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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Three Great Irishmen: Shaw, Yeats, Joyce
BY Arland Usher. (DeDin -Addir; $50

An original and provocative
spirit, Arland usher has won
admiration if not complete
agreement for his studies of
two races, the Irish and the
Jews. To a naturally quirky
Irish mind, he has added the
complications of Freudianism
and existentialism. This Sd
outlook applied to three great
Irish writer's produces some in
teresting, highly chevy con-
illusions.
He is most successful in his
analysis Of the least Irish of
his trio, G. B. Shaw. Hear him.
for instance on the subject of
ShaW's "ancients":: They are
just priggish. pettish, COVER
ness-like old eunuchs, male
and female, and their rasping
platitudeS reverberate through
a world in which no sound of
bird, beast or human child is
ever heard" In him, usher
thinks, as in his character
there was lacking "a sense of
inner tension" Having skill
fully dismembered G. B. S., the
author puts him together
again, although in much
smaller size. He provides no
cakes and ale, but he offers us
good, wholemeal bread" says
Mr.. usher. thereby invoking
a cheer from the stubborn mi
nority who dared to be bored to
death with the Don Juan in
He'll" revival.
With Yeats, who rather de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

there are no exploited slumS,
no alliances between politi-
clans and ra cketeerS, no
crooked policemen. Civic lead
ers have heard Of such things.
but prefer to ignore them, lest
they reflect on the city.
Mr.. Manchester removes the
covers from the manholes and
takes a long look at what's be-
low. He finds the hidden fig
ure of Ben Erik, who banks the
biggest numbers racket in this
huge, unnamed port city. Ben
has his political influence and
he has policemen on his pay
roll, a few Of high rank. the
rest beat Founders who are
glad to pick up a few dollars
protecting underpaid numbers
writer's.
The Numbers Come
The syndicate depends on a
section known as the Elbow
for its richest revenues. The
Elbow is a rat-infested area
of miserable waterfront shacks
and crumbling homes that
once housed gentility. And
yet nearly every one plays the
numbers. Some play only a
harmless dime or so, but others,
always hoping to win a for
tune. play IS, Sc, $40 out of
the meager sums they earn.
Sometimes their families 60
without food while they plunge
on a sudden bunch. Occasion
ally some one hits and is paid
off, adding fuel to the fires
of chance that burn every
where.
But Ben Erik has his enc
mics, some of them rivals for
gaming money that people are
SO eager to spend. He also
has his particular nemesis in
Zipski. the incorruptible police
commissioner. ZipSki knows
the setup, but it's another
thing to get the evidence. Some
of his own men at headquar-
tiers tip off the raids. Not
that the whole police depart
ment is dishonest. Zipski has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
The Long Way Round

BY Pat Frank (Ltppincott;; 5.
Mr.. Frank, a former Wash
ington newspaperman turned
novelist and Short-story writer.
offers here his first book of
non-f1ction. 1t is the story OF
his trip around the world last
year. From his home at Jack
sonville Beach, Fla, he had
planned to go to Turkey-a
romantic interest called him
to Ankara-but when he was
asked by Government agency
to go to Korea to write the
script for a documentary pic
ture, he decided to do that first
and go on westward from
there.
While there is no startling
information in the book, Mr..
Frank is a sharp reporter and
his observations of various
places are interesting. Of par
ticular significance is his re-
port of the breakdown of seq
regation in the American Army
in Korea Negro units sometimes
were broken up and scattered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
The Seventh Sense
BY Kenneth Roberts Doubleday; $4l
Reviewed by Richard FrykIund

This surly book was written
by Kenneth Roberts as a
sequel to Henry Gross and
His Dowsing Rod" Again Mr..
Roberts has laid aside his his
torical novels to prove to an
obtuSe world that Henry Gross
and other dowSerS actually do
11nd underground water with a
forked stick.
Unfortunately, Mr.. Roberts
has been overcome by the ex-
ASPIRATIONS inevitable when
one sets out to make scientific
fact out of charming folklore.
The result is a book that
bludgeons the reader with Cd
figures on depths, rates of
flow bacillary content. salin-
ity, fees charged and fees COL
lected-if any-on the hum
dreds of wells devised by
Henry Gross during one year,
1851. and 90 ill-humored cas-
legations of all person who do
not believe in dowsing.
1t is easy to see why Mr..
Roberts is angry. He presents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

