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Evening star., 1952-03-02
These Stood Out
In the 18th Century
LONDON LADIES

LONDON LADIES
True Tales Of the Eighteenth
Century
BY Lucy Poate Stebbins. (Co-
lumbia University Press; $3.)
In these sprightly biographi-
cal sketches, Mrs. Stebbins re-
wives q number Of girls who for
one reason or another stood out
from their sisters Of the 18th
century. No common thread
runs through them except their
femininity, and the authors de-
sire to re-Study or, In some in
stances to right the wrong that
tradition has done them. The
most dramatic Of these pages Is
devoted to the beautiful Siddons
sisters. daughters Of the great
actress, who suffered from their
love Of the same man, the
painter, Thomas Lawrence. Her
most modern heroine is per-
hapS Dorothea Lieven. q gaunt
Russian belle who was the mis-
tress of two foreign ministers
Of her time and whose manipu-
lation Of power won her the
title Mother of Diplomats"
Jane Welsh Carlyle. whom the
author seems not to like espe-
cially, a pair of minor authors
and the tragic Martha Ray,
mistress Of Lord Sandwich,
complete the gallery. Mrs. Steb-
bins writes literately Of them all.
MARY McGRoRY.
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Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
Paintinn. PiGusnOn avenue sn,,Ia. and sixth street
'ssRsades 81 81 Eespsss ERsssss.
snS paintings sufhSRsaP frSa eh. RnaitInss ndi9nesSsx
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lection Of Fine Arts, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street~Americsn
paintings and old masters. Sixtieth
Maana AMnnhaa Mxhibition Of the Society Of
EMsiSsnnston EriSnHn Artists. to oopen next
sAiITfHsoNIAN BUILDING. p,v,.,o,
q 9a,,caaphic ,Graphic Arts. Tenth street and
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centur1 sSl snd bins.s Trss strssts-Elghteenth
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Tue NsEp GEORGETOWN GALLERY.
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This Will Leave
You BreothIess
THE WAGES OF FEAR

THE WAGES OF FEAR
BY Georges Arnaud. Trans
lated from the French by Nor
man Dale. (FGrar, Straus &
Young; 49,
This quietly terrifying story
OF an oil field in Guatemala is
told with tight suspense and
without a wasted word.
The American oil company
had brought in a flaming
gusher which had killed a num-
Der Of native workers. The fire
had to be put out. It could be
done only with the most power
tul explosive - nitroglycerin.
This had to be brought in on
trucks over a hazardous road.
1t was a dangerous job, to put
1t mildly; even a bump in the
road might cause a cargo to
blow up. A score of foreigners
OF a dozen nationalities were
"on the beach" at the seaport
300 miles away. They eked out
a mooching existence and would
do anything to get passage
money out Of the country. The
company's superintendent de-
cided it would cause less trouble
to hire the best drivers among
these than If he engaged natives
and got the corporation in
worse by expending the lives of
more Guatemalans.
"The Wages OF Fear" is chiefly
the story Of the nightmare
journey on one Of the explosive
packed trucks by two of the
derelicts-Gerard. q French
man, and Johnny, a Romanian.
They were each to get 81, 900 in
United States money-if they
arrived with their cargo. Don't
start this book at night unless
you want to stay awake until
you finish it.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
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Sin and Intrigue
In the Near East
LET 1T COME DOWN

