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Evening star., 1953-11-15
Contemporary Italians

Young Italian painters have
as refreshingly individual tai
ents as young italian dress de-
signers. In these last few
years, both are becoming bet
ter known in the United
States. The Obelisk Gallery
3241 P street, Georgetown,
last season introduced a num-
Der of contemporary Italians
to Washington. and Is now
showing a new collection Of 81
paintings and drawings by 10
artists, four Of them for the
first time.
These artists are among 20
commissioned last spring by
Helena Rubinstein in Rome
to paint imaginary views of
the United States. Her col
lection. which opened in New
York City last month, is to
make a museum tour Of this
country. The Obelisk, being
a dealers gallery. is not on
the museum circuit, so Kath-
ryn Eichholz and Janet Rubin.
the directors. have rolled
their own" show by 10 Of the
same artists in the Rubinstein
show.
BY Nino Cafe, one of the
Obelisk'S favorites, are sew
eral more delightful little
paintings of priests and nuns.
often involved in droll activi-
ties, pointed up with sly hui
NOR. Not always humorous,
of course; there is a Priest
Praying" in a gray interior,
small but painted with the
clarity Of a 17th century
Dutch master.
Carlo Canevari. too. painted
a little gem of eight nuns
whose elongated colts make a
pattern. Aldo Pagliacci, who
paints with surrealist preci-
sion and StrangeneSS continues
to favor subdued colors con-
traSting with a brilliant red,
as in Arabian Saddles"
Antonio Music has five or
six of his primitive-looking
gouaches. with spotted horses,
mountains, cats and what not.
resembling the photographs on
rocks in our Southwestern
desert, and South African
rock paintings. Mario RuSSo's
Evening star., 1953-11-15

This Is a firSt-rate novel. 1t
is a somber story of the Mar
seille waterfront, its scenes
shaded in appropriate grays,
but it is much more than a
cherries account Of a mans
d1sintegration.
There are forces Of good as
well as evil at work among its
characters, and If darkness
seems to prevail, there is in
this tragedy a powerful plea
for sympathy and understand
ing.
James Hanley. a British
novelist highly regarded in
England for a number of
books, several of them about
the sea and sailors, should
become better known in this
country through "The Closed
Harbor."
A merchant captain, Marius.
has been in disgrace since his
ship was lost under mysterious
circumstances during the war.
The family lived in Nantes, but
Marius has come to Marseille
obsessed with the idea that
he can get another ship. His
hard, pious mother has fol-
lowed, with her plant daugh-
ter, not to help Marius, but
hoping to worm out of him
what happened to her grand
son, her, daughters son. who
was a member of Marius' crew.
A sailor, rescued with the cap
tain and now in America, has
written charging that the
young man was struck down by
the captain shortly before the
ship hit mine. Was it mur-
der?
Marius. refusing to discuss
the affair, haunts the Offices
of ships owners, one in par
ticular, asking for a masters
berth. His story is all over
Marseille, and there's not a
chance that any owner will
again intrust a ship to him.
but Marius, drifting from bar
to bar between times, drinking
too much. refuses to accept his
defeat. He has, to start with,
done the objectionable, al
lowed himself to be saved
Evening star., 1953-11-15
An Autumn in Italy
BY Sean O'Faolain. (Devin-Adatr; $780,
Reviewed BY Mov McGrory

