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Evening star., 1952-11-30
Novel byNew
Irish Writer
Is Striking
A Time Outworn
BY Val Mulkerns.
(DeUin-Adair;; $3.)

(DeUtn-Ad1r; $3D
Val Mulkerns, age 26, is a
genuine new talent, the most
striking first-novelist of the cur
rent year. Not surprisingly. she
halls from Ireland, country
which produces good writer's the
way other nations breed cooks
or technical engineers.
Miss Mulkerns' style is a joy,
precise, humorous and here and
there lyric. Her point of view :
is dry, detached, with strong
note of idealism and patriotism.
Her story is of doomed young
love in the insulated world of
Dublin during World War II,
which. as the heroine explains,
meant only dark bread and no
oranges. and my father and
George Henderson shouting at
each other across a room"
Frank O'Connor has hailed
Miss. Mulkerns' book as "the
most interesting and significant
to have come out of Ireland in
IS years" This may over
state the case a bit, but
even so "A Time Outworn" is
a masterful performance. Miss
Mulkerns' young people are real
casual and aware. They have
not the great cause their fathers
had, and they are not exactly
certain how to perpetuate the
victory. To Brian Clancy, the
Kerry schoolmaster, the teaching
of "the native gibberish is pure
idiocy." For Maeve, the spirit
of Cathleen Nihoulihan is kept
alive in the marvellous songs and
stories of wild Aran Isles fid-
dler. For Diarmuid Barron, the
boy whom Maeve loves, love is
enough.
The thing about Miss Null
kerns is that besides creating
many vivid, Illuminating scenes,
she makes number of points
about contemporary Ireland
without belaboring any Of them.
Only the end of the story is dis
appointing. In short, she is an
artist with a firm grasp on
character and atmosphere. She
is, moreover, an Irish author
with no ak to grind and this
is about as good as they come.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-11-30

Royal Bob" IngerSol was a
free thinker but not an original
one, and his ideas are little
noted today. To his own gen.
GRAFTON, however, he was a ire
mendous figure, "a genial
atheist" of great heart and
girth who was idolized for his
political oratory, if deplored for
his blasphemy. His marvellous
"plumed knight" speech nomi-
mating James G. Blaine was a
wonder Of his day. "Over-
wrought thousands" wrote one
overwrought journalist, sank
back in an exhaustion Of un-
Speakable wonder and delight"
Thereafter he became the Big
Voice of the Republican Party,
a spellbinder with whom minis
ters of the gospel he so de-
plored were proud to share a
speakers platform.
Ingersoll's life abounded in
such paradoxeS. His present
biographer makes the most of
them, and this highly diverting
biography not only brings back
a gusty personality but also re-
creates the intense partisanship
OF a more politically strenuous
period.
1ngerson was the son of Pres
byterian divine who grew
up with a belief only in the re-
ligion of love. Shakespeare was
his Bible. The militant fulmina-
tor against the Deity and all
churches, he was too tender
hearted to accept the survival
OF the f1ttest" law laid down by
Darwin. A brave soldier in the
Civil War, he hated killing so
much he became an anti-vivi-
sectionist. He did not believe in
life after death, but he did be-
lieve in life before death and he
enjoyed the good things of this
world with unf1agging gusto. He
believed in free thought, but
not free love, and his home life
was an idyll. He adored his
wife and daughters and main
tanned a string Of pensioners
Evening star., 1952-11-30