LET 1T COME DOWN
BY Paul Bowles. (Random
House; $780,
1t should be said, regardless
OF whatever flaws there may be
in this novel, that Mr.. Bowles
has a direct. driving way with
a story which keeps you abb
sorbed until the last page is
read.
That this should be true of a
man who on the strength of his
first novel, THE Sheltering
Sky" was taken up in certain
literary circles which regard
themselves as advanced is all
the more remarkable. Not too
many writer's know how to tell
a story. It's an old-fashioned
virtue that should be hailed and
encouraged. In Let 1t Come
Down." Mr.. Bowles is too en-
crossed in his own story, in get
ting it along, to pause for pre-
cious philosophical asides.
Mr.. Bowles' second novel is
the story Of Nelson Dyar, who
goes to the international zone
OF Morocco to take q Job with
an old friend who runs a tour
ist bureau. He soon finds that
the bureau is a front and the
friend is engaged in various H.
legal activities. But this is all
right with Dyar, and, as the
days pass, he sinks deeper and
more irrevocably into the iniq-
uity which seems to permeate
the town. From liquor he
branches out to hasheesh and
from running contraband
money to agreeing, solely for
profit, to betray his country to
a woman who Is q Soviet agent.
Dyar is not a very interesting
young man. He has few re-
sources and no definite point
Of view. 1t is a question whether
he is worth the space of a fairly
long novel, and yet the author
somehow held my interest in
the fellow unflaggingly. Dyar
seems to succumb to the wick
edness Of Morocco too quickly,
especially for a man who has
just left his home in New York
and his mother after working
Solidly If unhappily for 10
years in a bank teller's cage.
His disintegration happens in
a matter Of days. The charac-
ters he touches, some wealthy
and influential, are q uniformly
bad lot. There's not an admir-
able one, even as a foil. It
hardly needs to be argued, how
ever, that scoundrels and dere-
licts can be engaging literary
material. Mr.. Bowles' people
are. And he could have made
his narrative sordid, even re-
voting in detail. He has pre-
ferred to sketch in the Moroc-
can atmosphere "a meeting
place of nationalities which
seems to bring out the worst
of each-and to make his story
move, CARTER BROOKE JONES
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in a phrase or two or at the
most in one or two sentences.
The rest Is hard work.
Now that his first volume is
launched, Mr.. Kroll may en-
bark on a verse play, will Ger
tainly write more poetry, con-
Vinced that Washington is q
splendid place for poets.
\ \ 4 II
The London Times Literary
Supplements 50th Birthdoy
To celebrate the 50th an
niversary Of its founding, the
London Times Literary Supple
ment has issued jumbo edition
featuring the history of the
supplement. q re-statement Of
its aims. defense Of its methods
and an impressive collection of
reviews Of important books pub
Ished In the past half century.
On the controversial question
OF its anonymous reviews the
supplement has this to say:
Every critic who ventures out
OF an Olympian seclusion is
faced with Q delicate problem
OF manners. Sooner or later
ne will have met personally not
only most Of the other critics,
but most Of the authors as well,
Noobled by one little group,
cheered on by another. he will
md 1t ever harder to eliminate
all personal considerations from
MS published utterances, as
Evening star., 1952-03-02
High Excitement
In the AirIift
AIR BRIDGE

AIR BRIDGE
BY Hammond Innes. (Knopt;;
$500
Reviewed by William Hines
This is a suspense tale in the
great English tradition. The
locale is the British end Of the
Berlin arilift, from whose Ger
man name, Luftbruecke, the
title is derived. A demobilized
Raj pilot gets himself involved
in criminality, becomes a fugi-
tive from justice, and falls in
with q crafty ambitious flyer
who has stolen a German air
craft engine secret.
The story begins at a deserted
Raj base in the west of Eng
land. Sunfolds in suspenseful
fashion in Germany-largely in
the Soviet zone-and reaches its
climax in q dogfight over the
North Sea between Raj fighters
and a fleeing transport plane.
"Air Bridge" Is well worth
reading. but caveat emptor; it
was serialized last year in the
Saturday Evening Post under
the title "The Mystery Of
Flight 252."
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he was always hungry for the
love he could never hold for
long. He was generous, but the
more money he made and spent
the more elusive and mystify-
ing life seemed.
2 He might have been merely
a comic character. but Mr.,
Wright has looked into VIII so
clearly that he is deeply pa
thetic. In Chicago, where we
f1nd him as an old man, putter-
ing around with q little Job
sorting waybills for q railroad,
not caring that his money is
gone, showing his acquaint-
ances a year-old letter from his
adopted son. he is a poignant,
haunting figure.
This is Mr.. Morris seventh
book. His last novel, MAN and
Boy" was a comedy, often ex-
tremely funny. and yet it had
more than a touch Of the uni
verSal. "The Works of Love"
somehow comes close to us all;
perhaps there is something OF
Will Brady in every one. The
book should establish the au-
thor firmly as one Of our dis
tinctive novelists.
Evening star., 1952-03-02
True Life Scenes
By James CobeII
QUIET, PLEASE

