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Evening star., 1953-01-22

Pancho Segura. upended Sedg-
man and Ken McGregor. GA. Ga
and GA, to tie the doubles at
six wins for both the Americans
and Australians. Segura serv-
iced his 18th straight singles win
over McGregor, 6-1, 6-3.
Evening star., 1953-01-22
LITTLE SPORT
Seixas and Clark Beaten
In Australian Doubles
BY The A.soeiosed Press

BY The Associofed Press
ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan.
22.-Vic Seixas of Philadelphia
and Straight Clark of Los
Angeles were eliminated by an
Australian team today in the
mems doubles semifinals in the
South Australian tennis cham
pionships.
Merwyn Rose and Don Candy
Evening star., 1953-01-22

Ten years ago-The New
York Yankees bought First
Baseman Nick Etten from the
Phillies for an undisclosed
amount Of cash and two KAN
sas City farmhands. Ed Levy
and Allen Gettel.
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PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY

CARoLE HIGHLANDS-Ry owner: g.
hedrm.. 2-story brick: all rms. large:
dry bsmt.; rec. rm.: large lot: dead
end street; 100 yds. from new elem,
school: near parochial school. shop.
and transp. Sl5,25n. $40 900 lst
trust at 4rt. Immed poss. IU.
CHEVERLY--ThiS is a dream-5n-ft
brick rambler. z hedrms aft
liv. rm. with nreplaee ultramod
kis ks 1tnaoe tgsI s.ms' JPHS A. WsNaIz EN-
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$9,950
NEW

> bedroom BUNGALOW. 4507 27th St.
Brentwood-Full, dry bsmt. with
outside entr.; stor. attic: lee. level
gas a.-c. heat. Open Sun. 10-5,
for your inspection. $3.50 cash.
S5715 per mo-. or let US discuss
your particular financial problem.
CARSON & GREENE CO.
A O-IS :
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HOUSES FOR SALE--MD.
50 OOO DOWN
,-----u.

3-bedrm. brick home, liv. rm. with
f1repl., sep. din. rm., equipped kit
tile bath, full bsmt., rec. rm., with
f1repl., lovely Handicapped lot, al
rms. exceptionally large.
$11,750-3 BEDROOMS
Landover Hills section. Lge. liv. rm..
sep. din. rm., equipped kit, full
bsmt., level yard with garden. only
$1,750 down.
LANGLEY PK.-$12,990
3 3-bedrm. brick rambler. aIl-eIectric
kit with disposal unit and dish
washer tile bath, level fenced lot
Sl0.u00 first trust.
Prince Georges Realty
UN. 4-1166, WA. 1865, WA. 7-0636
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Magnificent Estate
NEAR N. I. H.

N6AfL IN. J.. II.
Sl5,400 RAMBLER
II you're looking for beaut.. modern,
small home in lovely Parkwood, try
decorated home. Really fine for a
family.
HEART OF SILVER SPRING
COZY BUNGALOW--Sll, 800
Spacious rooms. modern kit. Bendix
washer. Fenced lot with barbecue
pit, driveway. Near shops and
schools.
ST. M1CHAELS PARISH
IMMACULATE COLONIAL
Near public and parochial schools
walk to Hecht Co. store. Lovely
prewar home with spacious liv. rm.,
firepl.. den. mod. kit, screened
porch built-in gar. Beaut. lot. All
for 500.
CLAUDE WOOD. Realtor.
JU. $1,000
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HOUSES FOR sALE-vA.