The 18th exhibition of recent
prints by members of the So
ciety of Washington Printmak-
ers and others, which opened
two weeks ago in the galleries
of the American Institute Of
Architects administration build
ing, 1735 New York avenue
NV, to remain through De-
cember %. is a show revealing a
high level of technical compe-
tence. It has an extensive va
riety of subjects and handling.
a wide range Of graphic me-
diumS and combinations in the
IS prints on view. They run q
gamut from the exquisite natur-
alism of Thomas Mason and
John Taylor Arms, to such in
tricate abstract I designs as
Minna Citron's color engrav-
ing, "Trepth."
Incidentally, that struck me as
an excellent name for an alb
straction. A number of other
printmakers have given their
non-objective designs equally
misrepresentation names;
for examples, Maude Kerns'
monoprint, "Andante";; Leonard
EdmondSon'S color etching,
plural Detail" and Worden
Days color woodcut, Burnt Or
dinary." When artists arrange
patterns of circles and rectan-
giles or whatever. and give them
such titles as DAY at the Zoo"
or Reclining Nude" without
vouchsafing so much as a rec
ognizable animal or shoulder
blade. respectively. they trick
the layman into searching for
familiar images and finding
Illustration and annoyance, in
stead of studying the work Of
art as something good in itself.
The invitation section this
year is a selection of prize and
purchase prints from the first
decade of Pennell shows at the
Library of Oongress-one print
from each year. The Society of
Washington Printmakers has
purchased one print from the
present show, to be given to
the Library's collection: Rob-
ert o. Hodgell's aquatint, Car
nival," composed of abstract
figures and structures with ex-
tensive textural variety and
design elements. This print was
selected the opening day by Alice
Lee Parker, acting chief of the
Division of Prints and Photo
graphs of the Library, and Prem
tiss Taylor, president of the
society.
Appealing Prints
Traditional prints which par
ticularly appealed to me are
John Taylor Arms etching,
This England; Alan Cranes
lithograph, Winter Harbor"::
Stow Wengenroth's lithograph,
Serenity" depicting the inte-
rior of a Colonial church, with
effective handling of values in
the illumination; Ruth Starr
Roses serigraph, Blue Horse"
a high-keyed, sunny scene; Inez
Demonet's aquatint and dry
point, Hope" "a cross seen
through the Arch of Constan-
tine); Jacob Kainen's delicate
linear etching, Reading in
Bed" with a miniature print
on the walD, and PrentiSs Tay-
lor's lithotint, after the Picnic"
another figure subject relaxing
in a different manner.
Besides the abstract prints
mentioned early in this review,
I also liked James H. Kleege's
color etching and engraving,
Time of the Whale" which has
an American Indian flavor;
Rudolf Won Huhn's linocut.
."Aeolian Harp; Jack Perlmut-
Evening star., 1952-11-30
News of Artists and Exhibitions
New Exhibit Of Prints Reveals High Level
Of Technical Skill and Wide Variety of Subjects

taneously, she worked for vari.
GUS publishing houses as a de-
signer and illustrator. From
1947 to 1850 she studied en-
craving and etching at Stanley
Hayter's Atelier II, and also
taught graphic media there and
at Brooklyn College. Awarded
the Wooley Scholarship, Miss
Haass has been in Paris during
the past two years. studying at
the Ecole du Louvre and the
Sorbonne and last summer in
Greece.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
Uruguoyon Debut

Adolfo Halty-Dube, whose
first one-man show in Washing
ton is at the Pan American
Union through December 20,
has derived considerable inspi-
ration from the theater. About
80 paintings, scale models of
stage designs, costume designs
and illustrations, compose a
show of variety and verve.
His paintings are large semi
distractions in which black
plays a leading role. A few
changes would adapt a number
of them to very modern stained
glass designs. About half are
predominantly black, red and
yellow, the others black, white
and brown.
Three distractions classed as
paintings are shadow box con-
structions of layers of card
board. wire mesh, glass, etc.,
cut, torn or bent into designs
extending foot or more in
depth, and lighted with hidden
bulbs.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
The Golden Spike
OpKe
BY Hal Eon Baantine couer $780, paper IS cents

by hal EllSOn. lBULLGnt1ne, NJ
Mr.. Ellison has been in welfare
work and knows the dark side
Of New York. In this novel he
describes the plight of a To-
year-old boy who is a drug
addict. Chico belongs to the
big slum on the upper East Side,
which has been taken over by
Puerto Rican immigrants. He
and his pals, Angel and the fell
low known as Icepick, get
high" whenever they can. They
think they can stop when they
Evening star., 1952-11-30


