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Evening star., 1953-04-05
The Vogront Mood
Six essays by w. Somerset Vaughan doubleday; $3)
Reviewed BY |. William Hill

VIIIo III b1Iu
Edith Wharton, the perfect
lady with perfect opinions
about every thing until
Vaughan asked her If she ever
read thrillers and Mrs. Whar-
ton ended the conversation
after a Mortified mo"
Detective Stories
Sailed through "The Vagrant
Mood" are sharp observations
Vaughan has made of writ
ing, painting and the arts, in
cluding the art of the detec-
tive story. It's gone about as
far as it can go, he observes
and though he can't imagine
any ones succeeding Raymond
Chandler, he foreseeS that
people will 60 on forever read
ing detective stories.
Another essay deals with Au-
gustus Hare, q forgotten Eng
lish writer Of the last century.
a man who linked out all lines
in his prayer book which were
in glorification of God. God
is a gentleman and no gentle
man likes to be praised to his
face" the old man said.
He Makes Them Live
In like manner, he treats Of
Zurbaran, the Spanish painter;
the writing style Of Edmund
Burke, and Kant's philosophy
In his "Critique Of the Power
of Judgment" Kant, Mr..
Vaughan remarks, had a mea-
ger emotional nature but was
able to write both wisely and
profoundly on matters that de-
pended on feeling.
One Of the noteworthy quail
tiles of "The Vagrant Mood"
Is the way Mr.. Vaughan
makes the persons with whom
he deals as real and alive as
he once did the characters In
his novels.
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concerns the return of Paul
Quentin from the war. He has
undergone a horrible expert
ence in a japanese prison
camp. He has gone back to
Australia with his mind seri-
ously affected. His family is
compelled to put him in hos
pital for time, but he makes
such improvement that the
doctors allow him to go alone
on a journey he has felt it
imperative to take. This is to
a small town where his best
friend in the army, Maj.
Adrian Carmichael, a medical
officer, lived. He wants to visit
Adrian's family and to straight
en- out some things Adrian told
him about shortly before his
death.
Colin Premeditotion
Paul obviously is not quite
normal, but he is an engag-
ing, intelligent young man,
and he is received warmly by
Adrian's mother, father and
two sisters. Later Paul meets
Adrian's widow and his two
young children. Paul has an
obsession about these children.
Adrian told him Of a letter
from his wife confessing that
she had been unfaithful to
him with a man he hated.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Crime and Mystery
Reviewed by Miriom Gutenberg

inal is cast In the role Of de-
tective-thanks to q bit Of
blackmailing by the judges
daughter. Justice travels some
odd byways in this ingenious
and frequently hilarious yarn.
The coerced sleuth, now pre-
sumably reformed for good.
would be welcome in . return
appearance.
The Lady in the Morgue. BY
Jonathan Latimer. Double
day & Co., Inc; So
Crime Club.
For its 25th anniversary,
Crime Club is bringing back
eight of its best. This Latimer
number, vintage 1896. is worth
a rereading for its stripped
down prose, its neatly con-
trived plot, flashes Of realistic
humor and matter-of- -factly
gruesome setting. The climac-
tic episode where the detec-
tive plays dead in the morgue
as bait for the corpse e-stealing
killer should give you an extra
, chill for your money.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Art News
Easter Theme
In Art Works
By Florence S. Berrymon

The real significance Of EaS-
ter Sunday, which makes this o
joyous day Of worship, and the
events Of the preceding days,
are the themes Of many great
paintings in Washington art
galleries. Fra Angelico's EN-
tombment" in the National
Gallery Of Art, reproduced
here, is one Of IL masterpieces
Of painting, tapestry and sculp-
ture from European and Amer
lean galleries. selected by the
Most Rev. Fulton j. Sheen
to illustrate his beautiful and
moving story Of the Resurrec-
ton, published in the current
number Of Look Magazine.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
A Fiddle, a Sword and a Lady
BY Albert Spalding. (Hot;; $685.

suring the young couple a long
and stormy courtship. Tartini,
as presented by the author,
is a peppery lad, ready to
fight or play a sonata at the
drop of a madrigal. But he
had solid qualities, including
patience, which enabled him
to perfect his musicianship
during two years in a monas-
terry.
Naturally, Mr.. Spalding is at
his best in describing Tartini's
musical life. But the author
has refrained from technicali-
ties and has kept his story
moving, tightening it with
many amusing episodes. He
has written an entertaining
and informative biographical
novel. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-04-05

