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Evening star., 1954-01-03
Serene Montmortre

The Phillips Gallery's exhi-
bltion Of paintings by Maurice
Utrillo in his best period, will
remain through next Sunday.
All who love good painting,
and all who love Paris should
not miss this nostalgia, poetic
show. Most of the paintings
are from private collections.
seldom to be seen. In the
illustrated catalog (25 cents)
Duncan Phillips says in his
foreword. that Utrillo was "a
painter in spite of himself"
Some one said years ago, that
Cezanne's oft-quoted remark
about Monet, HE is only an
eye-but what an eye!" applied
with equal aptness to Utrillo.
Utrillo's life has been as
miserable as Van Gogh's and
Lautrec'S. An illegitimate
child, Utrillo became an alco-
holic at 10 years of age, and
his mother started him paint
ing. to give him some interest
besides wine. He painted what
he saw. AS Mr.. Phillips says,
old houses and winding streets
of Montmartre. But he did
more than just transcribe what
e saw. AS Mr.. Phillips says,
Utrillo got "sentient effects of
texture and exquisite rela-
tions of color" and his early
paintings reveal personal ex-
preston and painterly distinc-
tion." These are the qualities
that make Utrillo a painters
painter.
Serene and Gentle
One important aspect in
which Utrillo differs from Van
Gogh and Lautrec is that his
personal miseries do not show
up in his paintings. These are
serene and gentle. and his
ancient, dilapidated houses
are veiled with poetic vision.
Lautrec and Utrillo. both
painters of Montmarte, show
most strongly contrasted as
poets of that famous section
of Paris.
After his best. sometimes
called white" period, which
compose this exhibition.
Utrillo descended to medioc-
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Joyous Portrait

An enchanting portrait of a
little girl painted by a WASH
ington artist was shown to the
friends of her family the Sum-
day before Christmas when
Mrs. Harry Meem and her
Son-in-law and daughter, DR..
and Mrs. Floyd Sterling Rogers,
had a reception at the Rogers
home for that purpose.
Little Carol Rogers, 5
years old. wore the long white
organdy dress with pink sash
and streamers and the red
slippers in which she was
painted. Her long pale golden
hair, blue eyes and petal COM
plexion made her a decorative
subject of whom the artist,
Gladys Milligan, captured a
vivid likeness, no mean
achievement with a child too
young to have any character
lines. She has depicted the
little girl in an imaginative
landscape. trees and sky indi-
eating early spring.. symbolic of
the child's time of life. The
high-keyed freshness of the
painting reminds one of Law
rence's "Pinkie" without in any
WaV reSeYnhli1,o II
Evening star., 1954-01-03
. Cress DeIehonty
BY Jessamyn West. (Harconrt, Brace; $3.75J

Cress Delehanty is q junior
miss in search Of a personality
when she Is introduced at the
age of IA. Two years later,
after a mild course, she has
found 1t. Actually. it is the
sweet. solid sensible nature her
mother has been trying to sell
her all along. but, naturally
Cress has to find out for her
self.
Cress' problems, fondly. but
not patronizingly delineated
by the author Of 1.-THE Friendly
Persuasion" are the classic
ones Of adolescence, completely
uncomplicated by any econom-
ic or family difficulties. Her
mother and father never even
laugh at her, and her crises,
save one. are Of her own gen.
Grating.
n IFo0em0rk
"A liSt-maker and the daugh-
ter Of q list-maker, Cress gives
herself over to endless self
scrutiny, between bouts Of
incoming, dreaming and mourn
ing the passing of time. She
finally evolves q trademark.
that Of jester and character.
Comes the day. though. when
she wants to be taken seriously
and the trademark is hastily
filed away.
Other phases bring her to
a realization that parents
worry about children as much
Evening star., 1954-01-03

