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Evening star., 1953-07-05
Simple Takes Wife
BY Langston Hughes (Simon & Schuster: Sl95)

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It is not surprising that
most Negro novelists have felt
impelled to write seriously of
their race, if not tragically.
The dilemmas and perplexities
of a held-down minority have
not suggested easy answers.
And yet there is a humorous
side to Negroes, apart from
the vaudeville of Amos and
Andy and Florian Slappey.
Just as there is humor to be
drawn from the doings of all
other races and nationalities.
Langston Hughes, writing of
Harlem, extracts wise and
gentle fun from his people.
And they lose nothing of
dignity and decency at his
hands.
This Is another book about
Jesse B. Semple. He is called
by his friends Simple, not be-
cause he is lacking in intel
ligence-the contrary is true,
as you'll find out-but perhaps
because Of 1 q certain naivete
in his outlook and also because
Semple is temptingly like
Simple. A novel about Har-
LENS rooming-house set, it is
Evening star., 1953-07-05
News of Artists and Exhibitions

collection Of the Department
Of Defense.
Mimi Dubois Bolton, Of the
Society Of Washington Artists.
Carl Nyquist, Artists Guild.
and Leonard Maurer, Work.
shop Center Of the Arts, COM
posed the jury of selection and
awards. In the professional
division. flrst awards In oil
and water color went to Jacob
Kainen and Slavko Byelajac.
respectively. In the non-pro-
fessional division, Margery
MacIntyre and Lee Gerlach,
won firstS In oil and water
color, respectively. Block
print and drawing awards
went to Morris Pearson and
Nan Mowry. Fourteen other
artists were also given awards
and mentions.
Evening star., 1953-07-05

situation. Such q situation
comes at the start of the
story. Leo has cheated play
ing gin rummy in West Side
club with one of Uncle Myron's
business competitors. If the
underwear manufacturer COM
plains to the governors. Leo
will be kicked out of the club
in disgrace. Uncle Myron is
fed, up with Leo and tells the
importuning Norman he will
do nothing, but actually the
old man already has made his
plans to silence his competitor.
A Wife for Leo
But Uncle Myron and his
ShreWd. dominating wife de-
eide Norman has taken
enough. The boy is entitled to
some sort of life. So they and
a few other discreet members
Of the family plot to marry
Leo off. Aunt Ruth has just
the candidate, the daughter
of a woman who was her class
mate at Wellesley. The old
schoolmate married an emf
grant who now owns the sec
ond largest department store
in Omaha. AS a wealthy SON.
in-law, Leo will be set for life
and will never bother the
Kramers again. And Leo, mind
you, is attractive and plausible
enough to entrap any girl.
The only trouble is Norman's
over-active conscience. Will it
allow him to keep silent when
he learns what's going on, as
he inevitably does?
1t wouldn't do to disclose
how this comes out. Mr.. Yaffe
has squeezed all the humor out
of the situation and has ex-
posed the characters complete
ly without caricaturing them.
The result a highly amusing
story. 1t is more than that. It
is a sharp psychological study.
1t never occurred to the med
ding Kramers that Norman
would miss the burden of his
no-good brother or that the
brother might prefer getting
by as he did to living up to the
miscast role of cultured SON.
in-law to a rich merchant,
with a doll-faced. empty
headed girl thrown in.
The narrative moves swiftly,
with an ease that seems effort
less.
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Coop Art Fair

The first annual coop art
fair, sponsored by Greenbelt
Consumer Services. Inc. (ad-
vance notice Of which was
given in these columns June
Ia. held June Is through last
Friday at the Allen Shopping
Center, Takoma Supermarket
and Superdrugstore. and Su-
burban Trust Company, sur
passed the sponsors fondest
expectations.
A total Of 270 works were
selected from more than 400
entries, divided almost equally
between professional and nom
professional artists. There
were also 10 pictures on loan
from the German war art
Evening star., 1953-07-05
The Candles Glory
BY Sylvia Thompson

