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At Barnett Alden

Ruth Galoon's solo exhibition
at the Barnett Alden Gallery
(127 Randolph place N.W.) is
being extended through April
Sundays, 2 to S, and by APP
pointment. Twenty paintings
represent the last eight years,
and range from representa-
tional figure subjects such as
the well-done portrait villa"
to the near-abstract "All Men"
of 1854. Richard Lahey Zone
of her instructors) has written
an enthusiastic foreword to the
catalog, In which he says in
part, that Ruth Galoon with
an intent eagerness, perceives
her subject as a whole and
puts it down with unity and
excitement"
Besides heads, figure studies
and some landscape. about half
the works on view are still life
and flowers, showing the ar
lists fair for color.
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MisoIIionce
AN IMPOSSIBLE MARRIAG

BY Pamela Hansford john
son. CHarcourt, Brace; $3.50
Miss johnson, whose previ-
our novel, Catherine Carter"
was a glittering novel Of theat-
rical folk, is here telling quietly
of an almost every day tragedy.
the misalliance contracted in
good faith.
Christine Jackson is a typist
with a literary fair. Ned Skel-
ton is a would-be soldier
turned business man. They
meet at a dance. fall in love.
as they think, and after sew
eral quarrels which should
have warned them, they marry.
Since physical attraction is not
enough to keep them together.
they drift apart. Unhappily.
it happens all the time.
Miss johnson has Christy tell
the story in the first person,
with much nostalgia for the
uncomplicated EOS. for youth
and for girlish condolences.
The story is sensitively told
and sounds completely anthem
tic but somehow like one OF
those recitals that mean more
to the writer than the reader.
M. MEG.
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tOWu. ne "
doesn't covet her for the usual
reason, but he is obsessed
with the idea that he and she
are fated to meet. and that
she will lead him to some
fabulous place where there
Is no ghetto for the colored
people and every one Is on
a level.
We turn, in alternate chap
tiers, to this girl. She is
prostitute. She falls In love
with a young Texas oil worker
whom she meets in a tavern.
They are to be married. But
we move. meanwhile, toward
the inevitable meeting of the
Negro boy and the girl.
Probably the artiflciality Of
the plot makes it difficult for
an author to be entirely per-
suasive. But she does very
well with it. She has written
simply and swiftly, without
DEPRESSION or bombast.
The young Negro Is a con-
fusing character. At first we
see him merely as a dreamer:
later it is obvious that he is
suffering from a. flxation.
There have been so many
stories Of good-hearted, VIC,
timized prostitutes that 1t is
hard to draw one who holds
our sympathy.
But Miss johnson Is a writer
of decided promise.
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previous acquaintance with
her work. it may be said that
she tells her stories almost
entirely in dialogue. It is not
dialoge that is close to life,
nor is it intended to be. It is
a sort Of philosophical short
hand. innocently simple
sounding. but actually subtle.
sometimes devastatingly wit
ty. The butler does not talk
like a butler. nor do the chill
dren speak with less intellec-
ual maturity than their elders.
In Miss Compton, Burnett you
learn to expect such things.
She is an English writer
whose novels certainly have
the, merit Of originality. It is
impossible to describe them
in a review or even to give
much idea Of what they are
about. Their sequences of crisp
conversation do get some
where, but. the results are too
involved to sum up In a few
words. To find out what
Mother and Son" is all about
you've simply got to read 1t.
Then you'll know perhaps.
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Inspired by Nature

Marjorie Phillips exhibition
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
opened appropriately with
spring. It brings into the
gallery the qualities we begin
to long for. as March nears its
close: sunshine, fresh clear air.
green of countryside, lofty
trees and well-tended gardens,
and the flowers themselves in
all their charm of color and
shape; and serene. far-reach-
ing views across hills and
valleys.
Not that Mrs. Phillips re-
stricts herself to spring; she
paints the fullness of summer
and the bounty of autumn, as
in her Barn and Buckwheat,"
with its alternating areas of
blue. gold and green. She also
paints interiors, sometimes
just a room corner or a sunny
window, or a covetable bit of
luster or pottery holding flow
ers. She has also caught casual
but excellent likenesses of her.
self. and family enjoying a fine
day in their garden. in Con-
versation Piece. !"
A Helpful Guide
AS for the sound esthetics of
+ her work, there is nothing one
can add to the discussion by
Duncan Phillips in his intro
duction to the catalogue. Wis
itors to the show should read
this: it provides a foundation
to the pleasure of viewing these
paintings.
A native of Indiana, Mrs.
Phillips is the niece of noted
painters Clifford and Reynolds
Beal. She studied at the Art
Students League of New York.
In 1921 she married Duncan
Phillips, and ever since, has
been active in Washington's
art life, both as an artist and
as associate director of the
Phillips Gallery. Her paintings
have been included in irnpor-
tant exhibitions throughout
the country and abroad, and
she is represented in the per-
manent collections of out
standing museums, as well as
in many private collections.
The exhibition will remain
through April "a.
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Those 'Ominous' Investigations
REVIEWED BY RICHARD FIR