ALEXANDRIA-Dup each side z
bedrooms, l side furnished; extrs
lot fenced yard. swimming pool
live in one, rent other: 900
terms; $4,000 cash and 2nd trust
FHA monthly payments approx
ALEXANDRIA-S60O down. Vacant
Newly redecorated, floors finished
brick Call OWNER. ia. S-0575. s.
ALEXANDRIA-Reduced. three-bed'
room brick rambler with panoramic
view; full bsmt.. 20-ft. liv.-din. area
fiTep6; doo VI pvad o1d; lot: ooxl59; 5sa orig ny
and frame: valley view. . liv, rms,
8 firepls, full English bsmt..
baths, reer rm: lse oo lot; III - %, min T,
best offer, OWNER. Ma. s-S7L54
ARLINGTON-c- -bedrm. brick ram.
bier at Si4.500. that 5000 dowr
will handle: close to everything
Gall I'll -I;Ta16 pn 1or ,Me sppointmsnI 7v %S
AGGY 1n5esYf' 2oM5N19N 2S 1Go INA a s-S5S7 shAEl1
ARLINGTON-Sl@! 500. Delightful .
bedrm.. det white frame; liv. rm.,
din. rm. kit, full bsmt.. attic, out
side entrance. porches: lovely trees;
lot, 50xl1l: tastetully decorated
Week ends 80, daily 10 pm. ~.
Piedmont ave. RE. 7-20SI. ext 30.
ARLINGTON (NOD adj. close-in Lyor
Village-3 bedrms, . baths, Sis. $50
This attractive all-brick. one,5owneII
English cottage type home has :
lovely bedrms and bath down anc
nicely furnished huge dormitory rm
and bath up. plus liv.. rm. v hrepi.
sep. din. rm.. equip. kit. glassed-lH
liv porch: bsmt. with maids rm
Law and garage. Gony to a4ou, p,0a,
Drive, and only 2 short squares t. t.
quick sale essential. Wen submit
Cali now. KEITH D. BRUMBACK
JA. 2-3527. JA 2-5S73. Q till 9.
ALL -hedrm. Colonial with garage
screened porch. full bsmt.. at Sl6:
$50 You must see to reailze TINS
value. Call til 9 pm; Tor appolnt'
q REALTY AGcY., IA. 7-l779' ia
ARL.-4 bedrms, baths. sun parlor
large kitchen. sunny brkfst. nook
large liv. rn1.: spac, I'd. trees close
in: flexible financing: 462 N. Jack
son st. ACME. ia. s-l42l. ia. =
BELLEVUE FoREsT-owner out q
town. Formerly priced at So 800
ali-brick rambler: spacious liy. rm
with frep1. and built-Ins, SEPARATE
DINING ROOM. , dandy bedrms.. :,
de luxe all-tile baths. huilt In ga
raEe full bsu1t With beautiful recT
ym ,frepiI. lovely wooded lot. Ca!
METZLEE. Va. once. IA. 5-757;
I'll Q pm. Is
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DIRECT FROM OWNER

BetheSda, Nd.
Engineers for air cond. 2 new all
brk. ramhlerS on lge. wooded lot
containing 3 bedrms., 2i2 baths. lge
liv. rm.. din. rm, and lge. mod
kit. plenty of rm. for breakfast set
powder rm. = lge. closets, opening
up on screened porch; could be
divided up into > additional bedrms
full bSmt with 2-car gar Must be
seen to be appreciated. TSl2-14
Aberdeen I'd, Bethesda. Md. Dir;
TO Wilson lane. risht on Wilson lane
IL blk. left on Aberdeen rd. to
open sign. Open daily 20 pm
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$l4,500-Takoma Park, Md.
An excellent value, at District line
large liv,. ,rm,., din. rm.; modern
kitchen; full bsmt.; 3 bedrms. ane
shaded lot. $500 will handle
Call Mr.. Miller ewes, OIL .4-1571
Philip B. Key Co., Realtors
a41 Wayne Ave JU 5-3O1(
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NEAR D. G.. LINE

