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Evening star., 1953-09-06

and paint at any cost. His
reading had led him to admire
NietzSche and his theories Of
the superman. Young Dram
imagined himself a Nietzschean
character and when he tired of
a situation, he quit it, whoever
he hurt. He believed in moth
ing but himself.
A Shattered Dreom
The artist first painted and
loved Faustina in Italy. Since
the girl and her family insist
ted, he married her. He then
hoped for stalwart sons and
daughters who would carry on
his gifts and his ideas. When
their first child. a boy. was born
a hunchback, Dram was horri-
fed. He left his family and re-
turned to Paris. The crippled
boy, Ugo. was to grow up hat
ing his father and determined
to avenge his mother, who died
in the boys adolescence.
Back in Paris, Dram nearly
starved. But then an art
dealer sold q picture and
gradually the artists work
caught on. Dram married a
French girl and had three
children, all physically nor
NAL, though none turning out
as he hoped. In his turbu-
lent lifetime the painter was
to marry a third time. His
third wife was an English
woman he met in London.
Unlike some other original
artists of the period, Dram
won fame and a measure Of
fortune while he was still
fairly young.
Somehow the author con-
trives to enlist your interest.
even your sympathy, in Dram
despite his inhuman aloofneSs
from obligations and even
amenities. It is, though, in
the artists old age, when a
catastrophe strikes him and
he wonders whether all his
theories may not have been
wrong, that he emerges as a
human being and his plight is
poignant. There is a curious
love affair between Dram's
first son. Ugo, and the boys
half-sister, Genevieve, which
has little to do with the story
except to bring out the paul.
illogical purpose of Ugo. him
self a gifted caricaturiSt.
Mr.. Elbogen has used partly
the form of a biography.
quoting occasionally from q
diary Dram sometimes kept.
A straight narrative might
have been more effective.
On the whole. though, THE
Jealous Mistress" is a telling
portrait, The translation from
the German is by Ruth Lach-
enbruch.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
A History of the Middle Ages

tion that we call medieval
reached its height in the 18th
century. Thus these four CEN
turies form the core of any
history of the Middle Ages.
The six centuries from 800 to
900 were a period of transi-
tion from Roman to medieval
civilization, and the 14th and
18th centuries saw the medic
val change into the modern
world"
The authors summary of the
growth of Christianity in num-
bers and power is particularly
enlightening.
History" he emphasizes,
docs not fall into clear, sharp
divisions. In the 18th century,
when most medieval institu-
tionS were at their height,
some of their successors were
f1ourishing young plants"
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-09-06

The jealous mistress is. as
Emerson pointed out and many
have repeated, art. Mr.. Elbo-
gen, a German writer now liv-
ing in the United States. has
written a novel about a painter
to whom art was the be-all
and end-all of life.
1t appears that this painter
is entirely fictitious. The
strange thing is he seems. in
his f1amboyant and ruthless
way, as real as the actual
artists around whom a num-
ber of writer's have ventured to
write biographical novels. This
is not only a tribute to Mr..
Elbogen's skill, but also refer
ence to the fact that the
hybrid form of the biograph-
ical novel never is entirely sat-
isfactory. In their efforts to
breathe life into the empty
spaces left in the known &C
count of any person, these nov
elists are apt to obscure or dis
tort rather than clarity: the
method is somewhat like the
attempt of a musician to COM
plete a symphony left unfin-
iShed by another composer.
Freedom of Fiction
Nevertheless there have been
some good tries in the field.
Irving Stones ill-titled Lust
for Life" certainly should stir
in any reader a sympathetic
interest in the painter Vincent
Van Gogh. More recently Pi-
ere La Mure's Moulin Rouge"
performed similar service for
the great photographer. Henri
de ToulouSe-Lautrec. On the
other hand, the writer who
does a straight work of fiction
about some creative artist is
freer and often more persua-
sive, even if he has particular
genius in mind. Romaine Roll
lands Jean Christophe" par
alleled in many particulars the
life of Beethoven, but it was
fiction. So was Maugham'S
'"The Moon and Sixpence,"
though it was popularity sup
posed to be based on the ca
reer of the painter Gaugin.
The character in The Moon
and Sixpence." who calmly
walked out on his job and his
family to follow art to the
South Seas had at least a kim
ship in selfish detachment
to Mr.. Elbogen's artist,
Jan Alexander Dram. Dram,
of south Slavic and French
parentage. was born in
1860. At 16 he ran away
from discordant home in Bel
gium and made his way to
Paris. He grew up with tre-
mendous if undeveloped talent,
the body of a wrestler and a
savage determination to draw
Evening star., 1953-09-06
BY Sidney Painter. (Knopt; SIS