~ 0JANAo AAAOlAApoOI1' tACtuH
AS a schoolgirl, Camilla
Graham had been ardent and
spiritual. AS. the wife of q
foreign Office official, she be-
came beautiful and wanton.
AS an old woman. she entered
a convent. To Lucy Althrope
and Sophie de LANCER, her
schoolmates and lifelong
friends, her religion was in
explicable, her married life a
shame and her entrance into
the convent q tragic "loss."
Both Lucy. a Puritan, and
Sophie, a Huguenot, had a
lively sense of civic virtue and
orderly living. Camilla's sense
of sin and atonemment, were,
they felt, no substitute. Camil-
las daughter Mary, who also
commands their baff1ed affec-
ton, is. unknown to them, an
other Magdalene. When she
is killed in a plane accident,
they range themselves protec-
lively around her little daugh-
ter Teresa. Their efforts to
keep Teresa out of the hands
of her father, who had di-
vorced her mother, form most
Of the plot of the novel.
Sylvia Thompson is one Of
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Strategy for Survival
BY John e. Kieffer.
lMnKnal. cAI

BY John E. Kieffer.
mckay; $4.J
Reviewed by Belmont Fories
DR.. Keiffer,t a geopolitician
by trade, here gives his views
on how to beat the Russians
in war he is sure is coming.
The military strategy he
outlines seems to be based on
a number of rather arbitrary
assumptions, but strategy is
a technical matter best left to
the experts. In the field of
foreign policy, DR.. Kieffer's
tone is polemic, but he is
obviously happier with Eisen-
hover than he was with Tru-
man. A footnote points out that
the new administration ap-
pears to be putting into prac-
tice many of the procedures
advocated by the author.
DR.. Kieffer, whose book on
geopolitics, "R ealities of
World Power" was published
last year, is a former lecturer
at Georgetown's Graduate
School and is now on duty as
a lieutenant colonel with the
Air Force.
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Forthcoming

Some inviting items promised
for the fall.
In fiction: "A Flame for
Doubling Thomas" by Rich
ard Llewellyn, author Of "How
Green Was My Valley" From
Elizabeth Taylor. one of the
gentlest and most fetching of
the English novelists, "The
Sleeping Beauty; from James
M. Cain, whose hard-boiled
sagas usually have q sage
brush setting, "Galatea," with
a backdrop Of his native
Southern Maryland.
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Reading and Writing
Netherlands Minister Expresses
Hopeful View Of Western Survival
By Mory McGrory

]. G. de Beus. the author Of
"The Future of the West" (see
review in adjoining column) ),
is a youngish Dutch diplomat
who, though not a trained his.
torian or a professional opti-
mist, takes a very hopeful view
of the Vests chances Of sur
vival as measured against his.
tory.
Mr.. de BeuS. who has been
Minister of the Netherlands
Embassy since 1850, read the
gloomy views of Toynbee. DAN
ilevsky and Spengler with con-
siderable resistance. Spen-
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Waterford Art Fair

An Art Fair, sponsored by
the Waterford Foundation.
will open in this historic Vir-
ginia town next Saturday and
Sunday.
Members of the Loudoun
Sketch Club will hold an
outdoor exhibit under the
foundations sponsorship. This
is the first such show to be
held In Waterford.
During the two-day fair.
club members will set UP their
easels on the sidewalks. giving
visitors q glimpse Of the artist
at work. The fair is open from
Q am. to 6 pm.
Artists exhibiting are Eliz-
abeth Beer. Robert and Vinton
Pickens. Jane Pohl, Katherine
Slappey, Ruth Chisolm. Do
lores Phillips. Evelyn Marshall.
Esther Thomas and Libby
White.
Evening star., 1953-07-05