Like many traveller before
and since, Sean O'Faolain
went quite out of his mind
over Italy. An exuberant peo-
pie not only gave him a mar
velous sense of the oneness Of
art and life; their light-heart-
ed and timber religion-seem-
ingly resembling that of his
native Ireland in name only
restored to him his lost faith.
All this he recounted with
rapturous sense of discovery
in "A Summer in Italy"
Now he has returned to
Italy, but things are not the
same. In the tough SOUTH"
from Naples to Marsala, he
was often lonely. sometimes
bored. and certainly vexed
with the inconvenience of
travel. In the way of artistic
wonders, zone day 100 yards
of Florence offers as much as
all Apulia." Yet his heart was
more deeply touched.
The savage poverty of the
south pressed In on him. At
Matera he saw 5000 people
living in caves, and paying
rent" Everywhere he saw
the criss-crossing Of the null
tiple invaders and occupiers
OF the ancient land, Greek,
Norman, Saracen, Roman,
Byzatine. Arabic. These waves
had led to the formation of
"the most putrefled upper
class in the world" and among
the people of "a greed and
fear that comes from insecurity
and the despair of ever seeing
the emergence of a society pat
terend on justice"
In Naples he fed from the
frenZied crowds awaiting the
liquefaction Of the blood of
st. Januarius. In Foggia,
however. he met Padre Pho, "a
healthy, grizzled, stoutish,
middle = aged. tired looking
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man" who bears the stigmata
Of the wounds of Christ and
found it not difficult to believe
that "a saint could be such
a man." In Bari he watched
an artistic fireworks display,
which would, as a Swedish
captain remarked, have fed a
hundred families for a week.
But which would they pre-
fer?" asked an Italian busi-
nessman.
Hope at Last
The poverty he witnessed
at every hand was har-
rowing. Yet at Crotone, he
found the STRINGS of a new
hope. Land reform had ac-
tually begun, among peas
antry which "had lived for so
many generations in fatalis-
tic resignation, the men ours
ing impotently and women
praying hopelessly" that they
simply could not believe it.
The technicians, and engi-
neers who, with American f.
nancing were giving these peo-
pie the first land they had,
ever owned, faced the greatest
difficulty in overcoming a
deeply bred psychological re-
sistance of despair"
Mr.. O'Faolain saw both
kindness and cruelty among
the people. Yet journeys end
finds him on his feet once
more applauding the Italian
spirit. 1T is a triumph of
human nature that out of all
the obstacles that threaten to
destroy civilized life the Ital-
ians have created something
so precious, warming, enviable
and admirable that if Italy
were to disappear from the
face of the earth the hole left
in our civilization would be
so great that one could imag-
Inc all our civilization tum-
bling In ruins into It,"
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Adult Years
Of Madeleine
Are Related
Madeleine Grown Up
BY Mrs. Robert Henrey.
(E. P. Dutton.;. S4.J

~. r. OnLr0n.; $4J
Mrs. Henrey continues the
chronicle of her life that was
so vividly begun in "The Little
Madeleine" The present vol
ume, less touching and excit-
ing than the account of her
poverty-stricken childhood in
Montmarte, takes US through
her joyous youth in London.
Emerging from the gloom of
her poor and sorrow-ridden
home, Madeleine goes buoy
antly forth to conquer the
world, or at least the little
world of the beauty salon of
the Hotel Savoy. Being blond,
blue-eyed and, above all, ra-
diantly young, Madeleine
caught the fancy of many
wealthy patron of the hotel.
She happily received their
presents, but it V as Robert
who took her heart. Theirs
was a winged courtship. and
ended happily in a marriage
which for reasons undisclosed
was not approved by either
family.
Mrs. Henrey has the gift Of
total recall and a faculty for
recapturing the sights and
sounds of 80 years ago. AS a
picture of a lively spirit COM
ing into its own as an acquisi-
tive, self-centered but sensi-
tive young woman, Made
leine Grown Up" has moments
Of charm If no sustaining note.
M, Meg,
Evening star., 1953-11-15
BY Giovanni Guareschi.

Apparently they have Dag
woods in Italy. too. That at
least is the guise in which the
author of Don Camille" pre-
sents himself. In Milan, as In
Silver Spring. Papa does not
know best; in fact, he can't do
anything right and is con-
stantly the laughing stock of
his wilful wife and his strong
minded children.
In these sketches Signor
Guareschi recounts his tribu-
lations in building q new
house which will have abso-
lutely equal-sized rooms for his
silent son and rather bratty
daughter. Between times, there
are such crises as the son
wanting to read his fathers
books. the neighbor insisting
that the mother instruct the
Evening star., 1953-11-15
The Hill of Devi
BY e. M. Forster. (Harcourt, Brace: S4J

For six months in 1921, z.
M. Forster, who was later to
write the best modern novel Of
India. "A Passage to India"
served the ruler of a decrepit
Indian state as private secre-
tary. He lived in a ramshackle
old palace with warped pianos
and broken telephones. Ad-
ministratively the Gilbert and
Sullivan kingdom of Dewas,
Senior was in a mess. But the
ruler. a Maharajah, was one
of the most enhancing people
the author had ever met
rash, devious. witty, kind. per-
ceptive, certainly a genius
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Russian Assignment
BY Leslie c. Stevens. (AtlanticLtttle BroWn s575J
Reviewed by Belmont Fories

