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Evening star., 1955-05-01

An important euent OF the
season is the opening this
afternoon of the 18th National
Exhibition OF Prints at the
Library OF Congress. 1t wiL
remain for seUerGl months,
and iDill be TeuietDed here later.
Celebrating Pan American
Week, the Pan American Union
opened an exhibition "Art of
the Americas" which will close
Tuesday. More than 20 works,
mostly oil paintings, represent
II nations, including the
United States. The group is
a loan from International
Business Machines Corpora
ton. whose president, Thomas
j. Watson, started the I. B. M.
collection about is years ago,
with works from each of the
79 countries in which the cor
poration maintains field offices.
1t now numbers several thou
sand items.
The current group is a hetero-
geneous one, selected, as the
catalogue says, with a view to
illustrating the various trends
in different periods of the
artistic development of our
hemisphere" The show in
cludes serene 18th century
Spanish Colonial religious
paintings from Colombia.
Cuba, Ecuador (illustrated).
and Peru; a glimpse of 10Th
century Uruguay by that ma
tion's "old master" Pedro FL
gari; naturalistic landscape
from Paraguay and figure
painting from Venezuela, the
latter a beautifully delineated
group which was reproduced in
these columns some years ago
when the artist, Victor Poleo.
had a one-man show here: a
characteristic New York scene
by the United States major
lmpressionist, Childe Hassam.
and a figure painting by
Philip Guston; paintings in
various modern idioms from
other Latin American coun-
tries, and several works in
sculpture.
The best works in the show
to me, are Siqueiros' power
ful Sunrise of Mexico" and
the Cubist Last Serenade" bv
Emilio Pettoruti (Argentine).
The sculptures, too, are inter-
esting, particularly Marina
Nunez del Prado's Dance of
Choias" (Bolivia) and Jose
Fioravanti's heroic head of
Simon Bolivar.
Evening star., 1955-05-01
Quentin Reynolds
Looks at Other
Side of the Law
HEADQUARTERS. E

HEADQUARTERS. BY Quen-
tin Reynolds. (Harper g.
Bros; $685.
Having dealt with one side
OF the law in II, Willie Sut-
ton" the author moves to the
other side in this bulky ac-
count of New York's finest
and of one of its notable
members.
To give his admiring report
OF the New York City police
force in action more human
interest and personality, Mr..
Reynolds has chosen the
career of Police Inspector
Frank Phillips. the most deco
rated active New York police
man. 1t is a wise choice for
Inspector Phillips as pictured
by Mr.. Reynolds represents
the finest type of policeman
a man dedicated to law en-
forcement with all it's risks
and sacrifices, a man who has
earned the respect both OF the
law-abiding and Of profess
sional criminals like Sutton.
This. however, is not all
Phillips. Woven into the story
are details of police training,
a picture Of the man on the
beat, sketches Of other police
men, and a wide-ranging re-
port OF police work in solving
the cases that have made the
headlines over the years. 1t
is a story that deserved to be
written and Mr.. Reynolds has
done 1t competently.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Evening star., 1955-05-01
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Each Book Is a Passport
To Wider Horizons
BY BARBARA NOLEN

