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Evening star., 1953-05-17
Toward Spring.

The Playhouse Theater gall
lery, 727 18th street, NV. is
showing IL paintings osten-
sibly on the theme Towards
Spring" through next Satur-
day. Some are easily recog-
nized as springlike-Barbara
Burton's fresh Field Growth"
Clare Ferriter's Floor of the
Woods" depicting wild flowers
growing in good brown earth,
and John Bryans' Time Out"
behind the scenes with circus
performers.
Thomas Yanowsky's Noun
tain Lake" could be summer
or autumn, and Peter Blanc's
several distractions in soft
grayed green's do not suggest
any season at all. These are
certainly worth seeing. But a
theme show ought to carry out
the theme, in toto.
Evening star., 1953-05-17

language and he hated their
life. He recalled, too. many
stories of white mems cruelty.
His uncle. q savage man
who hated Indians. killed
a boy from True Sons
village who had come with
his cousin. Half Arrow.
on q friendly visit to see If
all was well with the trans
planted youth. True Son ran
away with Half Arrow and re-
turned to his Indian home.
But when an expedition was
organized to avenge the mur-
der Of Half Arrows compan-
ion, and True Son went along,
he found that his year among
white people had affected him
more than he thought and he
faced a bitter dilemma.
Mr.. Richter has told much
in a short space. His deScrip-
tions Of the primeval forests
and the mountains are mem
orable. The freedom the In
dians once had, with all nature
to serve them, is felt deeply.
Mr.. Richter completed in
1850 q trilogy Of novels about
the beginning and growth of
an Ohio town. The last book,
THE Town." won him the
Pulitzer Prize.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Pentuteuch

Biblical Themes" from the
Pentateuch by Ben-Zion are
on view in the Division Of
Graphic Arts print gallery,
Smithsonian building, through
next Sunday. These 18 etch-
ings compose a portfolio, the
first of a series of four, deal
ing with the Old Testament.
Others are concerned with
Prophets, Judges and Kings,
and Job and Scrolls. These
interpretations of the Hebrew
Bible. not yet completed, are
being printed in Paris by Rog-
er Lecouriere, and are pub
lished with text, by Curt VAL
entini in New York.
Born in the Ukraine in 1898,
Ben-Zion came to the United
States in 1920. He taught him.
self to paint, and for the past
two decades, has achieved
wide recognition. He became
interested in etching only four
years ago. and had technical
assistance from Karl Schrag,
who printed the first proofs
of Biblical Themes plates. Ja-
cob Kainen. curator of the
Division of Graphic Arts. said.
Ben lions prints are es-
sentially linear, with the lines
heavy and rough-hewn, in
keeping with the austerity Of
ancient Judaism. Certain ele-
mentS are emphasized for
symbolic value: the large
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Crime
Reviewed by
Miriom Ottenberq

The Frightened Wife. BY Mary
Roberts Rinehart. Rine-
hart & Co.; So
The grande dame of detec-
tive fiction shines in this coll
lection Of two novelettes and
three short stories. The title
story packs three murders, a
kidnapping, a damsel in much
distress and a romance into
lit pages. The other novelette,
is a typical Rinehart excursion
among the well-to-do. The
collection is marked by variety
of both motive and method.
One Night With Nora. BY
Michael Shayne. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.; $2.50.)
Mike Shayne wasn't a man
to argue when a strange bru-
nette slipped into his bed but
he didn't like it at all when it
became obvious he was being
framed as the fall guy in the
murder of the woman's hus-
band. Solid detective work
-wading through a mess of
misleading clues-mixes with
the usual component of may
hem for a better-than-average
Shayne adventure.
The Scarlet Letters. BY Ellery
Queen. Little, Brown &
Co.; So
A pathologically jealous hus-
band, a wife who claims in
nocence but makes dates in
out-of-the-way places with a
known roue and Ellery Queen
trying to prevent inevitable
tragedy are the ingredients of
the Queen combines noble ex-
pertinent in delayed action.
The situation is teaSed for 200
pages before Queen goes into
his mental gymnastics. A lesser
author might stub his toe try
ing one like this. For Queen,
it should attract more fans.
Evening star., 1953-05-17

