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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
MY Life and Loves in Greenwich VILLAGE
BY Maxwell Bodenheim. (Bridgehead: So

Publication Of this post
humous manuscript recalls
that unfortunately Maxwell
Bodenheim is remembered at
the moment more for his
recent death than for his life.
He was murdered by q man
adjudged insane. But lead
ing literary lights came to his
funeral, for they knew him
to have been a gifted man, de-
spite the ignominy of his final
years. a derelict of New York's
Greenwich Village. He was
better known for his talents
in the '20s and '30s, when he
wrote at least one novel that
became a best-seller and many
poems that were reprinted and
quoted.
The title of this book is
somewhat misleading - per-
haps the publisher chose it
for there is very little about
Bodenheim's life and loves
and a great deal about others,
most of them unnamed or
given fictitious names out of
prudence or tact. Reading Of
the assorted freaks who in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

her. longing only for freedom.
Hackenfeller's apes are sold
to an outfit that sends up
space rockets. Because the
species is considered closer to
man In physical construction
than any anthropoid yet dis
covered, Percy is to be sent up
In q rocket in the hope that
he will survive and his reac-
tions to vast heights can be
studied. The professor. who
has formed an attachment for
Percy, is indignant and he
determines to do everything
possible. not excluding bur-
glary and abduction. to thwart
the rocketeers.
It would ruin q good story to
reveal what happens. Miss
Brophy writes crisply and she
handles with tact the profess
sor's frank appraisals Of the
ways Of apes and men. The
author is the only child Of
John Brophy. q novelist. She
published . collection Of short
stories last year. &C. B. ].
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
The Memoirs of Marshal Monnerheim
Translated by Count Eric Lewenhaupt fDutton; $685.
Reviewed by Francis P. Douglas

countrymen in their War Of
Liberation after the Bolshevik
revolution.
The war the world chiefly
remembers is what the Firms
call the Winter War of 1889
40. The little country's troops
held the Russians at bay for
several months, which prob
ably encouraged Hitler to at
tack the Soviets.
Mannerheim corrects some
false ideas. There was no
"Mannerheim Line" of de-
tense. He says the Russians
invented it and likened it to
a Maginot Line. to excuse
their failures.
Later, in l941, when Ger
many attacked Russia and
Hitler broadcast that the
Firms would be fighting by
the side Of the Germans, that
was news to Finland. Man
nerheim makes it clear Fin
land fought again because the
Russians attacked. and went
no farther than to provide for.
their own safety.
The book, written in the
clear and unadorned style Of a
soldier, is almost entirely q
factual account of war, plus
the, fascinating story of an
expedition Of exploration Mans.
nerheim made through Central
I Asia beginning in 1906. There
is so little of Mannerheim's
personal life In it that the
reader may even search in vain
for Manner helms given
names: Carl Gustaf Emil. His
wife is mentioned in one sem
tence which records their
marriage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

tremely effective writing.
1.-THE Time Of the Fire" has
elements of all three types,
but it Is primarily. as see it,
a psychological study Of q
small town under great stress.
Delineation of character is its
first concern, though the story
involves a mystery that Is not
solved until the final pages
and the narrative Is paid out
taut with suspense. At least
the publishers have called it
on the cover simply q novel,
and if some publications review
1t among the mystery books, 1t
does not belong there; 1t rates
consideration as a serious"
novel, meaning no reflection
on mysteries.
Grim Discovery
The little Middle Western
town of Grantchester was
shaken by the discovery Of the
dismembered body Of a young
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

ings his best work, although
his delicate, misty landscapes
are best known and probably
still most admired by the
public.
The painting italian Girl"
was painted late in Corot's
career, in 1879 Che died three
years later.) In the authorita-
tive work on Corot by Alfred
Robaut. who knew Corot per-
sonally, it is described and re-
produced. Robaut notes that it
was Tightly retouched by Co
rot, especially in the back
ground, at the time he de-
Ivered it to its purchaser in
1874"
The figure paintings Of the
last decade of Corot's long and
productive life seem touched
with melancholy. In italian
Girl" the heavily Swallowed
eyes gaze directly from the
canvas. The figure is geomet-
rio in its pyramidal compost
ton, broken only by the an
gular left arm resting on the
horizontal table top. Contours
are softened and less dis
tinct in comparison with the
sharp outlines of earlier
works. The rich, sensuous col
or is brushed on with facility.
There are contrasts between
the pearly whites of the bodice
and warm flesh tones of face
and hands; and the apron
with its variegated pattern Of
coral red and blue-greens is in
lively juxtaposition to the
black dress.
The yellow handkerchief,
large earrings and white shell
necklace provide accents. The
background has a whispered
suggestion Of leafy trees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
random House. So