Nowadays 1t is possible to
fly from Scandinavia to Cali
fornia over the Arctic Circle
in "a hours. At the same time
the young armchair traveller
can put his finger on q map
of the world and choose a book
of high adventure to. match
almost any locale.
Shall it be the jungles of
India or Guatemala. the busy
streets of Paris, the rocky
slopes of Norway, or behind
the Iron Curtain in East Ber-
lin? Each book is a passport
to wider horizons. i.
It is well known that s.
year-olds the world over have
a magnetic attraction for
mischief. Pysen, who lives in
Sweden, is no exception. Less
destructive than Dennis the
menace, his large bump OF Gu
riosity and his imagination
are the springboard for some
very surprising adventures.
Not For 5-Year-Olds
Pysen's antics are not rec
commended reading for other
5-year-olds. but older brothers
and sisters will chuckle remi-
niscently over Pysen's ability
to get into hot water. Pysen
by Edith Unnerstad Mac
milan. S2.50 is the second
book about the fun-loving
LARSON family of Sweden.
Life was a more serious
matter for the Petersen child
ren in Norway. Their family
motto after an avalanche
destroyed their home and
other disasters followed.
The struggle of brother and
sister to stay together has a
touch of sadness for the adult,
but young readers relish the
treacherous and selfish char
acters who make life difficult
for Gunda and Tor. Wasn't
Mr.. Olsen mean?" my own
daughter commented synpa-
thetically, all the more inter-
ested in Tors grim experiences
on a fox farm.
Washington Author
On Your Own Two Feet by
Bessie White (Ariel. S2.75)
is the second book by a WASH
ington author who is particu-
larly successful in taking us
inside another family circle.
Full of foreign favor, rich
in humor and near-tragedy,
is the new American edition Of
Mere Michel and Her Cat, with
the original French illustra-
tions. It was a lucky thing for
Monmouth, whose first home
was a Paris gutter, that a cat
has nine lives. He needed
every one of them to escape
Evening star., 1955-05-01

the forlorn. last-ditch fighting
Of the Warsaw defenders
against the encircling Ger
mans. All the implications of
the impending changeover
from one tyranny to another
are sketched in. It is un-
fortunate that there have been
so many novels about the war
in Europe, several good ones
about Poland. This makes it
seem that you have read it all
before. which is unfair to Mr..
MiloSz' eyewitness descrip-
tions, for he is a veteran Of the
Warsaw underground, and his
gift for subtle analysis. The
translation is by Celina VIE
niewska.
Fresh New Talent
Gordon Forbes first novel.
"Too Near the Sun" (Rine-
hart; $500 is interesting
mainly because it uncovers a
fresh talent. Mr.. Forbes re-
vealS a capacity to hold the
interest in an overlong, rela-
lively trivial story, which is a
good omen for his literary
future.
The novel itself is of little
significance. 1t is a story of
the cabana set in a mythical
Southern California town
called San Felipe. A divorced
woman is in love with a man
who has a wife and three chill
dren. Naturally, since this is
a novel which insists on its
modernity on every page.
Sandy and Ashton are carry
ing on a love affair. Ashton,
a flyer in the war. who has
more money than he needs,
does not seem able to adjust
himself to postwar life. He
goes to a psychiatrist, who ap-
pears to be chiefly a go
between. who talks to Ash
toms wife, then to Ashton, and
NEEDLES futilely in their lives.
The dialogue strains to be
clever in a tasteleSsly vulgar
way. The characters, and not
only the two principals, seem
to pride themselves on having
no standards. Principles are
burdens to be borne by the less
smart.
1t is presumptuous, as well
as futile, to try to tell a writer
what to write-he must write
what he sees and feels--but
perhaps it is not entirely out
of place to express the hope
that Mr.. Forbes in his next
novel will choose a theme
more worthy of his obvious
ability.
Evening star., 1955-05-01
Fost-Movine Documentary
Of the Civil War Era

its leaders actually believed,
Mrs. Perenyi maintains, that
the South had a right to Sc
cede and that fact hurt the
war effort.
Born in the District, Baron-
ess Perenyi as a child travelled
extensively with her naval off,
Ger father. After many years
in Europe, she now lives in this
country-JOHN M. ROSSON.
Evening star., 1955-05-01
SOME HAPPY NOTES
BEHIND THE SCENES
BY J. B. PRIESTLEY
LOW NOTES ON A HIGH
LEVEL. j. B. Priestley.
(Harper: $2,75.)

