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Political Prints

AS our national political cam
paign approaches it's climax,
1t gives added interest to the
Corccran Gallery's timely exhi-
bition of political prints, 'Par-
ties in Power: Presidential Elec-
tions, 1828-1860." dealing with
Presidents Jackson to Lincoln.
The majority are on loan from
the Library Of Congress.
The exhibition has artistic as
well as political facets. They
demonstrate how the ntroduc-
ton of lithography into the
United States. combined with
the new partisan spirit injected
into politics by the controversial
actions of the Jackson admin
istration. inaugurated a contin-
uing series of satirical pictorial
comments on our presidential
elections.
Largely the work of anony-
nous artists, these cartoons
were printed as broadsides, and
played a role in each campaign
comparable to stump speeches
and torchlight parades. Spec
tatorS can study the changing
fortunes Of the Democrats and
Wings, and the birth pangs of
the Republican Party. Judging
from these old prints, President
Truman's whistle-stop tour is
the most traditional perform
ance Of today's campaigners.
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American Art Week

In 1884 the American Artists
Professional League. q national
organization founded six years
earlier. instituted American Art
Week. to be observed annually
the first week In November.
There was considerable con-
fusion when President Roose-
velt in 1910 proclaimed q Ma
tional Art Week the last week
OF November. After the United
States entered World War II,
this was discontinued. But
American Art Week will have
its 10th national observance
next week. Bethesda is carry
ing the ball for the Washington
area.
The Woman's Club of Bethes-
da will celebrate it with a tea
next Sunday afternoon from 2
to 5 o'clock at the clubhouse on
Old Georgetown road and an
exhibition of work by 16 Wash
ington area artists. They are
Mimi Bolton, Marguerite Bur-
CESS. Omar Darlington, Marcella
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James Farrell. tie Philip. He
had never seriously considered
leaving them.
There are times when you
feel like picking up Bernie and
shaking him. so long does it
take him to throw off the COM
mics and make up his mind in
other directions. But he is, on
the whole, an appealing and
persuasive character. The writ
ing is not always exhilarating.
Sometimes it is tedious. But in
his best passages Mr.. Farrell
writes in a way that touches
the heart. There is depth and
beauty in the description Of
Bernard's visits to- Chicago,
especially in the account of his
mothers last illness.
Mr.. Farrell, whatever his
shortcomings-and they are
considerably less than his more
severe critics LISTS one of
our important writer's, a novel;
ist who writes close to life.
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Noted Cerumists

The Institute of Contempo-
rary Arts and the Kiln Club of
Washington are looking for
ward to a two-day visit this
week from Bernard Leach of
England, Shoji Hamada and
Soyetsu Yanagi Of Japan, the
first two internationally famous
ceramists.
Mr.. Hamada, whom the in
Stitute describes as "the great
est living potter of the East"
will give a demonstration at the
Corcoran Gallery Tuesday at 4
o'clock, while Mr.. Leach will
discuss and demonstrate differ
ences in the methods. Tuesday
evening at $40 at the Corcoran
Gallery, Mr.. Leach will lecture
on "Integration of the Con-
temporary Craftsman" and DR..
Yanagi, director of the Tokyo
National Folk Arts Museum, will
discuss the japanese tea cere-
mony, with slides.
Both lectures are under
auspices of the Institute of
Contemporary Arts and are
open to members of the insti-
tute and the Corcoran Gallery.
On Wednesday evening, the
Kiln Club will entertain these
noted ceramists at dinner. Mr..
Leach is a member of the Club.
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Artist-Jury Symposium

