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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Five Printmukers

Five American Printmak-
ers" are represented with small
groups OF work at the Cir
culating Gallery OSLO Wiscon-
sin avenue. Georgetown
through March IS. Open to the
public Tuesdays through Sat-
urdays, 2 to 9.
AL are young artists and all
work In modern tdioms, In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

ing ponderous writing (such
a. Government gobbledegook)
and urging simplicity and
short sentences. wrestles with
. new problem. In "Why
Johnny Can't Read and What
You Can Do About 1t" liar
per; $3), Mr.. Flesch denounces
the most prevalent method of
teaching beginners to read.
This is the method Of memoir
king entire words rather than
learning to associate letters.
It won't work, says Mr..
Flesch, and that's why many
pupils well along in school
can't read or can read in a
very limited way. He advo-
Gates a phonetic system Of
memorizing associated sounds
and, gradually, the various
words they form. The schools
that use what he calls the
"phoeaic" method are teaching
their pupils to read in the
lower grades and to become
proficient readers in a short
time. he insists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Insects and Flowers

Ivan Mosca, whose paintings
have been exhibited in group
shows at the Obelisk for three
years, is having at that
Georgetown gallery his first
one-man show in Washington.
through March Is. Eighteen
paintings. ranging in size
from postcard to large can
vases, include loans from
Washington collectors Nelson
Rockefeller. Gerhard Gesell.
H. Strive Hensel and Mrs.
Harold Talbot, also the Min
lister Of Luxembourg and Nine.
lie Calais.
The artist, who is an anna
teur entomologist. finds many
subjects in the insect world:
he is particularly fond Of but
terf1ies. He paints some of
them in natural size. others
heroic. But his simplification
and semiabstraction, turning
these winged and crawling
creatures into patterns, pre-
cludes any crawling" sensa-
tons on the part OF gallery
visitors.
I prefer Mosca's landscapes,
one Of little boats on a beach,
under a brilliant lapis sky; his
dream. flowers and his noe
turnes. His palette-knife tech
nique gives a delicate, some
times sharp, crispness to his
forms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Shows in Brief

Visual Art as a Profession"
an exhibition embracing many
media, opened last Tuesday at
the Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School to rema m
through March Is. 1t includes
sculpture by Felix de Weldon
and Edward Bush, portraits
by Helen Minifle and Garnet
Jex, cartoons by Jim Berry
man of The Star, and many
other works.
Marjorie Dec has q solo
exhibition at Wilson Teachers
College art gallery on the
third floor, Eleventh and
Harvard streets NV, through
March ID. 1t is open to the
public Mondays through Fri
days, 8 to 6 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Mart Trio

The best exhibition the Art
lists Mart has had in some
time. is the current collection
of nearly so works: Paintings
by Jules Eboli and Millicent
Tomkins and prints by Lyn
Egbert (through March o.
Mr.. Eboli is responsible for
% paintings and drawings,
demonstrating variety in me-
dia and techniques. He is
showing a large number of the
little pencil and crayon draw
ings of grotesque satirical fig
ures in forests, such as COM
posed his Introductory (to
Washington exhibition at
Collectors Corner last autumn.
He also shows several ex-
quisite water colors Of flower
ing fruit branches against
white backgrounds, in the
Chinese manner. In addition,
he has oils in semiabstract
idiomS.
Hondsome Abstract ions
Millicent Tomkins' paint
tings include several very
handsome oil distractions;
Rock Quarry" and "Observa-
ton" impressed me as par
ticularly good. Her naturalis-
tic water color, Spring Land
scape," conveys the poetry of
the season.
Lyn Egbert's mastery Of de-
sign and print media is OBJ
vious in color block prints,
water color prints, monotypes
and Autographs. There was
no intention Of making this
group of IL items a RETROSPECT
tive; but 1t does extend back
(happily) to her high-keyed
Water Hole" 1880. Her
variety is apparent in other
subjects and treatments: The
Mexican child at prayer, the
dainty old lady in Prone
made" the biblical figures of
"propress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Maryland Regional

