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Evening star., 1952-12-07
WoodIuwn Cords

When beautiful old Woodlawn
plantation, home Of George
Washington's young kinfolk,
was offered for sale in 1948, a
group of public spirited citizens
raised funds to purchase the
property. Since last year,
Woodlawn has been adminis-
tered by the National Trust for
Historic Preservation, incor-
porated by act of Congress, but
receiving no subsidy from any
governmental source. Public
support of the program will de-
termine it's eventual restoration.
Currently offered at Wood
lawn are two Christmas greet
1ngs, which should be Of interest
to Washington area residents
who want something distinctive
along traditional lines. The
greetings reproduce fine draw
1ngs of Woodlawn and Mount
Vernon. respectively, by Worth
Bailey. curator of Woodlawn.
printed on folders with appro-
PIRATE greetings by George
Washington.
Austrian Expressionist
Karl Tabery, painter from
Vienna, Austria, will hold his
second exhibition Of so oil paint
ings and drawings at the In
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Books in Review
A Powerful and Haunting Document
Of a Mans Abandonment to Drink
The Drinker
BY Hans Falada. (Ddier; $500
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

Magda, he asked for schnapps at
a tavern. He disliked It's smell
and taste, but he swallowed sew
eral. He felt better. He went
away with a glow that made his
worries unimportant.
Thus his drinking started. In
an incredibly short time he had
come to depend on large guam.
titles of alcohol to get through
each day. It wasn't long before
he was disappearing for days at
a time and his wife, whom he
fatuously thought he was fool
ing, had to take over his busi-
ness.
One night, out of money and
desperate for a drink, he re-
turned home and was packing
the silver when his wife con-
fronted him. He didn't want
to listen to her conciliatory talk.
He struck her down and ran.
Sent to an Asylum
It wasn't long before the law
caught up with him. He was
charged with trying to murder
his wife. thrown into jail. It
couldn't be a serious charge, he
knew. His wife wasn't hurt,
the prosecutor assured him.
He'd soon get out, he was told.
Meanwhile. it was thought best
to send him somewhere until
he got over the craving for
alcohol. He was taken to an
asylum for the criminal insane
by no feat of Imagination a
hospital-a horrible place where
the men were half starved pris-
oners, though they were called
patients.
He worked hard at the tasks
they gave him, he settled down
to a dreadful, deadening rou-
tine. He felt he would soon be
released. And yet, when the
doctor saw him, he was always
getting confused and giving the
wrong answers. Somehow in
his heart he knew he would
never get out-knew it long be-
fore, months later, his wife Wis
tied him and told him she was
getting q divorce
1t was more than alcohol.
There was a basic instability
which alcohol distorted into
dreams of grandeur and delu-
sions of persecution. And yet
the little man was the victim of
a monstrous lack of sympathy
and the laws cold indifference.
To say it was his fault is merely
to oversimplify a complex dag
noSis.
Fallada has strengthened his
grim story by making it time
less. The events could have
happened any time. Hitler is
not mentioned, nor is the form
of government. Police and other
officers of organized society,
kindly and cruel in turn, are
much as such men were a CEN
tury ago and probably will be
a century hence.
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Essoyist Katherine Anne Porter
Reflects on Art, Life and Love
The Days Before
BY Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt, Brace: slJ
Reviewed by Mary McGroY
The Doys Before

Katherine Anne Porter'S eS-
says. written over q period of 80
years. cover many subjects, but
they are really only about one
thing, and that Is integrity.
People true to themselves, their
values and gifts will prevail,
she plainly believes. This credo
runs through this collection Of
meticulously fashioned refiec-
tions on art, life and love.
The literary essays which
form a third of the book are
not hobbled by any doctrin-
aire point Of view, which is in
itself refreshing. They are
further enhanced by a personal
approach.
For instance, Miss Porter
writes of her discovery of Villa
Gather in the midst of a fever
ish hectic period of worship of
newness for its own sake. Villa
Gather, with her incorruptible
provincialism, her timeless ira
ditionalism, was lost in her work,
a happy fate for an artist. Less
happy in Miss Porter's view, is
Katherine Mansfield who is
threatened with being over
whelmed by her own legend.
A mastery dismantling of q
writer and a legend is per-
formed in Miss Porter's discus
sion of Gertrude Stein. A "tepid
sluggish nature" moving mas
sively out of "long. willful igno-
rance" and not emerging in
time is Miss Porter's summary
of that battling personality. A
kind of playful malice, not
evidenced in the other essays
is pleasantly at work here.
Disciplined herself, Miss Porter
admires greatly Henry James,
but can write warmly in de-
tense of the less controlled
Thomas Hardy.
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Once More Unto the Breach
The Bard of Avon Is Under Fire