permits from Thanksgiving to
New Years week end. This
afternoon offers the last op-
portunity to see the 308 oil
paintings, water colors, sculp-
lures, graphic arts. ceramics
and stained glass that COM
pose the eighth edition.
In my final visit I noted .
number of works in other Sec
tions than oils, which seemed
to me particularly appealing.
In the water color section I
was arrested by Don Mundt's
Fishermen, Brazil" living fig
ures against teXtured walls:
Vaughn Jackson's rich "Old
Home Place" Herman Maril's
reticent white House." Rosa
mond Tirana's charming Ter
race" and Aaron Sopher's
Satirical "Pimlico."
In the drawings section
there are several beautiful pas
tells: Richard Lahey's blue
Perkins Cove" June Mead
ans Greek Bed" and Eliza
beth Wickenheiser's telling
portrait. Sick Child" Irene
Preveden's pen and ink PLAY.
ing Children" carries convic-
ton. Two drawings in mixed
media, Aaron Sopher's Eve
ming" a vivid capture Of .
slum neighborhood. and Helen
Beccard Niles solid Victorian
Souvenir" are admirably done.
No section has more variety
than the sculpture. Besides
works mentioned Ave weeks
ago. found Sarah Silberman's
Madonna of Haiti" engaging
and technically fine; Marilee
Shapiro's "Allegory" poetic
though strangely tattered in
conception; Heinz Warneke's
French stone tiger excellent in
every respect and Florence
HiggS' Little Mother" en-.
chanting. Louis Friedlander'S
limestone King" has a star
tling ability to keep his eye on
the observer-in fact, quite
unnerving.
Nor should any one overlook
the beautiful stained-glass
panel by Fredrica Fields en-.
titled Winter Night"
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Art und Business

The results of a happy COL
laboration between the Hot
Shoppes and two Washington
artists were unveiled in No
vember. Nine paintings by
Samuel Bookatz and Jack
Perlmutter add distinction to
the new Hot Shoppes Pantry
House at Fourteenth and G
streets NV.
The new wing attached to
the 2-year-old Hot Shoppes
at TOT Fourteenth street has a
pleasant blue-green and terra
Gotta color scheme, which is
carried out in these paintings
which tone in with the walls
and draperies.
The IFA Galleries, direct
ed by Manuel Baker and Nor
man Mayer, had been supply
lying the Hot Shoppes with
framed reproductions from
time to time. But they suggest
ed the use of original paintings
for the new wing to its archi-
tect, Joseph Morgan "a mem
ber of the District Branch,
American Institute of Archi-
tectS.)
Six paintings by Mr.. Book
atz include semiabstract in
terpretations of Connecticut
avenue. the waterfront. Great
Falls and Rock Greek Park,
and two abstract patterns. Mr..
Perlmutter has executed three
large semiabstractions. AN
chorage," Trees" and Under
sea ="
Evening star., 1954-01-03
How to Lie With Statistics
Morton; $2.95.)
Reviewed by WiIIiom Hines

It is historical truth that
while figures don't lie, liars
figure. One meets proof Of this
fact every day in television,
radio, magazine and newspaper
advertising. in pronounce
ments on labor negotiations,
in political manifestoes, in
Government reports even
unhappily-in interpretive and
straight-face news reports.
This sad circumstance
arises from the fact that q
complex civilization such as
ours requires US to live, to
some extent, by statistics and
with statistics. Yet statistics
are like nitroglycerin. valuable
in small. carefully admins
tered quantities. explosively
dangerous when carelessly ap-
piled. Mr.. Huff, in this excel
lent and readable book, gives
us a grain Of salt to take with
the statistics we are contin-
ually asked to swallow.
One Of the illuminating ex-
amples In this book shows how
a real estate man can sell a
house in a $15,0O0-income
neighborhood and then op-
pose q tax rise for the same
neighborhood on the ground
that the average income there
Evening star., 1954-01-03

as children, worry about par
ents, that certain girls when
they say people" really mean
'boys" and that love Is not
always romance. And she suf-
fers the pangs Of irony. when
she is praised by a friend Of
her mothers for not being
boy-crazy, while in her heart
she bears the mark Of q hope
less passion for a dying mar
ried man. CresS is so blessed.
though, that even this episode
is turned to good account. The
man Is married to q wonder
full woman. who understands
and welcomes Cress into the
house as a kind Of assistant
nurse and morale builder.
The book is not q novel. but
rather q series Of sketches,
each one showing one aspect
Of CreSS' growth and change.
Miss West has lavished great
love and understanding on her
young heroine. who indeed de-
serves it, but the fact is that
this material has been so
worked over since Tarking-
toms time. that 1t is pretty
thin, particularly in the alb
Scence Of any real trouble in
'Cress' life. I don't think she
even challenges j. D. Sailing
er's THE Catcher in the Rye"
! as a genuine discovery in the
field Of adolescent fiction.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

