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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-08

.geria, CAMERON and Central
Africa. Most of 1t Is of wood,
but there also is some bronze,
brass, copper, iron and ivory.
There is much of interest in
the collection, not only for the
objects themselves, but in
view of this arts influence on
modern schools and the grow
ing. popular interest in the
African continent.
The mystic, primitive flavor
of tribal life and ritual comes
to the viewer from the carved
figures, sometimes called "fe-
tishes," masks, headpieces and
unitarian objects. They tell
Of a culture Of ancestor wor-
ship, secret societies and
rhythmic patterns Of living.
Richness Of Design
The Wurtzburger collection,
notes Prof. Paul s. Wingert of
Columbia University in an in
troductory essay to the cata-
log of the Baltimore Museum
showing, represents to a COM
prehensive degree the range
and richness of African Negro
sculpture in all of the FIVE
major regions"
AS a whole, he says, lit pre-
sents the esthetic richness and
the diversity of this vigorous
and amazing art"
Among the individual works
in the showing here which he
considers particularly note
worthy is a Bambara dance
headpiece in the form of a
stylized antelope. and q Mossi
polychrome antelope head
piece. both from the French
Sudan.
He cites also o broken-nose
secret society mask from the
Ibibio tribe. Nigeria. and q
Baluba neckrest from the
Belgian Congo with a female
figure base, both finely carved
pieces. and q Benin bronze
head Of q deceased king from
Nigeria.
The collection includ e S
masks from all areas. One
from the Ogowe River region.
described as the type used by
leaders Of the female secret
society to depict ancestral
spirits, is characterized by an
elaborate hairdress and is
strikingiy oriental. A Bush
ongo mask from the Belgian
Congo Is particularly elaborate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-08
| Knew Sister Kenny
BY Herbert ]. Levine, M. D.
(ChriStopher;; $780,


CHRISTOPHER; $780,
DR.. Levine was closely as
ISOLATED with the late Sister
Elizabeth Kenny at Centralia.
ILL.,, where she established her
only polio clinic in the United
States outside of the original
one in Minneapolis. The Cen
tralia clinic was set up after
the town in 1916 suffered q
disastrous epidemic and the
stricken children had to be
sent all over the State be-
cause the hospital facilities at
home were soon exhausted.
DR.. Levine says local doctors
were unanimous In petitioning
Sister Kenny to go there and
gave her every cooperation
while her clinic was running.
It was closed by executives
of the Kenny National Foun-
dation short time before
Sister Kenny relinquished con-
troll of the foundation and
returned to Australia. The
author of this book greatly
admired the Australian nurse.
Her method Of treating po-
Ito stirred up q controversy
In the medical profession.
&C. B. j.
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uAAeSV S1bAoAH
happened. Instead the boy.
though naturally far from nor
NAL, was a fifSt-rate student.
He graduated from high school
with a scholarship to Harvard.
He had q passion for history.
But his mother would not con-
slider his leaving her and he
lacked the power to break away.
She made him study accounting
and go to work in town. He
did live to hate her. How he
got even with her mother, or
tried to. and what happened
after that you must find out
from MIR. Bowen's tense mar
rative.
If you belong to the school
Of readers who say there's
enough unpleasantness in life.
why don't writer's, ETC., this is
not the book for you. But Mr..
Bowen has done an artistic
job on Edna. She might sound
overdrawn, distorted, but she
emerges from his pages a per-
suasive character. Undoubt-
edly there have been people as
sinister as Edna; most of us
have known those who ap-
preached her in some degree.
The final proof of the authors
devastating skill is that. in the
end, ! found myself feeling
even a little sorry for Edna,
intensely as I hated her
because she had missed so
much she could easily have
had. because her life was so
barren.
Mr.. Bowen is an able young
novelist. as he revealed in his
memorable first novel, 1.-THE
Weight Of the Cross" and, in
a different way. in his second
book, Bamboo" "Side Street.
makes its unpleasant point
with undeniable power. It is
true that the author some
times strains for a phrase and
does not always catch it,
especially in his philosophical
digressions, but on the whole
the writing Is quite effective.
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Mystery and Suspense
Reviewed by Miriom ottenbero

