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Evening star., 1952-02-03

American, Kentucky and Column
bia Universities, also at the
Corcoran School of Art. She
is employed as a scientific illus
traitor and photographic drafts
man at the Geological Survey.
About 20 oil paintings and
water colors by Mrs. Gaydash in
the reception rooms include
landscapes, architectural SUBJ
jectS, flower arrangements and
a few portraits and figures (the
last mentioned not comparable
in quality to the first three
classif1cations) painted in a ira
ditional manner. Most of them
depict the luxuriant scenery Of
Panama, and Hawaii where her
husband, Col. George Gaydash
has been stationed in recent
years.
Mrs. Gaydash, New Englander
of Swiss descent. studied at the
Corcoran School of Art and
elsewhere with w. Lester Stew
ems. Lars Hoftrup. and water
color with Eliot O'Hara. Since
her return to Washington in
1850. she has had solo exhibi-
tions at the Pan American
Union, United Nations Club and
League of American Pen Wom-
en-. A participant in group
shows here and in other cities,
she has been the recipient Of 0
number of awards.
Evening star., 1952-02-03


This is a frolicsome biography
of an ambitious, lusty girl who
achieved the pinnacle of sue
cess for her time.
To be a favorite of Charles
II was considered a reasonable
ambition for any girl during
the Restoration. Nell, the
orange-wench, made the grade
and held her own amid severe
competition. not because, like
any of the others she played
politics, but because she was
unaware of them. Her present
biographer .approvingly notes
that she stuck to her last.
Few documentary relics sur
vive this child of the slums who
was born in a bawdy-house
and came to the Kings notice
on the stage of the Drury Lane
Theater. She could scarcely read
or write, although she was ma
turally shrewd where her own
interests were concerned. A
comedian, she whispered jokes
to the King while other ladies
poured intrigueS into his ears.
She was a prime favorite with
the London mobs not just be-
cause she was a local girl who
had made good. She stood for
English professionalism and pa
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Embittered Young
Author Gets Even

AWAKENING
BY Jean-Baptiste Rossi. (Har-
per; $5.J
The 21-year-old author, a ma
tive of Marseille, writes in his
first novel of a love affair be-
tween a mature, precocious
schoolboy of II and a nun of
%. If the young woman in
volved had not been religious,
but some one out Of everyday
life, the liaison would seem, if
not sordid, at least unhealthy.
AS it is, the affair takes on
sensational tinge of vow-break-
ing and icon-smashing which
fails to disguise the febrile NOR
bidness which would have been
the whole story, had the girl
been just anybody. Not all the
protestationS of ethereal love
between the two can change the
situation.
The book is decidedly well
written. It received some criti-
cal acclaim in France. The
youthful author, according to
the publishers, was expelled
from a Jesuit school. His pro-
tagonist in the novel attended
such q school. Now that Mr..
Rossi has gotten even with the
Jesuits and written what obvi-
ously was intended to be a
shocker, perhaps he can forget
his anti-clericalism long enough
to lend his promising talent to
q theme less indignant and more
universal.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1952-02-03
British Politician
NUMBER NINE: OR

NUMBER NINE: OR
THE MIND-SWEEPERS
BY A. P. Herbert. Doubleday
& Co.; $780,
A. P. Herbert, a British poll
tician, until recently q member
of Parliament, has a habit Of
showing his disp1easure with
certain conditions in what might
be called a novel way. He writes
books about them, a habit which
the local breed could initiate
with considerable saving Of wear
and tear on the Congressional
Record. He credits a previous
novel, Holy Deadlock" with
aiding materially in the passage
of his matrimonial causes bill.
What the present satire will do
in the way of cutting down
bureaucracy and Government
psychiatristS remains to be seen.
The reader, meanwhile, should
enjoy his efforts.
Mr.. Herbert shows nice p.
G. Wodehouse touch in the set
ting and plotting Of his drive
on the paper-pushers. The time,
for no particular reason, Is 1855
Cthe West has beaten the East);
the place is Hambone Hall, an
cestral seat of the salty old Earl
of Caraway and Stoke, now
turned over to the nauseous
uses of the Foreign Service,
which has perverted the English
country week end to a period OF
inquisition and observation Of
candidates.
The rightful heir Of Hambone
Hall, masquerading as hope
full, insinuates himself into a
batch of Intake, thereby hoping
to bring such confusion AID
CONSERVATION to the form-fillerS
that Hambone Hall will be re-
turned to his father and the
gracious ways Of yore. The idea
is excellent and many Of the
details hilarious. The trouble
is that Mr.. Herbert gets
so carried away with mixed-up
romances among the numbered
candidates that he forgets his
target. As the satire misses its
mark, the excitement dwindles.
MARY MeGRoRY.
Evening star., 1952-02-03

