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Evening star., 1952-06-01
Morning Star
BY James Lansdae Hodson. (Simon Schuster; $780,

reputation and his professional
skill. Sedgwick, ignoring the
Marquis of Queensberry rules,
attempts to seduce Blackwood's
wife, to hire his son. The La
bor Party offers to buy the pa
per. But Oliver is an individ-
ualist fighting for an independ-
ent paper, and he stands firm
and virtually alone until a lib
eral angel is brought into the
picture at the eleventh hour.
Unlike too many newspaper
novels. "The Morning Star"
does not derive its excitement
from Hollywood doings among
the staff. Mr.. Hodson. who
used to be a newspaperman
himself, lovingly recreates the
atmosphere of tension and de-
votion which makes a good
paper, but without any "stop
the presses" madness. The
suspense comes from the i'm
periled survival Of a. truly in
dependent. paper. It is OCCASION
ally slowed down by some
stretches of high-flown writing
and speechifying. but enlivened
by sprightly dialogue and an
irreverent portrait Of a press
lord. In short, readable fiction
on an important issue. The
footnotes, explaining English
slang terms, seem superfiuouS,
especially since there is a
glossary in the front OF the
book. m. Meg.
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fabulous, a matter of fact note
is far better.
Another reason is that the
book is heavily overbalanced in
favor of Mr.. Churchill's back
ground and early years. so that
his finest hour as wartime lead
er of an England that had per-
sistently turned away from his
warnings is CONSTRUCTED in the
last quarter of the book.
Mr.. Churchill is, of course, a
great trencherman, eccentric
bricklayer and painter. Mr..
Taylor is overgenerous with
illustrations of his talents along
these lines. He is also one Of
the worlds greatest writers and
statesmen. He must also be
much more of a human being
than the gaudy public figure
which emerges from these
pages.
Mr.. Taylor's frivolous ap-
proach does not detract from his
research, which has been serious
and thorough. He was, one
suspects, finally overcome by
Churchill's grandeur, which is
understandable. The book must
finally be reckoned as excellent
source material for Churchill
anecdotes and daily routine. if
you can call his erratic and
astounding proceedings by such
q name.
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labor battalionS by the Jap
anese.
The platoon commander. res
ponsible for the safekeeping and
welfare of the big stockade, is
1t. Rossi. He is a hard-fiSted
marine. tough alike with his
men and with their prisoners,
but not entirely without under
standing. To him the prisoners
are simply Cooks" to be held
in line through fear. He and
his platoon sergeant, SwenSon,
know. that, even with their
guns, the captives could over
whelm them if they kept COM
ing after a few were killed.
Trouble in the Stockode
The medical officer. an older
man, is trying to maintain a
sort Of hospital, with the aid of
a Navy corpsman. To the doc
tor, Cooks are still human be-
ings and he tries to minister
to them as they crawl in with
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The hero of this entertaining
novel is actually a good news
paper, which, like a good man.
is hard to find. The paper in
question is the Morning Star.
a liberal Northern English jour-
nal edited by an honorable man.
and, as our story opens. in inn
minent danger of being swal-
lowed up by a greedy press lord.
The Morning Star, unlike
Lord Sedgwick's papers, does
not seek merely to entertain
or to print canned editorials
composed in London. 1t cru
sades. It smites evil hip and
thigh. whether in Tory ranks
or in Labor. It publishes no
racing or gambling news, its
pictures are small, and even the
women's pages take up social
and economic problems. Lord
Sedgwick finds it dour and un-
compromising. He wants to
buy it. Early in sthe game he
doubts he can buy its editor, the
incorruptible Oliver Blackwood.
