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Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
Paintings. sculptures by masters. Gul-
ture and European paintings. Litho-
NATioNAL MusEuM. National colleo-
nue. nue. and Tenth 9TH street i' M american lean
paintings and old masters. Swedish
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division Of
ferson Observation-Disclosures Of print
fREEE ssrsSn SALdER9 dFRs TWe :t5sst and
LsRr sFtis seIyeS SF S4Esnss inae9ss Fas cspo
nell show; historic campaign post
DgMBaEToS OAKS s eoiisession. Isos
chrssan and ssssatns srssa ART FFasy
coRco6RsANS sSuGla GALLERY i1EsI's OF ART. Seven
nue. % and t streetMAmertcsn sssn s Sk PAINTINGS s
ture By Lii Gettinger. through Sep
Ss osh Tssf rSDTs me9 Sy sa psntss aTs
IA. views Of Windsor Castle by By %. o.
rHh1Ps HSaRh sash MEMoFH toFSHxh skTRY 1000
prints. GrouD Of washington paint
ARTS CLUB. 20I7 7 street--Annusl
members exhibition to remain through
PAN Ne AMERICAN sRmRfe UNION. Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
Argentine landscapes. by Ricardo Es-
BARNETT ipf1I apEN ne GALLEY i27 RAN
dolph place N.W.-Paintings by con.
temporary Americans. through sum-
TRnsxk;roN-DECATUR NAVAL MUSEUM.
1910 II street NW-U. s. subma-
Iines N action, through September
TEE NEW GEORGETOWN GALLERY,
1924 Prospect avenue-"The Circus"
b I9s Ksthsrins Hobbs s.tFY and Pyncsn an cpok
teenth street N.W-Peintings and
DUPONT THEATER GALLERY, 1882
Connecticut avenue N.W.-Paintings
by washington art teachers. through
cofoNSY A@SSS' RRFsrAuRANT. 1897 De Sales
street N.w.-Eyhibition by students
s,S e & gsnss Gycoli throggh ra,spu sYWmsr as,e
exhibition, paintings and ceramics.
SHIRyINGTON CO OPERATIVE DE-
PARTMENT sTORE. Parkfairfax
Circle. artist show,
By Aksrlsy: Mack. and s.rvaIr Van swearin-
nue. at Seventh street N.W.-Brady
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, Michigan ave-
nue. NE. Saive Regina building-Stu-
dent exhibition. 70 mid-August.
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n IL W o o0
must take its share of the blame.
It's Just one Of those things.
Mr.. Longstreet's hero Mike
Zelsmith is a producer on the
skids. We are asked to look
upon his downfall with pity
because he is a genius. At least
he claims that his pictures have
reflected "a little of the ache
and the agony Of life" Now
poison at the boxofice, Mike
is also having home trouble.
His marriage with the stingy
daughter of a magnate has gone
sour, and he has taken under
his wing an exquisite, mad little
blonde with a passion for sick
dogs. strong drink and weak
men.
Not content with making
Mollie his mistress. Mike tries
to make her a star. Unable to
raise cash for the movie he
really wants to do, he rusheS
into production with a cheap
fast picture for money. Mollie,
harried by q father image and
her concern for a spaniel with
heart trouble-not to mention
an oaf1sh beach bum-cracks
up. Their frenzied idyll is
smashed and the picture flops.
Though failure, Mike is still.
to the expatriate author whose
journalizing punctuates the
narrative, "a sensitive traveller
with elephant feet in a meta
physical jungle Of steel-toothed
rats"
"The Beach House" must
stand or fall by the portrait Of
it's genius hero, which does not
quite come off. He is shown
to have "the genuine vulgarity,
the bad taste and loud ego Of
real genius" but actually not
much else. But If the grand
plan fails, many Of the details
are arresting: a dinner party
in a castle with knights in
armor standing around; Mol
lies soothsayer; the magnate's
funeral. These give the air Of
unreality that we expect. The
authors diary. written in self
consciously literary style, give
a pretentious tone that doesn't
help at all. IN. Nc G.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
William Randolph Hearst Portrait in His Own Words
(Sinson G. Schuster;; $780,