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woman, stuffed into sacks,
above a railroad cut. The head
was missing, but the police
chief was able to identify the
victim. It is the sort of town
where informality prevails.
The chief called into consulta-
ton several leading citizens, in
Guiding the editor of the week
ly. the two leading business
men and a physician.
There was an immediate eff
fort, by the more conservative
leaders, to make it appear that
Grantchester was not really
involved: that the victim, who
ran a beauty parlor, was a
shady character who probably
had dated some stranger from
another town. But when two
other murders of similar de-
sign were revealed, no one
could deny that there was a
pSychopathic killer somewhere
among them. BY the time the
third body had been assembled
and identifled-that of a re-
spected woman who was public
librarian-the town was in a
suppressed but ill-concealed
frenzy. Several substantial
citizens felt they were suspect
ed. The well-to-do North Side
was arrayed against factory
workers of the South Side.
Tempers flared under slight
provocation. A monstrous in
justice was shaping. But the
time would come when the real
murderer would be found.
Mr.. BRANDED, who wrote
1.-THE Choice" and Rain Be
fore Seven" has made a per-
suasive and absorbing novel
out Of "The Time of the Fire."
&C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
superintendent. sain

The wide public interest in
sexual offenses, especially Of
the "psychopathic" type, per-
haps justifies noting here the
appearance Of a comprehen-
sive scientific study Of this
subject. The author. a WELL
known local psychiatrist. has
paid especial attention to
anomalies of sexual behavior
for over 80 years and has a
thorough grasp Of the psy-
chiatric literature.
In this bulky volume he re-
views in condensed style the
literature of the past 40 years
and presents a comprehensive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Art Book Review

Text by Sam Hunter.
(Abrams-Garden City; $500
The sophisticated paintings
Of Raoul Duty, contemporary
French minor master, are well
known in Washington. as
there have been one-man
shows here, and the Phillips
Gallery owns nine, covering
;. about Is years of the artists
career. Many private home
has reproductions, for this ur-
bane, successful artist got a
breezy JOY of life into his work.
This Abrams collectors
edition" has Is excellent tip
ped-in color plates. each with
its own critique and infor-
NATIVE data. Mr.. Hunters
concise Introductory surveys
the artists. life, and discusses
the development Of his art
in q Scintlllant way. Readers
will recall that Duffy came to
the United States in 1850.
painfully crippled with arth-
ritis, of which he was greatly
relieved by a young American
doctor. He was able to return
to France where he died last
year from a heart attack.
Special interest in the gall
lery Of plates arises Tin my
opinion) from the facts that
they reproduce paintings in
private collections here and
in France. hence are new"
to the public; that they cover
a period of more than so years.
giving a glimpse of the
changes and development of
Dufy's art: and that they are
widely varied as to theme and
treatment. Some of them
seem to be little more than
sketches: but they enlarge
ones acquaintance with the
artist. IF. B.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Gift to Gallery

The National Gallery of Art
has just received an important
painting by the French artist
Corot entitled italian Girl"
given by the Avalon Founda-
ton through the generosity of
Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce. It
is on view in gallery rs.
Some authorities have long
considered Corot's figure paint
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

blue room one would like to
enter. Katherine Sunny is
showing q water color Of "Calla
Lilies" frances Todd has
done the same flowers in oil.
Ann Corea's still life is nicely
executed. Harry Zichterman's
Fog Over Rockefeller Center"
is the ANIMALS only abstrac-
ton. combining rectangles and
muted colors.
The clubs sculptors are rep
resented by Jeanette Hare,
showing an excellent portrait
head of sculptress Polly Wayne
Kittelle. Printmakers Isabella
Walker and Vida Mackenzie
have a few blockprints. Mrs.
Walkers Smoke Scene" and
Miss Mackenzie's "Wellfleet"
being the best.
This exhibition will remain
through September 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
RI Cry Tomorrow
BY Lillian Roth.