Admiral Stevens, who was
Naval Attache at the United
States Embassy in Moscow
from 1947 to 1949. makes 1t
clear that he has no startling
revelations, no sensational dis.
coveries to report. In fact. he
touches on politics hardly at
all in this very readable ac-
count Of his years in Russia.
What makes his book a
rather remarkable one is the
pleasant detachment with
which he writes. His liking
and respect for the Russians,
Evening star., 1953-11-15

and possibly a saint" Mr..
Forster has published these
letters written to his family
during that period of great
opportunity" as a tribute to
H. H." and also to a vanished
civilization, which he feels had
something precious" amongst
its rubbish. Mr.. Forster is
such a partisan of his impul-
sive royalty that he makes
great sweeping claims for him
without always backing them
up. Mostly the book will be
of interest as q record of the
unconscious beginnings Of "a
Passage to India. IN. MEG.
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his honest interest In their
language and all things Rus
sian is obvious.
Like all foreigners, he was
limited in his explorations by
the morbid secretiveness of the
Soviet police state. But the
bits and pieces of his daily ex-
periences add up to a picture
Of an essentially decent people
and a conviction that the
problems created by the forced
maintenance of power will
somehow in the end destroy
that power.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

water colors. Jack Perlmutter
color Autographs. Included in
Mrs. Shows collection are
several paintings which have
received awards from the So
ciety Of Washington Artists In
the past few years.
Mr.. Perlmutter's litho-
graphs, semiabstract or ex.
expressionistic, range from the
high-keyed City Scene" to
those with dark backgrounds,
Illuminated with bright color
(e.g., Carnival at NightO.
Most of the exhibits of each
artist have been previously
shown in Washington.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Art News
Annual Contest
Well Attended
BY Florence S. Berrymon

The Sixteenth Metropolitan
State Art Contest opened last
Sunday in the foyer of the
Natural History Building with
a large crowd of artists and
their friends assembled to see
the exhibition and the pres
entation Of awards. A COM
plete list of winners was pub
liShed in The Star for No
: vember Z, with the juries of
selection and award and q
profile of John A. Bryans,
whose water color, NETS Dry
ing" won The Evening Star
award Of 500.
The exhibits in these annu-
ais are new each year, but the
character of the show is con-.
slant. It is large-299 works
listed this year: predominant
ly naturalistic, yet includes a
good proportion Of works in
contemporary idioms; has a
certain amount of work which
is amateurish, or appears to
have been done from photo
graphs; represents many ar
lists who apparently exhibit
in this annual and nowhere
else.
Awards went generally to
professional artists whose
names are familiar from their
participation in other local ex-
hibitions. The innocent faces
of small boys appealed to the
jury of award, who bestowed
firstS in oil painting and sculp-
ture to portrait heads Of lads
in their first decade. by Rich
ard ReaSoner and A. Joseph
Andrews, respectively. Rosa
mond Gaydash's oldest
House" (Bachrach award for
landscape) is a picturesque
subject which nils the canvas
nicely.
Most Beautiful
Ruth Perkins Safford's beau
tiful "Rotunda. Mellon Gal
lery" (second water color price.
was reproduced in these col
umns last year. Technically
and esthetically the most ex-
quisite of the prize winners is
Marian u. M. Lanes "The
Lords Prayer" illumination
price, with it's rich floral bor-
der and initial o framing a
miniature of the Madonna and
Child.
Polly Wayne Kittelle's head
of Walter Bachrach sculpture
mention) is a characterful,
close likeness. Lila Asher's
Symphony" (top prize for
black and white) contrasts
seven different types.
Crafts are always an out
standing feature of the Metro
politan State Art Contest.
This year, jewelry and metal
work, weavings, ceramics
(both utilitarian and small
sculptures). decorated trays,
and other items occupy sew
eral cases in the central aisle.
Minnie Klavens' handsome
silver bracelet (top crafts
award) of Mexican influence,
Genevieve Wimsatt's heavy
serving spoons knoped with
Chinese genii, Annette Met
calfe's hand-bound books,
Mary B. Sawrie'S superb pic
torial weaving of peasant dan
GERS, and various other exhi-
bits, add greatly to the inter-
est of the exhibition.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Urban development

An exhibition Of urban re-
development projects and
architecture from the chapters
of the Middle Atlantic district
of the American Institute Of
Architects is on view in its
gallery, 1875 New York ave-
nue., through next Friday.
The best recent buildings and
the best older buildings from
each of the regions chapters,
in a selection of photographs.
is also included.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
HiIoire BeIIoc: No AIienoted Man
(Sheed G. Ward; $2.75.J

the writer feels. "incarnated a
sanity and vigor that reached
back to Chaucerian England
and the Paris of Francois
Villon for roots" He could
have carved out for himself,
Mr.. Wilhelmsen feels, an ex-
clusively literary reputation,
possibly as great as Conrad's.
He could have become recog-
nized first historian of the
empire. But 'he sacrificed
it all and placed his sword at
the service of the church."
The author of this excellent
analysis is a young professor
of philosophy at the Univer-
sity of Santa Clara, Calf.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Two at Gurden Cote

