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paid of early Office monored State police
in the arrest of two Fairfax County
less hours after the lookout He soon spotted
armed robbery of service with in 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
Water Color Annual

The Washington Water Col
or Clubs 58th annual exhi-
bition, on view through next
Friday at the Natural History
Building, National Museum, is
not outstanding in any respect,
but has plenty of competent
painting, and the visitor leaves
with the conviction that 1t is
the best show that could have
been assembled from nearly
500 entries. The method of
selection, adopted a few years
ago, has been described in
these columns several times.
1t is set forth in detail in the
ANIMALS catalogue, free to the
public.
This national annual, open
to artists throughout the coun-
try, drew entries from some
Is States. Composed of app
proXimately 100 watercolors
and SO graphic arts, it ranges
from traditional to nom
objective. but the general
effect is conservative.
The first ($l00l prize win
ner Interplay" by George
Schwacha Of Bloomfield, N. j..
is a large abstraction of an
urban scene. with an Inter
play" of crisp white paper, wet
and dry washes. Hildegarde
Iskraut brentwood, Md won
the second $3.50 prize for her
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Novel Of Power

"Flesh and Blood" (Farrar,
Straus & Co.; S3) presum-
ably is an early novel by
Francois Mauriac, for it's
events take place in 1913 and
early 1914. but. the publisher
states. it appears in English
for the first time. Mr.. Maui
riac. a Nobel Prize winner, is
perhaps Frances most able
contemporary novelist, not
merely leader of the new
school of Catholic writer's.
This novel is a subjective
study Of several characters
who come together on an es-
state in the region OF Bor-
deaux. Claude Favoreau, a
seminarian, has given up his
study for the priesthood, hav-
ing discovered that he lacks
a vocation. He returns to his
parents, peasants who are
caretakers for the family that
owns the estate. Claude be-
comes friendly with the son
and daughter of the present
owners and is swept by a flu
tile infatuation for the girl.
The son, Edward, a dilettante
painter. goes to Paris to es-
cape in a Bohemian whirl, but,
lacking spiritual roots, he is
unhappy and sinks into de-
spair. Claude, meanwhile, see
ing Edwards sister married
casually to a man she does
not love, a man of her station
and wealth, is ambitious to
escape his humble environ
ment. Claude is buffeted be-
tween secular desires and the
faith to which he still clings.
There is, too. a spiritual bond
between Claude and Edward
from which neither can es-
cape.
It is a powerful study. The
translation is by Gerard Hop
kins.
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Mystery and Suspense
Reviewed by Miriom Gutenberg

t0u SthSbBSt9
ones and their hero. Carney
Wilde.
THE MEN WITH THREE
EYES. BY Louisa Revell.
macmillan Co.; $2.75)
A settlement house in
Southeast Washington pro-
vides the locale for the latest
Miss Julia Tyler mystery.
Since Miss Tyler is something
of narrow-minded bore, her
adventures lack the wit and
perception of say, Maudie Sill
ver's. A good background idea
and some well-eyoked char
acterizations are drowned in
sea of talk. Strictly for women
devotees of the lace-curtain
school of whodunits.
THE BEST THAT EVER DID
1T. BY Ed Lacy. (Harper 81
Bros; $2.50.)
A part-time private detec-
tive who never worked on a
murder and doesn't want to
start now. two apparently mo-
tiveless killings and an en-
tirely new idea for interna-
tional skullduggery are woven
into a plot that's tops in in
genuity and freshness. Even
the story technique is differ
ent, with the narrative alter
mating between the detective
and the criminals. A nice dish
for jaded palates.
TWO TICKETS FOR TAN
GER. BY Van Wyck Mason,
Doubleday & Co.; $3.75D
It's all there-the secret
weapon that will really knock
off the world, the timid creator
of this monster. the unscrupu-
lous femme fatale, the smooth
villain and, of course, Col.
Hugh North of Go Col. North
takes his irresistible charm and
invincible valor to Tangier this
time. The formula is getting
a bit threadbare.
THE SILVER COBWEB. BY
Ben Benson. William Nor
row & Co.; $2.75D
State Trooper Ralph Lind
sey, youthful hero of earlier
Benson stories, does the sleuth-
ing again in this tale of a
bride-to-be shot down in her
own home by q perfect stran-
ger. Lindsey gets his man in
the first chapter. The ques-
ton is not whodunit, but why.
Benson's combination Of a
likable detective, sound plot
and faithful reporting Of po-
lice techniques pays of again.
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NOVEL-IN- THE MAKING. BY
Mary O'Hara. David Mckay;
So
Writers of those glib "you.
too, can write a book" ads
might pause and have a look
at Mary O'Hara,s account OF
the three agonizing years she
spent in the composition of her
novel, 1.-THE Son of Adam Wyn-
gate" She had a bad time, to
say the least.
Fortunately, it appears. she
was not writing to live. Else
one wonders how she would
have survived the many false
starts, the endless revisionS,
and the disastrous detours that
kept her at her typewriter
through the years.
Miss O'Hara had had con-
siderable training as a Holly
wood scenario writer many
years ago, which was supposed
to keep her on the track Of
her story. But it failed her
when in assembling her cast
she became so enamoured Of
the children of her hero. she
threw him overheard and de-
cided to devote a whole book
to the young fry.
The novel was finally re-
jected by Miss O'Hara's regu-
lar publishers. Another house
took it, however, and it made
the best-seller list. Those who
might not have thought "The
Son Of Adam Wyngate" was
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Rebeccu Vests Six Essays
Not All Rebeccu's Best
Reviewed by Mory MeGrory