much as a by-your-leave. Mr..
Tomlinson, Is not, of course,
the first writer to bewail the
Standardization and mechani-
zation Of modern life, but few
have sung it in more noble
terms.
But these essays are not all
in the elegaic vein. He recalls
joyfully his father, small but
high principled: his valiant
mother who wept when Dickens
died and who was the first to
teach him that with women
what we call heroism is almost
as usual as their recourse to a
mirror before leaving the
house."
He describes wonderful sea
voyages and bizarre personali-
ties who materialized out of the
mists of faraway places. There
was, for instance, the COM
pletely naked young man who
rose up in Steaming South
American jungle and turned
out to be the son of a promi-
nent English judge. Mr.. Tom
linson has never ceased his
quest for beauty and charac-
ter, and whenever he encoun-
ters them celebrates them in
his grave. decent prose.
These essays have a stately,
old-fashioned quality. which
does not arise simply from
their evocations Of a simpler
era. It Is because Mr.. Tomlin-
son took UP his stand early
beside the eternal verities and
has not budged an inch in 80
years Of inhuman pressure.
IN. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-07-05

ASIbkS3 ~ OCAfHD YO'SV"
the deftest Of English novel;
lists and her skillful drawing
room studies of character and
atmosphere have always had
considerable charm. This novel
represents a departure from
her usual preoccupations with
society and romance. She has
not given herself enough room
to do full justice to her theme
Of spiritual regeneration, and
has crowded the scene with
several romances. The story
then is fragmentary, but still
fragrant. M. Meg.
Death at the Dance. BY John
Rhode. (Dodd, Mead & Co.;
$2.50.)
Red Badge.
Supt. Jimmy Waghorn of
Scotland Yard plods his way
through this puzzler in his
usual undistinguished but ulti-
mately effective fashion. His
informal adviser, DR.. Priestley,
appears but contributes little
to a solution largely achieved
through pure chance. The
double plot concerns a series
Of theftS from manor houses
and the arsenical poisoning Of
a poor farm woman.-M. O.
Evening star., 1953-07-05

gler's Decline Of the West"
he feels. has done much to
damage Western morale. Toyn-
bee, while not explicitly pessi-
mistic, does indicate, to him.
that we are on the way down
and out. AS for Danilevsky, a
Czarist official, he wrote in
1869 theory currently being
expounded by the Kremlin,
namely. that the decadent West
must be taken over by a virile
Russia.
A lawyer by profession, Mr..
de Beus set himself the task of
checking their theories against
the facts Of modern life. The
symptoms of decay" noted by
the three historians in the last
years of previous civilization,
he feels are either not present
in the Western world today or
are being mlSread.
For instance, the current re-
vival Of religious feeling, in
terpreted by some as a helter-
skelter flight from reality by
the desperate, he feels. is gen.
uine. The fall of Rome was,
Of course, preceded by the rise
OF Christianity, but this was a
forsaking of old gods. Today,
the Christian religion is being
revitalized along traditional
lines which can only strength
en- it.
In government, too, Mr.. de
Beus sees great creative vital
1ty at work. The movement
toward European unity, which
Is stronger at the popular than
the official level, will prevail
in time, he believes, and usher
In a new era for q troubled
continent.
Civilizations Cycles
Mr.. de Beus does not discard
the cyclic theory Of history,
which represents civilizations
as having q life span compare
BILE to that Of human beings.
He does feel, however, that
MesSrs. Toynbee Spengler and
Danilevsky have applied the
theory too rigidly.
History has never repeated
itself in specific periods of spe-
cif1c duration" says Mr.. de
Beus cheerfully.
The preparation of his case
against the three historians
took him four years.
Currently, he is working on a
Dutch translation of the book.
He has one other book to his
credit. That is also optimisti-
cally titled, being called "The
Future Of the Netherlands"
1t was written when Mr.. de
Beus, who is now 43, was serv-
ing the Dutch government in
exile in London, when his ma
tive country was under the
heel of the Nazis. It was dis
tributed by the thousands by
the underground press, and
proved to be prophetically &C
curate.
Evening star., 1953-07-05

