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Evening star., 1953-08-16

d LuCICSS SOlIlkClIlOL. EApcII Us Ie6l
that although Miss Connolly now
has more power, Mary Ann is the
faster.
What she lacks in SIZE" says
her coach, George Hudson, "she
makes up in speed, courage and
intelligence"
Mary Ann has a wholesome,
sIubbed-up look and a disposition
to match. But she's all business
when she steps on the court. She
never panics when her game
goes astray, has yet to show a
trace of temperament.
But Mary Ann wouldn't think
of leaving home for a match
without talking" with her dog,
"Snufy Smith" Returning home,
she takes him into the bathroom
and recounts her match as she
showers.
A regular" on the public courts
in San Leandro, she's more than
once embarrassed men who have
asked her for a workout.
Beating q Man
Early this year David Sacks, a
San Francisco television executive,
saw Mary Ann practicing her
serve and asked if she'd like to
play a set. The sprite, who never
has shown mercy on the court,
promptly cut him down, 60.
Sacks took a closer look. Say"
he asked suddenly, "I've seen you
before ON television l believe.
You must be Maureen Connolly!"
1t turned out that he had indeed
seen Mary Ann on TV. But she
appeared as a pianist rather than
as tennis player.
Tennis is only one of her many
interests. She also ice skates and
makes some of her own clothes.
Mrs. Mitchell, who is also only
five feet tall, can't understand why
her daughter doesn't weigh more
than IS pounds since "she eats
more than her father"
Sister Problem
SHE'S even more of a problem to
her older sister, Betty Jane, II,
who says Mary Ann fouls up my
life." Specifically she doesn't like
the way Mary Ann monopolizes
the conversation when her boy
friends call. Nor does their father,
c. F. Mitchell, like the way Mary
Ann ties up the telephone.
But the Mitchells are proud
of Mary AIMS scholarship
straight A. as well as her court
success.
1t was business trip by her
father to Chicago that started
Mary Ann on her way in tennis.
Unable to think of a suitable pres
ent for his daughters, he settled on
a pair of rackets. Mary Ann was
nine at the time and, of course, she
promptly took up the game.
Since it had been announced
earlier that Mary Ann would make
Evening star., 1953-08-16

W7HEN Maureen Connolly won
w the United States women's
tennis title in 1851, her rivals were
about ready to throw away their
rackets.
For Little Mo was only 16 and,
if they couldn't lick her then, what
chance would they have when she
grew up? Authorities agreed that
Miss Connolly would hold the title
for 10 or Is years.
But already California has come
up with a hot rival for Maureen in
pretty, freckle-faced Mary Ann
Mitchell, of San Leandro.
A Big Little Girl
IMPOSSIBLE as it may seem, Mary
Ann. who turned IA on May 13,
already is slightly ahead of Little
Mos timetable. And, unless
MaHeen stays on top of her game,
Mary Ann may cut short her reign
in three years.
Mary Ann was ball girl for the
1852 San Francisco Bay Counties
semi-final in which Miss Connolly
barely beat back Mrs. Louise Snow
Isaacs. This year, as an 85-pound,
five-foot, 13-year-old, Mary Ann
tried her luck with the big girls and
shocked everyone by going to the
Evening star., 1953-08-16

hears all about her matches
she's working out daily against top
men players in preparation for the
Pacific Coast tourney in Berkeley
in September, when she'll get her
first crack at Little Mo.
Although it's only with heels
that Mary Ann reaches five feet,
she already has the big" game,
Evening star., 1953-08-16
NEXT CHAMP?

Mary Ann Mitchell is
only IA. But already
she seems headed for
top hOnOrs in tennis
Photos by Lou Jacobs, Jr.
Evening star., 1953-08-16

TW-8-16-SS
Evening star., 1953-11-22

scholarly sort. and Chester was
fated for fame, though he
never imagined it in the
flounderings and Illustrations
Of his adolescence. Whatever
their tastes, the Nimmos were,
in their own way, a devoted
family, who for all their quar-
rels, would do anything to help
one anothers None of the
children stayed by the strict
discipline of living which their
fathers fierce faith imposed,
and yet it had its influence.
Next to Chester, the most
important character is his sis
ter Georgina. a spirit as inde-
pendent and untamed as the
moor and yet, in her own pc.
culiar way. unself1sh. She
was always Chester's favorite,
and her early death from the
family curse, tuberculosis, was
a tragedy that made a lasting
Evening star., 1953-11-22