DR.. Painter, who is chairman
of the history department at
Johns Hopkins University, has
managed in a little less than
500 pages to give a clear and
absorbing account of the main
happings. trends and ideas of
IL extremely complex CEN
turieS
Most of us perhaps are in
clined, with our superficial
glances at periods of history,
to think of this one as the
Dark Ages. when the light of
ancient learning faded almost
out and barbarian hordes took
over Europe. This, as modern
historians. know, is an over
simplif1cation.
DR.. Painter, beginning his
examination in AID. 235, COM
ments: I'm the 10th, 11th and
18th centuries a distinct and
extremely fascinating civiliza-
tion took shape. This civiliza-
Evening star., 1953-09-06

ny christopher uI1IlarQ. q
This book on the planning
and architecture of cities,
ancient and modern, is not
too technical for the general
reader who is interested in
the subject. 1t is, in fact, en-
tertainingly written, and the
author has either avoided
terms understood only by
architects and engineers or
has explained them.
In a chapter on THE Com
ing Revolution in Architec-
ture," Mr.. Tunnard deploreS
the passing of the architect
who regarded himself as an
artist and was. Nowadays, he
says, architects fancy them
selves "technicians. planners
or businessmen" He urges a
positive approach to the es-
thetics of building, more in
line with older planning.
He doubts the feasibility of
initiating nature in planning
or roplanning the contempo-
rary city. He calls that a ro-
mantle notion-though he
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Crime
Reviewed by
Miriom Ottenbero

Miriom Gutenberg
Some Women Won't Wait. BY
A. A. Fair. civilian Nor
row & Co.; $2.50.)
Even tough, greedy Bertha
Cool succumbS to the spell of
Hawaii-at least to the extent
of attempting a hula-in this
slick yarn about an arthritic
millionaire who fears his dead
partners gay young widow is
being blackmailed. The back
ground is notwithstanding
on the Lurline, slipping Plant
ers' punch at Waikiki. The
plot builds smoothly to a not
entirely unexpected denoue-
ment. Under the Fair alias,
Erie Stanley Gardner does all
right by the firm of Cool g.
Lamb.
Ambush for the Hunter. BY
F. L. Green. (Random
House; So
The public opens its heart
to the valorous young woman
who escapes the Commies by
flying over the Iron Curtain
in a flimsy plane. Even in the
frenzy of enthusiasm, how
ever, there are a few who
question her authenticity. Is
she q heroine or a spy? The
author loses no time answer
ing that one. Then he di-
vides his attention between
making the plot march and
analyzing the seeds of COM
muniSm. This is another fine
novel of pursuit with thought
full overtones by the author of
"Odd Man Out" Mr.. Green
died shortly before publication
of his novel.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
North