Killer Loose. BY Genevieve
Holden. Doubleday & Co.,
Inc; $2.50o
Crime Club.
A man sent to the State
asylum as q homicidal maniac
arrives midst q raging storm
at the farmhouse where our
heroine and her small nephew
are spending the week end
alone. Naturally. he kidnaps
them. The author hopscotches
between their terror filled ad-
ventures and the painstaking
efforts of the beleaguered
sheriff to locate them without
dashing around the country
side. The pacing of the paral-
lei sequences nourishes a slim
plot into a plump thriller.
No Bail for the Judge. BY
Henry Cecil. (Harper &
Bros; $2.50)
In this topsy-turvy plot, .
Judge is in the dock charged
with numbering a prostitute
and q particularly astute GRIM
Evening star., 1953-04-05

out to bring it along. Here
plainly is Holden's forerunner
sensitive, gauche, headlong
and impassioned. I do not
mean to suggest that Mr..
Salinger is a one-character
author, only that no one has
ever done the type half as
well.
In the same school is Esme
of For Esme With Love and
Squalor," a delectable sketch
of a downright English aris-
tocrat. Several of the other
characters. much older, are
distinctly neurotic. as the
disconnected wife Of Uncle
Wiggily in Connecticut" and
the war veteran Of "A Perfect
Day for Banana Fish" All OF
them, though. are arresting.
Mr.. Salinger is one of the few
truly original writers who
have shown up lately.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Third Generation

Jimmy Ernst's eighth one
man show, his first in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, opened re-
Gently at the Obelisk Gallery,
3241 P street NV, to remain
through April 10. A third
generation artist. he paints in
a manner entirely different
from his grandfather, q Ger
man traditionalist who painted
for the church. and from his
father. Max Ernst. interna-
tionally famous surrealist.
One admires the youngest
Ernst's courage in embarking
upon a career in, which he
would inevitably come up
against comparisons with his
immediate forebears.
There is no possible COM
parison, however. as Jimmy
Ernst is an abstract painter,
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Books in Review
Talented AustroIiun Novelist
Makes First Appearance Here
= The Intruder
BY Helen Fowler (Morroto; $3J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

Adrian said he'd rather see the
children dead than brought up
by such a man. In Paul's
twisted mind it is his duty to
his dead friend to remove the
children from this threat. He
plans this cleverly and calmly,
revealing no hint of his pur-
pose to their mother or to the
Carmichaels. Meanwhile Paul
is having a delightful visit in
the Carmichael home.
The story, with its sinister
thread, is unfolded with sus-
pense, not interrupted too
often by chattiness. Paul. with
his alteration, is enough to set
on the peaceful Australian
countryside, but the author
has an added starter in the
form of a 13-year-old boy who
is a sadistic monster. This boy.
no relation to the CarmichaelS,
figures in the climax-to un-
derstate it.
It's All So Simple
With no desire to spoil the
story for any one, it may be
said that the ending is over
simplified. Recovery from
mental illness by means Of q
second traumatic experience
(injury) probably is better
known to noveliStS than to
psychiatrists. Then, too, Pauls
influence for good on the whole
family, despite his dark in
ward design, suspected only by
one of those prescient old
servant companions. is too
symbolic to be quite perSua-
sive in a naturalistic novel.
Paul manages to straighten
out dilemmas which have
stumped several Of the Car
michaels.
There is a good deal Of tight
Tipped, dry-eyed sentiment. Of
the stout-fella school. much
favored in the fiction of wom-
ems magazines. Even so, "The
Intruder" holds the interest so
we'll that its weaker elements
may be forgiven if not forgot
ten. 1t is q Literary Guild
selection.
Evening star., 1953-04-05

Since retiring from the con-
cert stage this distinguished
American violinist has devoted
himself to teaching, record
ing and writing. Ten years ago
he published his autobiogra-
ply, "Rise to Follow" Now
he produces his first novel. a
historical romance about Giu-
seppe Tartini, the 18th CEN
tury Italian violinist and COM
poser.
Unlike a lot of other persons
who are gifted in another art
and merely think they can
write, Mr.. Spalding can ex-
press himself with words very
effectively. Tartini was, aside
from his Importance as a COM
poser and a virtuoso, an in
teresting fellow. He was re-
puted to have been one of the
best swordsman in Italy. Mr..
Spalding describes his romance
with Elizabetta, a ward Of the
powerful Cardinal-ArchbiShop
Cornaro. The lady returned
the young musicians affec-
tions. but both his father and
her guardian disapproved, as
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Bern1dette of Lourdes
BY Frances Parkinson Keyes. Julian Messner; $500
Reviewed BY Madeleine EnaeI- -Jonos

Again q successful novelist
has set herself the task Of de-
picting the life of the French
shepherdess and saint, Berna-
dette.
Unlike Franz Werfel's pop
ular "Song of Bernadette,"
Frances Keyes' "Bernadette Of
Lourdes" Is a brief and simple
tale. It is not Bernadette's
visions of the Mother Of God
which are emphasized, but
rather the girls silent progress
in sanctity. This approach
enables the reader to attain a
much better perspective Of
Bernadette the saint. who
after the early revelations Of
the beautiful lady, never again
Evening star., 1953-04-05
One Princess
On q Secret
Assignment
The Hour Awaits
BY March Cost.