GOVERNMENT BY INvESTI-
CATION. BY Alan Barth.
Viking Press; 49,
Not only have congressional
investigations increased in
number in the past five years,
MFR. Barth says, but they have
taken on an "ominous" new
color. More and more in
vestigating committees are
encroaching on the rights of
the executive and judicial
branches Of the Government
and on the rights of individu-
ais.
The executive, he points out.
can fight back as the Constitu-
ton meant it to-and so. to q
certain extent, can the jul
dietary. But when congress
sional committees conduct
trials" of individuals with. the
the intention Of furnishing"
them in a way barred to the
courts. then the Nation has a
more serious problem on its
hands.
His solution to the latter
problem pretty much boils
down to self-restraint on the
part of Congress. Congress
must decide to do two things
exercise more supervision
over . committees and require
that legislative trials extend
individuals roughly the same
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spective includes oils, water
colors and pen drawings which
give a good survey.
Miss Burgess does not con-
fine herself to one type Of SUBJ
ject or handling; she shows
landscapes, urban scenes, fig-
ures, birds and animals. Pig
cons and other birds she has
made peculiarly her own, TAX
ing advantage of their stream
lined curves. particularly well
exemplified in Conference"
lin the Mart's window.
Georgetown Street." in
dusky blue twilight, with lights
blooming in windows; "Hill
Orchard" whispering of spring
in its delicate. high-keyed
colors, and Forest Interior"
impressed me as among her
best works in this show.
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protection as do judicial trials.
The beauty of the last sug-
gestion is that right Of cross
examination, a bill Of particu-
lars. rebuttal testimony, etc,
would bog down the legislative
process. Therefore Congress
would tend to leave trials up to
the courts.
MIR. Barth, editorial writer
for the Washington Post and
Times Herald, will have done
a real service If his book makes
Congress think a bit more seri-
ously about its responsibilities
to safeguard individual rights.
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Heating Problem
4 ROOM m PARIS. BY Peggy

A ROOM IN PARIS. BY Peggy
Mann. Doubleday & Co..
Inc; $685.
On Paris Left Bank, young
American CT Stanley Hagen
sets out to find a special sort
Of woman--a bedwarmer.
He's living in a room-one
Of those delapidated, ill-heated
hotel rooms an army of GIs
occupied after World War II.
A woman. he reasons. is
cheaper for winter warmth
than coal. Against a back
drop of sheer romance. he
goes on his practical hunt.
Stanley, would-be artist
hero Of the novel, finds a
woman. She solves his heat
ing problems. but in the
process throws cold water on
his life of enchanted poverty.
A lot OF Lett Bank illusions
go up in smoke during STAN
ley's affair with Janet Welles,
an American working with
ECA in Paris.
Everything about this novel
is young-including the au-
thoress. It's a light. coy love
story with a blithe spirit.
There are moments when its
likable lovers seem about to
fall into cliches of stock
Americans living a stock
brand Of gay Parisienne life.
The cafes, etc, they frequent
are SO well-worn that they get
to sound like housekeeping.
But the authoress always
rescues this romance in the
mecca Of romance with a
charm that keeps you reading.
DORIS KANTER,
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Pure Dixie
THE LOVE EATERS. BY \

