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Summer Colonies

Miss Steuart and I visited
the annual exhibitions of the
North Shore Arts Association
in East Gloucester and the
Rockport Art Association. both
on Cape Ann, Mass, and the
Ogunquit, Maine, Art Center.
A few. Washington artists, all
of whom are members of the
Arts Club of Washington, were
represented. Marguerite Sha-
fer is showing at Gloucester,
through September IL, one of
her colorful flower paintings.
Eleanor Parke Gusts is also
a long time member of this
association, having had q sum-
mer home in Gloucester for
some years.
At OgunQuit through Sep
TENDER 4, Rowland Lyon is
showing Fall Over Harper's
Ferry" which was Included in
his large one-man show at
George Washington University
last spring. Everett Warner,
who has been a resident of
Washington at intervals Che
painted the Lafayette Square
mural in the new Cosmos
Club is twice represented, as
is also Simon de Korsakoff.
Some Disappointing
But these ANIMALS were dis
appointing. Paintings, graphic
arts and sculpture were almost
entirely naturalistic, and in
cluded many technically excel
lent and beautiful works. But
there were also many banal,
illustrative items, and the large
numbers shown at each place
resulted in overcrowded walls,
bad iuxtapositions, and gen.
eral esthetic indigestion.
Ogunquit has a little gem of
a new museum incorporated
less than three years ago, built
on a rocky height overlooking
Narrow Cove. A note about its
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and doomed boy, who likes
her because she does not pity
him, to the cockpit country of
Jamaica.
The beautiful Greek coun-
tryside with its atmosphere of
violence and bitter humor is
marvelously described by Miss
Robertson, who Is a witty,
articulate and perceptive
writer, equal to any situation.
She is. if anything, too mas
terful and quite obtrusive in
thinning, fundamentally, the
plight of her precocious hero
inc. So her story of a child
who knows too much of the
world and diligently whites
it down to manageable size,
reaches only the mind, not
the heart. -M.McG.
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Miss Robertson's heroine is
an uncommon adolescent. Boys
and lipstick concern her not.
Her problem is one of survival,
and her shield against death
is a dream of bourgeois re-
spectability. While others her
age fancy knights on white
chargers, Hebe clings to the
vision of Andre and the pro-
vincial cafe they will some day
own in France.
II Hebe is unusual SO are her
circumstances. Daughter of a
ne'er-do-well Dutchman who
dragged her from her English
mothers family at the Good
Place, where dogs count for
more than people, she has
wandered all over the world
a reluctant accomplish in his
illicit traffic in refugees.
When we meet her, Hebe has
Just watched her father die
on the Bulgarian frontier.
And now she must lead an
odd crew of Europeans with
out passports into Greece. on
the first leg of her return to
the Good Place. Hard and
arrowy, with the strength of
the single-minded," she must
herd them through the peril
Gus hills, past bandits, par
tisans and d. p. camps. Hebe,
bewildered sometimes. but
driven always by the vision of
the English girls school, the
Good Place, and the respect
able marriage to follow, sur
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0ok14O00Ny wiz NA1ooSAAu tAA4o
whole business of writing a
popular book could be gone
about scientifically once fig
jared out that the irresistible
book would be called "Lincoln's
Doctors Dog"
This autumn If their cata-
logues are any indication, pub
fishers have decided that the
sure-fire ingredients are
mountains and Mau-Maus.
The manuscript that would
surely scale the heights of the
bestseller list would probably
be something like II was an
African on Everest"
High altitude and dark con-
tinent items dominate the fall
lists. Here is a sample of the
above sea-level sagas that will
be launched within the next
few months:
The Steady Climb
"Tenzing of Everest" by
Yves Nalartic; South COL" by
Wilfrid Noyce, another chap
who went along on Sir John
Hunts triumphant ascent
party; "Forerunners to Ever
est" by Rene Dittert, Gabriel
Chevalley and Raymond Lam
bert; "K-2," by Charles Hous-
ton,e M. D., and Robert H.
Bates; 1.-THE Age of Mountain
eering," by James Ramsey Ull-
man; Manga Parbat," by DR..
Karl M. Herrligkoffer; alone
to Everest" by Earl Denman,
who had only $500 to make the
climb; and "A Treasury of
Mountaineering Stories" ed
tied by Daniel Talbot.
Tom-toms along publishers
row are beating out rumors
that John Gunther is prepar-
ing one of his inside" stories
about Africa, but it has not
yet been announced. Mean
time those who like a trek
through the weld via the
printed page will have this
wide choice.
Deep in Africa
BLACK Power" by Richard
Wright; "Tales of the African
Frontier" by j. A. Hunter and
Daniel P. Mannix; 1.-THE
Bafut Beagles" by Gerald M.
Durrell; "Seven Days to Lomo-
land" by Esther Warner; THE
Pitiless Jungle" by John L.
Brom, who went there Is years
ago. long before writer's dis
covered it. And from Laurens
Van Der Post, whose Journey
to the Interior" along with
the novels of Alan Patton
helped start the present stam-
pede, there will be a novel
called "Flamingo Feather" An
photographed entry is 1.-THE
Dark Child" by Camara Laye.
A number of other people
who have led lives far above
the humdrum level will be
heard from during the fall.
For instance, aviatrix Jacque-
line Cochran c'The Stars at
Noon"); potentate Aga Khan
("World Enough and TmeO;
King Peter of Yugoslavia CA
Kings HeritageD; politician
Tom Connally ("My Name is
Tom Connally." with Alfred
Steinberg); writer Ellen Glas-
Cow ("The Woman Within"
being published posthumously
by request; comedian Bob
Hope c"Have Tux, Will Trav-
ell" with Pete Martini; Wash
ington State Senate candidate
Richard Neu0erger GIVE Go
to the Legislature"); Irish
playwright Sean O'Casey
("Sunset and Evening Star"
final volume in a dazzling
series); veteran politico and
current Senate candidate
Alben w. Barley ("That Re-
minds Me"); style setter Edna
Woolman Chase of Vogue
C"Always in Vogue" with
daughter Ilka): party giver
Elsa Maxwell CIR. S. v. P.~;
diplomat John Leighton Stuart
CFifty Years In Gilman;
lady bullfighter Patricia Nc
Cormick ("Lady BullfighterD.
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Croft Show Here

