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Evening star., 1953-05-31

topics Of the day. passing sights
Avoid politics, religion, dull
weather complaints, silly ques-
tions.
Current newspaper topics are
the best wedge" jeanette Mac
Donald finds. on concert tours.
start with where you are from
or where you are going" sug-
geStS Robert Matthias, an Olym-
pic decathlon winner as an all
around American athlete. Show
a friendly interest in the town
and it's people"
Talk about anything sensible
that interests you," says DR..
Wynne Yorke of Erie.
Dive right in, so you can talk
and learn as you co." American
Hostels, Inc, mods.
"Give enough information
about yourself to be courteous.
But don't be too personal with
any stranger" says Nancy Duke
Lee of Providence, secretary for
the American Conference of Ac-
Evening star., 1953-05-31
By Kite Turmoil

Going on a trip? Wonderful.
Be ready to make the most of
the adventure. For real 10y and
benefit from travel, you want to
go out Of your way to gain fresh
ideas, new experiences. That you
can do whether you travel near
or far, or do a bit of exploring
around your home town.
For adventures in eating whip
up an appetite, to sample what
ever the natives" or chefs offer
with pride. Try the grits. the
scrapple, the steamed clans, the
hush-puppies, the chilli or what
ever happens to be the speciality
of the locality.
Develop an international stom-
ach," says Ma Home Lin of Ran
COON Ca YWCA leader. "Never
compare food with what you eat
Evening star., 1953-05-31

health and happiness, whatever
their race or creed, will receive
their dividend through contribu-
tions which the Christ Child
Society members are raising at
the forthcoming fete.
Admission tickets, available
from committee members, or at
the Embassy gate, are priced at
$1.50. including light refresh
mentS.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-05-01

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Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-05-01

Sovinq will pay for this loader short order
Now field bales it. high Specially
designed pickup will break Irvine boe 24nch
elevator honde 2 and wire boe Boil bearing vital
moving ports Soignne boil beong pillow blocks axle sho
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Watkins Collection

An exhibition of 20 paintings
from the Watkins Memorial
Collection of American Uni
versity which was installed in
the gallery of the American
Institute of Architects, 1735
New York avenue. the middle
of April. extends through next
Friday. In pursuance of the
Institutes program to encour-
age local art sources, this ex-
hibition places the Watkins
collection temporarily in a
convenient midtown location.
Ordinarily. these paintings are
used as study aids in the Uni
versity's art department. The
collection is presented at this
time to emphasize the value of
the departments work to the
community as well as to the
University.
Shown for the first time in
Washington are paintings do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

thor almost browns her in a
sea of words.
Miss Kennedy is at some
pains to let you know that
Butch Cassidy, the Prince
Charming of Dorney's girl
hood dreams, really lived.
Alas. not on these pages, I
fear, as he is dragged on the
scene at various intervals by
the long arm of coincidence.
With that said it must be
pointed out that Good Morn
ing, Young Lady" has a goodly
share of humor and humanity
and a pleasant array of we'll
realized woman characters.
But after a while it all be-
comes a bit arch and even
,cloying, Miss Kennelly's OBJ
vious pleasure in her pic
tureSque characters has her
chuckling over them when
she should be getting on with
her story. After all, 469 pages
is quite a stable chunk for a
retelling of the Cinderella
legend.
M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Crime