THE LOVE EATERS. BY Mary
Lee Settle. (Harper g. Bros;
So
Miss Settle is a Southerner
transplanted to England. Her
adopted country has left no
mark on her prose style. which
is pure Dixie. Especially In the
exchanges between the ladies,
with the stilettoes cleaning
among the magnolias, you can
see she never left home.
Her characters are an as
semblage Of unfulf1lled people
in a small Southern town
brought together by their
love of amateur theatricals.
The importation of q crippled
director underlines their
Illustrations. The discovery by
one Of the middle-aged women
in the cast that her husband
has a grown-up son by his
first marriage, precipitates
real tragedy.
The story is full of harsh
metaphors and Of insinua-
tions of immortality, It seems
an accurate portrayal of empty
lives, but its message in not
clear. The English critics. &C
cording to the jacket quotes,
went quite mad over it. One
wonders why. M. Meg.
The Important Pockets OF
Paul, by Lillian Moore mckay:
$2.75), is the kind of here-and-
now. story book which 8 and
Q year Odds viii pick up be-
cause It looks easy to read.
They will finish 1t because
they want to know what hap
pened next" to Paul. whose
mother threatened to make
him wear pants without any
pockets at all. -B. N.
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WANTED: AN ASIAN POLICY.
Ru ESu,ivo n DnfcoIo,yop

WANTED: AN ASIAN POLICY.
BY Edwin o. Reischauer.
(Knopf; $3.75.l
The author is a Harvard pro-
fessor Of Far Eastern languages
and a longtime student of
East Asia, born in Japan. He
has produced a hard-hitting,
thought-provoking book on
what has been wrong with our
Far Eastern policy and what
still is.
The foreign service, for in
stance, is roundly indicted for
its part in the loss of China,
the bungling of our Korea
policy, and its present alleged
lack Of foresight throughout the
the Far East. Only in Japan
does he find our performance
commendable. but even here he
thinks we are missing many a
bet today.
War in Korea might well
have been averted, in MIR.
Reischauer's view, If someone
in the State Department had
taken an interest in the coun-
try in the late l930s and early
1940s, which was the time for
planning AS the author points
out, Korea with her 80 million
people is about the 18th most
populous country In the world.
Russia. he recalls. was primed
with Kremlin-indoct
Koreans and detailed plans
ready to 60 in September, 1945.
We were a pushover.
What of the future?
The author is deeply pessi-
mistic. He obviously thinks,
but avoids saying 1t bluntly.
that all Asia is almost sure to
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ever. and apparently Miss
Jameson, believe that the
common English are always
likely to astonish themselves
and their betters by their
patience, and patient indiffsr-
ence to the teachings OF the
cynical and the bloody
minded.
There is, Of course, a girl.
caught between the avengers
and the tolerant. Miss jane
son manages all convincingly.
There is no belaboring OF the
moral issues. simply a state
ment, and very plausible
dramatization.
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For Boys and Girls
Spring Is the Time for Ballads,
Baseball, Best Friends and Bikes
BY BARBARA NOLEN

Spring is the time for bal
lads, old ones like Casey at the
Bat and Pirate Don Durk Of
D0wdee; new ones like Davy
Crockett. From the hills of
Scotland to the plains Of
Texas heads are nodding. feet
are tapping, as they have
nodded and tapped for hum
dreds of years.
The oldest of these story
songs were passed down by
word Of mouth, for country
folk considered 1t bad luck to
write them down. An old
Scotch woman burst into tears
when Sir Walter Scott wrote
down the ballads she had sung
to him. Now these songs
would die.
But such songs do not die
SO easily, and one of the old
est and most amusing Scotch
ballads now appears in the
gayest picture book of the
spring. Frog Went A-Court-
ing has been set down by
John Langstaff and illus
trated in color by Rojankov-
sky (Harcourt; $3.50. The
pictures are a joyful medley
of spring peppers and frolic-
some mice. When Mr.. Frog
goes accounting, Sword and
pistol by his side," he is such
a grand fellow that the whole
meadow turns out to cele-
brate.
A Lovoble MonereI
Spring brings five puppies
to a farm dog named Yipe, a
lovable mongrel abandoned by
her original owners, a near
sighted town couple who can't
tell a good dog from a bad one.
Fortunately for Wipe, she is
rescued by a friendly farmer
and his wife. Their hospital
ity is rewarded a thousand
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All Asia Is Ripe for Communism
REVIEWED BY EARL H. voSS