Oliver. in the words of his
effusive henchman, is made OF
fiddle strings and concrete" He
loves his wife, whose unfaith-
fulness he can understand if
not quite bear, but his whole life
is the newspaper which he has
made the voice of Northern
England. To the fight against
Sedgwick, who operates like "a
field marshal of civilian life"
he brings only his integrity, his
Evening star., 1952-06-01
Student Exhibitions

This is the time of year when
art schools and individual in
structors show what their pu-
pills have accomplished. Wat
kins Gallery, American Uni
versity, is presenting an exhi-
bition of work by the art de-
partment students Of painting.
drawing and sculpture. Opened
last Sunday, it will continue
through June 13. It was Sc
lected by the art faculty and
student representative from
each class. Among the student
exhibitors are a number who
have won prizes and honors in
open exhibitions in Washington
and elsewhere. (Open to the
public 2 to 5 every day except
Saturday,
Catholic University'S art de-
partment is exhibiting in the
Salve Regina building. on the
campus graduate and under
graduate work in various me-
diums-ceramics. sculpture, sill
yer and jewelry, oil paintings,
sculpture and experiments with
design, color and texture. Open
to the public Monday through
Saturday from 9 to 5, it will re-
main until the end Of the sum-
mer school ssession August 8.
There is a special section of
creative theses done by candi-
dates for the MIA degree.
The New Georgetown Gallery.
1924 Prospect avenue NV, is
showing until mid-June an ex-
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war with the United States. -.
The wish that was closest to
Stains heart was to involve
Japan and the United States in
a war that would remove the
Japanese barrier that prevented
the Red tide from overflowing
the wide plains of China"
Follow Fomilior Pottern
Prof. Tansill does not white
wash Hitler, but he feels that
Communists and misguided
liberals did a lot to stir up
Americans against Germans
during his regime. The issue
involving Poland could have
been settled. he thinks. with
out a general war. Germany
had been baited into a war with
Britain and France when she
would have preferred a conflict
with Russia over the Ukraine"
And we find the author saying
that when President Roosevelt
perceived that Hitler would
not furnish the pretext for a
war with Germany, he turned to
the Far East and increased his
pressure upon Japan"
There are other assertions
Of this sort. They follow a fa-
miliar pattern of certain ex-
tremists who apparently feel
America was the aggressor.
And there is no proof for such
statements except evidence OF
the precautions prudent persons
would take to prepare for a war
that seemed inevitable. It is
true that Mr.. Roosevelt helped
England in every way possible
before we entered the war, but
there is little doubt that he had
the approval of most Americans.
Prof. Tansill is on Sounder
ground in blaming Hitler, Mus
solini and World War II largely
on President wilson's surrender
of his IA points in the treaty
Of Versailles. Unfortunately.
though, the main trend Of his
book is in the direction of a
biased rather than a judicial
appraisal of recent history. It
might be added that if, as he
says, our main object for half a
century has been to preserve
the British Empire, we have
done an uncommonly poor job.
&C. B. ].
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various diseases. There is .
''psychopathic ward" q special
barbed wire inclosure. in which
a number Of mental patients
are held. An old prisoner, q
former Hawaiian. who speaks
English, is thrown into the
gloomy bin" as punishment. He
melted an attack on Swenson
and a Nesei sergeant when they
raided his liquor cache. When
the old man is strangled by an
insane inmate, there is real
trouble in the stockade. The
story builds into a eerie climax.
Since the platoon's job is tenn
porary. until a military govern
ment team arrives to take over,
the situation can not be regard
ed as a typical aftermath Of the
war in the Pacific. Yet it gives
the author q chance to explore
such a backwash in the wake
of war. Rossi is a thoroughly
unpleasant character. but he is
well developed. So are the doc
tor and Swenson. The sergeant
is concerned with keeping him.
self supplied with liquor and
with susceptible women among
the prisoners. Rossi. who has
forbidden determination, knows
what SwenSon and some of the
others are doing. He does not
care until there are signs of re-
volt in the Stockade; then he
cracks down on Swenson.