fordians is how to integrate the
plays they claim for oxford
with the accepted facts of
Elizabethan literary history. For
the orthodox Shakesperean
there is no problem. He OBJ
serves that when Shakespeare
began to write plays in the late
1580s he learned from those
who preceded and were coeval
with him and helped teach
those who followed. Then, as
now, each playwright watched
his rivals, initiating and striv-
ing to outdo them in tricks of
prosody, in plot construction, in
development of new types of
character and novel incidents,
and in producing striking the
atrical effects. If one poet
wrote "Friar Bacon and Friar
Bungay," another wrote DOC
tor Faustus"; If one acting
company made a hit with Fall
staff, a rival countered with
Oldcastle. With Shakespeare as
the accepted author. and with
his plays assigned the conven-
tional dates, 1t is possible to
write a history of logical, CO.
herent development of English
drama. But the aScription of
these plays to oxford necessi-
tates the assumption that many
of them were written in the
1570s. This is more serious
than it sounds, for If Oxford
wrote "Troilus" and "Timon"
and "All's Well" and Henry v"
in the 1570s, and they were
performed then, as the OK
fordians assert. then to oxford
must be accorded the dubious
honor Of writing in q vacuum,
learning nothing from his con-
temporaries and teaching them
nothing. We should be faced
with the astounding PROPOSE
ton that Elizabethan drama
developed just as If oxford had
never lived. Anticipating criti-
cism, the authors write lamely
about frequent revisions, but
they offer no proofs.
The bulk of the volume is
given over to a running account
Of Oxford's career, expounded
by quotations from the plays
and poems. Each one of the
works supplies some character.
situation or sentiment which is
given photographed inter-
probation. Let one example
suffice to illustrate the method.
In "The Merchant Of Venice"
Antonio's affection for Bassanio
is taken to represent Oxford's
love for his and Elizabeth's son.
The clue to the identification
is in the younger mans name.
BasSanio-BaSe son E o (Base
son of Edward Oxford.
The book is the product Of a
vast amount of work and the
expenditure of much ingenuity.
It leaves this reader Saddened
by the thought that the sub
ject of the biography is re-
vealed as spiritually unworthy
of the zeal that has been mani
tested in his behalf and has
led his advocates into dialectic
excuses Of which they seem
unaware.
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Continued From Page Ell

Continued From Page ED
iota, that any one during
Shakespeare'S life ever referred
to him as the playwright" (p.
123D. What then of Francis
Meres, quoted by the Ogburns
on page 1894: Shakespeare
among We English is the most
excellent in both kinds G.e.,
comedy and tragedy for the
stage?" Instantly the Ogburns
reply, about this and all the
early literary illusions, when
you read Shakespeare" you
must understand oxford"
When I use a word" says
Humpty Dumpty, in Through
the Looking GLASS;" 1t means
just what I choose it to mean
neither more nor less"
Although Puttenham in 1889
and Meres in 1898 included OK
ford among the writer's Of
comedy, no play was attributed
to him until centuries after his
death. How do the Ogburns
60 about establishing the canon
of his works? On pages ia.
1873. ETC., they state their con-
viction that 1.-THE History of
the Solitary Knight" presented
at court in 157O is the early
version of "Timon of Athens;
a court play of 1878. IAN His
tory of the Crueltie of a Step
mother" is a draft of "Cymbe-
line" and a court play of 1879.
"A Morall of the Marryage of
Mynde and Measure" Is OK
ford's first sketch of '"The Tam
ing the the Shrew."
Now all that is known of
these plays is their titles and
the companies that acted them.
They were never printed and
the manuscripts have perished.
To identify them as early ver-
sions of Shakesperean plays and
attribute them to Oxford is
nothing but wishful thinking.
These are but a few of the in
stances in which absence Of
evidence is treated as proof.
Happily the authors overreach
themselves in one case. That
is where a court play, Titus
and Gisippus." is discussed:
We agree. that oxford
wrote this early version of
Titus Andronicus." One
reason for the belief Is the
great scene in Titus Andro-
nicus" in which Aaron the Moor
secures possession Of the bastard
son Just borne him by the
Empress Tamora-this is con-
sidered an photographed al
lusion to Oxford's supposed
liaison with Queen Elizabeth.
AS in the case of the three
plays just cited. Titus and
Gisippus" was not printed and
the manuscript perished. But
this time we knew the fable of
Titus and Gisippus to have been
borrowed from Boccaccio. It
deals not with lustful expresses
and bastard infants. but the
classical and courtly theme Of
masculine friendship. The Og-
burns are clearly hoist with
their own petard.
The third question for =
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From Korea