go Communist in the next 20
to 40 years. That includes
india. Japan, and Indonesia.
Why?
Because Asians through the
centuries have been conditioned
to totalitarianism, of which
communism is today's leading
exponent.
Because Asia's urge to in
dustrialize is so strong most of
the people will accept rigid
totalitarian discipline to i'm
prove their standard Of living.
Because political instability
in free Asla-including India
and Japan-will provide fertile
fields for Communists as
present leadership dies.
Whot's the Alternative?
How can we divert Asia from
communism
Mr.. Reischauer'S methods
are far from convincing.
Military and economic means
he belittles as almost useless.
which seems to this reviewer
to be a mistake. That leaves
the theological front, which
the author thinks Is by far the
most effective.
Despite his enthusiasm, Mr..
Reischauer produces nothing
in the theological field that is
much more impressive than
what is being done already.
One puts the Reischauer
book down convinced of the
black future for democracy in
Asia, but unconvinced that the
author knows much new
about how to save the situa-
ton.
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One Especially for Music Lovers
PASSPORT no PARIS.

PASSPORT TO PARIS. BY
Vernon Duke. little. Brown;
$50
Vernon Duke has been called
"The Jekyll and Hyde Of Mu-
sic." As Vernon Duke he has
written popular song hits in
cluuding April in Paris" and
II Can't Get Started With
YOU" AS Vladimir Dukelsky
(his real name) he has writ
ten serious music.
After his escape from Russia
with his mother and brother
in 1919. Mr.. Duke came to
America. where he became
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friends with George Gershwin,
who Influenced much Of his
later music. Subsequently, in
Paris, where he was writing
q ballet for Diaghilev's Ballet
Russes, Duke met the two
Serges-Prokofiev and Kous-
sevitzky. His friendship with
Prokofiev continued until the
latter's voice was stilled in
the provinces Of Soviet Russia.
Passport to Paris" is full
Of stories about contempt
rary composers and musicians
and should be Of interest TO
the music lover.
SALLY GREENLAND.
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|. Compton-Burnett

1t seems to me that I. Comp
ton-Burnett is for most Of us
an acquired taste. To learn
to like her novels is compar-
able to developing a prefer
ence for escargots on the half
shell or sauerbraten. Those
who like her are apt to like
her q lot. ] have always been
able to read her or leave her
alone. though I'll admit I en-
Joy her more than I did at
first.
Her new novel, Mother and
Son" (Messner: $3.50l. Is typi-
cal. For those who have no
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Johnson's first novel. "Watch-.
ing at the Window (Bobbs-
Merrill; So. Miss Johnson's
taut story Is concerned with
primitives. Negroes and white
persons, in a small Southern
town. They are not completely
primitive, not entirely unin-
formed or without wisdom in
their way. but they are a pole
apart from the people Mr..
Scowcroft scrutinizes.
Miss Johnson's people in
this particular novel would
think Shelley was only the
first name OF a movie star,
and Wagner might suggest to
the older ones a certain ball
player. And yet we find that
Mr.. Scowcroft's men and wom-
en-, who could tell you the
contrasting merits of Renoir
and Van Gogh and what
Hindemith Is trying to say,
have just as hard q time solv-
ing their fundamental prob
lens as do those whom Miss
johnson depicts.
If Mr.. Scowcroft's novel
comes off the better Of the two
books, he is. for one thing. a
more experienced hand. and,
for another. he has tackled a
theme less difficult to expound.
In Son Francisco
"A View Of the Bay" Is a
story that happens in San
Francisco. Leonard, married
and about to become a father,
Is suddenly confronted with his
early life when Craig commits
suicide. Craig's wealthy father
once took Leonard, a poor boy,
under his wing as a companion
to Craig, sent them both to
an expensive prep school. But
1t was Craig. not Leonard, who
could never adjust himself to
life. Craig, inheriting his
fathers money, put some of 1t
in publishing venture and a
magazine which attracted ex-
perimental and frustrated
writers. Then it turned out
that Craig left some Of his for
tune to the enterprise, some to
his boyhood companion, Leon
ard who had never liked him,
and 81 to his sister, who lives
in Paris and never got along
with Craig. When the sister
comes to San Francisco to
break the will, Leonard is
tempted by an old infatuation
for her. How 1t all works out
makes an interesting nara
tive.
Craig's sister. supposedly a
fascinating creature, never
seems real. The dowdy SPIN
ster who runs the improbable
publishing house and the self
admiring poet 1t publishes are
much clearer.
Written at Two Levels
watching at the window"
is written at two levels. There
is a good-hearted but mentally
upset young Negro Of a hard
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/ y JutlCC
t e m pered
with mercy,
the French
man bitterly
tells him to
W ait until
England has
been occu-
4 ~, A48oA
he has faced
st r e a c h
cry in his
oW n ia M
lily" The
English cap
+ctxa h n vi
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New jameson
Novel Merits
Fine Praise
THE HIDDEN RIVER. BY
Storm Jameson. tHarper &
Bros; So
REVIEWED BY
MARY McGRORY