N ayNa~HO
fit into that pattern and Mr..
WechSler'S newspaper has
made that fact quite clear.
The Senator haled Mr..
Wechsler before his committee
and questioned him at length
about his past. his present
views on congressional Com
munist hunters, his associates
backgrounds and his news
papers treatment of career
anti-Communists. He answered
all questions in full but re-
fused to concede the Senator
a kind word. Senator Nc
Carthy promptly announced
that Mr.. Wechsler probably
was an underground Com
munist who had merely pre-
tended to hate the Reds since
his youthful break with the
party.
1t is doubtful, reading over
the transcript of the hearings,
that the Senator really be-
lieved Mr.. Wechsler was a
Communist. The purpose of
the hearings seemed merely to
be to let Mr.. Wechsler simmer
on the Mccarthy frying pan.
1t is doubtful, in fact, after
reading this political biogra-
ply, that Mr.. Wechsler is any
better bet to be an under
ground Communist than the
Wisconsin Senator himself.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Verne, Economy Size

An enterprising young man
who almost equaled Jules
Verne's feat of circling the
globe in 80 days, came to town
recently. He is Robert Chris
topher, author of the lively
Around the World on $50"
It took him four days longer
than Mr.. Verne.
Personable young Mr.. Chris
topher, who is also a partner
in a New York novelty manu-
featuring firm, thought at one
time it would take much
longer. He spent % days
crossing the Persian desert.
which is only as far as from
here to Salt Lake City, but
which knows not the four
lane highway.
Since his return he has been
lecturing to Stay-at-homes.
who are so avid to hear of his
adventures that he is booked
solid until 1855. In his Off
season he'll continue to travel,
this summer heading for his
favorite country, Italy, and
some time soon embarking for
Asia, where he will bring a
camera crew along. a
Evening star., 1953-11-22

native tongue. to every Soviet
citizen who dared to talk to
him, left Admiral Stevens with
the conviction that "the prob
lem created in a decent people
by the forced maintenance of
power will somehow in the end
destroy that power"
Since his retirement from the
Navy, the admiral, once his
book was finished, has been
working, in a sense. to imple-
ment that conviction. He sue
ceeded Admiral Kirk, our for
mer Ambassador to Russia, as
president of the American
Committee for Liberation from
Bolshevism.
Dull Writing Optional
Reviewers have praised in
Admiral Stevens literary style
what they consider the unmili-
tary virtues of grace. percep-
ton and humor. He takes
exception to this-not the
praise, but the surprise. No
reason at all you can't de-
velop a style as individual
istic as you like in the Navy,
he says defensively.
Russian Assignment" grew
out of notes the admiral kept
from 1947 through 1949 in
Moscow. Editor Ted Weeks
of the Atlantic Monthly saw
them and wanted to publish
them as was. But. the ad-
miral, who is something of an
artist Che studied pen-and-ink
drawing and several creditable
examples of his work are
hanging on the walls of his
house,, took a year off and put
them into shape.
Will he write again? He
doesn't know, his work keeps
him so busy now. But he's
constantly specializing about
what he saw in Russia. For
instance. the humanitarianism
of the Russians, the paradox
of their tendency to brood
about suffering humanity in
the mass and their numb in
difference to the sight Of in
dividual suffering. He'd like
to think about that and write
about it some day.
Meantime he thinks We can
reach the Russians, perplex-
ing as they are, through such
great documents as the Magma
Charta and the Bill of Rights,
which offer the private citizen
the decencies of life so sys-
tematically trampled on by the
Communist Party of the So
Wet Union in their brutal ef-
forts to establish a heaven
on earth" into which they are
crowding their oppressed and
unwilling subjects.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
The Age of Suspicion
BY James A. Wechsler. (Randona House; s375J
Reviewed by Richard Frvklund

SWS0 Dy "
James Wechsler, editor of
the New York Post, was given
the full treatment by Senator
Mccarthy last spring, and he
is still smarting under the Or
deal. He wrote this book to
get a lot of things off his chest,
both about himself and the
junior Senator from Wiscon-
sin.
When a depression day stu
dent at Columbia University,
Mr.. Wechsler fell for the Com
munistS' pat answers and
joined the Young Communist
League. But Mr.. Wechsler
grew up, and the Communists
zigged and Jagged. They part
ed formally after three years.
Mr.. Wechsler was %.
During the past l6 years he
has been a persistent, though
sometimes overly shrill, fighter
against Communists wherever
a newspaperman could find
them. But he has not given
up his youthful idealism. He
is still struggling to build a
bright. new world in the lib
eral" pattern he loves.
Senator Mccarthy does not
Evening star., 1953-11-22
New Hampshire

