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Evening star., 1955-06-26
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Corcoron
Features
Rockwell
ART NEWS
BY FLORENCE 8.
BERGMAN

Some delightful people have
come to town, and are going to
spend the summer at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, In the
exhibition of cover designs by
Norman Rockwell. These peo-
pie, who. have appeared on
the Saturday Evening Post
for nearly four decades, are
known and loved by millions
of Americans.
These paintings need no
captions, no explanations.
They admirably illustrate the
Chinese adage. "A picture is
worth 10000 words" This
saying can be taken two ways.
Rockwell's paintings convey
10000 words of meaning. Some
painting g S in contemporary
idioms require 10000 words of
Interpretation Except for ini-
tiates). Consequently, the lat
ter paintings are duck soup
for art critics, who can I'LL a
column, If necessary, with a
show Of abstract expressionist
works. But a few exhibitions
like Rockwell's at the Cor
coran would turn the critic in
articulate. Rockwell has said
it all.
About a dozen final paint
ings compose this educational
exhibition. Several of these
are attached to large mounts,
along with a selection OF pre-
liminary sketches in pencil,
water color and oils, and the
full-scale charcoal drawings,
affording the visitor an oppor-
tunity to study the painstak-
ing efforts made in the prepa-
ration Of each of Rockwell's
pictures. In some instances,
he makes as many as 80 such
preliminary tches, with
changes of detail right up to
the final painting.
Four Decades
The show ranges from
Rockwell's first Post cover (for
May 20, 1870 to one CT his
latest-June II, 1855. In be-
tween he has created more
than 800. A place of honor
is given his portrait of Presi-
dent Eisenhower, lent from the
White House by the first lady,
which was published on the
Post cover Of October Il, 1852.
It is an excellent likeness of
Ike. but whether characteristic
in mood, only those who know
him intimately can say. It
shows him smiling, relaxed,
easy-going. This is not the
soldier who won the worlds
worst war, or the Pres
ident burdened with trying to
preserve the worlds worst
peace. One may hope that Ike
is privately as cheerful as
Rockwell's portrait Of him in
dicates; he needs to be.
It is intriguing to reflect
that Norman Rockwell, a
native of New York City (born
1894) is the country's out
standing pictorial interpreter
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The PRIVATE DIARY OF

IHG PRIVATE DIARY OF A
PUBLIC SERVANT. BY
Martin Merson. (MacMillan
Co.; So
This is the sort of book that
makes the reader angry. It is
the diary of a businessman
who fought hard to elect Pres
ident Eisenhower because he
was confident an Eisenhower
administration would bring
morality back into a Govern
ment saturated with political
expediency.
Mr.. Merson was invited to
become part of the new, clean
government-specifically to be
chief consultant for the State
Departments International
Information Administration,
the Voice of America. He &C
cepted the job, and then ran
straight into the Mccarthy
buzzSaw.
The Voice Of Mccarthy
There are some persons, Of
course, who believe we cannot
have too much security and
that Senator Mccarthy Is
therefore making a valuable
contribution. But Mr.. Merson
relates how the Mccarthy
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Morality Should Be More
Than q Campaign Slogan

crowd virtually crippled one
weapon In the anti Communist
f1ght-the Voice Of America.
The voice was attacked not
because it was shot full Of
subversion (Senator Mccarthy
didn't find any but because
the Senator and his friends
liked to flex their muscles.
Political Expediency
What was the reaction Of
President Eisenhower and his
top advisers to Senator Nc
Carthy's destruction? Political
expediency. The Voice was
ordered to appease him.
Mr.. Merson, after five
months, quit and took his tai
ents and his establishment
back to private life.
The lesson of Mr.. Merson's
valuable book is that morality
is not only a good campaign
slogan, but is also a good
thing to inject into govern
ment.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1955-06-26