The Baltimore Museum Of
Art will hold its 1865 Maryland
Regional Artists Exhibition
April II through May Is.
Prospectus and entry BLANKS
are obtainable at the museum,
Wyman Park drive, Baltimore
10. Entry cards must be re-
turned to the museum before
March is. entries to be de-
hvered March 2S to 2e. Artists
eligible are those born or now
resident in Maryland, residents
Of the District Of Columbia
and Delaware.
The jury includes Emily
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
First Solo

People are the chief interest
of Nance Hall Asher. native
Washingtonian, whose first
solo exhibition is at Philip
Bells Studio 33, recently
opened in Georgetown near
Key Bridge 1884 M street,.
Twenty paintings will remain
on view through March Is.
open to the public Tuesday
through Saturday, l to s.
Mrs. Asher obviously finds
people amusing, for her cap
lures are expressionistic, if not
caricatures. The wide-open
mouths of hymn singers, the
yak-yaking of women at a
Hen Party" the melodramatic
gestures Of the Fire and
Birthstone" preacher and the
ramrod backs of his spellbound
listeners. the gaunt middle
aged women discussing (acidly,
one is sure) the pretty bath
ing girls. are but a few Of
Mrs. Ashers cast of charac-
tiers.
The topical interest OF all
these would seem to make
them subjects for graphic arts
rather than oil paintings. Su-
perior as paintings, it seems to
me, are her flowers and still
life. her romantic Evening"
her moody Wind and Sea-
shore" She works in a modern
idiom.
She received two first awards
In the regional exhibition of
the National League of Ameri-
can Pen Women last year, has
had other awards in Virginia
and Maryland shows. She has
her own art school in Denton,
Md, on the Eastern Shore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
OpuIence
To Soothe
The Nerves
TO THE ONE I LOVE BEST.
BY Ludwig Bemelmans.
(Viking: $3.75.)

TO THE ONE I LOVE BEST.
BY Ludwig Bemelmans.
Viking; $3.50
Reviewed by Mary Meoroy
Lady Mendl could have had
no better-or tardier-Boswen
than Ludwig Bemelmans. They
met when he was Of an age
unspecified and she was 80. 1t
was love at first sight. Each
recognized in the other the
plain thinker about high hv-
ing. She dubbed him "Stevie."
made him call her mother.
This is not the story Of her
life, but of her way of life, Of
which he heartily approved.
A ferocious and formidable
lover of beauty, Lady Mendl
had resolved as an ugly child
to make everything around her
beautiful. She was adamant.
She wore white gloves always
to hide her arthritic hands.
She dyed her white hair blue.
She listened to only happy
things. When her husband.
Sir Charles Mendl. came in
wearing q coat she deplored
she made him go out Of the
room and come back again
without 1t. She banished his
favorite chair from the living
room and once she charged
him for the electricity used in
his part Of the house. He
murmured but complied.
To Live Beautifully
Brittle and outrageous
though she was, Mr.. Bemel-
mans adored her uncritically
for her will to live happily,
or at least beautifully" She
was his landlady Che moved
in to her Hollywood home,
AFTER ALL" soon after their
first meeting) and she was his
empress Che joined her entour-
age on q trip to France, her
great love-.
But If she could be avari-
cious, she could also be kind.
She supported an orphanage
on her estate near Versailles
for children Of artistic par
entS. She died in France, near
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
News of Artists and Exhibitions
Two important Shows
To Open Next Week
By Florence S. Berymon

Outstanding exhibitions are
about to open in Washington.
The Corcoran Gallery's oath
Biennial of Contemporary
American Oil Paintings, theo-
retically the most important
regular contemporary art
event in Washington, will be
inaugurated with an invitation
preview next Saturday eve
ming. The Institute of Con-
temporary Arts will open next
Thursday the second INSTALL
ment of its midcentury
American painting series.
Fifty Years of Danish Silver"
brought over from Denmark,
will be shown under the spon-
sorship of H. E. the Danish
Ambassador, at the Corcoran
Gallery, simultaneously with
the biennial. This afternoon
the Washington Water Color
Clubs 58th annual exhibition
will open in the foyer Of the
Natural History Building, Ma
tional Museum, to remain
through March IS. AL these
exhibitions will be given de-
tailed reviews at an early date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
A BuffIing Case
THE MISSING M