o~~@~oNAS
BY James Branch Cabell. (Uni-
UerSity OF Florida Press; $3.J
The author of "Jurgen" has
not written an autobiography,
but these stray and mellow ex-
cerptS from his experiences
come probably as close to such a
work as he will ever do.
Mr.. Cabell is quoted in the
amusing introduction by Mar
jorie Burke, as confessing: q.
I do net know of any one who
can afford to be more than par
TALLY truthful about himself in
public"
The old master is in his best
form as he comments on his
present literary obscurity, as he
sees it, contrasted with his great
days some three decades ago.
There was q time, he admits,
when he was pretty well known
outside, Of course, his native
Virginia, because he never could
apply the axiom that "a Vir-
ginian must write always about
the beauty and the chivalry and
the peerless moral standards
and all the yet other outStand-
ing features Of Virginia In fic-
ton ;" So he was properly
ignored there except in Rich
mond, where "the elite foregath-
cred to discuss. in happy whis-
perS. the turpitudes Of his how
very far from private life :"
He deplores cogently the
present vogue Of dull writing on
drab subjects which passes for
realism and naturaliSm. His
chapter on the origin Of "The
Cream Of the JEST" one Of his
finest books, and Of the two
other volumes in his triology on
dreams. is Illuminating. For
human kind. he insists, as his
character. "the peripatetic Epis-
copalian," did. "the dream
is the one true reality" He
could be right.
-cAR1xR 1RooRH JoaS1s.
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those Of us know who, are able
to compare the spoken opinions
Of our friends with what they
afterward think 1t safe to COM
NIT to paper, From this dilem-
ma, anonymity gives an issue"
! Literary Notes From Around
the World: Most interesting
ght-of-an-author honors this
week should undoubtedly 60 to
Danny O'Sullivan. Ireland's
lightkeeper-poet. who. being ma
rooned in his lighthouse on Tory
Island OH the Donegal coast.
cannot accept an invitation to
lecture at Harvard. He may
not even have gotten the inyi-
tation. for he's been out Of
touch with the world since De-
cember. He would have spoken
on Irish submarine life. of
which he may be tired by now.
From a prison camp in Korea
comes word that General viii
liam F. Deane has read and en-
joyed a volume Of short stories
by a Soviet writer named Ar
kagy Pausstofsky. who, accord
ing to Soviet information serv-
ice here, is a highly popular
chronicler Of Russian village
life. The book was sent the
general by q Communist CORE.
spondent.
Graham Greene, Catholic nov
elist and author of the newly
published "The Lost Childhood''
to Francis Sugrue the New York
Herald Tribune: II haven't been
preaching. I was drawing char.
acters as ambiguous as I am.
perhaps. There was no propa-
ganda. No message. I'm GET
ting tired of people writing
about me. I'd rather talk about
McCarthy1Sm."
Mr.. Greene said he believed it
wa" almost the duty of Catho-
lies" to oppose such laws as the
McCarran Internal Security Act
and 1.-The general nature of Nc
Carthyism" in the United States.
His passport for this flying
visit to America was held up be-
cause he had joined the Com
munist Party for laughs In his
youth.
4 Il + Il
On Display: In the Hebraic
section Of the Library of Con-
gress until March Z, an exhibit
commemorating the centenary
OF the birth Of the father Of
modern Yiddish literature, I. L.
Peretz.
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man obsessed to find q young
musician whom he had helped
and encouraged. Unfortunately,
his only avenue is through
Address Amanis. an unscrupu-
lous, impotent professor who
enjoys welding power over the
lives around him. A young
writer. hungry for love. befriends
the old man and meantime
falls in love with Amanis' beau
tiful wife. None Of their loves
is strong enough, however, to
break the patterns Of their lives,
except In the case Of Amanis,
who must accept his wife's child
by another man.
There Is much fine writing
here. but little warmth.
-AEARY NsoAoNE.
Evening star., 1952-03-02
Reading and Writing
Ernest KrolI's Verse Proves Thot Sol Called
Cultural Wostelond' Con Inspire Poetry
By Mory McGrory