WI
BY Kaare Rodahl.
(Harper & Bros; $780,
Reviewed by w. H. Shippen
What the airplane is doing
to open a new frontier in the
far North is an exciting story
in a world whose unknown
areas have virtually disap-
peared.
Recent operations over and
around the edges of the Arctic
Ocean are described by a
writer with a varied expert
ence as an explorer. an au-
thority on Arctic medicine
and nutrition, and a wartime
paratrooper.
DR.. Kaare Rodahl helped
the United States Air Force to
plan and execute the daring
establishment of a weather
station on the floating ice
island T-3 in the ice-crusted
polar waters north of Elles-
mere Island.
Striking Contrast
DR.. Rodahl was in on the
first landing, and thereafter
was intimately associated with
the project in its many phases.
He describes his experiences
with clarity, force and a
knowledge of the region
gained on many Danish and
Swedish expeditions to Green
land and surrounding sections.
The postwar activities in
the North represent a strik-
ing contrast between the
primitive lives of the Eskimos,
in an environment which has
changed little since the Stone
Age, and the airmen who
must rely on the latest Scien-
tif1c devices and information
to survive in the cold wilder
ness.
DR.. Rodahl made 81 COM
bat jumps with commando
paratroopers in World War
II. After the war he was re-
tanned by the Air Force in
Alaska as an adviser on Arc
tic conditions.
He was called in when Col.
Joe Fletcher. U. S. A. F., was
given authority to go ahead
with the exploration of T-3.
later to be known as "Fletcher's
Ice Island"
DR.. Rodahl gives his read
ers a background of Arctic
history against which to evalu-
ate the work of the present
day pioneers.
I Die Possessed. By ]. B.
O'Sullivan civilian Nor
row & Co.; $2.500
AS the author says, murder
stories have been written
through the eyes of every one
but the corpse. So he tries
that-and pulls it OF with a
surprising amount of f1nesse.
The victim doesn't know who
killed him. but he suspects.
And he turks impatiently on
the edge Of eternity for his
killer to join him. A hard
boiled detective Is introduced,
but the corpse does the real
sleuthing. Sounds weird,
doesn't it? Actually it's more
romantic than macabre-
thanks to the lovely widow who
can't make up her mind.
Evening star., 1953-09-06

;ribner'S;: S5J
the best-known examples of
this form.
Certainly the two complete
novels and the short stories
should give a reader un-
acquainted with Hemingway a
fair idea of the masters ways.
Those who have read Heming-
way pretty thoroughly should
find the book a welcome addi-
ton to their shelves. It is,
however, always questionable
whether stray chapters or
condenSations give a fair or
adequate idea of a book.
&C, B. j.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Lost Colony

A recent bulletin from the
Library of Congress tells of an
interesting project which may
be undertaken if sufficient
interest is evident. An Anglo
American committee proposes
to publish a volume of repro
ductions of water color draw
ings by John White now in the
British Museum, most of which
were produced in Sir Walter
Raleigh's Roanoke colony on
the North Carolina coast in
the 1580s.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Reviewed by
Froncis P. DouaIos

Others nave hau 'front.' row
seats from which to observe
Europe. and the Far East be-
tween the two World Wars
as Nicholas Roosevelt did.
But few who have had seats
at the family dinner table Of
the Oyster Bay Roosevelts
have written about it as he
has. Therein lies the chief
interest in this book.
The authors father and
Theodore Roosevelt were first
cousins. Nicholas Roosevelt
was one Of II young RooSe-
velts brought up together at
Oyster Bay, where Roosevelts
had a passion for all speaking
at once with no regard for
what others might be saying.
Nicholas Roosevelt went to
Chicago in June, 1912, with
Cousin Theodore" when T. r.
fought in vain for the Repub-
lican nomination for the pres
idency. He was Leonard
Woods aide when Wood
sought the presidential nomi-
nation in 1920. He knew other
political personages.
Chorocterizing F. D. R.
OF those the author met
only Clemenceau and Winston
Churchill stand out to him as
T. RS intellectual goal. II
there is family pride in that
judgment, apparently it did
not extend to the other Roose-
welt President. Franklin D.
Roosevelt is described as a
man who had "a mercurial ca
pacity to react to surface in
dications without ever looking
deeply"
1t is something else when it
comes to the noted Roosevelt
women. He is sympathetic to
the fundamentally kind
hearted" Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt. He puts Mrs. Alice Roose-
velt Longworth down as a
bitter hater."
Up Front in Europe
Nicholas Roosevelt had
many opportunities to occupy
front-row seats abroad. It be-
gan in 1914 when he was a
secretary to the American dip
lomatic mission to France.
The only explanation of how
this first foreign job came to
HIM was that a claSsmate at
Harvard asked me if would
like to go 2" When not
serving the Government he
was an editorial writer for the
New York Times and the New
York Herald Tribune.
Mr.. Roosevelt writes In an
easy style and his book is in
teresting If the Roosevelts
appear more interesting than
his foreign rovings perhaps it
is because they seem less dated
now.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Contemporary Prints