Washingtonians will be able
to see pottery being made, in
a program of demonstrations
in the crafts, to be given by
members of the various crafts
in Creative Crafts Exhibition,
which will inaugurate the sea-
son at the National Museum
next Thursday, to remain
through September %. Each
day there will be demonstra-
tions from 10 to IL and 2 to
4 o'clock. Next Saturday morn
ing, Betty Didcoct of the Kiln
Club, will demonstrate wheel
throwing.
Incidentally, while at the
Rowantrees Kiln, we met Rob-
ert Ric h m In, director Of
Washington's Institute of Con-
temporary Arts, who is sum-
mering with his family on
Cranberry Island, Maine.
In view of the widespread
interest aroused by the Gar
bisch collection Of American
primitive paintings given to
the National Gallery last
spring, and exhibited there to
mid-July, Mrs. Stafford took us
to the home of a Blue Hill
collector, who owns a large
number of primitive paintings
made by an 18th century
settler of the village, Rev.
Jonathan Fisher. Most inter-
esting of these was a pam
oramic view of Blue Hill about
a century and a half ago. Mr..
Howard, the owner. has identi-
fed in the painting, many
houses which are still standing.
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House Museums

since many WaSnlngCOIllaLS
come from New England, or
know it well through sojourns
in that region, they do not
need to be told that many Of
it's villages and buildings are
museum exhibits of the best
sort, original examples of ar
chitecture and the decorative
arts remaining where they
were created, and in conse-
quence, having a special kind
of appeal that is lost when OBJ
jects are removed to the i'm
personal atmosphere of a mu-
scum. Such a place is Man.
tucket Village on Nantucket
Island. with it's 18th and 10th
century houses Of the prosper
Gus whaling era. some of them
with furnishings of their re-
spective periods. Naturally.
their historical is as great as
their esthetic interest.
Older than Nantucket is the
remarkable group of three
18th century houses on the
same grounds in Salem. Mass.
The most famous, the House
of Seven Gables, immortalized
by Hawthorne, is maintained
as an historic house museum,
or more accurately, a literary
one. One of the others, in
geniously combining 18th CEN
fury appearance. with modern
comfort has rooms for over
night guests. Not a COM
mercial venture, this fascinat-
ing group of houses has been
owned since 1910 by a neigh
borhood settlement. Wash
ington's Friendship House SET
Element, it will be recalled. is
also established in an historic
house where art exhibitions
are held at intervals. Such
settlements play doubly impor-
tant roles. AS the Seven Ga
bles Settlement expresses it,
not only do they make some
thing old pay for something
new and VITAL" they also pre-
serve irreplaceable values of
the past.
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he erribIe
Mochine-Age
Suvuees
The Story Of Our

ssS 1871 W wi
Civilization
BY Philip Lee Ralph.
(Dutt0n; $3.75.)
Reviewed by Francis ?. Douglas
One Of the frightening
things Of today. according to
Prof. Ralph. Is that barbara
ans are in short supply. That
is. barbarians Of the kind who
overcame the Roman world
sturdy folk who had some IA
miliarity with Roman institu-
tions and a disposition to con-
tinue some aspects Of them,
albeit clumsily.
Today's barbarians who
would take over on the col
lapse of our world are ma
chine age savages" empty Of
resources within themselves.
They do not think creatively
but ''are alternately at the
mercy Of, and a terrifying
threat to. the directing mi
nority entrusted with public
