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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1956-02-11
Teen-Age Talk
BY RUBY WOODS

Lolita Gray gave a party Sat
urday night at the home Of he
cousin Charlie Brown Of Mon
terey.
Among the guest who enjoyed
the tasty repast and dance t
the good music were Pat Harris
Kaye Darden, Howard and Nor
man Worthy, Gloria Hatcher
Chester Parker, Johnson ans
Fairfax Woods, Leon Reynolds
Bill Lewis, Wade Cartwright
and others.
Central High School won
their basketball game against
Southwestern Friday. This
victory placed Central in first
place for West Side Cham
pionship. This game was very
exciting and q hard struggle
for Central.
At the end of all three quar-.
tiers Southwestern was leading
Central. In the final quarter
Cenral scored a ten point lead
and won over Southwestern
with a score of 1888.
Louis Gibbs and Howard
Worthy were the high point mer
for Central. Among those ex-
cited and happy Central fans
and Southwestern disappointed
fans were Barbara McCants,
Rossalind Venable, James Terry
Evelyn Gholston, Charles Henry,
Evelyn Collins, Leon Reynolds,
Ann Nixon, jeanette Street, Viii.
bur, Phillip Townsend, Francis
Woods and Shirley Jones.
Also James McCathy, Chester
Parker. Charlotte Holt, Richard
Green. Rose Mary Houston, Judy
Williams, Gloria Hatcher, Pat
Harris, Margaret White, Earline
Byas, Jackie Hullun, Marvin
Walker and Daisey Gibbs ano
many, many others.
The Desiree Club, social and
charity club, sponsored by Mrs.
Junetta Watt, will be engaged
in their Semi-Formal Annual,
invitational Queens Ball, Feb,
18th, at the Central Y.
Miss Joyce Smith, president OF
the club, Miss Claudette Ed
ward, Sergeant-at-Arms, and
Miss Carol School, business
manager, are running for the
Queens Crown. The winner will
be crowned with a diamond
Tiaria and will be presented {
bouquet of rosees, and the tire,
girls in her court will receiv,
flowers also.
The group include girls from
Cass and High School Of Com
merce schohols, and their pres
ent enrolment is IL, howeve
their aim is "a members. Man
of he members who have grad
uated from Cass or Commerce
are now in college.
This teen age group have bee
engaged in many charitable az
tivities, and they have recent
given baskets Of food, and aide
those at he Delta Home 70
Girls. as well as other acts c
charity. This group quite ofte
give book reports among them
selves.
They are looking forward to
huge attendance. at which tim
he winner will be. crowned.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1956-02-11
BOY SCOUT WEEK (FEB. 6-12) OFFICIALLY
BEGAN MONDAY

The nations 400 600 Cub Scouts Boy Scouts En-
porers and adult leaders launched their Four-i ear
Program. downward for God and Ny Country, dur
ing Boy Scout Week Monday February 6, marking the
organizations 46th anniversary.
DR.. Arthur A. Schuck, Chief Scout Executive, says
the new program seeks through organized and trained
man power to give increasingly better program to
an increasing number of the nations youth and to help
todays youth to Be Prepared citizens of character,
to be prepared in body, skill spirit WILL and as mem
Der of team
He declares it will give youth further opportunity
to develop physical fitness, sef-reance the ulment
of ones obligation to God of personal response
bty. spirit of helping people, willingness to share,
and understanding of the governments democratic
processes
During Boy Scout Week plans will be completed
for the strictly nonparsan 1856 National GetOutthe-
Vote Campaign which the Scout organization is spon-
soring jointly with the Freedoms Foundation of Valley
Forge.
Scouts distributed in 1862 more than 200 900 pos
ters and placed 900 Liberty Bell doorknob hang
in their first nationwide get-outhe-vote effort This
effort said to be an important factor in the record
turnout of sixty million voters.
1t is believed that four million Scouts and adult
leaders be great influence among parents, rela-
tves neghbors and others to produce another record
vote this year
The campaign seeks to instill in adults the deter
mnation and responsibility to exercise their franchise
as free people and take active part in their gov
eminent.
Each Scout will have an opportunity to participate
and better understand his responsibility as citizen
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1956-02-11
GOOD THOUGHTS TO REMEMBER


Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth
while the evil days not nor the years draw nigh
when thou shalt say, have pleasure in them
-Ecclesiastes 1921.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1956-02-11
Mary Baker Eddy saws:

in Science man is the offspring of Spirit The
beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry His
origin is not like that of mortas brute instinct nor
does he pass through immateral conditions prior to
reaching intelligence Spirit is his primitive and ulti.
mate source of beings God his Father and Life is the
law of eing"-(S&H. Page 63).
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1956-02-11
RACE FEP(

"THE CHRIST LIKE THING ON RACE
is THE RIGHT THING"
Gods Iiberator If the Bible the Christian
Science textbook has the necessary wisdom
Heaven, OUR eternal life. God. and ALL reality
(spirituai. of coursel, are found-are discovered
I'm human consciousressi
"If thou would be blessed! Obey Gods Sciencel and
ble.. others"-by ANDREW F. FRUEHAUF, C.s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
MEMORIES AT AN EARLY AGE
I've Just Been Lucky
Says Margaret Truman

ments-Gen. George c. Mar
shall coming up from behind
and kissing Margaret as she
stood forlorn and alone in the
crowd after the Eisenhower
Inauguration: Bess Truman
looking tired and worried and
as if she had been crying all
night" the day Truman was
nominated as Vice President;
the three Humans in a water
melon seed fight in the White
House family dining room;
President Truman collecting
Stains and Churchill's auto
graphs for her at Potsdam;
the President trotting around
the White House at 2 am. in
his bare feet closing windows
and hopping uD after a thun-
derstorm; the ride to Hyde
Park on the Roosevelt funeral
train. staring out the window
at thousands of faces, mo-
tionlcss and soundless. lin
ing the track; Bess Truman
gazing in surprise at the null
titude who could no longer
have axes to grind" who come
to the station to welcome the
Trumans home to Independ-
ence in 1853. This almost
makes 1t all worthwhile" she
said.
}. ISABELLE SHELTON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
SOUVENIR.

SOUVENIR. BY Margaret
Truman. CMcGraw Hill
Book Co., Inc: $685.
Margaret Humans Sou
venir" adds another volume to
the long shelf of White House
personal memoirs. -
The author sets forth her
modest purpose for those who
may wonder why a woman
who becomes a minor celeb
rity through circumstance, and
who is only a shade past 30
undertakes to write her life.
I'm no historic figure or
great woman who has fought
her way to success. I'm just
what folks call "a nice normal
girl - like your sister or the
girl next door But I've
been lucky. And ! believe 9TH
ers may like to know how it
feels to be catapulted into the
spotlight when your father be-
comes President OF the United
States"
Much of the book deals with
girliSh trivia. But there
emerges finally from the weller
Of dance programs, concert
tours. college exams and nos
talgia for Independence. Mo.
an endearins picture of the
Truman family.
There are touching mo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
Nuns and Priests

Carlo Canevari of Rome is
concluding through this week,
the season for The Obelisk,
3241 P Street, Georgetown.
along with selections from the
gallery's shows since last Oc-
tober. From June through Sep
TENDER, The Obelisk will be
open by appointment only.
Canevari is one of the gall
lery's group of artists, and
Washingtonians are already
familiar with his delightful
little paintings of youthful
nuns and priests in their
lighter moments-eXecuted in
an impeccable technique, with
jewel-like colors: deep lapis
lazuli blue of the sisters gowns
contrasted with their pointed
white colts, the student priests
red robes and black hats. and
bright azure skies. The paint
ingS are not crowded with de-
tails, and these are done with
meticulous care, along with
perspective.
Other paintings on view in
clude several by Sam Fischer.
a colorful rectilinear collage
entitled City SCOT" and a fig
ure painting "Caryatids' of
peasant women with burdens
on their heads: Ivan Mosca's
simplified. glowing beach
scenes: a Still Life" by Romiti
of Milan, a pale dove-gray
whisper of the subject; and
many others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
German War Novel