An exhibition of Korean chill
dren's art has opened at the
Georgetown branch of the Pub
lie Library. to remain through
next Friday. These paintings
and handicrafts are the work
Of children 6 to II years old.
done in spite of the great diff
ficulties under which they live
and are educated. The collec-
ton was presented to the United
Nations Korean Reconstruction
Agency by the Korean Fedora
ton of Education Associations
"in appreciation of the military
and material assistance of the
United Nations forces and to
promote international friend
ship"
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Among the younger writer's,
she manifestly approves of Eu-
dora Welty, a fellow southerner
who possesses, the instructive
knowledge that writing cannot
be taught, but only learned by
the individual in his own way
at his own pace and in his own
time" Miss Porter can be ex-
tremely crisp about teachers Of
creative writing, for plainly she
believes this to be a contradic-
ton in terms.
In the least captivating selec-
ton in the book, a discursive
history of the rose, Miss Porter
delineates the artist as she
thinks he should be and speaks
of "the happy life of a man
capable of total constancy to
his own gifts" Ford MADDOX
Ford in a more difficult way,
exemplif1ed the same whole
ness. His life work and his vo-
cation happened to be one and
the same thing. A lucky man in
spite of what seems, sometimes,
to the onlooker, as unlucky a
life as was ever lived"
An even unluckier life is
chronicled in Notes on the Life
and Death Of a Hero" a bio
graphical sketch Of an 18th
century Mexican writer whom
Miss Porter never quite brings
into focus. The other Mexican
sketches are not strikingly sue
cessful. either, being at once
solemn and rather vague. Miss
Porter's thoughts on marriage
and patriotism are more re-
warding. ..
AS Miss Porter explains in the
foreWord, the selections consti-
tute journal of the authors
thinking and feeling. 1t is a
sensitive and sturdy journal
quite worthy of her distinguished
fiction.
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A Hungry Man Dreams

BY Margaret Lee Runbeck.
(Houghton- -Mif1in Co.: $500
This is a story Of Jubal Our.
a young man with conflicting
philosophies-the religion of his
mother, and the materialism
of his father. He first tries to
becomes a minister but, unable
to convince himself of his sin
cerity, he enters into the field
of comedy. This proves sue
cesSful and he becomes rich and
famous. However, two old friends
decide to be brutally frank and
tell Jubal that he still can't find
himself. This starts him think
ing and he comes to the reali-
zation that ministry Is his cho-
sen profession after all. 1t was
the obvious ending.
CYNTHIA MEDLEY.
Evening star., 1952-12-07

style and subject the gallery
considers an outstanding aspect
Of this show.
Jack Boul's paintings are
small and dark in tone. His
little oil, Incoming Tide" has
a Ryderish flavor. OF his sew
eral sculptures, I liked his Bird
on a Rock" which appeared to
be more a triumph of selection
than Of creation.
Madge Erving van der Nicer
seems to be preoccupied (from
the evidence of this show with
assorted flowers in miscellaneous
containers on window sills over
looking landscapes. The last
mentioned have perspective,
while the cans. jugs. ETC.. are fiat
color areas. She has several
good pen drawings on view.
OF Helen McKinsey's abstrac-
tionS. I consider Forest Figures"
peSC, IN Wnlcn the concepts OF
tree trunks, water and foliage
are well conveyed.
A number of Dominic Spa
daro's paintings were shown at
the Playhouse Gallery last sum-
mer. His pen drawings of rab-
bits, infants, ETC., are admirable.
Paul Enten'S five works all de-
pict heads or figures lifesize or
close to it. In one double por-
trait of a man and woman,
character and individuality
come through. But the hectic
coloring and rawneSs in the
staring faces Of most of these.
would make them difficult com
panions" for the average per-
son.
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Loudoun Sketch Club