short h q n d John Sanford.
that deprive what they say Of
any reality. despite its tough
colloquialism. Steve looks back
on his past life, in an orphan
age, in the home Of the good
man who adopted him, in COL
lege, in the school where he
taught. He is weighed down
with pathological feelings of
guilt. He spouts an idiotic
Communist line about the al
legged lack of justice, equality
and decency in America, with
the usual overblown, time
tattered illustrations. Intro
ducing chapters are poems in
the same tenor, with frayed
themes bearing on racial in
justice and other evidences Of
this country's guilt. The usual
Evening star., 1953-07-05

"A OC4CCC1OL1 4IO1u O11C MAUI ACC
Wertheim collection, one of
the choicest small private col
lections in the United States,
opened at the National Gallery
of Art early the past week, to
remain through September 13.
The 26 paintings on view have
been lent by the Fogg Museum
of Art, Harvard University,
through the courtesy of Mrs.
Wertheim. John Walker, chief
curator Of the National Gallery
said "The high quality Of the
collection is the result Of many
years Of careful acquisition.
These distinguished MASTER
pieces are a lasting tribute to
Mr.. Wertheim's discrimination
and taste"
The collection includes out
standing examples by impress
sionistS, Post Impressionists
and a few later men. It was
shown in the Museum Of the
Province of Quebec in 1949 un-
der the title French Painting
Since 1870" Mr.. Wertheim, a
New York banker. had enjoyed
the salmon fishing in Quebec
for 80 years, and had estab-
lished a fish hatchery. He ex-
pressed appreciation Of these
happy vacations by the loan Of
his collection.
One of the shows earliest
and most important works is
Degas' "The Rehearsal" (1875)
illustrated here. All Of the
interest seems concentrated in
the upper left diagonal half of
the painting. yet the whole
compels attention in the soft
light filtering into the large
bare room with dancers prac-
ticing steps to the music of an
old violinist. This low-keyed
interior contrasts with the
bright day seen through the
windows. A version of this
work is owned by the Corcoran
Gallery.
Another Degas is the capture
of q woman (Mlle. DeagrangeS)
singing in a music hall. The
gesture Of her hand, and her
open mouth holding a final
high note are so lifelike one
can almost hear 1t.
A Joyous Painting
Monet's beautiful "Red
Boats" is one of the joyous
paintings he made Of the Seine
at Argenteuil, from a studio
boat he built himself. This
superb outdoor scene, full of
sunshine and color, is an in
teresting contrast to his paint
ing OF two years later, of the
Care Saint-Lazare in Paris, of
which he painted many views.
He was interested in the pic
torial possibilities of the glass
rooted building, the great en-
gines and their vaporous
steam.
-Four paintings by Renoir be-
gin with his self-portrait
(1876) when he was in his
mid-thirties. q sensitive, hand
some face. Next is a large, red
chalk study of two women for
THE Bathers." The model for
these superb figures was Su-
zanne Valadon, the mother of
Maurice Utrillo. In 1885 he
painted the resplendent t
Seated Bather," opulent in
color. The warm rich "Gabri-
ellie" (1910-1D shows his con-
tinuing delight in sensuous
color, in his old age.
Manet's Skating" is one of
the collections outstanding
paintings, an admirable exam
pie by this friend and inspira-
ton Of the Impressionists. The
blond woman in the fore
ground was Henriette Hauser,
a demi-mondaine and sister of
Victorine who posed for
Manet's famous Olympia"
PiSsarro is represented with
one Of his later paintings
l189D seen from a room in
the Hotel de Russie which he
took for the purpose of making
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Books on TriuI