(Simon & Schuster;; $780,
ready known Of his personality
rather than to shed new light,
but for all that they are inter-
eSting.
Mr.. Hearst was very proud
of the fact that he wrote his
own stuff. Not even his great
est admirers, however, would
claim for HIM a scintillating
prose style. The characteristic
short words short sentences
short-paragraph pattern of his
work makes it monotonous even
when the content is striking.
In dealing with his editors
throughout the country, Mr..
Hearst was firm, If capricious.
They must have had their work
cut out for them following the
zigs and zags of his ever-chang-
ing political thought. Appar-
emily no allowances were made
for local conditions or individual
differences of opinion.
On the human side, Mr..
Hearst displays a pleasant hui
NOR in corresponding with his
sons and a minute concern for
the animal life that swarmed
through San Simeon.
AS a political enemy, the edi-
tor could be vindictive and inn
placahle. He had his own way Of
dealing with governments that
took exception to his policies.
When France expelled him, he
wrote q note to his valet:
Joseph don't ever get me
any socks or anything else made
In FRANCE" I'M. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Trio in Arlington

Oil paintings and water colors
by three Virginia artists are
being shown In the community
room art gallery of the Shirling-
ton Cooperative Department
Store in Arlington, to remain
through next Saturday.
Evelyn Akerley studied in
Boston, New York City Cart
Student League). France and
Italy. Babs Van Swearingen.
wife of Capt. E. K. Van Swear
ingeii, U. S. NJ. studied at STAN
ford and Hawaii Universities.
at Abbotts and with Eliot
O'Hara. She and Ms. Akerley
have exhibited in Washington
and elsewhere.
Francis Mack studied with
several artists, most eminent
being John Singer Sargent and
Joseph De Camp. Mr.. Mack
belongs to the North Shore Art
Association of Gloucester, Mass.
Evening star., 1952-07-06

Mr.. MacColl. q tall debonair
Englishman who first came
here in 1927 and spent con-
siderable time during the war
as head Of the British Informa-
ton Service in New York, was
not at all rufned.
"You see, in Britain. basket
ball is known as netball, and is
only played in girls schools. The
idea of those great, hulking ath-
letes rushing round in satin
panties and buying Cadillacs on
the side is irresistibly funny to
us.
"And, if it isn't funny" he
went on, why are you laugh
ing?"
Evening star., 1952-07-06

The visitor to Mexico, let's
assume, is driving from Guada-
lajara to Mexico City. After
three hours of winding over
mountain passes and around
Lake Chapala. he reaches a
small town called Jiquilpan in
the state Of Michoacan. In
passing it may look like a hun
dred other little towns and he'll
be inclined to hurry on to the
lovely city Of Morelia, only an
hour away.
If you happen to be such q
tourist, as I was recently, don't
rush on. Stop and look Jiquil-
pan over. It's worth seeing.
There's an excellent hotel on
the edge Of town. The streets
are clean-by no means usual
in Mexican towns. There are
modern schools. including fine
high school, Fairgrounds. a
city little library, well
stocked, ornamented with mur-
ais by Orozco, one of Mexico's
best modern painters. The chill
dren look scrubbed, their elders
neat. There is nowhere the ex-
treme poverty so evident almost
everywhere.
This Is the home town Of
Lazaro Cardenas. President Of
Mexico from 1884 to l940-one
OF the most unselfish and re-
markable statesmen Latin Amer
lea has produced. In unobtrusive
but useful retirement, a vigor-
GUS man In his sos. he still
spends a lot Of time in Jiquil-
pan, beloved by his townsmen.
CorefuI Biography
But Jiquilpan is only one me-
mortal to the Cardenas regime.
Schools all over Mexico, hospi-
tails, roads, irrigation projects
and parcels of land handed over
to countless poems bear testi-
mony to what Cardenas did for
his people. It was not that be
favored Jiquilpan above other
towns. but perhaps because his
own townsmen took his plans
more seriously that the little
town today is prettier, cleaner
and more literate than most.
This careful, thorough biog-
raphy. written by an American
who knows Cardenas intimate
ly. is long overdue. If Cardenas
is much remembered north of
the border, it probably is as the
man who appropriated the for
eign-owned oil wells. He did
that-the most controversial
measure of his administration
but Mr.. Townsend's explana-
ton Of what brought this about
will give you a fresh view of it.
The American. British and
Dutch companies had fiouted
Mexican law and disregarded
the order of commission to
raise wages. Cardenas felt he
could do nothing else.
OF Indian stock, Cardenas
was born in a simple home. He
got little formal education; like
many another man, he educated
himself. AS a young officer, in
Evening star., 1952-07-06