In. all his novels about the
church, Bruce Marshall has
deplored the great gap be-
tween the form and the spirit.
In this story of the revolution
in Spain, he has found a most
dramatic example amid clergy
men who felt the peoples
wrath because they had failed
to raise their voices against
cruelty and injustice"
His hero is Don Arturo, who
cannot find it in himself to
become a martyr for a church
which seems likely to crack
because churchmen have re-
duced charity to prudence" He
goes over to the church'S en-
emies. Their slogans he finds
as empty of true humanity as
the creed he has renowned.
In the course of his new duties
he is called upon to hear the
confession of a heroic old
bishop, and through the
doomed mans valor, he is re-
converted to his priesthood,
and so becomes subject to
Communist torture.
Don Arturo's sufferings. fully
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

among white units, he says,
ana "the results were imme-
date and happy" He quotes
an Air Force major as saying:
1.-The question of segregation
no longer exists" Mr.. Frank
also comments: I'm Korea you
rarely heard violent arguments
as to whether the Korean war
was worth while, as you did
StateSide. This was because
almost every one there was
there not through choice and
there was little. point in argu-
ing about it,"
After visiting Thailand, Tur-
key and other countries, he
came back with a strong doubt
that "the free world can be
successfully attacked"
Mr.. Franks popular novels
include Mr.. Adam" and a
novel of Korea, Hold Back the
Night" which he wrote before
he had been to that embattled
country. He describes how the
movie was made. &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

facts that convince at least
this skeptic that Henry Gross
and his forked stick can locate
good we'll sites anywhere in
the county without stirring
from his living room. Yet
almost no respectable person
will concede that Henry Gross
can "dowse."
DR.. A. N. Sayre, chief of the
Ground Water Branch Of the
United States Geological Sur
vey and the Nations No. /
scientific n-dowsing) expert
on water, says a person dig
ging at random will find
enough water to supply a home
or farm four times out of five.
So Henry Gross could find
water and dowsing still not be
proved.
1t is unfortunate that Mr..
Roberts feels driven to write
a second dowsing book. The
world would far rather have
another of his masterful his
torical novels and let under
ground water stay buried.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Uncle Pogo $3.50 Stories
BY Walt Kelly. (Simon & SchuSter; $780,
Reviewed by Philip H. Love

Cartoonist Kelly's two earlier
books, Pogo" and II. Go Pogo"
became best sellers despite the
fact they were mere reprints
of the daily and Sunday comic
which he draws for The Star
and more than 800 other news
papers. Uncle Pogo $3.50
Stories" being new and
original. should land in the
best-seller lists more quickly
and stay there much longer.
The new volume consists of
four stories in comic strip
style, a text story illustrated
with cartoons, and an assort-
ment of funny rhymes, also
illustrated with cartoons. It's
every bit as zany as the news
paper comic, and just to prove
it, here are some of the sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Reviewed BY Carter Brooke Jont