The Case of the Hesitant
Hostess. BY Erie Stanley
Gardner. civilian Morrow
Co.. Inc; $2.50D
The court had appointed
Perry Mason to defend a pris-
oner accused of a minor
holdup. It looked like a two
bit case with enough circum-
Stantial evidence to send Ma
sons charity case away for a
long time. But Mason got
fighting mad when his prize
witness disappeared IN a d
enough to uncover a whole
bagful of crime, including
murder, kidnapping, perjury,
gambling and assorted other
felonies and misdemeanors.
This is one of the fancier
Mason yarns, relying more on
straight deduction than chance
and courtroom shenanigans.
Murder by the Day. BY Ve-
ronica Parker Johns. tDou-
bleday & Co., Inc; $500
Crime Club
Webster Flagg, who played
SO many buffers on stage that
he naturally fell into the real
life role, is the delightfully."- diff
ferent sleuth who sets out to
determine how his unpopular
employer CHANGED to burn to
a crisp in a fireproofed chair.
Police wrote it off as accident,
but Webster knew different.
Webster's methods of extract
ing information whilst whip
ping up lobster thermidor and
singing spirituals are unique.
He energies as a man of parts,
a commanding figure you'll
probably enjoy meeting.
M. O.
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only what seems needed and
logical to my own expression"
1t is true that at first sight,
one would classify Mr.. Taylor
as a conservative. His works
make sense" from the aver
age standpoint. they show ex-
cellent craftsmanship. Il adj
mire clarity and a strong sense
or organization" the artist
said. And I find greater
satisfaction in trying to re-
create selectively, the nuanceS
in the colors and forms of
things which have moved me,
rather than in the imposition
or arbitrary color schemes, or
distortions of form on that
actuality."
However, visitors who give
more than a casual glance at
a work of art, will perceive
that Mr.. Taylor makes limited
use of the subconscious and
the abstract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

What will England be like in
1888?
Mr.. Shute ventures a guess.
in the form of romantic fic-
ton, and his conclusion is
much less drastic. much more
optimistic. than that of a fell
low Briton, George Orwell. Mr..
Orwell, in the satire 1894"
gave terrifying picture of an
autocratic country (undoubt-
edly England in which there
were no more individuals but
only human robots of the state.
Other writer's of fantasies have
depicted all the Western coun-
tries as a wilderness, the result
Of an atomic war.
There's still an England, in
Mr.. Shute'S story, and still a
British commonwealth of ma
tions, though important
changes have occurred and
others are on the way.
A Shrunken Isle
Mr.. Shute's England of 80
years hence has lost a large
proportion of its population,
the result of emigration, large
ly to overseas countries of the
commonwealth. Austerity is
still clamped on the English
men remaining. There has
been a third world war, al
luded to as the Russian war,
evidently won by the West,
though it hardly figures in the
story. The present Queen, Eliz-
abeth II, still reigns, helped by
her tactful consort, Philip. The
Queen, by the way, is an i'm
portant character in Mr..
Shute's fable, and, if her mai
esty gets around to reading it,
she is unlikely to object to her
part, for she is depicted as a
lovable, unassuming person, in
graceful middle age.
There is a violent argument
going on between England and
the overseas adherents to the
kingdom, largely over suffrage
reform. England clings to a
kind of socialism, while Can
ada and Australia have moved
toward the right. Australia
has set up a system of multiple
voting. Under this system a
man or a woman may have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Library of CONGRESS

The Library of Congress has
just opened its 18th annual
national exhibition of prints,
which will be reviewed here
later. Today and tomor-
row present the last oppor-
tunitieS to see the 31st annual
exhibition of Fifty Books of
the Year" selected by the
American Institute of Graphic
Arts. They are installed in
the north gallery, ground floor.
main building of the Library
of Congress. These books were
chosen from $40 submitted by
al publishers, designers and
printers, for excellence of ty-
Biography and design from the
1852 production of United
States publishers. Among them
is Great Paintings From
the National Gallery of Art"
edited by Huntington Cairns
and John Walker, published by
Macmillan (reviewed here
early this year,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

today either from self or from
the larger perils of the
times" But she seems to take
a long time and a hop, skip.
and Jump way to it.
In addition to the forest.
she is all over South America.
Her own expression of desire
to settle down in one place
has the full support of the
reader. For she is at her best
describing the frontier and
the "rocieros". farmers-back-
woodsmen who inhabit it. But
too often she forces introSpec-
ton. and in the role Of lost
international waif" gives un-
warranted drama to a firing
series of climactic incidents.
It is as though Miss Prewett
strains to reach her conclu-
sion, to make her perhaps
naturally significant expert
ence symbolic. uniting man.
nature, and everything.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Two at Garden Cote