want, but the habit fastens on
them insidiously and inexorably.
Meanwhile, Chico loses his girl
and becomes an adept at purse
snatching and other robberies
to get money for his dope. The
ultimate penalty cannot be
long delayed. Mr.. Ellison writes
vividly. "The Golden Spike" is
not a pleasant story. It could
not have been, because the au-
thor set out to tell the truth
about drug addiction. He wrote
Duke" another novel about
delinquent youth. &C. B. j.
Until the Phoenix
BY F. S. Chang.
(John Day.; $500
Mr.. Chang, who returned to
his native China to collect ma
terial for this book, is a good
reporter, but leaves something
to be desired as a novelist. His
description of the coming of the
Communists to a peaceful little
village has the ring of authen-
ITCHY. So has his account of life
in Shanghai on the eve of the
Communist capture, when peo-
pie carried worthless banknotes
around in thick bundles. The
story which he has woven into
this first-hand observation is,
however. quite melodramatic and
unconvincing. His young couple,
bred in the old tradition, never
come alive. Nor is the pursuit
of the handsome husband by a
woman Red Army officer ever
anything more than a series of
unmotivated incidents. told with
a kind of fairy-story simplicity.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
Hongkong:
The Island Between
Ry ChriSt0nher Rand

> (Knopt;; $3.)
A pleasantly personal, unhur-
ried impression of the British
colony that lies between two
worlds. Mr.. Rand, a free-lance
reporter. writes vividly of the
Vests tiny. crowded listening
post off the coast of Communist
China. Some Of his material
has appeared previously in the
New Yorker. B. F.
Evening star., 1952-11-30

pediency and Ellie was never
quite sure whether Frank was
actuated by affection or by
an egotiStical desire to perpetu-
ate his name and the artistic ex-
cellence of Silversmith Produc-
tions. AS a boy Ellie disliked
and distrusted his father. Even
after he was grown and Silver
smith retired, to an extent. and
gave the young man full rein,
Ellie resented the fact that his
father had nodded his life. It
was only after personal tragedy
had Shadowed Ellie'S most sue
cessful years and they had been
forced out Of business by stock
manipulation that he realized he
did have a measure of affection
for the aging man. It is hard
sometimes to believe that a man
as impromptu in his methods
and as Indifferent to principle
and responsibility as the father
could have had the touch of
genius he must have had to sue
ceed so impressively.
Hollywood Stroieht
Mr.. Carson. who has written
many screenplays, knows his
Hollywood. He tells its story
straight rather than satirically,
which is a relief after so many
attempts in the latter vein. He
emphasizes the hard work
rather than the misconduct
which no doubt has been
stressed unjustly. He does not,
however, ignore the phonies, the
back-stabbers and the yes-men
who surround such a colony.
There is a woman columnist
who displays ignorance too
appalling to have allowed her to
hold her job. There is little
girlish star who takes to
alcohol and worse. There is a
full scale Hollywood marriage.
Ellie's. which, at his fathers
insistence, he allowed the studio
publicity man to take over.
1.-THE Magic Lantern" comes
to 504 large pages. It could
have been told as well, perhaps
better, in 800. This prolixity,
true, consists of detail which
sometimes is amusing. Just as
often, though, the detail is a
mere piling up of the obvious.
at its worst a stretching out of
the ludicrous or the narrowing
which is the essence of bad
taste-the sort Of repetitious
hammering at a supposed aver
age of stupidity which has
spoiled too many movies. The
story hasn't a trace of subtlety.
Nonetheless. Mr.. Carson is a
story-teller who can hold your
interest most of the time, and so
he can be forgiven a lot. His
novel is a Book-of-the Month
Club selection.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
Salvation

BY Sholem Asch. 90. p. Put.
pan's Sons; $780,
One of Asch's best historical
novels. this time dealing with
events in Poland following the
retreat Of Napoleon's armies. is
reissued. Translated by Villa
and Edwin Muir, Salvation"
was frst published in English in
1884 in q shortened form. This
edition is approximately one
fifth longer than the earlier one.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
Dickens Phi|onthropies
Outlined in His Letters
The Heart of Charles Dickens

AS revealed in his letters to Angela Edited by
Edgar Johnson. (Dueu Sloan PearceLittle Broun $6J
Reviewed by Edwin TribbIe
Evening star., 1952-11-30

By Florence S. Berrymon
ter's color lithograph. "City
Scene; Ross Abrams color
woodcut, Storm" with ellipti-
cal forms in brown and blue,
suggesting the sea, and B. M.
Jackson's coarse woodcut, "Toy
Vendor" a medieval-looking
Rube Goldberg invention.
Evening star., 1952-11-30
NoIund Abstructions