Source Of more prose than
most people care to think about
and much less read, Washing
ton still can inspire poetry now
and again: It's good poetry, too.
In spite Of q harsh impression
abroad that this is a cultural
wasteland travelled only by
rogues and bureaucrats. BY way
Of evidence see "Cape Horn" q
new and first volume Of poems
by Ernest Kroll.
A State Department public
affairs specialist. young Mr..
Kroll has been praised in poetic
circles for his sense Of place"
In q section devoted to WASH
ington he speaks Of "This in
Uented city, neither Rome nor
home" a description that might
well pass into common cur
rency.
Coming here in 1946 from a
tour of duty as Japanese Ian
guage officer with the Navy, Mr..
Kroll was apt to view it all
through the eyes Of Henry
Adams. the educated Yankee
who left Boston to come and
live on Lafayette Square and
be "a stablemate of statesmen"
Mr.. Adams. whose powers of OBJ
servation and prediction the
poet particularly admires, fig
ures in several lyrics in Cape
Horn"
A native Of Manhattan and q
graduate of Columbia, whence
he went on q grant to Japan
for more language study, Mr..
Evening star., 1952-03-02
By Florence S. Berrymon

The late 10th and early goth
centuries in Western Europe
and the United States came
nearer to seeming golden age
than any period in the worlds
history. These are the decades
represented in the exhibition of
70 French paintings from the
collection Of Capt. Edward Mol
yneux Of Paris, which have been
lent to the National Gallery Of
Art for a special exhibition to
open there this afternoon and
to extend through May 4.
Said John Walker, chief cur
atorl of the National Gallery,
Capt. Molyneux has been es-
pecially attracted to paintings
which convey with romantic in
tensity the deliciousness Of life
before the First World War.
This exhibition is, in q way.
therefore, a nostalgia tribute to
q vanished world, a world no.
where more vividly recorded
than in the canvases of the
1mpressionist and Postimpres-
Sionist painters"
AS most Of these paintings
are small Zone might call them
home-Si1ed), they have an in
innate atmosphere not asso-
ciated with the masterpieces in
the gallery's own collections.
Some ~are miniatures q few
inches in dimensions, which
may have been sketches for
larger paintings. But many are
works complete In themselves,
finished in detail, covetable OBJ
jects which would add charm
to the smallest rooms. In ad-
dition, there are eight or so
large paintings which are truly
great.
Impressionists' History.
Besides studying the collec-
ton as a many-paneled mirror
Of a happier time. one can also
find in it q little history of the
1mpressionists. q few Of their
precursors and a larger number
Of their followers. AS it is one
mans collection, and hence re-
fleets his preferences land op-
portunities), one should not
expect careful balance. Nearly
q fourth Of the paintings are
by Renoir, one-Seventh by
Boudin.
AS a history" the show
starts with Corot, who had con-
siderable influence on Pissarro.
Boudin Is another forerunner,
undeservedly neglected. for his
paintings are enchanting. Capt.
Molyneux thinks so, for he
has sent 10 Of them, little har-
Dor scenes, people on beaches,
with seas and skies suggesting
infinity.
Manet, represented with three
paintings, had begun to stir up
small revolution while remain
ing in the. salons fold; he be-
came an associate Of the I'M
pressionists, and both gave to
and received something from
them.
Monet, Sisley, Renoir and
Bazille were the nucleus Of the
future ImpresSionistS. Their
association began about 1862,
when they were in their 2Os.
Monet was, throughout his
life, the complete Impressionist,
the outstanding exponent Of an
approach to painting which
started with Turner, and ended
with Bonnard. The present ex-
hibition has two handsome
paintings by Monet Zone done
in the SOS when he was pri-
marily a figure painter) one Of
Nine. Monet and their son, the
other Of her and Bazille. a Wig
orous young artist who was
killed in the Franco -Prussian
war before his bright promise
was fulfilled.
Renoir is the best represented
In the show, with II paintings,
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It is written
with self
conscious ar
tiStry, which
Is appropri-
ate, since the
c ha ra c ters
are Of the
artistic per-
suasion and
only at q loss
when dealing
with life.
The princi-
pal figure Is
o bereft and
cultivated old
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Will Brady, the man in this
remarkable novel, Is an indivi-
dual if there ever was one and
yet he typifies in the essence of
character @ certain kind of
American.
This American is found in
small towns and large cities.
He lived in the country'S past
and he still lives. He is likable,
he makes friends and he has
abilities of one kind or another.
Usually he achieves a measure
Of success, as people rate sue
sess-that is, he makes enough
money to live in comfort, some
times in luxury. He is often
envied. And yet he never finds
what he is looking for and
never is entirely sure what that
is. He spends his life cropping
toward a contentment, a full
fillment that always eludes
him. He is usually in the middle
of a change new town, a
new business, a new life he
never quite discovers. He Is q
man of good will and yet his
intimate relationships. such as
marriage, are apt to fail for
some reason that always baf-
files him.
We've ALI Known Him.
Will Brady is one Of the rare
characters in contemporary fic-
tion who will be remembered, I
think, because he reminds us all
OF a man we have known, how
ever different his external life
may have been.
Wills father lived in o sod
house on the lonely plains of
Western Nebraska in the dec
ades following the Civil War.
Adam Brady advertised for a
wife, and an Indiana woman,
who didn't know what she was
getting into. came out. But
they stayed married, for all the
primitive appointments, and
when they died their son, Will
Jennings Brady, was a young
man ready to make his way.
Will went to a larger town
and became a hotel clerk. When
he asked a prostitute to marry
him, because he was lonely and
didn't know any one else, she
laughed at him. Her colleagues
in the establishment pushed
their youngest inmate, a girl
who was about to have a baby,
at him. and the girl slapped
his face. But he gave her the
ring he had bought in Omaha
for the other girl and told her
to marry her boy friend. She
left town and later smuggled in
her baby. leaving it with the
stationmaster for Will.
Meanwhile the hotel owner
died and Will married his
widow. They brought up the
deserted baby along with the
widows child. Will went into
the egg business, made a lot Of
money and built a fine home.
His wife left him, taking her
own child. Will never quite
knew why, though they had al
ways been, In a way, strangers.
Will continued to lavish care
and gifts on the founding child
he now regarded as his son. In
Omaha he met his second wife,
who sold cigars at a hotel and
ratified dice with the drummers
for them. The second marriage
didn't last either. The girl left
him and came back to him once
and then 1t was all over.
Deeply Pathetic.
Will was happiest seated in
the lobby Of a hotel, where life
teemed around him and prom
ised things that never happened.
He didn't drink or even smoke.
He wasn't sensual man, though
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AFA Moves Services
To New York CITY