~ AsAeSA S44 SOOUs
u. B. Lippincott;; $780,
This novel glints with hui
NOR and charm. It has the
elegance and style Of the Ed
wardian era and q heroine
who is at once resourceful,
fallible and eminently appeal
ing. The author has created
q Graustarkian atmosphere
around her Viennese princess
on o mission to London, but
there Is nothing the slightest
bit artificial about her char
acterS and their values.
Princess Victoria's mission
Is delicate and manifold.
She must retrieve and destroy
q compromising letter Of her
mothers. She must revive or
forever forget a dormant ten
year old romance: she must
tie up various loose ends in the
lives Of other members Of the
family. All this she must do
in a. hours. And to crowd
her schedule and complicate
her life, she gives q newspaper
interview, , finds a founding
and rediscovers q girlhood
love.
The background Of London
is exquiSitely drawn, the au-
thor contrasting the Princess
springtime memories with an
antumnal current, past, glories
with current straits. In all
her encounters the blue-stock-
ing Victoria is spirited,
straightforward. A Viennese
transplanted by treaty to Italy
and marooned with a handful
of old ladies in a summer
house, she has learned, unlike
most anachroniSms, to cope.
Miss Costs story has several
meanings, If perhaps a few too
many condolences. It's chief
charm is its enchanting prose,
packed, abusive. endlesSly
sparkling. 1.-THE Hour Awaits"
has the urgency of a hectic day
and the heightened perception
Of q lady in q hurry.
M. McG.
Evening star., 1953-04-05

sNSNsS " ~ -
The years haven't dulled the
seeing eye of w. Somerset
Vaughan. Too many of us,
as time goes by, fall into the
habit of seeing things the way
we'd like them or perhaps the
way it's deemed proper to see
them. Not the author Of "Of
Human Bondage" At 70. hav-
ing given up writing fiction, he
brings to essays all the honesty
and personal idiosyncrasy he
once put into his stories.
Take the essay, "Some Novel,
lists I Have Known" in which
he describes his acquaintance
ship with Henry James. H. @.
Wells, Arnold Bennett and
Edith Wharton. They're de-
picted exactly as Vaughan
saw them: Henry James as
vain, a little absurd, q man who
took himself too seriously.
and H. G. Wells: Preoccupied
with women, though finding
unintelligent ones boring and
intelligent ones palling. And
Evening star., 1953-04-05

Washington area whose work
is considered outstanding. were
invited to submit paintings.
prints. drawings. sculpture
and ceramics. James Foster.
assistant director Of the Bal
timore Museum, was asked to
select the paintings to be
hung. Prints and drawings
will be shown in portfolios.
Among the local artists ex-
hibitlng are Mitchell Jameson.
John Chapman Lewis, VIII
liam Calfee, Robert Gates.
Peter Blanc, Leonard Maurer.
Marguerite Burgess, Jacob
Kainen, Andrea Zerega. Ru.
dolf Won HUM. Mimi Bolton.
Jack Perlmutter. Heinz War;
neke. Frank Yee. Elsa Hutzler
and many others. The major
ity have been recipients Of
prizes in important, exhibi-
tions.
This years show will be
more varied, as both large and
small works will be on view. In
a price range of 81 to $500.
Most Of the works are under
$10O.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Nine Stories
;. little, Bropn & Co.; $3J
Reviewed by Mary MeGrory