The book contains some of the
coarse language common in war
novels since THE Naked and the
Dead" came out. 1t is hard to
believe there is even a platoon
in charge. Only a few of these
Marines come into focus and the
others are hardly suggested. Nor
is the discipline what we expect
of Marines. but perhaps that,
too, breaks down under such
conditions.
Mr.. Lamott, the son of a mis-
sionary, was brought up in
Tokyo. He was a naval officer
in the Pacific and often inter-
rogated prisoners Of war.
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Since Mr.. Churchill is q for
midable subject. it would seem
at first that Mr.. Taylor's highly
informal treatment. rich in
anecdotes, would be just the
thing to bring the giant down
to a more manageable size, and
thus a little easier to under
stand. Unfortunately, 1t dosen't
work out quite that way.
The opening chapter, outlin-
ing the "beckoning, outsize dia-
mond," a man of multiple
genius, yielding to none in
eloquence, appetite and thirst.
is highly entertaining. Mr..
Churchill is himself a crush
ingly irreverent personality, and
irreverence seems the proper
line to take. But the first chap
ter is the best; thereafter, it
unquestionably pals.
One reason for this, is, I
think, that Mr.. Taylor has felt
it necessary to maintain at all
costs, the facetious tone, which
becomes labored after a while.
Mr.. Churchill's ancestry, his
schooldays, his years in India
and in South Africa, his par
ticipation in five wars-not to
mention his SkirmisheS with
suffragettes, rival candidates
and propriety-are sufficiently
colorful in themselves to make
unnecessary Mr.. Taylor's un-
renting stream of wisecrackS
and aSides. In dealing with the
Evening star., 1952-06-01
Art News
TouIouse-L1utrec Art
At National Gallery
By Florence S. Berryman

Toulouse-Lautrec is the un-
surpassed pictorial commenIa-
tor of one facet of Paris in the
gay nineties." He is not in the
front rank Of Frances 10th
century artists, as certain Of
his contemporaries surpassed
him in craftsmanship and color,
in satire and as the voice Of an
era. But he made his own, the
sordid gayety Of the night life
Of Montmartre. the Moulin
Rouge and other cabarets, the
cafes and circuses, also the the
ater and race course and the
CLOSED house."
Nearly q hundred Of his litho-
graphs from the Rosenwald COLI
lection are on view at the Ma
ti0nal Gallery Of Art, in q spe-
cial exhibition opened two weeks
ago. to remain through the sum-
mer. A large number Of these
Autographs. were acquired for
the National Gallery by Mr..
RoSenwald in Switzerland last
fall. They had formerly be-
longed to Ed Kleinmann, one
Of Lautrec's publishers.
Comprising approximately
one-quarter Of Eautrec's litho-
graphic achievement of the dec
ade 1891-l901, the exhibition is
rich In rare and early proofs.
which Kleinmann had the OPP
portunity to select and keep be-
cause Of his intimate friend
ship with the artist.
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hibition Of portrait painting by
the students of Andrea Pietro
Zerega. When he began teach
ing in 1945. Mr.. Zerega in
structed in many types of
subject and handling. Al
though his class in portraiture
is only a year old. two of his
pupils had portraits accepted in
the Society of Washington Ar
fists open exhibition in Feb
ruary.
Paintings done during the
past year by students of James
v. Cupoli are on view in the
Colony Restaurant lounge
through June.
The Abbott School of Fine
and Commercial Art, 2013 I
street NV, is again Offering
scholarships for its summer ses-
sion to the best senior boy and
girl from each high school in
Divisions Tx in Washington
and nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia. During the summer ses-
sion these winning students will
compete among themselves for a
scholarship in the winter day
school.
Awards Of summer session
scholarships will be announced
at the Abbott Schools annual
closing exercises on Thursday,
June IL, at 8 pm. At the same
time, the schools annual exhibi-
ton of student work will open,
to remain on view to the public
through June 18,
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Current Exhibitions

SQI IOIu L\I itOitIOiI -
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
eabenfsn esRns 'sSHsHIes eoeen By o Easpsn
sculpture and European paintings.