NEAR -. T.. LINE
$14,950-WITH GARAGE
Lovely home on big corner lot.
Beautiful liv. rm... wLfirepl,: very
fine din. rm., mod. kit. beautiful
bsmt, > big bedrms. upstairs;
breezeway porch; gar. Hard to
3-YEAR-oLD BRICK RAMBLER
NEAR SCHOOLS
Completely fenced level lot sur
rounds choice 3-bedrm. rambler
with firepl. big kit. fine attic:
many extras. Good financins-
price, $4,000.
CLAUDE WOOD. Realtor. JU. s-1aoo
BUNGALOW-34 ACRE
Camp SPRINGS area; masonry bunga-
low. Larse liv. rm, with frepl. 3
beorms,. den. equipped kit: inclosed
porch. Fenced YARD. Total prlce
~ .a5a. Easy terms. | block from
transp. Call 10, a-91Io, ewes,
Puffenberger g. Moore, Inc.
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MARSHALL J. wAPLE CO.
CLosE-IN CusToM-BUnT

CLOSE-IN CUsTOM-BUnT
BRICK RAMBLER
FHA-GI financing. Finest construc-
tion. with tall trees on beautiful
large din. rm., l812-ft.. liv. rm.. fire.
place; dream kit, refgr.; spacious
bedrm: basement with outside ent.
gas heat. Trades considered. Price
will surprise you. Near bus. schools.
Quick possession. BY appt., Mr.. Of
tenberg, JU 9-75S5.
MARSHALL j. WAPLE CO.
Realtor. 1924 14th- st. NV.
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Town g. Suburban
EN-. 2-940O
BETHESDA
BETHESDA, MD.

SHORT Walk TO NH
Charming stone -and-brlck Colonial
Large liy. rm. with frepl, full-Size
dining rm.. modern kit. 8 bedrms.
full bsmt., screen porch, garage
slate roof Magnificent lot. Quiet
street. Call Mrs Stodola, OIL. 2-91n4
SAMUEL E. BOGLEY. INC, OIL
4-l266 3
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HOUSES FOR sALE-MD.
TRADE OR SELL

Builder has two 3-bedrm.. 2-bath
ramblerS in excel. close-in Silver
Spring loc.: block to school anG
beautiful wooded park: lge. GE
kitchen with breakfast nook; mas
bedrm. with pvt. bath. Homes deco
rated to suit purchaser. Attractive
terms arranged. Immediate oc,
cupancy. Price $21 800 and S22. $50
ROBINSON REAL ESTATE
n -
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HOUSES FOR sALE-Mp.

6aO4 STATE ST., Cheverly, Md. Mod.
ern 2-bedrm. rambler. new-house
condition; Sl1, 800, excellent term:
available. Ewes; Mr.; Woo2dwell, 10
4-0147; L. T. GRAvATTE, Realtor
1918 K St NV, MA. 8-0753.
FABULOUS BUY at ridiculously low
price: lovely Cape Cod style home
with 2 bedrmS. and expansible attic
large. fenced lot: located close in
Forrest Heights. Price, So, l5o;
down payment to veterans. ST 900.
Call Mr.. McGinniss, TU. 2-23SS
after 6 pm. F. w. BERENS SALES,
ST 800 DoWN-owner sacrifice. g.
bedrm. brick rambler, :, yrs. old.
Screened porch, shade trees. Lew
isdale, Md. Assume 4ed loan. HA,
A 81 900 DOWN buys this lovely new
3-bedrm. home. Close to schools and
transp. SMITH REALTY, AP. =
n1nn En p.r0ST "A
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FALLS CHURCH. $23, 500
Charming older home in a mag
nif1cent setting, on one acre. FIRST
floor. large liv. rm. with fireplace,
large din, rm., with bay window,
den, small bedrm.. y bath, elec.
kit, porch 2nd floor. . lge. Dedrms.,
> small bedrms.,. sleeping porch, =
baths: bsmt.. oil h-wh h; garage;
2 blocks from transp. and schools;
$4,000 cash. Sl50 per month.
LUCILLE COOK
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KENSINGTON
KENSINGTON

- ACRES BEDRMs.
Early American home. surrounded by
cool shade trees and shrubbery; lge.
XII. with hrkfSt. nook, liV. rm., din,
nm, front and rear porches; bed
rooms on end; stairway to 3rd A.;
bsn1t.. oil NV h.; 2-car det garage:
an ideal place for children to romp
and play, Terms arranged. LO. B.
$500 till pm.
Higgins g. Harrison, Inc.
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KENSINGTON