Modern European prints are
on view at the Whyte Gallery
through next Wednesday.
Some IA printmakerS, natives
of eight countries, have made
these original etchings and
Autographs, many in colors.
The show is international in
more ways than one. Most of
the artists have regulations in
many countries, having exhib-
tied extensively in Europe and
the United States, and some in
Latin America.
The show has single gen.
eral effect of being abstract
and strictly contemporary, due
probably to the fact that prac-
tically all these artists either
live in Paris or have gravi-
tated there at some time. In
other words, it is a School of
Paris" show. However, when
the visitor examines individual
prints, he will find much vari-
ETY. in personal idiom.
The oldest artist represented
is Lurcat Cborn 1892, painter,
decorator and poet, and a pi-
oneer in the renaissance Of
tapestry in France. An out
standing colorist, he has found
infinite possibilities for his tai
ents in color lithography. His
weird, beautiful Combat
d'Oriflammes" and his decora-
tive LES Nantes Religieuses"
are among the shows best
works, to me.
Several other French artists
are included. BY painter and
sculptor Pignon, is Harvest"
an all-over pattern Of semi
abstract bending figures and
containers in a variety of
shapes. An abstract compost
ton by Manessier is reminis-
cent in its intensity of color, OF
stained glass, a medium in
which he worked for several
churches. The single print by
Henri Georges Adam, engraver,
sculptor and tapestry designer.
is a fusion of virtues of all
three media in its solid, intri-
cate design. variety of textures
and distribution Of values.
ItoIion Prints
Italians Massimo Campigli
and Marino Marini show prints
typical of each, and strongly
contraSted: The formers study
of two women done with a
sophisticated naivete, the lat
ter'S Red Horseman," primi-
tive in appearance, semi
abstract, akin to his drawings
and sculptures seen at Wat
kins Gallery in recent years.
Antonio Music, born in Co
rizia, which was Austrian at
the time Of his birth (1909)
but was taken over by Italy
after World War I, shows two
versions of horses in barren
landscapes, sirnplified to the
point Of childishness.
England's Stanley William
Hayter, whose work is well
known here, established his
Atelier II in Paris in the late
'20s. and moved it to New York
in 1910. It was a true work.
shop Of experimentation with
techniques, in company with
his friends Miro the Spaniard
(also represented in the Whyte
show and others now famous
as surrealists. Hayter has had
great influence on the younger
generation of American print
makers. The looping forms.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
The Hemingway Reader
Selected by Charles Poore.

6elecCe0 py CnarleS POOre.
These selections include
complete reprints of ''The Sun
Also Rises" one of Heming-
ways most famous novels, and
of his early satirical novel,
"The Torrents of Spring"
There are chapters or larger
condensationS from five other
novels. including "a Farewell
to Arms" and For Whom the
Bell Tolls" and from two
books of non-f1ction, Death
in the Afternoon" and Green
Hills of Africa" There also
are II short stories, including
Evening star., 1953-09-06

JO11, UcCduSC
it concerns
a scientist
on the staff
o t t h e
Atomic En-
ergy Co M
m / S Sio n
who is in
We S tigated
for suspect
e d subver-
sion by a
c o n G r e S
Sional COM
mittee.
TI
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Search for the Sun
BY Charles Furcolowe. World Publishing Co.; $780,
Reviewed hY Row KnItwnsser