sure touch of a master crafts
man. And he knows how to tell
a story. He begins at the be-
ginning and drives right
through to a smash finish.
Memory in White" the sorry
tale of a broken down pug
named young Pancho Villa
the Third" who dreams of the
glory Of being a fight an
nouncer. is a case in point. So is
THE Legend that Walks Like
a Man." which reflects the bit
ter wisdom Mr.. Schulberg has
acquired from watching his
fellow-man in Hollywood and
the prize ring. They just never
learn Mr.. Schulberg thinks.
AS I say, his stories have a
real kick in them and a nice
vein of irony. He is disen-
chanted, but rather cheerfully
so. and you're likely to enjoy
his comments on the passing
scene. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Books in Review
Lifting the Curtoin on MoIenkov
To See What Russia Has in Store
MoIenkov: StoIin's Successor
BY Martin Ebon. (McGrnW-Hiu;; S3.75J
Reviewed BY Corter Brooke Jon,

existence Of each group was
necessary to retain the delicate
balance Of Kremlin power"
Hard to Shake Loose
Although Georgi Malenkov
is not at present in a position
to take over more than Stalin's
principal title, the tough,
humorless, pudgy, highly efiici-
ent Russian has not been slow
in pushing himself toward the
top and will. be hard to shake
loose. To understand the more
pacific tones of his utterances
since taking Office it is neces-
sary, the author explains, not
only to translate them from
the Russian but from the Ian
guage of Soviet Communism.
His idea of co-existence does
not, in the long run, mean CO.
existence with the antagonists
of communism, whom he re-
CARDS as enemies Of peace:
and the peace he favors is a
peace maintained by the rest
of the worlds giving in to COM
muniSm."
Mr.. Eben warns us that "a
policy of Soviet hypocrisy is far
more dangerous to the free
world than is q policy of
frank antagonism." He sees
the outstretched hand Of the
new man in the Kremlin as
"only a magician's clever ges-
ture, seeking to distract atten-
ton from the danger Of a
poised bayonet."
Malenkov's career shows that
che is a trained terrorist who
travelled the road to power as
a cunning. ruthless conspira-
tor"
The new premier was born in
Orenburg, south of the Ural
Mountains, in 1902. He has re-
fused to tell much about his
parents or early life. Mr.. Ebon
thinks this is because Malen-
kov came from the hated bour-
geoisie. Georgi was II when
the Bolshevik forces in 1919
captured Orenburg, but the
town changed hands three
times during the civil war, and
the youth apparently waited
until he saw which side was
winning before he finally
joined the Red army.
Mr.. Ebon'S book is clearly
written and probably as good
a guess at the actual and po-
tential situation in Russia as
any foreign observer could
make at this time.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Kane Solo

The Arts Club will open this
afternoon arf exhibition of 40
paintings in oil, watercolors
and Duco by Theodore Kane.
which will occupy all the
temporary exhibition space on
the first floor, through June
S. Despite the size of the
collection, it is not a retro
spective; all these paintings
have been done in the past
two years. The majority are
to be shown for the first time.
in Washington; works which
have been previously exhibited
have received awards or hon.
orable mentions in group ex-
hibitions of the Society Of
Evening star., 1953-05-17
The Light in the Forest
BY Conrad Richter. (Knopt; $780,

. .
Conrad Richter, a novelist
Of fine perception and artistic
expression, writes Of Americas
past. particularly of Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio when they
were largely a wilderness. Here
he has written a beautiful,
poignant story of a white boy
who was captured and brought
up by Indians.
True Son was taken from
his fathers fields near Fort
Pitt by Delaware marauders
when he was 4. BY the time
he was Is he hardly remem-
bered his white family or their
ways. He was all Indian. His
foster father. Cuyloga, having
lost his own son, had named
the small captive True Son and
brought him up as If he were
flesh-and-blood son. Then
the soldiers came and forced
the Indians to give up their
white prisoners, Of whom some
had, like True Son. grown up
with them.
The boy fought like a Wild
cat to keep from leaving the
Indians he loved. but he was
forced to go. When the SOL
diers delivered him to his real
parents, he didn't know them;
he remembered little of their
Evening star., 1953-05-17

Washington Artists, the Ma
tiopal League of American Pen
Women and the American
Artists Professional League.
The paintings to be shown
include variety in subject:
Figures. landscape, still life
and flowers, and urban scenes.
The last mentioned cover con-
siderable territory, for Mrs.
Kane is an indefatigable
traveller. Her many years as
a Washington artist and art
teacher, have included time
out for trips to Europe, to
Mexico. and many parts of
the United States. Last sum-
mer she drove 5000 miles.
painting as she went, and
made her third trip to Mexico,
which she finds unusually in
tereSting.
She is also enthusiastic over
New York City as an mex
haustible source of inspiration.
She likes to paint the same
scene at different times or day.
One pair Of paintings to be
shown depicts q park on
Broadway, at midday and
early in the morning, the
latter scene, is soft gray-blue
and white, being one of the
best works in the show (to
mel. Other scenes range
from Mexico to Provincetown.
Nearly all the paintings on
view are representational. But
one of two monotypes to be
shown, entitled "Mombo Dane
ers," is an abstraction, convey
ing the idea of successive
movements.
Evening star., 1953-05-17