Paintings and enamel draw
ings by Kenneth holland are on
view in the Dupont Theater art
gallery through December Is.
Some Of the paintings look as If
they had been inspired by the
close harmony of colors and
conventional designs in PERU
Wan tapestries. Many of the
drawings appear to be composed
of ink purposefully spattered.
A series of six or seven PLAY
ground" subjects are variously
treated, sophisticated handling
of childish designs, and in some
instances, scribbles Gas in
"Blackboard~.
'Yesteryeor Motif
Grace Williams is having a
solo exhibition of recent paint
ings and pastels at Wick Byron
Gallery, 1914 Georgia avenue
NV, Silver Spring, through
next Saturday. Eighteen paint
ingS reveal a taste for the
quaint rocco design of Victorian
decorative arts, in several in
teriors, the best of them de-
picting an antique shop. There
are also LANDSCAPES and old
houses.
Gustav Trois, under whose
direction Mrs. Williams is now
painting, aptly termed them
"yeSteryear in motif; not a hint
of stuffy formalities, but more
of casual statements"
A native of Spokane, Wash,
Mrs. Williams graduated from
the State college. taught high
school, spent several years in
business and Secretarial work
and Travelled extensively. She
began her formal training in
painting at the University Of
Berlin in 1916.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
RESORTS.
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Evening star., 1952-09-02

division who saw action in Eu-
rope during World War II, Col.
Kennedy said they were married
in January, 1912. He said reports
that his wife was an heiress are
incorrect. His wife was the
former Miss Letitia Houston
Rider, a native of Virginia and
an only child. Her late father
was a Federal employe and her
mother now lives in Herndon, Va,
the colonel said.
Col. Kennedy said his wife was
first committed by the Alexandria
court to Sheppard-Pratt Hospital
lin Baltimore last November. She
was later transferred to the
Staunton institution.
The men with whom she was
riding, believed to be two prin-
cipals in the robbery case. were
identified as John E. Watson. 26
a Texas fugitive, and Jim Dar-
wood Kennedy, %, Of Fairfax
Okla.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
Wife Of Army Colonel
Hin Alexandra Quizzet
In S25O,OOO Robbery

A woman arrested in Reno, New,
and questioned in connection with
a $250,0O0 Post Office robbery,
identified herself Yesterday as the
wife of an Army lieutenant
colonel living in Alexandria. Va.
She is Mrs. Letitia Houston
Rider Kennedy, 81, who told re-
porters she escaped from the De
Jarnette Sanitarium in Staunton,
Va, several weeks ago. She said
she if the wife of 1t. Col. Elmer
B. Kennedy of 1892 Norris place,
Alexandria.
Col. Kennedy early today veri-
fled that his wife had escaped
from the Virginia institution
where she was committed by an
Alexandria court in February for
a mental disorder. He said he
spoke by telephone with the sher-
ifs Office at Reno yesterday and
was told that his wife didn't want
to return.
Hitch Hiked Across q. S.
Mrs. Kennedy said she had
hitch-hiked across the country in
\ the hope of obtaining a Reno
divorce and custody of their two
sons, aged two and four, now liv-
ing with Col. Kennedy, the Asso-
ciated Press reported.
Reno police said Mrs. Kennedy
had been questioned by postal in
spectors about the robbery of q
Monolith, Calf, post Office. Au-
thorities said the two men with
whom she was riding verified hel
story that she was a hitch-hiker
Police said Mrs. Kennedy hac
nothing to do with the post Office
burglary.
She is being held now for in.
vestigation pending word from
Virginia authorities. Col. Ken.
nedy said he has not decided
whether he will go to Reno for his
wife.
He said warrant for her arrest
as an escaped mental patient ha:
been issued by Virginia authori'
ties but said a legal mess" has
developed because it is not like 6
criminal warrant on which a per.
son may be eXtradited from ont
State to another.
Denies "Heiress" Report.
A veteran of the 10lst Airbornt
Evening star., 1952-09-02
Decline of Peach Crop
Ascribed to Winter
By the Assoeiated Press