This decline and fall of
another George Babbitt, genus
Americanus, is just a little bit
less close to Sinclair Lewis.
Theodore Drieser and Arthur
Miller than the publisher
modeStly suggests.
The theme is there-that of
the fatally gilded void of mid
Evening star., 1953-09-06
The Betroyers
BY Ruth Chatterton. (Houghton, ,Mi67in; s35
Reviewed by Allen Drury
BY Ruth Cha

Miss Chatterton's second
novel is curious production
which will interest many read
ers, particularly in Washing
fn,a bnao,co
Evening star., 1953-09-06
By Florence S. Berymon

SV'SHSS - I"
Pepper & Sons. These went
to, respectively. Howard Lord
for craftsmanship, George
Robert Lewis for design, Frank
A. Frucci for color and Wins
low Anderson for most Gre
ative" use of glass. These are
all modern in design, but the
jewellike beauty OF the glass
gives them a traditional effect.
The 16 stained glass exhibits
are set in black panels and are
well-lighted.
A general review of the ex-
hibition will be given next
Sunday.
Evening star., 1953-09-06

dle-claSs values. But this life
of a dull booster who wants to
make money and be a big Sue
cess begins to fall very fiat
when it sounds less like the
tragedy of Willie Loman and
more like II Remember
Mama"
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Books in Review
Paul EIbogen Writes Of q Painter
FoithfuI Only to His Art

The Jealous Mistress
BY Paul Elbogen. random House; $780,
Reviewed BY Corter Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1953-09-06
RooseveItiunu
In a Family
Closeup

A Front Row Seat
BY Nicholas Roosevelt.
(UniOersity OF Oklahoma
Press; $4.5O.J
Evening star., 1953-09-06
The City of Man

BY Christopher Tunnard. (Scribner'S; $780,
Evening star., 1953-10-11
Mexican Disturbance Seen
During Eisenhower Visit
BY the Assoeiased Press

MEXICO CITY. Oct. 10.-1n-
formed sources in Mexico said
today Communists are expected
to create a disturbance at the
October 10 Falcon Dam meeting
of Presidents Eisenhower and
Ruiz Confines.
officials were reported con-
cerned because with between
1000 and 100000 people ex-
pected on the Mexican side of
the river alone, even a small
riot might spread dangerously.
Security measures were re-
ported intensified by the Mex
ican government, within recent
days orders have gone out for
additional troops to move to the
Falcon Dam area. Steps may be
taken to cut down attendance at
the damSite ceremonies.
Both the United States State
Department and the Mexican
Foreign Ministry, these sources
said, have been warned of the
Communist plan.
Communists are generally ac-
tive in Mexico, although the
government itself is strongly
anti Communist. Many reds are
here as political exiles from
other countries. The Mexican
party itself is small but noisy.
Evening star., 1953-10-11
Editor Offers Apology
For SIugging Peruvian
BY the Assoe,ated Press

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 10.-A
Dominican editor apologized to-
day to the Inter American Press
Association for losing his temper
and slugging one of a group Of
suspected Communist intruderS
who broke up yesterdays meet
ing.
German Ornes, editor Of Ell
Caribe in Cuidad Trujillo, ex-
planned in a letter read at today's
session that the fiery words
shouted against his country by
an agitated Peruvian exile-one
of those suspected of being Red
gatecrashers-"made me violent
momentarily"
After Ornes apology was read,
The IAPA heard John T.
O'Rourke of the Washington Daily
News read report of the ethics
committee appealing to North
American members to oppose any
"Softening" of the United States
Governments attitude toward
President Juan D. Peron of Ar
gentina.
Mr.. O'Rourke's report said
there was evidence lately that
certain elements in the United
States administration who may
be about to take a softer line
with Peron."
Evening star., 1953-10-11
Beverley Confident Museum
Will Surrender Fire Enqine

surance Co., of New York. And
Mr.. Smith apparently got his
information straight from the
Firemen's Home Museum where
the engine now is exhibited. In
the book he thanks trustees of
the museum for making their
facilities available for research.
Mr.. Smiths book clearly states
that this engine was taken from
Alexandria in 1861 by members
of the First and Second Fire
ZouaveS of New York"
The trustees also have received
a plea from the Mount Vernon
Volunteer Fire Department of
Fairfax County for possession of
the engine.
Mayor Beverley said he didn't
think the Mount Vernon depart
ment-organized in 1942-could
prove any valid claim on the old
engine.
Evening star., 1953-10-11

