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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-04-30
ELks AND BEAUTIcIANs
ASSIST

Assisting with the arrangements
are two of Miami's leading or
CARNATIONS, Elks Antlers lem lie
No. SO, Mrs. Marie Brody, Daugh-
ter Ruler, and the Beauticians
League, Mrs. Marion Muldrow,
president. Tickets for the gala af-
fair, May 8 at the Lord Calvert
Hotel may be obtained through
them and at the Miami Carver
Hotel, Mary Elizabeth Hotel,
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-04-30

of original styles Linnell Muir
ply.
Lynette Gittoes Miller, former
fashion reporter OF Saks Fifth
Avenue, and a nationally known
authority on styles is directing
the show and will be its chief
commentator.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-04-30
DEATHS at RANGE

Arnold McCord of Perrine, died
in Dade County Hospital on the
morning of April 81. He is sur
vived by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arnold McCord, Sr. of Pal
metto, where the remains will be
sent for service and burial.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-04-30

Mrs. Mary Matthews of 1861
NV Goth st. died at her residence
after an illness of several years.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Ella White and Mrs. Kath-
reen Lee of Miami; one son, Har-
old Matthews of New York City
and other relatives. Funeral ar
rangements which were largely
attended, were conducted on Mon
day, April Is at Kelly's Chapel,
Rev. Bethel officiating, with in
terment in Lincoln Memorial
Cemetery.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-04-30

Mrs. Ina Hortzog of 2761 NV
44th st. died in Jackson Memorial
Hospital following an illness of
only one day. She is survived by
a daughter, Mrs. Adella Hemming-
way of Opa Locka, a son, Hosea
Smith of Brownsville and other
relatives. Funeral services were
conducted on Wednesday, April
q, Rev. H. E. Brown of the First
Baptist Church of Brownsville,
officiating with interment in
Lincoln Memorial cemetery.
Evening star., 1955-07-10

Repors. Counoyer -second
College Nd the Of SIS Class A. Bodies and Children
casual
backyard $25 In
$4,000
limit
have
Snapshot Contest
available
Metropolitan
Evening star., 1955-11-27

THE GUILTY MIND: PSY-
CHIATRY AND THE Law
OF HOMICIDE. BY John
Biggs, jr. tTIarcourt, Brace
a. Co.; $4.50.)
In 200 tightly packed pages.
the chief Judge Of the Third
judicial Circuit OF the United
States looks backward to the
magico-religious beginning OF
criminal law and psychiatry
and hopefully forward to the
days when psychiatrists will
aid the law not only IN
the comparatively small area
where criminal sanctions are
imposed but also In the allied
areas of regenerating crimt-
mails and preventing crime.
The first Isaac Ray Award
book written by an author
with a legal background. this
volume should be Of particular
interest to Washington law
yers and psychiatrists because
of It's analysis Of the much
discussed Durham opinion by
the appellate court here. To
Judge Biggs, the Durham de-
cision, which supplied a new
test of insanity as q defense
to crime, is q tremendous
step forward" although not
perfect.
In his approval Of the Dur
ham test and his attack on
the century-old test it re-
placed, Judge Biggs makes
the point that under the old
test Of judging criminal
responsibility solely by a
knowledge of the difference
between right and wrong. the
public is endangered because
psychotics 60 to lails from
which they are released TO
commit more serious crimes.
Instead Of being treated like
Evening star., 1955-11-27
Pure Imagination
And Lots of 1t
MARTIANS, GO HOME. By
Fredric Brown. &c. p. Dut-
ton: $2.75.)

MARTIANS, GO HOME. BY
Fredric Brown. &c. p. Dut-
ton: $2.75.)
Here Is a tale tflat win de-
light the hearts Of science fic-
ton lovers and entertain the
reader Of less extraterrestrial
taste. Fredric Browns story
of the little green men" who
loved more than anything else
to make human beings Vn-
happy, is far from recent
trends In this field. There is
little fact here, only imagina-
tion, and great ii Is.
Luke Devereaux. the story's
main character. is, appropri-
ately enough, q science fiction
writer. The history of his
episodes with the Martians
provides a rather thin but eff
fective connecting thread for
the story. Even II you are not
q fan Of the beyond earth"
writer's. you'll have o hard time
leaving this one until you've
Joined this planets final sigh
Of relief, The Martians have,
ct last, gone home.
GLADYS ELLISON.
Evening star., 1955-11-27
Gates at Buder