resistance against his anti
Christian maneuvers. Behind
the iron curtain-in Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Poland and
other lands-the devout have
stood up against the ungodly
and defied their commands.
The persecution of clergy Of
all faiths in iron curtain coun-
tries has spread rather than
discouraged Christianity, the
author is convinced. He ap-
peals to all Christians to join
the Vatican against "the inf1del
invasion"
While this book presents the
Catholic point of view, it should
appeal to all persons Of good
will who prefer Christianity to
communism. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-07-06

1915, he fought for the revolu-
tion under Carranza, Gales and
Obregon, who were trying to
restore constitutional govern
ment. After the earlier over
throw of Diaz, dictator for 80
years. Huerta had tried to re-
store the die orShip. The rev.
olution preva d. It was radi-
cal-socialistic, though not, in
the main, communiStic. Not all
its principles were admirable.
In seizing the property of the
Catholic church. the revolu-
tionary party started a persecu-
tion Of priests and nuns which
continues, to some extent, to
this day. Cardenas was for these
principles, but at least when he
became President he stopped the
hotheads who were closing the
churches and forbidding public
worship in some regions. He in
sisted that he had no quarrel
with any ones faith and he
would not allow federal school
teachers to assail religion, as
some had been doing. The sit
uation gradually was eased.
Unique in Mexican History
In his personal attitude toward
public Office, Cardenas probably
is unique in Mexican history.
Indeed. there have been few
like him in the United States
or anywhere. He turned back
to the treasury half his salary
as President. Much Of the rest
went for personal charities. He
was on the go constantly. visit
ing the most remote Indian
hanlets, listening to the griev-
anceS of the most humble. He
never refused to see any one. In
a country noted for its cynical
expectancy of graft in politics
he never enriched himself. He
retired a comparatively poor
man. You probably would have
to go to India and Gandhi to
find a leader caring less for his
own interests and more devoted
to public service.
Naturally, Cardenas accom-
plished only a fraction of what
he set out to do for the op-
pressed poems. His aides were
less dedicated politicians. There
were the usual flareups of trou-
bles and Cardenas used to 60
unarmed to the hot spot and
pacify the trouble-makers. He
never had any one executed.
Many projects and changes he
set in motion were carried for
ward by his successors and still
are moving slowly toward frui-
tion. It was and is an incred-
IDLY difficult program.
Mr.. Townsend. a Californian,
has spent many years among
Latin American Indians, learn
ing their languages and reduc-
ing them to phonetic writing.
It is unfortunate that his val
liable biography is written in a
rather heavy, conventional style.
But the story he tells is
absorbing.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Sunny Argentina