Water colors by Agnes Stone
are on view in George Wash
ington University's library
(2023 G street N.W.) through
November. Nearly so paint
ings fill the first and second
floor exhibition halls and
room 103. These are all recent
works, not previously shown in
Washington.
Mrs. Stone, widow of the
late Chief Justice Harlan Fiske
Stone, is a elf-taught artist
who paints for pleasure. That
her work is other peoples
pleasure as we'll as her own is
attested by the fact that she
has been honored with two
solo exhibitions in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art and one
in the Virginia Museum OF
Fine Arts, Richmond.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Reading and Writing:
Admiral Stevens Explains How
He Wrote Lively Book on Russia
By Mary McGrory

Scratch the author of a book
about Russia and you find a
prophet, or at least a pundit.
Not Admiral Leslie Stevens
(retired though, the naval
parsonage who wrote Russian
Assignment"
He wrote his highly personal
non-polemical memoirs in just
that way because he says
there are too many books
about Russia that start right
out beating you over the
head"
In a recent interview at his
Annapolis home, the admiral,
a big man, who is calm, keen
and casual, said the regime in
Russia is so completely for
eign and alien to us that you
have to talk for a couple of
hours just to establish certain
basic facts. He has even
turned down invitations to lee
ture on the subject because he
just can't pack into an hours
talk the many difficulties and
contradictions about Russian
life which three years as our
Naval Attache in Moscow
taught him.
The admiral has been study
ing the present regime ever
since he was a midshipman at
Annapolis, when the Soviets
took over Russia. In 1888,
under the impression that he
would be sent to our newly
opened Embassy in Moscow,
he and his vivacious. blond
wife began learning the Rus
ian language. In their home,
which is decorated with many
ikonS and other art objects
from foreign lands, they have
one whole room set aside for
books about Russia, many of
them in Russian.
Even with such a back
ground, the admiral doesn't
pretend to know all the an
swers. But one thing he feels
he knows for sure, just as any
body else could who took the
time and trouble to find out. is
the aim of the Soviet regime.
"They want one Communist
world, nothing else"
The admiral shows a certain
impatience with people who
continue to cry out that we
don't know what is in their
minds.
They've been operating out
in front of us for the past 40
years." he points out dryly.
"And yet the whole subject of
communism is so dull and bor-
ing to read about that most
people won't take the time or
the trouble to figure out what
they're seeing"
His three years in Russia,
during which he spoke in their
Evening star., 1953-11-22

With each fresh book Joyce
Cary seems to use a change of
pace, a new approach, that
comes as a surprise even if you
expected something different.
He can give you another view,
leading to a revised appraisal
of the same character you met
in a previous novel. This
broadening of outlook, the
capacity to look at a per-
son or a situation from more
than one angle. adds to his
stature as a novelist.
Could two novels by the
same author be more unlike,
for example, than "The
Horses Mouth" a comic
story. hilarious in detail, and
Except the Lord" a sober
narrative with overtones of
sadness and Illustration and
hardly any humor?
Chester Nimmo is a char
acter we have encountered.
His wife of 80 years told the
story of his mature years in
Prisoner of Grace" Chester's
life had three distinct phases
the youthful radical agi-
tator, the lay preacher and the
politician who became a
statesman. Now in Except
the Lord" turning narrator,
he goes back to his impov-
erished boyhood on the DESC
late moors in the west of Eng
land.
AS he talks to us-and he
seems to be talking rather
than writing, so quietly he re-
members and ref1ects-Ches-
ter Nimmo is an old man, his
health broken, his career over.
His earliest recollectionS take
him back to 1868, the year his
father. lay preacher, an Ad-
ventiSt, believed the world was
to end and gathered his little
flock for a futile wait on a
mountaintop. Chester's father
was, beyond his spiritual avo-
cation, a hard worker, but evil
times had come on the family.
The father lost his farm and
was forced to move his wife
and his several children to a
mean cottage while he found
work as a Stableman.
Living a Struggle
Chester grew up in the
hardest sort of poverty. 1t was
always a struggle to keep the
family together. There was
rarely an extra shilling for
anything. The children, as
soon as they were old enough,
went to work at odd jobs. The
father, self educated and we'll
read. wanted them to have an
education, and some, particu-
larly Edward and Chester,
worked for it, sometimes read
ing by the light of the open
fire to save candles. Edward
was destined to go through
oxford, a dreamy, impractical,
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Two at Arts Club