CENTRALIA, nl.-Big Midwest
peach crops of recent years can
not be brought back until new
trees are grown, the Illinois Fruit
Council reports.
The semi-official agency blames
the 1950-51 winter kill of peach
trees for declining harvests. In
Illinois 1881 yielded an all-time
big crop of 4 million bushels and
its latest big year was more thar
2 million bushels in 1949. The
1852 crop has been estimated at
less than / million bushels,
Evening star., 1952-09-02
Putnam to Address OILY Workers
At Philadelphia Convention

tually catch up with reality-and
then the malicious Taft-HarSley
Act will pass into limbo"
The coming presidential elec-
ton figured into Mr.. Murray's
speech, too, although he didn't
name any candidates.
There is no labor vote, Mr.. Muir
ray said. "but there is a citizens
vote and in every past presiden-
tial election it has been cast in
the great majority for the prin-
ciples of the Roosevelt New Dea'
and the Truman Fair Deal"
o. A. (Jack) Knight. president
of the oil workers, has given hi.
support to Gov. Stevenson for the
presidency.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
MARYLAND Turkey Crop Up

BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 R.-
The Maryland-Delaware Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service said
today Maryland turkey growers
are raising more of the birds this
year than ever before-529, 900
turkeys, an increase of IS per cent
over last year.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.-The
second session of the 22d annual
convention of the CIO Oil Work.
ers International Union gets I'M
derway today with Roger l..
Putnam, administrator of the
Economic Sterilization Agency, as
principal speaker.
The 400 delegates to the con-
vention, representing 10000 oil
workers in the United States and
Canada, yesterday heard Philip
Murray. president of the CIO and
the United Steelworkers. urge re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
Mr.. Murray said he was "con-
fident that Congress will even-
Evening star., 1952-09-02
How
-.
To Improve
Your Luck!

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What are '1uck lineS"-and
how can you use them in
every day living? The current
LOOK tells the facts and
superstitions about luck and
how it can influence your
life. For an authoritative
analysis of this absorbing
subject get LOOK Magazine
today.
Evening star., 1952-09-02
YOU. COULD
STILL
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

ing.
Blufton will be host to Bradfield
Center Post 1S9 team Wednesday
evening, July 2. Game time is six
p. Nj. at the college diamond.
Although losing the Harrod game,
the Bluffton team continued to show
improvement, despite the fact eight
errors contributed much to the loss.
Harrod collected only six hits off
Bluffton pitcher, Bill Schumacher,
while Bluffton was limited to two
hits by Harrod pitcher, Koogler. The
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
Junior Legion Nine
Loses In Tournament

Scoring six runs in the fourth in
ming, the Harrod Junior American
Legion baseball team defeated Bluff
ton 10-1 in the first game of the
double elimination tournament to de-
termine a county champion to go in
to the district tournament. The
game was played on the Bluffton
college diamond last Monday even
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

will play Newton Falls.
Bluffton players on the Rawson
team include Bob Wenger, catcher;
Lynn Carmack, third base, Ted Bau-
man, center field; Don Schmidt, Bob
King and Jim Benroth, pitchers.
Others in the starting lineup will
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
RaWsOn Baseball Team Will Play I'm
National Baseball Tourney At Kalida

Rawson baseball team, made up of
Bluffton, Mt. Cory and Rawson play
ers, will compete in the National
Baseball Tournament in Kalida at
7:3O p. m. this Friday night.
In their first assignment in the
national tournament the local outfit
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

Notice Is hereby given that on the 21st
day of July. 1852, at $500 p. m. a public
hearing will be held on the budget prepared
Allen County, Ohio, for the next succeeding
fiscal year ending December 81. 1858.
Such hearing will be held at the council
chamber in the town hall building. Blufton,
Ohio.
A. j. b. Longsdorf, Clerk
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

be Porter King, first base; Dean
Folk, second base;, Dick Amstutz,
third base, all of Mt. Cory; and Bill
Robinson, left field; and Jim Frantz,
wright field, both of Rawson. Jerry
Wolfrom, of Rawson, is the manager.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

The turkey poult can become inn
mune to coccidiosis.
There is a maximum 5000 fine for
confning wild animals.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

game was called at the end of eight
innings because of darkness.
Harrod ----.--.-. 100 600 30-10 6 5
Bluffton ..----- 100 600 90 2 8
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

Moving lawns IL to inches viii
help grass compete with weeds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
On Honor Roll

Margaret L. Stratton daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Stratton, JEFF
ferson street, is one of group of
ST students on the honor roll in the
Ohio State university department of
home economics for the spring quart
er. Miss Stratton graduated from
Bluffton High school in 1851.