All artists who submitted
work to the Corcoran Gallery's
seventh annual area exhibition
and members Of the gallery as
sociation, will have an opportu-
nifty to argue the pros and cons
of contemporary art next
Wednesday at $3.50 pm.
Jury members for the forth
coming annual (Which will open
November 23) are Lamar Dodd.
head of the art department,
University of Georgia, sole juror
for paintings; c. Malcolm Wat
kins. associate curator of the
Division Of Ethnology, Smith
sonian Institution, juror for
ceramics; Ralph Fabri, head of
the art department, City Col
lege, New York, juror for prints
and drawings, and Robert Lau-
rent, sculptor and teacher ION
the Corcoran school faculty at
one time) for sculptures.
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With this book Mr.. Farrell
brings to a close a trilogy Of
novels about Bernard Carr. a
young writer. BY now, 1885,
Bernard is successful and can
live we'll, but he is still confused
and troubled, especially at the
state of the world and what
part he should take in trying to
better it.
After his series of books on the
Chicago boys. Studs Lonigan
and Danny O'Neill, which gave
him an international reputa-
tion, Mr.. Farrell was called a
naturalist who described peo-
pie helplessly held in the grip
of the inevitable. Like most
literary classifications, this was
true to an extent and yet in
exact. Certainly in the Carr
trilogy, there is much more than
naturalistic writing. These
novels are, in fact. far more
Bernard's fight to preserve his
ideals and get the most out of
his life than they are scenes of
a person caught in a web of
circumstances.
An Affirmative Answer
In the end, viewing the tril-
ogy as whole, Mr.. Farrell has
a strongly affirmative answer to
his protagonist'S questions, un-
certainties and shifting posi-
tions. Life can be worth living,
Bernard finds, and if you do
your best and believe in your
self, you can defy hatred. jeal-
ousy and injustice. The ele-
mental comfortS-a home, a wife
who loves you, a baby develop
ing under your eyes-can be
cherished things instead of the
shackleS you once thought them.
The triumphant note at the
end of Bernard's story is like
the closing chord of a SYM
phony that shifts suddenly
from a minor to major key.
There is a thrill of achievement,
of victory, in this swelling note.
This alone makes the story
worth reading, whatever faults
could be picked out of the long
narrative.
Like Mr.. Farrell, his char
acter came from Chicago. Ber-
nard had his time of half starv-
ing, described in the opening
novel. And there was his long
struggle with the Communists
and other assorted radicals to-
ward whom he naturally drift
ed in his early, penniless,
friendless months in New
York. However much of the
Carr adventure is autobiography
ical, Mr.. Farrell went through
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BuIIfight Lithoerophs

The Library of Congress is
showing this month a small ex-
hibition of color Autographs Of
Spanish bullfights, in the His
panic room on the second floor
main building. They were Sc
lected from a rare portfolio con-
tanning 26 Autographs by Lake
Price made about a hundred
years ago.
Lake Price was q British
water colorist. illustrator and
pioneer photographer. He trav-
eled extensively in Europe and
in Spain made sketches in the
plazaS of Madrid, Sevilla, Cadiz
and other cities, and drew them
on stones.
A few years ago, Spanish
writer, Jose Maria de CosSio, in
his book, LOS Toros," published
in Madrid, commented on the
excellence of Prices craftman-
ship, composition and color. and
the authenticity of the delinea-
ton of the many skillful maneu-
vers of the bullf1ght. and his
success in capturing the move
ment and rhythm of the figures
and animals. This would Ger
tainly seem to be praise from an
expert.
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young girl she got into trouble,
as the Victorians said, with her
cousin, young officer in the
Boer War. She was forced by
her guardian aunt to marry
Nimmo, although he did not at
tract her. Jim, the cousin, re-
turned from South Africa and
made love to her again. After
that she shuttled between her
husband and Jim, quitting
neither and unable to make up
her mind to cling to one. This
went on many years. She had
two children by Jim, but did not
divorce Nimmo until 80 years
had passed. It is hard to feel
much sympathy for the narra-
tor or to understand her va
garies. Mr.. Cary's style, with it's
constant use of long parenthe-
ses. never seemed so difficult.
I found the book at times al
most unreadable. Let's hope
for another Horses Mouth"
or Herself Surprised" next
time. &C. B.J.
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significant because it indicates
the extent to which Communists
were infiltrating intellectual
fields at the time.
BY 1887 we find Mr.. Wilson
concluding that Russian literary
critics ran to party politics.
And he found a virulent critical
Infection in left-wing American
writing-not merely criticism
from a social or even Marxist
point of view, but dominated
by the quarrels of Russian
factional politics" In the same
paper he said that one of the
worst drawbacks of being a
Stalinist was that you have to
defend so many falsehoods.
He felt very little hope that
any intellectual health will ever
come out of Stalinist commu-
niSm."
Most of the essays in this
collection were printed origi-
nally in magazines during the
'2Os and '3Os. They convey, in
addition to Mr.. Wilson's pene-
trating literary judgments. a
sort of running commentary on
literary movements and con-
troversies of the two decades.
One of the best chapters is
on Poe. Writing in 1926, Mr..
Wilson charged Joseph Wood
Krutch, who had recently pub
lished a book on Poe, with seri-
ously undervaluating his sub
ject. Mr.. Wilson regarded Poe
as a writer of high rank and
presumably still does.
&C. B. j.
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Ny Island Home