Robert F. Gates one-man
exhibition of recent work at
Franz Bader Gallery. 1705 G
street. comprises l8 paintings
in casein. ternpera, oil and
collage ternpera. He is one of
Washington's most industrious
experimenters. whose work has
changed radically from the
representational paintings Of
the mid -'30s, to a number
of abstract expressionist works
in the current show. Some of
these are tapestries Of rect
angular color areas, others
combine rectangular and round
forms. as In the brown still
life of apples. But of all the
new offerings, ! prefer two
casein paintings. Appalachian
Valley" and "Mooring," which
convey the subject matter
with increasing conviction as
one moves away from them.
Evening star., 1955-11-27
And Now, a Bigger Book
On the Dead Seq Scrolls

a few weeks ago, and the
book already is on the best
seller lists. But now we have
q bigger--and in some ways
much better --- story of the
scrolls by DR.. Burrows Of Yale
University, one Of the scholars
who has been working with the
scrolls since the beginning.
More Thorough
His treatment Is much more
thorough than Mr.. Wilson's,
more up-to-date and more
scholarly-though still written
for popular consumption. He
avoids the mistake of over
enthusiasm made by Mr.. VIII
son, but, on the other hand,
he lacks Mr.. Wilson'S literary
style.
Persons interested in those
years which are so important
to Christianity and Judaism
are fortunate that DR.. Burrows
has written this book. It will
be difficult for other writer's TO
improve on 1t.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1955-11-27

NINE. ELENA LUPSECU--
"A princess without a
court, who married her
King, even though he lost
his crown as q conse-
quence."
a snob; In short, the female
counterpart Of a scoundrel.
The victorians would have said
of Lupescu that she was mo
better than she should be-"
Mrs. Moats makes it quite clear
that she was not even this
good. One is forced to applaud
the State Departments recent
action in denying Her Royal
Highness the Princess Elena
OF Rumania a visa into this
hallowed republic. Yet one
appIauds the decision without
conceding what apparently was
In the State Departments
mind: That a fat, blowsy. six
tyish Lupescu would serve to
glamorize concubinage in the
eyes of impressionable Ameri-
cans.
After reading of conditions
In Rumania under Carol and
Lapescu, one can hardly won-
der at the anti-monarchial
feeling that brought the hap
less Balkan country finally into
the Soviet orbit. But when the
Rumanians traded one absence
Of liberty for another. they lost
a tradition. OF this there can
be no doubt. The old taste for
elegance Is gone from Rumania
now. Where but in the incom-
parable Lupescu's petit polais
would one have found a green
marble bidet with gilded taps?
Those days, unhappily for US
all, are gone forever.
WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star., 1955-11-27
THE SELECTED LETTERS

THE SELECTED LETTERS
OF HENRY JAMES. Edited
with an introduction by
Leon Edel. tFarrar. Straus
& Cudahy: $4.)
To go from the most to the
least revealing. here are the
letters Of Henry James, who
was always the artist, proud OF
his craft. sure Of his mastery
and so jealous Of his integrity
that even when expressing
"the mere twaddle of gracious
ness" he would not lower his
canons of taste by a thou
sandth Of an inch.
To read his letter TO Sara
Orne Jewett, who sent him a
historical novel he could not
approve, or to Vernon Lee, who
dedicated to him a book he de-
spised. is to understand how
fully James had mastered the
feat of being gallant and in
exorable.
His letters Of sympathy for a
death in the family, for q
critical failure are surprisingly
warm. No one could be more
generous in praise. And he
could be as absorbing as any
one in a straightforward de-
scription Of the pleasures OF
travel. Occasionally, the prose
is overblown as when he de-
tends a play that failed, but
there is an appreciable descent
from the lofty Stateliness OF
the novels. He moved with ap-
parent imperturbability and a
good deal of enjoyment
through the social life Of two
continents, enjoying the friend
ship and relishing the gossip
Of like-minded people.
OF his hopes and plans, he
is candid and humble. But
mostly the letters are an ex-
preston Of the state Of mind
that prevailed In his novels. He
wrote it to another novelist:
Life Ii less criminal. less OBJ
noxious. less Objectionable. less
Evening star., 1955-11-27
An Unauthorized Review of
An Unauthorized Biography