Opera in Greenville." an ac-
count Of the trial Of 81 men.
most Of them taxi drivers, who
lynched a Negro in South
Carolina. From the court
house scenes with the chill
dren playing around their ac-
cused fathers. from the Wig
nettes of self-righteous rela-
tives and dissenting townsmen,
from the very accents of the
defending lawyers, Miss West
builds UP a compelling picture
OF the whole way of life. This
is a brilliant, sustained feat
of reporting with both eye and
ear, spiraling' to the eonclu-
sion that "wickedness itself had
been made aware ,of the slow
ing of its pulse"
Elsewhere. however, Miss
West has not been so happy
in her material. The murder
trial Of a psychopathic pilot
who disposed of a corpse over
a marsh does not afford her
the opportunity to glide with
dash and grace from the par
ticular to the general that is
the hallmark of her best work.
Sometimes the cathedrals of
prose she erects over one little
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10th Anniversary

1A pAANl W. 44CAAADnCllloll, dlA
American etcher Of interna-
tional prominence for more
than IS years, made his first
etching 40 years ago. Cele-
brating his completion this
year of four decades of achieve
ment in this medium, the
Division Of Graphic Arts.
Smithsonian Building, opened
an exhibition of his work in
January, which has one more
week to run. Everyone who
loves beautiful, traditional
work In etching should visit
this excellent show.
Most of these 80 etchings
and drypoints depict heads
and figures. The artists mas
terry Of his medium is such
that the observer is almost
unaware of it. It is an instru-
ment which brings out the
characteristic qualities Of each
age, as well as the individu-
atty Of each subject, whether
a beautiful, innocent child, q
rugged American farmer, out
casts in the Latin Quarter,
musicians and dancers. His
admirable profile portrait of
DR. Albert Schweitzer, a SUI
perb likeness, confirms the
unique personal likenesses Of
all the other portraits here, Of
people unknown. The four re-
ligious subjects, too, are beau
tifully done, with reverent
awareness of the human quail
tiles of Christ.
There is equal mastery Of
such architectural subjects as
the horses of st. Marks, Ven
ice; and the illumination Of an
interior with figures, as in
"Cafe Montmartois."
Nine American Shows
A native of Newark, N. j.
(born 1892 Mr.. Heintzelman
began to study art in his mid
teens at the r. I. Shoot of De-
sign, and won a travelling
scholarship for two years of
study in Europe. On his re-
turn. he began his career as
a portrait painter, also muse
UNI administrator and art
school instructor. Within
eight months of his first New
York exhibition of etchings
at Keppel's, he had one-man
shows in nine major American
cities, also London and Paris.
He later lived in Paris for IA
years.
Mr.. Heintzelman has won
more than Is first awards and
gold medals in major exhibi-
tons, and numerous other
prizes. He is represented in
most of the principal museums
in the United States and Eu-
rope. He received Frances Le-
gion of Honor medal, is a Ma
tional Academician. and a
Fellow for Life of the Metro
politan Museum Of Art. For
some years he has been Keeper
of Prints, Boston Public Lii
brary.
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RoIIickinq Riot on the Rolling Deep
THE CAPTAINS TABLE. BY