Helen Beccard Niles and
Jeanne Taylor are having a
two-artist show at the Garden
Gate Restaurant, 1880 Wiscon-
sin avenue. through Wednes-
day. Miss Taylor recently won
a purchase prize in the Mary
land Regional exhibition at
the Baltimore Museum. Each
artist is represented with nine
works. varied in subject and
handling.
Visitors hoping to get a good
look at these worthwhile
paintings should go a trif1e
early or late, so as to avoid
breathing down the necks of
diners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
ToyIor's Latest

The Whyte Gallery recently
opened one-man show of
paintings, water colors and
Autographs by Prentiss Tay-
lor, to remain through May
IA. Approximately 20 works
include a few shown in group
exhibitions of the past year or
two, but the greater part Of
the show is very recent, some
items having been completed
within the past month.
In an admirable, thought
provoking statement about his
work. Mr.. Taylor said, II have
found myself sometimes re-
ferred to as a conservative, but
I do not think of myself as
one. because I appreciate the
original impulses in new
forms. However, I suspect
the limitations that make
fashions; and some one else's
discovery is not my discovery.
From new forms I can take
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Arnold Bennett
BY Reginald Pound. (Harcourt, Brace: S575D

Arnold Bennett, who died %
years ago. perfectly fitted his
hour" Mr.. Pound feels. After
quoting Goethe to the effect
that mot every man fits every
hour" Mr.. Pound says it is
impossible to imagine Ben
Nets being produced by any
other environment or time.
At any rate. the biogra-
pher points out, between 1911
and 1880 BENEFITS position
was outstanding among British
writer's. although his books did
not reach the "best-seller
peaks" some authors attained.
His big income was derived
largely from his enormous
journalistic industry" Ben
nett never stopped writing ar
ticles, and criticism, while he
was publishing more than 80
books. Mr.. Pound probably is
right in concluding that 1.-The
solid and enduring part of his
reputation rests on two i'm
portant novels, The Old
Wives Tale and Clay
hanger
Moore His Model
There has been a critical
tendency in recent years, en-
tirely unjustif1ed, to dismiss
Bennett as a superficial writer
who could reflect his expert
ences with Photographic &C
curacy. On the contrary, it
is doubtful whether any Goth
century novelist contributed
more solidly to realism-or
naturaliSm, if you prefer.
George Moore was his model,
as he often admitted. lola
he greatly admired.
Bennett came from what is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

as q patient. not as a danger
Gus" individual to be COM
mitted as a quasi-criminal.
He urges modern and thor
oughly accepted psychiatric
knowledge applied to the law
of wills, mental examination
of witnesses in some criminal
as we'll as civil cases, indeter-
inmate sentences with a true
NATURALIZATION of correc-
tional and penal treatment
based on social and psychiatric
considerations, more attention
by the judges to the qualifica-
lions and competence of those
called as experts and-em-
phatically-more mutual UNI
derStanding between repre-
sentatives of the law and
psychiatry. His book is def
nitely a step in that direc-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

UHlDeTSlLy FTeSS, SEJ
warfare which Russia began
borrowing from the West in
the reign of Peter the Great.
There is, too, the irony that
Russia got Communism from
the West, from Germany's
Karl Marx. Marks vision
seems, in nom MARKHAM eyes.
far too narrow and too badly
warped to be likely to prove
permanently satisfying to hu-
man hearts and minds"
All the same, this spiritual
weapon of Russia and the Far
East may be a portent. Mr..
Toynbee sees a possible par
allel with ancient Greece and
Rome, whose rule over the
world was ended, not by fight
ing forces, but by the then
strange religions of Christian
ity, Buddhism and others. The
historian has condensed a vast
amount of thinking in 80 pages
and expressed it in his usual
pungent way.
&C. B. ].
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

