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BEHIND NEW ENGLAND DOORS
SmoII-T own Scene Eyed
Through q KeyhoIe

lands thousands of small
towns. The heroes and hood
lums could be found in any
Of them. but they manage to
miss being stereotypes through
the deft artistry of the writer.
But that their prototypes are
real in a very real sense is at
tested to by the fact that Mrs.
Metalious' teacher husband
has already been fired from his
job, even before the novel has
reached the bookstores.
No Tobacco Road"
This book is not at all a
Yankee Tobacco Road" sort
of thing. The character of
Lucas Cross, the novels
drunken. shiftless and mali
cious shack-dweller, resembles
that of Jeeter Lester only in
shiftlessness. In other re-
spects he is considerably more
disreputable than the Cracker
tenant farmer of Erskine
Caldwell's novels of the South.
And there is no exclusive pre-
occupation with him and his
ilk. "Peyton Place" in its
mood and pitch resembles
Henry Bel,amann's Kings
Row. but on a broader scale
Of things. less somber and
more far-reaching in its over
tones.
Perhaps only a New Eng
lander could have written this
probing portrayal of people
who pay their bills. guard
their secrets and take their
sex in large but apparently
painful doses.
FRED THEROIJX
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Changing Scene
In India Is Theme
Of Poignant Novel
THE YEAR or LOVE. Inv

Margaret Lee Runbeck.
(Houghton Miflin. $685.
This is the story OF a young
couple in faraway India. 1t is,
in truth, the story of the new
India itself, growing trium-
phantly from servitude to
freedom.
The author points out that
Westerners. inclined to ex-
press righteous horror at ar
ranged marriages, find that
they can lead to deeply salts
flying relationships. Miss Run
beck not only makes life in
midas isolated villages seem
real and understandable. but
she also conveys a sense of the
forces of change at work
among the poverty-ridden
peasantry. In her account of
an Indian marriage she poig-
nantly relates the tragedy of
misunderstanding which arises
from language and cultural
barriers between lovely Soni.
her husband Anand. and the
well-meaning American mis-
sionsries whom he has grown
TO love.
When Anand decides to
work the land as his ancestors
had before him, two cultures
suddenly and violently clash.
Finally. with Anand lying
MORALLY i'll. Soni. still victim
ized by superstition, is shown
the terrifying sacrifice she
must make in order to try to
save mis- life. The nature Of
her sacrifice. and its unex-
pectedly heartening conse-
quences. leads the reader to
the close Of this deeply touch
Ing drama.
GLADYS WOOD DANIEL
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Good UncIeun Fun
Not Funny Enough
To Let 1t Get By
MY LOVELY MAMA. BY
Mathilde. (Bobbs-M Merrill;

w 4 LOVkLI MAMA. by
Mathilde. (Bobbs- Merrill;
$2.75.)
This prettily packaged item
is obviously meant to be good
unclean fun. But it's not so
terribly funny.
The story concerns Ma
thilde. aged 16, who is an
Austrian countess with a
questionable background and
a hankering to learn about
life (the boudoir side of 1T
flrsthand. What gets Ma
thilde moving toward this end
is the news that Mama was
last seen in the neighborhood
with a man. not Mama's hus-
band: Mathilde sets out from
the boarding academy to save
her mother from serious in
discretion and. in the course
of her sleuthing is not COM
pletely discrete herself. Thus
the episodes in this book are
fashioned.
The book-jacket resume says
my LOVELY MAMA" asks
no reader to take it more
seriously than it takes itself
and that is not so very seri-
ously." How gaily, this re-
viewer would like to know,
must the reader pass over a
series of situations involving
a juvenile which are, to say
the least. unSavory?
The point is, there is an I'M
wholesomeneSs ABOUT this tale
which seeps through the
sugar coating - Mathilde'S
light : hearted, som tim S
charming presentation - and
spells the taste.
AMY VOTING
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is the way people are. "
PEYTON PLACE.

