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Evening star., 1954-11-07
Army-Mccorthy
Clash Reviewed
TRIAL BY TELEVISION. By
Michael Straight. tBeacon
Press: $500

TRIAL BY TELEVISION. BY
Michael Straight. tBeacon
Press: $500
Reviewed by Richard FykIund
From today's perspective,
the Army-McC Carthy hearings
of last spring marked the
turning point in the career OF
the Wisconsin Senator.
It is not that the hearings
produced valuable new infor-
nation. Few persons who
have followed the rise of Sem
ator McCarthy--neither his
friends nor his foes-could
have learned much about him
that they didn't already know.
But somehow, when the hear
ings ended, people seemed to
feel that Senator Mccarthy
was no longer so important.
And in considering him less
important, they made him less
important.
Michael Straight, editor Of
the New Republic, has ex-
amined the hearings from his
liberal point Of view, and
has tried to assess their signifi-
canoe. Mr.. Straight found a
great deal about the Senator
and his fellow actors that
shocked him (only Senator
Mcclellan comes out without
blemish) and he concludes
this:
The trial" showed Senator
Mccarthy to be a fanatic in
the classic sense. He is per-
petually incomplete and in
secure in himself. Without
self-assllrance, he must cling
to some special cause. He fears
compromise and cannot be
weaned away from the cause
by appeals to reason or moral
sense. It will be one cause
or another until he dies or
comes to terms with himself.
Perhaps the public found out
he was a fanatic and became
disillusioned last spring. Or
perhaps the public just got
bored.
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REFERS. 1t is unquestionably
a bad thing to talk nonsense"
0 On the unsolicited doing
of good deeds: "The Good Sa-
marian and the Meddlesome
Matte are not always clearly
distinguishable; and the Lee
vite who passed by on the
other side, though not the
most admirable of men, had
certain negative virtues"
. On the American mania
for motor travel: "How much
of this was conducive to the
riders we'll being is anybody's
guess, but whoever puts it
higher than 10 per cent is
confusing human beings with
migratory geese" )"
. On the value of experience
as a great teacher: IF every
human being who ever lived
had died at the age of 40, the
stock of the worlds wisdom
would be little diminished"
. On popular interest in
supernatural news items:
Ghosts are good for half a
column any day the rapiSts are
resting"
A Brilliant Professor
There are shortcomings in
DR.. Evans book, of course: he
couldn't have got it published
if it were perfect. One such
is his willingness, at times, to
accept the authority Of a par
ticular source and, at other
times, to reject it.
But, one must admit, it is
pleasant to find a professor
of English with intelligence
enough to conceive such a
book and ability enough to
write it in readable prose.
Perhaps in his next book DR..
Evans can demolish the widely
held notion that college facul-
ties are made up exclusively
of persons who have failed
Federal civil service examina-
tionS.
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flied madrigals of death and
desolation, Eliot longs after
life. A glow from a warm
heart takes the edge from the
chilly, searching mind"
If you cannot read O'Casey
for his thought-soon or
later every toe will be trodden
on-you can read him for his
language. He writes the headi-
est prose there is. His descrip-
tions of air raids in Devon,
the visit of a half-dead warden
from Plymouth are wonderful.
He is a magician of words.
Evening star., 1954-11-07
AN ALMANAC OF LIBERTY.
BY William o. Douglas.
doubleday; $5.50.l

BY William o. Douglas.
Doubleday; $5.50.)
That tired old word "stimu-
lating" bursts into fiamea
flame of freedom lin this fifth
and best book of Supreme
Court Justice Douglas.
For every day of the year,
including February 20 and
twice for July 4, he has culled
from a vast. varied and OBJ
viously deep research a calen-
dar of events, persons, judicial
decisions, S, legislative enact
mentS and social, economic
and religious developments.
Selection and treatment ad-
mittedly adhere to his own
philosophy of life and govern
ment. They nevertheless fit
into a remarkable pattern and
demonstrate liberty more
broadly than any conventional
classification of civil rights,
democratic action or admins
trative policy.
With Exceptional Insight
There could be a mild dis
sent from his explanation that
he wrote for laymen and not
for lawyers or historians. JUS
tice Douglas offers exceptional
insight, and perhaps some of
the inside on historic court
Evening star., 1954-11-07
American Art Week