The American Federation Of
Arts. founded 43 years ago in
Washington, has lately opened
new headquarters for its mem
berShip and exhibition services
in New York City. at 1888 Fifth
avenue. It will continue to
maintain its Washington head
quarters at the present location
until q more suitable one is
found.
Incorporated under the laws
OF New York State in 1915, the
AFA has always had a New York
City Office or representative, and
for the last three years has pub
lished its Magazine Of Art and
reference books there.
AS the art capital of the
United States. New York City
is the major source from which
the federation draws its 80 an
nual travelling shows. In New
York, the AF'A exhibition de-
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including the vital portrait Of
Georges Riviere. a Regatta at
Argenteuil" and other aspects Of
his many-faceted talent. Sis
ley. a victim Of neglect and mis-
fortune after 1870, had an ap-
pealing style, as can be seen in
his French Village Street."
Pissarro, the eldest Of the i'm
pressionists (and. in some opin-
ions, the greatest) painted one
OF the exhibitions most beauti-
full landscapes, Route de Louv-
ciennes" (reproduced. Ce-
zanne and Gauguin were influ-
enced by him, and drawn into
the group temporarily. Ce-
zanne's Little Bridge" is one Of
the shows most important
works; another is farmhouse
in Provence" by Van Gogh, and
there is a fine still life by
Gauguin.
Three Degas Works.
Berthe Morisot, sister law
Of Manet, was the groups one
woman painter until American
Mary Cassatt Joined them. Four
paintings by Morisot, especially
Portrait Of Nine. de Pontillon"
and Woman With a Fan" show
how feminine her art was, in It's
taste and delicacy. Degas, as
sociated with the impresSionists,
although not entirely one Of
them, Is represented with three
paintings.
Seurat, Bonnard, Vuillard,
Rouault, Utrillo, Matisse, Lau-
tree with a very unrepresenta-
tive little work. and many
others are to be seen in this en-
gaging exhibition. To our eyes,
it is thoroughly traditional. Yet
1t was these same Impressionists
who changed the character Of
painting, and, whose prolonged
and finally successful struggle
for recognition opened the flood
gates to the myriad manifesta-
tionS Of modern art.
Evening star., 1952-03-02

K roll !" has
been writing
poetry since
1888. His IA
vorite poets
are the me-
dieval John
Shelton. the
metaphysical
George Her
b er t, and
William Dun
bar and Will
liam Blake.
His inSpira-
ton comes to
hi~ hA eA~vr