SS o1NAv WIG t141IG EIGSl"
dent Eisenhower, back on the
subject Of book burning, was
telling his press conference
that he would not have banned
the detective stories of fifth
amendment invoker Dashiell
Hammett. Senator Mccarthy
was holding the latest in his
Author Meets Critic" sessions
on Capitol Hill.
The President made the
point that many moderates
have held is central in this
controversy. That is that the
content Of the book and not
the political views of its author
should be the norm for its
inclusion in our overseas
libraries.
Illustrator Rockwell Kent
who refused to discuss his poll
tics with the Senator did tell
him that he felt that "books
should be treated like human
beings and tried and punished
when accused Of wrongdoing."
How can you try a book"
asked the Senator brusquely.
It's quite easy, Senator.
ulysses" and Forever Am
ber." charged, it is true with
obScenity rather than subver-
sion. were brought into court
on historic occasions. Books
which are held harmful to the
political morals Of readers,
could be brought to book far
more easily than the reluctant,
close-mouthed witnesses who
Wrange with the Senator over
their constitutional rights.
Books, the Senator might be
reminded. cannot take refuge
in the fifth amendment.
Evening star., 1953-07-05
The Land That Touches Mine
BY John Sanford. DOUBLEDAY: $3J

cliches about rich men, the
church and the Legion are
there. What happens to Steve,
who won't fight for such rot
ten country? Does it matter?
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-07-05

This is Mr.. Sanford'S fifth
novel and it concerns a soldier
named Steve Pierce who has
deserted and is wandering
Evening star., 1953-07-05

&TOuuQ L1l6
desert coun-
tryofSouth-
ern Califor-
mia. Steve,
" ho g o e S
u n d er a n
alias, takes
up with an
Ell Centre
" a / tre SIS.
They talk
interninab-
ly, with an
indirect ion
and verbal
Sh0rf he nd
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Dec at Garden Cote

Marjorie Deo's solo exhibi-
ton at the Garden Gate Res
taurant, 1880 Wisconsin Ave-
nue.. Georgetown. will remain
through July IL. It is composed
Of II works, mostly casein
paintings, and a few seri.
graphs. All are semiabstract.
although the point Of depar-
ture Is never obScured.
Fish have long been favor
ite subjects Of Miss Dec, who
rings the changes on their
shapes and colors. She is also
showing still life. flowers and
landscape. and several paint
in9S of birds.
Evening star., 1953-07-05

The principles of social re-
form preached by every pope
from Leo XIII to Plus XII
have received a wide and ap-
preciative hearing. Their i'm
fermentation these rs years,
however, has been left largely
Evening star., 1953-07-05

a conversation piece, with
Simple doing most of the talk
ing. He'll never bore you.
While he is slipping beer and
talking to his college-educated
friend, Simple describes the
scrapes he drifts into and his
ideas about life in general.
There's many a laugh in
Simple's words and quite as
much ShreWd instruction in
what it's like to belong to
Harlem's never-quite-prosper-
Gus middle class. &C. B. j.
This Happy Rural Seat
BY George Lanning.
World; $780,
This first novel sensitively
tackles the unlikely topic Of
the tepid affections Of lonely
aging people, and ever so
often there are sharp insights
sharply defined. But on the
whole the language is too in
volved for the thought and
sometimes we wait so long to
learn which way the story will
turn that we are annoyed in
stead of intrigued. w. G. r.
Evening star., 1953-07-05

IndustrioEsm and the Popes
BY Sister Mary Lois Eberd Brother Gerald Schnepp
(P. J. Kennedy G. Sons; $780,
1.
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Books in Review
Mr.. Yoffe's So-CoIIed Light Novel
Is q Deep Psychological Study

ne G0o0-T0F-N0InInq
BY James Yaffe. (Atlantic-Little, Bro,0n; $780,
Reviewed bv corteY Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1953-06-03
Fake Salesman
Takes Orders and
Citizens for $3.50