Lithographs by Toulouse Lautree.
NATfSNah HESSfn tfs MusRnM ssmmff National collee
nue. nue. a and Tenth streetMAmerican
sMRI4hoSNaN RalatoSNs nSd III BHstsr' Division of
Graphic Arts, Tenth street and JEFF
rRfER s!is" c&2ElRr, S53Hf 18th Ct street and JET
pannss 1sGsSn srss snd prnt. sM Sg STena Hmerss s
L1sRARaSY OF cco6NGREsss. e. ast 'ues: Cap:
itol and First streets-Tenth annual
TEXTILE MUSEUM. ssso 8 Street
DUMBARToN OAKS coilsction. 17oa
and ssTsss Fass-
coRcoRAN GALLERY OF ART. Sew
enteenth street between New York
paintings and, sculpture, Clark col
tinaer through September Is; water
sSETs BY psnnss s1 aTs, IsmSfFn Bs %am rSas %
rHfILrPs PHIL faF1afs MEM6RfHI oRfHi. GALLERY. 1900
ITenty-frst N,,, strsetmPaintinss IN. and
ARTS CLUE, 2oI5 / street--Annual
Members exhibition. Society of
washington artists, throueh Thurs
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
TWo T1SKARK, .Rin, 2SaU s6oU. G Street tree ~, MW
Of n9T aTss throash n sf Ameri'an 1nnf
WATKINS GALLERY. Massachusetts
and Nebraska avenues NV. --stu-
ssnI f1htPitl0n or thrGSSs eSsrE%foRARr EMF
Of Art-Paintines by Yves Tansuy.
Pan At9roash @nERiGtN RsEt FridsE SIoN s.v.pt..n.,
street and Constitution avenue
WHITE s1.rE. GAtLERY 4 u r,1!s! 15is Connscticu..
youns u Washington '',ai srtis.s h0lSe sS open Hl
BARNETT ALDEN GALLERY, 1877 RAM
dolph place NV PAIN tings by con-
temporary Americans, through sum-
TRUxToN-DECATUR NAVAL MU-
scum, 1910 H street N.W-U g.
submarines su,1Ibsr In action through Sep
THE Wv GEORGETOWN GALLERY.
1924 Prospect avenue-Pcrtraits by
Zerega Studio Group, through June
IFA GALLERIES. 2ees Connecticut ave-
nue. N.W.-Color Autographs by Jack
Perlmutter, through June 2I
PLAYHOUSE ART GALLERY. 727 Fif-
teenth street N.W.--Paintings and
drawings by Carl Nyouist. through
DuPoNr 1pos D. THEArER GALLERY. 1asa
Connecticut avenue. N.W.-Water
coloIs; through July l.
street N.W.--Exhibition BY students
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY. ssis
Flower avenue, Silver Sprine--prints
by MacKensis and Walker, through
sHIFELiSGIoS IELTsg sco,oPERATIvE DE-
Circle. Arlinston--Three artists show.
THE HECHT COMPANY, Park:nator,,
Arlington - Exhibition by virginia
BETHESDA ART AND MUSIC cESTER.
1901 Wisconsin avenue N.W.--Psint-
WICK BYRON BROWN GALLERY. T. SSH ssi I
Georgia avenue--Exhibition by Mont
gomery County artists. through June
NATIONAL ARCHIVES. Constitution
avenue at 18th street N.W-Brady
civil War photographs, through June
nue--.Georgetown." BY Washinston
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. Bichiean
avenue NE, Salve REGINA BUILDING
student exhibition, throuEh Gag 9
CENTER MARKET, 5th and L streets
N:W.-spEing Art Mart through June
HOWARD UNIVERSITY. sixth street
and Howard place NW.-japanese
prints through June Is.