LUPESCU. BY Alice-Leone
Meats. (Holt; $500
Once upon a time. in the
romantic, far-of kingdom of
Rumania, there lived a little
girl named Elena Wolff. She
was a pretty little girl with
flowing red hair and two love-
ly eyes--both Of them on the
main chance. She had verve,
she had grace, and she was
round and firm and fully
packed in the finest Balkan
tradition.
In short, little Elena Wolff
had many attributes. but in
dustry was not one of them.
She was Of the school Of
thought that never runs when
it can walk. never walks when
it can stand still. And she
carried this attitude to an ex-
treme. becoming in the full
ness of time the mistress Of
Carol IL King Of Runaania.
Up to the time she entered
the field Of mattress politics,
Elena Wolff had been living
in a world which had pretty
much shown her the back Of
its hand. She was, traprimis.
a Jewalbeit a pretty one
in an intensely ti-Semitic
country. And she was. item.
a good bit OF q slob in her
manners and social attitudes.
A Changed Woman
But once the royal counter
pane descended on her. Elena
Wolff was a changed woman.
She became--by translation
from the Yiddish to the Ru-
manian-Madame Elena Lu-
pescu. Under the protection
of her King she began putting
on the uttermost dog, intini-
dating her betters and occa-
sionally slipping q shapely
hand into the royal till.
It is the opinion of Mrs.
Meats that Carol II got no
bargain when he got Lupescu.
But by the same token. she
thinks he got what he de-
served. The author recalls that
Lupescu's aged father. survey
ing the shambles that was Ru-
manian royalty, once re-
marked, MY God, look what a
family cur daughter has got
us into.
The publishers say of this
book that it Is lin no sense an
authorized biography" This
is q monumental understate-
ment. 1t comes close to being
actionable.
To hear Mrs, Meats tell 1t,
Lupescu was q liar. q brag-
CART. a back-stabber. a CRATER,
Evening star., 1955-11-27
Movie Makers,
Please Note
THE PROUD MAN.

THE PROUD MAN. BY Eliza
beth Linington. Viking
Press; $685.
Shane O'NeiIl the Proud.
hero Of this period piece that
ends with his decapitation in
an ambush fight. was the first
Of the great" o,Neills. princes
of Ulster. Shane's son Hugh
led the Inflated Irish rebellion
of 1895. Shane's grandson
Eoghan Ruadh fought Cronl-
well.
Shane himself could have
driven the English out Of the
Pale had he pressed his mill
tary advantage. but seemingly
he desired first to force all the
chieftains into an Irish ma
ton with hatred of the Sasse-
nachs the cement of their
union. Yet it was his neigh
bors Of the north who cut him
down. The SO Scottish axmen
under Aspuke MacD Donnell fell
upon him at meat and raised
his head upon a pike in q
treachery rarely equaled. The
story implies the bribe was
never paid. Here is an historic
cal flovel---a first effort based
on much research--that trum-
pets for the attention of Hol-
lywood. It may not be in ex-
act conformity with history,
but 1t mirrors the customs and
morals Of the clans with never
a dull moment.
III. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1955-11-27
Important Contributions
To Lincoln BibIioqrophy

THE LIVING LINCOLN,
edited by Paul M. Angle and
Earl Schenck Miers. (Rut-
gers Press: $6.95.)
LINCOLN AND THE BLUE
GRASS. BY william H.
Townsend. university of
Kentucky Press: $6.50.}
These volumes are not mere
" additions to the incredible
totality Of Lincolniana. but
distinct contributions, each in
o different way.
The Living Lincoln" is a
symposium of Lincoln writings.
N ostly letters. scattered
through the fateful years from
his first announcement that he
was q candidate for the Illinois
Legislature when he was only
%. He lost that race, Incl
dentally, and was compensated
by the postmastership at New
Salem, q meager job. The pa
pers end with some memoranda
which the President wrote on
the last day of his life in 1865,
q few hours before the assas-
sins bullet struck him
The Man Himself
The mass Of letters and odd
papers. ranging in Importance
from trivial political episodes
to messages dealing with crises
and battles during the Civil
War, disclose, on the whole,
the human being behind the
statesman. There are many
honey touches and scraps of
humor typical of Lincoln.
In 1858, when he was rapid
ly becoming a national figure,
he replied thus to q request
from the Dictionary OF Con-
gress for q biographical sketch:
Born Feb. IL, 1909, in Hardin
County. KY. Education, defec-
tive. Profession, q lawyer, Have
been q captain of volunteers in
Black Hawk War. Postmaster
at a very small Office. Four
times a member of the Illinois
Legislature, and was q member
Of the lower house Of Con-
gress.'
Lincoln's Lexington
In Lincoln and the Blue
grass" q more specialized job,
Mr.. Townsend describes Lin
coins connection with the re-
gion around Lexington. This
was not confined to his ances-
try and early boyhood. Mrs.
Lincoln, through her relatives.
the prominent Todds, kept in
touch with Lexington and FREE
quently visited there with the
children. After his election to
Congress in 1916, Lincoln ac-
companied his family for q
Kentucky vacation.
The author points out that
Lincoln during his visit that
summer and on other visits
saw first- -hand the evidences Of
Evening star., 1955-11-27