of the "folks back home" in
the village, friendly, unsophis-
ticated people who would seem
as out Of place in New York as
hush puppies in a bowl Of
caviar. { OF course, in these
days Of radio and television
and other means of easy COM
munication, there are sophisti-
Gates in Squash Center. and
undoubtedly folksy people in
the heart of New York City,
According to editor Ben
Hibbs of the Saturday Eve
ming Post, Rockwell himself is
folksy. In his introduction to
an album of Rockwell paint
ings published in the Post
earlier this year, Mr.. Hibbs
said in part that the artist
himself is like a gallery Of
Rockwell paintings-friendly
human, deeply American,
varied in mood, but full,
always. of the zest of living"
Rockwell's well-known series
of "The Four Freedoms" the
originals of which were shown
in 16 cities during 1884, are
said to have been directly re-
sponsible for raising more than
$3.50 million worth Of war
bonds.
This exhibition will remain
at the Corcoran Gallery
through September 18.
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The mixture is as before, the
libertine, the hypochondriac,
the philosopher, the linguist.
The Italian Journal has a par
ticular timelineSs, however,
coming as it does, at the be-
ginning of one of the biggest
tourist seasons in history, from
one of the most tireless tourists
Of all times.
Not that Boswell is a typl-
cal tourist. Oh. no, he is far
from that. The rest Of us 60
forth, clutching our guide
books and our apprehensions,
fuming over reservations,
gathering up our adjectives for
the scenery.
Knew Where to Stay
Boswell, had no difficulties
or bad moments over where to
stay. He was, curiously enough,
considering his amorous pro-
pensities and his clamorous
worldhness, passed from hand
to hand down the Italian boot,
by the Dominican fathers, and
spent many happy hours in
conversation with members Of
some of the strictest orders.
The mercurial Scot, who
until the discovery of his
journals was known solely as
the biographer of Samuel
johnson, lived before the day
of postcards. His editors have
included a generous selection
Of his letters home.
These, like the entries in
the journal proper, are, to say
the least, unconventional. Bos-
well ignores the countryside,
the landscape of his own soul
always proving infinitely more
fascinating. With loving care
he describes the valleys of
sensuality. the heights of pure
thought. the Arcadian plains
of conversation with his equals
or superiors.
A Good Mixer
No tourist ever required
fewer letters of introduction.
Boswells aristocratic birth and
his own peerless boldness made
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had worked for many news
papers when he came to the
United States two years ago.
He won first prize in painting
this spring at the Corcoran
School.
His paintings include many
subjects. some depicted ex.
pressionistically. others simple
and austere, in rich, strong
colors, lavishly applied. His
best, I think, Is his large
Fiesta" with men, horses and
bulls in a swirling composition,
full Of action. A similar COM
position is used in THE
Plague" full of writhing, ag-
onized figures. Two of his
most pleasing works are
Town" with its old-world pic
ureSqueneSs, and the hot gol-
den "Sun."
James Suzuki, who won The
Evening Star award in the
current SD annual Of the So
ciety of Washington Artists,
began his study of art in his
native Japan with the noted
artist Yoshio Markino. Com.
ing to the United States in
1852. Mr.. Suzuki continued his
study at the Portland (Me.)
School of Fine Arts, and at the
Corcoran School when he came
to Washington two years ago.
Since then, he has received
six awards in Washington and
Alexandria.
He gives a promising ac-
count Of himself at the Art
lists Mart. His paintings range
from the serene, decorative
Moonlight With Pier" the
only work bespeaking his ia.
panese origin, through a mum.
Der of semiabstract paint
ings to the high-keyed abb
stract, Girl With Easter Bon
net" Several of his best
paintings deal with the water
front. Fish Nets" with ell
Typical lines, the fiat and
postery Dock" and Boat
yard" the best of them.
Mr.. Thomas collection will
be reviewed next Sunday.
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No One But q Fruncophobe
Would Quarrel With This

in a boat together-which
have a quiet, poetic beauty.
But while most of what Mary
does and thinks is believable
because she's a teen-ager.
other main characters are too
black or too white. They come
across as causes, rather than
living, breathing people.
DORIS KANTER.
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"A Real Rembrandt
|Groced the Bar
OF This Tuvern
DUTCH. BY Theodore Bonnet.
Doubleday; $3.50

DO OAAs oy 441SOAS4O DS3AAASbs
Doubleday: $3.50
The Travellers Rest was a
nondescript. improbable bar,
run by bouncy little Dan Nc
Clatchy in a small town near
San Francisco.
Beyond all probability, it
was discovered that the dirty
old painting on the back bar
was a genuine Rembrandt.
There Mr.. Bonnet's story
begins. He takes us through
the background Of McClatchy
and his old customers, the art
dealers, the new customers
lured by the painting. and the
towns chief ornaments in the
way of characters.
The best of these is Walsh
Reardon, a giant of a man
who achieved fame as an am
bidextrous, passing fullback in
college, eaten up later by
pride, and pretty much a
sodden drunk when we meet
him, although his promise in
the law was as great as his
prowess on the football field.
Mr.. Bonnet gives us a raft
of strong characters. riding a
strong plot. and he gives us
each in detail. After 416 pages,
we may feel he has given us
too much, though that is un-
gracious in the face Of the
quality of each part.
The doings and condolences
do not admit of much logical
belief on afterthought, but the
reader believes them as they
happen, which is enough.
MIR. Bonnet, author Of "Tfle
Mudlark" has here a sprawl
ing, romantic, memorable
novel.
FRANK SARTWELL, JR.
Evening star., 1955-06-26