destiny"
The author, head of the his
tory department of Lake Erie
College, is a philosopher as
well as an historian and he
writes with clarity and wit.
He looks at Western man over
a period of 10000 years and
in the present. He argues this
way about what we face now:
An Ethical Civilization
The real task is not to Gre
ate an industrial civilization
but an ethical one. At bottom,
the trouble with contemporary
Western civilization is that it
Is immoral. There are moral
people who act according to
standards of right and wrong,
but these standards have not
been applied to the state.
The state, the strongest of
institutions, Is an anachron-
ism. It presupposes permanent
differences among peoples and
their geographical separation
from one another even though
1t is clear the world has be-
come one in destiny and can
enjoy a productive future only
on such a basis.
But we may pull through.
If we do, it will be by the
'rediscovery and utilization of
the values now being tested
by fire."
This summary leaves out
most of the authors backward
look, which is both entertain
ing and profound. He is not
a pessimist; one of mans
characteristics is a tendency
to become civilized, he finds.
Also, while there may be many
reasons to place man at the
top in q scheme of biological
classification only one reason
is suficient-man does the
classifying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29

AS the Democratic candi-
date for the presidency. Adlai
Stevenson paid less than lip
service to the comforting
cliches and bland generalities
which are the staples of most
political oratory. Now, run
ming for nothing but running
true to form, he goes on tell
ing people not what they want
to hear but what he thinks is
the truth, unpalatable though
it may be.
In this report of a post
campaign world tour, which
originally took the form of
the Bodkin lectures at Har-
ward last spring, Mr.. Steven
son is both profound and
sparkling. His wonted gifts of
lucidity, epigram and sum-
mary are happily in evidence.
What he is considering is
Americas pivotal role in the
conflict between freedom and
tyranny. Although he agrees
the struggle represents UNI
precedented peril for us, he
tries to place certain of its
elements in historical per-
spective. He states the objec-
tive as victory without war;"
thereby ruling out both pre-
ventive war and peaceful CO.
existence.
New Political independence
Mr.. Stevenson does not go
along with the faction which
holds that Soviet communism
Is the villain Of the piece upon
whose determination we should
all live happily ever after.
What he insists we see as the
equally driving force is the
Shadows of a world revolu-
ton of which communism is
more the scavenger than the
inspiration"
This is the revolution of
'.risirfg expectations and the
new political independence of
masses of awakening peoples"
1.-THE explosive forces of ma
tionalism, anti-colonialism and
independence which we in
America. the first modern
product of anti-colonial revo-
luton should understand very
well, were not invented by.
communism. But communism
will aggravate them and ex-
plot them and gain by them
whenever and wherever it can.
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/ " 3 AN"A AAA
sights. Like
her heroine,
a S t u r d y
charac t e +
fl e e in g a
loatheS o me
hus b a n d,
Mrs. Wilson
doesn't al
ways S e e m
to k n o W
where S h e
is going.
M a G G ! e,
the heroine.
! ahnc nn
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Reading and Writing
High Altitude and Dark Continent
Items Dominate Fall Book Lists
Copyright by HARSH, ottawa.

