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Evening star., 1955-04-24
Friendly PIoudits
And Pretty Posies
For Lafayette

LAFAYETTE GUEST OF THE
NATION. Compiled by DR..
Edgar Brandon. (Oxford
Historical Press.)
It is widely acknowledged
that Americans did not invent
hero worship, but they GER
tainly caught on quickly. DR..
Brandon. dean emeritus Of
Miami University, has let the
contemporary press tell Of the
plaudits and f1owery prose
thrown in the path Of Gen.
Lafayette on his return here
in 1924. For Revolutionary
War addicts, DR.. Brandon's ef-
fort puts down on some 160
pages a valuable reference
work. For newspaper histor-
ians and geneologiSts Of the
adjective 1t is the mother lode.
The book also uses the 1929
writings of Lafayette's secre-
tary, Levasseur. whose con-
siderable whimsy is fluent
enough. The Lafayette en-
tourage. en- route to Washing
ton from Baltimore, stopped
at an inn, Levasseur relates.
Unfortunately. it was called
Waterloo" Lafayette, asked
II he wanted to stay the night.
said he would go further If 1t
wouldn't prove too much for
the horsemen. The horsemen
declared that they would
rather founder their horses
than permit Lafayette to re-
main in a house, the very name
of which would recall recol-
lections painful to a French
man.
And" Levasseur noted, I'VE
Immediately proceeded on our
way"
CHARLES YARBRoUGH.
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THE FULL HORROR OF SOVIET
BESTIALITY IS REVEALED

ACE OF VICTIM BY Elizabeth Lerrnoo (IIarpers: a u
Most Of the free still is ignorant of the utter
pestahty OF Soviet communism People keep saying that
freedom precious and worth dying fothat slavery as it
has developed in Russia fate worse than death nt
os OF Them lack conviction They don't know threat
Elzaoeth Lermolo can change all that OF a Czarist
background she spent eight one of Staln prize
prisoners sharing torres with the elite among the ene-
es OF tne people Unlike most others in straits she
never confessed to things she didn't One doesn't sum-
mae the KIND OF horror she went through possibly
70 say tnat exceeds Arthur Koesers Darkness
But the juicy prison gossp-sweetened regularly hv
newcomers fallen from Stains palace guard-nakes fas-
cinating reading. The author tells: ~
How Stain murdered his first common.law ui,.
IRON the victims aunt. who eyewitness)
HOW stain arranged to have Lenin poisoned (from
an eye witness). O
HOW two attempts on Stains life failed The first
y was mace py beautiful White Russian spy whom the
octators conndants were grooming second wife She
got as iar as Stains private library with small revolver
when Stain himself thwarted her ~ '
How Stain arranged Kiroy's assassination IN r.n
ana tne personally engineered the elaborate series Of
purges pinned to the Krov case -EARI II vOcS ass VI
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Books
THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D. c. E
SUNDAY,
HE HOLDS THE KEY
What Makes the Greatest
Great, Mr.. Muughum?

stendhal; Father Goriot," by
Honore de Balzac: David
Copperfield," by Charles Dick
ems; Madame Bovary," by
Gustave Flaubert; "Moby
Dick" by Herman Melville;
"Wuthering Heights" by
Emily Bronte; 1.-The Brothers
Karamazoy," by Dostoevsky,
and WAR and Peace" by Leo
Tolstoy.
The analyses are character
istically Vaughan. He OBJ
serves that few of the greatest
writer's were highly cultured
and almost none had an in
tereSt in any art save writing.
Their love life was invariably
unsatisfactory. Each had a
peculiar intelligence. not nee
essarily of a high order" and
each was about as naive in
the field of conceptual ideas
as the average person of his
day.
A New Presentation
"The Art of Fiction" is a
revised and enlarged presenta-
ton OF a series of introduce
tions Mr.. Vaughan once wrote
for new editions of his 10 best
novels. In briefer form. these
were combined and published
in 1948 under the title of
Great Novelists and Their
Novels"
Il. WILLIAM HILL.
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Of LLOYD GEORGE

David Lloyd George. Brit
aims World War I leader. be-
gan his career under Queen
Victoria. He lived until VIC
tory was in sight in World
War II. England, which al
ways seems to produce the
man for every crisis. depended
on Lloyd George in World War
I as she leaned on Winston
Churchill in the later war. In
"Temptuous Journey: Lloyd
George, His Life and Times"
(McGraw-Hill; 81. Frank
Owen has written an 800-page
biography of the man who was
born into an impoverished
Welsh family and became one
of the famed Prime Ministers
Of modern times.
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Radio Liberation