PEYTON PLACE. BY Grace
Metalous. Julian Messner;
$685.
When a new writer tackles
the tricky job of lifting the
wells from the living, the
shroudS from the dead and the
curtains from the intimate
secrets of a small town. he in
evitably faces comparison with
previous such jobs done by
past masters of the pen. We
might mention Sherwood An
derson and Sinclair Lewis and
William Faulkner, just for a
few.
In this first novel, Grace
Metalious has def1ed the risks
and established herself as a
craftsman of the first class,
an astute observer of the hui
man scene. and the possessor
of sharp wit and keen in
sight. She had dissected the
physical body and the psyche
logical structure of a New
England town. and damaged
no one in the doing, unless we
consider as damaged those Of
her characters whose damages
were self-inflicted long since.
Her Husband Fired
Mrs. Metalious, a native
New Highlander married to a
principal of an elementary
school in a small New Hamp-
shire town. has put together a
lot of such little towns to
create her "PeytCn Place,
N. H." Her town could be
almost any one OF New Eng
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tremendous mass appeal. He
attacks the problem by CIV
ing the reader a full-length
portrait of the evangelist-the
man, his environment and the
people who influenced his life.
These all add up to a volume
throwing light upon one of
our outstanding religious
f1gures.-CASPAR NAMES.
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bitter, dramatic life Of this
tragic Dutch artist. born a
little over a century ago, who
died at 81. and never enjoyed
a taste of the magnitude Of
his achievement.
The inclusion in the film. Of
many of Van Gogh's original
works is an outstanding fea-
ture.
Having read Irving Stones
f1ctionalized biography from
which the film is made, as well
as a number of straight BIZ
ographies. illustrated with
photographs and Vincent's own
paintings, including most
recently Passionate Pilgrim"
The Life of Van Gogh by
Lawrence and Elisabeth Han
son random House $50 I
had strong mental concepts Of
the personalities and appear
ances of Vincent, Thee,
Gauguin and others, with
which the characters in the
film coincide to a remarkable
degree.
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with John Galsworthy. with
Virginia Woolf, with H. G.
Wells. frey took tea with
G. B. S. whom Lewis mimicked
with the same props he used
to take off one of the Smith
Brothers or Brigham Young.
The Changing Current
What happened to this
charmed life? 1t is hard to
say. AS a struggling manu-
script reader. Lewis had been
a most disarming suitor-a
romantic. ardent fellow who
called himself Francois the
TToubadour and laid his heart
at golden-haired Gracie's feet.
After success, which she
thinks may have come to the
35-year-old author of Main
Street" too early, the endless
wanderings began.
Il travel because / like
change he wrote to her when
love had cooled. What he was
seeking she never knew.
Whiskey in time, and other
women. But, says his former
wife, He could not supply the
confident and robust elements
which make for success in a
love affair AS he did not be-
lieve in his own capacity to
evoke love, it may be that this
realization of his inadequacy
drove him TO the solace of
drink.
His Finest Work
When their marriage ended,
so did his finest work, says
Mrs. Lewis. And there is no
gainsaying that.
The book is interesting of
itself, despite its sometimes
painful subject matter. Mrs.
Lewis, who was at her hus-
bands elbow during the writ
ing Of Main Street" Bah
bitt" and his other best novels,
shared to some extent her
husbands gift for acid obser-
walton. Her description of
their honeymoon visit to Sank
Center, Mimi, and of a liter
airy party in London where
Virginia Woolf tried to bait the
thin-skinned Lewis are cases
in point.
If not a profound portrait Of
Sinclair Lewis, this is at least
q very piquant collection of
snapshots.
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Film and Book