residence, Mrs. Stafford is known
throughout the country for her
beautifully executed interiors,
with their exquisite attention to
scale, color and detail. She has
had many solo exhibitions in
Washington and elsewhere, and
is frequently represented in
group shows. Her career was
furthered by encouragement
from the late Andrew w. Mel
lon, after he saw one of her
first interior paintings. Her
series on the Roosevelt home at
Hyde Park has attracted much
interest in recent years; these
paintings were part of her solo
exhibition at the Arts Club q
few years ago.
Approximately 20 paintings in
the present display at George
Washington, include six interiors
of Mount Vernon, six of Ken
more, the impressive home of
Washington's sister, Betty Lewis,
in Fredericksburg, Va; four of
Wakefield, the reconstructed
birthplace of Washington, one
OF the old Leadbeater Apothe-
cary in Alexandria and one of
the Old Senate Chamber where
Washington turned over his
command in Annapolis.
Evening star., 1952-02-03
4 #
Privately Owned
Art to Be Shown
AT Corcorun
By Florence S. Berrymon

Washington art lovers have
q rare treat coming up. Next
Sunday the Corcoran Gallery Of
Art will open privately
Owned. which it says is the
largest exhibition yet organ
lied in the United States of
works of art borrowed from
private collectors. Three hum
dred and fifty-two items listed
in the catalogue include oil
paintings, sculptures, water
colors, drawings and miniatures
by European and American art
lists. These are lent by 161 in
dividual owners from homes in
the Washington area. including
the White House, embassies,
the dwellings Of Senators and
Representatives and the larg-
est single source for the show
the homes Of the cliff Dwell
ers," lifelong residents, who
have inherited some of their
treasures from several genera
tions Of washington forebears,
and have acquired others. A
factual account of the forth
coming show was given in the
Stars news columns January
20.
The orderly arrangement Of
this exhibition in II galleries
on the second floor will enable
visitors to study the works
nologically by periods and
schools. Nevertheless. it is not
offered as a history of art"
but as a presentation Of indi-
vidual works of quality and va
riety, which reflect the tastes
and artistic environment of the
leaders of our country and the
representatives of foreign gov
ernments as well as Of the long
time residents of our city, which
combination of groups gives
washington Its unique flavor.
Paced by a quartet of Greek
and Roman classical sculptures,
the exhibition is thereafter COM
posed of the art of Europe
France, Germany. Italy. Spain,
Flanders, Holland, England and
America, and one or two works
each from Sweden, Ireland,
Peru, Mexico and Canada, rang-
ing from the Middle Ages to the
present.
Local art lovers will have
nearly seven weeks to enjoy this
exhibition: February 10 through
March 80.
Evening star., 1952-02-03

= SsSSSSS'~S1 y ~'<
triotism at time when ''papist"
foreigners were thought to be
"corrupting" the court and
making of with the national
treasure. It was considered
standard procedure in those
lecherous day for q country
whose interests were at stake to
dispatch a particularly luscious
citizen to the court of King
Charles, where she was almost
sure to catch the rowing
royal eye.
. Amid the endless conspiracies
both amorouS and political
which ragged around her. Nell
held to one line: More money
for herself and titles for her
two natural sons. She was kind
to her mother, her friends and
the King. She never pretended
to be anything but what she
was; and she didn't care for
hig h born ladies who gave
themselves airs when she knew
they were in the same boat. Mr..
Wilson does not attempt to ex-
plain or judge the licentious 60
ings-on at the Court. He fills
them in as background for a
girl who was perfectly in tune
with her times and in command
of her environment.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1952-02-03

Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con.
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings. sculpture by masters. Gull
benkian collection of Egyptian sculp-
hibttion from Rosenwald. Collections
Of 10th Century Woodblock Prints,
through February.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Collec-
1iSn nSs Of Fine Arts ave
paintings and old masters. Exhibi-
ton OF Art and Magic OF Arnhem
Land through February "a.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division Of
ferson drive-Prints BY Rudolf Weis-
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street sire ia ana s.s{sfn jefferson dE,ysorientaI
etchings by Whistler and other Ameri-
can artists changing exhibits
C0RCORAN GALLERY OF ART. Seven
teenth street between New York ave-
.nss and sculpture. Clarke Eco coilection. a
Institute Of Contemporary Arts. ex-
.,l1l hilbdition .Dn Of moderns to open today
Twenty, FIRST street-Paintings by
PParn; Pebrnary; s.. 5eheh h'hosfaphs 'hf0ush
DUMBARTON OAKS collection. 1908
Thirty-second street NV. Early
dags snrousS sna 5sndays sysaasne a Tues
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA, 1928 street NV.
Rugs. textiles from the Near and Far
East. embroideries from Greek Islands
Monday, wednesday and Friday, 2-5;
Admission by card, .obtainable at
9fiee Of Georgs Hewitt Myers. 730
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
index Of American Design. to February
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Library. 2023 G street NV
PAINTINGS BY Ruth Perkins Stafford.
THE WHYTE GALLERY, 1918 Connec-
ticut avenue NW.-Three European
water coloristS.
ARTS CLUBS, POLY Eye street NV
Rosanond daydash. throush Febru-
TRUxTUN-DECATUR NAVAL MUSEUM,
1910 H street N.W.-Exhibition
Coast Guard in action since 1890.
BARNETT. ALDEN GALLERY, 127 RAN
dolph place NW.--Paintings By The
rese Schwartz, through March
WATKINS GALLERY. American Untver-
ssitIyArtists snI.- Guild Annual to open
THE NEW GEORGETOWN GALLERY.
1924 Prospect avenue NW.-Paint-
fnss By Samuel Gholson.
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY, 92f6
Flower avenue. Silver Spring-Prints
BY Mackenzie and Walker.
COLONY RESTAURANT, 1887 De Sales
street N.W.-Exhibftion by Rowland
LYON through February.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY OF
Art, Sixth street and Howard place
NV
PUBLIC LIBRARY. Eighth and K streets
Y NW.--POssessions Of James Monroe.
FLAYHOUSE Art GALLERY, 727 18th
street NW.-Negro SpiritualS and
other prints by Ruth starr Rose,
through March
Evening star., 1952-02-03

The literary burgeoning Of
South Africa continues. Nit
tee" is another novel we'll worth
reading.
Miss Rockies dramatic. at
mospheric novel never touches
the depths of character probed
in "Cry the Beloved Country"
Alan Paton's memorable story.
which turned the spotlight OF
fiction on South Africa in 1948.
And yet 'Mittee" is intensely
readable and has its own
merits.
This is a story Of the Trans
vaal at the close of the last
century, The Boer War breaks
out toward the end Of the mar
rative, though that prolonged
conflict has little to do with
the happenings in "Mittee."
Always Part White.
The story is told by Selma,
colored servant and companion
to Mittee, daughter Of a prom
inent Boer family. I should
explain, as South African novel;
lists do, that in that region a
colored person is always part
white, sometimes half or three
quarters. The caste system
there, taking into account any
known drop of black blood, is
as inexorable as in certain areas
of the United States.
Selma succumbs to Mittee'S
fiance, Paul, one spring night.
Selma adores Paul and yet she
learns in time, as Mittee does
after her marriage to him,
that this athletic, good-looking
young man has a savage streak
and can kill with cold fury.
The arrival of Basil Castledene,
an English missionary doctor, is
destined to complicate Mittee's
life.
SkiIlful Characterization.
There are many other char
acters, most of them skillfully
drawn, though the author shows
an inclination to make them
either kindly or villainouS, with
few shadings between. Paul at
least is subtle in his cruelty,
unlike Jansie, the colored giant,
who pursues Selma and almost
kills her. Selina's husband,
FAME, a handsome half-caste,
is the finest person in the book.
In his unselfishness and cour-
age, he may remind you Of the
Zulu minister in Cry the Be-
loved Country"
Selma herself is appealing. If
you wonder how q girl with her
limited advantages manages to
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Reodinq and Writing
Nuthun Struus Turns From Glorious Failures
To Help Make Kefouver Bid Successful
By Mary McGrory