Ny Island Home
The autobiography Of James
Norman Hall.
little, Bro1On-Atlantic;; $4.)
Mr.. Halls memoirs are the
least confessional we have had
in a long time. He has mas
tered the art of voluble reticence
to a degree scarcely dreamed by
other contemporary autobiog-
raphers. His revelations are
implicit, never explicit. and that
alone would make his story re-
freshing.
Thus, he tells in great detail
Of his boyhood dreams in Iowa.
Of his early years as woodshed
poet. He mentions his wife just
twice in the story-once paren-
thetically saying he had been
married. His children, when
they appear for the first time
on the pages are 1ull-groWn.
Mr.. Hall was born in an inno-
cent era, and to the day of his
death he retained a knightly
faith in the innate decency of
other people. He might well
have, considering his own. After
graduation from Grinnell, he did
social work in Boston, and on a
literary pilgrimage to England,
Joined up with the British Tom
mics. He later joined the
Lafayette Escadrille and re-
counts his exploits in that gall
liant band with his usual mod
esty and boyish enthusiasm. OF
his years in Tahiti and his work
with Nordhoff he has little to
say, beyond the fact that in
spirit, at least, he never left
home.
An epilogue includes q touch
ing letter from an island friend,
who describes the great grief
of the islanders when Mr.. Hall
died in 1851. One of them said
at a spontaneous funeral trib-
ute. II know now. but never
knew before. that in our midst
dwelt a hero" M. Meg.
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Comes. Frances Ferry, Aline
Fruhauf. Glare Fontanini, Rob-
ert and Margaret Gates, Russell
Houston, John Champan Lewis,
Jane Love, Rowland Lyon, Leon
ard Maurer, Mary Snow and
Kennth Stubbs.
During the afternoon, Jane
Love will give a demonstration
of clay modelling.
The Woman's Club Of Be-
thesda has invited the woman's
clubs of Silver Spring, Rock
vile, Chevy Chase, Kensington
and Takoma Park, also the
Newcomb Club of Bethesda, the
Junior Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase. and the Community Club
Of Kensington.
The Bethesda Woman's Club
observance is under the direc-
tion Of the fine arts department.
Mrs. Robert L. Fisher, chair.
man, will be assisted by Mrs.
Norman E. Miller, art CHAIR
man, and past presidents: and
Mrs. Theodore Downey will di-
rect the musical program.
The Bethesda Music and Arts
Center. 1901 Wisconsin avenue.
will conduct an art contest for
young people during that week.
The works of those from the
ages Of 6 through 18 will be
accepted. Prizes will be awarded
for the best drawings, oil and
watercolor paintings, and finger
paintings in four age groupings.
Entrants must reside within 10
miles Of Bethesda. They may
bring their exhibits to the
center on October 20, 80 and 81.
Judges for the show will be two
members of the center's faculty:
Lilli Gettinger and Kitti Baart.
Complete details about the show
can be obtained by calling WI.
1866.
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Faith and will power is the
prescription Of DR.. Norman Vim
cent Peale in this practical
guide to mastering the problems
Of everyday living"
The formula is generally one
part of prayer vibrations, faith.
dynamic spiritual thinking"
and one part Of something
called "get ahold of yourself"
BY combining these two in vary
ing doses DR.. Peale assures us
that this will cure most Of our
social ills. The doctor offers
numerous testimonials all in
support Of this argument for an
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Ship Model Annual

One more week remains to see
the Oath annual exhibition of
the Washington Ship Model So
ciety. its third annual held at
the Truxtun-Decatur Naval
Museum, 1910 H street NV.
More than 60. models and
nautical exhibits were prepared
by the society's members for
this show, which drew a record
crowd last year, and promises
to repeat the performance.
Models on exhibition cover
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spiritual leader" of Argentina.
This required an adulation Of
the most unrelenting kind and
the personal dispensation of
aims on a stupendous scale.
In this largess, the author says.
1T was not the poverty and un-
happiness around she would re-
lieve but the poverty and un-
happiness Of her own youth she
would avenge." Moreover, says
the author. "she kept her bene-
f1ciarieS in state of infantile
dependency and indeed was re-
ducing the whole country to
economical servitude." On the
credit side she, enfranchised the
women of Argentina, no mean
feat in a touchily masculine
country. Otherwise, in the
authors view. she was a beau
tiful woman Of great power who
used that power to vent her
personal, lifelong spite.
M. Meg.
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some Of the experiences; he has
described them elsewhere.
Dedicated to Truth
Bernie Carr never carried
Red card, but. like a lot of other
befuddled young intellectuals in
the '30S, he was inclined to view
the Russian experiment as the
beginning of a more equitable
world.
In Greenwich Village he found
many other writer's drawn in
the same direction. He had quit
his church; he had to have some
faith. But when he discovered
that writer's under the wing of
what was called the Movement
were expected to write what it's
leaders wanted, their elemen-
tary idea Of proletarian litera-
ture, he pulled back.
Like all serious writer's, he
was dedicated to the truth as
he saw it. When he repudiated
the party, it's press turned on
him, attacking his new novel
Savagely.
These denunciatory reviews
spread to the bourgeois" press,
some of whose critics were land
some still are) Marxists, Mr..
Farrell himself has been sub
jected to similar abuse, quite
as unjustly as Bernie Carr was.
He is still paying for his political
apoStasy.
A Persuasive Character
Young Carr had, of course,
his intimate problems. He had
married the daughter of the
Irish undertaken in his old Chi
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applied Christianity" He tells
of people who have prayed
themselves into confidence, met
success by simply refusing to
believe that there is anything
in the world but success, and
who have discovered faith by
carrying around a mustard seed
in a plastic ball.
The reader is left to decide
whether there Is more to
tn erapy than genuf1ection.
whether this Is the kind of spir-
itual medicine that makes new
generations healthier or If it is
just another local anesthetic.
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News
Fine Sculpture
On Exhibition
By Florence S. Berrymon