ONLY $3.50 DOWN
New, 3-bedrm. Colonial; all brick: in
good loc. Has lge. liv. rm., family
size din. rm., kit. with breakfast
space on tSt fl, bedrms, and
beautiful Hollywood bath on end
fl. Full hsmt. Only left. WOOD
SIDE REALTY co. Call JU. 9-6440.
Omen 9 a.m-a pm. II no answer
call LO. 4-06f9 5
Evening star., 1953-07-03

BEVERLY HILLS
Some nice couple who want good
neiehbOrS will love this slate rooted
Colonial with level shaded plot.
and hot-water heat lst offering.
Only Sl7,500 with immediate pos
session.
Real Estate Service, Inc.
|4763 Lee Hwy. off Glebe: JA. 10000
Evening star., 1953-07-03

LANGLEY PARK

LANGLEY PARK
$1,000 DOWN, 500 MONTH
$13.950 is the full price on these
easy terms, for this modern semi
rms, liv rm.. din. rm.. kit. and
utility rm. Monthly payment in
cludes taxes and ins. Vacant, quick
possession. Call Mr.. Offenders. JU.
o-75S5-
MARSHALL ]. WAPLE CO.
Realtor
LIVINGSTON RD.. OXON HILL
3-BEDRM BRICK RAMBLER
Two years old. beautifully located in
wooded area Large level lot. AN
spacious rms, fireplace, elec. kit
Garage. A wonderful home for some
lucky family. Mrs. Cox. ATLAS
REALTY CO., LU. 2-Sl36 or ST
3-736S. D
ROGERS HEIGHTS, $1,000 DN.
Brick Cape Cod, liv. rm. with fire.
place, din. rm., 4 bedrms.. baths,
8 kitchens. full bsmt.. oil &C. heat.
owner says sell. Mr.. zabrek, SN.
4-1526. COX g. CO., UN. 4-1526,
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WOODLEY, SOUTH

The perfect home for year-round n.y.
ing is this California rambler IN the
Falls Church area situated on =
fenced yd. The eft liv. din, area
has 3 picture windows, cove lighting.
brlck-walled wood-burning Are-
place. , large bedrooms. eacn with
double closets. fully equipped kltch-
en-, carport.
Evening star., 1953-07-03
WOULD YOU

Be willing to clean and redecorate a
2-bedroom brick cottage If you could
buy 1t with a nominal amount down
and low monthly payments? If so.
let us show you this 11-year-old
house situated on one of the incest
within . blocks of public and paro-
chial schools and convenient to
shops and transportation. For fur
ther information about financing and
price. and for appointment. please
call EN- 2-6715
WALKER & DUNLOP, INC.
Realtor Uptown Once. 460s Wis. Ave.
Evening star., 1953-07-03
DIRECT FROM OWNER

Why pay rent when you can purchase
this home with a small down pay
ment? 3 bedrms.. bath on 2nd A.:
1st fl. liV. rm., din. rm.. den, mod
ern kit and powder rm.; mr.. Naval
Hospital 4707 Chestnut ST.. Beth
esda. Md. Open evenings, g to Q.
Out Wisconsin ave. turn right on
Chestnut st. to open sign. a
Evening star., 1953-07-03

N. H. AVE. EXT.
BEST SUBURBAN BUY
Det brick Colonial; liv. rm with
fireplace din. rm.. equip. kit; md
fl, lge. bedrms. and tile bath;
nice lot; full hSmt; gas heat AS
sumo 4et loan. Call Mr.. (Dobbsl
Dobrowolski.
PRICE, S13,950
cAMPANELLA & CO.
TX SAILS Ewes, JU. 5-so6s
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PRICE, S17,750

A SMALL cash payment can buy thi,
sTANLEY r. ROWLAND 4 CO NC
JE, 1888. JE. 4-4W-o
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KENSINGTON PKWY.