THE CROSS OF IRON, by
Will Heinrich, translated from
the German by Richard and
Clara Winston (Bobbs- Merrill;
S4.50) is another vastly de-
tailed novel of World War II,
with the action centered on
the Russian front at the time
the Germans we're forced to
retreat. The central figure is
Corp. Steiner.
At the time the story opens,
Steiner's platoon is isolated
behind the Russian lines, and
the adventures of the men in
breaking through to their own
lines sets a fast pace of ex-
element and suspense, despite
the inordinate length of the
narrative.
THE Cross of Iron" is ex-
tremely vivid writing, from the
point of view of the plain SOL
dier The trouble is that by
now there have been a num-
Der of first-rate novels of the
Russo-German fighting. Other
novels of the same scene and
period are apt to be more
cumulative than new.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
Mencken Loshes Out From
The Grave at His Enemies
MINORITY REPORT. II. =.

MINORITY REPORT: H. l.,
MENCKEN'S NOTEBOOKS.
BY H. L. Mencken. (Alfred
A. Knopf; $685.
Now that Henry Mencken is
with the angels. his philippics
against the more prepoSterous
aspects of our culture seem
to have a timeless quality
about them. This is rather
surprising, perhaps; it was
usual. in the days following
Mencken's physical downfall
and preceding his physical dis
solution. to comment that his
writings were too journalistic
to have any great staying
power.
Mencken's latest-and. un-
happily. his last-book will Go
much to dispel this notion.
MutatlS mutandiS, as the
lawyers say-"the necessary
changes having been made
the views expressed in Minor
ity Report" have sound appli-
cation today.
The "PhOnies" Live On
In 432 notes, some long,
some short, spread across 293
pages, Mencken lashes out
from the grave at his old
enemies-the people he land
a good many of his admirers)
regarded as utter phonies.
Mencken is gone, but the
phonies are with us still, and
in this day of conformity and
respect for constituted author
ity it is pleasing to hear q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
Collectors

Collectors for Pleasure"
opened its Introductory show
last Tuesday at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, to remain to
the end of September. This
new Washington group has
arranged loan show of con-
temporary art which, because
of space limitations at the gall
lery, is merely a representative
cross section of what is owned
here by collectors who believe
you can afford your response
to an original, contemporary
work of art"
The Collectors objective is
to bring to Washington con-
temporary art within reach of
those who collect for pleas
ure. Some of the collections
are quite small and many of
the works on display were pur-
chased for modest sums. Gen
orally. the committee which
assembled this show focused
its attention on the promise of
lesser-knoWn artists rather
than on the reputation of fully
established ones Actually, of
those represented. more than
half are we'll publicized now,
and some have been, for a
good many years.
A preliminary notice of this
exhibition was in last Sundays
Star, Woman's Section. 1t will
be reviewed here in detail
later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
ART NEWS
Taylor Art
On Display
AT Buder
ART NEWS
By FLORENCE BERGMAN

. Prentiss Taylor, native
Washingtonian and we'll
known painter and printmaker,
& is showing his latest work at
Franz Bader Gallery, 1705 G
street. through May 30. AS
one would expect of this versa
tile artist, it is an excellent
show, comprising IS or more
oils. watercolors, drawings and
prints.
Outstanding new oils are
several flower and still life
compositions, Studio Window,
Nantucket" with the clean
lines of an easel sharply sill
houetted against the sky, and
antique objects on the sill add
ing interest; Night Still Life"
with a room reflected in the
dark window behind beauti-
fully painted urns of flowers
and bowl of fruit, and Lamp
and Moon" Nantucket. an
other night interior which
makes those who have visited
1.-THE gray lady" of the At
lantic. want to return at once.
A handsome Washington night
scene is st. Matthews and
Moon" partly hidden by
clouds.
New England coast scenes,
Virginia landscapes and still
life in both watercolor and ink
drawings, and a number of
admirable Autographs reveal
his technical competence in
all these media, as we'll as his
flair for pictorial beauty and
good composition. His litho-
graph From Rosslyn to
Georgetown" detailed but we'll
integrated, is here as we'll as
in the 18th Pennell show at the
Library of Congress. 1t was
purchased by the Society of
Washington Printmakers for
presentation to the library COL
lection. Mr.. Taylor is already
represented there. as we'll as
in many other permanent COL
lections in Washington. New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
Bethesda Cerumists