honest officers of.high and low
rank and eventually he finds
out where the leaks are, plugs
them and cracks down.
The coup de grace is de-
livered by Jarvis Cameron,
from his tower of wealth and
responsibility. Cameron owns
the local race track and re-
sents the customers he's losing
to Erik's enormous racket "a
not wholly plausible angle).
Then, too, Cameron's brother
in-law, a State Senator, is
about to run for Governor. A
good campaign slogan is a
promise to clean up the 7th
district - meaning eliminate
Erik. II they can fix the num-
Der just one day from the
mutuel totals at. a Southern
track which provides the pay
off, Erik will be ruined.
Dromotis Personoe
1t must be emphasized that
Mr.. Manchester's powerful
novel is not simply a study in
municipal corruption, thinly
disguised as fiction. The au-
thor realizes that good novel
is primarily a projection of
character. The persons he
deals with at length are not
cardboard cut-outs illustrating
various points, but human be-
ingS. There is Charlie Bond,
the numbers writer, whose
wife never suspects his bust
ness-he has q cover up-until
that day the police close in
Charlie, who is planning nice
Christmas for his children.
Sam, the colored garbage col
lector, a .psychopath, ordinarily
quiet, nice to his family, but
obsesSed with the numbers. is
persuasive, especially when he
runs berSerk after Charlie
welshes on a ticket worth
$4,000. Cameron's alcoholic
daughter, sinking lower and
lower until she becomes a skid
row personality, is pathetic
when she might have been
merely unpleasant.
1t is a brutal story. How
could it be otherwise? But Mr..
Manchester has not over
drawn it, nor has he tried to
shock his readers with dis
gushing language. He has writ
ten it with artistic restraint
and the atmosphere is unfail-
ingly vivid. About the only
criticism that could be leveled
at the novel is its length and
the multiplicity of characters.
who are so numerous they are
hard to remember. A simpler
narrative line might have been
still more effective.
The 30-year-old author pre-
viously published perceptive
biography Of Henry Mencken
called ''Disturber of the
Peace"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Germany Plots With the KremIin

German government already
has an understanding on flu
ture collaboration with the
Russians. His Recommendation
leaves little doubt that Ger
man extremists hold the geo.
political views he ascribes to
them, and that some of them
are influential in the Bonn
government. But he weakenS
his case by exaggeration and
overstatement, of which his
title, Germany Plots With
the Kremlin" is typical.
The German situation Is
hardly q satisfactory one, even
to the most ardent hackers
Of our present policies. but
1t seems doubtful that 1t is
quite Is bad as TetenS would
have us believe. 4B. r.
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The Fair Bride
BY Bruce Marshall (Houghton Mif1in; 49,


detailed, are horrendous. His
love for a prostitute who
teaches him the true meaning
of love leads the author into
some melodramatic passages.
But his priest learns the mean
ing of his priesthood. even If
not the meaning of the vic
tory of the Franco forces. The
novel begins with a declara-
ton from the old bishop about
proper dress for churchgoing
women. 1t ends with a similar
declaration from a new bishop.
This maddening emphasis on
non-essentials, Don Arturo
notes bitterly, goes on, despite
the blood and suffering. The
miracle is, he points out, that
the church goes on, too.
Mr.. Marshall does not ven-
ture into the merits of either
side in the war. The real rev.
olution, which must be within
mems hearts, is still to come.
His unusual whimsical note is
entirely absent from this grim
story. 1t has been replaced by
an irony quite fitting to the
matter in hand. M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
BY T. H. Tetens. (Schuman;; $3.i

Western Germany is re-
building its economic and mil
itary strength as an ally of
the West, but Chancellor
Adenauer'S long-range foreign
policy is set for a re-orienta-
ton toward the East. Mr.. Te-
tens maintains.
The American policy of re-
arming Germany, Of freeing
the war criminals, Of allow
ing ex-NaZis to control the
press and permeate the Bonn
government, Mr.. Tetens says.
already has given DR.. Ade-
nauer the upper hand in his
relations with the West.
But German industry needs
new markets which can only
be found in the Soviet bloc.
Mr.. TetenS believes til West
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
BY James A. Kitchener.
(RdndOnl House: $3.50.


(Rdndom House; $780,
The author of "Tales of the
South Pacific" as Life's le-
gions of readers know, has
written a novelette, of our
fighting men in our new Asian
war. 1t is a stirringly and feel
ingly told story of a reserve
pilot. who resents. his. recall to
the Korean front. but who
fights with superhuman brav-
cry all the same. I do not be-
lieve, as the jacket states, that
it will be called lone of the
masterpieces of war litera-
ture." It has too strong a
propaganda strain for that.
Mr.. Kitchener lectures his
"apathetic" trym e n
throughout. But he shows,
with flashes of humor and ris-
ing suspense, the heroism of a
reluctant warrior who earns
an embittered old admiral's
accolade: Where did we get
such mem" M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