THE CAPTAINS TABLE. BY
Richard Gordon. tHarcourt.
Brace; So
Always amusing, often up
roarious, this is the tale of a
stumbling merchant ship cap
tain flung without prepara-
ton into the social intricacies
of commanding a passenger
cruise.
Characters for this comedy
of character include the lady
who keeps turning UP. unin-
vited. in some gentleman's bed;
the blow-hard major stock
holder of the line; the girl who
manages TO get engaged. in
sequence, to almost every male
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one of these II paintings Coll
and tempera) are Of heads and
figures. He is versatile in his
conceptions. Form Is empha-
sized in some. which have o
classical, sculpturesque quality
the monumental Women"
several heroic heads and fis-
ures - which emerge from
backgrounds of one or a few
colors in tonal gradations. Yet
they are all contemporary in
idiom.
In other paintings here, COLI
or is most striking-an asser-
tive blue, warm earth red,
orange, yellow and chalky
white, which define and set
forth forms. Still other works
in the show are abstract.
Mr.. Calfee has had an event.
full quarter century since he
began painting at the Phillips
Gallery (l929-30. He has
studied painting, sculpture and
architecture at the Beaux-
Arts, Paris and Cranbrook
Academy, Michigan, as well a.
here; has Travelled extensively
in Europe and Latin America.
and for the past 20 years has
had important and varied
commissions and positions az
an art educator. He now lives
in Dorset. vt.
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aboard, and the writer who
floats in the heaven Of the
grape as much as in the hell Of
the Red Sea-
Capt. Ebbs, whose major
tactic when confronted with
trouble is to stall by blowing
his nose. seems clearly not
armed for this struggle. Yet
he manages. somehow, to sur
vive.
DR.. Gordon's triumph here
Is to make you, by keen OBJ
servation and strong dialogue.
believe in those oddments Of
personality while you are
laughing at them.
FRANK SARTWELL, JRs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20

COMMUNISM AND THE
RUSSIAN PEASANT: MOS
cow IN CRISIS. BY Her
bert S. Dinerstein and Leon
Goure. Gree Press; $4.50)
This Rand Corporation Re-
search Project addresses itself
to a question that has been in
triguing our intelligence off,
Gals and policy makers for q
long time:
Just how strong is the Mos
COW relationships control over
the peoples Of the Soviet
Union?
The study labored under the
usual handicaps. First the
authors had to pick their way
through the Kremlin's propa-
ganda smoke screen, sorting
fact from fiction. Then they
had to evaluate as best they
could the first-hand reports
of defectors, whose Judgment
usually was warped.
Mr.. Dinerstein found Krem-
lin control of the peasant to
be far from complete. Foot
dragging is the national pas
time. On the other hand, con-
troll remains strong enough to
prevent revolt.
Mr.. Dinerstein elaborated
with Mr.. Goure in a study of
the Politburo's control of the
Moscow population at the time
of the Germans advance on
the city in World War II. Con-
trary to the frequently volun-
teered opinion, the writer's
found that Stain never lost
his grip. The great majority
never even thought Of rebel
lion, they found.
This book is intended mainly
for specialists. It also may be
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fact seem likely to topple Of
their own weight. Then again,
a simple statement simply
overstated. For instance: 1T
was so little surprising that
Marshall had landed in the
dock that it was very surpris-
ing"
Occupied Germany
Three of these essays deal
with occupied Germany. They
are surprisingly a bit dated,
and they ramble a bit. They
do not have the dazzling CO.
hesion of her accounts of the
treason trials Of her previous
books. They all have their
passages of insight and per-
manent illumination. Miss
Vests conclusions about the
effect of the Nuremberg trials
should command respect and
apprehension. These trials
have set up a dozen itching
assesses of ignorance and ha-
tired in the public mind" she
says. The Berlin airlift was
a far more crucial event to
Germany. To her the symbol
of postwar Germany is a one
legged man growing huge cy-
clamenS with the help of q H.
year-old boy, locked in in
dustry. ferocious in purpose.
And she epitomizes the &C.
cupying American soldier in
these lines: IF an apple fell
from the tree beside them they
did not bend to pick it up.
Nothing that happened there
could interest them"
Second-best West is still
eminently worthwhile. And
when she is at the press table
in crowded courtroom, as in
South Carolina, she is still the
best Of all.
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Fuwn and Fuun
ROUGH WINDS OF MAY. BY
Nancy Mailman. Harper g.
Bros; $685.