Joe Summerfield. a member
Of the art faculty of American
University, will lecture on IRA.
dition and Experiment in Twen-
tieth Century Painting" at 8
pm. December II at the LOU
doun Community College, Lees
burg, Va. The lecture will bs
free.
In connection with the lee
ture Mr.. Summerfield will hold
a one-man exhibit of his paint
ings as q means of illustrating
his talk. The lecture will be
held under the auspices of the
Loudoun Sketch Club.
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the most dangerous fallacy Of
all" He feels that liberalism. as
it is understood today, is we'll
meaning, but a greater menace
to freedom than any of our
peculiar cults of government or
would-be dictators. From his
point Of view, the extreme
right, Mr.. PloWdeeper writes
knowingly. &C. B. j.
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ternational Student House, 1925
r street NV, Washington, D.
c., beginning at 2 pm. Decen-
ber 6 through the 18th.
A graduate of the Academy Of
Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria,
Mr.. Tabery came to this country
In May 1851. Mr.. Tabery's first
exhibition in the United States,
held at the International Stu
dent House last fall, met with
great success. His work is pri-
marily expreSSioniStic.
The public is cordially invited
to the exhibition. Many of the
paintings and drawings will be
available for sale.
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sent pictures of good quality at
reasonable prices, at this time
OF year when people are think
ing of Christmas gifts.
Undoubtedly, works of art in
all media make delightful gifts.
But it would seem advisable for
the donor to take the prospec-
tive recipient along before max
ing the irrevocable purchase.
For objects added to ones home
are a very personal matter. and
most of us already have too
many unloved things slowed
away, to be snatched out and
pushed into prominence when
the respective donors drop in
Unexpectedly.
I should be delighted to find
some of the Whyte Gallery's Of
ferings among my gifts, but dis
mayed to receive certain others.
Another visitor to the Gallery
may have quite opposite tastes.
At any rate, if I were on the re-
ceiving end of a $35 to $185 pic
ture (the price range at Whyte)
I should be enchanted to have
Herman Maril's Rough Water"
and Edward Rosenfeld's View
of Provincetown," with their
salty tang; Lucille Evans mystic
little "Annunciation"; Leonard
Maurer's Blue Frieze" with a
procession of priestly robed
figures: Barbara Burton's poetic
winter Tracery";; James Nc
Laughlin's Flowers; Winifred
Mobiles "Rooftops";; Helen Rem
MES Siamese cat, a hypnotic
animal even though it appears
to have a giraffe among it's an
cestors; and the crab in Jack
Perlmutter's Grabbing" If it
could be extricated from its sur
roundings.
This is not to imply that some
of the others are not meritoriouS.
A. Arner's abstract ocean in
Moonlight" for instance, Is a
handsome near-monochrome,
very dark gray in tonality. It
might be just the right accent
for q modern room with glass
walls and light wood furniture.
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Art News
Artists Guild
Annual Opens
By Florence S. Berrymon

There is no lull these days be-
tween interesting. sometimes ex-
citing, art events. Before we
have had time to become well
acquainted with the new Dale
loan at the National Gallery
and the Corcoran's Seventh An
nual Area show, our attention
is claimed by later openings.
This afternoon the Artists
Guild will present its 10th an
nual exhibition at the Natural
History Building, National Mu-
scum.
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First Solo in U. S.

Helen Minifle is having her
first solo exhibition in the
United States, at the Arts Club
through next Friday. More
than 40 portraits. landscapes
and flower studies in oil, conte
crayon and charcoal represent
about a decade of her career.
Mrs. Minifie obtained thor
ough traditional training at the
Boston Museum School, New
York Art Students League and
National Academy, and Paris
Julien and Colarossi Academies.
She exhibited in Paris, had a
solo exhibition in Rome and
has participated in the Arts
Clubs members show.
The majority of her exhibits
are portraits. the individuality
of which convinces the observer
that they are close likenesses. A
number Of figure studies include
two full-lengths of Italians in
picturesque native costumes.
Although she has only lately
begun to paint flowers, six or
more examples indicate that she
obtains as faithful likeneSses of
blossoms. whatever their kind,
as she does of people. OF num-
ber of pleasing landscapes, I
liked best one of birches bend
ing over a lake, with a view of
distant hills.
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Christmas Show

The Whyte Gallery recently
opened its Christmas exhibition,
comprising more than 20
paintings by as many artists.
The gallery's objective is to pre-
Evening star., 1952-12-07

This Is the 18th volume in
the Ancient Christian Writer'S
series OF early Catholic teach
ings. The author, a young
Alexandria veteran, has gathered
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Newcomers Progress