This is the story of an Amer
lean defeat-the bloody repulse
Of the 9th Army along the
Chongchon River in Korea in
November, 1850, when the
"home-by- Christmas" drive
to the Yalu smashed head-on
into massed Chinese Commu-
mist armies. .,
It was one Of the decisive
battles Of the present century,
followed by the longest retreat
in American history. Yet it
Evening star., 1953-05-17
PuqIiucci in Paint

The tragic clown who pur-
sues his profession of making
people laugh although his own
heart is broken. has become
a sort of tradition; not a
few theater and movie goers
remember "He Who Gets
Slapped" and Laugh, Clown,
laugh"
These come to mind when
one visits the first Washington
exhibition Of 20 gouaches by
Walter Philip. at Veerhof
Galleries, 1912 Connecticut
avenue. through next Satur-
day. It is open weekdays $50
to $50, and Thursdays to 9
pm. Mr.. Philips clowns are
all sad, even though they may
have painted smiles, and
bright, unrealistic color
schemes. 1--WE been asked"
he said, "why I seldom paint
the clown smiling. Mostly, the
fellow I paint is sad, pathetic,
sentimental and often frantic,
crying and shocked. My clown
is the one behind the mask, the
lovable character and per-
former, the man on the crazy
act To be a clown is not as
funny as people think"
The artist, who was himself
a clown and whose father and
grandfather were French
clowns, was forced to flee his
native Germany after the rise
of Hitler. He brought his wife
and son to the United States
and earned his living as a
waiter in a New York City deli
catessen. Without formal art
training, he painted for recre-
alton, and his employer per-
mitted him to hang some of his
clown paintings in the restau-
rant. There they were seen by
the president of the Fifty
Seventh Street Artists Gallery,
who gave Mr.. Philip a one
man show the end of 1947.
Since then he has been able to
give all his time to painting.
He was in Washington last
Monday for the opening of his
exhibition.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
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Evening star., 1953-05-17

Is a battle
almost en-
tirely un-
k n o W n to
A m e ricans.
Millions of
words have
been writ
ten a BIO u t
the failure
Of In telli-
gence and
Gen. M q c.
Arthur'S role
as theater
commander.
No. AR
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Harlem Man
Writes Fine
First Novel
Go Tell Ii on the Mountain

Stt - Ots SttG tVtV0btk0tU
BY James Baldwin.
ALFRED A. Knopf;; $780,
Reviewed BY Mory MeGrory
This remarkable first novel
describes a little band Of puri-
tans in Harlem. What sets it
strikingly apart from other
fiction Of Negro life in America
is that it deals with Negroes
on their own terms and in
their own world. AS in ''Porgy
and Bess," the characters are
members of the human race
rather than of a minority.
Prejudice and discrimination
menace them, but the primary
conflict is between good and
evil and the central character
is a 14-year-old boy who strug-
giles at q night-long prayer
meeting against "the hard
heartedneSS with which he re-
sisted Gods power"
Mr.. Baldwin is himself the
son Of a Harlem clergyman
and he describes with palpable
intensity the religious atmos-
phere which surrounds John
Grimes. who longs to be saved
yet sees in submission to the
Lord submission to his hated
preacher father. Johns. "tor-
ment in the pit" is unfolded in
q little store-front church,
"The Temple of the Fire
Baptized" To John. watching
the saints" of the narrow lit
tie sect, it was as though
wherever they might be be-
came the Upper Room and the
Holy Ghost were riding on
air."
No Middle Ground
AS John labors up the steep
slopes of Righteousness, his
family looks on. There is his
gentle mother Elizabeth, who
fears there is no middle ground
for her children between jails
and churches; his Aunt Flor
ence, embittered in her search
for q better life: and lastly. his
father, Gabriel, a fiery preacher
and a cruel parent who tried
to beat the sins out of his son.
The fierce conflict between
father and son, husband and
wife, brother and son is con-
tanned within the larger frame
work of Johns struggle to find
the light. Among other things,
Go Tell 1t on the Mountain"
outlines powerfully the hypo-
crite Gabriel. Says his dying
sister Florence bitterly, who
is you met, Gabriel, all your
holy life long you amt made to
drink a cup of sorrow"
The sisters and brethren of
the temple speak to each other
in scriptural terms, they love
and accuse and bear each other
up. Subtly Mr.. Baldwin con-
trasts the richness of their re-
ligiouS life with the squalor of
their tenement existence and
the fury of their emotional
storms.
With its somber, moving
beauty, GO Tell 1t on the
Mountain" is a religious novel
in the truest sense of the word.
Mr.. Baldwin. at % writes with
q drive, grace and depth that
makes him the most arresting
first novelist to come along
this year.
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Ccu. NJ h t
shall makes only a passing ref
erence to "the ill-timed Mac
Arthur offensive" He is in
terested in the men who had
to fight the battle and salvage
as much as possible from an
impossible situation.
A newspaperman and his
torian who was infantry op-
erations analyst for the 9th
Army, he describes what hap
pened to the companies,
the platoons. the squads. and
occasionally to a single soldier
holding the field with a ma
chine gun or BAR.
Stories Of HeFoism
There are stories of heroism
aplenty as Gen. Marshall tells
how the companies Jared in
the initial assault-som
quickly overrun, others reduced
to platoon strength but falling
back in good order. The author
is quick to praise and slow to
blame, but the errors and the
lessons to be learned from
them are all here.
The collapse of the forward
companies was only the begin
ming. The 25th Division man
aged to stage a fighting re-
treat. But the Chinese had in
Evening star., 1953-05-17