Anyone who would like to
"visit" Argentina without en-
countering the Perons and the
economic and other evils that
have accumulated during their
regime, should drop in to the
Pan American Union and view
the twenty-odd oil paintings by
Ricardo Escote, to remain
through next Saturday. This is
the artists first in Washington.
Born in Buenos Aires (1912)
the artist was taken in his youth
to Spain, graduated from two
art schools in Barcelona, and
subsequently attended a third in
Paris. In Switzerland, he spe-
cialized in jewelry design, a
field in which he is still engaged
in Argentina. simultaneously.
he has continued to paint. and
has exhibited occasionally, most
recently in New York City.
The current collection COM
prises oils Senor Escote painted
during two years in Argentina's
northern provinces. They are
bright. colorful scenes. noun
tain landscapes and picturesque
villages, with incidental figures
of natives, afoot and on burros;
native dwellings, churches, har-
Dor scenes. Executed with con-
siderable bravura, they are done
in a panty" technique, with
lavish use Of pigment applied
(from its appearance) with
palette knife, brush and some
times fingers. BY including one
landscape Of a New York State
village under snow, the artist
underscores his powers of OBJ
Servation. This single North
American scene Is quiet with
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Lincoln and His Generals
BY T. Harry Williams. (Knopf; So
Reviewed by Froncis P Douglas

Strategy has been said to be
one of the professions at which
the amateur frequently does
better than the professional.
Mr.. Williams thesis is that
Lincoln was a sound strategist
and most of his generals were
bunglers.
Cornerstone Of the Lincoln
strategy was destruction of the
Confederate army. The mil
itary leaders ideas generally
were to take Richmond and to
avoid coming to grips with Lee
and his army. Even Grant,
when first called from the West.
had other plans than to come
to conclusions with Lee, until
Lincoln set him right.
When Grant finally laid siege
to Richmond it was because
Lee had eluded a showdown
and it was Grants purpose to
cut the rail supply line to the
South and force Lee into the
open again.
Mr.. Williams gives an excel
lent series of pictures of the
generals Lincoln discarded and
of Lincoln's reactions to them.
Mcclellan, in Lincoln's opinion.
suffered from "the slows" :"
Meade's letting Lee escape
across the Potomac into Vir-
ginia after Gettysburg caused
Lincoln to tell Meade later, "I'n
be hanged If I could think Of
anything else than an old
woman trying to shoe her geese
across a creek"
Rosecrans at Chickamauga,
Lincoln said, acted confused
Evening star., 1952-07-06
In the Cause
Of q Closer
Friendship
Miranda: World Citizen

Miranda: World Citizen
BY Joseph F. .Thorning. (Uni-
Dersity of Florida Press; So
In this sympathetic, not to
say admiring, biography Of the
precursor Of Latin-American in
dependence. Father Thorning
makes case for Francisco de
Miranda as world Citizen
Number One" Surely, the Vene.
zuelan was a man of the world.
Handsome. opportunistic, amor
Gus, he cut a wide swath through
the most select circles Of his
day on two continents. Cathe-
rine the Great made a favorite
Of him, titled French ladies
fought for his attention and the
English discreetly forwarded his
dream Of liberating his native
country.
Miranda started out as an Of
f1cer in the Spanish Army, quit
under a cloud, journeyed all over
Europe studying institutions and
was commissioned a General in
the armies Of the French Revo-
luton. His tireless efforts to
finance an expedition to liberate
Latin America were not met
with commensurate popular en-
thuSiaSrn, and, as commander
in chief Of an insurgent army,
he met with defeat. The lib
orator Bolivar suspected him Of
cowardice and turned him over
to the Spanish.
The colorful. controversial
Miranda died in a prison in
Spain. Father Thorning shows
him. in q rather flowery narra-
tive, to have been q curious
blend Of adventurer and idealist,
and defends him eloquently
against his detractors. In a
foreword. Sumner Welles points
out the value Of the book as a
contribution to "the cause Of
inter-American understanding"
a cause which, we might add,
has been somewhat in eclipse of
late. IN. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
New Footprints of
The Trojan Horse

BY Herbert Carleton Mayer.
Farrar, Straus G. Young;
$1.75.)
A primer on communism, its
threat to the free world, and
what the ordinary citizen can
do about it, told in simple
language and presented in q
special easy-to-read formal.
B. r.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Reading and Writing
AngIo-Americon Relations Hunky-Doy Now,
At Leust in the World of Books
BY Mary McGrory