several votes, depending on
education. achievement and
services to government and
humanity. The Prince of Wales
is unwilling to take the throne
when the time comes. The
other royal children feel the
same way. The Queen, who is
spending an increasing amount
of time overseas, decides to
spend six months in Australia.
She leaves a political bomb to
explode-a governor general
for England. England is to be
governed like the Dominion of
Canada.
Into the Supernatural
Around this situation MIR.
Shute has woven a romance
between the Australian pilot
of the Queens Flight, David
Anderson, an octoroon, and q
young woman who is a con-
f1dential secretary in Bucking-
ham Palace.
The author leads into his
flight into the future through
a fantastic device involving
reincarnation. The story opens
in the present year with the
narrator an elderly missionary
priest of the Church of Eng
land, ministering to a poor,
scattered parish in the Austria
liam bush. He comes to know
and have a certain affection
for an old character known as
Stevie, who is drunk a good
part Of the time. Stevie al
ways insists that everybody
gets a second chance, that you
live again. On his deathbed
he keeps talking to the priest
about David Anderson, the
Queens Flight and a lot of
other unintelligible things. But
Stevie'S words prove prophetic.
And later it is revealed that
David, the son of a half-caste
woman and a Scottish drover,
was born at the moment of
Stevie'S death.
Whether this excursion into
the supernatural strengthens or
detracts from the main story
could be argued, but at least
the eerie part is we'll done.
Altogether In the Wet" is one
of this popular novelist's most
absorbing books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Maryland Art Show

The fifth annual art show
for the artists Of Montgomery
county and vicinity including
Washington) will open at the
Wick Byron Gallery May IL, to
remain through June Is. All
entries must be delivered on or
before next Friday at the GAL
lery, 1914 Georgia avenue, Sill
yer Spring. Paintings in oil.
egg tempera. encaustic, water
color, gouache. casein and pas
tel and drawings in any me-
dium are eligible. Prizes will be
awarded in each class. and in
addition there will be a prize
for the best of SHOW" No en-
try fee is required. John Chap
man Lewis of Washington will
make the selections and awards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

mated this year by the Kather-
inc S. Dreier private collection
to the Watkins collection; .
watercelor by Marc Chagall.
one of his poetic. surrealistic
memories; Fernand Leger'S
People in a Garden" repre-
sentative of the French artists
mechanical interpretations;
and a delicate, calligraphic
Architectural Landscape" by
Klee.
Other recent acquisitions on
view are several gifts made last
year to the Watkins collection;
a portrait by Cornelis Ruhten-
berg, given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Shafroth; and John Mar
ms watercolor. Camden
Across the Bay" a gift from
Duncan Phillips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

by al AAO1O y. AOyAAOCC' tOLyO
Mr.. Toynbee reminds the
West, in its indignant rejec-
ton of Russian and Chinese
Communism and preparation
to defend itself against Eastern
aggression, that it is not guilt
less. If a Westerner should ask
any of the, otherS-RusSian,
Moslem, Hindu, Chinese or
Japanese-he will be told that
the West has been the arch
aggresSor of modern times"
There were the conquestS
which England, France, Ger
many. Spain made against
nom Western countries in re-
cent centuries, even the elimi-
nation of the Indians by the
colonists of the United States.
Not that Mr.. Toynbee has
any illusions about Commu-
nism. It produced "a remedy
that is worse than the disease"
But he sees Communism-a re-
lig1on, In a Way-aS a more dan
gerouS menace to the West
than the weapons Of modern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Wedding Dance


by anne dc IOurVllle. tFQTft
This exquisite novel of Brit
tany has the quality of a folk
tale. Intricately embroidered
as a peasants holiday costume,
it tells of the love of a rich
widows son for a poor noun
tam girl. The story is as SIM
pie as the conflict between
good and evil, but Miss de
Tourville has woven into it a
rich pattern of symbolism and
conveyed with rare art the
strange mixture of superstition
and Christian faith that the
Bretons live by.
More than a river separates
the beautiful Gaud and hand
some Ener. For Gaud's par
ents to fulfill their part of the
vast ritual Of the wedding, they
must go without food for days.
And Gaud must 60 to the
charnel house to beg beads for
her wedding dress from the
wreathes of the dead. But
more than that, she must con-
tend with her baleful mother
in-law. whose cupidity turns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