Among those who sat smiling
hopefully on the platform the
day Senator Kefauver, Demo-
crat, of Tennessee made known
his intentions toward the presi-
dency, was Nathan Straus. who
was introduced as national
treasurer for the campaign. Old
Capital hands remembered Mr..
Straus as Federal housing adj
ministrator in the early days of
that agency, In the literary
world he is known as the author
of the newly published 1.-TWO
Thirds of a Nation: A Housing
Program"
It turns out that Mr.. Straus,
now president of Radio Station
WMCA in New York, is cheer
fully putting aside work on an
other volume in order to help
the Senator make his White
House bid. Upon hearing the
title of the manuscript, many
onlookers thought it might be
just as well, considering the
sensitiveness of political atmos-
phere. The work is called Clio
rious Failures" and is a SYM
pathetic study of men who were
not appreciated during their
lifetime. This is a fate that
will not overtake Senator Ke-
fauver II Mr.. Straus has his way.
Their friendship goes back to
the early '40s when Mr.. Straus
as FHA administrator was, as he
puts it, getting the knife from
the real estate boys" Mr.. Ke-
fauver, then a freshman Con-
gresham, invited Mr.. Straus to
his Office, expressed sympathy
for his plight, and deep con-
Germ for the housing program.
DAY after day." Mr.. Straus
recalled amid the kleig lights
and clatter of the press confer
ence, Estes would stand UP
there defending a man he
scarcely knew. pleading for
cause he knew was lost. That
is a very rare kind of a man.
That is why I am here today"
Evening star., 1952-02-03
RocheI corson Is Nomed
Yeor's Best Non Fiction Author

Washington makes no claim
to being a literary capital-most
of our writer's got famous for
other reasons f1rst-but it was
handsomely represented at the
third National Book Awards in
New York last week.
Rachel L. Carson. editor in
chief of the United States Fish
and Wild Life Service and
author of 1.-THE Sea Around U.s."
was the first Capital author to
be honored by the awards. The
quiet Silver Spring ex-school-
teacher, who is now on leave
from her Government job to
complete q book about the sea-
shore around us, was chosen as
the years best n-f1ction au-
thor. by a panel of i've which
included three local judges,
Librarian of Congress Luther M.
Evans, Columnist Marquis Childs
and Huntington Cairns of the
National Gallery. They worked
from q master list of about 20
titles made up Of choices from
book reviewers and their own
preferences. The choice mar
rowed down fairly early in the
game, apparently, as Miss Car
sons imaginative study Of the
busy, secret life Of the wild
waves. appeared on every ones
list.
Conrad Aiken, Library Of
Congress poet in residence, at
tended the ceremonies as one Of
the judges who chose Marianne
Moore as the years outstanding
poet.
Incidentally. the fiction win-
ner, James Jones, whose first
novel. From Here to Eternity. !"
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Books in Review
Daphne Rookie Swings the Spotlight
Of Fiction Back to South Africu
BY Daphne Rookie. fHoughton- -Mi6Itn; $3J
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones

express herself so aptly, 1t can
only be suggested that you must
not be too literal; you can imag-
inc that she is telling her story
to some one. Mittee, imperious
because that was the way she
was raised. can be generous and
charming. She and Selma are
devoted, though Mittee, when
ever her ready temper flares,
feels that she must put Selma in
her place. The Boer husbands
and fathers, with their stern
code of morality and religion,
are not altogether admirable;
their views often are bigoted,
their ways ruthless. There are
welcome interludes of hunaor
strewn between the violent epi-
sodeS of the story.
Quite a number OF perceptive
novels have come out OF South
Africa in recent years. "Mittee"
is by no means the least effec-
tive of them. 1t is one of a dual
selection of the Book-of-the-
Month Club.
Evening star., 1952-02-03
George Kotes Pays
Literote Tribute
TO Prewor China