Of them lies in the lofty and
paradoxical reaches of con-
temptation. where the Psalms,
read with faith. produce "a ST.
lent depth-charge In the heart
OF the contemplative." and "ev-
erything In them Is charged
with vital urgency by virtue Of
the fact that they are full Of
Christ"
Bread in the Wilderness, I"
given q most beautiful format,
is informed With Father Mer-
tons wonted fervor and radi-
ance Of style. IN. Meg.
Long Wednesdays
BY Earl Chaplin. (Abelard;
$3.)
Reviewed by Fronk Sortwell, Jr.
AS the latest in the series of
books about the tribulations
OF editing a country newspa-
per. Long Wednesdays" is
right in line with its prede-
cessors.
The same tribulations we
have always with us-the
balky machinery. the brattish
printers devils, the triumph
Of hard work over penury and
the triumph Of good newspa-
pering over the influential ad-
vertiSer.
This sample is well written,
interesting, and has two re-
freshing notes: the author
gets elected mayor. unwilling
ly. and a cat gets run through
the press. unwittingly.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

the whole island and control
the schools and industries.
The time comes when there Is
a strike against prevailing in
justices; violence smolders and
flames here and there. But
the years go on much the
same. Then some of the old
people are thrown off the land
they thought they owned for
generations, because some
white man bought it with a lot
of other land at a transaction
they knew nothing about until
the courts order of eviction
was served. At last. sadly and
wonderingly, the boy, now 18.
leaves for Trinidad and q new
life.
Mr.. Lamming records in the
dialogue the quaint idioms of
the English spoken on Barba-
dos. The folkways of a warm
hearted, preSsed-down but
courageous people are de-
Scribed. Sometimes phrases
painting moods or scenes are
repeated and spun out to the
point Of irritation, but, on the
whole. the story is handled
with mastery and there are
many poetic passages.
There is an introduction by
Richard Wright.
Evening star., 1954-01-03
The Dream in the Flesh
BY Dan Levin. 90. P. Putndn's, Sons, $4J
Reviewed by Roy Koltwosser

The solemn judgments
against Washington and Gov
ernment and life in general
in 1.-THE Dream in the Flesh"
would probably carry more
weight If they were not all
Jumped together.
We are described as a pa
per city" cluttered with an
alien bureaucracy of the up
rooted, champing ideal
istic and grasping. wide-eyed
and ambitious, foolish and
scheming" this combined
with a sleepy and sodden core
Of natives "loitering in the sun
and dampness of the Po-
tomac."
The result, for q young man
trying to find himself, is a city
and Government Of lost hope.
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Reodino and Wntinq saSsFs'safss
FoIu La Toilette Gives Background
Details Of Her Fathers Biography
By Mary McGrory

At various times during the
20-year period she worked to
complete her mothers bio
graph Of her father. Fola La
Toilette was urged by friends
the time had come for publi-
cation. But being both her
mothers and her fathers
daughter, she turned q deaf
ear and went back to her
study, researching and reading
with the dedication Of q girl
who grew up In q Wisconsin
family with a passion for the
truth.
81 was brought up" she says.
by way Of explanation. never
to make loose statements"
The first biography Of Robert
La Toilette, recently published.
is as hard-packed with hard
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Art News
Graphic Art
At National
By Florence S. Berrymon


selection of more than 100
prints and drawings from the
Rosenwald Collection comprises
a special exhibition at the Ma
tional Gallery through Janu-
ary 80. It ranges from the 18th
through the 17th centuries.
These outstanding examples.
in remarkably fine condition.
are but a minute percentage
Of the Rosenwald collection,
which now numbers more than
$1,000 items. When Lessing
Rosenwald presented the gift
to the National Gallery Of Art
in 1943, it contained about
5000 prints and drawings. In
the decade since, he has con-
tinued to search for and
acquire outstanding treasures
to add to the original gift.
In the special exhibition gal
lery, the first section or pair
OF alcoveS contains 26 mounts,
a superb series Of early auony-
nous woodcuts, the majority
German, most Of them bril-
liantly colored by hand. In size,
these prints range from a
block-printed linen hanging,
several feet in dimensions, and
a large woodcut Of the Cruel
fixi0n (Netherlands) colored
with heavy pigment, to, minia-
ture prints Of a few inches.
Some Of the mounts have II
to is Of these miniatures.
forming series Of portraits Of
saints. or religious scenes.
More than a dozen Of the prints
IN the exhibition are the only
recorded impressions.
The second section is COM
posed Of prints by a number
OF masters identified only with
initials. and such great mas
ters Of graphic art as Schon-
gauer illustrated. Albrecht
Durer. Lucas van Leyden, Hans
Baldung (Grien) and Hans
Holbein with two of his ia
NOUS Dance Of Death subjects.
Later German. Dutch. Flemish
and Swiss masters of the 10th
century occupy the third sec
tion-among them Barthel Be-
ham, Aldegrever, Wechtlin.
Cranach, Burgkmair, and Pieter
Brueghel, also Huber and
Hirschvogel, masters of the
Danube school.
French and Italians take
over the fourth section. Now
shown for the first time is an
outstanding French print rep
resenting the Battle of For
novo, the earliest known
French engraving. discovered
recently in Europe.
Inc last section is devoted
to Rembrandt, who is repre-
sented with some of his best
known and most admired etch-
mgs; portraits, landscapes. and
Biblical and secular scenes.
The National Gallery saws
tnat when DR.. Anna Spitz-
muller OF the famous Alber-
tina collection in Vienna. who
is visiting in this country on
a State Department invitation
saw this special exhibition, she
said:
1T is incredible what a
variety of sensations the
Rosenwald collection can pro-
VIDE and surprise that.
whatever is shown, the quality
is so fine -
Evening star., 1954-01-03