Murder In Pastiche. BY Marion
Mainwaring. macmillan;
$2.75)
Nine famous detectives hap
pen to be crossing the At
lantic on the same ship. A
particularly unsavory gossip
columnist is killed and all of
them are called on to help.
The authors gimmick is that
each Of the nine sleuths is
patterned after q fictional de-
tective-slyly renamed but
totally recognizable. In less
skillful hands, this parody
could have fallen on its face.
AS 1t turns out, the author has
produced q delightfully."- mali
cious critique in which each Of
the detectives struts his stuff.
Devotees Of whodunits should
love Though conceivably
after reading it they will never
be quite so bemused by their
favorite authors.
According to the Evidence. BY
Henry Cecil. (Harper g.
Bros; $2.50.)
Ambrose Low. the reformed
safecracker of mo Bail for the
Judge" returns to action in
this rollicking tale of q man
who takes the law in his own
hands and must face the con-
sequences. The Low theory:
Give the police enough evil
dence to build case against
the man but not enough to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-08
French Writer'S Absorbing Study
Of Doctors in UnIoveIy Region
The Healing Oath
BY Andre Soubiran. (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $685.
Reviewed by Mary McGroy

vincial doctors coping in their
various ways with the medieval
superstition. avarice and just
plain cussedness Of the country
folk. Bonnafy, with his flashy
equipment, earns their respect
by showing them a firmness
about money that matches
their own. Lucien Clement,
stolid peasant himself, is
simply dedicated. But An
tome Ricaud, pious and nerv-
GUS, regards medicine as q
sacred mission, and thereby
earns such contempt from his
patients as they would accord
a lame dog.
For the doctors, as for all
trained minds laboring in the
provinces, the cruelest bur-
den is loneliness. professional
and personal. AS his legacy,
to them and his calling, DR..
Delpuech leaves what sounds
like a very sensible solution
to a doctors dilemma.
BY contrast, the solution
to jeans personal problems
in Paris. which has the air of
being tackled on as a postscript,
seems melodramatic and i'm
plausible. He is torn between
sacred and profane love. and
the outcome is Immediately
practicable, although rather
tortuously worked out.
But the scenes in Auvergne,
with their shewd but compass
sionate depletion of the peas
ants, their realistic but never
narrowing accounts of illness
and treatment are excellent.
Except for the contrived end
ing. THE Healing Oath" is a
sound and absorbing study Of
men In white, who have to
outwit their patients in order
to treat them.
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Festival
BY Lael Tucker.
/Rnnd07ya Hn1LSe "a

When Joshua and Lutte
Middlebush come to the Pyre-
nees to participate in the final
musical festival Of o famed
musician known to the reader
only as ''the Old Man." their
marriage is on the rocks. How
it gets OF the rocks is the
burden Of Miss fuckers story.
The heightened emotional
atmosphere Of the festival and
the Middlebushes Is well con-
veyed with a sickness which Is,
if anything. too slick. But It's
good light summer reading,
complete with o temporary
heart's-ease for Lutte in the
person of the violinist. William
Jones, and q similar divertis-
sement for Joshua In the per-
son of Becky, who plays the
double bass. And the final
reconciliation is complete with
q nightingale singing in the
MOONLIGHT. It entertains.
"A. 8. D.
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Aboard the Flying Swan

Aboard the Flying Swan
BY Stanley Wolpert.
(Charles Scribner's Sons;
$3.75.J
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kelley
The hero of q Joseph Con-
rad novel expressed the opin-
ion that we would all be better
of If the world were like q ship
and would turn turtle and
sink" if each person didn't do
his job.
Stanley Wolpert's first novel.
the story Of a young engineers
trip on the merchant ship. Fly
ing Swan, might well be called
an attempt to refute Conrad's
assumption about ships.
The Flying Swan not only
doesn't turn turtle, although
it develops a serious list. it
makes q trip to South Amer
lea and back manned by q
crew Of malingerers, thieves
and incompetents.
The notable exception on
the crew is the old fourth as
sistant engineer, Nick Karen
kov. His heroic job Of recon.
structing the ships generator
single-handed sounds more
than family reminiscent Of
Hugo's ''Toilers of the Sea-"
A large piece Of the plot
sounds like q watered-down
"Caine Mutiny" arising from
the sale of some Of the ships
vital equipment by the Swans
chief engineer.
In spite of the crowded.
eclectic plot, Mr.. Wolpert has
done q masterful job of Great
ing living characters and
placing them in a setting he
obviously understands. q ships
engineroom.
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BurthoIdi Mementos