Low NOTES ON A HIGH
LEVEL. j. B. Priestley.
(Harper: $2.75D
There will always be a
Madison avenue. it seems.
even in England. In this
little romp J. B. Priestley
takes his readers behind the
scenes of an English broad
casting company. where life
also is earnest but unreal.
The problem here is to
get the EBC the inestimable
privilege of playing the new
symphony Of a great Scan
dinavian composer. The
gimmick is a few bars writ
ten in for a machine called
the Dobbaphone, a Rube
Goldberg type instrument
invented and played exclu-
sively by the composers old,
estranged buddy, another
mad Viking.
While Low Notes" does
not have the air of antic
improvisation which makes
such farce irresistible, it
nonetheless has some happy
touches. One is of having
the mad instrumentalist set
up his own broadcasting
system and heckle the usual
performers. Another is an
epic card game between the
composer and the eccentric.
There is q love story, too.
It's all very gay, if not quite
killing. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1955-05-01
Why the Little Man. Had 1t
So Good Under Nuziism
THEY THOUGHT THEY

THEY THOUGHT THEY
WERE FREE. BY Milton
Mayer. university Of Chica-
go Press; $4.75)
Mr.. Mayer went to Germany
after the war to find out why
the ordinarily decent and re-
sponsible little man" Of Ger
many had allowed the horrors
Of Naziism to happen. His ex-
planation, probably as clear
and convincing as any writ
ten. is contained In this biog-
raphy Of 10 rank-and-file
Nazis.
What Mr.. Mayer found. In
Evening star., 1955-05-01
Novel From Spoin
''The Oppressed BeIieye

"The Expresses Believe in
God" BY Jose Maria Gironella
tKnopf; $10.) is a two-volume
novel Of immense scope. deal
ing with five years in the
lives of many characters in
Spain in the early 1930s. Some
critics have called this novel
another War and Peace" 1t
no doubt is richly rewarding
to those who have time to
read its 1000 pages.-C. B. j.
Evening star., 1955-05-01
TomIin and Others

Paintings by Bradley Tomlin
and other abstract expression
lists. from the collections of
the Phillips Gallery, on spe-
cial exhibition in the print
rooms, remain only three more
days.
Nearly, half of the group is
recent work by Tomlin, who
died in 1858. The majority of
these are similar-approxi-
mately square strokes of color
floating on neutral or lighter
colored grounds. Somewhat
akin to these in appearance
is "Fugue," one Of several works
by Nicolas de Stael, which in
its orderly march of rectangu-
lar strokes (much more heav-
lily pigmented than Tomlin's
work. suggests a repetitive
musical composition.
Loren MacIver's Window
Shade" is a puzzling inclusion
in this show. This is natural
ism, so meticulously done as
to seem superrealistic. The
layman is tempted to try to
raise this shade. old and
wrinkled, with light showing
through its scratches. in the
hope of seeing something more
interesting out the window it
presumably covers,
Evening star., 1955-05-01
Plight of Poland

"The Seizure of Power" by
Czeslaw Milosz tCriterion: !:
$3.50 is a novel of the plight
OF Poland in 1914, when the
Germans put down a revolt
and the Russians, who had
swept to the Vistula, made
no effort to help the Poles.
The story is written with great
perception and sharp insight
INTO the characters depicted.
Mr.. Milosz is a leading Po-
llSh poet. He is the author of
The Captive Mind" an analy-
Sis OF the impact of totalitar-
lanlsm on the intellectuals of
Europe. He formerly was in
the diplomatic service of the
Polish satellite government.
but broke with it in 1851 and
took refuge in France.
The Polish Intellectuals
Among the leading charac-
ters of "The Seizure of Power"
are four Polish intellectuals
who have been fighting the
Nazis underground. The Rus
slams are in the suburbs of
warsaw, ready to set up a
puppet government for Poland.
The Germans, after Slaughter
ing countless Warsaw resi-
dents, deporting most of the
others and burning the city.
are retreating. These Polish
professors and writer's must 20
through the outward forms of
embracing Soviet ideas-to
do otherwise would mean
death or Siberia-but they re-
serve their integrity and are
tossed between contending
ideologies.
There are keen etchings of
Evening star., 1955-05-01

help In articulating this basic
belief. So heavy has been the
emphasis on the external. ma
terialistic world. so childlike
our faith in social progress,
that when we come to articu-
lating our belief in the sa-
credness of the individual, we
studder and fall silent.
Mr.. Davenport's book is
challenging, If not altogether
original. His conclusion is un-
arguabie: "The job is to
awaken a new spirit of inquiry
in which the Idea of a Free
Man can become a reality for
all men everywhere The
spiritual reference" is not
enough.
MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star., 1955-05-01
Organized Religion
FOR HERETICS ONrv 7