fles description, he has less
luck. He tries to define the
poets philosophy, which is
ambiguous at best, and the
game does not seem worth the
candle. His insight into Joyce
is rewarding, if a bit jolting
to the Joycean cult. To him
it is a primary fact that Joyce
is a great humorous writer
who must have derived some
quiet mirth from the provision
of all those Harvard theses"
He makes out an excellent case
for Ulysses" as "a merry
book" He calls it "a strange,
droll, uncomfortable MASTER
piece" by "a slightly loutish
Blake (Who) sees Infinity in a
long nose and Eternity in a
belch."
Mr.. usher, as you see, is no
conventional critic. But very
worthwhile. M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Cockney Girl
On the Troll
Of q Male
Westward the Sun
BY Godfrey Cotterell.
~. B. Ltppincott;; $780,
Reviewed BY Mary McGrory

ny GeOUTey COCCereu.
". B. Lippincott;; $780,
Reviewed by Mary McGrory
Linda Ferrers. the cockney
heroine of Westward the
Sum- knows a thing or two,
she does, even If she's only Is.
In the works where Linda
puts red and blue wire on
electrical equipment they have
a speech from Queen Elizabeth
tackled up. Linda had memo
rized the bit about II know
have the body Of a weak and
feeble woman" and while she
was we'll aware she was not on
the royal level, she felt she
and the Queen were sisters
under the skin.
Linda's steady is sgd
Everard, who is a filter in the
firing shed. and whose hobby
Is bodybuilding. She accepts
a ring from him a little half
heartedly, and when the
YankS come to help her and
her mother the day the roof
falls in from a bomb, she is
ready for them. Her sister
Ethel, two years younger and
a terrible joiner-in, takes up
with the invaders enthusiast
tically, and when she goes on
party with them, Linda sees
her sisterly duty plain and
goes along as a chaperone of
sorts.
A Yonk in Church
The party is very posh, and
when Linda is snubbed by sew
eral Of the nobs present. she
goes of in a huff. Before she
leaves, however, she gets an
invitation from a nice, quiet
Yank to meet him at church.
Linda is too modern to be
stuck on hymns and prayers
and all that" but, as she says,
she can 60 to church If she
wants to. Naturally, poor Sgd,
with his bullying biceps. takes
a dim view of all this, but
Linda manages to keep him so
hopelessly on the defensive
that he ends up apologizing to
her, as per usual.
Linda goes a long way in her
pursuit of happiness, but, it
must be said, the journey, as
told in her own down-to-earth
argot, is vastly entertain
ing. Mr.. Cotterell, whose
Strait and Narrow" a very
literate study of English peo-
pie much Linda's betters, was
most enthusiastically reviewed,
shows here that he is a versa
tile novelist. with a fine COM
edy vein. It's a bit of a trick
to see the world through the
sharp eyes of a precocious 49,
year-old, but he has managed
to see it steadily and see it
whole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

titles: Robin Hood to Pay
Piper" "A Chile's Guardin'
Adversus. ""Mucky- Spleen: The
Bloody Drip" "The Story of
Chicken Little" and Dog
Gone" Furthermore. all the
more familiar Okefenokee
Swamp characters are there
Pogo Postum, Albert the ALI
gator, Churchy LaFemme. the
Turtle, Seminole Sam the Fox,
DR.. Rowland Owl and Mans
Best Friend, Beauregard the
Houn' Dog, to name an even
half-doZen.
That ought to be enough OF
a review to satisfy the Pogo
fans (of whom there are said
to be 37,00O.000). and other
readers wouldn't be interested,
anyway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

Baltimorean
by rece n t
adoption, is
the first to
bring it of
" it'll COM
plete reality.
It is the
story of the
dark Sue OF
a great city
"a phi a S e
S u Emerged
beneath an
outward de-
corum that
- - I -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
The House of Moreys

BY Phyllis Bentley. (Mdcnlil
Miss Bentley is discovered
anew at her accustomed loom
the wool dynasties of York
shire. This time she is spin
ming a story about a prim poor
relation who ventures timidly
to Wool Royd, an uneasy
manse presided over by a
bibulous, Byronic character
with an assortment of half
wild children and a baleful
old servant with snake locks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