The Ceramic Guild of Be-
thesra, which opened an exhi-
bition simultaneously with
that of Sheikh Ahmed, also
continues through Tuesday.
More than 20 sculptures and
pottery on view are all made OF
native clay, dug by the ceram-
lists. Bertha Fredericks Pawn"
was awarded first prize by the
Maryland chapter of the
American Association of Uni
versity Women. Other clever
and appealing objects are Lucy
Collins mournful- looking little
basset hound and Betty Will
lianS Singer.
Outstanding is Marg aret
PuSey's painted tile table. Har-
riet Godfrey. the guilds presi-
dent. shows sturdy coil-built
jar; and Chloe Curtis, a wheel
thrown bowl,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
TALES OF TERRIBLE
TEMPERED mr.. r.
GIVE EN- HE'LL HARRY.

GIVE EN- HE'LL HARRY.
BY E. L. Dayton. (Devin-
Adair; $500
In this self-styled "infor-
NAL biography of the ter
rible- tempered Mr.. t." the
author has dredged up anti
TrumanismS that political
opponents of the former
President have been using
for 20-odd years.
These range from the
"Pendergastism" and vote
frauds" of earlier days to
the Hiss mink "SOB"-let-
ter-writing episodes of more
recent history. embroidered
appropriately with the COM
pliers own comments.
Hardly an addition for
Democratic bookshelves.
JOSEPH A. FOX.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20

non-conformist, disrespectful
voice.
One cannot help but wonder
what Mencken would say, were
he but alive, about the state
of the union and the world.
1t would not be pleasant read
ing to those in the seats of
the mighty-of this one can be
sure.
There is no point in wrench
ing Menckenisms out of con-
text to provide padding for a
book review. Mencken's writ
ings speak for themselves. and
in this book are some of his
best Suffice it to say that
Minority Report" is an awful
lot of heresy for a mere 1895.
WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
Muy Art Fairs

The Arts Club OF Washing.
ton, in cooperation with
Woodward g. Lothrop, will pre-
sent again an outdoor art ex-
hibition in the park across
from the clubhouse, 20l7 /
street NV. 1t will be held
next Friday and Saturday. IL
to Z. Prizes will be given for
painting, sculpture, drawing
and photography.
The annual arts fair OF the
Silver Spring Art Gallery. 92i6
Flower avenue. will be held all
day next Saturday. Profess
sional and amateur artists. in
vited TO participate. should
register. to exhibit paintings,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
stitution's Travelling Exhibition

stitution's Travelling Exhibition
Service.
Commissioning a 2Oth-cen-
fury expressionist for the 18th
century Viennese Rocco mu-
steal work resulted in unusual
success, best savored by those
who saw the production. Ko-
koschka himself said, For me
a design, especially for the
opera, begins and ends with
color. In my Magic Flute I
have tried to open a window
which throws a ray of light on
the mythical marriage between
music and color"
Thirty-two sketches in COL
ored crayon, fresh and high
keyed, suggest the effectiveness
of the production, despite the
fact that Kokoschka was fur
ther limited because it was
done for the Felsenreitschule
in Salzburg. where no changes
of stage equipment are possible
during performances. His So
luton was changes of color
lighting effects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
A Portrait of Victor HUGO
With All the Lights On

She wrote letters that were as
lyric and eloquent as his. Il
love you as might a woman in
the fields of heaven, but the
words l use to tell you are
those of a kitchen-wench."
Juliette was well-named.
Arrogant, avid. both a lover
of the poor and a snob, ac-
claimed from boyhood and
loved all his life. Victor Hugo
Withdrew in typical fashion.
Just before he died, he said to
a friend, Il am old; am 60
ing to die. l shall see God!
What a tremendous thing to
see God and to speak with
Him! What shall say
often wonder. / am pre-
pairing for the occasion. ;"
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
.Cury's japan

Paintings of Japan by June
Cary are on exhibition through
next Friday at the Alexandria
) National Bank branch in the
darlington shopping center.
Most of the scenes were done
in the Tokyo, Yokohama and
Camp Zana areas during her
stay of nearly three years, dur
ing which time she exhibited
~in both solo and group shows
at the State Departments cul-
tllral centers in those two
cities, as representative of an
American artists view of ia
pan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
Mythical Marriage

Oskar Kokoschka's original
designs for the 1855 Salzburg
Festival production of Mozart's
Magic Flute" opened at the
Dupont Theater Gallery early
this month by the Austrian
Ambassador, DR.. Karl Gruber,
will close there after Thursday,
to start a years tour of mu-
seums and galleries under aus
pieces of the Smithsonian In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
OLYMPIC. The Life of Victor
Hugo. BY Andre Maurois.
(Harper & Bros; $685.