The custom of appropriating
specific weeks each year for
celebrating or promoting some
thing, has reached the point
where the themes outstrip the
total number of weeks. But
American Art Week, the first
in November, was one of the
first weeks" begun in 1884 by
the national American Artists
Professional League. 1t is cer-
tainly one of the most WORTH
while weeks"
The 17th Metropolitan State
Art Contest held by the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter, A.
A. P. L., will open this after
noon in the National Museum.
In Alexandria at the Public
Library. TIT Queen street. the
Alexandria branch. National
League of American Pen
Women, is sponsoring Ameri-
can Art Week with an exhibi-
tion of paintings by profess
sional artists of Virginia. Art
Week there will extend through
the coming one.
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Crime Thriller

Another Morgue Heard From.
BY Frederick c. Davis. tDou-
bleday & Co.; $2.75)
Crime Club
Luke Speare and Schuyler
Cole find themselves up to
their private eyes In crooked
politics and questionable ethics
as they tangle with the top
politico Of an anonymous state.
The result Is 4 neat puzzle,
readably presented and agree
ably solved. IN. o.
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Scottish troops and all the
distinctive ways Of the officers
and enlisted men Of such bait
talions are brought out. Some
Of their means Of expressing
themselves. vocally and other
wise, are decidedly funny.
But the novel has q more
serious side.
Methuen has enough OF the
stuffiness which seems part
of the equipment of all career
officers and yet he Is redeemed
by an amount of individuality
and a. touch of originality.
He is as brave as they come,
but his courage is unjustly
challenged twice, both times
through the scheming of an
old enemy. 1t does appear
hardly plausible that any one
could go through the hard
luck he does every time he is
in line for q promotion or q
decoration. There seemed to
be a hex on him from the
moment he came out of Sand
hurst, But Mr.. Marshall. q
popular storyteller, has de-
scribed the troubled journey of
the old colonel with a CONVEX
sational ease that makes the
narrative consistently enter
tanning.
From. Civil War Doys
Echoes from a more distant
war permeate stephen T.
Mallory" by !. Joseph r. Dur
kin. s. j., university of North
Carolina Press; So. Father
Durkin, who is professor of
United States history at
Georgetown University, has
written the first full-length
biography Of the Secretary of
the Confederate Navy.
This neglected figure was.
in the opinion of the late
Douglas Southall Freeman, the
famed biographer of Lee and
Washington, with the posi-
BILE exception of judah P. Ben
jamin, the ablest man in Presi-
dent Davis cabinet" Mr..
Freeman had planned to write
an introduction to the Mallory
biography, but death prevented.
Instead Mr.. Freeman's widow
gave the publisher permission
to quote from a letter in which
the historian commended the
book as sound, scholarly =.
a standard and def1nitive work
on a little-known aspect of
Confederate history"
Father Durkin has, indeed,
turned out a thorough and
Evening star., 1954-11-07
Courtesy Of Kraushaar Galleries.

of its tenure. All but one OF
the artists more than 20 oil
paintings and pastels are en-
tirely abstract. Color is their
best feature and not a few Of
them suggest Mayan temple
decoration in both form and
color.
A native of Vienna, Austria.
Lothar came to the United
States in 1947 by way of Switz-
erland 1899 and the Do
minican Republic t1940). His
first show in Washington,
about six years ago. depicted
natives of that tropical land,
in a semi-naturalistic way. He
taught in Washington art
schools for a few years and Is
now teaching in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1954-11-07
Books IN Review
Todoy's Novels Of World War II
Are Seen il Better Perspective
Reviewed BY Carter Brooke Jones