The American Committee for
Liberation from Bolshevism.
continues to appeal to the
people Of Russia through
Radio Liberation.
Several American writer's
broadcast messages to the
land of Tolstoy and Dostoyev-
sky a while back and gave a
good account of themselves.
Said Thornton Wilder: "The
Western World, in part, was
formed and matured by mas
terpieces of Russian thought.
We eagerly await the day
when Russian writer's and
composers working in freedom
can again enrich us with their
wisdom and genius"
Said John Dos Passos:
"While the classics of Russian
literature like Pushkin and
Gogol and Tolstoy and Dos
toyevsky remain on the shelves
of their libraries, the peoples
of the Soviet Union will never
be able to be cut off entirely
from the republic Of humane
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ary critic" Che prefers the less
portentous book reviewer")
ne is, nevertheless. a good one,
Pleasantly Outspoken
He is. by current standards.
q brave man. He is perfectly
frank to say he hasn't a clue
as to what William Faulkner
is talking about. AS for John
O'Hara, Mr.. Fadiman doesn't
think he is talking about any
thing at all. On Gertrude
Stein he casts a cool eye.
when we. like the English,
have developed a really rich
tradition of harmless lunacy,
we may be able to afford a
little less intensity and little
more humor" is his comment
about that unintelligible miss.
In this collection of the re-
views and remarks of a quar-
ter Of a century. Mr.. Fadiman
displays also q number of we'll
tempered enthusiasms: For
Huckleberry Finn, for Alice in
Wonderland, for G. X. Chester
ton. Charles Dickens, e. B.
White, Leo Tolstoy, Edward
Lear and Sinclair Lewis. You
don't even have to agree with
him to enjoy them.
Mr.. Fadiman can also make
you laugh right out loud
about the perils Of technocra-
cy and the ubiquity Of How
to" books. He has some mar
velously sensible things to say
about the denatured children's
books Of today.
He is. In short. excellent
company, lucid and urbane.
M Mco.
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An Amusing Sutire

A valued colleague, Maurice
Dolbier, literary editor of the
Providence journal, has writ
ten a highly amusing satire on
mountain climbing and the
accumulation of books on the
subject. The book is called
Nowhere Near Everest"
tKnopf; $1.95) and Virgil F.
Partch, a perceptive comic art
ist. has collaborated by con-
tributing a large number Of
original sketches. Mr.. Dol
bier points out that there was
nothing in particular about his
boyhood to indicate that he
would never climb Mount
Everest, but 1t so turned out,
for sound reasons, as he can
see as he looks back. But his
friend, Orontes Bump, did
conquer well a mountain,
and Mr.. Dolbier reproduces the
pertinent portions of the
Bump account.
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THE ART OF FICTION. B,


w. Somerset Vaughan. Dou-
bleday; $4.50)
Every person who has ever
considered writing has pom
dered what it is that makes
the greatest writer's great.
"The Art of Fiction" is an
answer to the question by one
of the most successful of liv-
ing authors.
The key? w. Som erset
Vaughan says it's a combi-
nation of marked individual
ity. immoderate creative in
stinct, a passion for writing
these combined in turn with
q personality capable of in
tense feeling, vivid imagina-
ton and the ability to put self
in the position of characters.
The 10 Greatest
Mr.. Maugham's approach to
the subject is through a series
OF IL essays. Two consider
fiction generally. The others
take up the 10 novels Mr..
Vaughan regards as the
greatest ever written and in
each he analyses the life of
the novelist in relation to his
work. The novels and novel;
lists are tom JONES'" by
Henry Fielding; Pride and
Prejudice" by Jane Austen;
THE Red and the Black" by
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An AmiubIe Lesson in Book
Reviewing o-Iu-Fudimon

PARTY OF ONE. BY Clifton
Fadiman. (The World Pub
fishing Co.; $5J
In a day when so much
prose is aimed at rallying,
exhorting or merely harrow
ing. Mr.. Fadiman's pleasant
periods come refreshingly to
hand. He is always good COM
pany. as legions of "Informa-
ton Please" addicts will will
lingly attest. On the page, as
over the air, he is amiably but
not overbearingly prejudiced,
learned but not pedantic, in
formative but not patronizing.
A man Of taste, in other words,
but no longhair. A certain
blandness, on occasion, can
under the circumstances be
overlooked.
Here Mr.. Fadiman displays
all the virtues he displayed as
a master Of ceremonies, and
more besides. He can share a
few thoughts without drag
ging the reader into the depths
Of his own psyche. And though
he disclaims the title of "liter-
Evening star., 1955-04-24
LUPINSKY SHOW
ON VIEW TODAY
AT COSMOS CLUB