Yet there is something pain
fully consistent about a quest
for grass roots that keeps on
coming UP each time with
withered futility.
Nothing seems real to him.
His marriage fails. He just
can't seem to make friends
anywhere. He even takes q
desperate fling in the Ma
rines in search Of the
dream" but that fails and he
returns to Government work
as moroSe as ever.
The dream finally comes to
rest far beyond the flesh in the
psychotic half-world of mystic
art.
A tragic quest-but too
warped to be an indictment Of
anything observed en- route.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

less revealing since Glide has
examined himself almost to
Saturation In his own writ
ings. But there are some in
teresting conversations with
Martin du Gard on why Glide
felt it necessary to make cer-
tain personal revelations in his
writings (notably Corydon).
He tells Of Gide's working
habits, his restlessness and the
multitude Of things that IN
terested his lightninglike
mind. But these are easily OBJ
served things. One has the
feeling in reading this little
memoir that Glide. who eludes
50 many Of his readers, also
eluded his closest friends.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

manual Of chicanery, Mr.. Huff
concludes with five vital Ques-
tions: Who says so? How does
he know? What's missing?
Did somebody change the
subject? Does it make sense?
A scientific poll of one book
reviewer reveals 100 per cent
acceptance of this book. No
other statistical work can
make that statement!
Evening star., 1954-01-03

rity and sameness. He was not
intellectual Or emotional about
his painting. The chalky
whites and subtle colors Of
these preferred paintings were
apparently a happy accident
or intuitive flair during his
20S and early 30s.
Two years ago, a vivid biog-
raphy Of Utrillo was published:
1.-The Wine of Genius" by Rob-
ert Coughlan (Harper's, $3.50.
which described the artist at
68. a husk of a man with a
tottering walk. rheumy eyes
and other unhappy signs of a
dissipated life, still painting
about a dozen canvasses a
year.
But the paintings now at the
Phillips Gallery are the work
of his prime,
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Oxford Series

Applications are now being
received for the 1854 British
Universities Summer Schools
at Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon,
London and Edinburgh. These
are special sessions for post
graduate students of other
countries. A six-week course in
modern politics and literature
will be offered at oxford.
At last years oxford series,
a glittering array Of distin-
guished British novelists and
historians lectured. Star of
the occasion by common con-
sent was Angus Wilson, the bril-
liant young author of THE
Wrong Set" and "Hemlock
and After"
Any one lucky enough to be
contemplating study abroad
this summer should apply
locally to the Institute of In
ternational Education. 1880 P
street NV.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

Readers Of Gide's journal
remember that few individuals
are mentioned more often than
Roger Martin du Gard. The
two men were in time friends
for many years yet it would be
harder to imagine two more
different. Martin du Gard,
conventional and outward
flowing, and Glide, rebel In
Ward-Seeking. were perhaps
complementary.
Now, Martin du Gard, HIM
self also a Nobel Prize winner,
has collected in this thin little
book those references in his
Journals to Glide. They are far
fewer In number than Gide's
to himself. They are also far
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Farewell to Area

I often wish the Corcoran
Gallery'S annual area exhibi-
ton were held during the sum-
mer, as its large size and nu-
merous facets deserve much
more consideration than space
Evening star., 1954-01-03

he takes a liking. They 60 to
Communist meetings in New
York. Clark never quite joins
the party and. after q time.
having met some real Commu-
nists and found them cold.
selfish individuals, he decides
the movement is phony. He
stops going to the meetings,
loses interest in the radical
student and joins a good club.
With his graduation and his
fathers death, he returns to
North Carolina and takes over
the business he once affected
to despiSe. In fact. he expands
his fathers enterprises and In
a few years is regarded by the
townsmen rs something Of I q
boy genius. He promises to be-
come, in time. more grasping
than his father and his grand
father.
Swift Norrotive
Up to this point Mr.. Wathen
had material for Q satire. But
he insisted on trying to give
his protagonist heroic stature.
Clark faces blackmail from the
ex-student Communist and is
involved. at least emotionally.
in q griSly melodrama. The
war comes along and. at his
insistence, he is assigned to
perilous service. His long
thwarted romance prospers.
None of these late develop
ments seems quite in keeping
with the earlier Clark. And
yet. despite the books weak
nesses, Mr.. Wathen Is a prom
Using writer because Of his ca
pacity for swift narrative. The
author lives in Washington.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