THE MISSING McLEANS.-
BY Godfrey Hoare. Viking;
$3.50
Mr.. Hoare, a British news
paperman, does not know very
much more about why the
McLeans mysteriously disap-
peared behind the Iron Cur
tain than any of the rest Of
us. What gives him an adj
vantage and what makes his
book interesting was his init
mate friendship with both
Donald Mclean. the disap-
pearing diplomat, and his
American wife Melinda. He
sees the rising young diplomat
as a collegiate Communist, an
unstable husband. an easy
prey to Red agents. Melinda,
strictly nonpolitical, he thinks
was motivated entirely by
emotion in the subsequent
flight with her children from
Switzerland.
Mr.. Hoare obviously believes
the whole affair was botched
by British security officers.
and he rejects their. theories
about what the McLeans are
doing now. An absorbing, if
not very profound account OF
a battling case. M. MEG.
GOLD WAS OUR GRAVE. BY
Harry Wade. Macmillan
Co.: $2.75D
A warning note arriving
shortly after a near-fatal acct
dent leads Scotland Yard to
suspect some one is trying be-
latedly to liquidate the perpe-
traitors of a get-rich-quick
scheme. This involves search
ing financial records and plod-
ding about London by public
transportation. The reader
is spared no detail. however
meaningless. AS a puzzle, it's
thoughtfully contrived, but the
whole thing seems paced in
slow motion. M. o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

March lectures at the Ma
tional Gallery continue in
teresting subjects and disting-
uished guest speakers. This
afternoon, Sirarple der Nerses-
sian, professor of Byzantine
art and archaeology. Dunbar
ton Oaks, Harvard University.
will talk on THE Passion and
Resurrection in Byzantine
Art"
Next Sunday T. S. r.
Boase, president of Mag
dalon College and editor
of the oxford History of Eng
lish Art. oxford University.
will speak on 1.-THE Pre-
- Raphaelite."
On Sunday. March 20. will
begin the fourth annual series
of A. w. Mellon lectures in the
fine arts. to be given this year
by DR.. Etienne ellison Of Uni
versity of Toronto.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Diplomacy

THE EVOLUTION OF THE
DIPLOMATIC TREND. BY
Harold Nicolson. (Macmil-
Ian; $2.25.)
In these lectures delivered
at oxford, Mr.. Nicolson traces.
urbanely and with perhaps a
touch Of nostalgia, the great
tradition of diplomacy - the
art and theory of negotiation
between nations
B. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

various graphic media. Several
Of them have received i'm
portant awards. New Yorker
Vincent Malta's color aqua
tints in soft gray, earth red
and white lines. suggest Egyp-
tian or archaic has reliefs.
Milton Goldstein of Brooklyn
has had a one-man show at
the Smithsonian. His etchings
and aquatints are semiab-
stractions. Joe Zirker re-
veals a fine color sense in his
color etchings, and seemed to
me the most technically adroit
of the group in his varied
textures. This resident of Los
Angeles has had six one-man
shows.
John H. Page, jr., of Mich
igan teaches printmaking at
Iowa State Teachers College.
He is showing beautiful alb
stractions in color side-grain
woodcuts, as well as subjects
treated Enthusiastically. Toni
Fricano Of Chicago is also
teaching, on a fellowship at
the University of Illinois.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
For Boys and Girls
More Realistic Treatment Dominates
Fiction as Well as Non Fiction
By Borboro NoIen