Vincent Van Gogh. the APP
probation and value Of whose
paintings continues TO grow, is
the subject Of a new film at
The Playhouse. The Stars
drama critics have considered
this from the cinema stand
point. l should like to say how
successful it seemed to me in
conveying the flavor Of the
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t one of your literary wives. who
In one with a passion to be
useful. 1t went often against
the grain.
Beginning of Conflict
The conflict between the nun
who must answer instanter
the summons of the convent
bell and the nurse who was
raising a cup of milk to a
deaf-mute child's mouth began
at once. Except for one brief
respite during a mindless con-
valescence in the Congo it was
to go on silently for II years.
Against the aweSome stand
ards of the rule, which asked
not only self-effacement. but
self -abssement. Sister Luke
measured herself and found
herself wanting. Only the
silent valor of those around
sustained her.
Her heroic attempts to fit
the hold met their first severe
test when she left the Mother
House with the superior's in
structions to "be the little
donkey of Jesus" ringing in
her ears. At the School for
Tropical Medicines, where she
was preparing for the Congo
missions. it was suggested that,
to conquer her pride in her in
telligence. she fail the examin-
ationS. This, oh Lord, / can
not do" she wept.
The Real Test
only a nun could do it"
she said when she saw the
fantastic dedication of the
nuns in the insane asylum.
where one gentle sister was
stabbed in the back by one
maniac and she herself was
mauled by another.
But the superhuman exer-
lions there and later in her
beloved Congo, she performed
gladly. 1t was the interior war
against what in the convent
were considered pride and
vainglory, wofldliness and
self-love" that wore her spirit
down.
The atheist Italian surgeon,
DR.. Fortunati-"Beelzebub"t to
the community, a genius to
her-irreverently probed the
struggle. You are not in the
mold" he would tell her during
their comradely moments in
the operating room.
She knew what he meant.
When word came to the con-
vent that three Italians were
sinking in the quicksand, she
tore off to the scene of The
rescue. She came back to tine
rep-oaches Of her superior.
She had left the convent with
out permission. She had failed
to think that perhaps another
sister might have been chosen
to do "a visible act of charity"
The Door Opens
Dl. FORTUNATE finally forced
the issue. She left Africa in
the presence Of a mental
patient in a compartment
banked with flowers by her
black boys. And at home
in Belgium patriotism and
hatred of the invading Nazis
did what years of inner attri-
ton had failed to do. Cody
and repeatedly she broke the
rule to help the underground.
In time, the Cardinal at her
request permitted her to leave
the religious life.
Now this remarkable wom-
an lives in California, works as
a nurse among colleagues who
find her some sort of en-
chanting revolutionary who
practiced a way of life quite
new and unheard Of"
Gabrille Van der Nal has
told her story to Kathryn
Hume, who has set it down
with vividness, reverence and
a quiet drama. 1t is, indeed, a
heartlifting and sometimes
heartbreaking story of one who
failed as a religious but not as
a human being.
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are mousey and beaming, con-
tent with a corner of the lime
light beating down on the
great man. She, with her
English accent and manners
better than her husbands, was
someone in her own right, she
is careful to let you know.
And this book is as much
about her and their son Wells
as it is about the author Of
Main Street"
Their Boy
Wells must have been, even
allowing for maternal impair
TALLY. an enchanting child.
But he was not. it seems, a
very welcome addition to the
family circle in the eyes of
his scribbling father. In baby
hood Wells was banished to
the nursery, in boyhood
hustled off with a goyerness
or shunted to boarding school.
He was killed in World War II
and Mrs. Lewis reproached
herself that she had not faced
down her husband and in
sisted that instead of hurting
from continent to continent
and from city to city. they
settle down like everybody
else.
Retrospect may have sharp
ened the conflict in Mrs.
Lewis heart. At the time she
seemed to relish as much as
her prairie-born husband the
trappingS and freedom of
success. In England, they
dined with Hugh Walpole (he
called Lewis ugly. harsh
voiced, pushing, but kindly and
bursting with enthusiasm,
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Books
Snapshots From the First
Mrs. Lewis Collection
BY MARY McGRoRY

The first Sinclair Lewis calls this memoir Of her
WITH LOVE FROM Oracle" Harcourt Brace s575)
With love- and with touch of asperity. too Defensive
against his other critics. Oracle herself critical only wife
be OF the restless brilliant she married and from
whom she parted after IL of smpuous gypsy life
Grace Hegger Lewis your literary wives
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ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
New Arts Club Season
Opens With 3 Shows
BY FLoRENcE 5. BERRYMAN