The hero Of 1.-THE Catcher
in the Rye" Holden Caul-
field, was q distinctly new
character in American fiction
and at once established his
creator, J. D. Salinger. as q
Mark Twain of city boys.
Readers who followed with
panied delight Holden's fierce
adolescent groupings will love
these short stories which
swarm with his counterparts.
That is to say, with people
who are plainly out Of step.
often out of sorts and-if any
one would listen to them
crying out loud for the good,
the true and the beautiful.
Mr.. Salinger's preserve is
the little asphalt world be-
tween apartment house and
park. His children, despite
their waifishness. are we'll
heeled and well-chaperoned.
They are mostly Jewish. which
adds another dimension to
their feeling of exclusion.
What he says on the face of
one of his characters-"per-
manently memorable, immod-
erately perceptive, small area
applies to his stories. The
range is limited, but within
that range they are wonder
fully fresh and sharp. When
he pushes his penchant for
the precocious to its logical
extreme, and describes a child
prodigy as in Teddy" he be-
comes glib and strained. Even
in this least successful story.
however, his dialogue is so
perfect you can almost hear
the intonations Of the speak
erS.
A novelist's short stories are
always interesting as blue
prints for longer works. DE
Misunderstanding Blue Period"
is particularly rewarding in
this respect. It's hero, a rich.
19-year-old orphan, goes to
work in q hole-in -the-corner
Montreal art school run by an
inscrutable japanese couple,
discovers a blazing talent
in a nun and knocks himself
Evening star., 1953-04-05

saw her, q saint whose great
ness began after the visible
climax to sanctity, her vision,
had ended.
Mrs. Keyes worked on her
life of the shepherdesS in the
places where Bernadette lived:
At Lourdes, in the shadows
of the Pyrenees, where
Bernadette had seen "the
Beautiful Lady," and at New
ers, In the convent garden
where Bernadette had later
walked as a nun. It is a tribute
to the authors art that not
only the scenery's beauty, but
also the spiritual heights Of
Lourdes and the serenity Of
Nevers are sensed by the reader.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
unknown Prisoner

Sculpture by Hans Jaenisch
composes a small exhibition at
the Obelisk Gallery. It in
cludes his model which won a
major prize in the interna-
tional sculpture competition
for a monument to "The Un-
known Political Prisoner"
Sponsored by the London In
stitute of Contemporary Arts,
this contest is the biggest Of
record. A total of $500 mod
els were entered in 81 coun-
tries. From these, 274, includ-
ing IL by American sculptors,
were selected to be sent to
London, where 80 models were
winnowed, to be reduced to
four, from which the grand
prize winner was chosen. The
sum of $4,000 in prizes was
given by an anonymous donor.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Shame and the Glory of the IntelIectuols
BY Peter Viereck. (The Beacon Press; 81
Reviewed by Roy KoItwusser

in front Of my mirror and
recite to myself: I'm an in
dependent fighting liberal,
who thinks for himself"
But who wants to deny that
today's slick, city-bred intel
lectualism is sick unto death?
However, Mr.. Viereck's alter
nate, "value-conserving class
ical humanism," still sounds
very much like something that
Granddaddy might very well
have recited every morning in
front of his gold-leafed Vic
torian mirror.
Evening star., 1953-04-05

Peter Viereck is the lone
wolf of a new kind Of con-
servatism. He is telling the
old liberals" that they have
turned to fat, that they are
the new Rabbits Of a new age,
and that today's only salvation
is a tough and lean classicism
Greek type.
Mr.. Viereck is right when
he mocks the left-wing So
phisticate, calls him Gaylord
Babbitt and describes the kind
of fraud he is. Every morn
ing" Gaylord says, II stand
Evening star., 1953-04-05

m e n an d
women who
work for a
Boston in
YES t m e n t
house. The
I e a d i n 6
charac t e r
is Bill Tar
rant, the
q d v e r.
tising man
ager, W h o
obviously Is
headed to-
" a r d a
orfnorShin
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Animal World