Watkins Gallery, American
University. opened recently, to
remain through December 10,
an exhibition of so paintings,
drawings and sculptures, by
seven young Washington artists
whose work the gallery considers
sufficiently mature and individ-
ual to warrant a comprehen-
sive showing. Consequently,
each artist has from five to nine
exhibits hung as a group. All
seven artists were, or are, as
sociated with the university.
Their paintings have been ex-
hibited in Washington, Balti-
more and Philadelphia mu-
Seums.
Each of them, in arriving at
his present stage Of develop
ment, has followed his own
bent. the gallery says. No two
have chosen the same path Of
expression; and this variety Of
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Koinen Retrospective

Catholic University's art de-
partment recently opened a II
years retrospective exhibition of
paintings by Jacob Kainen
(1935-1952). the most complete
survey I have seen Of his work.
He has had periodic one-man
shows, beginning with his first
in Washington at the q Place
Gallery about a decade ago.
The observer can follow Mr..
Kainen's career with remarkable
ease in this collection at Catho-
lie University, although in say
ing so I run the risk Of over
sinplification and obviousness.
The earliest paintings in the
show, done when the artist was
in his 20s, are expression
istic naturalism, depicting dra-
ma and tragedy "a stormy
Disaster at Sea-" a lurid "Tene-
ment Fire" and a bombed mu.-
scum.
Then, in the early '40S,
when widespread violence and
destruction were rampant, Mr..
Kainen turned to gentle, idyllic
scenes, such as Virginia Farm
house." in soft muted colors and
simplified forms, and New
England VISTA" perhaps the
shows most beautiful work from
the layman's standpoint.
BY 1943. Mr.. Kainen was in
trigued by the turretS, towers
and other architectural excres-
cences of Victorian architecture,
of which he did a comparatively
naturalistic portrait in "Old
Building" BY the end of the
'40s. his imagination knew
no bounds when it played on
rococo curlicues, as demonstrated
in "Eyrie" and CLOCK Tower"
both of 40. The latter is
in striking contrast to the
Church" tower of '43, showing
his different landings of a
nearly identical theme. Other
paintings of the 1940s show his
steady progress toward increas-
ing simplif1cation and, finally.
abstraction in the last few
years.
Mr.. Kainen's explosive paint
ings Of 1850 and 81 are full
of movement, brilliant reds, yell
lows and other assertive colors.
while those of this year have
settled down to cool, quiet blues,
grays and discreet warm colors.
It will be interesting to see
what he is going to do next.
A resident Washingtonian for
more than a decade, and for
much OF that time curator Of
the Division of Graphic Arts,
Smithsonian Institution, Mr..
Kainen was a native of Water
bury. Conn. incidentally, to-
day is his birthday. His ex-
tensive art training, active ca
reer, honors received and rep
reSentation in important collec-
fi0nS are Wall krOup
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;. (The Ne,0ndn Press; $3.25.J
together, very readably, some of
the first translated sermons Of
this great early Christian
apologist.
RAY KALTWASSER.
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liberals and the Constitution

By Henry Plowdeeper. Liberty G. Freedom Press s3J
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-09-25
Cranberry Boys

| always thought cranher'ics
grew on bushes similar to buckle
berries. But a ncighbor sent US an
interesting bit of decoration for
cur coffee table and it turned out
to be cranberries as they are found
growing wild. They grow in mass
like something or others Meed
more botany for full description
and belong to the turkey berry
family. Maybe that's why we all
ways use them for turkey dinners.
The wild ones have a more delicate
flavor than those we buy in the
markets As floral decoration
they make wonderful converse
ton starter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-09-25

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VI i''spOi - O., WI" Me- S MeeN - Emu
- - pa nJi az aI''i =" -" III ei-
Mis- NrIIc Wilson visited hon,
sister Mrs Katie Veacbv of Cum.
berland last week
MI and Mrs RAYMOND Stone
Newburg, W. Va. visited the
Virgil Stones on Sunday.
Sunday visitors Of Nh. and Mrs.
Emory Lewis were Miss Patty
Lewis, Of Red Oak, and Miss Shir-
icy Lewis, OF Baydtd'
NJ and MIS- FRANK blamhIe ana
.ahllF spent SATURDAY evening win
w. ana MIS-. ca OIlueidollh, OIL
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-09-25
Plan Two Concerts

Two concerts are being planned
for Oakland, one this fail and one
next spring
a choral group will present a
concert in October which will be
co-sponsored by the Southern High
School Parent-Teacher association
and the U. S. Army and air force
recruiting service.
M/Sgt. Georgeg +. Kirby, of
Oakland, and Mrs. Ann F. Corner,
Cumberland, will present a concert
in Oakland in the spring Of 1858,
in observance of armed forces day.
Guest artists will be included.