A town policeman, a former
State Legislator and an internal
revenue agent are among 70 per-
sons in Prince Georges County
who handed over about $3.50 to
a fake shoe salesman who went
from door to door taking "or-
derS."
Clayton c. Arbaugh, 81, of the
5000 block of Perry street,
Mount Rainier, was arrested
yesterday for obtaining money
under false pretenses. He is in
HyattSville Jail in lieu of 81 900
bail.
Detective Sergt. Earl Huber
Of the county police said Ar
baugh signed a confession ad-
mitting all 70 frauds.
The Smooth-talking Arbaugh
was arrested at the University OF
Maryland experimental farm on
Cherry Hill road, where he had
been a laborer. Sergt. Huber
said Arbaugh is q conscientious
obiector from Westminster, Md,
and the State had put him to
work on the farm instead Of In
military service.
Evening star., 1953-06-03
Falls Church Jolt
Laid to Piercing
OF Sound Barrier

An explosive noise and con-
cussion that frightened hundreds
Of Falls Church area residents
yesterday was made by a jet
plane breaking the sound bar
rier, police decided after investi-
eating.
Falls Church Policeman VII
liam H. Fletcher said residents
reported that the blast knocked
children to the ground, shook
pictures from walls and ratified
windows.
The blast was heard about
12:45-p.m. and seemed to center
in the jefferson Village-West-
lawn area, in Fairfax County
near Falls Church. Mr.. Fletch-
er said two persons reported they
saw a jet go into a power dive
just before they heard the noise.
Police said they were told by
Andrews Air Force Base officials
that three jets were in the air
about the time the explosion was
heard.
Evening star., 1953-06-03
Arlington YNCA Plans
PROGRAM for Children

The Arlington YMCA will con-
duct an eight-week outdoor vaca-
ton program for children be-
ginning June 20 at the center,
Thirteenth street and North
Kirkwood road.
The first four-week session will
be for children who will enter
the second through the ninth
grades next fall. The last half
of the program, to begin July
27,' will be open to those who
will enroll in the fourth through
the ninth grades.
Activities will include handi-
crafts, dancing, dramatics, hik-
ing, archery and outdoor games.
The program will be held from
$3.50 am. to 4 pm. each week.
day. Enrolment fees are SO for
the first group and 90 for those
attending the last session, plus
81 for new members Of the
YMCA.
Evening star., 1953-06-03
Nays Honor Man
Gets 3 Prizes Today;
Midshipmen Parade
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, June Mid
shipman Capt. Carlisle A. H.
frost of Columbia, ILL.,, is to re-
ceive eight of 40 prizes in aca-
denies and leadership to be pre-
sented at the Naval Academy
this afternoon.
Capt. frost, who yesterday
was named honor man for the
class to be graduated Friday, also
will receive one Of is letters Of
commendation to be presented at
the ceremonies on Worden Field.
The parade will precede June
Weeks traditional color parade
tomorrow, ending military ac-
tivity of the week-long celebra-
ton.
Two hops, one for IN" athletic
award winners and the "E"
dance for extracurricular ac-
tivity award winners, are set for
tonight.
Last night the graduating first
claSsmen and their guests at
tended the annual superintend-
ent's tea, while second and third
classmen got together for a hop
in Memorial Hall.
Also on tap for today is a band
concert, third of the week thus
far, and a dance for the first and
second classmen. The plebes
will attend movies as usual to-
night. but tomorrow night they
will be allowed to attend the
farewell ball with their big
brothers.
Capt. frost, 23-year-old COM
mander of the brigade of mid
shipmen, was honor man with an
overall four-year average of
93.15 per cent.
The letter Of commendation
will be presented to MIN by Vice
Admiral c. Turner Joy. Academy
superintendent.
Others who will receive prizes
include:
Kimbrough Stone Basset of
Washington, Van Dyke prize for
submitting the best original
article on q naval or equally
patriotic subject, and the Naval
Academy forensic activity prize
for second honors in public
speaking.
Francis A. Flood, jr., Of Chevy
Chase, Md, and Edward T. Scott
of Los Angeles, Admiral William
S. Sims Memorial Award for
leadership (tie). .