For connoisseurs Of the
local political scene there will
be Corruption Hunter" in
which Newbold Morris has told
the story of his brief ride on
the Washington merry-go-
round to Dana Lee Thomas.
Other personalities Of burn
ing contemporary interest
have sat for their portraits.
General Mac Arthur, who shows
no signs Of fading away in
the public eye is the subject
of two books: Macarthur,
1941-1951," by Maj. Gen.
Charles A. Willoughby and
John Chamberlain, and 1.-THE
Untold Story of Douglas Mac
Arthur" by Frazier Hunt.
A couple of Civil War gem
erals come in for their
share of attention. On the
Rebel side, I'VE will have
They Called Him Stone
wall" by Burke Davis, and
from the Union, Stormy Ben
Butler by Robert S. Holman.
The last volume of Douglas
Southall Freeman's Life of
General George Washington is
also due. The long-promised
one-volume edition of Carl
Sandburg's six-volume master
piece on Lincoln will be avail
able as will a short illustrated
biography by Stephen Lorant.
Going further back are Rich
ard Winston's "Charlemagne"
and Lord David Cecils "Mel-
bourne"
Of Religious Interest
Fulton Lewis, jr., contro-
versial commentator is the
subject of Praised and
Damned" by Booton Herndon.
Waterfront Priest" by Allen
Raymond tells the story of
Father Corridan, the Jesuit
reformer.
For long views of the cur
rent social and political scene
there will be Barbara Wards
Faith and Freedom" Erich
Fromm's 1.-THE Sane Society"
and Lewis Mumford's I'm the
Name of Sanity"
On the lighter side of the
same question there will be-
Francis w. Dahl's Birds.
Beasts and Bostonians";; Rus
sell Lynes' 1.-THE Tastemakers"
and James Thurber's 1.-THE
Secret Dream of Stanley Cald-
WELL" which is contemporary
criticism in the form of a
social satire on "a band of
investigators who probe cock
tail parties. love affairs and
other dangerous conspiracies."
Fiction Heodliners
In fiction, two headliners
are represented by shorter
selections: Evelyn Waugh in
Tactical Exercise" and j. P.
Marquand in Thirty Years"
1.-THE High and the Mighty"
Ernest K. Gam has Soldier
of Fortune" set in Hong Kong.
Warren Eyster, Leon Urls and
Merle Miller, younger novel;
lists who made quite a splash
with war fiction, have ready
mo Country for Old Men,"
Hellenic Interlude" and Re
union" respectively. 1.-THE
View From Pompey's Head"
by Hamilton Basso is said to
be a sharp social study of the
new South.
"Leopards and Lilies" is an
other off-beat historical novel
by Alfred Duggan. Marcia
Davenport's "My Brothers
Keeper" concerns a pair Of,
debris-smothered brothers who
sound like the Collyers.
MARY McGRORY.
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Swamp Angel
BY Ethel Wilson.
(Harper & Bros. $50

This is not SO much a novel
as a winning assemblage of
interesting characters, charm
ing nature scenes and psyche
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Devices and Desires
BY E. Arnot Robertson. (MacnnillGn; $500

allan; $780,
wives. Finally in Athens, she
embarks on the longest and
most fantastic detour of her
eight-year pilgrimage. She
goes, as companion for a rich
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Art News
An Art Critic
On d Holiday
By Florence S. Berrymon