FOR HERETICS ONLY. BY
T'hornwell Jacobs (West-
minister Publishers).
Mr.. Jacobs interesting book
is written for those persons
who, when asked their religion
by the census taker, reply
Christian" but who have
doubts about organized re-
ligion as they see it.
He tells how the tenets of
Christianity have grown and
shows the logic and beauty In
them-logic and beauty fire.
quently hidden to the casual
or routine Christian. And even
greater things, he says, are
still to come.
JOHN r. MAXWELL
Evening star., 1955-05-01

Americans cling to the idea
that we are the innocents in
a wicked world. The atomic
bomb blasted that comforting
myth. Protestations of our
good intentions must be going
unheard, when such a Chris
tian intellectual as the French
novelist Francois Mauriac can
write of us and the Russians
as those two technocracies
that think themselves antag-
onists :. dragging humanity
in the same direction"
A Religious Purpose =
What Mr.. Davenport is do
ing here Is a brave and dis
concerting thing. He is point
ing out. not how unlike our
system communism is, but
how like-that is in its basis
in philosophical optimism. En-
gels and Marx evolved the idea
of Dialetical Man from the
spirit of inquiry of our time"
And using some of the props
of science. Marx evolved a re-
ligious purpose, "the essence
Of which is to change man
kind from top to bottom"
The philosophical optimists
who have dominated Ameri-
can thought also subscribed
to the idea Of the perfectibil-
ity Of mankind. Evil for them
did not exist-only the social
evils Of poverty. ignorance
and tyranny. And these. in
their view are all durable. But
evil can be no more ex-
planned away than can com.
nunism, says Mr.. Davenport.
and we would be much furth-
er along II we acknowledged
1t.
The great. saving, shining
difference between us and
them, says Mr.. Davenport, is
our belief in the dignity of
man. This is the core Of our
strength and our purpose. Yet
so abject has been our sur
render to science" that in
seeking reinforcement for this
cornerstone of our philosophy,
we falter. Scientific inquiry,
which made Marxism pos
sible, which reduces man to
impulses, and statistics, is no
Evening star., 1955-05-01
6. O. P. illustrated

Scenes out of the past flash
in swift, sharp focus in "Grand
Old Party: A Pictorial History
of the First 100 Years of the
Republican Party" by M. b.
Schnapper Public Affairs
Press; S6l The book opens
with a picture of the school,
house in which the party was
born March 20, 1854. 1--WE went
in Wings, Free Soilers
and Democrats" recalled AL
van E. Bovay. I'VE came out
of it Republicans" The pic
lures carry us through the
years to the Eisenhower ad-
ministration. There are some
rare photographs, engravings
and cartoons out of the more
distant campaigns. The book
is a f1rSt-rate Job.
Evening star., 1955-05-01

brief, was this: The average
German never had it so good
as the Nazi period-plenty of
jobs. plenty Of cheap recrea-
ton, plenty Of self-respect. He
did not know for sure about
the atrocities, but lack Of posi-
tive knowledge and an old
pattern of social anti-Seme-
tism made 1t easy to ignore
rumors. ...
The moral: Persons and ma
tions have to work at 1t to
maintain their self-respect. It's
easy to look the other way.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1955-05-01