A prodigious man has found
a prodigious biographer. Vic
tor Hugo crammed into 81
years a truly staggering
achievement - literary amor
GUS, political-and Andre Maui
rois brings considerable art
and unflagging appreciation to
a recital of it all.
M. Maurois considers the
fluent romantic 1.-The greatest
of all French poets" a stric-
ture he does not so much de-
fend as illustrate through CO.
pious quotations. Hugo in this
country is perhaps better
known as the author of LES
Miserables" and THE Hunch-
back of Notre Dame" In any
case, this is more a biography
of the man than the writer.
The Aging Faun
Nor does M. Maurois fully
answer the questions he poses
in his foreword: How came
it that this prudent, econom-
zeal man was also generous?
That this chaste adoleScent,
this model father, grew to be
in his last years, an aging
faun? That this legitimist
changed first into a Bonapart-
list, only later still to be hailed
as the grandfather of the re-
public?"
No, the answers are not
clear, but the record is. M.
Maurois, carried along on the
wings of enthusiasm and a
wealth of material, much of it
from a genius who recorded
every passing emotion from
earliest youth, and wrote love-
letters and poems to COM
memorate virtually encounter.
runs along at a tremendous
pace, dragging the reader with
him. Judgment in most cases,
the fervent biographer has
left to others. Enough for him
to chronicle the days of this
sublime child" who when he
was a triumphant young hus-
band. seemed to contempt
rary "a drunken treader of
grapes"
Avec Tout Son Occur
Dying, Hugo said to his
grandson: Love seek love
:. Give pleasure and take it
in loving as fully as you can"
Hugo practiced what he
preached. In his youth, he
loved with something like
ferocity his childhood sweet
! heart, Adele Foucher. When
they married it seemed they
would live happily ever after.
But Hugo inherited an amo-
riSt's temperament from a full
blooded father. Adele, weary of
child bearing, turned to the
less importunate embraces of
Sainte-Beuve, exquisite and
vile" who lurked around the
Hugo house like a serpent on
the hearth.
A Fond Mistress
In search of solace. Hugo
found a lifetime of it with
Juliette Drouet, the beautiful
promiscuous actress who, with
great courage and devotion
lived for SO years in the back
street of Hugo'S life. Mistress
secretary, cheer leader, she
gave up everything for him
following him into exile at 8
discreet distance. fairly
swapping him with love. adu.
lation, and-as the years wen
on and his infidelities to hel
multiplied like the sands o.
tho 600 = odnrinU rnOrNorh
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Twice as Sordid

A WALK ON THE WILD
SIDE. by Nelson Algren Far
rar, Straus and Cudahy; $4.50)
is new novel from the au-
thor of THE Man With the
Golden Arm"
THE Man With the Golden
Arm" which won the first
National Book Award and was
made into a controversial
movie which seems to be a
office success, dealt with
a skid row in Chicago and a
drug addict. It's sordidness at
least had point and a pur-
pose, and the characters were
recognizable.
What's the Point?
"a Walk on the Wild Side"
is perhaps twice as sordid,
though what its purpose is
and what point it is supposed
to make / confess ! am unable
to say.
The main character is Dove
Linkhorn, who at II or so in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
st. AIbuns Annual

The headmaster OF st. AL
bans School in the Washing
ton Cathedral grounds, and
Mrs. Charles Martin and Mr..
Dean Stambaugh, head of the
art department. opened the
schools annual exhibition Of
student painting last Friday,
to continue to next Sunday,
open to the public daily from
4 TO s. John Gernand OF the
Phillips Gallery staff was judge
Of the show.