People who find q con-
tinuing interest in their pro-
LESSONS. are likely to take
q busman's holiday when on
vacation. Such was the case
with Emily N. Steuart. art in
structor at Western High
School. and this writer. on q
recent motor trip through
New England and a part of
Canada. We visited a number
of villages beloved of artists,
viewing annual summer exhi-
billions. We also saw q few
Washington artists.
Those who enjoy dividing
the population into two classes,
according to tastes. undoubted-
~ include persons who return
to the same place year after
year. and others who prefer
variety. spending each vaca-
ton in a different area. We
concluded that the majority
of Washington area artists
belong to the second class.
One Of our earliest stops
was Pomfret, Connecticut,
where Marian Lane, WASH
ington's foremost illumination.
has a summer studio. This
lovely 18th century village,
with its elm shaded houses.
provided an inspiring setting.
where we found Miss Lane
working on Nominations, some
of which will be shown in the
coming seasons exhibitions.
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gives an engaging little pam.
phlet about weathervanes. be-
ginning Which way does the
wind blow?"
AS we travelled homeward.
we hoped the wind would blow
more interest and attention
toward art and fine crafts
'manship, and encouragement
for all who are engaged in
creating it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29

continent-of picturing the
problems and aspirations COM
mon to all these changing
states.
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Cunudiun Gallery

During brief stops in three
of Canada's largest cities I
visited the National Gallery
of Canada in Ottawa. I found
it in a situation similar to
that of our own National Col
lection of Fine Arts in the
Natural History Building.
Canada's National Gallery is
housed in the Victoria Mu-
scum. most of the space in
which is devoted to mammals.
minerals, fossils, etc. Yet,
like our national collection, it
deserves a home Of its own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29

The art-minded traveller
frequently meets collections in
unexpected places. Toward
the end of our vacation. Miss
Steuart and / spent a night
in Plattsburg. New York. En-
tering the lobby of the Hotel
Witherill we found it deco
rated with a large collection of
early American weathervanes
of a century and more ago,
made Of copper. wrought iron
and wood. some covered with
gold leaf. OF such has the
Index of American Design in
our National Gallery. original
paintings in watercolor. To
interested visitors, the hotel
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first annual exhibition, re-
ported by Richard Lahey. di-
rector of the Corcoran School
of Art, was given in these col
ums last summer. The nnu-
seum's associate director is
Allen Whiting, a former Wash
ingtonian, who edited the
Magazine of Art here in the
193Os.
Miss Steuart and I visited
the second annual of the
Ogunquit Museum of Art, on
view until September IL. It
is a superb show in two parts,
installed in three galleries and
a sculpture court. One part
is composed of 40 drawings
by Winslow Homer, circulated
by the Smithsonian Institu-
tons travelling exhibition
service, along with some 20
oils and watercolors assembled
by Mr.. Whiting.
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Books in Review
Profound, Sparkling and Sincere,
This Is Stevenson, True to Form
,eviewed by Mary MeGrory

Coll to Greatness
BY Adlai E. Stevenson. fHarper G. Bros; s2.25J
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1954-01-19

/ Mrs. hIunson died at q:4o
Thursday in Mercy Hospital.
She was born Marc, l.. 1898
in Pixies County. Miss, to Jefferson
and Sylvia Brent.
She leaves her husband. the Rex
Lee hlunson; tNo brothers. Paul
Brent. Davess. Miss. and Leon
Brent. Champaign. and a sister.
Mrs. Sophia Montgomery. Jsyess,
Miss.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1954-01-19
Deaths

BRADLEY. Mrs. Nellie NJ. 81,
OF 6O4 N. Oak ST., died at s:lO
pm. Saturday in Burnham City
Hospital. Services 2 pm. Tuesday
in Bethel AME Church, burial in
Mt. Hope Cemetery. McHaney Fu-.
neral Home has charge.
She is survived by TWO brothers
John and George of Champaign,
and several nieces and nephews.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1954-01-19

! Services for Mrs. Emma L. Nun
son, S., OF 204ia (. Hill ST.,
Champaign, will be at ? p m. Mon
dav in Parker & Son Funeral Home.
The Rev. Andrew A. Jackson viii
officiate, assisted BY the Rev. B. II.
HAYNES of Chicago. Burial will De
in VII. iope Cemetery