kENSINGIUN PkWY.
Spacious for big family, full bed
rms, : full baths; big din. rm.
lovely Iiv. rm. with firepl. rec. rm
in bsmt.: deep wooded lot. Face
parkway Near schools, bus, shops
CLAUDE WOOD Realtor, JU S-l20C
Evening star., 1953-10-18
Cuban Debut

Roberto Diago is exhibiting
in two Washington art CALLER
les. He is having his first one
man show in the United States,
at the Pan American Union
(through Tuesday, and is also
represented in the group ex-
hibition Of Cuban paintings
just opened at the Whyte Gal
lery to remain through No
vember 8.
Senor Diago is showing 30
works in oil, water color,
scratch board and ink draw
ing and 16 projects for ce-
ramicS and chinaware, all in
modern trends, abstract, nom
objective, and in some in
stances. frightening. His
angels, for instance, are not
sweet Christian angels, but
the kind of winged creatures
one would expect to see In
'Dante's Inferno"
His Twins" carry one back
to the trylon and periSphere
of the New York Worlds
Fair and his Ancestral Face"
is so horrible a viSage one
would expect any family de-
Scended from it to keep it q
dark secret. But all is not
blood and thunder in these
distractions. There Is an in
teresting Musicians" COM
Evening star., 1953-10-18

scandal is all over town and
he is being condemned for Civ
ing the girl refuge, he stub
bornly decides to let her stay
indefinitely. The fact that the
wronged wife. Portia Bates, a
flame of Adams youth, is IN
sistent that he get rid Of the
girl adds to his determination.
Would Moke Her q Lady
Jolly has been through the
fifth grade. and Adams under
takes to complete her educa-
ton through oral lessons and
selected reading from his Ii
brary. At first reluctant, the
girl becomes cooperative, A.
nally enthusiastic. Deter
mined to make her a 'lady,"
a term horrifying to all 100
per cent SouthernerS when
applied to one of her pigmen-
tation, he requires her to eat
with him and teaches her
table manners. All this is
duly reported to the town,
which is increasingly indig-
nant. Even the older colored
woman, Dora, clears out. A
delegation from the Klan calls
one night, and David Adams
is saved from injury only by
the timely arrival of a retired
schoolteacher. a spinSter whom
the Sheeted heroes have re-
Spected and feared ever since
she tried to teach them to
read and write. She disperSeS
the small mob and Sympatheti-
cally offers to share the task
of educating Jolly. She alone
believes the truth - that
Adams is carrying on no closer
relationship with the girl than
that Of teacher and pupil.
There are some amusing
scenes as Adams shows of
Jolly'S progress to two Of the
towns more cultured and
least intolerant men. There
also is a touch of the poignant
when Jolly. as inevitably she
must, leaves to complete her
education in faraway Philadel-
phia. Adams again is lonely,
but he prefers his books and
his walks in the woods to
townsmen who talk in cliches
and distrust all thought.
Mr.. Coleman looked at the
racial situation from another
angle in his arresting novel,
clara" He is q novelist
worth following.
Evening star., 1953-10-18

IL per cent. The United States,
Canada, Australia. New Zea-
land and Argentina were list
ed as the only countries cap
able of producing more food
than their own people need.
But Mr.. Osborn, analyzing the
situation in each of these coun-
tries, doubts that any, even
the United States, can be
counted on to remain surplus
countries, If, indeed, they actu-
ally are now.
Like other writer's who fore
see mass starvation some day
unless something drastic is
done, the author seems to feel
that birth control is the only
feasible remedy. He realizes
that this measure encounters
strong religious opposition. He
also admits: 1.-THE rapid and
continuing growth in world
population is not necessarily
due to increase in the birth
rate. In the main it is due to
the decline in the death rate.
:" the result Of med
ical advances. He does not
discuss the policy Of encour-
aging scarcity rather than
plenty in agricultural planning
which has fouled up Americas
economic thinking for the last
20 years. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-10-18