of paintings by Oswaldo Quay
asamin Of Ecuador. introduces
an artist recognized (the Un-
ion says) "as the foremost ex-
ponent of the nationalist trend
in Ecuador" one Of the three
Latin American countries
which have generally main
tanned the Indianist movement
in art, which had its incep-
ton in the esthetic revolution
OF the Mexican muralists of
the 1920s.
Highly regarded by the in
tellectuals of his own country,
Guayasamin has had strong
support from the Casa de Ia
Cultura Ecuatoriana in Quito,
which has commissioned mur-
ais from him, published arti-
cles and books about his work,
and obtained exhibitions of it
abroad.
Born in Quito in 1919, Quay
asamin left Ecuador for the
first time in 1943 to come to
this country to visit museums.
at the invitation Of our De-
partment of State. He had a
one-man show in New York at
that time. and is represented
in some of our most important
museums. from New York to
San Francisco. He has trav-
eled extensively since then.
The current exhibition is a
significant fraction of a very
large show (nore than 100 Of
his works. held In Caracas,
Venezuela, two years ago. and
before that, in his native city,
Quito. Guayasamin named
this exhibition "The Way Of
Tears" than which one could
find no more appropriate title.
1t includes large triptychs on
Death and Anguish" the
latter three paintings depict
ing giant elongated heads reg
isterlng "Desolation," de-
spair" and Resignation.
Even such unconditional
titled paintings as Frost. "
Mountain" and Wind" are
full of anguish. The visitor
can see that the frost and the
wind, personalized as king
sized heads, are up to no good.
A panoramic view of Quito
(my favorite in the show de-
picts the capital city held
captive in a ring Of the most
sinister looking mountains in
the history of art. The omi-
nous sky completes the atmos-
phere of forebodlng. Even the
artists self-portrait (three
selves) with its excellent like
ness in the foreground, shows
him with heavily corrugated
brow. quite different from the
genial expression he wore at
his Embassy's reception on
June 16.
Guayasamin's painting
shows the influence Of Orozco,
under whom he studied. 1t Is
monumental. dynamic, and
thoroughly depressing.
Evening star., 1955-06-26
THE SEAGULL ON THE STEP.
BY Kay Boyle. (Alfred
Yy--e. 40 enN

ny nay DOylS. NAAAAC0
Knopf; $3.500
When you're grinding an
ax-no matter how attrac-
tive the ax-it's hard to make
the noise sound like much
more than grinding.
The ak in this novel is the
need for more human, person.
to-perSon understanding in
Franco American relations.
No one but a Francophobe
would quarrel with this.
Come to My Village
Our young heroine. Mary
Farrant has some ideas on the
subject Of diplomacy that our
State Department might find
useful. She leaves her Amer
lean fiance in Paris to go to
Abelin, a small town on the
Riviera to find Michel Valiant.
Valiant had written a letter,
published in a Paris paper,
appealing to an American Ito
come to my village and see
what I'm trying to do. I'm
trying to make this one small
place q testing ground. I
need as much of one Ameri-
cans time. and his experience
as he could give" :
On her way to Valiant,
Mary gets on a bus. It's filed
with charming small-town
French types. The bus ride is
delightful. Then the bus
crashes.
Time for Decision
Mary is rescued, taken to
Abelin. She finds herself en-
broiled in q fight between lib
eral and decadent reactionary
French citizens. Valiant is a
liberal, with forward-looking,
constructive ideas. The strug-
gle has moments. There are
even scenes-like the one in
which Mary and a deformed
old Algerian minstrel take of
Evening star., 1955-06-26
Power Politics

THE AMERICAN TRADITION
IN FOREIGN POLICY. BY
Frank Tannenbau1n CUni.
versity of Oklahoma Press:
$3.50.
Can our national interests
be served by frankly amoral
power politics? Mr.. Tannen-
baum doubts it. and stresses
the value Of the American
tradition of voluntary associa-
ton in a coordinate state as
a pattern for international
agreement.-B. r.
Evening star., 1955-06-26
La Belle France
UNDERST DING THE

u N ~ T. N > Il n ~ DkNu AnE
FRENCH. BY Elliot Paul.
(Random House; $2.75D
This is 1876 pages Of fond
remembrance Of la belle France
by one Of her unashamed
lovers.
Mr.. Paul, author Of "The
Last Time ! Saw Paris" recalls
the wines. the women, the
character, the atmosphere. the
pets. the habits. the tourists.
the food-all, Of course. the
best.
Now "a, Elliot Paul writes
from California. -F. g.. Jr.
Evening star., 1955-06-26