~ A@AAAAesAA ASONAAs
In collaboration with Mike
Connolly and Gerold Frank.
frederick Fell: $3.95.)
Lillian Roth was possessed
by a demon-demon rum.
This is the candid, dismaying
story of her long struggle to
throw it of. A ard-pressed
child star, young Lillian was
driven by the whips of par
entail ambition. After a most
unsheltered youth, she was
famous - and fearful. She
married too young a sick man,
and indecently soon after his
death married the wrong man.
Two marriages and many
heartacheS later. she had be-
come confirmed alcoholic.
Miss Roth's lost week end
lasted for Is years. There
are many shades of degrade
ton, and she missed not one
slightest tint on her way to
the bottom. The most sordid
episode was her marriage to
Mark, q fe-beating sponger,
whose studied brutality she
recounts in griSly detail.
The Comeback Troll
Institutions, psychiatry,
nothing helped until Miss Roth,
like others in the same storm
tossed boat. CROPPED her way,
with shaking knees and dry
palate, to Alcoholics Anony-
nous. There she found the
constant sympathetic compan-
ionship of people who knew
what it was like. Once she
hit the comeback trail she
travelled fast.
She married her fifth hus-
band-the right one, finally.
She joined the church. She
began to help others.
"I'l Cry Tomorrow" is one
of the most candid of the con-
feSsional documentaries. Miss
Roth spares her reader and
herself nothing. The tender
minded may well be affronted.
but they will also have to
hand it to Miss Roth. She
had q bad time for a long
time and she finally won
through. Most readers won't
wait for tomorrow to cry with
her. M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

The man chiefly responsible
for setting a boundary to COM
munism in the Baltic has writ
ten of five wars and adven-
lures in a book that clears up
some misconceptions.
Mannerheim, of a noble Fin
nish family, was an officer in
the Cars cavalry and served
in the Russo-Japanese War.
He was a major general in the
First World War. Then he went
back to Finland and led his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Books in Review
Eddy Gilmore Tells What 1t Really
Is Like to Live in Red Russia
/. Doubleday: $3.75.)
Reviewed BY corter Brooke Jones

girls. to Siberia simply because
they worked for an American.
They tried to frame him In
support of the fantastic charge
that the United States was
waging germ warfare In Ko-
rea. An agent posing as d
friend Of q 1sick" Russian
friend of Mr.. Gilmore's tried
to get him to obtain from the
Embassy a certain drug which
the Russian didn't have. Mr..
Gilmore sensed that he and
the Embassy would be accused
Of poisoning Russians and he
refused fatty to make the re-
quest.
Among the more amusing
episodes is a description Of
Foreign Minister Molotov at q
party, much the worse for
drink, kissing an American
Navy commander and pro-
claiming undying affection for
all Americans.
Mr.. Gilmore was drummer
in the only American jazz band
in Russia. A player was George
F. KEENAN,, then counsellor Of
the American Embassy, later
Ambassador.
During Mr.. Gilmore's Wash
ington newspaper days. when
he worked for papers here and
started with the A. p. he be-
came known for the light
touch with which he APP
preached his stories Of the
less solemn events. This touch
has followed him around the
world, but he can grasp, too,
the hard realities and present
them unsoftened, without illu-
sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Reading and Writing
In Her Mind but Not in Her Heort-
Poris Leaves Alexandra Orme Cold
By Mary McGrory