The new season, still in its
infancy, Is providing Washing
tonians with unusual opportu-
mites to see sculpture: Such
diverse expressions of it as the
Washington SculptorS' Group
at the National Museum last
month, along with the final
month of Lilli Gettinger's work
at the Corcoran Gallery; Carl
Miles Fountain of Faith" dedi-
Gated last Sunday in National
Memorial Park, Falls Church,
and now, at Catholic University
art department Gin the Salve
Regina building) a one-man
show by David Smith.
Opened last Wednesday, it
will remain only through No
vember IA. 1t is composed of
seven of his welded steel sculp-
lures. about Is photographs of
his earlier sculptures and 20 or
more original water colors,
drawings and Autographs.
Philadelphia Show
Mr.. Smith is one Of the 18
American sculptors represented
in the large exhibition, "Sculp-
ture of the Twentieth Century,"
which opened two weeks ago at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Incidentally, this show is of such
Importance that any one who
can work in a trip to Philadel-
phia should see it before it
closes there December 7. From
January "a to March 8 it will
be on view in the Art Institute
of Chicago and next May to
September, in the Museum of
Modern Art, New York City.
Glimpses of Mr.. Smiths work
have been afforded at group ex-
hibitions at Watkins Gallery
and the Institute of Contem-
porary Arts. But this show at
Catholic University is the first
well-rounded display in Wash
ington.
David Smiths sculptures
comprise as radical a departure
from tradition as do Picasso's
paintings. Indeed, one of the
photographs at Catholic Uni
versity of Mr.. Smiths "Struc-
ture of Arches" (steel with zinc
and copper called to my mind
a Picasso painting I saw dec
ade ago or earlier. The Art
Digest (if I recall correctly
gave it the descriptive title of
"Pelvis Crashing Its Teeth"
Abstroctions
Since Mr.. Smiths structures
are distractions in which the
organization of space is as i'm
portant as the shapes he builds.
it is unfair to describe them
with reference to any known
objects, except when he has
given them titles.
But as the two I like best in
the show are not titled, I can
only describe them as abstrac-
tions suggesting Ito me) a ship
in full sail. and two tall flowers.
The reSemblanceS are remote, Of
course. All of these metal con-
Structions reveal great inven-
tivenesS. Some have yellow rust
patina with contrasting polished
areas. others are completely
polished giving subdued glow.
AS a welder and riveter for
Studebaker about 20 years ago,
Mr.. Smith learned the tech
niques which he has used in his
experiments with metal sculp-
lures. He was awarded two sue
cessive Guggenheim fellowships
and examples of his sculptures
are owned by a number of the
United States most important
museums.
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centuries of maritime and naval
progress. There are replicas Of
many historic vessels. Featured
this year are recently completed
models of the Constitution, a
mule powered paddle wheel
French military canal barge, a
Baltimore clipper privateer. an
armed naval steam launch of
the White Fleet era, and several
modern cabin cruisers.
Frank A. Taylor OF the United
States National Museum judged
this years annual trophy awards
presented for the best models in
each class, and they are on dis
play with the winning models.
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cago neigh
b o r h 90 d.
w h en- the e
baby came, he
felt for a
while trapped.
but. after a
brief and un-
satisfac t ory
dalliance with
g. COmmu-
mist adven-
tu r e SIS, he
realized his
love for Eliza
beth and lit
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The Shores of Liqht
ilson. (Farrar, Straus G. Young; $780,