An exhibit at the Library Of
Congress commentaries the
120th anniversary of the birth
of Bartholdi, the French sculp-
tor whose masterpiece, "Liber.
ty Enlightening the World"
has stood in New York Harbor
for nearly 10 years as the
famous symbol of Americas
freedom.
It includes manuscripts, pho
tographs and other materials
relating to the statue. Among
them are letters of Edouard
de Laboulaye, French writer
who reused popular support for
the creation of the statue and
its presentation by the people
of France to the people Of the
United States. and of Henry
F. Spaulding and Richard But
Ter, officers of the American
Committee for the Statue Of
Liberty.
The exhibition continues
through October 4.
The Southerners
BY Edna Lee.
(Appleton- Centurv-Crott
$3.75.)
Reviewed by Christie Rinehort
Barred from social recogni-
ton by the stigma of her
birth. Jess Kildare struggles
against prejudice and per-
sonal hardship to break down
the barriers Of the post Re-
construction South's caste So
ciety.
Even after she marries into
the socially prominent Cara
bee family. takes over the
Carrabee mills from the hands
of her drunken spouse and
energies as a reformer Of the
industrial practices of the
day. Jess continues to be beset
by the snobbism of the period.
The infallible heroine
stands out as a pillar Of wis
dom in an atmosphere where
the errors of her contempt
raries are rather too plainly
spelled out by Miss Lee. This
is a readable book with a sur
prise ending. but little is left
to the imagination.
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Before the African Storm
BY John Cookson. (Bobbs-Merrin, $500

10y O0A44A SO0AO0AAs \OO0Oo Ava W
Reviewed by Belmont Fories
Is Africa going the way Of
Asia? Mr.. Cookson, a former
British Army officer with wide
experience in Central Africa,
warns of a coming storm.
The industrial revolution
came late to Africa. It has
disrupted triba life while
creating native demands for
better living conditions and a
greater voice in their own af-
fairs. African resentment
against colonial rule offers
many opportunities for exploit
tation by Communist agitators.
In Central Africa the colonial
powers are trying, some list
lessly, some energetically. to
make up for the errors OF the
past. The Belgians in the
uranium-rich Congo have been
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Side Street

II there Is a more Inalev-
olent woman in recent fiction
than Edna Gavin Of this novel,
I haven't encountered her and
am not looking for her. .
What gives her evil incanta-
tons such power is her cum
ming, her Subtlety and her
bland mask of middle-class
responsibility, Of irreproach-
able conduct. She is, to all ap-
pearances, q housewife and q
mother beyond criticism and
she is armed with self -persua-
sion that she is without a flaw
and that her deeds, however
extreme, are necessary to carry
out the purity of her purpose.
The only reason Edna does
not mess up more lives is lack
of opportunity; very few are
tangent to hers. With the two
lives she Is able to control she
does extremely well. AS we
leave her-not reluctantly
she has ahead of her the
shaping of a third life.
Edna grew up on o side
street in an Eastern city, pre-
sumably in New Jerseys
street known for its nice, un-
obtrusive homes, it's decent
citizens. She was a fugitive
from the still recent Victorian
era and was a young woman
when the First World War
broke out. 1t might be
wondered. parenthetically, why
novelists link such women
as Edna to the influence,
If not the time, Of the
10Th century and make
contemporary women franker.
freer and most honest. Prob
ably there were as many we'll
adjusted persons in grand
mothers youth as there are
today. maybe more, but that's
another issue.
The Quiet Kind
Edna was a quiet. shy girl,
whom people rarely noticed
and remembered only as that
little Roberts girl. She finished
high school with an excellent
record and went to work in
the big department store as an
accountant. On one of the an
nual picnics which the owner
gave the grateful Che hoped
employees at the store, she met
a husky young Irish truck
driver named Bill Gavin. She
decided to marry him. and Bill,
being at that age where he
longed for a wife and kids, q
home, Of his own, hadn't q
chance to escape. Shortly after
their marriage America en-
tered the war and Bill enlisted
the second day. While he was
In France their son william
was born. BY that time Edna
had revealed herself as a IA
natical prude, a puritan in the
worst sense. She disapproved of
her husband because he some
times drank. She endured the
intimate side of marriage cold
~, stoically. She hated all men,
for, she explained. their male
ness. She Dragged about the
fine war record Bill was max
ing, but she was determined to
bring up her son to be a mirror
OF herself. William was two
years old before his father saw
him. The returning hero found
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most successful in improving
the living standards Of the ma
tives. but have discouraged any
political development. British
policies have ranged from al
most complete African admin
istration to regimes nearly as
repressive as DR.. Malan's in
South Africa.
But a greater effort is
needed, Mr.. Cookson feels. if
the storm is to be averted.
The Mau Mau troubles in
Kenya are warnings Of what
might come il the Africans are
not helped more willingly along
the long, hard road to self
government.
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n o t h l n g
a b o u t it.
lacking EVIL
dence. Will
liam grew up
conpl e t e ly
shackled to
his mother.
as she had
planned. You
may g u e S s
that he end
ed up setting
an orpha-
n a g e afre.
But nothing
49, ~i,,,so.r
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African Sculpture