law partner these are the
persons brilliantly portrayed.
There is, incidentally, an
irish politician named Mike
SIattery. the local political boss,
who is refreshingly different.
He is reasonably honest. q sin
cere churchgoer, a devoted
family man who does not even
drink.
MIR. O'Hara wrote about the
same town in "a Rage to Live"
But that novel was mainly
about a woman who seemed to
me a bore. The story was built
around some infidelities and
skullduggeries around town
which were uncommonly sordid
and duh.
AS usual, Mr.. O'Hara is un-
sparing in the delineations in
Ten North Frederick" He
takes you into his characters
bedrooms, but at least sex is
not the raison d'etre of the
book, as it seemed in some of
his stories, and the new novel
has strong characters, as well
as weak ones. Vulgarities Of
phrase and scene are only oc-
casional and incidental. It
does appear that Mr.. O'Hara is
under compNlsion to shock now
and then, or try to.
A Glow Of Enthusiasm
Joe Chaplin is not a remark
able man in any way. But
Mr.. OHara was deeply inter-
ested in him, and he has trans
ferred this glow Of enthusiasm
to the reader. The story starts
with Joe's parents in the l880s
and moves up to 1945.
It goes to show that a char
acter need not be a genius or
q villain to hold the interest
through a long book. He Tor
she) may be, in fact, much
more ordinary that Joe was.
1t all depends on the writer.
Vide: Emma Bovary and the
sisters in '"The Old Wives
Tale"
Evening star., 1955-11-27

The reopening of the his
toric Octagon House, head
quarters Of the American In
stitute Of Architects, with its
beautiful interior extensively
restored, was described in The
Stars news columns October
20 and November 10. Signaliz-
ing the opening on the latter
date, to remain through the
month, is an important exhi-
bition of Finnish contempo-
rary architecture. 1t is sur
veyed in a series of nearly 80
large photographs, installed in
the Octagon's second rioor
rooms. henceforth to be used
as exhibition galleries. tOpen
to the public without charge,
Tuesdays through Saturdays,
9 to S.
The photographed buildings
are grouped under headings:
Industry and Commerce Hous-
ing, Health and Recreation,
Education, Community Life
and Town Planning. Some of
the outstanding works by we'll
known architects are Alvar
Aalto's T. B. Sanatorium in
Paimio tl933) and his Villa
Mairea 1889; Erik Brygg-
mans Cemetery Chapel in
Turku t1940) and Yrjo Linde-
gren's Olympic Stadium in
Helsinki (l934-1952). These
had an important influence ON
contemporary Finnish archi-
lecture and are said to be
largely responsible for its in
ternational fame.
But talented younger archi-
tects, too. are well represent
ed in the show. Finland's
custom Of subjecting most
major projects to architec-
tural competitions often re-
wards the fresh ideas Of
younger men,
The general effect of the
Finnish architecture here pre-
sented combines impressive
size. streamlined simplicity
in public buildings, spacious
ness and a feeling Of fresh air
and sunshine in dwellings land
considerably less privacy in
doors than some Of us find de-
sirable) and admirable in
tegration with settings, gen.
erous use Of trees.
After the exhibition closes
here. it win be sent on a ma
tional circuit by the Smith
Evening star., 1955-11-27
The Study of a Difficult
And q Destructive Lion