i - - :
Comrade" and by the Waters
Of the Danube" who is not
Slavic for nothing, says that
Paris is "all for vanity and
for snobs. pretensions and
publicity
When she went there IN
1947, having escaped the Nazis
in Poland and the Soviets in
Hungary. she already knew
Paris by heart. AS q schoolgirl
she had learned the plan Of
the city. But when she saw it
face to face, her only reaction
was "Tuileries, okay. Louvre,
okay."
She Was Shocked
What she remembers Of her
IL months there working as a
receptionist in a ,maison de
couture something like the one
she describes in her novel is
"the bad coffee and the
misery She was a poor,
homeSick Pole, something like
her heroine. but that was not
all of it.
st came from the East"
she says, land ] saw all this
dancing on the volcano and
it shocked me.
"Of course, it's wonderful,
the esprit is wonderful. the
culture is the most wonderful,
but / think of q Polish
proverb that says, Don't be
sorry for the roses because the
woods are burning"
The maison described in
Paris Original" is an imag-
mary one, built on her own
impressions and those Of a
Polish friend. a model in
another such establishment.
They're all not quite that bad,
she says.
Washington suits Miss Orrne
much better. Although she
would rather be writing, she
teaches Polish. Week ends
she spends on the farm that
she and her husband, Charles
de Barcza, a former Hungarian
industrialist, have bought in
Clear Spring, Md.
Written in Three Weeks
She wrote Paris Original"
Cher third written but first
published novel; in Italy, in
an idyllic seaside town called
Positano. She scrubbed it, ly-
ing in bed, in 10-cent note
books. It took her three weeks.
She didn't finish it, though,
thinking that If it were ever
to sell in America it must end
well. Five years later, in Wash
ington, she gave it a cheerful
finale.
She is working now on a
project closer to her heart, a
volume of Carpathian tales.
She is trying to fashion them
somewhat in the manner of
Chekov. He is her literary
idol.
There is not one wink to
the public. It's as though he
were writing for God" she
saws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
The Sexual Offender and His Offenses
BY Benjamin Karpman, M. D.. Julian Press; 500
Reviewed BY Winfred Overholser, N. D.
gan Elizabet hs


photography. He discusses the
mental mechanisms of the
various "paraphiliac neuroses"
Che interprets most forms OF
so-called "psychopathic" sex
ual behavior as basically rieu-
rotic and therefore potentially
treatable by psychiatric means)
and illustrates his points by
nearly 800 brief case histories.
Serious workers in the field
Of sexual offenses - police,
judges. penal administrators,
lawyers. law makers and ply
siciansshould profit by read
ing this addition to the psy-
chiatric literature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Jonathan Daniels

Jonathan Daniels Of Raleigh,
N. c.. revisited Washington,
the home of his youth, last
week, celebrating publication
of his hardest and newest
book. That would be 1.-THE
End of Innocence.
It was hard to write because
it concerns the two men he
admired most and who loved
each other well"--his father,
Josephus Daniels and Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
1t was an emotional prob
lem, says tine pleasant Mr..
Daniels.
II saw it as a meeting be-
tween an arrogant young
patrician and a backwoods
boy. / wanted to be objective
and fair, bur it wasn't always
easy"
The Young F.D.R.
Mr.. Daniels later worked for
Franklin d. Roosevelt when
he became President. But In
the Wilson administration de-
scribed N bis book young Mr..
Roosevelt, who served jose
phus Daniels as Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy. was
young man on his first job.
Washington was compare
lively young then, too. and q
very pleasant place for q
growing boy Jonathan Dam
ielS and his three brothers
lived on Woodley road--it was
country" then-swam in Rock
Greek and mad the venerable
Henry Adams pointed out to
them on the street. Washing
ton was then, as now, the
great arena OF clashing per-
sonalities and it has never
ceased to fascinste Mr. Daniels,
who is editor and publisher
of the Raleigh News and OBJ
server.
He thinks we are entering
now q period like the one which
closed THE End Of Innocence. "
That is to say. q period of ter
~ "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

One of the most original
things about Alexandra Orme,
author of the forthcoming
paris Original" is that she
doesn't care for Paris.
II this is heresy, then Miss
Orme. q Maynard and comely
Pole. has made the most Of 1t.
Her minority view is part Of
the pattern of her novel about
high fashion In the City Of
Light. which will be published
next week.
The author Of Comes the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

SGOry Is
one Of the
minor liter
airy puzzles.
I r e aliz e
that many
novels fit
one of those
c a t egories
ana n 3 v e
no t h in g
more, which
is not to
argue that
they ! q C K
in g e n uity
u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
An Amazing
Psychological
Folk ale
The Birds Nest