Exhibitions by two painter
members of the Arts Club
opened last Sunday, to re-
main through December 4.
Oils, water colors and block
prints in color by Eleanore
Van Swearingen decorate the
reception rooms, while Peter
Kerr's oils fill the gallery.
Mrs. Van Swearingen, whose
brush name is "BabS." obvi-
ously loves flowers and knows
them intimately. Half of her
show is composed of flower
paintings and prints, mostly
of orchids and other exotic
blossoms, passion flowers.
pitcher plants, and some with
unpronounceable names which
she saw and painted in Pana-
ma, Hawaii and Central
America, on various tours of
duty with her husband, Capt.
E. K. Van Swearingen. U. S.
N. Outstanding among these
floral themes are six painted
on wood, which are the sub
ject of a feature on page 8 of
The Stars Pictorial Magazine
this Sunday.
Her water colors and prints
indicate that she looks with
equal interest at the sea, land
scapes, ships and industrial
subjects, as witness Conflict"
Oahu, "Tidewater" (she and
her husband are now stationed
in Norfolk, Ladies in Wait
ing" (the mothballed trans
port feet, Norfolk and "In-
dustrial Castle" Alexandria,
where she has her permanent
home.
Mrs. Van Swearingen has a
cosmopolitan background, hav-
Evening star., 1953-11-22
By Florence S. Berrymon

ing in the fields, wrestling a
living from the sea, or exist
ing in lowly sections of the
city. But his works are not
ephemeral commentaries on
socially conscious themes; they
have timeleSsneSs and monu-
mentality, no matter how
small their dimensions. They
are reminiscent to observers,
of Rembrandt, Millet and
Jacque, as will be noted by
visitors to Mr.. Higgins one
man show in the Division Of
Graphic Arts Gallery, Smith
sonian Building, through next
Sunday. This show should not
be missed.
Eugene Higgins was born in
Kansas City, Mo-, in 1874, grew
up in st. Louis where his
father had a structural stone
yard. In 1897, the son went to
Paris to attend the Beaux Arts,
studying under Gerome. He
also copied old masters in the
Louvre, particularly those by
Ribera, Rembrandt and Titan,
whose works were probably re-
sponsible for his subsequent
visits to Spain, Holland and
Italy.
Upon his return to the
United States, he began to
acquire a reputation as a
painter and etcher of the
humble, themes which were
reinforced by his visit to Ire
land toward the end of World
War I. There he found the
peasant themes that have
since formed a major segment
of his work. ("Galway Types.
Ireland" in the current show
was illustrated in these COL
umns last Sunday.)
Mr.. Higgins has had nu-
merouS exhibitions in the
United States and abroad, has
won many honors and is rep
resented in important museum
collections.
Evening star., 1953-11-22

impression on him. Chester,
a thoughtful boy, buffeted by
poverty, was a natural prey for
radicals, and at 81 he found
himself a junior leader of a
dockers' strike. The union
chief was a militant Marxist,
and Chester, who had given
this man admiring devotion.
suffered his first big disil-
lusionment when the chief
threw him aside. Chester real
lied that such people care
nothing for any individual and
use them only for an end.
Some of the early chapters.
rarely interrupted by any sort
of drama, are monotonous.
But the final chapters are
deeply moving.
Perhaps Mr.. Cary plans
other installments of Chester's
biography. We can hope so,
for his own story of his adult
years should be increasingly
colorful.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Red Rulers,
Not People,
Called Foes
Our Secret Allies