This anthology contains over
TOO poems from English and
American bards. What makes
it different in its field are bio
graphical and critical COM
ments that have been inter-
spersed with the selections. Ac-
tually, Editor Untermeyer has
woven . brief history of the
poetic art In English into his,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
The End of q Revolution
BY Fritz Sternberg.
John Day.; 49,

~S1 W"
DR.. Sternberg has written
this little book to stress a point
easily overlooked-that the
Russian revolution did not
produce a Socialist state but a
reactionary dictatorship de-
signed to exploit the very work.
ers and peasants in whose
name the Bolsheviks seized
power.
In his analysis Of the Soviet
economy DR.. Sternberg, author
of Capitalism and Socialism
on Trial." makes clear the
human cost of Russia's sue
cessful Observation-Disclosures
spite the vast increase in pro-
ductivity, most Russians live
no better today than did their
fathers in the days of the
Car. B. F.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Shrines of the Republic
BY Edward Boykin.
BY 'EdWar

Public Affairs PreSS.)
In question and answer
form, Edward Boykin who is
virtually omniscient about the
Nations Capital, shares with
readers his vast lore about the
Presidents, the White House.
Congress and the Capitol, the
Supreme Court, Federal agen-
cies, art treasurers and monu-
mentS. M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

and a cackling laugh. Ell
eanor takes the menage in
hand. polishes the silver.
teaches the children and at
tracts the attention of the
master. But before there can
be a happy outcome, several
very tangled skeinS of family
history must be unraveled.
Does this remind you Of
Jane Eyre? Yes, but not
enough. M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

swarms with characters. And
yet it is so ably done that the
narrative is not hard to fol-
low. The main characters are
more than types; they are in
dividuals. The hazards of
storm. calm, fog and reef are
described with rare under
standing. The translation,
which must have been, consid-
ering the technicalities and
argot involved, a peculiarly
difficult task, has been done
smoothly by Katherine Woods.
The book belongs with the best
sea stories. &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Ride Out the Storm

ny 3eOSCA SOASSA ~ ~S"e"HSo %
One of the finest of con-
temporary French novelists
has written a saga Of the old
sailing days, starting in 1895.
in the final epoch of their
glory. The story runs to the
First World War. It's central
figure is Pierre ROLAND, whom
we first meet as an ordinary
seaman. We follow his rise
from the fo'c'sle to a masters
place. His adventures across
the world take us into a dozen
ships and we come to know as
many crews. The book is ex-
tremely. long and detailed; it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Murt's New Show

The circus has more or less
departed from the Artists
Mart 1881 Wisconsin avenue,
Georgetown) and has been re-
placed by a new exhibition.
But the Mart's shows have
somewhat the effect Of q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

This novel has been waiting
around to be written. Several
authors have attempted it, but
this young neWspaperman, a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
The Concise Treasury of Great Poems
(PermdbookS:: so cents

PermGbookS; so centS.J
prefaces and sketches. The
range is from Chaucer to Og-
den Nash, and while the rep
resentation from each poet is
necessarily rather spare, the
high spots have all been hit.
A very interesting and valuable
addition to the pocket sized
book world.
N AEAHk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Shows in OIney

Six exhibitions Of contempt
rary paintings will be shown
this summer at the Olney The
ater, Olney, Md, according to
an announcement from Play
ers, Inc, the theater's produce
ing unit. The first opened si-
multaneously with THE School
for Scandal" to remain
through Wednesday.
The paintings were assem-
bled by Theodore Kane. who
selects works by professional
members of the Arts Club, So
ciety of Washington Artists.
the Water Color Club and her
own studio group. All paint
ings are for sale, and informa-
ton can be had at the box Of
Gon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12
Books in Review
Avid, Brutal Story Set Against
A Buckdrop Of Civic Corruption
The City Of Anger

The City of Anger
BY william Manchester (Bauanne; hardbound So paper
bound, so centSJ
Reviewed BY Corter Brooke Jones ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-12

berry is showing only a small
number of works, his best be-
ing a pastel of a harbor scene
on a gray day.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

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ELEGANT 8-piece italian Provincial dining
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