his tribe and finally becomes
their leader is a story with
modern overtoneS, in spite OF
its ancient setting.
Once-on-d-Time Adventures
Story tellers through the
ages have distilled the spirit
Of their culture into folk tales,
which combine humor and
wisdom. Before the days Of
radio and television, before
the days Of the printed word,
story-tellers must have en-
joyed the eager listeners who
crowded close to them in mar
ket place or palace courtyard.
Old and young wanted to hear
the latest adventure of prince
or peasant, fool or magician.
1t is still possible for us to
enjoy this same close kinship
of story-teller and listener.
Folk tales especially need
audience reaction" to be
thoroughly enjoyed. In my
own childhood, we read and
reread the Irish tales of Seu-
mas MacManus as we'll as the
jungle Books" and "Just-SO
Stories" We would have
missed half the fun of BILLY
Beg and His Bull" or the
stories of Mowgli if we had
not shared them by reading
aloud.
There are several new COL
lections which might we'll be
added to any family book
shelf. And since they come
from all parts Of the world,
these folk tales will inciden-
tally explain the ways Of
other people: Their hopes.
their fears. their laughter.
Best of all is the reminder
that people all over the world
love to laugh.
Outstanding among the new
collections are some Japanese
folk tales, "The Magic Listen
ing Cap" told and illustrated
by YOShikO Uchido (HarcOurt,
$3.50. The language is simple
and musical; the stories are
logical and dramatic. What
more can a story-teller ask?
Some of the themes are faint
ly familiar, but each one has a
typical Oriental twist, as in
The Wrestling Match Of the
Two Buddhas."
On the other side Of the
world, "Once the Mullah," by
Alice Geer Kelsey H0ngmans.
$3.50, reflects the village life
of people who live in Iran. The
hero of these tales in the fool
ish priest, or Mullah, who is
henpecked by his wife and
badgered by his neighbors.
Many stories are based on
practical jokes or slapstick
comedy. with spicy Arab sea-
soning.
For those who prefer the
American scene there is an
American collection OF folk
tales called with q Wig,
With Wag." mckay,
$2.50.) Under this engaging
title. Jean COthran, a chill
dren's librarian from Califor-
mia, has lovingly collected Is
stories from all parts of the
United States. They are all
simply told and suitable for
use with younger children.
Folk ToIes VS.. Comics
Use Of folk tales reminds me
of an experience I had some
years ago with an 8-year-old
boy who came to visit us. His
mother apologized because her
son never read anything but
COMICS" This was not my
first experience with boys and
mothers like this, SO that eve
ming I chose to read aloud
from a favorite folk tale COL
lection. 1t was "The Jack
Tales" by Richard Chase,
HOughtOn, So
Do l have to tell you what
happened? read several sto-
rles aloud. And when I stopped,
the boy who read nothing but
comics" took 1.-THE Jack Tales"
of in q corner and eagerly
finished the book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

-DfaWlnK by LddwN BemelmtnB.
them, and it has made q great
difference to Mr.. Bemelmans.
If opulence soothes your
nerves you will find this
glimpse of the other half most
restful. Mr.. Bemelmans does
not rely entirely on Lady
Mendl for splendor. In one
chapter Zone of the best) he
visits San Simeon, where
another lover, or at least COL
lector of beauty, William Ran
dolph Hearst, lived in uncom-
Portable luxury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
AConscientious Directors First Novel

THE HILL. BY Victor Chaplin.
(Rinehart; So
Victor Chaplin has written
an unusual book.
The HILL" Chapin's first
book, is the story of the war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Books in Review
This Adroit Novel Moy Give You
A Clearer View of Adolescence
By Corter Brooke Jones

13-year-old girl who lives largely world of
Imagination place filled with diverng fantasies sometimes
terrors. described memoraby 1.-THE Man."
By Chamberlain Bobbs Merrill; So.
The girl this novel not qualified for the ciche
Juvenile delinquent but her dream
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Postmun's View

From the French novelist,
Roger Martin Du Gard, q
Nobel Prize winner. comes an
early novel not previously
translated into English, ac-
cording to the publisher.
1.-THE Postman" Viking; $3)
peers knowingly into the lives
of q score of villagers in the
vanished France Of the early
'30s.
We follow Joigneau, the
postman, as he goes on his
morning rounds. He knows
more about everyone's bust
ness than anybody else. He
is an avaricious peasant.
ready TO turn an honest or
dishonest franc, as the case
may be, steaming open letters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