After both world wars nov
els about the fighting and its
related tensions were in and
out Of vogue. There was q
1etdown after the firing
stopped-publishers said peo-
pie didn't want to hear about
war for q while and maybe
they were right. Then, after
q few years, there was q rush
OF war novels. After that the
publishers were reluctant to
accept them, but inevitably
brought out an occasional one
as the years passed.
Some of the better ones
waited 10 years to be written.
A good novel usually needs
time for CESSATION.
Far From Exhausted
Writers who saw something
Of World War II have not been
reluctant to give us their inn
presSions. Almost every phase
Of the vast conflict has been
explored. Still the subject is
far from exhausted, and books
that appear now, almost a
decade after the world made
temporary peace, are apt to be
more selective, less typed, seen
from a more mature perspec-
tive.
This week brings an unusual
one-a novel worth reading.
in Scala Day" Vanguard;
$685. Robert De Vries, a young
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Nj. O'Cusey
Will Go On
Protesting
SUNSET AND EVENING
STAR. BY Sean O'Casey.
tMacmillan: $4.75.)

& GO1N 81 - kAANA - y - ~ - ~ ~
STAR. BY Sean O'Casey.
tMacmillan;: $4.75.)
Reviewed BY Mary MeGrory
This is . young mans hook.
full of spite and song-rap-
turous. intolerant and furi-
GUS. It does not seem possible
that Sean O'Casey could be
over 10. and vet he Is. Few
authors have burned SO long
and so brightly as this Irish
playwright, who turned to au-
photography late in life. This
is the last volume Of an aston
ishing six, in which he said
he sought ito conjure his
thoughts into changing images
and sprinkle a few glinting
spangles on experience"
Time has not curbed his
! wild fancy, dulled his sharp
wit or watered his convic-
tions. O'Casey will doubtless
go protesting to his grave.
He fairly bristles with preju-
dices. He has shed none Of
his old ones, and has, since
living in England, acquired
some new ones.
Hip and Thigh
He has always despised in
stitutional religion, which he
calls "the sulky laggard in
mans forward march," Now
he is slashing away at one of
Catholicism's chief spokesmsn,
G. X. Chesterton. Always a
Z friend of Soviet Russia, he
made an enemy of its enemy,
George Orwell. who committed
the further crime of unfayor-
ably reviewing an O'Casey
book. Sean smites him hip
and thigh for this. He jeers
at English public schools: "The
sacrifice Of children on the
affairs of Eton and Harrow
-. is as superstitious as, and
sillier and much more subtly
dangerous than the 2sacri-
fees offered at Stonehenge
to the sum-"
But Sean is here the hus-
band and father and hero
worshiper, too. His chapters
on Shaw, his idol, are full of
love. Scans description of
his wife, Eileen's last visit to
the great sage is one of the
loveliest things he ever wrote
full Of humanity.
At His Finest
It must be said Sean rants
a bit when he gets off on one
of his favorite RACES against.
for instance. clerical Ireland
: 4 =
Evening star., 1954-11-07

