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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Art News
Creative Arts
Exhibition
BY Florence S. Berrymon

The i954-55 art season In
Washington had its first major
opening last Wednesday eve-s
ming when the Exhibition Of
Creative Arts by craftsmen Of
Washington. Maryland and
Virginia was unveiled In the
foyer of the Natural History
Building, Constitution avenue
at Tenth street. to remain
through September %.
The installation is interest
ing and varied. with q setting
of gravel. bricks, and hollow
tiles for garden items; screens,
tables and cases for other
works. The show is q ruth
lessly Winnowed one, to which
1876 craftsmen submitted $50
pieces. Only 1876 items by 50
craftsmen were accepted. The
undetermined jury was COM
posed Of Miss Ashmede of
America House, Miss Pauline
Dutterer, Baltimore designer,
and Erich Ursell Of George
town.
The exhibition includes ce-
ramics, woven and printed
fabrics, hooked and braided
rugs. silver, enamels, wood,
metal, mobiles, leather, stained
glass, book bindings and end
papers, furniture and lamps.
The jury particularly liked the
silver and jewelry, according
to ceramist George Beishlag.
I'm some examples of jewelry,
the jurors must have accepted
pieces solely on design and ap-
pearance, without considering
variability. The first pair Of
earrings I lifted were heavy
enough to make q wearer's ears
feel like q shoulder-length
bob.)
There are also many inter-
esting demonstration groups
on view, to augment the dem
onstrationS given each morn
ing and afternoon, including
Sundays, from 10 to IL and 2
to 4 o'clock, throughout the
shows duration. Demonstra-
tors are members of the vari-
Gus groups participating in,the
exhibition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Adventures in Politics
BY Richard L. Neuberger. (Knopf; $500
Reviewed by Richard FvkIund

to State offices because Of the
low salaries: failure to reap
portion legislatures gives UNI
equal weight to rural opin-
ions; State constitutions are
outdated straight jackets;
one-party States kill demo-
cratic give and take; and ma
tional issues aften confuse
local elections.
In other words, says Mr..
Neuberger, State governments
are not up to the responsible
ties they want to assume.
The book contains much to
think about, but Mr.. Neu-
berger. a fine writer, should
have spent more time shaping
this collection of magazine
article reprints into book
form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Bleeding Kansas
fOrford;; s4.50.J
Reviewed by,Froncis P. Douglas

When John Browns mad
Harpers Ferry foray blew up
and he was captured a num-
Der of VIPs in Boston packed
their bags and left for Canada.
They came back when they
Judged the heat was of. Then
the writers-many were Bos-
tonians or were published
there-proceeded to canonize
the bloody mailman. Miss
Nichols ironic name for him
is the "sainted hatchet muir
derer."
Textbook Kansas history
has a completely Northern
bias" writes Miss Nichols, her
self a Kansan. "A middle-of-
the-road suspicion that the
Southerners could not have
been as black as they have
been painted. or the North
erners as white" sent her to
digging into the records Of
territorial days.
Blow-by- Blow Account
The result il an excellent
blow-by-b blow account Of .ne
struggle over whether Kansas
should be slave or free. It
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Weisz Memorial

The final report on the art
auction held last May Is at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art for the
benefit of the Eugen Weisz
Memorial Fund was released
only recently. A total of 176
works were contributed by 152
artists; $50 works were bought
by the public for the sum of
$5,015.25. Because Of the many
volunteers who gave time and
energy, expenses were kept at
a minimum, enabling the auc-
ton committee to turn over
to the fund the sum of $4,777.-
So, which with earlier contri-
buttons, raised the total to
$6,368.03.
The fund was invested, and
the first scholarship was a.
warded to the young Japa-
nese American student James
Suzuki, one of the New Faces"
included in the Bader Gallery's
July exhibition mentioned
here at the tirne). Only the
interest from the Weisz Fund
investment will be applied each
year to scholarships. Any
extra money will be used for
supplies.
Kenneth Stubs, chairman
of the Auction Committee,
hopes that the fund will even
tually reach $4,000. 1t re-
mains open for contributions.
which have continued to ar
rive during the summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Books in Review
Have We All Some of Mr.. Carp
In Us as This Gay Diary Suggests?
The Journal of Edwin Carp
BY Richard Haydn. lSimon Schuster; $500
Reviewed by Mary McGrory
The Journal of Edwin Carp