UNIVERSITY or MARYLAND, CoIleke
Park-etudsnt exhibition.
Evening star., 1952-06-01


Gutzon Borglum is best re-
membered for his colossal f1g-
ures of Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln and Theodore Roose-
welt on Mount Rushmore in the
Black Hills.
But as the authors-Mr.
Borglum's widow and a widely
known journalist-point out,
well as these figures are done.
they are not his masterpieces.
His head of Lincoln in the
Capitol, his Wars of America
memorial in Newark. N. j.. his
equestrian of Gen. Sheridan in
Washington and other works
are considered by experts to
show more completely his
genius as sculptor.
No sculptor. however, has
attempted figures as immense
as those on Mount Rushmore.
Mr.. Borglum had to learn q
whole new .technic to carve
these gigantic statues. He
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Back Door to War
BY Charles Callan Tansill. (Regnery; $6.50J


DR.. TanSill is professor of
American diplomatic history
at Georgetown University. From
1918 to 1928 he was technical
adviser to the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. He has
written a number of books in
his field.
His new book is subtitled
Roosevelt Foreign Policy: 1888
1941." In the opening sentence
OF this long study he strikes a
keynote: "The main objective
in American foreign policy since
1900 has been the preservation
Of the British Empire"
It is obvious throughout the
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South Africa has given US
many good writers in recent
years. Nadine. Gordimer is one
of this choice company. Her
stories. wry and delicate. are in
the pathetic rather than tragic
strain. She shows situations
where people are suddenly
forced to face the truth about
themselves, knowing they must
live with 1t for the rest Of their
lives.
The title story illustrates Miss
Gordimer's particular art. A war
veteran who has lost his leg
watches . wounded locust. TAX
ing hope from the insects simi-
lar plight. until the locust sud-
denly fies away.
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The Soft Voice Of the Serpent and Other Stories
By Nadine Gordimer. (Sfmon & Schuster; $500

In another story she tells Of
q kindly white woman whose
servant has educated her chill
dren beyond their expectations.
When the servant is dying and
her daughter is desperate, the
woman can only offer her a
handkerchief to cry in. The
most dramatic selection tells Of
an amateur theatrical group
playing to a completely. bewil-
dered black audience in their
location.
Miss Gordimer has q rueful
insight and clear style which
make these stories unusual and
her first novel something to
look forward to. IN. Meg.
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Give the Man Room: The Story OF Gutzon BorgIum
Eu Rnhert Casey and Mary Borglum. Bobbs Merrill $45

- 6A0AAAs tDOOSS ava ~ sSsg pS'~S'
learned it in working on the
tragically thwarted Confederate
memorial on Stone Mountain
near Atlanta. It involved dyna-
miting stone delicately enough
for the process of carving. The
authors have given q complete
.and entertaining account of the
fiasco in Georgia. Mr.. Borglum
was outrageously treated, ousted
when certain persons took over
the memorial. Later Atlanta
leaders admitted the injustice
and called him back. 1t was too
late. He died before he could
resume work on what probably
would have been his greatest
achievement. There are plans
for going ahead with the me-
mortal, but it is doubtful if any
other sculptor can complete it.
Mr.. Borglum undoubtedly
could have replaced the Colossus
Of Rhodes. &C. B. j.
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Crime
By Miriom Gutenberg

Vanish in an Instant. BY Mar
\ garet Millar. Random House;
$2.50.)
There's every reason to be-
lieve Virginia Barkeley, spoiled
mothers darling. knitted her
lover. There's no reason to be-
lieve the killer was the man who
confessed. Virginia's attorney
can't let it rest. His prohings
into the background of all par
ties turn up an alcoholic mother.
bitter wife and a Small-time
blackmailer. among others. All
contribute to a pattern darkened
by murder and threatened with
golden strands of self sacrifice.
AS always, the. author combines
mood and characterization to
produce a pungent novel Of
human Illustration and hope.