Mary Snow and Jack PERL
mutter are having a joint ex-
hibition at the Garden Gate
Restaurant, 1880 wisconsin
avenue, through next Sunday.
Each is showing nine recent
works. Mary Snow oils and
Evening star., 1953-11-15
BY Frederick Wilhelmsel

Mr.. Wilhelmsen has not
written a biography. nor is his
analysis of the late British
writer and his work literary
criticism-it is more an exam
ination of Belloc's philosophy
and his contributions as a
leading Catholic intellectual.
'He was the finest prose
stylist of his generation" Mr..
Wilhelmsen writes, conceding,
though, that Belloc's reputa-
ton has suffered severely in
the last Is years. Part of this
neglect is the fate of Belloc's
generation. THE whole Ed
wardian and Georgian period is
engulfed under the snobbery
of the avant-garde." Belloc,
Evening star., 1953-11-15
The Valiant Virginions
BY James Warner Bellah.
(BalIanttne Books, $2.J
Reviewed by
ChorIes J. Yorbrouoh


Long after Appomattox, If
you had asked Roam. Forney
or DAWN if they had fought,
they would have<said, II was
out with Stonewall Jackson"
AS simply as that. the admi-
rable story teller of military
life, James Warner Bellah, in
jects three young stalwarts into
Jackson's campaign in the VAL
ley of Virginia.
In 146 pages he has packed
a series of stories woven about
the three privateS and cloaked
them with a valor not often
accorded the rank. Mr.. Bel
lah's scenes undoubtedly will
make the book even more en-
joyable to Washington area
disciples of Civil War history.
He puts his characters at
Harpers Ferry, at Balls Bluff.
at Bull Run and Kernstown.
He puts them there vividly and
lifelike in this fiction which
comes so we'll dressed in his,
torical authenticity.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
The Enchanted Cup

The Enchanted Cup
BY Dorothy James Roberts.
(Appleton = Century = CroftS:
S3.75.)
Reviewed by Fronk SortweII, Jr.
Tristan and Isolde are with
us in another reincarnation:
all chivalry. bravery, True
Love, Fate, color, sounds and
odors.
Because of his knightly
VOWS. Tristram turns over
Isoult to his uncle, though the
two have stepped themselves
in love. and love potion. Not
even Knighthood can long
withstand True Love, of
course. even though there is
another woman of approx
mately the same name pining
her heart out for Tristram
across the English Channel.
Miss Roberts gives her low
ers enough triumph before
contrived tragedy closes the
narrative Just in time for the
Book of -the-Month Club to
choose it for distribution and
riches.
AS a relief from the novels
of neurosiS and complexity,
slum and Stag heap which be-
set us. 1.-The Enchanted Cup"
with its unqueStioning charac-
tiers, simply motivated. is q
pleasant interlude. A
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Religious Art

Abstract paintings and a
sculpture by the Rev. Alexis
Robertson, o. F. M. are on
view in Catholic University'S
Salve Regina building through
next Sunday. The artist re-
ceived his MIA there two
years ago, and is now a mem
ber of the art faculty.
Father Alexis has prefaced
his exhibition with an inter-
esting, lucid, intellectual ex-
planation, which should be
perfectly comprehensive to
the average person, and should
GO far toward putting him in a
receptive if not sympathetic
frame of mind for these works.
which are so far removed
from traditional religious art.
A few quotations from this
artists admirable statement
give a hint Of its character.
Most of the works here
have a religious subject mat
ter. None, however, were
made for liturgical or public
use. Several of them would be
suitable for such use, I be-
lieve, if we were not victims
of q widespread cultural lag as
far as the use of the fine
arts is concerned. and if our
very idea of the nature Of art
was not corrupted.
II believe" he continues,
'"that almost everything
worthwhile in painting since
1920 has had its origin in the
work Of the cubistS or that of
Paul Klee. Hence I believe
that a living religious art cam
not ignore them" He con-
cludes on a note Of humility:
What is shown here is, I
realize better than any one ;.
nothing more than a kind Of
preliminary exercise and ex-
perimentation for a begin
ming"
Evening star., 1953-11-15

in 1859. Mr.. Madison has fol-
lowed Mr.. Benedum's adven-
lures from boyhood and his
first job through his strenuous
years of adventure and busi-
ness organizing. At last re-
ports Mr.. Benedum was, at
83. still active in supervising
his far-flung enterprises. The
biographer has done a thor
ough job. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