The narrative carries his
postwar adventures forward
and, in alternate sets of chap
ters, keeps flashing back to the
war experiences he remembers
most vividly. The transitions
are managed so skillfully that
interest Is sustained on both
levels and you don't resent the
Interruptions.
Martins family is Frisian
(from the Dutch islands in the
North Seal and Is tethered to
friends of the same descent
and to a college in which
Frisians predominant. The
community is bound to par
ticularly dour and implacable
religious faith. Martins
mother, who runs the family,
is utterly unable to understand
the effect of the war on her
boy, his indecision and willing
ness to drift E. Martin. like
his delineator, was a naval
hospital corpsman attached to
q Marine combat unit in the
South Pacific.
A New Experience
The experiences of such a
corpsman, who carried a car
bine and a first-aid kit and
had to be ready to fight or
administer plasma, are some
thing new in my experience
with war novels. Mr.. De Vries
has wisely stuck to a single
platoon and a handful of men
In it, describing what hap
pened within this small micro
cosm as an island was slowly
conquered. The action stuff is
as vivid as any that's come
out of the war.
"Gala Day" presumably is a
first novel. Even though it
brings in such stock situations
of the modern novel as the
extra marital love affair and
q thread of perversion en-
tangling two secondary char
acters, 1t has a more positive
point of view and more civ
iliZed one than most novels
have these days. 1t is written
with a sensitive feeling for
words.
A Novel Of Both Wars
.. A different sort of war story
is told in "OnIy Fade Away"
by Bruce Marshall (Houghton,
Miffiin; $3.50. This novel
brings in both World Wars,
but it is the account of a
professional British soldier,
not of some young man whose
life was twisted out of its
course by a war. Mr.. Mar
shall's novel can be rec
commended If only for its
Towdy humor. Methuen, the
ss..officer whose career is traced,
is q Scot. = He served with
Evening star., 1954-11-07
Art News
Eugen Weisz
Memorial
BY Florence 5. Bergman

Eugen Weisz was q distin-
guished artist and q great
man. Because be was . resi-
dent of the washington area
for 35 years, and on the Corr
coran Schools faculty for
three decades, he made hosts
of friends here. and his in
fuence as a teacher and as a
person was incalculable. He
was warm, friendly and unpre-
tentious, and because these
qualities were genuine, people
who met him responded whole
heartedly.
The excellence of his art,
and the widespread affection
for HIM, make the memorial
exhibition Of his work at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Through November 28) an
event to draw visitors there
for both reasons. More than
80 oil paintings. watercolors,
pastels, drawings and q single
classic sculpture I'LL two gall
leries. Many visitors will be
content to enjoy each work for
itself. Others can study the
artists development through
three decades.
A Priced Catalogue
I shall not write a critique
of his work. for that has been
done beautifully and complete
ly by his wife, Renee Fantin
Weisz, in her introduction to
the illustrated catalogue. Eugen
Weisz lives again as person
and artist in this sensitive,
penetrating. loving apprecia-
ton. She tells of his adven-
turous life, of his indefatigable
efforts toward his goal, of his
theories and convictions. This
catalogue is a worthy addition
to every ones art library.
Eugen Weisz's concept of art
is well expressed in his own
words, quoted in the catalogue:
There are a thousand ways to
make a great work of art" he
said in part. "and when it has
any quality. it isn't because of
any theories of the time, but
because some individual thought
clearly, thought beautifully
and sensitively.'
It would be better for art
today if more artists held
these ideas.
Evening star., 1954-11-07
One Of Americas Leading Skeptics
Reviewed BY WilIiom Hines

THE SPOOR OF SPOOKS and
Other Nonsense. BY Bergen
Evans. (Alfred A. Knopf;
$500
DR.. Evans, university pro-
fessor most widely known for
his teleyision show, Down
You Co." is more deserving of
Evening star., 1954-11-07

real lasting
fame as one
of the Ma
tion's lead
ing skeptics.
He built the
framewo r k
of that fame
W i t h a
monthly de-
partment in
t h e O ] d
Anne ri7c a n
M ury.
added to it
with 1.-THE
Natural His
Evening star., 1954-11-07

Colora q q n
t e lis n ! 5
5 I 0 ~ . Il
Nv ! " Q Evels'
MS Y - q
az, aets., wa Mai
Iln HeiESina'
n as d e e n
Evening star., 1954-11-07
Reviewed BY Mary McGrory

OF III Q
Irish writ
ers. When
he writes of
h u m a n
things. he is
at his finest.
And he can
write gener-
. US y Al
praise OF
other writ
orc T.jStpn
to this about
T. S. Eliot:
"Yet with
- ~ 1v
Evening star., 1954-11-07