SLTGuS q YOuHg, $5D
to black malice when she sees
the Mayors daughter arrayed
in a dress that has her fathers
fortune Sewed into it.
When the marriage festival
is at it's height, when the
pigeons symbolizing the happi-
ness of the newly welded
couple have flown away, the
widow turns the full force of
her wrath on the hapless bride
and curses her and her new
husband. Only the interces-
sion of the beadle's clairvoy-
ant wife, who stays Gaud's
death, can make possible the
happiness of the young people.
Miss de Tourville's novel
won the Prix Femina in France
and it is easy to see why. The
elements of the natural and
supernatural, signs and Won
ders, love and hate have been
SO harmoniously blended that
the willing suspension of belief
which all fiction requires is
here most freely given.
NJ. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03

called in England the lower
middle class. His father, after
failing in the pottery business,
the main industry of the Five
Towns. which Arnold gave
fame in his novels, did rise
somewhat in the world. Enoch
Bennett became a lawyer.
Arnold never quite got over
his early poverty, and, despite
his aff1uence in his mature
years, would sometimes in
stinctively resort to small
economies, such as walking
when he could have taken a
taxi. He loved luxury, yet
never was entirely at ease on
the more pretentious social
levels. a lifelong impeachment
of speech adding to his shy
ness.
Mr.. Pounds biography is
ably done. The writing is
luminous. It is true that the
biOgrapher quotes from Ben
nett's voluminous journal
much of it unpublished-so
extensively that at times the
book seems more like an auto
biography. There also are
liberal excerpts from corre-
Spondence with such friends
as H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad,
George Moore, James Joyce,
John Galsworthy and Hugh
Walpole, The account of Ben
nett's emergence from a re-
stricted and unhappy child
hood into a successful writer,
via a London clerkship, is so
condensed, so little explored,
that you can only guess at
how and why this happened.
&C. 3. j.
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w 411IS1
the Isaac, Ray Award for his
contribution to the improve
ment of the relations of law
and psychiatry.
The superintendent Of st.
ElizabethS Hospital shows
there is much room for i'm
provement. On the one hand.
he cites the advances made by
all too few States. On the
other, he quotes passages from
legal opinions that are star
Ting in their ignorance.
He recognizes that court
battles of the experts. particu-
larly psychiatrists. have not
only served to discredit his
colleagues but have resulted in
some unfortunate decisions. AS
a major remedy. he urges more
widespread adoption of the
Uniform Expert Testimony
Act, now in force in only two
States and in the Federal
Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Under this model act. experts
are appointed by the court,
joint examinations are en-
couraged and other provisions
are included to overcome most
of the objections to expert
testimony.
In addition to explaining
fundamentals of pSychiatry in
language the layman can UNI
derstand, DR.. Overholser packs
his short volume with recon-
mendations for more intelli-
gent use of accepted pSychiat-
ric principles in civil and
criminal cases and for more
humane laws dealing with the
mentally i'll.
In the District he urges SIM
pliflcation of the commitment
laws for the mentally i'll, revi-
sion to make the sex psyche
path law more effective and
establishment of a psychiatric
clinic in the courts.
Generally he wants to see
the mentally i'll person treated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Poetry Reading

Dylan Thomas, one of
England's leading poets will
read from his new volume
of poetry, "Collected Poems"
for the Institute of Contem-
porary Arts on Monday, May
4, at $3.50 pm. in the Cor
coran Auditorium.
Mr.. Thomas is the author
of Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Dog" Deaths and
Entrances" Selected Writ
ings" and I'm Country
Sleep" This will be Dylan
Thomas fifth visit to Wash
ington.
For further information
call Hudson 3-6181.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Beyond the Greet Forest
BY Virginia Prewett. (Dutton; $3.75J
Reviewed by Doris Konter

Weary personally, and dis
illusioned by what she saw
happening under the Peron
regime, Virginia Prewett,
Buenos Aires correspondent
for the Chicago Sun and a
former Washington Post col
umnist, gave up her career to
seek "self-contemplation" and
"non-violent non-participa-
ton" in the Goias frontier Of a
remote Brazilian jungle.
Beyond the Great Forest"
is her story Of two years,
1882, spent in and out OF
the frontier soul-searching.
setting up a farm under ex-
hausting primitive conditions.
and travelling.
Miss Prewett comes out Of
the jungle with some forceful
observations on the conclusion
that for individuals - and
democratic nations as we'll
there aren't any hiding places