is only $3.500-and be strictly
truthful on both counts. He
shows also. with charts, how
precisely the same data can
be made to indicate a payroll
boom and q stable situation in
the payroll department.
But this Is more than q
Evening star., 1954-01-03
BY Peter w. Denzer. (Dutton; $780,

treatments. Arnie improves
greatly. but he has relapses
and finally completes his cure
in a public institution. where
a wise psychiatrist wins his
confidence and argues him out
of his delusionS.
All this takes places within
a year.
A good many books on in
sanity, fact and fiction, have
come out In the last few
years. but it Is doubtful If
any was better written than
this novel. Mr.. Denzer de-
scribes with narrowing effect
the wanderings of sick minds
and we observe the efforts of
trained men and women to
restore them to what we call
reality. Armies story has a
coda in his realization that,
even though he has recovered.
the year lost to his life will
always have an effect. He
finds his sweetheart married
and a certain lasting contraint
in his relationship with his
parents.
Evening star., 1954-01-03
Books in Review
These First Books Of 1854 Bring us
A Preview of Unknown Adventure
By corter Brooke Jones

As the old moved inevitably into the limbo Of spent
and the began its unpredctab tenure the
Of l953 already seeming DID, scattered read discarded
unread The books Of 1854 lay ahead their unned
unknown adventure Soon they would pile the shelves
waiting to be sampled but at this moment Of transition there
Evening star., 1954-01-03

favor the A m erican, and.
where there is q difference
the British pronunciation is
often given The names Of
places, famous persons and
foreign phrases all are ar
ranged, along with ordinary
words, under q single alpha
betical list. This is a great
convenience. The book is an
excellent typographical Job.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1954-01-03

know: you can only wait and
hope.
Meanwhile there are, this
first Sunday Of 1854, a few new
books worth recording and one
or two that got lost in the late
fall rush and should not be
consigned to the past unmen-
toned. These are among them:
Evening star., 1954-01-03
In the Castle of Ny Skin

by George Lammlng. (McGr'
George Lamming's penetrat-
ing novel of native life on the
Island OF. Barbados in the
West Indies got caught in a
log-jam of late fall books and
was not reviewed in these
columns. It deserves a COM
mandatory mention before we
rush on to the new years books.
Mr.. Lamming'S story Is auto
biographical, at least in atmo-
sphere and spirit. He is 26
and was born in Barbados of
African and English parent
age. He taught in Trinidad
and then went to London,
where he broadcasts a weekly
literary program. His first
work was poetry; this is his
first novel.
The main character in his
novel who might well have
been himself, grows up in a
typical village. The natives,
many Of mixed blood, all make
Q living Of a sort, most of
them owning the fragments of
land on which their houses or
shacks stand. But they are at
the mercy Of forces they can
not move-the landlords,
some Of their own blood. and
the mighty British who own
Evening star., 1954-01-03

Beyond question this is one
Of the finest Of the new desk
dictionaries. OF the type
known as college dictionaries,
it contains more than 140,-
900 words. The editors have
gone in for Americanisrns and
seem to have left out none of
the more popular contempo-
rary colloquial and slang ex-
presSionS. Pronunciations also
Evening star., 1954-01-03

Looking over my shoulder at
1853 and the years just behind
it. all as dead as 1902 or 1920. I
wondered If the new year, still
so faltering and untested.
would bring any novels as fine
as "The Big Sky" or The Old
Man and the Sea-" You never
Evening star., 1954-01-03

Episode" one Of the new
years first novels, is the story
Of q young mans experiences
at three mental hospitals and
his eventual cure.
The book is more like a
documentary than a developed
novel and yet the details are
skillfully sketched, the char
acters well shaped.
Armies trouble starts when
he is in the Army and comes
down with pneumonia. Dur
ing his convalescence there is
an apparent mental disturb
ance and he is hustled off to
the military hospitals neuro-
psychiatric wards. There he
sees violent patients beaten
and others neglected. Let's
hope this picture is more
imaginary than real. A short
time in this sadistic environ
ment and Arnie cracks COM
pletely. His father, a doctor.
gets him out of the Army and
places the boy in a luxurious
private hospital, where he is
well treated. After shock