The Arts Club opened the auspicously
Sunday with trio of solo exhibitions which good pace
for the nine months The outstanding display of
than 20 works in sculpture by placed with
excellent effect in the Clubs spacious garden
This versatile artist works with facility stone
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they can't have anything
against him, he said.
The British, Portuguese and
Greek Ambassadors were pres
ent at the party with their re-
spective Lady Makins. Sonora
Esteves Fernandes and Nine.
Melas.
Kay Graves was a fashion
plate in a saucy straw bonnet
with a pink rose and a navy
box jacket suit dress. Mary
Ellen Monroney was in a
snappy dark green linen suit.
COckeyed Reflections
Mrs. Robert Low Bacon sat
on the terrace and chatted
with Tom Blake. Recently
back from the coronation in
far-of Nepal, Mrs. Bacon said
that the government house
where Nepalese ministers of
state have their offices. con-
tains a surprising room
through which visitors must
pass upon entering. 1t is lined
with the kinds of crazy mirrors
we have at our amusement
parks. Anybody entering
in a high dudgeon must be
reduced to gales of laughter
before getting into the Offices,
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Spanish Visitor
Is Honored

The President Of Spain's
Nuclear Energy Commission,
Gen. Eduardo Hernandez
Vidal, was honored at a stag
luncheon yesterday given by
the Spanish Ambassador, Jose
Maria Areilza.
General Hernandez Vidal is
leaving today for a tour of
atomic energy plants and will
return June IA to be honored
at a dinner given by the Chair
man of the Atomic Energy
Commission and Mrs. Lewis
Strauss.
Among the guests at lunch
were Admiral Strauss, Mr..
Harold Vance. Mr.. John A..
Hall. Mr.. Gerard Smith, Mr..
John Werneke, Mr.. Vance
Brand. Mr.. Jose Maria Otero,
who is deputy to Gen. Her.
nandez Vidal, and members
of the Spanish Embassy staff.
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the recent Pan American Bah.
He has yet to locate the owner.
Bill and Beulah Foster are
leaving Washington June IL
for a weeks cruise up and
down the fjords of Norway on
Ambassador and Mrs. Corrin
Strong's new boat.
THIS AND THAT: - The
Woman's National Democratic
Club announces that it voted
to send a wedding gift to Mar
garet Truman Daniel. A sill
yer lazy susan, suitable for use
as a server or a center piece,
was the clubs choice.
The Swedish Ambassador
and Nine. Bohemian have invi-
tations out for an at-home
next Tuesday when fiddlers
from the Swedish province Of
Dalecarlia will play. Among
the more picturesque people Of
their country, Dalecarlians
cling to native costumes and
customs.
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What it could do to the caller
with an inflated ego should
be a delight to behold.
This is just the kind of re-
ception room which members
of Congress should have for
their constituents and which
American ambassadors abroad
should have for members of
Congress.
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman,
cochairman of Fridays big
Home Rule Ball; Mrs. Allen
Dulles. Mrs. Arthur Radford,
the John Kenneys. the George
McGhees, DR.. and Mrs. Bill
Morgan. the handsome Russell
DORIS, Lady .Harcourtn the
Arthur Krocks. the Andre Wis
sons, and Rahel and Fontaine
Broun with the latter's mother.
were others who fingered at
the 5:30-to-7 party.
Day, the butler who presided
over the bar in the dining
room, reported the finding of
a large topaz at the Pan
American Union the night of
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FinuCUneS
Are Hosts
To Bruckers