The legend Of Pygmalion
was not used in literature for
the first time or for the last
time when Shaw's play came
out in 1912. It promises to
be as hardy as the Faustus
legend which Goethe adapted
early in the 18th century and
Thomas Mann used circa 1949,
neither writer with less enthu-
siasm because Christopher
Marlowe wrote "The Tragical
History Of DR.. FaustuS," about
1893.
Like many legends, those are
rooted in unchanging human
dreams and desires, if origi-
mated IN supernatural magic.
There is no reason why varia-
tionS on such myths should
not be devised by noveliStS,
poets and dramatiStS time
after time. After all, what
ever Is new probably only ap-
pears to be because it wears
a novel costume.
Decidedly Diverting
Mr.. Coleman, a perceptive
Southern novelist, writes his
own variations on the Pygma-
lion theme and they are de-
cidely diverting. David Adams,
who tells the story, plays a
role analogous to the sculptor
King of Cyprus who fell in
love with his statue, which
>Aphrodite considerably
brought to life.
Adams is q well-read, de-
tached, tolerant man in his
early COS who lives alone in a
country place near a small
Southern town, as prying and
intolerant as most small towns.
His Galatea is a teen-age col
ored girl who has run away
and begged food at his house.
The girl, jolly, worked for a
powerful family of the town,
but got into what is called
trouble with the master of the
house and refused to be put
on a train by the mistress and
sent to an unknown deStina-
ton.
Adams, sorry for the girl,
turns her over to Dora, the
elderly retainer who worked
for his late mother, a rich and
graSping woman. Dora is Ad-
ans only servant and COM
panion. He intends to shelter
and nouriSh jolly until she
can make other arrangements.
When he learns that the Bates
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A Handful of BIuckberries
BY Ignazio Silone. (Harper & Bros; $780,
Reviewed by Mary McGrory

miliano, the dirty old shep-
herd says, "There'll always
be someone that refuses to sell
his soul for q handful Of beans
and q piece Of cheese"
"A Handful Of BlackberrieS"
boasts as rich an assortment
of characters as an Italian
country bus, all effortleSsly
and sharply drawn with
earthly, mocking humor and
profound understanding. And
the confusion Of ideologies is
comically and tenderly pre-
sented. The wife of one Of
the local leaders, for instance,
keeps a vigil light burning be-
. fore the statue of st. An
thony in Thanksgiving for her
husbands exalted new posi-
ton. At the RoadhouSe, a den
Of thieves, Rocco's mistress, a
Viennese JeweSS, has been
raised with exquisite tender
ness by a bunch of cutthroatS
and bandits; when she falls
i'll, the local priest, gentle Don
Nicola, nurses her back to
health.
Mr.. Silone has told many
stories here. all Of which re-
late in some way to respect for
human dignity. He makes you
feel that If the Italian peas
antry have nothing else, frcm
one regime to another, they at
least have that.
Evening star., 1953-10-18

For the peasants Of SAINT
Andrea and the hills round
about, one government was
very like another. After
the FasciSts came the Commu-
nists, but the Tarocchis, who
by trickery or inheritance,
owned all the arabic land,
they had always with them.
The war had made little diff
ference. I'm the end it rained
and showed just like any other
year, and the poor remained
poor"
1t is this fragrant and i'm
memorial poverty" that Igna-
zio Silone, Italy's greatest Nv-
ing novelist, describes in "A
Handful of BlackberrieS." The
hallmark Of the postwar Ital-
ian writer's is bitter realism.
But Mr.. Silone'S book gives of
in great waves two qualities in
which Italy is still rich. hope
fulness and humanity.
Cured of Communism
Like Rocco De Donatis, the
hero of his book, MIR. Silone
is q lifelong revolutionary and
q onetime Communist leader
cured permanently of Soviet
ism by a trip to Russia. The
plot is mainly concerned with
Rocco's detection from the
party and his subsequent
bounding by its leaders. The
real theme, however, is the
dignity, endurance. patience
and warmth Of the peaSantry,
who belong "only to the church
and the countryside"
Before the war, the peas
ants, forbidden to organize,
had been rallied by Lazarro's
ancient trumpet, at the sound
of which the Tarocchis
uuailed. When it disap-
peared, L,azarro was exiled
and for defying the Tarocchis
when they questioned him,
MARITIME the charcoal burners
son had been exiled, too. In
exile, they suffered further
banishment, for the Com
munists dismissed them from
membership because Of their
"unscientiflc" approach.
The pair return to find the
local party leaders-now hand
in glove with the TarocchiS
-busily scrabbling for pos
session of the trumpet, which
they regard as "a striking
symbol of anti progress and
obscurantism." But as MASH
Evening star., 1953-10-18