strain to be funny. The mar
rative is spread out with the
seriousness of "Gulliver's
Travels" or Penguin Island"
1t is the readers reflections
which supply the humor. and
it's a quiet, philosophical sort
of humor. There also is, as
in all satireS in the grand
manner which are more than
burlesques. serious connota-
ton.
Purveyor Of Magic
We have in Laugh Till
You Cry" a variation on an
old theme. The hero, the mar
rator, is shipwrecked on a
tropical island, the sole sur
vivor of those aboard. The
natives, called Ditts, have a
curious custom. The chief re-
mains in power only so long
as he can show he has more
Of the islands wealth than
any one else-whether it's
measured in fruit or sea shells
or some other currency. AS
soon as someone else can sur
pass this showing he becomes
chief and the old chief goes
into exile. It happens that
Donald, the shipwrecked Eng
lishman, sells portable prac-
tical jokes. like the explosive
cigar, the bonbon that whistles
and the harmless looking
thing that turns out to be a
stink bomb. He has salvaged
all his samples from the reef
wmged ship. When he starts
exhibiting them. his magic is
obvious. The chief fees, Dom
aid becomes chief. He rules
through a regent, since he
does not know the language.
All goes well for a while.
The comparisons between
the Ditts and what we call
civilization become obvious as
you read on into the story.
The title comes from the
motto of Donald's company,
Laugh Till You Cry. Mr..
Mankowitz wrung many a wry
laugh and sympathetic smile
from his two previous novels,
MAKE Me an Offer" and "a
Kid for Two Farthings." It
seems to me that Laugh Till
You Cry" shows the author
advancing in another direc-
tion. Where he is headed I
don't pretend to know, and
perhaps he doesn't, but /
wouldn't be astonished if he
became one of our most wide
ly appreciated writer's. The new
book has a foreword by NAL
colin Muggeridge, editor of
Punch. and sketches by.
Heather Standring.
Evening star., 1955-05-01
TO AWAKEN A NEW SPIRIT
Are We the Innocents
In q Wicked World?

THE DIGNITY OF MAN By Russell W. Davenport dIarper
and Brothers: SO
Russell Davenport the late editor Of Fortune Magazine Is
arguing Barbara did Faith and Freedom that
Is the religious force of Western world
must combat. not It's social appeal
Is not enough Mr. Davenport this lucid and pro-
found dqution to be the side angels Nor can
Evening star., 1955-05-01
North Africo

Lively captures of spirited
Arabian horses controlled by
vigorous young men, are the
outstanding works in Porter
Woodruff's one-man show,
Impressions Of North Africa"
at Franz Bader's Gallery, l705
Evening star., 1955-05-01
\ The CLASSIC MANNER
The Reader Himself
Supplies the Humor
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

Three current novels attention divergent
Wolf Mankowz English Wedgwood collector turned
writer who gathered stable reputation with funny novels
publishes Laugh Till You Cry" tDuton $250 This
In the classic told straightfaced The
the story but in its Implications
There obvious Iaughs-the author does not once
Evening star., 1955-05-01
Outdoor Art Fair

The first outdoor art fair
sponsored by the Montgomery
County Art Association will be
held on Sunday, May Is, at
the Wheaton Shopping Center.
Old Bladensburg road at Geor-
gia avenue. Every resident Of
the county is eligible to partic-,
ipate. with art work in any,
medium. Entry fee is 81.
Information blanks are now
available at all county libraries
and art stores. -
Evening star., 1955-05-01
Religious Sculpture

The Obelisk Gallery, 3241 p
street. Georgetown. is showing
through next Saturday. Sta
tions of the Cross in poly
chrome cement, by Irena VII
ley. The artist and her work
were the subject Of o feature
story in the society section Of
The Star on March 20.
Also on view are oil paint
ings, mechanical distractions,
by Roberto Crippa Of Milan,
Italy.
Evening star., 1955-05-01