BY Shirley Jackson.
fForrar. Straus q Young;
$500
There are two Shirley Jack
sons. One writes drolly OF
domestic difficulties as in Life
Among the Savages." The
other steps boldly into the
baleful caverns Of the uncon-
scious and studies the odd
formations there with scien-
tif1c GOODNESS as In "The Lot
terry" The two Miss Jacksons
meet and nod In 1.-THE Birds
Nest" an extraordinary and
unsettling tale about a girl
who is really four girls in one,
and all struggling for the upper
hand.
The discordant quartet
goes under the name Of
Elizabeth Richmond. Elizabeth
is q meek museum secretary.
who drinks cocoa and minds
her aunt. the staggering spin
ster, Morgen Jones. But Betsy
is q hayward miss. who uses
bad words. Beth is q quietly
sparkling young thing. and
Bess is an arrogant fortune
hunter.
Treats the Four
DR.. Wright. the Thackeray-
loving specialist who doesn't
believe in Freud-"no couch
or anything" hypnotizes Eliz-
abeth and then stands back
in stupefaction as he treats
the four girls in turn. Beth
is his favorite. and lit is she
who saves them all. when Betsy
abducts the whole crowd to
New York In search Of their
mother.
Sometimes, as girls will, the
Richmond girls fight among
themselves. Two of them-this
reviewer is not quite sure which
two--indulge in a hair-pulling,
face-scratchi1g spat that
dramatizes the soul struggle
of the split personality as few
episodes sin the whole range
of fiction.
Miss jackson achieves an
uncanny blend of the weird
and the hilarious. While
never merely amusing at the
expense of poor. wracked
Elizabeth. she does show the
fantastic aspect of her be-
havior, particularly in pas
sage where mixed-up but
game Aunt Morgen watches
the four girls take their baths,
one right after another.
just as Skillfully she shows
how the merger of the four
personalities is arranged. It is
easy to understand how the
Middle Ages believed in de-
moniac possession and witch
craft. Miss jackson possesses
a witchcraft. of her own and
displays it to the full in this
remarkable if occasionally
confusing psychiatric folk
tale IN. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

habited the village during
Bodenheim's 80 years there
frustrated artists and
writer's, sexual deviates, drug
addicts. alcoholics-you can
only wonder what happiness
they thought they found in
the poverty and squalor. They
are not very interesting, but
the book is unfailingly well
written.
This is Bodenheim's mel
ancholy summation: ITO
day, when the world is falling
apart like scattered beads
from a pearl necklace that
once graced the lovely throat
of existence, the bestial side
of mans nature is revealing
itself more blatantly both in
side and outside the village.
There are people everywhere
who belong to no cause, no
dream, no faith, no hope, and
who come to bohemia to mix
with the desperate fraternity
of the damned" &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
The Time Of the Fire
BY Marc BRANDED.

Why 1t should be necessary
to label every novel that deals
with crime-that is. a mys-
terry or detective or suspense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Arts Club Annual

r &. 80
members exhibition. on view
for the summer, will probably
give longtime Washington
ans the feeling that they have
seen it before. Nearly all the
paintings are In traditional
styles. and many are pleasing
in subject and treatment. Yet
the show carries the annual
disappointment that there Is
nothing that stirs the behold
er. In fact, q second attentive
tour Of the show increased for
me the number of paintings
that would better have been
omitted.
Perhaps it is unfair to
expect more Of q summer
show. Since publishers habitu-
ally issue tight reading" or
hammock literature for sum-
mer months, it probably fol-
lows that art organizations
may show paintings that are
pleasant and non-controver-
sial, to receive a casual glance
from visitors.
Work Of 80 Artists
Only a small proportion Of
the clubs painter members
participate in these annual
shows. The present collection
of about so works represents
some 80 artists, a few Of them
having two or three works each.
On the opening day there were
two votes for the paintings
shown. Artist members Sc
lected Virginia Landscape" by
Vaughn Winslow, a pleasant
scene, simplified in transcript
ton. Garnet Jex's Spring
Landscape in Virginia" also
pleasant, and with more de-
tailed execution, received the
popular vote.
I liked Minor .JameSon's
lovely gray Road in Cape
Breton" Marie Barnhart's
inlet" and Pennsylvania
Hills" and Anne Greene's
moody Island Harbor," all oil
landscapes; Charles Miller's
Black LocuStS" and Helen
Stotesbury's Factory on a
Creek" water colors. There are
a few marines and harbor
scenes. Rocky Shore" metic-
ulously painted in the 10th
century manner by Simon de
Korsakoff; a sunny water
color, Rocks In Maine" by
Alice cGlauf1in; and Martha
Bache's capture of a busting
section Of WaShington's water
front.
Fine Croyon Portrait
Helen MinIfie's charming
crayon portrait of Mrs. Luis
Corea is outstanding in this
subject category. in which very
few works are shown. Walter
Bachrach is the sole contribu-
tor Of an Interior" rose and