More of the exotic is on view
throughout this month at the
School of Advanced Interna-
tional Studies of Johns Hop
kins University, 1906 Florida
avenue NV, in a loan exhibit
ton from the WurtZburger
collection of African sculpture.
The exhibition includes
about 80 objects, some two
thirds of the collection made
in the last few years by Mr..
and Mrs. Alan Wurtzburger Of
Baltimore. It is being pre-
sented to the Baltimore Mu-
scum of Art, where it already
has had one showing.
The sculpture comes from
the Guinea coast, Sudan, Nj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-08

"a TREASURY OF FRENCH TALES newly collected byHenri
Pourrat Houghon fn, So, contains charming illus
traOns such the shown above of s0uheared Vidal
the beautiful maiden whom he wins for STAY
ing manyheaded monster Gallo wit and wisdom figure
these folk Stories Of which simply recount earthly
dotes while others tell of marvellous talking beasts and
bushes that turn into demons and finally into handsome
princes Mary Man. who contributed many stories the
New Yorker is the translator of the selections In this first
comprehensive collection of French folk fairy tales
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-08

early enCf1eS
in the cur
rent rash of
m e d ! C a !
novels. In
this INSTALL
ment, young
Jean Nerac
j S. ira MS
p | a n t e d
from { h e
heshpotS of
Paris, where
he diSsipates
i n t ensively
and studies
on the side.
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Andre Soubiran's excellent
bedside manner should insure
popularity for this sequel to
THE Doctors" one Of the
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Lyrical Novel
els Episode
In Boys Life
The Go-Between

: = re
BY L. r. Hartley.
fAlfred A. Knopf; $500
It is always a pleasure to
watch Q conscious literary
artist at work. L. p. Hartley,
the English novelist, is such
a one. AL his effects are de-
liberately sought and bril-
liantly brought OF. Yet a
thread of shining lyricism runs
through this account of one
Hateful and enchanted summer
in the life Of q small boy.
The English do not share our
regrettable tendency to write
in maudlin terms about Adde'S
cents as II they were freaks or
invalids or made OF glass. So
no sentimentality mars the
story Of a 12-year-old boy who
is made the g6-between in q
love affair between the daugh-
ter of the great house he is
visiting and q neighboring
tenant farmer.
To be sure. Leo Colston, q
bright child shivering with ex-
pectancy for the new century
just begun, does not know he
is the messenger Of an Illicit
passion. Beneath the simmer
ing heat and wonder of sum-
mer, he cannot accurately linn
the treachery to which he is
made an accomplice. Marian,
his schoolboy friends elder
sister, is simply q miracle to
him, and to serve her, even in
the nystifying mission Of
earring notes to and from a
Ted Burgess. a virile villager.
is his private joy. One day,
because the scloolboy's code
permits him to read an un-
sealed letter. he begins to
sense that his friend Lord
birmingham, Marian's suitable
sutton. is being betrayed. But
the schoolboy's code is no
match for the shattering
events which follow upon his
clumsy and literal attempts to
break up the liaison.
The story is told through the
eyes of the withered 60-year-
old Leo Colston who had with
drawn from all participation
In life after his one disastrous
brush with it. MIR. Hartley's
artistry is such that he makes
it sound like a child's account
that is with the matter-of-
fact notation of temperature
and other externals-yet with
an overlap of poignant deeper
meaning. In such passages as
those relating to the very pin
nacle of Leo's young life, when
he makes a brilliant catch at
a cricket match and then goes
on to greater glory with a solo
at the village concert, Mr..
Hartley succeeds in re-creating
the very essence of youthful
joy-"a sense Of well-being
that seemed to mount and
mount in me, ever seeking,
higher levels like wine filling
a glass"
But that is Leo before his
innocence is hlighted. Mr..
Hartley's novel has many other
elements besides. It describes
the turn-of- thee century gram
deur of English country life,
its absurd but militant snob.
berry and the final irony Of the
hayward Marian, who in her
sos can still press Leo into
service as q go-between. Both
in symbolic and actual terms
it is a beautiful and controlled
feat of storytelling, Of Great
ing atmosphere and character.
M. MEG.
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News of Artists and Exhibitions