\ 11G E111kSo 1I1A4 WGItE ~ al
BY George N. Kates. 4HGrper
& Bros; $3.75.l
China has recently been the
source Of so many angry and
acrimonious political volumes
that it is refreshing to come
upon Mr.. Kates' nterate tribute
to the character Of its people.
He might have cast some light
on the melancholy events that
have overtaken the countryh he
returned there on q diplomatic
mission during the critical era
between 1943 and 1945 but he
dwells instead on the charmed
preWar existence he led in the
beautiful, ancient city Of Peking.
Mr.. Kates, who now lives near
Wildwood, Va, chose China
in 1888 as the country most
likely to give him back his, in
tegrity, irnperiled as it was by
the greed of Hollywood and the
snobbery Of continental society.
An internationalist and a lin
guist whose formal education
was rounded of with a Phi. D.
from Oxford, he found in China
a harmony and completeness of
life that left him with an inner
peace that even the troubled
years since have not completely
disturbed.
AS a bachelor scholar with no
great sums to earn or spend,
he was able to live the life of the
country as few Westerners can.
After learning the incredibly
difficult language, he found the
literary yield below expectations.
But the return In lessons in hy-
ing he found beyond calculation.
Before his house in Peking,
life passed in unending pageant,
the great education of the poor.
Every one valued the subtleSt
sense of gradation. Individual
ism fiourished amid the most
crowded living conditions. The
beggars were cheerful. Even
the poorest had a wealth of
time. a wealth of names and
an enormous pride in race and
tradition. "The lowest-not the
highest standard of living. to
give them leisure-seems liter
ally what they choose" They
were so innately gentle that
even the night watchmen were
around with clappers hoping to
frighten marauders away rather
than to surprise them.
Their close harmony with ma
ture- architecture and calendar
are attuned to the unfolding Of
the day and the unrol1ing of
the seasons-has given them q
composure the author admires
unstintingly. But he also dis
covered the truth of their old
proverb, "The head of the
dragon, the tail of the snake" I"
Novelty delights them; upkeep
bores them.
How the drab equalitarianism
of the new proletariat affects
this mellow, imaginative race
the author does not say. In
fact, he does not even mention
their new masters. He goes into
rather academic details about
old palaces and monasteries,
and discusses his whole expert
ence by subjects which makes
his book less lively and per-
Sonal than it might have been.
But the chapters on the people
themselves, their customs. and
their spirit makes it all worth
while.
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Two at the Arts Club

Exhibitions by Bette Hartnell
and Rosamond Gaydash opened
at the Arts Club last Sunday,
to remain through February Is.
Miss Hartnell's Is oil paintings
in the club gallery, reflect her
interest in experiment. Several
of Provincetown, which i'm
pressed me as her best, are COM
paratively naturaliStic. Noun
tain Fantasy" "Buckwheat by
the Sea" and one or two others
are simplif1ed and stylized. A
third group is composed of alb
stractions, and a fourth. of fig
ures and landscapes treated in a
fiat, posterlike style.
Miss Hartnell studied at
Evening star., 1952-02-03
Records Of Poets Readings
Selling Fost at LibrarY

T. S. Eliot recordings were far
and away the most popular in
the Library of Congress first
series of contemporary poets
reading their own work. A total
of 5000 records were sold.
Now the Library is about to
issue the second series of read
ings. They include Archibald
MacLeish, former librarian of
Congress; Stephen Spender,
Muriel Rukeyser, Conrad Aiken,
present poetry consultant, and
former conSultantS Leonie
Adams. Elizabeth Bishop, Rob-
ert Lowell and Robert Frost.
Evening star., 1952-02-03

ran to something like a thou
sand pages, was uncommonly
terse in replying to the Awards
Committees request for a de-
scription Of his Army career.
He wrote: APT cpl. IS May AZ,
red to pvt. Dec. 43; apt. sgt. /
Mar. A; red to pvt. 40 May A."
Sounds like a much-edited ver-
sion of his hero's fortunes.
y 4 X y
Speaking of awards, the Har-
per Prize Novel people, un-
daunted by last years failure to
find a worthy manuscript, have
embarked on the search anew.
The contest will start June /,
1858. The same judges will look
again.
Ernestine Corey Comes Here
To Louneh Jumping Jupiter
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey,
looking like a breath of spring
in a green shantung dress and
a yellow straw hat, arrived in
town last week to do a little
stumping for her first solo
book, Jumping Jupiter" saga
based on her own experience
of department store didoes. She
is one of the famous II of
Cheaper by the Dozen," which
she wrote with her brother,
Frank Gilbreth, jr. Carrying
the war to the enemy, so to
speak, she will tour great
emporiun1s in the East and
Middle West. A well-spoken
Long Island matron, Mrs. Carey
explained that she had not writ
ten her book to discourage the
merchandising dreams of her
teen-age daughter. At a lunch
con given in her honor by q
local department store, she went
on to tell that she had found
store work character-building,
if wearing.