many and Poland for the Sc
cret Service to break up an in
ternational counterfeiting ring.
He also takes on q mission for
President Truman. In the
course Of his adventures he is
captured in Berlin by the Rus
sions, tortured and ordered to
confess a plot on the life Of
Stain. He refuses to confess.
How he gets out of this spot
you'll find out for yourself. If
you are sufficiently interested.
The story runs to 555 large
pages. &C. 3. J.
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f1ltrated I'd Divisions rear in
great strength and in the con-
fusion the withdrawal was
made along a road and a bot
tleneck pass the Chinese COM
manded from both sides.
A Lone Stond
Before I'd Divisions ordeal
was over its commanding gen.
eral was a lone figure on foot
on a f1re-swept road. The di-
vision had disintegrated as a
fighting organizations.
But even at the worst of the
rout there were officers and en-
listed men who fought cour-
ageously and intelligently. and
others who risked their lives
repeatedly to bring out some
Of the wounded. It is well to
temper criticism. as Gen. Mar
shall does. with the reminder
that all Americans had some
share in the mistakes which
precipitated the winter battle
with the Communists. It fell
to the lot of a few men to re-
deem by their sweat, courage
and lives the situation thus
made.
Evening star., 1953-05-17

This book belongs to a Spe-
eS known in the publishing
trade as a quickie. Barely
two months after Stalin's
death it appearS-a full length
book which attempts to assay
the Soviet Premier's nominal
successor. Even so, it is not
merely a rewrite mans swift
assembly of all the informa-
ton hand.J plus a feat of
the book manufacturers art
and industry. It actually is a
careful appraisal which does
not seem hurried.
The explanation, so far as
the ama!galn of research and
the writing go, is that Mr..
Ebon, author Of a previous
book on world communism.
had become interested in Ma
lenkov in 1948 and at the
time of Stalin's death was Or
ganizing material for a book
on him. Naturally he changed
his perspective in view Of
events, but he was able to do
so without appearing to have
rushed something into print.
The TTiumVirote
Mr.. Ebon is quite aware that
Malenkov lacks Stalin'S enor-
nous prestige and power and
is really part of a triumvirate
with Lavrenti P. Beria, Minis
ter of the Interior. and Vyache-
slav M. Molotov, Foreign Min
lister. It is a question, the
author realizes, which of these
men will dominate or whether
some one else will rise. He does
point out that the trio, more
recently Malenkov and Beria,
have welded great authority
during the last years of the
aging and probably ailing
Stain.
will the Malenkov-Beria
coalition last?" Mr.. Rbon asks.
will internal struggles cause
Malenkov's early or eventual
downfall? These questions
were asked, the world over,
within days of Stains death.
But those who questioned, and
who then suggested wishful
answers, did not consider that
the Nal ,nkJV regime had been
in the making for exactly four
years. During that period NAL
enkov, Beria, Molotov and the
army clique had taken each
others measure. They had
come to realize that they could
not openly bring about each
others downfall; that the
Evening star., 1953-05-17
The Return of Lonny Budd

BY Upton Sinclair. viking: s
Lanny Budd is back with us.
Mr.. Sinclair retired him in 20
Shepherd. Speakr the tenth
volume of Lanny's adventures
as presidential agent. spy and
counterspy. The Budd books
began in World War I and
ended after the close Of World
War II. Now the author has
taken the indeStructible Lanny
out Of retirement and sent him
back into the arena of inter-
national intrigue. Lanny. in
l946 q crusader for world
peace, consents to 60 to Ger.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
Some Faces in the Crowd
fRandom House; $3.)