Things may have been q trifle
strained at the top level in the
past few weeks, but in the
world of books, lo-American
relations are at about just the
most cordial pitch possible.
Hunky-dory, in fact.
Gratified Americans have put
Alistair Cookies book about us,
zone Mans America" high on
best-seller lists. Not only that,
the chief American correspond
ent of the Manchester Guard
was given the Peabody Award
for the broadcasts which made
up the volume. Another Ameri-
can correspondent, bert
Waithman, Washington report
er for the London News -Chron-
icle. wrote another shrewd and
kindly study of us in "The Day
Before Tomorrow. It was
warmly reviewed everywhere:
and just the other day, the
University Of Michigan ordered
1,400 copies for use in their
English classes.
Thus between readers and
writer's the cause of interna-
tional understanding is fur
thered. The gap between the
great English-speaking nations
seems very close to being closed.
Close. that is. There is no indi-
cation that the relatively few
books by American correspond
ents about Britain are as avidly
read as theirs about us. After
all, the British have been
around a good deal longer as a
national family, and aren't
nearly so concerned about the
impression they make. And
Americans still retain the right
to be a trifle dubious about the
motives Of the visiting sBriton.
Knowing the Language
Alistair Cooke touched light
ly on this point in the speech
he made upon accepting the
Peabody Award. Said he:
when an Englishman gets
drunk at a New York cocktail
party and stands on his head
in a corner, nobody says. poor
fellow or helps him home
they say now why was he sent
over here to do that?'"
Still another book-writing
British Washington correspon-
dent, Rene MacColl, author Of
the uproarious farce. Assign
ment Stuffed Shirt" concludes
that Americans and British
have come very close in speak
ing each others language.
There remains. he feels only
that one half-inch where all
the Observation-Disclosures to
him, the fun-beginS.
Mr.. MacColl, a world trav-
eler in his youth Che wrote
about it in "A Flying Start")
has. for the purposes of writ
ing fiction, settled down in that
little half-inch. Already he
has completed-in record
three weeks-the writing of a
sequel to Stuffed Shirt. :"
Entitled keep Me Out Of
It." it describes the vicis-
situdes of a British tourist who
gets caught up willy-nilly in the
basketball scandals.
Basketball scandals the sub
ject of a farce?" your corre-
spondent, much taken aback.
asked. I'VE don't consider them
funny. Not funny at ALL"
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Wood Block Prints

Paul Jacoulet is showing
wood-block prints at Japanese
Arts and Crafts. TOT Twelfth
street. through July II. The
artist. now so, has spent most
Of his life in Japan, where he
learned Eastern techniques,
which he uses with a Western
attitude. His designs employ
many colors. each requiring q
separate block of cherry wood.
He limits each edition to 120
prints.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Faith Is a Weapon
BY Thomas B. Margon. Putnam; $3.75).

Mr.. Morgan, appraising the
fight of the Catholic Church in
Europe against communism,
feels that wherever this threat
to destroy religion is strong,
"there will be found not only a
restoration of the faith, but a
stiffening resistance against the
foraging of the goddess"
In Italy, he points out, "a
great muster for Holy Year has
brought religion back to it's an
cient stanchnesS." He adds:
I'm France, religious fervor
sweeps the plains and mounts
more than at any time since
Napoleon. In Germany, a wave
of burning fidelity has engulfed
all classes. In YugoSlavia,
Tito Is challenged by a stubborn
Evening star., 1952-07-06

S I o r ] e s
stranger than
fction-have
given citizens
Of quie t e r
provinces a
definite bias
a b out the
film capital.
If Mr.. Long
streets seri-
Gus effort to
explain the
situation isn't
entirely sue
c e S S I u ],
H011v cd
Evening star., 1952-07-06
&C. B. j..