The Circulating Gallery, 1910
Wisconsin avenue, Georgetown,
now has an outstandingly
beautiful exhibition of litho-
graphs by Victoria Hutson
Huntley, through November
16. Fourteen Of the 35 cata-
logued prints have won inn
portant awards, or have been
acquired for museum collec-
tions, or both. Certain of these
prints are in as many as six
permanent collections. Two of
them received the coveted pur-
chase prizes for lithography in
the Pennell shows at the Lii
brary Of Congress (l945 and
1949). The list Of awards and
collections in which Mrs.
Huntley is represented is i'm
pressive.
The many honors bestowed
upon her work, and the high
praise from such experts as
Carl zigrosser and the late
John Taylor Arms, will be no
surprise to those who see its
consistently high quality, un-
usual beauty. and subject ap-
peal, whether Mrs. Huntley
has made a landscape, city or
industrial scene. still life, in
terror, figures, birds or animals.
Studied Wild Life
A native Of New Jersey, Mrs.
Huntley studied at leading
New York art schools under
such instructors as John
Sloan, Max Weber and Ken
meth Hayes Miller. In 1943
she was awarded o Guggen-
helm fellowship for creative
work, and in 1947, an art
grant from the American
Academy and National Insti-
tute Of Arts and Letters. Dur
ing the 1940s she spent much
time in Florida studying wild
life in the Everglades, and has
created many distinguished
prints of the swamp country.
These prints are, alive with
herons, egrets, ibis, water tur-
keys and other magnificent
wild birds. She has captured
the beauty and atmosphere of
bird sanctuaries and other in
accessible regions which most
of us will never visit.
In addition to its program
OF changing exhibitions, the
circulating gallery conducts a
rental plan whereby framed
pictures are delivered once a
month and hung in subscrib-
er's homes by representatives
of the gallery. II a subscriber
falls in love with a picture and
wishes to acquire 1t, the bal
ance Of his subscription may
be applied to the purchase.
lie
Evening star., 1954-11-07

c o ! O + / u l
book which
not only is
a study of
Mallory, a
S e l f-edu-
Gated Fori-
dian, but is,
in effect, a
history of
the Confed-
crate Navy.
1t is not.
perhaps, too
well remem-
bered that
Evening star., 1954-11-07
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Evening star., 1954-11-07

navy revolutionized naval
science, producing the first
iron class vessel capable of
combat and anticipating mod
ern warfare with experiments
in the use of torpedoes and
submarines.
Evening star., 1954-11-07
Lothor ot Dupont

The one-man show of paint
ings by Ernest Lothar at the
Dupont Theater Gallery has
only today and tomorrow left
Evening star., 1954-11-07
CHINA PAINTING
is BACK

Everybody Il talking ohovs my ssnsa-
iicnui new book on Chino Painting.
HlLDA yocEL STUDIO
170i Park I'd. NV. no. 2-Os04
Evening star., 1954-11-07
Funtosy

The obelisk Gallery, S24l p
street, Georgetown. opened
the end of October (through
November 17) an exhibition
Of fantastic paintings by six
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-04-23

Rev. V. Nelson. pastor Rev A T.
Riley Gillette was a visitor and
the moderator of White River
district Rev, Calvin gave the m IS
sage Sunday night Mr.. and
Mrs F O. Kelly, visited friends
in Holly Grove Sunday. Mrs
E. c. Stevens, Mrs. F o. Kelly,
Professor J. S. Clemmons
were delegates to PTA con-
gress held in Hot Springs. the past
week. Miss Pinkie Lee and hus
band, Texas are here visiting her
father, Harvey Walker Atty.
Wiley Branton, Pine Bluff will be
guest speaker at First Baptist
church in membership drive for
the NAACP May l6 B. J. Strivers
president.
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Prescott
Narnella Brown