'Marxist criticism" so prev
alent in the '30s, fortunately, is
confined today, at least openly.
to the party-line press. Its in
f1uence still is felt in some large
publications of general appeal,
though it is usually disguised.
To realize how many book re-
viewers had succumbed to the
prevailing proletarian nonsense
20 years ago you have only to
read some of the chapters in
this interesting collection Of
essays, subtitled "A Literary
Chronicle of the '20s and '30s."
At that time Mr.. Wilson, an
erudite critic, was one of the
editors Of the New Republic. He
quotes an unsigned editorial he
wrote taking notice of the lit
erary storm that followed a
violent attack in the magazine
py the le1t-Wlng critic, Michael
Gold. on the popular novelist.
Thornton Wilder.
In Marxist criticism, of course.
it was the spractice to try to fit
literary work into a political
straitjacket. If the work was
too big or too detached to get
the straitjacket around it, the
critic condemned it.
We find Mr.. Wilson in 1880
defending Mr.. Gold as IAN i'm
portant writer whose opinions
have a special interest,"" though
Mr.. Wilson was by no means
unaware of the failings Of
party-line reviews. as he made
clear. The Wilder episode is
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The Woman With q Whip
BY Maria Flores. Doubleday G. Co.; s35OJ

This shrewd and unSympa-
thetic study Of the late Eva
Peron is by a countrywoman
much saddened by the depra-
dationS visited on her native
land by the acquisitive Perons.
It is Miss Flores contention
that the Peronista dictatorship
besides being as ruthless and
cynical as any, has succeeded
in despoiling Argentina not only
of its almost inexhaustible
natural resources but of its
spiritual resources as well.
Eva Peron was, in Miss Flores
eyes, an unspeakably ambitious
woman who was finally brought
low by her own delusions Of
grandeur. Not content with
humbling the aristocratic ladies
who snubbed her, nor with &C
quiring the wealth and jewels
and clothes she had hankered
after from her miserable child
hood. she saw herself as "the
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The Torches
OfOId Rome
Flare Anew
Confessors of the Name
BY Gladys Schmitt.
(Dial;: $685.


Ancient Rome has been re-
created spectacularly in several
recent novels and films. Gladys
Schmitt has done a far better
thing. She has brought some
ancient Romans back to life
against the backdrop of a
crumbling empire. endowing
them with the features and
fears that make them instantly
recognizable to humans in
equally troubled times. Her
Sumptuous scholarship is en-
broidered with the insight of
first-rate psychological novelist.
1t is not to be supposed that
Miss Schmitt neglects any of the
more f1amboyant aspects Of that
mighty and decadent civiliza-
ton. "Copfessors of the Name"
opens with funereal games, re-
plete with the blood and vio-
lence that old Romans de-
manded Of their sports. But in
the donors box is the hero.
Favorinus Herennius. the quest
ing young man of any age. Bred
in the stole tradition, and a
dabbler in the arts, he finds
escape from patrlcian cares
and empty family life in
the arms Of his beautiful, cul-
tivated freedwoman, the Greek
Charts.
First FomiIies of Rome
When Decius takes the pur-
pie, Favorinus is dragooned
into the service of his stern
and just old uncle, and
becomes a ghost writer try
ing to make palatable Decius'
renewal Of the censorship.
He allows himself to be-
lieve that while the Goths are
gathering on the borders, the
empire can be saved-even that
it might be worth saving.
But Decius, a model of an
tique virtue, whose son is shiv-
ering with fever and unrequited
love on the frontiers. and whose
own household is of exemplary
austerity. is maneuvered into
publishing an edict against the
Christians. Favorinus goes off
to warn his plain. Christian
cousin, Paulina. If Favorinus
has a starved spirit. Paulina has
starved body. having lived
chastely with her yoke-fellow in
Christ, Probus. for 10 years.
Love and death grow out of
that encounter.
Story Protrocted
1t is from this point on that
Miss Schmitt's narrative begins
to lag. The details are often pa
thetic but sometimes cloying.
In fact, Miss Schmitt's charac-
ters seem to have reached the
highest point in their develop
ment some time before the story
ends.
Even so, "Confessors of the
Name" is marvelously absorb
ing tour through a cracking
civilization. Miss Schmitt de-
cry Of the Romans against the
dewy faith and sustaining char
ity of the early Christians. She
makes it all come alive in a way
that people who knew of these
things only through laborious
Latin translation in their school
days would hardly believe pos
sible. M. Meg.