Alexandria Mayor Marshall j..
Beverley is confident that the
Yankees are going to return a
hand drawn double deck fire en-
CINE which he claims Federal
troops hauled away from his
city as Civil War booty.
They'll find out it belongs to
u.s." said Mayor Beverley when
he was notified that trustees Of
the Firemen'S Home Museum in
Hudson, N. Y. voted yesterday
to investigate ownership Of the
fire fighting relic which they
have held since 1925.
The trustees met to consider
Mayor Beverley's request for re-
turn of the engine to Alexandria.
A resolution was adopted author
izing appointment of a commit
tee for "a thorough investiga-
ton of the identity. ownership
and circumstances under which
custody of the apparatus was
obtained"
The committee was instructed
to report in January.
The trustees said "a cursory
examination of the many pieces
of fire apparatus in the museum
at the Firemen's Home shows no
marks of identifications have
been found on any of these ap-
paratus which indicate that any
of the apparatus came from Vir-
ginia."
Mayor Beverley said, "My
authority for the engines origin
is book by Harold Vincent
Smith, president of the Home In
Evening star., 1953-10-11
BY the Associated Press

LAS VEGAS New, Oct. TO-
Navy Brass could breathe a sigh
of relief today. The pretty bru-
nette who caused them no end of
embarrassment last July has
switched her allegiance to the
Army.
Joan Garrison, a 19-year-old
waitress, caused a commotion
that reverberated up and down
official channels when she
dressed up like a sailor and
smuggled herself aboard the
proud cruiser U. S. S. Los An
geles at Long Beach, Calf.
After shocked officers diScov-
cred her, IL hours later, she -ex-
planned: I've always loved the
Navy and the sea-"
Learned to Salute.
Today she went to Las Vegas.
New, and married a serViceman,
Ralph Fry. %, a Korea veteran.
A Navy man? Nope, he's q sol-
dier. Justice of the Peace John
Lytle officiated. #
The story of her invasion Of a
cruiser, almost unheard of in
Navy annals. came out last July
IA. Joan related that she had
Dragged to a couple of sailor
friends that it wouldn't be too
hard for her to take a cruise
with the Navy.
The three of them decided to
give it a try. The waitress put
on some borrowed blues and her
friends gave her a crew haircut.
She was trained to give a regu-
Evening star., 1953-10-11
Inter-CitY Group Forms
To Fight Delinquency
BY the Assoeioied Press

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10. - A
group of about so delegates from
leading eastern and midwestern
cities today formed a temporary
organization TO combat juvenile
delinquency.
The group, calling itself the
National Citizens Committee
Against Juvenile DelinqueucieS
and Their Causes" said today's
session was a preparatory con-
ference toward forming a perma-
nent organization in Washing
ton carly next year.
Golden B. Darby, director Of
the Southside Community Com
mittee of Chicago, was chosen
chairman. Other officers chosen
include: vice chairinen, Aaron
Donaldson, Baltimore; Mrs. Irene
r. Trlllear, Philadelphia; Mrs.
Young S. Lewis, Chicago; and
Mrs. Eunice w. Cook, Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1953-10-11
Girl Who Loved the Navy
Morries q Man in the Army

lation salute and found it fairly
simple to board the cruiser.
She hid in bunk but finally
the word got around and she was
apprehended and taken to the
captain. He ordered her ashore
after the one-day cruise.
At first she was held on a Fed
eral charge of illegally wearing
a Navy uniform but later the
case was dismissed.