and stunned like a duck hit on
the head"
Lincoln's final order when
success was near was one he
had tried to insist on since 1861.
From City Point Grant for
warded a dispatch from Sher-
idan saying. "If the thing be
pressed I think Lee will sur
render" Lincoln sent the mes
sage, Let the thing be pressed. "
It was April, 1865.
Evening star., 1952-07-06

Of her family bothers to come
to Lann's graduation. The un-
wanted child, brushing aside
self-pity, decides to make her
own way. She refuses to go
home to be humiliated again or
return to the camp she has come
to hate. Lam is an appealing.
courageous girl. Clare Jaynes is
a co1laborative nom de plume for
Jane Mayer and Clara Spiegel.
Together they have written sew
eral novels.
C q I
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Edited by Edmond D

Edited by Edmond y. CobIentz
The late William Randolph
Hearst made these letters and
public writings available to his
supervising editor because he
wanted the public to consider
him a human" person rather
than an "austere" one. They
tend to confirm what was al
Evening star., 1952-07-06
The Early Frost
By Clare Jaynes. Random House; $3J

This is another novel about
a child Of divorce, but more
distinctive than most. Lam
Saunders. approaching 18, is a
senior at a prep school for
wealthy girls in California. Her
mother, in Chicago, a divorcee,
marries a much richer man. To
her mother Lam is only a nui-
sance, out of the way during
the school year and sent of to
a camp in summer. Lam, a
perceptive girl, is well aware
of her mothers attitude. None
Evening star., 1952-07-06
@ =.
The Beach House
BY Stephen Longstreet.

BY Stephen Longstreet.
(Stmon and Schuster;; $780,
Writing about Hollywood on
Its own terms is a praiseworthy,
If perilous venture. Many
satires-supplemented by news
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Books in Review
Long-Due Biography Of Mexico's
Extraordinary President Cordenos

Lozoro Cordenos: Mexican Democrat
BY William Cameron Townsend. (Walr; $4J
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1952-07-06

gray tonality and subtle touches
Of color, In strong contrast to
the brilliant Argentine land
scapeS.
Evening star., 1952-06-12
Send q Kid to Comp
Donnie and Gus Deserve Break,
You Are Their Vacation Hone

The setting is always the same.
Hot steam from the car wash
next door fogs their front door.
Freight trains rumble through
their front yard"
A hulking gas works is their
view.
The Eastern Branch, which
flows to the left of their tattered
four walls is their fear.
And in the setting every day
live Gus and Donnie. 10 and 9.
They live with their arthritis-
stricken father. their mother, six
brothers and sisters, pet rooster
and dog and cat.
Six years ago, Mr. Kent brought
his family to Washington from
a country town in Maryland. He
was carpenter. and he thought
business would be good in the
city.
But he didn't reckon on arthritis
Evening star., 1952-06-12
Gov. McKeIdin Confirms Move
For Estate Harmony Bloc
PIon Would Unite Uncommitted Delegates
Behind Strongest G. O. P. Candidate

tend the conference if one were
arranged.
Il did not initiate the proposal
and I did not say who did. AS
started earlier today, have no
way of knowing whether the per-
son who approached me had any
Authority from Gov. Fine.
Perhaps the same person still
lis to make contact with Gov. Fine.
If the Governor is not interested,
that ends the matter. And that
will be all right with me. If the
Governor is interested, I shall be
available.
Although Gov. Fine has stated
that he has not proposed the
meeting, I have seen nothing in
the news to indicate that he is
not interested"
Eisenhower's Appearances.
This development came as Gen.
Eisenhower planned an important
appearance in Gettysburg, Pa, to-
morrow and in Detroit on Sat-
urday.
Republicans who attended pre-
convention Arrangements Com
mittee meeting in Chicago
yesterday went home with the
feeling that as Pennsylvania and
Michigan go, so may 60 the Re-
publican presidential nomination.
And what Gen. Eisenhower says
in his conference with delegates
and in a major speech in Detroit
may have great deal to do with
whether he can corral a majority
of the votes from those two
States.