This has been quite a season
for the short story. Daphne Du
Maurier, j. D. Salinger, Jean
Stafford and Victoria Lincoln
have all stepped forward with
portfolios which serve to re-
mind the public of their exist
ence between novels. Mr.. Schulz
berg, who hasn't been heard
from since "The Disseminated"
now joins this distinguished
company with a highly divert
ing album of heels, eager beav-
ers and geniuses on the skids.
Mr.. Schulberg is more of a
mimic than a creator. When
he comes to grips with a pro-
found issue, as for instance,
the race question in "The One
They Called Winnie" he
doesn't do too we'll. But when
he is dismantling a fraud, or
blueprinting the downward
path of a great success, he
goes about his work with the
Evening star., 1953-05-17

years Of James rs reign.
Sands is o melancholy boy and
goes mournfully from one mis-
adventure to another. The
author. an Englishwoman, re-
creates the period with great
care, but because her story
has little plot and no sympa-
thetic characters. it remains
more elegaic than anything
else. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
A Stranger Here
BY Robert Henriques. (The Viking Press; $375)

tg FTeSSS Sj.IoJ
rival for Grace's affection also
vies with him in the buying Of
land. For both men adding to
their patrimony has an ironic
aspect, for both their sons are
degenerates bored to death
with their fathers fields. Mr..
Henriques, author of TOO
Little Love-" writes lucid. read
able prose and characterizes
with great ease. Somehow,
however, the novel never
achieves the emotional in
tensity that its theme war
rants. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
May Fair

For the benefit of the hand
some house which was occu-
pied by President James Mon
roe and is now it's clubhouse,
the Arts Club will hold next
week end a festival to include
a series of unusual, colorful
events. They will begin Friday
evening with a costume ball in
the village" and wine cellars,
will continue Saturday with q
treasure mart, a Gay '90s"
fashion show and luncheon
and an evening soiree and will
end next Sunday with an in
ternational tea and musicale.
. Paul Murphy is chairman Of
the fair. Admissions tickets
can be obtained for each event,
or combination ticket admit
ting the bearer to all events
Cat a substantial savingl from
the Arts Club, 2017 I street
NV. All proceeds will be used
for maintenance Of the historic
old hllildinp
Evening star., 1953-05-17
The Common Hangover

" 'sSbSSVSS
BY Henry C. Clark.
Opposition; s2J
Reviewed by William Hines
Like a travelogist who writes
f1uently about the Australian
outback, Henry Clark appears
to know his subject. And as
one who has been there once
or twice himself. this reviewer
recommends the present book
highly to any one who recently
has had, now has, or is about
toTacquire:
. A wee migraine.
. The dull thuds.
. Lacerated meninges.
. Woolly-bears.
. Fantods.
. Screaming meemies.
Ever so gently, Mr.. Clark
leads the reader through a
lucid, 39-page description of
the common hangover and its
causes. AS to its cures, he
draws the only sane conclusion
that CD nothing will heal
the wound except time and
time never fails, and co the
only sulfa drug that Is any
good is Sulfa-denial.
Evening star., 1953-05-17
The Players Boy

BY Bryher. pantheon: $2.75.)
This slim, atmospheric novel
opens with a death and closes
with one. Between times, the
mood never changes. James
Sands. the actors apprentice,
seems to be Fortunes STEP
child, and has the further ILL
luck to grow up at a time when
the exuberance Of Elizabethan
England is giving way to the
drab suppression of the early
Evening star., 1953-05-17


Mr.. HenriQues tells quietly
the story Of an aging man who
over-reaches himself both
emotionally and financially
when he should be settling into
the calm twilight of his life.
Will Bowar, a successful Eng
liSh farmer. is land-hungry.
He had not realized he was
also heart-hungry until he
saw Grace Jones. who was ap-
preaching middle age without
ever having loved and finds in
him all she had been uncon-
sciously searching for. Wills
Evening star., 1953-05-17

hands of prayer, the large
eyes of worship, and the large
feet of toll"
Evening star., 1953-04-05

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