y Il III OH
atmosphere that gave her "the
great gifts Of strong, hopeful
democracy. faith in humanity
and spiritual fortitude. :"
From this cloudleSs child
hood, Mrs. Meyer passed into
an adolescence complicated by
a difficult relationship with
her father. Meantime she be-
gan an intensive life of the
mind. After Barnard, to the
horror of her family, she
pioneered in newspaper work
as the New York Suns only
girl reporter. Bravely she set
out for Europe, where with
little money and much zest she
enjoyed eighteen months in
the liveliest intellectual and
artistic circles Of the Cont
nent.
A Background in Politics
In q chapter entitled "The
Female Egotist Gets Married."
Mrs. Meyer humorously re-
counts the complications that
accrue when the mother of
five attempts simultaneously to
run q household brimming
over with children and guests
and to keep q finger in several
community and cultural pies.
A firm believer in local re-
sponsibility who deplored Fed
eral Government interference,
Mrs. Meyer waded into the po-
litical scene in Westchester
under the aegiS Of Republican
Boss" Ward. This experience
gave her the background for
her later wartime reporting
for the Washington Post.
Through these crowded
years, she managed to pursue
her passionate interest in Chi
nese art and philosophy and
the public school system,
which she considers ''the glory
Of America" She also won and
maintained the friendship of
such literary giants as Paul
Claudel and Thomas Mann.
The only fault one can find
with Mrs. Meyers vigorous,
rong-minded "reminiscences is
that she does not tell more
Of herself and less of the COM
munity projects which caught
her fancy. She details sew
eral health programs, which
seem more the material Of a
pamphlet than an autobiog-
raphy, however "quasi-socio-
logical" Mrs. Meyer says de-
spite her part in many q po-
litical fray, she diSlikeS con-
troverSy. That may be. but in
these pages, she does nothing
to disarm her opposition. Her
comments on the Catholic
hierarcy. in connection with
the controversy over Federal
Aid to Education will. to say
the least. do nothing to les
sen inter-faith tensions, to
which she says she has pledged
herself. M. McG.
Evening star., 1953-10-18
The Cot0I0ns
BY Patrick O'Brian.

(HGrcourt, Brace; $780,
Like his previous novel,
Testimonies, Mr.. O'Brian's
new work tells of an unusual
romance in a very strict social
context. The lovers in this
case are a beautiful, poor
young divorcee and a scientist
just home from the Far East.
Actually, Alain has been sum-
monSed by the family to help
break up an unsuitable match
between the young divorcee
and his cold-hearted cousin,
Xavier. The prime humor of
the book comes from the reac-
ton Of the two Catalan fam
lilies to the proposed match.
These clans on the French
side Of the Pyrenees look upon
marriage with the cold eye of
born real-eState agents.
A deeper note is sounded by
Xavier, who all his life has
suffered from a wicked and
blaSphemous paralysis of love,
whose consequence is death of
the soul in life and damnation
after it to all eternity" Xavier
simply feels marriage to Mad
eleine would be a ladder of out
hell. Alain loves her better
than that.
"The Catalans" is beauti-
fully written, although it suf-
fers from a shifting point of
view. M. Meg.