Narnella Brown
Prof. h. l.. Wiley and son, Rob
in were guests recently at the
Elizabeth AME church, Rev, o. W.
Walker, Sunday night services
were inspiring with the Rev Il.
II. Scott delivered the message.
Rev jenkins gave the invitation.
and the senior choir rendered mu-
sic under he direction of Mrs
II. II. Scott. Mrs. Dasie Edward
and daughter, Flint, Michigan are
here visiting relatives Well
what do know, james r. Johnson
and Willie Fay Merrick have been
getting really on the ball these
past days, but Rachel M. Post says
she is going to see about that
This is all, just keep your eyes
open.
Mrs. Noble Lee Giles visited the
home OF Mrs. Buck Purifoy the
past Sunday evening, and was
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1954-04-23

Camp in FIT, Hood, Texas, Mrs,
Nettie Blackmon, Little Rock Wis
tied friends here. Harry Fadd
has been in Malvern at the bed
side of his father. George Fadd
Mrs, Matte Stephens and son,
Willis and Miss Cloteaser Ellis
visited their parents and grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Ellis Sunday evening. Miss
Dorce Hall, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Williefar Hall was married
to June Walker, Bluff City
Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Wiley, Mr..
and Mrs A. B Brown and Mr.
and Mrs ] f. Goldsby We're visit
tors in Little Rock and Hot Spring
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Atkins
A. +. Cunningha

Inc farmers welcomed the rain
We had recently although it de-
creased the church attendance
rev D W. Reddick, delivered the
sermon, which was very inspira-
'onal Two visiting ministers were
present and made inspiring re-
marks. Money reported $50. .
Ne" " L. Templeton, who pas
'oFS IN Van Buren,, was the speak
Ct Tor the choir members, recent
", It IS well and right for one
70 gel all the facts in a case be-
'"e making conclusions. Too
many people just hear one side
" question and argument ard
JUMP to conc .usions. Such is not
Use " do Too many of us do
"'' really know ourselves and try
" pass judgment well said.
''. your news to me VIII lie it is
".'S mat other people may k. ow
''0-l our present and future ac-
Saa NE for your State
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the Warner hospital Lee Shelton
and son, r. C. motored to Alex
ander last Wednesday t. accom-
pany Mrs. Bell Shelton home; she
is doing fine at this writing
Mrs. Earlean Marshall, left Satur-
day for Indianapolis, Indiana,
where she has been staying for
the last year, Mr.. and Mrs
Martin Boswell motored to Little
Rock, Saturday to visit Mrs Bos-
wells mother, Mrs Dora Pettis ,
Lester Wilborn, Alexandria, Louisi-
ana, is home visiting mis- wife Mrs
Amanda Wilborn and family q.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Wilborn, at
tended the Bradley district singing
board at Camden
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aIioIl

Mrs, Erma Lee Moore is here
visiting her father, who has just
returned home from the hospital
Roy c. Criner is i'll with the
mumps The Norphlet Smith
high school held its first play
Thursday. There will be a 5
act play soon The public is in
Vited. Mr. and Mrs J. c. Me
Elroy spent last Sunday with her
mother, Mrs Virginia Thompson,
Crossett.
Oddie V. Clemmon, her two
children, and her brother Eddie
McLeroy, jr., have returned home
from California. Otis Ray King
and J M Peterson, are held in
the county Jail for the murder o.
Jessie Mosley, last Friday night
at a cafe near the city. Leolt
Jones has recovered from the
mumps and is now able to be back
in school,
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Ness0n
D. j. Loggins

D. J. Loggins
Mrs. Gladys Cobbs was called
to Gallon recently to the death OF
her nephew, Jessie Mosley ..
Leroy Meeks jr., Of the Air Force
was the guest Of his grandfather,
Joe Meeks J. H. Boone, juno
toA City was guest of his sister,
Mrs Mytee Hendrick, the past
weekend. Pfc. Thomas Malone
jrp who is home on a thirty day
Through will leave soon for Wash
ington, J. Hunter was a week
end visitor here recently. S. M.
Griffin. was the guest of his
daughter at Gambling, Louisiana.
Philip Meek, Ell Dorado visited
his father Mrs Lola B Moore,
and Mrs. Nathan L. Stephens
were in Ell Dorado on business
The past week.