with beads. shells and raffia
cloth.
There are bronze and brass
containers for handling gold
dust from the Ashanti tribe
of the Gold Coast.
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ADDED to the Freer collection
in recent years fills q number
of gaps and increases our IA
cilities for the further study
of Chinese civilization"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-08

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1954-11-25

mittee, not to the Executive
Committee as appeared in
Tuesdays Evening Star.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-06
AIcorn Beats
1ougaIoo 67-47

The Alcorn Braves routed the
Tougaloo Cagers 62-47, Friday,
night, February 26, in the Alcorn
Gym to take possession of the
South Central Athletic Conferences
Visitation Trophy by virtue of a
81 record. This award is given to
| the team with the best won and lost
record for the season among con-
ference competition.
Listed as runner-ups were Dill
lard and Mississippi Vocational
College, tied for second place with
a 6-3 record each, and Philander
Smith, third place.
Conference teams will meet in
the SCAC tournament March and
6 at the Jackson College Gym.
Teams participating are: Alcorn,
Mississippi Industrial, Philander
Smith, billiard, Tougaloo, Stillman
and Leland. AS the past record
shows, the visitation winner doesn't
always emerge victorious from the
tournament. Any team participant
ing is capable of eliminating the
other despite its past won and lost
record. AS a result cage fans can
look farword to plenty of action.
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Southern

Continued from Page One)
of a simple, but profound truism:
The South's greatest natural re-
source is its people, ALL of its
people. To decree that the black
one-third of the population must
be the mental servants of the white
majority; to divide the black and
white into separate, walled-o off
communities - both of these ar
rangements are sheer folly. Both
of these arrangements have been
tried in the South and have dem
onstrated their folly in bitter,
tragic terms"
The growth of industry in the
South has been great in recent
years, especially in the production
Of finished goods, he said. "The
best natural market for these con-
sumner goods is in the region itself.
But as long as the median income
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-06
scAc Cage
tournament At
Jackson College

The South Central Athletic Con-
ference Squares Off It's Teams For
The Most Sensational and Spirit
Stirring Battles For Championship
Honors In Men and Women Basket
ball In It's Colorful History At The
Jackson College Gymnasium, Fri
day and Saturday, March Sc, 1854.
According to Dwight Fisher,
Chairman of the Tournament Com
mittee, there will be plenty of ex-
citeable moments when the teams
of the conference clash. Starting
at 1:30 P. NJ, Friday afternoon.
Coach Fisher states that "the
tournament play will be single eli
mination. The first four teams,
as determined by seasonal record
are seeded. Two ranking teams of
the girls squads will be seeded in
upper and lower brackets. Indica-
tions are that five girls teams and
eight boys teams will participate
in the tournament, giving eleven
games to be be played"
Official standing of the teams in
visitation performances gives AL
corn, billiard, Philander Smith, and
Stillman College Of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama slight edges on champion
ship honors., The sensationalism
appears more shapely when a
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-06

I three years, local baseball CONVEX.
sation is not trimmed with cheer.
The squad has a critical lack OF
pitching depth and both the infield
and outfield are notably inferior
to last years Midwest conference
co-champions.
Eleven starting lettermen are
missing from the '53 team which
won % and lost three, but the
coach is addicted to the production
of superlative teams and he has
set his teeth to make the best of
a poor situation.
AS astute Judge of baseball tai
ent, his teams have won 1863 games
and lost only 10 in eight seasons.
The 50 Grambling nine will be
short on both depth and expert
ence but long on spirit of combat.
The president is undergoing a
complete rebuilding job and the
wolf" cry is not designed to hull
the enemy into a hand-winnowed
BOBBY trap.