- ~S~s@~S SNASSSoS~SeSAJ AAA VAAeAAA
today's children, cruising be-
tween planets. in their space
ships. Yesterdays children
learned from Aesop's animals,
went with Alice to Wonderland,
knew Peter Rabbit and his
pals, laughed at Mickey Mouse.
These children, now grown, will
probably take the greater de-
light in the enchanting exhibi-
ton Of water colors by Maurice
Day. which will open this aft
ernoon at the Arts Club.
Mr.. Day is a Maine Yankee
(Damariscotta) whose anceS-
tors built clipper ships in the
Day yard in Hospital Cove. A
graduate Of the Museum School
of Fine Arts, Boston, he Is both
painter and sculptor. His
paintings are familiar literally
to millions, although his name
is not, for he was associated
for six years with Metro Gold
n-Mayer and Walt Disney
studios, where he created char
acters and made key sketches
for Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs" and "Bambi."
He regarded his stay in Holly
wood as a species of exile and
was happy to get back to Lin
coin County, Me. He is one
of five woodcarvers who
were the subjects Of an IL
luStrated article in the Satur-
day Evening Post of last Sep
tember 20.
Now sixty, Maurice Day still
sees the most delightful ami
mails, dwarfs, fairies and other
SpriteS in the white pine and
white oak country where he
lives. Apparently he doesn't
have to search for them, he .
finds more than he can use,
for the present exhibition of
20 large water colors was
painted since the first Of this
year. especially for the Arts
Club. Some are pure fairy
tales. others are gentle satires.
From the esthetic standpoint,
the most beautiful painting
in the show is "Snow Maid
ems" depicting a sparkling,
cold winter day, with the elfin
creatures discernible in the
gusts Of snow swirling around
the trunk of a noble birch
tree.
But the charming, imagina-
tive, whimsical details in the
animal paintings may make
these popular favorites. Most
of these little dramas are
enacted in the heart Of the
forest, obviously painted by
one who knows intimately its
every feature and its, majestic
solitudes. Here Jack-in-the-
Pulpit is preaching to a con-
gregation of attentive insects:
elves are splashing. crimson
paint on autumn berries; a
fairy acrobat performs on a
lacy spiderweb stretched be-
tween lush bushes; a ground
hog, stretching and yawning
in his pajamaS and night cap,
comes out of a tree trunk on
a bright February morning.
The adroit thrusts in a few
of these paintings will tickle
students of our human world.
In Inspiration" a field mouse
is painting a portrait of Mrs.
Woodchuck, who has the
familiar SNUG expression: and
the squirrels and rabbit en-
joying their, Lawn Party" are
regarding with dismay the
arrival Of a sociable skunk.
In connection with this en-
snaring exhibition by Maurice
Day, hung in the Arts Clubs
gallery, a group of paintings
in fired enamels by James
Carey occupies the reception
rooms. It will be reviewed
next week.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
BuI Boheme

Paintings by members Of
the Arts Clubs Bal Boheme
Committee are on exhibition
at Muth & Co., 1882 New York
avenue NV. through April IL.
Artists represented are: Theo-
dora Kane, chairman; Charles
Lownsbery. Betty Hartnell
Smith, Ann Corea, Helen Min
life, Edna Culbreth, Zoe STAN
koff, Peter Kerr, Bobbie Kerr
and Robert LIE Fevre.
Evening star., 1953-04-05

d r a m a tic
n narra tive
and char
acters that
are skillful-
ly devel-
oped.
T h e S e
merits per-
hapS out
weighother.
lie SIS adn1i-
rable liter
ary traits
Mrs. Fowler
displays.
The story
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Nine Five
BY w. H. ProsSer. (Little Brown; $3.)

In this first novel the action,
which takes place during a
single working day, concerns
the outer and inner lives Of
Evening star., 1953-04-05
TheIntruder
i. (Morrow;. $3.)

This Australian writer, max
ing her first appearance in the
United States, gives us a novel
with an unusual situation, a
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Cortoonist

The name Of Thomas =.
Hutchens, first-place winner
in the cartoon division. Adj
vertising Club Art Show. was
inadvertently omitted In the
review of the exhibition last
Sunday. Mr.. Hutchens' anus
ing Christmas folder was made
for Harris Research Labora-
tories, textile chemists.
Evening star., 1953-04-05

building up slightly assyme-
trical squares and other rec
tangleS with rayed lines and
subdued colers into q variety
of non-representational COM
positions.
Arizona sun., 1953-08-21

NEW YORK (GlobaD-The hot
test topic i'm the Major Leagues
right now is this young Ruben
Gomez. It seems the kid has just
about everything. Not only is he a
pitcher that the big boys like Du-
rocher, Stengal and Hornsby wax
lyrical about, but he can field, run
and hit Sounds like a One-man ball
club, and if the young Puerto Ri
can Negro keeps this up, he will
land among the immOrtals one day.
This might give one the idea that
ne is an unusual player-he'S more
than that. He's sensational. He's
about the only good news the
Giants have for the current sea-
son. You can hear the Polo Ground
ers now saying, wait til next
year."
Milwaukee fans don't give up
easily. They still seem to think
5heir Braves will knock off the
Dodgers. At any rate, Milwaukee
loves them one and all, and al
though the management has tried
to curtail elaborate plans for vari-
Gus players days" at the field, it
seems they have had to relent to
some extent. They have scheduled
days" for Gordon, Pafko, SPAIN,
Bruton and Dittmer. 1t is expected
they will receive the usual valu-
able gifts and tokens.
Keep an eye peeled for a young
ster by the name of rJehosie Heard.
It seems he's on his way up. The
young Negro has been making his
presence felt out in Portland, Ore
gon and they say he's a cinch for
the Coast League.
Too bad Willie Mays will be out
of commission for the rest of the
season because of a Clipped bone
in his left foot. Incidentally Giant
fans are still incoming over what