Storm Jameson Is a skilled
craftswoman, one Of those
English novelists who are not
afraid Of big scenes. not
ashamed Of high drama. In
this somber story of undying
rancor in q French family, she
is as fluent and sure as ever.
The conflict here is between
those who do not hesitate to
judge and those who do. The
most adamant character is the
chatelaine Of an old manor
house. Cousin Marie, who
nurses the memory of old woes,
who viii not let herself or any
one else forget that her son was
tortured to death by the Ges-
tapo. Her nephew, Jean Mon
merle, a gallant resistance
leader is equally obdurate
when his time comes.
The True Traitor
Opposing the pair are the
village priest, a manned SUR
vivor Of Dachau, and an Eng
hsh captain. returned to the
Loire to revisit the house which
had sheltered him during the
war. The priest in vain tells
Cousin Marie that no one has
the right to refuse to forgive
any other human being. But
Cousin Marie shows no mercy
to Daniel Monnerie, who comes
home from prison to die. His
crime had been that he frat
ernized with a cultured Ger
man general, a representative
OF her sons prosecutors. And
he can never see that he did
more than conduct himself like
a civilized human being. The
German general was his friend,
war did not diminish his con-
geniality.
Then Jean discovers the true
traitor in the family and when
the English captain, with the
moderation OF his race, begs
q 80 S,.ck;nn
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S t ory, a
S a t iric q /
S k e tch of
an avant-
garde pub
Usher and a
''litt l e''
magazine.
Far from
the more
or-leSS So
phisticat e d
charact e RS
in "a View
of the Bay"
is Charlotte
-
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W"AAASs 1C~
spec t a BILE
family, who,
W hen h e
isn't work.
ing in the
sawmil, sits
at a win
dow. Twice
q day he
sees a young
white wom-
an passing
through the
G o ! o r e d
quarter of
A~-x~~ ~
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Burgess at Mart

Marguerite Burgess is show
ing more than 80 works in her.
solo at the Artists Mart, 1851
Wisconsin avenue, through
next Wednesday. The retro
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a penetrating knowledge Of
humanity. This exhibition at
the National Gallery. is one to
linger over, during its all-too-
brief stay here.
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Books in Review
Two Novels Of Absorbing Interest
Present Characters Poles Apart
BIZ CARTER BROOKE JONES

Two novels which to hand this absorbing
for different Neither be commended without
ervaton and yet both have commendable qualities which
than expect of the novel these
Richard Scowcrofts third novel, "A View Of the Bay
(Houghton Mifin S3) is amusing account Of serious
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fold. for Yipe proves to be a
superb rat-catcher and watch
dog.
Yipe, by David Malcolmson
atlantic, Little Brown: $2.75).
Is a hard book to keep on my
shelves. The pictures by Nor
gan Dennis make an immedl-
ate appeal, but it is the story
itself which holds the young
reader. Yipe is every child's
dog: Clever. affectionate, adj
venturous, loyal. AS soon as
I've finished this review, Yipe
is promised to my friend Jake,
whose third-grade classmates
are waiting impatiently toread
the next chapter.
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Best Friends

Helen Hamilton's wishes are
simple enough on her 18th
birthday. At least they seem
simple to her. She wants a
bicycle and she wants q best
friend. Instead, the other
children jeer at her and call
her "the funny guy" They
play tricks on her. too. They
hide her clothes when she
goes swimming. They tease
her when she forgets a lesson.
They dare her to eat a cater
pillar. Helen almost believes
that she really is "a funny
guy" who never will have any
friends.
The Funny Guy, by Grace
Allen Hogarth tHarcourt:
$3.50, is a story Of Boston 40
years ago. But Helen's efforts
to sell Christmas cards. door,
to-door, in order to earn a
bicycle could happen today.
Like "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" Helen Is likely to be q
long-lasting book friend.