utes to the troublesome poet
whom he says ne loved. He
speaks of the discrepancy in
Dylan's life between the disci-
plines Of art and the consola-
tions OF liquor, barron gar
rulity, encounters with stran-
gers and endless questing for
meaningless experience" He
speaks of his human touch
an exercise of sympathy so
natural, effortless and constant
that his life seemed sometimes
to be the furious denial of a
saintliness he could not hide"
Now If he could have explained
why Dylan Thomas virtually
drank himself to death at the
age Of 37--or why. despite his
proclaimed love for his wife he
constantly sought other worn-
enA-then it might all have
been worthwhile.
But ong-suffering Mr.. Brin-
min seems to have been inn
PEELED by a less worthy mo-
tive. that Of clearing himself
of charges Of having exploited
the poet. Obviously, he didn't.
and those who knew Thomas
and knew him must have un-
derstood that this was not the
case. It is actually not any
one else's business, and to have
spelled out every sorry detail
of a great talent behaving bad
ly puts the whole question out
of perspective.
One sympathizes with Mrs.
Thomas bitter little foreword
to the book, and applauds her
stated intention to ''vindicate
first Dylan. then me, and then
both of us together
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1955-11-27
DYLAN THOMAS IN AMER,

UTLAN lhUMAS IN AMEh-
ICA. An intimate journal
by John Malcolm Brinnin.
(Atlantic-Little. Brown: 50
Mr.. Brinnin leaves no oues-
tionS unanswered as to how
Dylan Thomas spent his time
and his substance In America.
There remains q question.
however, and that is: Why did
he write this book?
A worshipful admirer of
Thomas poetry. MIR. Brinnin
brought the Welshman here to
give a series of poetry read
ings. Mr.. Thomas. who looked
like q dissipated angel and
who could talk beautifully or
bawdily at will was a difficult
and destructive lion. The blue
jeaned college girls who cooed
at his readings fed at his ap-
proach. When on a later trip
his beautiful. smouldering wife
Caitlin joined him. they ap-
parently drank up their sons
tuition money In a matter OF
days. and staged heroic brawls
at the endless parties held in
their honor.
Morbid Fascination
One reads all this with NOR
bid fascination. Mr.. Brinnin.
q poes himself, writes beauti-
fully. evokes chillingly the at
mosphere Of the ruined eve
ming. the lost week end. He
knew all about Mr.. Thomas
moods and his mistresses. But
it Is like overhearing a dread
full, intimate family quarrel.
You can't stop listening but
you wish you would.
Mr.. Brinnin pays many trib-
Evening star., 1955-11-27
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS.

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
BY Millar Burrows. Viking
Press: $500
It was eight years ago that
the most important archeo-
logical finds of all time for
Biblical scholarship were made
near the Dead Sea. They were
copies of the Old Testament in
Hebrew, dating from the time
of Christ and before - 900
years older than any copy
hitherto known to exist--and
other manuscripts on sectarian
Judaism from the same period.
Until last spring the general
public could read only frag-
mentary news stories about the
Dead Sea scrolls. unless they
had access to such specialized
journals as the Biblical Archie
ologist.
A Publishers Mine
Then, in May, the Sunday
Star wrapped up the story Of
the scrolls in an Editorial Sec
ton article, and the New
Yorker Magazine published a
virtual book on the scrolls.
Now the book publishers are
beginning to discover the mine
of fascinating material that
exists in the scrolls.
The New Yorker piece, by
Edmund Wilson. was expanded
and brought out in book form
Evening star., 1955-11-27

TEN NORTH FREDERICK.
by John O'Hara tRandom
House: $3.95), is his first
full-scale novel since "a Rage
to Live" was published in l949.
1t seems to me that "Ten
North Frederick" is Mr..
O'Hara's best novel.
Small City Setting
It's main character is a man
born to wealth and position in
the small city in Pennsylvania
the author calls Gibbsville. the
setting of other O'Hara stories,
This Joe Chaplin does what is
expected of him. He gradu-
ates from Yale, becomes a
lawyer, belongs to the towns
best clubs. acquires a wife and
children, is identified with
worthy activities. including
the traditional party, the Re-
publican. But his life. as COM
plete as it appears to most
people, holds no overpowering
interest to him, and in time,
as he becomes known around
the State, he turns politically
ambitious. No petty office like
mayor or circuit judge, which
he could have for the asking,
but the very top. the presi-
dency itself, lures him. His
initiation into the ways Of poll
tics and his ultimate disillu-
sionment are inevitable.
The portrait of Chaplin is as
complete, / maintain, as any
youIl find in contemporary
fiction.
There are, of course, other
characters, a good many, and
none is sighted, and they are
equally clear. though it is pri-
marily Joe's story. Joe's wife.
who feels that she owns him
and can think of him in no
other light: the two children.
the girl adoring her father and
growing up to be not much
more than a tramp. the son a
warped and misunderstood boy
who hates his mother; Joe's