our SeCFer AIHeS
BY Eugene Lyons.
(Duell, Sloan G. Pearce-Little.
Broom; $780,
Reviewed by Belmont Fories
Mr.. Lyons has a point to
make and he makes it con-
vincingly-the peoples of Rus
sia are not our enemies but
potential allies against a COM
mon enemy. the Soviet regime.
The Soviet governments
lack of confidence in the loyal
ty of the people it rules was
never more obvious than in the
worried appeals for unity after
Stalin's death, the quick ac-
tions taken to prevent dis
order and panic
But, as Mr.. Lyons makes
clear, the lack of enthusiasm
of the people for their dicta-
tors is no new thing-since the
earliest days of the Soviet
regime there has been, in ef-
feet, a continuous civil war
between the rulers and the
ruled.
Certainly no ruling group
has ever devoted SO much of
its resources to defense against
its own subjects. The millions
in slave labor camps are a
measure both. of the enormity
of the effort and its failure.
1t is difficult to disagree with
Mr.. Lyons view that the Rus
sian people, some 200 million
of them. are perhaps the deci-
sive element in the equation
of world affairs today.
How can we make the most
of that potential strength for
our side? Mr.. Lyons says we
must convince the Russians
that our aim is not the defeat
of Russia but their liberation,
that we will settle for nothing
less than the elimination of
the Soviet regime.
Well known for his Assign
ment in Utopia" and other
books on Russia and COM
munism. Mr.. Lyons lost his
early enthusiasm for the Soviet
experiment as United Press
correspondent in Moscow from
1928 to 1884. He is now a
senior editor on the staff of
Readers Digest.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Open to the Public

Two important lectures on
art are in this weeks pro-
gram. This afternoon at the
National Gallery of Art at 4
O'Clock Hermann w. Williams,
jr.. director of the Corcoran
Gallery, will speak on William
S, Mount, 10Th century Amer
lean genre painter. Of whom
Mr.. Williams has made special
study and has written extern
Sively.
Next Friday evening at
$50 pm. at the Phillips GAL
lery, German Bazin, French
historian, will give a lecture on
Tradition and Revolution in
French Art"
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Humble Toilers

For half a century Eugene
Higgins has been a noted
American etcher and painter.
his name closely associated
with interpretations of life's
humble aspects, presented
somberly and dramatically. He
depicts men and women toll
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Annual Area Show
AtCorcorun

The Eighth Annual Area Ex-
hibition of work by artists of
Washington and vicinity, which
will open to the public this
afternoon at the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art, is of such size and
Importance that it will have to
be dealt with here, in INSTALL
ments. The director of another
gallery told me some years ago,
that in exhibitions of such size,
the last picture is hung and
the last object placed about
fifteen minutes after the guests
have arrived for the opening.
can we'll believe it; for we who
wish to publish review of
sorts on the opening Sunday,
most do so usually on the basis
of snake's-eye preview, of
pictures propped against the
mop = boards and sculptures
spread out on the gallery floor.
But viewed even during the
chaos of installation, the
eighth annual has a lively
look, with a comprehensive
range from traditional to non-
objective, to delight the public
and satisfy the avant-garde,
respectively. Compose of
308 oils, water colors, drawings,
prints, ceramics and sculp-
lures. it is larger than last
years annual. by 35 works. But
the total number of entries
this year was 1,445, 118 works
less than last years entries.
Award of first, second and
third prizes in each of the COM
peting classes of work was dis
pensed with this year, in favor
of the distribution of IS
awards of equal weight and
distinction" the most impor-
tant of several changes made
in this years procedures.
Another change was the
judging of paintings by two
jurors independently of each
other. These jurors were
noted painters, George Grosz
and Nicolai Cikovsky. One of
them selected 70, the other rs.
Of these 1913 paintings only &c
were selected by both. The
foreWord to the exhibition cat
alogue considers these above
mentioned changes in more
detail. On the basis of my pre-
liminary look at the show, I
liked more of Mr.. CikovSky's
choices than of those by Mr..
Grosz.
Seymour Upton, sculptor.
who single-handed winnowed
the sculpture entries and made
awards in that medium, has
all-embracing appreciations.
to judge from 80 sculptures in
the show. These range from
tortured metal pipes to lis
some reclining nude, a Bou-
guereau in marble.
Paul Gardner, curator Of ce-
rarnics at the National Mu-
scum, on whose shoulders
rested sole responsibility for
the ceramics, selected AZ. ex-
actly half of the entries.
Before the eighth annual
closes January 3. / hope to
consider such of its facets as
the prize winners. compari-
son of Messrs. Grosz and Ci-
kovsky's choices, and outstand-
ing exhibits in the various
classificationS.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
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