ROUGH WINDS OF MAY. BY
Nancy Mailman. Harper g.
Bros; $685.
This novel about an Adde'S
cent London girl who is slavey
and model for her fathers
lecherous brother, an artist
called Fatuncle, has its mo-
ments of moonstruck charm.
But it is a formless, mindless
kind of a book that is in reality
an endless dialogue between
Fawn and Faun. Now and then
when dealing with the sister
and small brothers of the
heroine it comes radiantly to
life. But despite its consid-
cradle length'it never seems to
be going anywhere special, and
the girls obsession with her
uncle never seems entirely
plausible.
The book comes from Eng
land, fairly sagging under the
weight of rapturous advance
quotes from such eminently to
be respected sources as Pamela
Frankau, A. B. Guthrie. jr.,
and Kay Boyle. One would
like to agree. but cannot.
M. MEG.
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for the Lamps of China" was
an outstanding success as a
best-seller and a movie.
Her new novel is venture
Into Darkness" MOngmans,
Green; 1885,. It describes the
return of David Conway, a
China born American, to
China to attempt the rescue
of a young man who went
there to replace David in the
bank when he went to America
on leave.
Mrs. Hobart knows China as
few Western writer's do. In
the course Of writing this book
she visited Hong Kong again.
last year, to renew contracts
and absorb the influence Of
Communist China on this Brit
ish outpost. Her atmosphere
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Boys Club Show

Metropolitan Police Boys
Clubs, Division II, will open
tomorrow the first art contest
and exhibition at Club No. IL,
1900 U street NV. The COM
petition was limited to No. Z,
No. Is, Southeast and South
west Clubs. Prizes have been
awarded for drawing and
sculpture, with three place
medals for winners In each age
category: s to 10 years, II to
IA and Is to 10.
James v. Herring, professor
emeritus of art at Howard Uni.
versity, judged all entries on
the basis Of artistic merit and
neatness. Corpl. Bernard
Ruffin, Division II co-ordi-
nator, said that all entries
submitted will be displayed in
the show, which will remain
through Friday, April /.
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A TRAIN OF POWDER. BY
Rebecca West. Viking;
$3.50
Several times In the course
of these six essays on con-
temporary upheaval of one
kind or another. Rebecca West
remarks that there are some
events which never become ex-
periences. AS one who found
Miss Vests previous book.
THE Meaning of Treason. ~
an experience. this reviewer
must regretfully put down "A
Train Of Powder" as merely
an event.
Miss West still has her mo-
ments here. She is superb in
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New Discovery