II you have been finding the
diary world q bit dim between
bouts Of Boswell. by all means
try 1.-THE Journal of Edwin
Carp" It should tide you over
nicely.
Unlike Boswell, Mr.. Carp
does not seek out life; in fact
he scurries from 1t and prac-
tically burrows underground
when it threatens to catch up
with him. Even so, he has no
fears that the entries in his
new leather journal (hand-
fooled by his flancee Mrs.
) Maude Phelps) will be any,
thing but both permanently
and universally interesting"
And so, in a sly way. they are.
Enchantingly self conferred,
Mr.. Carp is also wonderfully
literal. Consider, for instance,
the satisfying completeness Of
this entry regarding a new
found friend. "He is a Wild
over, Mrs. Roach having
passed away in 1881 after a
meal Of tainted scallops."
Not q Dull Fellow
MIR. Carp sees no reason to
consider himself a dull fellow,
and you viii presently see why.
He Is subject to myopia, dys-
pepsia. and chilblains in sea-
son. He has an aging, wilful
mother and a f1ance Of nine
years standing. He Is presi-
dent of the Health Through
Sanitation Society. He never
ventures abroad without
matches (although he does not
smoke) and iodine because
life u full Of periD. Had
enough?
The happy outcome Of his
romance has been deferred In
difference to Mr.. Carp's
mother, the former Gertrude
Ivy Gubbion. who on Maude's
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The Eisenhower administra-
ton Is turning q good many
functions Of the Federal gov
eminent back to the States,
and Mr.. Neuberger thinks it
Is time we took q close look
ut the governments which are
getting the new responsible
ties.
This book is his close look.
A journalist by vocation and
Oregon State Senator by avo-
cation (he's running for the
national Senate this fall). Mr..
Neuberger Is In a good posi-
ton to check the job done by
State lawmakers and tell the
public about 1t. What he has
found u this:
Good men are not attracted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
The Sculpture
Of Jacques Lipschitz
Nv Henry r. Hone

BY Henry II. Hope.
(MuSeum of Modern Art; 49,
Jacques Lipchitz is one Of
the distinguished European
artists who came to the United
States during World War II.
and have made this country
their permanent home. Born
in Lithuania Q89l he went
to Paris in 1909 and remained
there for nearly a quarter CEN
fury, becoming a Frenchman
in speech, customs, habits Of
thought and expression"
Although Mr.. Lipchitz had
his first American exhibition
in 1885, followed by others.
with catalogues and reviews,
this is the first monograph in
English on this famous cubist
sculptor whom Mr.. Hope (head
of Indiana University's art de-
partment) describes as sharing
more than any contemporary
sculptor the legacy from
Michelangelo and Bernini to
Rodin."
One Hundred Illustrations
The monograph. illustrated
with 100 halftone plates, was
published in connection with
the large retrospective exhibi-
ton of more than 100 sculp-
lures and drawings, shown at
the Museum of Modern Art.
New York City, this summer, to
open in Minneapolis at the
Walker Art Center October /,
and to go to the Cleveland
Museum of Art for the first
quarter Of 1855.
The text comprises a per-
ceptive analysis of Mr.. Lip
chitz' sculpture, and a detailed
survey of its long line Of
growth with many variations.
going all the way from the alb
stract to the naturalistic,"
from its beginnings in 1911 to
work now in progress at his
new studio at Hastings-on-
Hudson.
Much Of Mr.. Lipchitz' sculp-
ture is. as Mr.. Hope says, mot
readily grasped at first glance"
(nor for that matter, at many
later glances, for some peo-
ple.). But any serious reader
who studies the illustrations
along with Mr., Hopes. critique.
Is bound to acquire at least a
rudinnentary appreciation Of
the sculptors' intentions.
F. 8. B.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
The Midnight Potent
BY Egon Hostovsky.
(Appleton- Century Crotts; So
Reviewed by Smith Hempstone, Jr.