THIS cHLDRENS BOOK WEEK. aside encourage
little dorng themselves from teon other
reyeI wonderful year.
books for children hos richer
The Star plans comprehensive the whole field forthcoming
Christmas book section.
The Mustrotn choice cced Hoppy
Book anthology Of A.
Is others for ehhde" from two six Washington Of still
headquarters Juveniles with
The newly opened Cleveland Park Bnch brov
showing juvenile books either written illustrated by
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Crime
By Miriom Gutenberg

" N"t'otH OtteHOSI9
The Case of the Green-Eyed
Sister. BY Erie Stanley
Gardner. (William Nor
row & Co.: $2.75)
Far be it from us to bubble
with the peoples choice, but
this time the mass producer
OF whodunits has Perry Mason
ascribing to the killer several
pieces of vital knowledge that
the killer didn't have. At
least Mason wraps it up and
puts it away without the ever
faithful Della Street, asking
any of the obvious questions.
There are also such minor
points as limiting at second
murder and then forgetting it
and changing the character of
Mason's client from page to
page. The courtroom sequence
is long and technical, but
Mason fans probably will for
give all.
Murder Points a Finger. BY
David Alexander. (Ran-
dom House; $2.5O0
"A f1ngerprint specialist is
murdered, but before he dies
he arranges nine fingerprint
cards in an order that should
lead his puzzle-loving actor
friend to the solution of his
murder. Unfortunately, the
police arrive early at q con-
clusion from the cards that
may or may not be what the
victim had in mind. A kid
naping, a manhunt, hints of
crime syndicate operations and
more murder contribute to
action that never pauses up
to the shooting finale in an
old castle. Some misleading
information is kicked around
in the opening. but the plot
is novel and hectic.
Fear to Tread. BY Michael
Gilbert. (Harper & Bros;
$2.75.)
A gentle but obstinate Eng
lish schoolmaster tangles with
a crowd that has put black
marketing on a highly or
ganized basis. His involve
ment stems from mild irrita-
ton over the theft of a school
parcel, an effort to get a job
for one of his boys and the
sudden decline of his favorite
restaurant. The plot is no
end complex, featuring black
mail, character assassination,
mayhem and murder. But
Mr.. Gilbert, an expert at this
sort of juggling, breezes
through it with the sly humor
that has become his trade
mark.
Target in Taffeta. BY Ben
Benson. (William Morrow
g. Co.; $2.75.)
The murder of a loan sharks
victim looks like the beginning
of the end for an organized
and obviously protected racket.
This time there's a witness.
Detective Inspector Wade Paris
persuades the girl to talk, but
can he be sure she'll live to
appear before the grand jury?
Suspense hinges on protecting
the girl while Turing the head
man in the racket into coming
out in the open.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

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Washington, Dc where amateurs and
professionals buy their ort supplies.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

on. secret meetings with Stef-
an. a mysterious young Polish
lover, and through it all an
intimate contact with a charm
ing and courageous family of
refugees.
It is a little unbelievable
that such a pampered child
could so quickly become q
woman of amazing courage
and resourcefulness. But Miss
Bridge does a commendable
job of calculating suspense and
developing a thrilling f1ctional
episode within a historical
setting. She also gives a vivid
impression of the delightful
old city of Budapest and of the
reaction of it's own people and
it's adopted refugees to the
threat of Nazi domination.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

A Wlldcatter. as every one
who has been on any fringe
of the oil industry and many
others know. is one who brings
in q well in an area previously
considered unproductive. This
is biography of Michael Late
Benedum. He is said to have
found more oil than any man
in history. He opened fields
In West Virginia, Illinois.
Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mexico,
Romania, Colombia, Venezuela,
Texas, Canada and Colorado.
He was born in West Virginia
Evening star., 1953-11-15
The House Thot Nino Built

7, OtTuUS q Young, s..
children in the facts of life,
and moving day. In every in
stance Papa is either clamor-
ously overruled or silently cir
cumvented.
These everyday dramas are
recounted in a heavily face
tious style, but interlarded are
some profound and very real
istic comments about the
nature of family life and the
jealousies and intrigues that
seethe beneath it's surface.
M. McG.