The new discovery No. 5,
Pocket Books, Inc; IS cents)
has 26 contributions - stories.
poems and essays. The num-
Der includes a story by Hor-
tense Calisher, a critical study
of James Thurber by Otto
Friedrich, Paul Moor's account
of how an American cor
respondents passport was
revoked in Germany without
explanation, and the first
published work of Alice Dem
ham, Richard Dohrman. Gill
bert Rogin and Stefan Kanfer.
The editor is Vance Bour-
jaily, whose new novel, THE
Hound of Earth" was reviewed
in this space last Sunday.
&C. B. j.
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MURDER MAKES AN EN-
TRANCE. BY Clarence Bud
ington Kelland. (Harper &
Bros; $2.75D
A veteran craftsman OUT
does himself in this slick
Hollywood tale centering on
the production Of new tele-
vision series but also featuring
multiple murder. Starred are
a hero as handy with his fists
as with his pen and lovely
who rarely opens her mouth.
There's high-powered action,
comedy relief, romance-the
works.
TWIST OF THE KNIFE. BY
Victor Canning. william
Sloane Associates; $2.5oJ
Suspense under water with
sharks, high explosives and a
william as threats to former
British fighter pilot, now a
drug runner in the Red Sea
area. Skin diving becomes
spine chilling in the usual
Canning atmosphere of dan
ger, dimmed somewhat by a
heroine who isn't exactly q
nice girl.
GUEST IN THE HOUSE. BY
Philip Macdonald. Double
day & Co.; $2.750
Crime Club
Introducing 1t. Col. the Hon.
liver Dalgleish st. Pelham st.
George, VIC, DSO, part Gala
had part rogue and much the
most original figure in who
dunit fiction this season. He
thrusts himself into a house.
hold torn by a villainous threat
to it's 9-year-old darling. His
presence prompts a story at
once tough and tender and
consistently full of surprises.
THE DAY OF THE DEAD.
BY Bart Spicer. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.; $2.75.)
Red Badge
The FBI wants >Peregrine
White to get the evidence Of
Communist conspiracy on a
man he considers mis- closest
friend. Torn by conflicting
loyalties, bothered by near
fatal wounds. White moves re-
luctantly into the picture. In
q more serious vein than usual,
the author handles the psy-
Geological overtones deity and
makes the most Of the Mexican
background but his story lacks
the tight suspense Of his earlier
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-20
CoIfee at Buder

Recent paintings by William
Calfee are on view at Franz
Bader's gallery through next
Friday, the first one-man
show this Washington artist
has had in his native city in
more than three years. All but
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and her descriptions Of the
changing ways Of the ancient
country and the ruthlessness
of the present pattern, are
uniformly persuasive. Her
story is another matter.
The Pace Is Slow
David's compulsive sense Of
guilt. his self-blame for the
plight of his substitute. who is
reported held under house ar
rest, is never clear. The SUBJ
stitute wanted to go to China,
was willing to take his chances.
David's feeling is tied up with
his fathers death at the hands
of Nationalist after the father,
an American engineer, had de-
voted his life to China.
David's ailing mother, too.
died in China, disillusioned,
thwarted in her desire to re-
turn to her own country. David
remains a vague character.
Some of the minor charac-
tiers. like TIE Lin, the loyal
gambler, and the girl who leads
a band of anti-Red guerrillas.
are clearer than major mem
bers of the cast. The story
takes a long time to develop
and the writing too often plods
along. The tragic ending, un-
fortunately. is not plausible.
1t Is hard to believe that the
double-crossing youth, Mu
San, has found redemption or
that David's sacrifice has any
point.
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Lively ShoptoIk by Mary O'Huro

worth such time and torment.
and even those who never read
it will still enjoy reading about
the ordeal of its creation. Miss
O'Hara, who also wrote MY
Friend Flicka" and Green
Grass Of Wyoming"-both ap-
parently with considerable less
trouble-has given the account
a great deal of narrative drive
and suspense. It's shoptalk of
an unusual and lively order.
M. Meg,
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How the KremIin Controls the People
Reviewed by Earl n. voss

Of interest to Republicans who
are disappointed that Presi-
dent Eisenhower has soft ped
aled his liberation" policy for
peoples behind the Iron Cur
tain.
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Books in Review
Anne Morrow Lindbereh Returns
ToRestore Our Faith in Writing
By corter Brooke Jones

Once In q great while book that makes it
worth the effort to have fought through number
Of disspiritine frustrating books
You've reached that suddenly your faith in
writing You realize that hartening beauty
You're glad made that turbulent stream Of
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OF Red Chino

Alice Tisdale Hobart has
published a number of novels,
most of them about China,
where she lived for 20 years.
At least one of her books, "Oil
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broadly handled still life In
rich dark colors, strong tonal
contrasts and a composition
Of circles and curved lines.
Lois Mailou Jones third ($25
prize winner, Haiti Harbor in
RAIN" is excellent, more mod
ern in technique than most Of
her work, with colors applied
on wet paper adding convic-
ton to the subject. The Eliot
O'Hara prize ($35) for one
who has not previously won in
a juried show. went to Grace
Gorlitz of Bethesda for her
circus abstraction of swooping
roller coaster curves. The print
prize ($25) was bestowed on a
beautiful study of leaves and
textures by Hartwell Priest Of
Charlottesville, Va.