Self-exiled Czech Novelist
Egon Hostovsky chooses as
the vehicle for this modern
morality play the trappings of
an international who-dun-it,
sketched in against a grimy
background of shoddy rented
rooms baking in the swelter-
ing grip of a New York sum-
mer.
The central figure in this
story is DR.. Almost Malik, a
Czech American psychiatrist.
Down at the heels financially
and morally, he finds himself
propelled into the midst Of
concentric rings of Soviet spies,
American counter espionage
agents and a third group.
which laps into both the
others, intent on saving peace
for the world.
Malik's job is to cure the
key acknowledged opera
tive. the shadowy Alfons. of
insomnia and accumulated
anxieties so that he may con-
tinue with his last and great
est mission. In his psyche
analysis Of Alfons, Malik re-
discovers much of his own
sense of values and tears from
Alfons' twisted heart a per-
sonal solution for his own life.
Some Bosic Problems
Hostovsky. or perhaps his
translator. leaves q good deal
to be desired In the quality Of
his dialogue. His characters
seem stiff and some Of his
situations are a bit hard to
swallow.
What Novelist Hostovsky
does do, and he does it well.
is to pose through the medium
of this patchwork thriller
some of the basic problems
which confront men today as
they grope through the dark
ness Of a twilight civilization.
He finds the germ Of politi-
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Communist, prO-Communist,
stooge, dupe or spy"
of America Hearings: "The
Senator in this investigation
did not turn up one Commu-
mist, pro-Communist, Commu-
mist agent, stooge. dupe or
spy. He produced no evidence
to substantiate his sensational,
widely publicized charges Of
Communist infiltration, sub
version or sabotage"
Question His Motives
The authors not only ques-
ton his methods; they ques-
ton his motives. They do not
tag him as q totalitarian-he
has neither the philosophy or
organization for that. They
decide his objective must be
ito achieve and retain power
and renown."
They point out that targets
of his criticism have not been
LIMITED to those whom he sus-
poets of disloyalty or subver-
sion. He has defied the whole
Executive Department, telling
Government workers to bring
him secret material. He has
questioned the integrity OF his
own party leaders, during the
debate on the Bohlen confir-
nation. His critics include
men Of such irreproachable
service and loyalty as Joseph
C. Grew and G. Rowland
Shaw, such distinguished
Catholic periodicals as Amer
lea and CommonWeal.
The Dilemma
It is, in short. their opinion
that one can still be anti-Mc-
Carthy and anti-Communist,
and that the horns of the
dilemma posed by the Senator
are only as long and as sharp
as enlightened public opinion
allows them to be.
The study was prepared
under the auspices of the
American Committee for Cul-
tural Freedom.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

In this story Of a spoiled
wife who returns to her hus-
band after q fling with an
italian pianist, Miss Chatter
ton seems to be more distract
ed than q lady at q bargain
sale. First she seems to study
the state Of mind Of q child
deserted by her mother. She
drops this in favor Of q look
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

10th birthday put 43 candles
on the cake.
Sometimes during his long
betrothal Mr.. Carp has to con-
tend with the beast In him.
But being a man of the world.
he knows that a suggestion Of
a strategic cup Of cocoa will
enable him to regain the upper
hand.
Just Comic Episodes
Mr.. Carp's journal is actu-
ally a series Of comic episodes
involving the gift of a toupee,
a meeting of the Sanitation
Society and others like a radio
serial. The situations are more
often than not standard farce.
But the treatment is def and
delightful. Mr.. Haydn, an
English actor, may just pos
sibly have created his prin-
cipal here with the idea Of
having him portrayed on what
Mr.. Carp surely calls the "sil-
yer screen" by Mr.. Clifton
Webb.
The surrounding characters
are, with the exception of
Maude, very intriguing. Mrs.
Ottey, the obtrusive daily
woman who sings passionate
ditties at her work, is this re-
viewers favorite. Maude, who
shows flashes of common sense
but otherwise seems too pas
sive does not quite ring true,
somehow.
But as for the universally.
We all have a bit Of Carp in
us. Perhaps we are not so
mincing and gentle, but at
some time or other we have
all fed as he does, taken a
streetcar to avoid a crisis or
somebody we know, or just
wished that life would go away
and leave US alone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

cal evil within our own souls
and warns us that there can
be no reconciliation among
men until man has recon-
ciled himself with God.
1.-The Midnight Patient" may
be read and enjoyed as a
whiskey- and-gunsmoke thrill
er or as a psychological novel
dealing with the motivations
which produce OBJECTIONS,
such as that Of DR.. Otto John,
from the ranks of espionage
agents fighting the silent
battles of the cold war.
In actuality, it is a sensi-
tive novelist's reaffirmation of
the doctrine of original sin
and human culpability.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