Juvenile delinquent, but her dres
one dreadful bypath and she
Is In a fair way to do worse If
she is not somehow rescued
and returned to reality.
All that happens. in and
out Of Sarah's mind. takes
place within a few hours, much
of it while she is dreaming
out the window Of afternoon
study hall in the junior-senior
high school of a small Ohio
town. Mrs. Chamberlain, who
lives at Williamstown, w. Va,
and was born across the Ohio
River in Ohio, has written
her first novel deity and ex-
plored its psychological turn
ings completely but with ad-
mirable simplicity. She has
told more about Sarah and her
external and interior worlds
in o little over 200 swift pages
than most novelists in these
days of padded. untidy writ
ing are able to develop in 400
pages.
Remembers Her Fother
Sarah could remember when
things went more smoothly for
her. AS a little girl she had
friends. She was an angel at
q Christmas pageant and had
many interesting activities.
Her father, who was away so
much, often came to her bed
side, Rugged her. told her
stories. He was kind. She
didn't realize then that he was
q gambler. that he kept the
household broke. to her moth
er's despair, and that one day
he disappeared. Now her
mother Is married again. to q
steady man who owns a garage.
He, too, is good to Sarah. but
she resents him, hugging the
memory Of her own father.
Gradually she has dropped out
Of all the little diversions that
kept her happy. She is a nice
looking girl, there Is nothing
repulsive about her, and yet
she no longer has friends; at
the high school she keeps to
herself and L. considered Pc
culiar. Then, when she lies
about o neighbor. q good man.
and says he tries to modest
girls, and this gets around
school, she Is regarded as more
than strange, as dangerous.
Teachers don't know what to
do about her; students avoid
her.
This afternoon, looking
across the valley ct the next
hill, not far away, she sees two
hunters emerge from the
woods. They light and one
kills the other. But she says
nothing about It. She knows
nobody viii believe her,
because Of the many episodes
she has invented. The killer
is . tall, dark man, and,
through hed glasses, he sees
her seated At the window
Watching the scene. When
school u out. and the early
winter darkness 10 coming On.
he y waiting for her In the
yard. and she y afraid TO start
home. No one will walk with
her, and abe hides In the big
schoolhouse. But did any of
1t really happsn2 And isn't the
tall dark man simply the
prototype Of al her fears? Are
there not such phantoms
somewhere IN every ones life?
A. the boys and girls romp
homeward, with the basket
ball players staying to practice
and the dramatic club remain
ing for o late rehearsal,
Sarah's plight 10 followed with
growing tension.
We have had some adroit
novels about Adolescents in
recent years, but none I've
read quite Like THE Tall Dark
Man" I commend 1t to all
who are interested in q prob
lem that IL fundamental, not
strange and unusual: also to
those who ike q story with
pace and suspense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

Genauer, New York art critic:
Philadelphia painter Hobson
Pitman and New York sculptor
Chain Gross. More than 81 900
is offered in cash awards and
purchases for the museums
collection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
But Will Johnny Read?

Rudolph Flesch, known for
his books and articles attack
, 1955-07-16
putrait 3ahotoeraphrr
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ton may not be saved, for certainly as President Eisenhower
has said, there is no alternative to peace.
THE REST OF the world, in distant corners, remote
places. all races of mankind, will turn eyes towards Geneva.
Mans ability to make and maintain peace must match and
outweigh his ability to make the awful instruments of des-
truction. Civilization will be on trial.
, 1955-07-16
No. 1858
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and it having been shown that said certificate Of registration
was renewed in the United States Patent Office on
June 8, 1855, for a period of twenty (20l years from July 30,
1855, unless sooner terminated as provided by aw, in the
name Of Serve, Inc, Of New York, N. Y a corporation of
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said trademark;
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the said renewal has been
recorded in the Office of the Government Secretary of the
Virgin Islands of the United States, st. Thomas, in accordance
with the provisions in the Regulations, governing the regis
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proved April /, 1916.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the Seal of the Government OF. the Vir-
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