An exhibition of the etch-
ings and drawings Of Line
s. Lipinsky de Orlov opens
today in the Assembly Hall
of the Cosmos Club, and
will continue to the end of
the month.
A. graduate Of the Royal
Academy of Arts in Rome,
Mr.. Lipinsky won many
prizes in Europe and the
United States. His work is
represented in the perma-
nent collections of art Of the
New York Public Library,
Metropolitan Museum, Lii
brary Of Congress, Severance
Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, and
Detroit Institute Of Art, and
in other collections.
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letters. It is possible to hope
that the writers of the Soviet
Union, as the writer's of West
Germany did after the collapse
of the Hitlerite nightmare,
will some day emerge out of
the long night of oppression.
When they do, they will find
friends to greet them"
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Ryun at Colony

Mildred Ryan, who divides
her time between drama, writ
ing and painting, is having an
exhibition of oils and water
colors at the Colony, 1927 De
Sales street, through May 9.
The majority of her works
are semiabstract. There are
also examples Of naturalistis
painting, such as "On the
Beach," and compartmented
and patterned summary Of i'm
presSions, as in "Mardi Gras."
She has exhibited with the
Society of Washington Artists.
Mrs. Ryan had several years
OF experience in stage design
for the Little Theater of AL.
exandria, of which she Is q
member. She has won honors
for her acting over a period
Of years, most recently receiv-
ing the theater's award Of
merit for outstanding perform.
ance during the 1858 season,
Evening star., 1955-04-24

10 De exact, DuC IOr some
reason or other his visa was
not forthcoming. This time.
however. when the invitation
came through. Ambassador
Claire Booth Luce herself in
tervened to be sure there was
no snag.
Mr.. Moravia. a tall. brown
eyed, communicative, middle
aged author, is no stranger to
these shores. He came here on
his own 20 years ago. when his
native country was embroiled
in the Abyssinian war. He spent
a year just wandering around
New York, not writing at all.
An industrious Author
That was an exceptional
year for a lifelong writer who
began at II. Mr.. Moravia.
who gives the impression of
not being driven at all. is
nonetheless most industrious.
He contributes to an Italian
daily. II Corriere della Sera.
He edits an italian type
Partisan Review" called "Nu-
owl Argument" He takes a
hand at movie scripts and has
recently turned out one for
Gina Lollobrigida called "The
Wayward Wife" He finished
up a play about Beatrice Cenci
every bloodthirsty," he says)
just before he embarked for
America.
AS a matter Of course, he
turns out two short stories a
month. Apparently the least
moody and temperamental Of
men, he sets himself to a daily
stint of writing every morn
ing. Afternoons are given over
to walking.
Mr.. Moravia walks around
Rome every day. He meets
his friends, he looks around, he
has, he indicates, a very satis-
flying and amusing time of it.
How would he describe him
self as a novelist? The crea-
tor of 1.-THE Woman of Rome"
seems amused. as at an Oft
put question.
'MoroIist Without Morals
Not a naturalist" he says
firmly. "A naturalist is more
interested in the details of
things. But a realist. Not an
objective realist, though, but
a combination of objective and
subjective"
"I am sometimes called"
he said, with a gleam, "a
moralist without morals"
There is another novelist in
the house, his wife, Elsa Nor
rante, one of whose novels was
published a few years back
without noticeable enthusiasm.
She did not accompany Mr..
Moravia on the trip, he said
a shade ruefully, because "she
feels misinterpreted in this
country"
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| THE PAINTINGS
| AND SCULPTURE
OF CONGRESS

Myrtle Cheney Murdock,
indefatigable chronicler Of
Capitol art. has a new book
for those who share her en-
thusiasm for the paintings
and sculpture Of Congress.
Now ready for the public is
National Statuary Hall in
the Nations Capitol. Mrs.
Murdock, wife of the ex-
Congressman from Arizona,
is now an official guide at
the Capitol. M. Meg.
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ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Eugene Bermon Show
At Whyte Gallery
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN

Eugene Berman is one Of
the internationally distin-
guished artists who have en-
riched American painting in
the past two decades. A native
of Russia (born 1897 he left
there with his family immedi-
ately after the revolution, set
tied in Paris, and in the mid
1920s became a leader of the
Neo-Romantic movement.
An American citizen for
nearly two decades, he has ex-
hibited extensively in this
country. Along with his paint
ing, Berman has been actively
interested in the ballet and
opera, for 20 years.
This is the facet of his art
shown in the superb exhibi-
tion at the Whyte Gallery,
1913 Connecticut avenue NV.
through May 4. Since 1850 his
stage sets and costume designs
for "Rigoletto." La Fora del
Destino" and 1.-THE Barber Of
Seville" at the Metropolitan
Opera have contributed to the
revival of interest in opera.
These watercolor drawings,
furthermore, are complete in
themselves. Far from being
mere "blue prints" for produc-
ton. each costumed figure is
a characterization conJured
out of the spirit of the opera,
clad in baroque or rococo
fashion. vitality realized by The
artist, not just a research job.
The scenes. too. are strongly
infused with the sense OF place
and time.
This is an exhibition which
should not be missed.
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READING AND WRITING 4As@sA6aww
Alberto Morovio Here
On Nationwide Tour
BY MARY McGRORY

Alberto Morava the distinguished Italian author
recently the first leg Of extended tour of the United
States the guest of the State Department We
him at local bookshop where he greeting fans and
friends signing copies of novel,
Noon"
invited before by the Government-n 1851
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sports writer in Washington.
He became a syndicated COL
umniSt on various topics. His
first book was a satire on a
certain type of historical novel.
His other books were rela-
lively light. There was little
in them to foretell the serious,
sinewy. arresting novel he has
written. Something of Value"
is a Book of the Month Club
selection.
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St. Mury's Church

st. Mary's Episcopal Church,
Arlington, will open this AFTER
noon its second art exhibition.
Fred Preu will speak at 2 pm.
on spiritual aspects in paint
ing.
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mony and balance of mass and
motion, proceed from the ex-
act sciences and geometry"
The outstanding painting in
the show, in my opinion, is
Georgia O'Keeffe's From the
Plains" its blaze of orange
and red Illuminated with light
ming flashes of yellow. But
geometric distractions pre-
dominate. The parade of
paintings showing squares
within squares, a large white
canvas divided into uneven
sections by two threadlines
and a couple of blue and yel-
low stripes, and kindred per-
formances, all different. and
all neatly executed, add up to
considerable dullness for the
layman. "A thing of beauty
can soon turn into a bore"
This critic is looking forward
eagerly to Trends III: Sub
jects. Real and Unreal" which
promises to be a tour de force.
Olive Green
Paintings by Keith Vaughan
are on view at the Fantasy
Gallery, 1865 Connecticut
avenue, through Saturday.
This English artist is already
known in Washington, having
exhibited at the Phillips and
Watkins Galleries. and the
latter owns two of his paint
ings.
Olive green seems to be Mr..
Vaughan's favorite color, for
nearly all the oils and water
colors on view are dominated
by it, reinforced with dark
gray. black and white, a
sombre palette. Most of the
oils are simplif1ed, semi-ab-
stract coast scenes or land
scapes Zone Irish, which
stands out because of it's
fresher color and more lush
presentation). The watercolors
depict figures in interiors and
in the open.
Born in Sussex in 1912, Mr..
Vaughan served in the Army
during World War II, He is a
designer and art teacher, lives
and works in London. He had
his first one-man show in New
York seven years ago.
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in the late 40's at Bush d
Weeks Gallery on s street.
Quite different in technique
from her portraits are her
landscapes, urban scenes, still
life, and other subjects. which
she paints in a simplified i'm
pressionism, generally in q
high key and thin color areas,
with the forms suggested In
economical line,
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points out in the brief fore
word, not. as the British first
thought, "a local brush fire
but a symptomatic ulcer Of the
evil and unrest which currently
aff1ict the world"
And. in this work Of fiction
which is based on fact. as most
fiction is. Immediately or re-
motely, Mr.. Ruark has a Soviet
agent taking at least some part
in organizing the terrifying
raids of the secret society
which the Kikuyus called Mau
Mau.
War and Peace in Kenyo
Something of Value" is an
extremely long and detailed,
far too much so, account
of some British homesteaders
and some Kikuyus, the way
they lived in Kenya in peace
full days and what led up to
the brush war. The narrative
is extremely effective in con-
veying the difficulty of trying
to change any people in few
years from their ancient ways,
however wanton and primitive
such ways may seem to us. 1t
also shows how we white
people, for all our generations
of enlightenment, can revert,
under provocation. to cruelty
Of equal ferocity.
This is at times a revolving
story which becomes in GER
tain chapters almost unbear-
able in its record of sadistic
practices. But how could it be
otherwise? If you CLOSED over
the brutality. how could you
give any idea of what it was
like? It Is not a book for those
seeking amusement or diver
sion. It's for those seriously
interested in what's going on
in the world, who haven't over
sensitive stomachs.
It's not that Mr.. Ruark
uses foul language, as James
Jones did constantly in From
Here to Eternity" Mr.. Ruark
avoids it. But you can't ex-
pect a pleasant. heartening
account Of natives who swoop
down on plantations, cut off
the heads of the owners and
perhaps slaughter the women
and children. Nor can you ex-
pect sweetness and light when
the retaliatory raids Of the
British settlers are described,
and we are told Of how they
tortured captives to try to get
them to name the leaders Of
the Mau Mau movement.
Not for the Squsemish
Mr.. Ruark spent several
years In Africa. I do not
know how authentic his pic
ture is. because I am not ac-
quainted with Africa. But it
has a persuasive ring. There
is, of course, q story aside
from the Mau Mau troubles.
and a good one, II over
burdened with descriptions Of
furniture and people. We
meet a likeable family Of
prosperous British settlers,
starting during World War II,
and follow the marriages and
adventures Of the various
members. We see, at first, the
native workers and servants
on the farm, some of them
there for generations before q
minor incident casts a "thahu"
(evil spelD on a family and
sets in motion a series Of events
which ruins interracial affec-
ton and understanding.
Mr.. Ruark started out as q
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BROOKLYN Artists

