater, and he
served in the Civil War as a
sergeant, reduced to private and
thrown in the clink for over
staying a leave. Later he posed
as a colonel of scouts" and
boasted of previous service in
the Mexican and Seminole wars.
The truth, was not in him.
whether he was writing or talk
ing. He used to lecture on tenn
perance-sometimes in an in
ebriated condition.
Ned lived from 1923 to 1886.
His story is a colorful saga.
Mr.. Monaghan has made it into
a we'll -documented and highly
interesting book.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1952-01-13
Reviewing the New Books
British Novelist
Gives New Life
7oFiction Field
A SEASON IN ENGLAND

A SEASON IN ENGLAND
BY P. H. Newly. (Knopf;; 49,
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
Despite the opinion of Ger
tain critics that fiction is at low
ebb-a dictum that ignores the
respectable number of artistic,
If not mastery, novels which
have come out in the last year
several countries. England in
particular, continue to produce
new writer's with something to
say and enticing ways of say
ing it.
Mr.. Newly is one of the most
original and exciting of the new
British yield. He has published
several novels, three previous
ones in America. His new book,
"a Season in England" is a
sly, provocative. witty. at times
devastating, novel which ex-
plores old psychological prob
lems-are there any new
ones?-in a way that seems as
fresh as dew.
The basic conflict may go
back beyond Aeschylus, but
surely the situation illustrating
1t is far from time-worn. A
young man named PaSsmore, an
Englishman, who has been five
years in Egypt and is teaching
at a college. rates a leave at
home in 1945. The European
phase Of the war is over and
the Pacific fighting soon will
end. His fellow teacher and
best friend, Guy Nash, has died
in Egypt, leaving a childless
widow without family or re-
sources. The widow, Renee, is
q Greek girl. Passmore knows
that Guy. for some unaccount-
able reason, never told his par
ents in England Of his marriage.
although Renee is attractive
and accomplished. a girl to be
proud OF.
Swift Drama.
When Guy reaches England he
intends to tell the Nashes about
Renee, feeling that she may need
her parentS-in-law. His own
emotions are involved; he has
asked Renee to marry him and
she has refused. When he does
look up the Nashes and they in
sist that he remain while. he
cannot bring himself to reveal
something his friend chose to
withhold. He finds the Nashes
strange-he never quite under
stands them-and' yet he gets
along with them, becomes fond
of them in a way. Then, unan-
nounced. Renee appears. After
that things begin to happen.
We trace in retrospect Guys
revolt against possessive parents,
his failure to return home for 10
years. The Nashes are beauti-
fully developed. with deft. subtle
touches. Renee is an exasperat-
ing character. cruel, self-serving,
and yet fascinating. The Nashes
live in the country, and the
Cleggs, who manage the farm,
are a peculiar couple, with a
trace of the sinister. There Is
swift drama in the closing
chapters, but there is not a dull
page in the book.
Mr.. Newby's writing gives the
illusion of having been achieved
without effort because it can be
read without effort. Such a style,
though, is an art which few
novelists sustain so well. And
MIR. Newly can be subtle without
ever being obscure-a capacity
some of our novelists could culti-
vate to their advantage.
INVESTMENTS FOR PROFESSIONAL
PEOPLE. BY Robert u Cooper, M D.
Macmillan; S4 guide to the
many fpe pryas tpss Of 9pea to
cially for the professional person.
SEARCH AFTER SUNRISE BY Vera
Britain. (Macmillan; $50 4 winter
Evening star., 1952-01-13
Gernund in ShirIinuton

John Gernand. who had q
one-man show at the Whyts
Gallery in November, is now
showing oil paintings in the
art gallery of the community
room. Shirlington Cooperative
Department Store, Arlington,
Va. Mr.. Gernand, a member
of the Phillips Gallery's stan
nearly IA years, has had a num-
Der of one-man shows, and has
participated in many profess
sional group shows. The show
presently on view in Arlington
is one of a series of exhibitions
being sponsored by the Gus
toner Advisory Council of the
Shirlington Cooperative De-
partment Store as a public
service.
Evening star., 1952-01-13

size and strong color, and the
exquisite delicacy of color and
stitchery in the embroideries,
add up to a fascinating dis
play.
Evening star., 1952-01-13

INVESTMENTS FOR PROFESSIONAL
Macmillan; $4.) A guide to the
many types of investments open to
the private individual, written espe-
cially for the professional person.
SEARCH AFTER SUNRISE. BY Vera
Britain. Macmillan; S3.) winter
spent in the Far East
Evening star., 1952-01-13
British Journalist
Gets True Story
OfAdmirul Cunuris
MASTER SPY

MASTER SPY
BY Ian Colvin. (McGra,p-Hiu::
$3.50.)
Reviewed by William Hines
AS the man said, it all de-
pends on where you sit. The
revelations involving Klaus
Fuchs. Harry Gold and the
Evening star., 1952-01-13

The show is arranged in vari-
Gus alcoves, each devoted to a
single phase. such as carvings,
weavings, paintings, hunting,
fishing, etc., and one on death,
which starts its description,
Life to them is but a phase,
never-ending flow,
Death is but an open door
through which the weary
CO."
A group Of human skulls is
shown, the skulls elaborately
painted with the abstract SYM
bols of the wild honey tree, bees,
combs and honey.
The show is extremely inter-
esting, not only for its examples
of aboriginal art, but also for its
revelations of prehistoric man."
l.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1952-11-22
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