0IdSCo.
THE Flower Girls" is the
story Of the Floristers, a great
family of the English stage.
The scene is London. 1t is
1946, but. while all the atmos-
phere of England at the close
Of the war is developed. the
time is a platform from which
we look backward and forward.
The original Flower Girls, sis
tiers, now are in their SOS, still
attractive, not entirely retired.
sought after when there are
suitable roles in new plays or
revivals. Their eldest brother.
Sir Julius Florister, rounding
80, has been one of the great
actors of his generation. The
younger brothers, Paxton and
Ernest, have been identified
with the theater in the pro-
duction and managerial end.
Members of the new genera
ton, daughters and nieces. are
on the stage, the screen and
television.
The Story Of Jacy
Actually, though, this is the
story Of Ernest FloriSter's son
Jacy. who, as the vast narra-
tive opens, flies from America
for his first visit to England.
Jacy is 81. He was brought up
in Hollywood and was a child
star, but dropped the movies
in adolescence. enlisted and
fought in the Pacific in World
War II. His father and mother
have been separated since his
birth in British Guiana. His
mothers death in an accident
sent him from California to
England to get acquainted
with his English relatives.
Brought up to hate his father,
Jacy long had believed Ernest
dead. Soon after his arrival
in London unannounced, he
discovers that his father. not
only is quite alive. but an ex-
tremely interesting if eccentric
man. who is highly respected
as a dramatic critic. To his
surprise, he comes to like his
father and to learn from
others that Ernest had a side
in the feud with his dominat-
ing American mother.
An Enormous Canvas
Jacy's gradual orientation to
England, to his aunts, uncleS
and cousins, his mad love af-
fair with his cousin Olive, his
work on a play he is commits
stoned to complete for a man
killed in the. war-these de-
velopments are depicted on
Miss Danes enormous canvas.
The story is practically in
terminable. The 629 oversize
pages probably hold 100000
words. But this is the plant
of a reviewer who must read
several books a week if he is
to keep from being drowned in
the surge of new books. Prob
ably most readers, if they set
tie down to this Dickensian
novel, don't try to finish it in
a week end. but take a month
or so of spare-time reading
and SAVIOR all it's flavor, will
not complain of its length.
Certainly Miss Dane man.
ages to hold your interest as
she describes the little world
Of Covent Garden, the odd
and extraordinary characters
that surround the Floristers
and their Flower Theater,
which is to be opened for the
first time since the war; the
Floristers themselves, not less
strange and unusual than those
outside the clan; the English
countryside, the gallant effort
of the nation to shake off the
tragedies of the war and be-
gin a new life.
"The Flower Girls" is a
Book of -the-M Month Club Sc
1actior
Evening star., 1955-06-26

and demands its rights sword
in hand?"
This rhetorical question
came from a Russian, not
from a Soviet propaganda, as
it might have. but from the
great novelist. Feodor M. Dos
toevsky (1818-188D.
"And what is more" he
|, added in this essay. "this de-
manding, rebellious individual
ought first of all to offer the
I. to offer himself, entirely to
society. not only without de-
manding any rights. but, on
the contrary, offering these up
Internationally to society,""
What Would He Think Now
Dostoevsky had served sew
eral years in Siberia for taking
part In a revolt. It may be
wondered, If he lived today.
what he would think of the
state that tried to carry out
the anti-individualism he was
advocating.
The quoted essay is from a
volume, "Winter Notes on.
Summer Impressions" (Cri-
terion; S2.75), which, accord
ing to the publisher, appears
in English for the first time.
The impressions were gathered
on Dostoevsky's first trip to
Western Europe. in the sum-
mer Of 1862. After brief visits
to France, Germany, Italy and
England, he presumed, like
many a traveller today, to pass
on the merits of those coun-
tries. He saw few merits and
was particularly savage in de-
nouncing the French for mar
row nationalism and ignorance
of other cultures.
Even. a novelist of the first
rank. as the author of "The
Brothers Karamazov" and
Crime and Punishment" Ger
tainly was, is not necessarily a
philosopher, a good critic or
even a sound commentator on
current affairs, though he is
expected to be all those things.
The impressions" are more
significant in explaining a
phase of Dostoevsky's career
and listing some of his preju-
dices than for any solid judg-
mentS.
There is an interesting for
word by Saul Below, the
novelist. The translation is
by Richard Lee Renf1eld.
Another PimIico
Escape From PimlicO," by
the popular British novelist,
Robert Standish Macmillan;
$3.50, does not, as some
Washingtonians might think,
refer to a nearby racetrack
and to some disillusioned
horse player. The title alludeS
to London's Pimlico, a rather
drab section. The heroine of
this novel runs away from a
dominating father and for a
I,@1l. L4vY,xx
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CLEMENcE DANES NEW NOVEL
In the Little World
OF Covent Garden
By CARTER BROoKE JONES