Watercolors by the Brook
lyn Society of Artists are on
view at Howard University
gallery of art for one more
week. Thirty paintings pro-
vide variety of handling and
subject matter-a small but
effective survey. The show
ranges from abstract to nat
uralistic, presents figures,
landscapes, urban scenes. ma
rines, still life and social COM
ment.
Among the best paintings
are Nancy Ranson's two ma
rines, making semi-abstract
use of white-crested waves and
masts, against the dark blue
gray of the angry ocean;
Lena Gurr's Byzantine-looking
woman "Stringing Beads;
Greta Matson's low-keyed
Thoughtful Mood" and Anne
Leboy's simplified mountain
landscape, white Caps"
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Kuufmun Solo

Watercolor portraits, excel
lent likenesses of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Chief
Justice Harlan F. Stone, the
poet Robert Frost, Vice Presi-
dent, now Senator Barkley,
and a portrait drawing of Cor
dell Hull, all loans from the
American Historical Museum
in New York. and about 20
oil paintings, compose the sec
ond Washington exhibition by
Emit Kaufman, on view at the
Institute of Chinese Culture,
1900 r street NV, through
this week. Mrs. Kaufman's
first solo exhibition was held
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A Nightmorish Tale
Of Symptomotic Evil
BOB RUARK'S NOVEL
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

Robert novel, Something Value Doubleday; So
gripping of unrest, tension
which, broke in the brutal
in Kenya British East Africa.
The Mau of white by natives followed
by equally savage retaliation undoubtedly were Ruark
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At Corcorun

Since mid-January. the In
stitute of Contemporary Arts
has put on two exhibitions in
rooms Al and 43 at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, in a
series Of three planned to show
main trends in painting in
America at mid-century.
Trends II" currently on view
Ito close next Sunday is con-
cerned with two more types
Of abstract painting: The "or-
ganic" which. in the words Of
Robert Richman. director of
the Institute, lin its treatment
of the forms of nature. evolves
from biology and botany; and
the geometric. which in its
treatments of natures meth
DDS and principles of operation
mainly those of the har-
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-04-06
Three williams Township Students Die
In Seven = Auto Smushup On Highway

FOur persons, including ibrc,
Williams Township School stu
dents. were Killed and two scri.
puSly injured in seventeen
SmaShup Saturday morning a,
':l1 O'Clock about ono mile west
Of Lake WaCcamaw on smoke
ShroudCd highway ~.
The 1919 Ford convertible car
rying four Williams Township
students 10 the Az0lCa Festival
in Wilmington was damned in
tho middle of tho sCvcu-csr
piilCup. Three Of tho youngsters
uicd when exploding gas tanks
turned the auto into burning
death trap. IN elderly lady from
jamestown died instantly of
neck and chest injuries
Trapped in The burning auto.
were Herman Goodwin, ~. Of
Route ], Ch3dbourn. and Ernest
Royal, ~, Of Route 2. Whitcville,
{. T.. Ward. II. of Route 3.
Whitcvillc. was rushed 10 CO.
iwnbuS County Hospital where
he died Of burns several hours
later. Possible neck and chest in
jurics were listed as the cause
Of death 10 Mrs. Bessie Kimscy.
who was rushed TO the hospital
but declared dead OF arrival
!!osp!'iE-ea we're WilncnI
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