Bottoms 'Derelict" Is empha-
sized both in line and color.
The most realistic paintings
are Prentiss Taylor's "Brant
Point" depicting sharply in
red and black, the architec-
tural details of the inside Of a
lighthouse tower: and Jack
Perlmutter's Ferry Slip"
which is executed in such q
way that the observer feels as
II he were on an old creaky
tub, which trembles as 1t moves
to the wharf, and everything
looks blurred.
Washingtonians will have
another fling at painted i'm
pressions of a city and ito
waterways. when a theme
show "The River and the Bay"
opens next Friday at Franz
Bader's Gallery. More than
20 Washington area artists are
participating, and at least ten
names promise paintings that
will adhere to the theme in
q way the average gallery
goer can understand. !.
Evening star., 1955-05-01

the cruel plots OF the wicked
butler who tried to kill him
while his mistress was away.
Songs about Mere Michels
cat are still sung in Paris
streets and a typical Paris res-
taurant is named for this gut
tersnipe, who was protected by
countesses and kitchen boys.
Margaret Cardew's retelling
of Mere Michel and Her Cat
John Day; $2.25) belongs with
Madeline on our shelf of Paris
favorites. However, this is not
the first American edition, as
the publishers claim. Thomas
Bailey Aldrich translated this
classic cat story more than so
years ago. It appeared both in
magazine and book form, and
is still in print. Fortunately,
the new edition is much more
attractive.
A Kangaroo's Tale
The life story of a kangaroo
is told in Boomer by Denis
Clark Viking; $2.50). The
story begins and ends with
a mob" Of wild kangaroos
(not unlike our wild horse
bands of the West), who go
bounding from billabong to
billabong across the Australian
plains.
Blackmen, swagmen and
dingoes are the lesser char
tacters who surround but never
obscure Boomer, who old
Bluey called a real dinkum
scrapper!" Sports fans will be
amazed by Boomers fighting
technique. a combination of
boxing and wrestling. with no
holds barred.
Since every boy is a hunter
at heart, nothing is more
welcome than stories in
which youngsters have a
chance to test their wits and
their skill against wild ami
mails. Two thoroughly con-
vincing books Of this kind are
Jungle John by Budden Long
mans; $3.50, and Arctic
Hunter by Bud Helmericks
Little, Brown, $3).
Boys who dream Of tiger
hunting will wish for a father
like Bill Blackadder, a forest
offlcer in India. and a friend
like old Damroo, wise in Jungle
lore. Jungle John is a natural
sequel to Kipling's Jungle
Books.
With the Eskimos
In Arctic Hunter, a man who
has lived and hunted with the
Eskimos describes in dramatic
detail the daylby day dangers
which threaten the lives of the
seal-hunter. His diagrams of
Eskimo tools and devices for
catching seals and other Arc
tic animals are as clear and
scientific as any do it your
self" handbook. The only
drawback is that a boy can't
try out these stunts in his own
backyard.
In Guatemalan Mountains
Santiago, by Ann Nolan
Clark Viking, $2.75), has the
vivid reality of a personal ex-
perience. The reader will not
soon forget Santiago, his fears.
his joys, his friendships. Set
against the colorful and exotic
beauty Of Guatemalan noun
tains and folkways, this story
is universal in its appeal to
all young people who must
choose between the ways of
the past and the future.
Evening star., 1955-10-23

59e Linen crosh Napkins
3os e.
Stitched borders. Popular 1sx1s" size. Perfect
a. extras and always welcomed gift.
Evening star., 1955-10-23
Cos Explosion
Hurts A in FonniIy

NEW ORLEANS. Oct. "a R.
4 gas explosion ripped apart /
home In suburban Kenner to-
day and critically burned 4 young
couple and their two children.
Charity Hospital attendant,
identifed the injured as Arthur
J. Leblanc. 2s. his wife. Jennie,
~, and two children. Joseph. 2,
and Bernice. 8 months. Hospi-
tai attendants said they were on
the critical list.
Mr.. Leblanc and his family
moved into the house. yesterday.
To keep the house warm. he
said. the kitchen stove was left
lighted during the night. Of
ncials said flames from the