The Elk and the Evidence. BY
Margaret Scherf. Double
day & Co., Inc; $2.50.)
Crime Club.
Rev. Martin Buell. finds q sew
cred human toe wrapped in an
elk roast from a parishoner. The
cleric'S penchant for trouble
doesn't fail him. The toe, he
figures, once was attached to
some one who didn't relinquish
it willingly. When a hysterical
girl shows up insisting she saw
a dead man carried from train
nearby, Rev. Mr.. Buell. is sure
he's onto something. The arm of
coincidence is stretched to new
lengths but the authors Mon
tana setting and village char
acters-particularly the robust
reverend-are always worth a
return visit.
Shakedown. BY Ben Kerr.
(Henry Holt & Co.; $2.500
Detective Johnny Stevens was
loath to take on the Miami as
signment, although it looked
simple enough-just trailing a
doctor bent on blackmailing the
Son-in-law of q food tycoon.
Then the doctor was inconven-
iently murdered before 800 wit
nesses and Johnny was nabbed
as the killer. The author follows
the Chandler line, but unlike
some Chandler imitators, he
cooks up q smooth blend of
slugging, sleuthing and sex.
Heavy, Heavy Hangs. BY Doris
Disney. doubleday & Co.;
$2.50.)
Crime Club.
Jenny was sure her vivacious
sister never hung herself, even
if New England set of in-laws
made her miserable. Among the
in-laws, Jenny found total re-
lief the sister was gone-along
with some puzzling bits of in
formation from her dead sisters
7-year-old boy. The climactic
moment stars the youngster.
His appeal for help hits a dra-
matte high in this years who-
dunit fiction.
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There is more than regional
interest in this lively account
of one of the country's most
colorful and hardy areas. When
Mr.. Holbrook moved from Bos-
ton to the Northwest some
thing over 80 years ago. it was
still q pioneer country-6O
years after the last covered
wagon rolled West. Although
there were big cities. fresh
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This novel, whatever its
shortcomings. is a vivid account
of O. phase of war that seems to
have been overlooked. Our
soldiers are shown in the role
of guards over prisoners Of war
and enemy civilians. The cur
rent news from Korea gives this
book of fiction, which has q
factual background, an unex-
pected timelineSs.
The story takes place at the
close of World War II on an un-
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b ook tina t
Prof. TanSill
holds Pfesi-
dent Roosevelt
and his coterie
responsible for
our going into
World War II.
But the book,
however its
opinions may
be re iv e d
generally, is
no superficial
string of in
dictments. The
U,nrL ~ q
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and Mr.. Thurber who benefited
from her primitive ministra-
tions, brings her vividly back to
life.
Mr.. Thurber's study Of Joseph
Villiers Denny, Dean of Ohio
State University is enlivened by
some acid comments on the big
ness which overlook the land
grant college when Joe Denny
was no longer on hand to keep
things in perspective. Next to
Aunt Margery. he does his best
work on Gus Kuehner, his city
editor. 1t is a classic study Of
the breed.
M. Meg.
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The Thurber Album
By James Thurber. (Sinon & Schuster: $500


This affectionate collection Of
portraits of Mr.. Thurber's rela-
tives, neighbors, teachers and
early employers as he remem-
bers them from his Ohio youth,
has nostalgia charm. If little of
the gentle bite which we expect
from Americas leading humor-
ist. The descriptions of his
relatives, which inevitably In
volve discussion of degrees and
kinship, are only mildly inter-
esting to one outside the family.
OF the family friends, Aunt
Margery Albright is far and
away the most fascinating. She
was q wonderful natural healer.
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named lSlan0
in the Pacific.
A single bat
talon Of Ma
rineS Is guard
ing a crud e
Stockade con-
tanning 5000
p SO n -
men, women
and children
- m st of
the m Oki-
naWanS and
Koreans who
W ere i'm
pressed int O