Clemence Dane British novelist and playwright who has
been writing for 40 and has produced conspicuous
successes appears tomorrow with major novel, The
Flower Girls" Morton; S495).
This her first ulscale project In fiction since "Broome
Evening star., 1955-06-26

such passports unnecessary.
He, simply thrust himself on
anyone who seemed interest,"
ing. He mingled with the ma
tives, to put it mildly. Al
though rebuffed in dizzying
succession by three Italian
countesses, he finds a more
than warm welcome from
Girolama Piccolomini, and,
in fact. devotes a good deal
OF time trying to extricate
himself from her embraces.
Boswell had not the contem-
porary fears about the water
or the food of the country.
The greatest peril was, due to
his nature. social disease, and
to this he succumbed, more
than once.
Bigger and Better
Johnson's biographer did, on
occasion, rise above himself.
Moved by the antiquities Of
Rome, he spoke Latin among
them for q whole day. And he
devoted himself completely to
the cause Of Corsican inde-
pendence. which was embod-
led in that day by Gen. Paoli.
Paoli Boswell regarded as a
great man, and he treated
Boswell as an equal. For that
reason, and many others. Bos-
well returned home feeling as
all travellers should, bigger,
better, worthier.
Feuthered Friends
Twenty-eight years of be-
ing curator of birds at the
National Geological Park have
not cured Malcolm Davis of
his enthusiasm for our feath-
cred friends. He even writes
about them in his spare time.
His new book. on which he
collaborated with Karl Plath,
curator of birds at the Chi
? cago Zoo, is just out. It is
called Parrots Exclusively"
1t is a manual for keepers of
parrots, which, Mr.. Davis says,
maintain their popularity as
pets.
Evening star., 1955-06-26
READING AND WRITING
The TireIess Boswell,
No Typical Tourist He
BY MARY McGRORY

friend the paper spying the latest Boswell Journal
under my arm said, What? Is Boswell still going?"
The yes and going strong, this time in ITALY,
Corsica and France fifth nstallent Boswell
fNFcCra * kO,
Evening star., 1955-06-26
Old Propaganda

What. then, can the Social
ist do. if there is no prin-
cipal of brotherhood in the
Westerner, but, on the con-
trary, an individual isolation
st instinct which stands aloof
Evening star., 1955-06-26
|Coustic Ecuudoreun

The first one-man show in
Washington, at the Pan Amer
ican Union (through July 81
Evening star., 1955-06-26
Retrospective

Today is the last opportu-
nifty to see the retrospective
exhibition of work by Evelyn
Wynne at the Roumanian Inn,
815 Thirteenth street. On view
are % oils, water colors and a
few pastels. Most of them deal
with urban and waterfront
scenes with figures. still life
and flowers, and a few por-
traits.
The show is pleasing, color
full and naturalistic. Mrs.
Wynne is a native New Yorker
who studied at the Art Stu
dents League and worked as
a designer and illustrator for
II years. She also studied at
the Royal College of Engrav-
ing in London and at the Cor
coran School under Richard
Lahey. Her work is exhibited
frequently in local group
shows, and she teaches art
classes in her studio in Chevy
Chase.
Among the works ! like best
in this collection are her
Country Dock" presenting
contrast to the bustling dock
scene with New York's sky
scrapers in the background;
her lively market, and the in
terror of q cathedral with flags.
Trio at Mort
Three young men VINO have
been students at the Corcoran
School of Art (their only COM
mon denominator) are having
an exhibition at the Artists
Mart, 1861 Wisconsin avenue,
Georgetown, through July Is.
Carlos Lopez is showing more
than 20 paintings, James SUI
zuh and Howard Thomas
about IL each.
Lopez, born (1920) in Chi
quinquira, Colombia, Tas an
established illustrated car
] toonist and caricaturist who