This book contains a. selec-
ton Of letters and notes from
Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, q
Berlin physician and biologist.
written between 1887 and 1902.
1t is published under the gen.
eral heading of 1.-THE Origins
of Psychoanalysis" and that
explains its worth. For the
letters themselves have no in
trinsic merit and they shed
little light on the personality
Of the great medical pioneer.
But they do give an interesting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
For Boys and Girls
The Best ChiIdren's Books Today
Reflect Changing Generation
By Borboro NoIen
Editor and Lecturer on chiIdrsn's Books

and smells of the Goshen race
track, the scream Of sulky
wheels crowding at the turns.
make harness-racing come
alive. Rivalry flares between
young drivers, called tall
sitters." and oldsters like 81
Bauder. who parks his false
teeth at the beginning of a
race and never smiles until the
end. !
Yes, indeed, 1.-THE Black
Stations Sulky Colt" by Walter
Farley (Random House. so is
another blue-ribbon winner.
Science Fiction
Andre Norton is known for
her fast-moving science fiction.
1.-THE Stars are Ours" (World,
$2.75) jumps ahead to the year
$500, when atomic war has
destroyed the free world and all
scientists are slaves. How the
cold sleep" carries q few
scientists to the stars and what
happens there Is a ghoulish
tale.
Fortunately. not all science
fiction is so terrifying. 1.-THE
Wonderful Flight to the Mush-
room Planet" by Eleanor Cam
eron little Brown. $2.75) fea-
lures little old man named
Tyco Bass, a space wizard no
bigger than David and Chuck.
This Is science-f1ction at its
best for the model-airplane set.
To Moke Children Loueh
Books that make children
laugh are the srarest gems in
the whole children's book field,
because few writer's have dis
covered the secret formula
which makes q funny book"
But here are several titles
which should satisfy even the
most critical 8-to-10-year-
olds, who are constantly seek
ing comic relief. These are
also "naturals" to read aloud
to mixed age groups.
'Mixups and Fixups," New
Tangled Animal Stories, by
Evelyn Weiss. mckay. $2.5O.
'Miss Pickerel Goes to the
Arctic" by Ellen McGregor.
'Mrs. Piggle- Wiggle's Farm"
by Betty MacDonald. Gippin-
colt; $2)
The new DR.. Seuss book is
modern fable about Horton
the elephant. This numbering,
kind hearted elephant becomes
the protector of a small speck
of dust that Is inhabited by
"some sort of a creature of
very small size, too small to be
seen by an elephants eyes,"
Extravagantly illustrated, this
lilliputian saga marches on to
a smashing climax. Horton
Hears A Wh0!" is published
by Random House ($2.5O.
Porents and Teachers
AS a special treat for parents
and teachers who are interest
ed in what children write and
think, as well as what they
read, I recommend a book by
Claudia Lewis, gifted member
Of the Bank Street College of
Education. For years, Miss
Lewis has cooked a listening
ear to the voices of children, so
that her analyses of favorite
children's books are a witty
guide to book selection.
writing for Young Chill
dren" by Claudia Lewis (Simon
and Schuster. So is a short
book, but good investment at
3 cents a page. have al
ready sent a copy to a friend
in Vermont. Another copy is on
its way to help teachers in
Korea. / do not doubt for a
moment that it VIII inspire
better books for children
wherever it goes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

s t q t e OF
mind, when
8 h e C o M
posed 1.-THE
Pride Of the
p e q c o c K"
The reason
why she did
1t. then, may
n e er be
known. The
b o ok con-
fains m cline
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Art Book Reviews
Paintings and Sculpture

Given by Edgar B. and Anna
Scripps Whitcomb to the
Detroit Institute of Arts.
1.-THE Detroit Institute of
ArtS.)
During a sojourn in Detroit
last spring, this reviewer Wis
tied the Detroit Institute Of
Arts and saw a large memorial
exhibition of about 10 old mas
ter paintings and sculptures
presented over a period Of
nearly 80 years by Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar B. Whitcomb, the mu-
seum's major benefactors. The
exhibition, still On view there,
included the Whitcomb bequest
(both donors died last year,
and many other works on per-
manent exhibition. specially
marked to identify them as
Whitcomb gifts.
This handsome catalogue,
one of the institutes most i'm
portant publications, has IS
plates. most of them full-page.
and some in colors, each with
descriptive and biographical
text. A foreword by Edgar B.
Richardson, director of the De-
troit Institute, tells Of the
Whitcombs' many services in
the cause of art in Detroit and
explains the collections extern
sive variety. The donors, he
says, were primarily interested
in giving the institute "a last
ing enrichment" If the staff
recommended something that
would I'LL a specific need, they
would present it, whether or
not they liked it.
Among the outstanding
paintings in the collection is
Titian's portrait of Andrea de-
Franceschi, Grand Chancellor
of the Venetian Republic (il-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