The Undersecretary of the
Army and Mrs Charles C.
Finucane entertained at a
dinner at the 1925 F Street
Club last night in honor of the
Secretary of the Army and
Mrs. WILDER M. Brucker and
the Army Chief of Staff and
Mrs. Maxwell D. Taylor.
Among those accepting in
vitationS to the event were the
Belgian Am bassador and
Baroness Silvercruys, the Por-
tuguese Ambassador and Sem
bora de Esteves Fernandes.
the British Ambassador and
Lady Makins. the Undersecre-
tary of the Treasury and Mrs.
w. r. Burgess, the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and Mrs. Arthur Radford, the
Chief of Naval Operations and
Mrs. Arleigh Burke. the Secre-
tary to the President and Mrs.
Bernard Stanley, the Under
secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Thomas S. Gates, and the
Assistant Secretaries of the
Army Hugh M. Milton, George
H. Roderick, Frank H. Higgins
and Chester Davis, and their
wives.
Also invited were Mr.. and
Mrs. William H. Martin, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank H. Willard,
Judge and Mrs. Homer Fergu-
son. 1t. Gen. and Mrs. w. L.
Weible, 1t. Gen. and Mrs.
James NJ. Gavin. 1t. Gen. and
Mrs. Clyde D. Eddleman. the
chief of Army chaplains. Mai.
Gen. Patrick j. Ryan; Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. G.. S. Meloy,
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John G.
Van Houten, the secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution
and Mrs. Leonard Carmichael.
Miss Bertha Adkins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond E. Cox, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Folger, and Mr..
and Mrs. r. B. Smithers of
New York.
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Delegates
Entertain
Officials

Patent lawyers. Industrial
lists, inventors and scholars
from A countries here for the
9th biennial congress of the
International Association for
the Protection of Industrial
Property took time out for a
little fun last night.
The delegates-more than
600-and their wives gave a
reception and buffet at Ander-
son House honoring high
ranking officials of the United
States.
Chief Justice Warren and the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Thomas were among those in
vited.
Others accepting invitations
were UnderSecretary of Ag-
riculture and Mrs. True D.
Morse, Deputy Attorney Gen.
eral and Mrs. William P.
Rogers, Deputy Assistant Sec
rotary of State and Mrs.
Thorsten v. Kalijarvi, the
UnderSecretary of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare and Mrs.
Herold Hunt, UnderSecretary
OF Labor and Mrs. Arthur
Larson, Deputy Assistant Sec
rotary of Commerce and Mrs.
Marshall M. Smith, the chair
man of the House Judiciary
Committee and Mrs. Emanuel
Celler. Assistant Postmaster
General and Mrs. Ormonde A.
Kieb, the chairman of the
House Subcommittee on Pat
ents. Trademarks and Copy
rights and Mrs. Edwin E.
Willis, and Mr.. Fred c. Scrib-
ner. jr.. general counsel for
the Treasury Department.
Following the buffet the
uelegateS ana their guests at
tended private showing at
the National Gallery of Art.
The United States Marine
Band played in the rotunda
and the garden courts of the
gallery.
Tomorrow, the delegates
will entertain at a reception
and buffet in the Pan Ameri-
can Union honoring the am
bassadors of countries repre-
sented at the convention.
The buffet will be followed
by an invitation concert en-
titled Showcase of American,
Music" to be presented in
Constitution Hall. Leontyne
Price will appear as soloist
with the National Symphony
Orchestra.
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EXCLUSIVELY
YOURS
WilliQn1 Fosters Are Hosts
At PQrtY for Nine. Bonnet

brightness of the sun on the
white wall there is no glare.
You can't tell it by looking,
but there are really two sheets
of glass with air space between
and the inner one is tinted the
palest green.
Helle Leaves Tomorrow 4.
Hatless as usual and wear
ing a high-collared navy blue
dress with the palest pink and
cream orchid corsage, Helle
Bonnet was nearing the end
of her Washington stay. She
leaves tomorrow. having been
entertained at luncheon. cock
tails and dinner every day.
She even spent an hour and a
half at the National Gallery
of Art yesterday morning.
Wasn't all this going to
wear her out? No, she said,
being with people you love
doesn't tire you. She plans to
stay five weeks when she comes
back next year. Inciden-
tally, she will be back in Paris
in time to greet former Presi-
dent and Mrs. Truman during
their. visit there from June
z to IS.
The newly appointed Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Garrison Norton were
there. Asked if he had been
confirmed by Congress yet,
Gary said no. But his name
keeps turning up as Norton
Garrison so he doesn't antici-
pate any trouble. Nobody has
heard of that second fellow so