Sorting over three genera
tions of books recently in the
family attic, I was reminded
how children's books have
changed in the last hundred
years.
Children have changed, too.
Boys and girls growing up to-
day eat more. play more, read
more than ever before.
It Is no longer smart, or
necessary, to talk down to
children. in the home. in the
schoolroom, in print. The old
taboos in children's books
against mentioning birth and
death are fortunately a thing
Of the past. Books about for
eign countries are no longer
limited to superficial trav-
elogues featuring windmills
and wooden shoes. |
Theme Of Compassion
For instance, take Rowan
Farm" by Margot Benary-Is-
bert (Harcourt. $2.50). The
heroine of the story is Mar
gret, a plucky 16-year-old girl
who has to earn her living in
country torn by the after
math of war.
The story opens with Mar
gret's rescue Of an emaciated
Shetland pony about to be sold
to the slaughter house. The
note Of compassion is theme
song for the whole book.
Margret's Job as kennel-maid
on Mrs. Almut's farm is to
train the prize Great Danes
for the annual dog show and
to care for other animals on
the farm, especially the baby
lambs. Busy as she Is, she
manages to nurse the dying
Shetland back to robust
health. E
Later, when some one asks,
"Is your Shetland pony
for sale?" Mareret answers
promptly, mot for q carload
Of chocolate" What more con-
elusive answer from a Euro
pean child, to whom one piece
of chocolate was q rare treat!
One Of Seasons Best
There are many reasons why
this book Is one Of the high
lights Of the season. One Of
the most important to the
young reader will be the lively
cast Of characters. The young
star Margret has to compete
with two mischievous boys, q
theatrical younger sister, a
glamor girl from the city. and
a village of ordinary people,
full of pride and prejudice.
Merely living is a challenge. AS
Christoph says: There's no
trick to doing things that are
possible, you know. Any one
can do them. Only children
and fools do the impossible"
How the children overcome
village prejudice make Rowan
Farm" q story of courage and
loyalty and faith.
Three other dramatic books
which offer good hearty read
ing for early teen-agers are
set in widely divergent fields:
past, present, and future.
A Song Of Joy
The coal mines Of Pennsyl-
vania with their heart-break-
ing poverty are the crucible
from which a coal-miner's son
fashions a song Of joy. In
"Sing in the Dark" by Maude
Morgan Thomas winston.
$2.75), the Welsh author
writes lovingly about Welsh
people and customs in the
18th century. But it takes
grit for the young hero to
survive pit DULLES and mine
accidents.
Followers Of Walter Farley
will welcome his latest book
about Bonfire, second son the
Black Stallion. The plot con-
Germs the retraining of a badly
frightened horse after a rae
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Mccarthy
Under New
Scrutiny
Mccarthy and the
Communists


Communists
BY James Rorty and Moshe
Decter.
Beacon Press; cloth, 81:
paper, 81
With this study Of the Sem
ate's most famous investigator,
who is once again under sena-
torial investigation himself,
something new has been added
to the growing body of Nc
Carthy literature. That is the
dispassionate note. Mccarthy
and the Communists" is a work
of research and analysis rather
than Of polemics. and for that
reason, should be all the more
effective.
The authors do not concern
themselves with the Senator's
life and times. They direct
attention to his conduct as
chairman of the Senate Per-
manent Investigations subcom-
mittee. Before taking over the
leadership, the authors main
tain, the Senator performed a
valid public service in calling
the country's attention to 'lax
and improper" security meas
ures in the State Department.
Looking at the Record
But his record thereafter,
measured against their stand
ards of effective anti-C ommu-
mist activity, they find not only
woefully wanting, but shot
through with the use Of Com
munist tactics.
In q detailed and factual
analysis of two widely touted
investigations, the first Of the
Voice of America and the sec
ond Of Fort Monmouth, they
cite hair-raising charges made
in full voice that are never
substantiated and never fol-
lowed through. Their devas-
tating summary Of the Voice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05

Miss Ruth Chatterton. an
erstwhile actress, told a recent
radio audience that she wrote
her two previous novels be-
cause she was mad" This
was not, she conf1ded, her
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and valuable sidelight into the
working Of the mind Of the
author Of psychoanalysis. Here
are the cautious probings into
the cases Of his early patients
and the careful. polite refuta-
ton Of certain theories ad-
vanced by the Berlin cor
respondent. They are q spe-
cialized corner Of the scientific
panorama which In the end
made Freud's mental canvas
both q picture Of his age and
an insight into the future.